The Demo That Got The Deal (TM)
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JUST ONE LOOK, 7-1-2000
https://youtu.be/2tCvlZbEBbs
DORIS TROY'S DEMO THAT GOT THE DEAL WITH
ATLANTIC RECORDS
https://youtu.be/2tCvlZbEBbs
Hear Doris Troy talk to me on WMFO July 1, 2000 ---twenty-two years ago
https://youtu.be/2tCvlZbEBbs
LISTEN TO THE SONG HERE
The Hollies hit with Just One Look
in the U.K. in 1964
Here they are looking like the Beatles, but their voices hitting the notes Doris Troy (famous on The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd) the Hollies were able to sing.
Just One Look
FEATURING MY FRIENDS
DORIS TROY (VOCALS)
BERNARD "PRETTY" PURDIE (DRUMS)
THE DEMO THAT WAS THE DEAL!
MAY 11, 2016
INTERVIEW WITH BERNARD PURDIE
JV:
We were talking a little earlier, I was at Little Walter’s house, the
DJ, yesterday. And he just made a new record 1:14 for Dion DiMucci UM
the guy with Runaround Sue
DT: Yes
JV: He remasters a lot of the old records He did the entire Fats Domino collection.
DT: He did?
JV:He works for a German company,
DT: Aha
DT: Right on. And Vee-Jay Records that used to be with Dee Clark on there?
JV: I believe so
DT: Yeah Because he did one of my songs, in fact one of my songs was called "How About That" and it was the name of his album. Way back.
JV So that was before "Just One Look?"
DT: Oh yeah
JV: So you were a songwriter of renown before your hit?
DT: I was working on it!
JV: I love what David Nathan wrote about you in "The Soulful Divas"
DT: What'd he say?
JV: Well, first I want to say thank you for turning me on to that book
DT It's a fabulous book, isn't it?
JV
It's incredible, what a great idea. He was talking about all your work
in New York and "Just One Look," and that was the demo that got you the
deal with Atlantic ?
DT Yes it was.We made it in the basement of 1650
Broadway ...it was just 4 tracks, and we brought the musicians in and I
had to overdub the alto part ...and my partner who was Gregory,
…Gregory Carroll, he did the high part like a girl and that's how we got
the 3 part harmony
and what happened was, I started coughing right
in the middle of a take ...and I said ...just one look ..and I felt so
ah aha ah (coughing sounds) and I started coughing...and the guy that
was in the booth said "Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let's start all
over again. Let's Keep That In!"
DT: And I said, ok, let me think
about it. So, then we decided, every other few lines that I would do the
little break up of the words and that's how we got the little hook
Just one look, I felt so uh, uh uh that part
4He had a little studio out there in California and I did some stuff out there with him for a little while and that's how we did the Midsong thing (Midsong International, 1977)
JV:The Midsong thing, That was done in California
DT: Yes
JV: How nice, the Eagles and California kinda go hand in hand
DT: Laughs
JV: What happened after you did the four track, who brought it to Atlantic
DT: Well, what happened was I was working out of the publishing company and we got news that Chuck Jackson wanted somebody to sing on his song "Tell him I’m not home"...and so the girl that did it, they didn't like what she did so they asked my company would I, you know, come and do it for them. I said "sure." And so, I went and did it and I just had to say "Tell him I’m not home," and sure enough, he was getting ready to go on tour and I told the publisher I said "Listen, why don't you call Atlantic and tell them to put my record out ...because I'm going on the road with Chuck Jackson.
JV: Doris, you're telling me that the four track you did, which was the demo,
DT: Yeah
JV:Is actually the song that we hear
DT: That's right
JV: That's stunning. So they didn't put you into a bigger studio
DT: oh no, no ,no, no we didn't have time for that no no no It's just as it was. Can you imagine?
That
record was hot at the time that all the other people had big strings
and all kinds of orchestration and all that kind of stuff, and all we
had was just four musicians that over-dubbed, once, and I overdubbed
once, the backing vocals
JV: Now would you mind if we played the tune right now?
DT: I'd Love for you to play the tune right now
JV:
Great, and then we'll come back and talk to Doris Troy on the Folk and
Good Music Show Saturday Afternoon, July 1 (2000) "Just One Look"
(6:30)
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Motown rarely did covers, but isn't it interesting that when it came to Bobby Hebb's "Sunny" and Doris Troy's "Just One Look" they made exceptions!
Martha Reeves and the Vandella's
Another interesting fact is that Motown usually cut one track and had their artists sing on the same backing recording. With "Sunny"
there were different versions by Marvin Gaye, different from the two by Stevie Wonder, separate from the FourTops versions and Mary Wells, who had left Motown by that point.
Same with these renditions by Mary Wells and Martha and the Vandella's for Doris Troy's amazing 1963 hit. These recordings, though very nice, don't touch the majesty of Doris Troy's Atlantic demo, which is so in the pocket.
Eddie Lovett's reggae version is also very, very good
LULU
Lulu performed with Bobby "Sunny" Hebb's daughter in February of 2014. I helped put artists on the show at the Apollo Theater. Here's Lulu with her quasi-reggae version
https://youtu.be/Dr1Prr629EI This is second only to Doris
So happy to see my reviews on Amazon Canada, Parsifal and Xiapi! God Bless All Music for getting the work, and my byline, out to the world!
DORIS TROY, THE APOLLO
Description
Track Listing:
The Falcons: 1. I Found a Love - 2:53 2. Alabama Bound - 2:50 Otis Redding: 3. Pain in My Heart - 2:18 4. These Arms of Mine - 2:28 Doris Troy: 5. Misty - 2:12 6. Say Yeah - 2:27 Rufus Thomas: 7. Rockin' Chair - 3:03 8. Walking the Dog - 2:25 The Coasters: 9. 'Tain't Nothing to Me - 4:19 10. Speedo's Back in Town - 3:01 Ben E. King: 11. Groovin' - 2:26 12. Don't Play That Song (You Lied) - 3:01 13. Stand by Me 2:23 Finale: 14. What'd I Say - 1:15
Reviews: https://www.parsifal.be/product/cd/cd-blues/various-apollo-saturday-night/
1. AllMusic - Joe Viglione
On
November 13, 1963, as veteran producer/liner-notes writer Bob
Altshuler explains, "Atco microphones were positioned on the Apollo
stage" after the showing of a film preceding this concert, which began
"a few minutes before twelve o'clock." Decades later, this material
by Doris Troy, Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, the Falcons, the Coasters,
and Ben E. King remains a vital document of a special time when
entertainment was pure and remarkable. Opening with Wilson
Pickett and Eddie Floyd's version of the Falcons, the tone is set for
the album, sticking to deeper cuts from the various artists' catalogs
and shying away from their hits, with the exception of "Walking the Dog"
from Rufus Thomas and headliner Ben E. King's "Stand By Me." The
two Otis Redding tracks were taped more than a year and a half before
his first Top 40 hit, while the former Apollo Theater usherette who
followsRedding on this set, the marvelous Doris Troy, was riding high
with "Just One Look" on the charts a few months before this taping. That
gem isn't here, but her unique interpretation of "Misty" and her own
"Say Yeah" are. Every one of the performances is top-notch, concluding
with a finale where all concerned do a short rendition of Ray Charles'
"What I'd Say." Essential entertainment.
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Doris Troy
Lazy Days (When Are You Coming Home)
https://www.allmusic.com/song/lazy-days-when-are-you-coming-home-mt0009282951
Song Review by Joe Viglione [-]
A slow love song from the original Just One Look album, the two minutes and fifty seconds of this Doris Payne/Gregory Carroll co-write capture the emotions of someone listening to Nat King Cole's "Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer" without being part of the beach party
fun, the yearning from The Happenings "See You In September" stretched out into a lonely season but missing that someone special. It's a great R & B ballad with another terrific Doris Troy vocal, taking the teen heartbreak of a Lesley Gore or Robin Ward hit and bringing those feelings into an adult cabaret setting. Co-songwriter Carroll adds his vocal arrangements and vocal accompaniment to the piano heavy question to a lover who went away on vacation with no definite return time. Doris Troy takes the girl group sound into an adult contemporary arena with her serious reading of material which, if put in the hands of The Shangri Las or The Chiffons, would take on an entirely different meaning. She truly was the female Nat King Cole as evidenced by her live performance on the Apollo Saturday Night album or this tune of hopeful desire.
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Doris Troy (album) - Wikipedia
Two years after Doris Troy's critically acclaimed album on Apple, the voice which made records by the Rolling Stones, Sky, Tom Jones, Humble Pie, Carly Simon, and, especially, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, among many, many others, so very extra special, is in full command as Doris Troy & the Gospel Truth perform at the Rainbow Theater in London. Gospel originals like Troy's "Morning Train" and "My Father's House" are electrifying, and the singer's friends Claudia Lennear and Rufus Thomas see below for full review
WIKIPEDIA
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https://www.allmusic.com/album/rainbow-testament-mw0000842564
Two years after Doris Troy's critically acclaimed album on Apple, the voice which made records by the Rolling Stones, Sky, Tom Jones, Humble Pie, Carly Simon, and, especially, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, among many, many others, so very extra special, is in full command as Doris Troy & the Gospel Truth perform at the Rainbow Theater in London. Gospel originals like Troy's "Morning Train" and "My Father's House" are electrifying, and the singer's friends Claudia Lennear and Rufus Thomas show up, adding to the fun and festive atmosphere. There's an incredible wall of sound with the combination of horn players, percussion, Hammond organ, piano, singers, and master of ceremonies, Doris Troy, inviting notables like the New Seekers up on-stage. The singer told Allmusic, "I love that album. It was live. We had a really great time. The audience was fantastic." You can feel the high-energy vibe on Gene MacLellan's "Put Your Hand in the Hand," as well as all over the tremendous rendition of Joe South's 1969 hit "Games People Play." It's slowed down and soulful with the simply amazing vocal prowess of Troy creating a definitive version of the multi-format songwriter's chestnut. South had Deep Purple putting the hard rock stamp on "Hush," Lynn Anderson taking "Rose Garden" country, and produced slick pop for Billy Joe Royal, but this performance must have given the veteran songwriter chills when he first heard it. Released in 1972 on Polydor Records in Germany, the album design is very classy, a photo of "Mama Troy" on the cover, a positive message throughout the music and the uplifting poem on the back cover with thoughts like "We believe the world's a friendly place/We believe in all our many blessings...We believe we're helped by hidden powers" bringing the message home. A driving Taylor/Clinton title, "(I Wanna) Testify" opens the album contrasted with the Doris Troy original "Steal Away," voices swelling and Jimmy Helms taking a vocal lead along with the star. Troy arranged and produced this highly collectible album, her work sought after on eBay and at record shows, and justifiably so. A classic performance by an important and multi-talented artist, The Rainbow Testament by Doris Troy & the Gospel Truth deserves to be expanded and re-released.
Walter Hawkins
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