Listen/Download – The Jagged Edge – Baby You Don’t Know MP3

Greetings all.

We start the week with a 45 that is something of a mystery.

The first time I heard ‘Baby You Don’t Know’ by the Jagged Edge I knew I had to find a copy.

It is a fast-paced, dance floor friendly mover, with some falsetto/harmony vocals, and a choppy rhythm guitar. It (understandably) has something of a following on the Northern scene in the UK.

Though I can date the record to 1966, other than the presence of producer Felton Jarvis (that would likely place the recording in the south, probably Nashville), there isn’t much to go on.

There were a number of groups operating with the name ‘Jagged Edge’ around the same time, including rock groups in New York and Detroit (this is neither of those groups).

All that, and the fact that the flipside, ‘Deep Inside’ defies categorization, sounding almost like the Four Seasons, with the addition of a bizarre sounding, primitive wah-wah/distorted guitar.

If anyone knows anything else about the 45, please drop me a line in the comments.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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4 Responses to “The Jagged Edge – Baby You Don’t Know”

1. Davie Gordon says:

   January 17, 2016 at 4:40 pm

   Hi Larry,
   This Jagged Edge appear to be a renaming of a group called the
   Three Dimensions who’d been signed to RCA in 1965.
   Going by the matrix numbers the Jagged Edge single was recorded at the same session as the Three Dimensions’ RCA single.

   see https://www.45cat.com/record/478709

2. Larry says:

   January 19, 2016 at 12:02 pm

   Thanks Davie!

3. Larry says:

   January 19, 2016 at 12:09 pm

   Check this out, Davie! It features the same crazy guitar as the Jagged Edge b-side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPXASZ75Rk

4. Davie Gordon says:

   January 19, 2016 at 9:29 pm

   Crazy guitar indeed – sounds like my cat singing 🙂
   The group sound to me like a harder-edged Newbeats.

   Now we’ve got names for The Three Dimensions – Don Hill, John
   Koechner and Skip Gibbs. They all ended up at Shelby Singleton’s SSS Intl. label, Don and John as staff writers and Skip as a solo act.
   see https://www.45cat.com/artist/skip-gibbs