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Track Listing
1. Hoochie Coochie Man
2. Baby Make Love to Me
3. Neighbour Neighbour
4. Early in the Morning
5. Spanish Blues
6. Oh Baby
7. Little Girl
8. I Want You
9. Wade in the Water
10. Got My Mojo Working
11. Train Time
12. Baby Be Good to Me
13. Half a Man
14. Tammy
15. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
16. Hear Me Calling Your Name
17. Night Time Is the Right, The
18. Walkin' in the Park
19. Last Night
20. Baby Can It Be True?
21. What'd I Say?
22. Dick's Instrumental
23. Don't Let Go
24. Keep A'Drivin
25. Have You Ever Loved a Woman?
26. Camels and Elephants
Album Notes
2 LPs on 1 CD: THE SOUND OF '65 (1965)/THERE'S A BOND BETWEEN US (1965).
Graham Bond Organization: Graham Bond (vocals, alto saxophone, Hammond B-3 organ, Mellotron); Jack Bruce (vocals, acoustic & electric basses); Dick Heckstall-Smith (tenor saxophone); Ginger Baker (drums).
Includes liner notes by Harry Shapiro.
Like his contemporary Alexis Korner, Graham Bond is one of the unsung heroes of the early-'60s UK R&B scene. Both led groups that incubated talent which would later mature and eclipse their own groundbreaking efforts. With Bond it was his rhythm section, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, who later became two-thirds of Cream. Both of the organist's albums included here offer an intriguing snapshot of this fertile period in Britain when jazz and blues coexisted quite happily.
Bond was a firm fan of Ray Charles, which extended to both his choice of material ("What'd I Say?") and also his approach. A talented player himself (both organ and alto sax) as well as a vocalist, Bond was generous in showcasing his sidemen ("Dick's Instrumental" for tenor player Dick Heckstall-Smith) and tended to pepper the staple Beat group repertoire with his own compositions. "Camels and Elephants" is an early example of both Ginger Baker's composing and drum solo style. "Hoochie Coochie Man" replaces the malevolence of Muddy Waters's version with something altogether jazzier and as such is the perfect introduction to Bond.
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