Tuesday, December 27, 2016

DIG THE TWIST-O-FLEX WATCHBAND

There weren't many singers that recorded for Chess, Sun and Stax. Rufus Thomas did, but most people associate him with Stax, and all of those two sided "Do the" songs ("The Breakdown", "(Do the) Push and Pull", "Do the Funky Chicken", "Do the Funky Penguin", "Do the Double Bump"), He did do some comical stuff and seemed to be too aware that he was older, referring to himself as the "World's Oldest Teenager" and "the Clown Prince of Dance". That may sell records but it's not going to get you the long term respect you are deserved. That may slow in coming because as years go by, you hear Rufus Thomas's name mentioned less and less. 

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Listen:
Rufus Thomas - Tiger Man mp3 at Internet Archive Sun Records
Rufus Thomas - Juanita mp3
at Internet Archive Chess Records
Rufus Thomas - (Do the) Push and Pull (Pt 1 & 2) mp3
at Internet Archive Stax Records
Rufus Thomas - Sixty Minute Man mp3
at Internet Archive Stax Records
The Goods:
Rufus Thomas - Anthology 1
at Internet Archive 26 Songs
Rufus Thomas - Anthology 2
at Internet Archive 26 more songs
Visit:
Rufus Thomas
at Wikipedia

2 comments:

espen e said...

So that’s what those watchbands are called? Twist-O-Flex?

Funny. My grandfather was a Twist-O-Flex man (back in the days when owning a wristwatch meant something). Proud as shit of his Swiss made Certina (the kind you wound up by shaking your wrist a couple times). Gave me my first watch when I was around eight or nine. Supplied watchband? Twist-O-Flex; what else?

@Rufus Thomas: Used to cover "Tiger Man" (with my band) back in the early nineties. And hey; the original popped up during my (completely on-the-fly and highly eclectic) 2016/17 New Years Eve (houseparty) DJ-set, too. May not keep his name in lights, but still.

Happy New Year, Tom. Hope it’ll prove to be a good one, despite the odds. Crazy world be damned.

Espen

Tom G. said...

Hey Espen, happy new year and all that jazz to you too!

One of my brother's old bands did "Tiger Man" as well. Theirs was full-on rockabilly take which I have a tape of somewhere. (I know it's around here somewhere.....)