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Howard Tate "Rediscovered"
Rediscovered, the first new album from legendary R&B
vocalist Howard Tate in nearly thirty years, and one
of the most remarkable career comebacks in the annals
of popular music, to be released on Private Music /
Arista Associated Labels, July 1.
One of the most distinctive and dynamic vocalists in
the entire R&B idiom, Howard Tate first burst into the
national spotlight in 1967 with the release of his
seminal debut album Get It While You Can, produced by
Jerry Ragovoy and featured such hits as “Look At
Granny Run Run,” “Stop,” and “Ain’t Nobody Home.” It
was followed in 1974 by Ain’t Got Nobody To Give It
To, but by then Tate had grown disillusioned with the
music business and, shortly after its release, dropped
out of sight.
Rediscovered reunites Tate with renowned songwriter
and producer Jerry Ragovoy and features eleven new
Ragovoy originals composed especially for the project,
including a track co-written with Elvis Costello. The
album also highlights Tate’s electrifying rendition of
the Prince classic, “Kiss.”
In the ensuing three decades following Tate’s
disappearance, he endured a harrowing ordeal that
included the death of a daughter and a protracted
struggle with drug and alcohol addiction. It was in
1994, homeless and destitute, that Tate experienced a
powerful religious conversion, which led him to
establish and pastor the Gift of the Cross Church in
his native Philadelphia.
In the years following his disappearance, Jerry
Ragovoy was frequently approached by record labels and
promoters seeking to locate the lost R&B master.
Interest only increased after the 1995 re-release of
Get It While You Can, but despite his best efforts,
the producer and songwriter could not contact his
former musical partner and had given him up for dead.
It was on New Year’s Day, 2001 that a fellow musician
spotted Tate in a Philadelphia supermarket and relayed
the discovery to area DJ Phil Casden, who had been
broadcasting an appeal for news of the missing artist.
Ragovoy was notified and, shortly afterwards, the
reunited pair began work on a new album. “It was
amazing,” the producer and songwriter confides. “I
immediately got in touch with him, for no other reason
than to renew an old friendship. I had no notion of
working with him again until I heard him speak for the
first time. I could tell right away that he still had
it. His voice was strong and clear, which in itself is
a miracle considering all he had been through over the
years.”
Recorded near Ragovoy’s home in Atlanta, Georgia,
Rediscovered features a top-notch studio line-up,
including performances by the famed Uptown Horns.
Produced by Jerry Ragovoy, it also highlights such
Ragovoy originals as “Mama Was Right,” “Sorry Wrong
Number,” “All I Know Is The Way I Feel,” and “Either
Side Of The Same Town” co-written with Elvis Costello.
"Howard’s magical and original voice is the missing
link between Jackie Wilson and Al Green,” said
Costello. “His voice is better than ever and the new
songs rival his classics. Of all the songs I've ever
written, Howard's version of ‘Either Side of the Same
Town’ is perhaps the most astounding. The recording
completely blew me away."
Joining in the widespread enthusiasm over the return
of Howard Tate, Grammy winning recording artists
Bonnie Raitt commented, “Simply one of the greatest
soul singers ever, Howard Tate has made the comeback
album we've all been waiting for. His reuniting with
legendary songwriter/producer, Jerry Ragovoy is a
marriage made in R&B heaven: great songs and
production showcasing Howard's exquisitely heartfelt
singing. If ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’ doesn't get you, you
can't be got."
......and here`s a good price for this disc
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.a ... =148493089
Howard Tate , RIP
Howard Tate , RIP
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Howard Tate album gets U.K. release
Having got my copy in the U.S. last
summer I kind of assume it had been released over
here. Apparently not ; this Guardian review and Amazon
UK link tell that it is only being released here this
week. It even has a new cover , with a photo montage
emphasising the whole `rediscovered` theme.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 05-1086833
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayre ... 40,00.html
Howard Tate, Rediscovered
(Private/BMG)
Adam Sweeting
Friday March 5, 2004
The Guardian
"Rediscovered" is the word, since Howard Tate has
suffered one of the greatest to-hell-and-back stories
in showbiz. Hailed as one of the great soulmen when he
released his debut album in 1967, Tate subsequently
suffered the death of a daughter, the collapse of his
marriage and a descent into vagrancy and drug abuse.
Then he found the Lord, and, equally importantly, he
was reunited with producer/songwriter Jerry Ragovoy,
who supervised the creation of Rediscovered.
Amazingly, his voice had survived intact, while the
spirit of the occasion seems to have galvanised
Ragovoy's writing juices. Throughout these 14 songs,
Tate reworks his favourite soul/gospel/R&B roots (and
also tackles a sparky version of Prince's Kiss), and
the classic horns-and-keyboards arrangements leave
bags of room for him to sound rapt, wracked or
ecstatic as the moment demands. Standouts include the
Ragovoy/Elvis Costello collaboration Either Side of
the Same Town and the steady simmer of All I Know.
Overall it's a remarkable return.
Having got my copy in the U.S. last
summer I kind of assume it had been released over
here. Apparently not ; this Guardian review and Amazon
UK link tell that it is only being released here this
week. It even has a new cover , with a photo montage
emphasising the whole `rediscovered` theme.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 05-1086833
-------------------------------------------------------
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayre ... 40,00.html
Howard Tate, Rediscovered
(Private/BMG)
Adam Sweeting
Friday March 5, 2004
The Guardian
"Rediscovered" is the word, since Howard Tate has
suffered one of the greatest to-hell-and-back stories
in showbiz. Hailed as one of the great soulmen when he
released his debut album in 1967, Tate subsequently
suffered the death of a daughter, the collapse of his
marriage and a descent into vagrancy and drug abuse.
Then he found the Lord, and, equally importantly, he
was reunited with producer/songwriter Jerry Ragovoy,
who supervised the creation of Rediscovered.
Amazingly, his voice had survived intact, while the
spirit of the occasion seems to have galvanised
Ragovoy's writing juices. Throughout these 14 songs,
Tate reworks his favourite soul/gospel/R&B roots (and
also tackles a sparky version of Prince's Kiss), and
the classic horns-and-keyboards arrangements leave
bags of room for him to sound rapt, wracked or
ecstatic as the moment demands. Standouts include the
Ragovoy/Elvis Costello collaboration Either Side of
the Same Town and the steady simmer of All I Know.
Overall it's a remarkable return.
http://www.hip-oselect.com/catalogue_tate.asp#midpage
Howard Tate
Get It While You Can
Available Now
CD edition limited to 5000 individually numbered copies.
Music journalists often throw around words like "seminal" and "genius" very casually, as though such records come along regularly. Well they don't. But if you happened to be in just the right place in 1967, you might have had a chance to hear one of those albums about which both of those terms could rightfully be applied.
Howard Tate and writer/producer Jerry Ragovoy formed one of those magical studio alliances that come along only very rarely in the history of pop music: Jerry Wexler and Aretha Franklin; Tom Dowd and Eric Clapton; George Martin and the Beatles; Joe Boyd and Nick Drake. Tate's debut album, Get It While You Can, set the bar so high that even the artist himself admits he was never able to recapture its groove. After a few attempts back in the day, he gave it all up -for decades- only to return in 2003 with a much-lauded comeback album.
Who got Get It While You Can while they could? Just people like Hendrix. And Joplin. And Cooder. And B.B. King. They all covered songs off the record whose stature only grew as Tate's public prominence receded. The album went out of print, came back for an instant or two in 1995, and became even more a thing of legend, as Northern Soul collectors worldwide hoarded the few they could get their grubby little mitts on. eBay sent it into triple digits on a regular basis.
But that's all just commerce. Listen to "Stop," as he jumps out of the speakers from bar one and nails the high falsetto notes with a master's precision. Try "Look At Granny Run Run," a commercial for Viagra over thirty years before it was ever marketed. Check out the title track and hear where Janis got her soul and inspiration. This album just plain old kicks ass.
Hip-Ocrates Says...
Not only do we have the album restored to its original running order (with two bonus tracks!), but we have the eight singles (a & b sides) in chronological order, reproduced in glorious mono! Oh yeah!
Howard Tate
Get It While You Can
Available Now
CD edition limited to 5000 individually numbered copies.
Music journalists often throw around words like "seminal" and "genius" very casually, as though such records come along regularly. Well they don't. But if you happened to be in just the right place in 1967, you might have had a chance to hear one of those albums about which both of those terms could rightfully be applied.
Howard Tate and writer/producer Jerry Ragovoy formed one of those magical studio alliances that come along only very rarely in the history of pop music: Jerry Wexler and Aretha Franklin; Tom Dowd and Eric Clapton; George Martin and the Beatles; Joe Boyd and Nick Drake. Tate's debut album, Get It While You Can, set the bar so high that even the artist himself admits he was never able to recapture its groove. After a few attempts back in the day, he gave it all up -for decades- only to return in 2003 with a much-lauded comeback album.
Who got Get It While You Can while they could? Just people like Hendrix. And Joplin. And Cooder. And B.B. King. They all covered songs off the record whose stature only grew as Tate's public prominence receded. The album went out of print, came back for an instant or two in 1995, and became even more a thing of legend, as Northern Soul collectors worldwide hoarded the few they could get their grubby little mitts on. eBay sent it into triple digits on a regular basis.
But that's all just commerce. Listen to "Stop," as he jumps out of the speakers from bar one and nails the high falsetto notes with a master's precision. Try "Look At Granny Run Run," a commercial for Viagra over thirty years before it was ever marketed. Check out the title track and hear where Janis got her soul and inspiration. This album just plain old kicks ass.
Hip-Ocrates Says...
Not only do we have the album restored to its original running order (with two bonus tracks!), but we have the eight singles (a & b sides) in chronological order, reproduced in glorious mono! Oh yeah!
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/mus ... 43,00.html
( extract)
Released in September, A Portrait of Howard is a loosely conceptual suite of material that effectively tells the story of Tate's life in song. In addition to cutting a handful of new compositions, the pair added several Randy Newman numbers into the mix, as well as tunes by everyone from Burt Bacharach and Hal David ("Close to You"), to Carla Bley ("The Lord is Listenin' To Ya, Hallelujah"), Nick Lowe ("Homewrecker" and "Gone" -- the latter which Lowe wrote with the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde especially for Tate) to Lou Reed ("How Do You Think It Feels?").
"We wanted to branch him out from being just a blues or soul singer and show that he's a true song stylist," says Weisberg.
Principal sessions took place last April in Los Angeles with a 20-piece orchestra. Over the next year, Tate and Weisberg fleshed out the rest of the album with a cast of players that included Davey Faragher and Pete Thomas of Elvis Costello's band, the Impostors, as well as special guests like Lou Reed, who adds some searing lead guitar to his own "How Do You Think It Feels" -- and there's hardly a more enjoyable moment on the record than hearing Tate implore Reed to "Help me out here, Lou!"
http://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Howard-T ... F8&s=music
A Portrait Of Howard
( extract)
Released in September, A Portrait of Howard is a loosely conceptual suite of material that effectively tells the story of Tate's life in song. In addition to cutting a handful of new compositions, the pair added several Randy Newman numbers into the mix, as well as tunes by everyone from Burt Bacharach and Hal David ("Close to You"), to Carla Bley ("The Lord is Listenin' To Ya, Hallelujah"), Nick Lowe ("Homewrecker" and "Gone" -- the latter which Lowe wrote with the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde especially for Tate) to Lou Reed ("How Do You Think It Feels?").
"We wanted to branch him out from being just a blues or soul singer and show that he's a true song stylist," says Weisberg.
Principal sessions took place last April in Los Angeles with a 20-piece orchestra. Over the next year, Tate and Weisberg fleshed out the rest of the album with a cast of players that included Davey Faragher and Pete Thomas of Elvis Costello's band, the Impostors, as well as special guests like Lou Reed, who adds some searing lead guitar to his own "How Do You Think It Feels" -- and there's hardly a more enjoyable moment on the record than hearing Tate implore Reed to "Help me out here, Lou!"
http://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Howard-T ... F8&s=music
A Portrait Of Howard
Re: Elvis talks about new Howard Tate album
http://www.themortonreport.com/entertai ... ies-at-80/
Jerry Ragovoy, Reknowned Songwriter/Producer/Arranger, Dies at 80
By Al Kooper, Columnist
July 15, 2011 12:45 PM 0
Jerry Ragovoy, composer of "Time Is On My Side," "Piece Of My Heart," "Get It While You Can," "Cry Cry Baby," and producer of Dionne Warwick, Bonnie Raitt, Howard Tate, Paul Butterfield, Miriam Makeba, and countless others, passed away in New York City on July 13 of complications from a stroke.
He was born September 4, 1930 in Philadelphia, to Nandor and Evelyn (nee Myrowitz) Ragovoy. He began his career in the early '50s as a music buyer for an appliance store in downtown Philadelphia. In 1953 he produced his first recording, “My Love Awaits Me” by the Castelles. From there he took a staff job at Chancellor Records, a local Philadelphia imprint. Ragovy began as an arranger on tracks cut by national heartthrob, Frankie Avalon. Jerry soon resigned and packed up for the journey to New York where he felt his talents would be more amply appreciated.
Once settled in New York City, Ragovoy founded and operated his own recording studio known as The Hit Factory and trained future mega-engineers and producers such as Bill Szymczk and Art Polhemus.
Around this time he began writing songs with Bert Berns, including "Cry Baby," which was recorded by Garnet Mimms and reached number four in 1963. Ragovoy produced Mimms throughout the '60s, and had a hand in writing other memorable singles for him, including "A Quiet Place," "Look Away," "Baby Don't You Weep," "It Was Easier to Hurt Her," "Anytime You Want Me" (covered by The Who in 1965), and "My Baby."
In the mid-'60s he wrote "Time Is on My Side," originally written for jazz trombonist Kai Winding and later memorably covered by the Rolling Stones (it became their first U.S. Top Ten hit). Ragovoy wrote this and some of his other best known songs under the pseudonym of Norman Meade. Thus began the ascent of Jerry’s career.
His songs were also recorded by Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, BB King, Janis Joplin, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Barry White, Erma Franklin, Lorraine Ellison, Howard Tate, Miriam Makeba, The Small Faces, Manfred Mann, Mike Bloomfield, Dusty Springfield, Ben E. King, Gene Pitney, The Spencer Davis Group, Baby Washington, Lou Courtney, Roy Redmond, Carl Hall, The Dave Clark Five, Maxine Brown, The Marmalade, The James Gang, LaBelle, The Yardbirds, Kate Taylor, Bryan Ferry, The Walker Brothers, Freddie King, Ry Cooder, Bette Midler, The Pointer Sisters, Betty LaVette, Sammy Hagar, and Faith Hill among countless others.
AllMusic notes the affinity between Ragovoy's material and Janis Joplin's style:
Janis Joplin in particular seemed to have a yen for Ragovoy-penned material, covering (with Big Brother & the Holding Company, or as a solo singer) "Piece of My Heart," "My Baby," "Get It While You Can," "Cry Baby," and "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)." In most cases, Joplin's interpretation eventually became the best-known version. Three of these songs were on her final album, Pearl, and Joplin asked Ragovoy to compose a tune especially for her that she could record on the disc. Ragovoy has said that he did do this around the summer of 1970, but that Joplin did not have a chance to record the number - titled, ironically, "I'm Gonna Rock My Way to Heaven" - as she died several weeks later.
In addition, his production and arranging skills were called upon by the likes of Diana Ross, Bonnie Raitt, Dionne Warwick, Barry White, The Majors, Miriam Makeba, Paul Butterfield, Maureen McGovern, Lorraine Ellison, Howard Tate, and Roy Redmond to name but a few.
In his off-time, he rented out the studio, eventually selling it and semi-retiring to Atlanta, Georgia. He moved back to New York City in the early 2000s, but quickly resettled in Stamford, Connecticut, which was his last residence. He married Beverly Matson in the ‘80s and they remained happily wed throughout the rest of his life. In addition to his wife, he is survived by twin daughters and one granddaughter, among other family members. A private family service will be held, but a memorial gathering to honor Jerry's life is being planned for the autumn.
Jerry Ragovoy became a household name in the music industry over his six-decade run and his recorded works will live forever and no doubt inspire listeners for years into the future. Always with a twinkle in his eye and a humorous tale to tell, he will be fondly remembered. His loss is inestimable.
The Jerry Ragovoy Story, a selection of his life's work with detailed notes, is available on compact disc from the UK label Ace Records.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elvis co-wrote a song with Jerry Ragovoy . Co-hosting the radio show Mystery Train (from presumably the Donnybrook , Dublin RTE studios , but a unattributed link from a U.K. location wouldn't have been out of the question) in Dec. '02 Elvis spoke of having just that day finished a song for Howard Tate. Speaking within a day of the announcement of the ending of his relationship with Cait O'Riordan, the songs name wasn't mentioned. It was , of course , Either Side Of The Same Town. Singing it in Memphis in 2004 ( April 18 '04, early show), in the middle of the Delivery Man recording sessions which included Elvis' version of the song , a mid-song comment went -
' This here song is about when you have an 'ex' who lives in the same town as you , you might see somebody come down the street and think they look awfully familiar , maybe they used to be the person you loved, maybe it's the other way around....'
Nothing will ever be the same
All of the promises we made seem hollow
But there are still streets in this town
Marked with your shadow
So if you see me, look surprised
If you don't, then pass me by
And I may even brush your sleeve
As you turn to leave
Now it's hard to act like strangers
When we used to be so strong
Everything is changing
And most of it is wrong
What do we know of anything?
Two fools of some renown
Either side of the same town
Somewhere, there's a light
I can sense it
Oh, though I may fall back again
Although it's a fight
I know I must remain
Now it's hard to keep ignoring
Someone you recognize
And if I seem contented
It's only my disguise
What do we know of anything?
Two fools of some renown
Either side of the same town
Jerry Ragovoy, Reknowned Songwriter/Producer/Arranger, Dies at 80
By Al Kooper, Columnist
July 15, 2011 12:45 PM 0
Jerry Ragovoy, composer of "Time Is On My Side," "Piece Of My Heart," "Get It While You Can," "Cry Cry Baby," and producer of Dionne Warwick, Bonnie Raitt, Howard Tate, Paul Butterfield, Miriam Makeba, and countless others, passed away in New York City on July 13 of complications from a stroke.
He was born September 4, 1930 in Philadelphia, to Nandor and Evelyn (nee Myrowitz) Ragovoy. He began his career in the early '50s as a music buyer for an appliance store in downtown Philadelphia. In 1953 he produced his first recording, “My Love Awaits Me” by the Castelles. From there he took a staff job at Chancellor Records, a local Philadelphia imprint. Ragovy began as an arranger on tracks cut by national heartthrob, Frankie Avalon. Jerry soon resigned and packed up for the journey to New York where he felt his talents would be more amply appreciated.
Once settled in New York City, Ragovoy founded and operated his own recording studio known as The Hit Factory and trained future mega-engineers and producers such as Bill Szymczk and Art Polhemus.
Around this time he began writing songs with Bert Berns, including "Cry Baby," which was recorded by Garnet Mimms and reached number four in 1963. Ragovoy produced Mimms throughout the '60s, and had a hand in writing other memorable singles for him, including "A Quiet Place," "Look Away," "Baby Don't You Weep," "It Was Easier to Hurt Her," "Anytime You Want Me" (covered by The Who in 1965), and "My Baby."
In the mid-'60s he wrote "Time Is on My Side," originally written for jazz trombonist Kai Winding and later memorably covered by the Rolling Stones (it became their first U.S. Top Ten hit). Ragovoy wrote this and some of his other best known songs under the pseudonym of Norman Meade. Thus began the ascent of Jerry’s career.
His songs were also recorded by Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, BB King, Janis Joplin, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Barry White, Erma Franklin, Lorraine Ellison, Howard Tate, Miriam Makeba, The Small Faces, Manfred Mann, Mike Bloomfield, Dusty Springfield, Ben E. King, Gene Pitney, The Spencer Davis Group, Baby Washington, Lou Courtney, Roy Redmond, Carl Hall, The Dave Clark Five, Maxine Brown, The Marmalade, The James Gang, LaBelle, The Yardbirds, Kate Taylor, Bryan Ferry, The Walker Brothers, Freddie King, Ry Cooder, Bette Midler, The Pointer Sisters, Betty LaVette, Sammy Hagar, and Faith Hill among countless others.
AllMusic notes the affinity between Ragovoy's material and Janis Joplin's style:
Janis Joplin in particular seemed to have a yen for Ragovoy-penned material, covering (with Big Brother & the Holding Company, or as a solo singer) "Piece of My Heart," "My Baby," "Get It While You Can," "Cry Baby," and "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)." In most cases, Joplin's interpretation eventually became the best-known version. Three of these songs were on her final album, Pearl, and Joplin asked Ragovoy to compose a tune especially for her that she could record on the disc. Ragovoy has said that he did do this around the summer of 1970, but that Joplin did not have a chance to record the number - titled, ironically, "I'm Gonna Rock My Way to Heaven" - as she died several weeks later.
In addition, his production and arranging skills were called upon by the likes of Diana Ross, Bonnie Raitt, Dionne Warwick, Barry White, The Majors, Miriam Makeba, Paul Butterfield, Maureen McGovern, Lorraine Ellison, Howard Tate, and Roy Redmond to name but a few.
In his off-time, he rented out the studio, eventually selling it and semi-retiring to Atlanta, Georgia. He moved back to New York City in the early 2000s, but quickly resettled in Stamford, Connecticut, which was his last residence. He married Beverly Matson in the ‘80s and they remained happily wed throughout the rest of his life. In addition to his wife, he is survived by twin daughters and one granddaughter, among other family members. A private family service will be held, but a memorial gathering to honor Jerry's life is being planned for the autumn.
Jerry Ragovoy became a household name in the music industry over his six-decade run and his recorded works will live forever and no doubt inspire listeners for years into the future. Always with a twinkle in his eye and a humorous tale to tell, he will be fondly remembered. His loss is inestimable.
The Jerry Ragovoy Story, a selection of his life's work with detailed notes, is available on compact disc from the UK label Ace Records.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elvis co-wrote a song with Jerry Ragovoy . Co-hosting the radio show Mystery Train (from presumably the Donnybrook , Dublin RTE studios , but a unattributed link from a U.K. location wouldn't have been out of the question) in Dec. '02 Elvis spoke of having just that day finished a song for Howard Tate. Speaking within a day of the announcement of the ending of his relationship with Cait O'Riordan, the songs name wasn't mentioned. It was , of course , Either Side Of The Same Town. Singing it in Memphis in 2004 ( April 18 '04, early show), in the middle of the Delivery Man recording sessions which included Elvis' version of the song , a mid-song comment went -
' This here song is about when you have an 'ex' who lives in the same town as you , you might see somebody come down the street and think they look awfully familiar , maybe they used to be the person you loved, maybe it's the other way around....'
Nothing will ever be the same
All of the promises we made seem hollow
But there are still streets in this town
Marked with your shadow
So if you see me, look surprised
If you don't, then pass me by
And I may even brush your sleeve
As you turn to leave
Now it's hard to act like strangers
When we used to be so strong
Everything is changing
And most of it is wrong
What do we know of anything?
Two fools of some renown
Either side of the same town
Somewhere, there's a light
I can sense it
Oh, though I may fall back again
Although it's a fight
I know I must remain
Now it's hard to keep ignoring
Someone you recognize
And if I seem contented
It's only my disguise
What do we know of anything?
Two fools of some renown
Either side of the same town
Re: Jerry Ragovoy, Costello co-writer, dies July '11
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obitu ... 17696.html
Obituary
Jerry Ragovoy: Prolific songwriter and producer whose hits included the Rolling Stones' 'Time Is On My Side'
(extract)
Somewhat surprisingly, Ragovoy's "Time Is On My Side" was first recorded by the jazz trombonist, Kai Winding, the musical director of the Playboy Club in New York City. It was then recorded by Irma Thomas as a stylish but impassioned soul ballad and it became a US Top 10 single for the Rolling Stones in 1964.
The song's authorship is convoluted -
http://www.beachamjournal.com/journal/2 ... -side.html
Obituary
Jerry Ragovoy: Prolific songwriter and producer whose hits included the Rolling Stones' 'Time Is On My Side'
(extract)
Somewhat surprisingly, Ragovoy's "Time Is On My Side" was first recorded by the jazz trombonist, Kai Winding, the musical director of the Playboy Club in New York City. It was then recorded by Irma Thomas as a stylish but impassioned soul ballad and it became a US Top 10 single for the Rolling Stones in 1964.
The song's authorship is convoluted -
http://www.beachamjournal.com/journal/2 ... -side.html
Re: Jerry Ragovoy, Costello co-writer, dies July '11
http://www.dickwaterman.com/2011/its-no ... -the-song/
Howard Tate died yesterday. He had been in poor health so it was no surprise to those who knew him. Howard was a great soul singer in that time when ‘great soul singer’ was a phrase that fit so many.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Tate
On December 2, 2011 Tate passed away from complications of Multiple Myeloma and Leukemia.
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... oward_Tate
Howard Tate's Get It While You Can (1967) is included in Elvis Costello's "500 Albums You Need" (Vanity Fair, November 2000). Rediscovered (2003) includes "Either Side Of The Same Town," co-written by Elvis Costello and Jerry Ragovoy.
Elvis 'n Howard , Sept. 2002 at the San Francisco Blues Festival
http://www.slapcompany.com/blog/finding ... stan-slap/
Howard Tate died yesterday. He had been in poor health so it was no surprise to those who knew him. Howard was a great soul singer in that time when ‘great soul singer’ was a phrase that fit so many.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Tate
On December 2, 2011 Tate passed away from complications of Multiple Myeloma and Leukemia.
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... oward_Tate
Howard Tate's Get It While You Can (1967) is included in Elvis Costello's "500 Albums You Need" (Vanity Fair, November 2000). Rediscovered (2003) includes "Either Side Of The Same Town," co-written by Elvis Costello and Jerry Ragovoy.
Elvis 'n Howard , Sept. 2002 at the San Francisco Blues Festival
http://www.slapcompany.com/blog/finding ... stan-slap/