i got a "classics" set of this guy.
i wasn't too impressed, DJ-wise.
excellent music but very lo-fi, not good dancing beats. too "arrangey," using ballad-sweet sax sounds even in the uptempo "hot" numbers.
twas this set
(and you KNOW i like the old shit -- look at some of my older posts -- just this set does not turn me on.)
Claude Hopkins
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Re: Claude Hopkins
I don't have that exeact CD, but I do have an Australian Lable remastered CD that contains all the same songs. I've really enqoyed it. Not a CD I've DJed from to much, but a think Claude is very underated.Yakov wrote:i got a "classics" set of this guy.
i wasn't too impressed, DJ-wise.
excellent music but very lo-fi, not good dancing beats. too "arrangey," using ballad-sweet sax sounds even in the uptempo "hot" numbers.
twas this set
(and you KNOW i like the old shit -- look at some of my older posts -- just this set does not turn me on.)
Claude use to back a lot of vocalists in the early 30's also (not on the above CD) and any I've come across hasn't done much for me. But his instrumentals are very clever.
Brian
I love that song too, I have both the Hep Cat albumsand find them both enjoyable, but not what a lot of people would like to dance to.falty411 wrote:My favorite song done by Claude Hopkins is "Church Street Sobbin Blues" off of the Monkey Business album on Hep Cat.
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