Bill Doggett & His Combo - Fingertips

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 30:19
Size: 69.4 MB
Styles: Jazz/Soul/Funk
Year: 1963/2012
Art: Front

[2:20] 1. Fingertips
[2:26] 2. Soul Zone
[3:29] 3. Without Love
[3:23] 4. The Love Of My Man
[2:03] 5. Memphis
[2:01] 6. The Worm
[2:40] 7. One Fine Day
[1:58] 8. Monkey
[2:21] 9. Soul City
[2:46] 10. If You Need Me
[2:34] 11. D'lo
[2:12] 12. Hot Fudge

This lp is very mid 60s instrumentally poppish, likely the most commercial of Doggett's Columbia lps. He does instrumental versions of a lot of "hits" of the day, plays them fairly straight and without a lot of blowing. For the sidemen (not named)it's probably pretty much like doing the original date - just another R&B session. This isn't really a "jazz" date. At least not imho. Bill's organ sound is different here. No vibrato or leslie for the most part. Unusual for him.

So for me it's far from the greatest Bill Doggett, but on the other hand it's likely not to be reissued and when all is said and done I'm glad I have it. I don't listen to it often, but it is a very accurate picure of the times in which it was recorded. ~Harold Z

Fingertips mc
Fingertips zippy

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