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Songs To Sing: The Charlie Whitehead Anthology (Import) (CD)

By: Charlie Whitehead (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Songs To Sing: The Charlie Whitehead Anthology (Import) (CD) Album By Charlie Whitehead (Artist)
1   Songs to Sing  
2   Put a Little Love in Your Heart  
3   Raw Spitt  
4   Call Me Nigger  
5   Freedom Under Certain Konditions Marching Band, The  
6   Midnight Rider  
7   Who Do They Think They Are  
8   I Dig Black Girls  
9   This Old Town  
10   Sweet Bird of Success  
11   Excuses  
12   Between the Lines  
13   Predicament #3  
14   That Ain't My Wife  
15   I Finally Found Myself Something to Sing About  
16   Shaft's Mama  
17   B.B. King, The  
18   Help (God Help America)  
19   Gazelle  
20   She's All I Got  
21   Let's Do It Again, Pt 3 & 4  
 

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Living Blues (p.80) - "[Whitehead] gave voice to the often out-spoken, sometimes outrageous, occasionally humorous musings of Jerry Williams, Jr., aka Swamp Dogg."

Title Note

Liner Note Author: Tony Rounce.

Even though Charlie Whitehead was a journeyman soul singer, his work will appeal to soul collectors if only because Swamp Dogg, one of the more interesting soul eccentrics of any era, was so closely involved with Whitehead's recordings as a producer, arranger, and songwriter. None of Whitehead's releases were particularly exciting, but Songs to Sing: The Charlie Whitehead Anthology 1969-1973 is an exemplary compilation of not just his best work, but most of his work. In addition to the entirety of the 1970 album he did under the pseudonym Raw Spitt (itself titled Raw Spitt), it also has his 1973 album Charlie Whitehead & the Swamp Dogg Band, as well as a few non-LP sides he did under either the Raw Spitt or Charlie Whitehead monikers. The Raw Spitt material is the best stuff here, featuring as it does characteristic Swamp Dogg songs putting quixotic observations about African-American identity, social injustice, and sex to an almost-but-not-quite-normal period-soul-funk backdrop. Charlie Whitehead & the Swamp Dogg Band is more disappointing, as it's given over to too-long tossed-off-sounding dance-funk tunes, though it does contain flashes of his wit and social conscience in "Shaft's Mama" and "Let's Do It Again Parts 3 & 4" respectively. The early-'70s, non-LP sides are okay, adding up to a compilation of respectable, non-formulaic period soul. But it doesn't match the heights of the best material Swamp Dogg issued under his own name, which had more vocal personality and was often more adventurous. ~ Richie Unterberger

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