Jimmy Hughes & Joe Simon - Soul Neighbours - Soul LP
LP

Jimmy Hughes & Joe Simon - Soul Neighbours

Charly Records
CRB 1086
UK- Europe Issue
Format: LP
Record: VG+ VG++
Cover: top and bottom edge split all the way across, sticker mark top right corner, ringwear, cornerwear

Jimmy Hughes:

1. A shot of rhythm and blues
2. Neighbor, neighbor
3. There is something on your mind
4. I tried to tell you
5. Stormy monday blues
6. I'm getting better
7. Try me
8. Steal away

Joe Simon -

9. Say (that your love is true)
10. My adorable one
11. When you're near
12. The whoo pee
13. When i'm gone
14. I keep remembering
15. Bring it on home to me
16. Let's do it over

Joe Simon was born in Louisiana, but grew up in Oakland. As a teenager, he sang with The Golden West Gospel Singers, a group that would later change its name to The Golden Tones and record for the west-coast based Hush label in 1959. Joe had a few releases on the label himself in the early sixties, before being picked up by Vee-Jay in 1964. He had some moderate success with records like Adorable One, before John R met him and suggested to Vee-Jay that they take him down to Muscle Shoals to record. The resulting Let's Do it Over was a smash hit in the Summer of 1965, spending 17 weeks on the charts. When Vee-Jay went bankrupt later that year, John R. wasted no time in signing Simon to Sound Stage 7.

Joe's lush voice was the perfect vehicle for the 'country soul' that John R had in mind, and his records charted consistently for the label.


Jimmy Hughes is an American former rhythm and blues singer, whose biggest successes in the mid 1960s, notably his hit "Steal Away", were important in the early development of the Muscle Shoals music industry.

The recent “Best Of Jimmy Hughes” CD has inevitably led to demands for the reissue of all his tracks. Happily, Jimmy actually recorded enough material for Fame to fill two CDs. The halfway mark in the repertoire comes around the point where Rick Hall switched Fame’s distribution from Vee-Jay to Atlantic. Thus is it that “Steal Away”, concentrates almost totally on the tracks that Jimmy cut between 1962 and 1965.


Jimmy Hughes - Steal Away

An absolute soul classic. Often covered, but never bettered. Superb



Jimmy Hughes - Neighbor, Neighbor

one of the best tunes of the day.

This charged into the R&B top five in 1966. Jimmy Hughes told me on the phone that Ray Stevens was the guy who came in and 'funked it up' on this re-recorded version of a Huey Meaux tune that was released as an album track two years before.

Ray Stevens? Like, Everything Is Beautiful Ray Stevens



Joe Simon - Let's do it over

this song brings back. the dances, the concerts, the live music clubs the juke joints. how little did we know we were listening to the best, the very best music. ..




Joe Simon - Say (that your love is true)

Vee-Jay. Flip side of "My Adorable One."

... I've always loved this song. The singing is incredible.