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03/13/2005 Archived Entry: "Lost Moments in Record Collecting"

Lost Moments in Record Collecting
Whatever happened to my copy of The Blues Brothers' Made in America?

Bought from a flea market in Miami, it was the second Blues Brothers' record I owned (the first being the soundtrack to the film; the James Brown track drove me crazy: DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT?). Two notable memories attached to this lost moment: The Blues Brothers' cover of Wayne Cochran's "Going Back to Miami" and the image of a young Paul Schaffer on the record's back cover (the band gathered after the show for drinking, drugs, and women). Wayne Cochran, otherwise known as the "white James Brown," is a rarity in Miami soul history. Sam and Dave signify Miami's other known soul act. Cochran's big hit was a cover of "C.C. Rider," also covered in 1965 by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels who renamed the song "Jenny Take a Ride" (the original "C.C. Rider" done by Chuck Willis). Ryder's lyrics read:

Ah, Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, won't you come along with me
Jenny, Jenny - whoo - Jenny, Jenny
Jenny Jenny Jenny, won't you come along with me
Jenny, Jenny - whoo - Jenny, Jenny
I worry 'bout you, baby, spendin' nights in misery

Detroit, Miami, Jenny....Lost moments are the place(s) of personal expression; lost moments echo my interest in Barthes searching for a moment between the personal and the critical; a moment between fiction and theory. A lost moment signifies something outside of Booth's listening rhetoric, for I am not listening to anybody. But I am hearing. I hear specific markers/places of identification.

Where is that record...

Posted by cbd @ 03/14/2005 12:40 PM EST

Just yesterday I was saying I need to make a Jenny compilation. Other Jenny songs:

Jenny (867-5309) - tommy Tutone

Jenny Was a friend of mine - The Killers

Jenny doesn't like me anymore - Less than Jake

I know there are more...

Posted by Brendan @ 03/14/2005 08:05 AM EST