10/30/2005 - Oh Lord, What Are You Doing To Me?
Song: Oh Lord What Are You Doing To Me?
Artist: Big Maybelle
Why this song is the current jam: This song was off of an album that I grew up with, Maybelle Sings the Blues. There are several great tracks on there, with this one being, in my humble opinion the best of them all. Big Maybelle was big in the 50’s was never super successful because of her rather anachronistic songs and arrangements (and also the drugs – she died at 47), but her voice kicked some serious ass. And on this song she runs the gamut from delicate and tender verses, to heart-rending and pleading shouts on the chorus. This song is so full of feeling it amazing. And, it was written by Burt Bacharach. It’s weird, but that mothergrabber really has written some amazing songs. Also of note, I guess it was Big Maybelle, not Big Mama Thornton that recorded the original version of Jerry Lee Lewis’s smash, “Whole Lotta Shaking Goin On”.
Artist: Big Maybelle
Why this song is the current jam: This song was off of an album that I grew up with, Maybelle Sings the Blues. There are several great tracks on there, with this one being, in my humble opinion the best of them all. Big Maybelle was big in the 50’s was never super successful because of her rather anachronistic songs and arrangements (and also the drugs – she died at 47), but her voice kicked some serious ass. And on this song she runs the gamut from delicate and tender verses, to heart-rending and pleading shouts on the chorus. This song is so full of feeling it amazing. And, it was written by Burt Bacharach. It’s weird, but that mothergrabber really has written some amazing songs. Also of note, I guess it was Big Maybelle, not Big Mama Thornton that recorded the original version of Jerry Lee Lewis’s smash, “Whole Lotta Shaking Goin On”.
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