- The Rosko Show
- I'll Take You There/The 2nd Rosko Show
- The Rosko Road Show Vol. 3
- So Ya Wanna
Hear Another
An early
champion of American Soul and R n’ B, Emperor Rosko (Mike Pasternak) was a good
friend of the Stax/Volt/Atlantic label.
He had compered for several European tours of artists such as Otis
Redding and Sam & Dave – it is his voice that you will hear introducing
Otis Redding on the LP Live In Europe.
In the early-to-mid 1970s, Rosko compiled four LPs of the familiar and the
downright rare for Atlantic, and introduced each track in his inimitable
fashion, complete with rhyming hep-talk and custom-made radio jingles. Each LP thus became a mini radio show; oddly enough
Rosko’s incessant DJ patter (making your back crack and liver quiver?) seemed
to stand up to repeated hearings.
The LPs were to the best of my knowledge only issued in the UK. In the 1990s a compilation CD of the four albums was issued on the Rhino label – minus Rosko’s introductions and jingles. The vinyl copies are now out-of-print and are becoming quite collectable.
Most
importantly, the fourth album in the series – So Ya Wanna Hear Another –
featured re-mixing by DJ/producer Tom Moulton, whose handiwork made the records
sound that much clearer, bass-heavy and urgent*. The first two tracks on this album
(Trammps/That’s Where The Happy People Go and Derrell Banks/Angel Baby) are enough
to pack any dancefloor.
*In the 1970s Tom Moulton also mixed the albums Disco Trek (Atlantic SD 18158) and Philadelphia Classics (Philadelphia PZG 34940). The latter has since been expanded into a magnificent 4-disc set on the Harmless label. The former remains out-or print (we’ll get around to it…) All of the albums present the music contained in a new light; enough to make the original versions somewhat redundant.
Track listings: -
The Rosko Show
1.
Wilson
Pickett - Everybody Needs Someone To Love
2.
Otis
Redding - Satisfaction
3.
Sam
& Dave - Soul Man
4.
Archie
Bell & The Drells - Here I Go Again
5.
Bar-Kays
- Soul Finger
6.
Arthur
Conley - Sweet Soul Music
7.
Otis
& Carla - Tramp
8.
Percy
Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman
9.
Aretha
Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
10. The Drifters - Come On
Over To My Place
11. Booker T & The
M.G.s - Green Onions
12.
Clarence
Carter - Looking For A Fox
I'll Take You There/The 2nd Rosko Show
1.
Aretha
Franklin - Rock Steady
2.
Wilson
Pickett - Fire and Water
3.
Bobby
Newton - Little Bit of Soap
4.
The
Capitols - Cool Jerk
5.
The
Drifters - I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing
6.
King
Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
7.
Donny
Hathaway - Love Love Love
8.
Percy
Sledge - Warm and Tender
9.
Cross
Country - In the Midnight Hour
10. Brook Benton - Rainy
Night in Georgia
11. The Spinners - Could It
Be I'm Falling in Love
12. Otis Redding - My Girl
13. Donny Hathaway - The
Ghetto
The Rosko
Road Show Vol. 3
1.
Arthur
Conley - Star Review
2.
Otis
Redding - Can't Turn You Loose
3.
Wilson
Pickett - Don't Knock My Love
4.
The
Jimmy Castor Bunch - Bertha Butt Boogie
5.
Detroit
Spinners - One Of A Kind
6.
Clarence
Reid - I'm A Man Of The World
7.
Aretha
Franklin - Since You've Been Gone
8.
Detroit
Spinners & Dionne Warwick - Then Came You
9.
Average
White Band - You've Got It
10. Solomon Burke - I'm
Hangin' Up My Heart For You
11. Sam & Dave - I
Thank You
12. Archie Bell - Show Down
13. Arthur Conley - Obla Di
1.
The
Trammps - That's Where The Happy People Go
2.
Darrell
Banks - Angel Baby
3.
Otis
Redding - Look At That Girl
4.
Daryl
Hall & John Oates She's Gone
5.
Wilson
Pickett - Hey Joe
6.
Detroit
Spinners - I'm Coming Home
7.
Sister
Sledge - Mama Never Told Me
8.
Alpaca
Phase III - I Like To Party
9.
Paul
“Sir Raggedy” Flagg –
Papa-Momma-Romper-Stomper
10. Same & Dave - You
Don't Know Like I Know
11. Ben E. King -
Supernatural Thing
12. Jimmy Caster Bunch -
King Kong
13. Detroit Spinners -
Mighty Love
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