Records That Time Forgot - Ramona From Daytona

This is my first installment of Records That Time Forgot. If I find any musical artifacts that need to be shared with the world, I will gladly present them to you here.

Living outside of D.C., every once in a while, you can find some relics from the Library of Congress in thrift stores. This record comes courtesy of Step One Records out of Nashville and it encapsulates the beauty and simplicity that only a guy in a sweater/blazer combination could produce. On the record, Dave Holladay blesses the world with such kleenex grabbers as, "Pull Up A Pillow" and "I. O. Blues". Either track would have been a suitable B-Side to Kirk Van Houten's, "Can I Borrow A Feeling."

Maybe time didn't forget Dave Holladay's epic, but instead tried to remove it from the history of civilization by striking it from the shelves of the Library of Congress. Think about it - if the planet does get taken over by talking apes and only shreds of human history are preserved - the last thing we want is for them to slip Ramona From Daytona on the hi-fi and get whisked away to a time when you could make an album cover with MS Paint and Word clipart.

Something You Got

I am using my first post to continue the discussion on samples. Here is a gem found digging one morning. This is the sample used in "Work" by RJD2. The Original sample is called, "Something You Got" by Alvin Robinson. It is on Tiger Records - TI-104. I haven't seen this sample listed as the source, so I thought I would share it with anyone who hasn't heard it yet. We here at WHET already discussed the sample and I think Lojak described it best, "RJ flipped the sample by making his song in the relative minor key. The sample source is in a major key, and it works because there's not much other melody happening while he's singing."


Enjoi.

After Laughter (Comes Tears)

I love it when you realize that a good song that you are looking for is already in your collection.

I bought the complete Stax singles boxed set a while ago when I had some extra cash. Buying big sets like that can be hard to justify, but I didn't think that I would regret the purchase in the long run. I was right too, there are so many gems in this catalog that it should be a no brainer.

I've heard the Wu-Tang track that sampled this song so many times that I keep waiting for the beat to drop when I listen to the original. The original is so good though that it doesn't need to drop for me to listen to this one on repeat for a while.