August 24, 2009 05:36 PM
Nights At The Roundtable - The Dells - 1965
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(The Dells - Doo-Wop, R&B, Soul and opening for Dinah Washington)
With the recent passing of John E. Carter (August 21), whose wonderful tenor made every Dells record a memorable experience, I thought I would put up one of their biggest hits, a track they originally recorded for Vee-Jay as a tribute. "Stay In My Corner" was an example of how versatile they were - running the spectrum from Doo-Wop in the mid-1950's over to R&B, Soul and Jazz. They were an amazingly talented group and Carter had the distinction of being inducted in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame twice - once for his earlier efforts with another memorable group, The Flamingos and later with The Dells.
RIP - you made some beautiful music and the world is better for it.
(1967) I was able to appreciate most musical genres. Jazz, Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Tjader , The Beatles to new wave, punk, opera but nothing satisfies me quite like the soul of the 60's.Listening to am radio in the kitchen, washing dishes, hormones popping, planning my escape from the mundane while listening to the Dells, the Intruders. Life was better taken with a sound track. I now have a lot of it on my Ipod and it still makes my life a little bit nicer and with a whole lot of wisdom found in between.
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