Sonny Stitt has earned half a dozen posts so far -- and here's another one. Scroll down to the search box on the right hand side if you're interested in reading more about and listening to more of Stitt.
It's not that the saxophonist is a particular favorite. It's just that I happened to pick up a bunch of his 45s a number of years ago that I'm now revisiting.
This record isn't the jazz side of Sonny Stitt. This is a musician looking for some pop/R&B airplay by covering hits of the mid to late 1960s. Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' was a 1968 hit for Crazy Elephant while the flip side of the 45 was a version of Mendocino, which the Sir Douglas Quintet had placed on the charts in 1969. Both tracks come for Stitt's LP Come Hither (1969), on which he plays the Varitone electric sax, accompanied by guitarist Billy Butler, organist Paul Griffin and Jerome Richardson on sax and flute.
Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'
Come Hither has not received a CD or legal download release, so it's down to searching the vinyl bins if this album appeals to you.
I wish i had known about this artist years ago...awesome!
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