Timmy Shaw – Gonna Send You Back To Georgia (City Slick)
Timmy Shaw
Listen/Download Timmy Shaw – Gonna Send you Back To Georgia (City Slick)
Greetings all
If you’ve been loitering here under the streetlamp at Funky16Corners for a few years, you probably heard this song (the James Carr cover)when I posted it back in 2009.
At the time, I mentioned how surprised I was when I spun that particular 45 and realized that it was a take on the song that I had known by the Animals as ‘Send You Back To Walker’.
When I posted it, I did some digging and discovered that the James Carr tune was not only not the OG, but came after the one by our friends from Newcastle upon the Tyne, which itself was a cover of the O-est of G’s, which (not coincidentally) you see before you this fine day.
Assuming that you read the title of the post, you know by now that the tune was written and first recorded by a cat named Timmy Shaw (though his Ma and Pa knew him as Jake Hammonds, Jr).
Shaw, who co-wrote the tune with Johnnie Mae Matthews was a Detroit-based singer who waxed the tune in 1964.
Shaw recorded a number of 45s for local labels, with ‘Gonna Send You back To Georgia’ having originally been released under it’s parenthetical title ‘City Slick’ earlier that year on the Audrey imprint.
The Wand version grazed the outer reaches of the R&B Top 40 in January of 1964.
The original version of the tune is a hard-charging, highly danceable number with some very tasty guitar and a great vocal by Shaw, who reminds me a little of Gary US Bonds.
Timmy Shaw – one can assume he pulled in a couple of bucks from the Animals cover – only recorded a few more 45s (for Premium Stuff and Big Hit), the last in 1968 before dropping out of sight.
He passed away in 1986.
I hope you dig the cut, and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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This was one of John Lennon’s favourite singles and even made the excellent John Lennon’s Jukebox compilation.
I’d forgotten that! My big takeaway from that special was Bobby Parker’s ‘Watch Your Step’. I’ll have to find it and watch it again.
Love this single. Still have a copy somewhere in my backfiles of Detroitiana. Timmy Shaw was one of those faces you saw playing around the local black bar circuit in Detroit for several years. Johnnie Mae Matthews, of course, was always around, later pushing her kids’ group Black Nasty and always claiming to have ‘discovered’ the Temptations to anyone within earshot (she did record the Tempts precursor group, the Distants).