Jackey Beavers

Listen/Download – Soul Continentals – Goobah (African Twist) MP3

Greetings all.

The record you see before you is an old fave, which I picked up on (though didn’t get a copy of until a couple of years ago) way back in the early days of my Hammond organ obsession.

When I started digging around for info about the Soul Continentals, I was initially surprised to see that they seemed to have hailed from Detroit (their one other 45 was on the Jaber label out of Michigan), but after digging further, was even more surprised to find out that they were led by none other than Jackey Beavers!

You read about Jackey in this space before relating to his work in Johnny (Bristol) and Jackey, who did the original version of ‘Someday We’ll Be Together’. Beavers went on to record a bunch of 45s on his own for a variety of labels.

It was only recently that I discovered that the ‘R. Beavers’ listed as the composer/producer of ‘Goobah (African Twist)’ and its flipside ‘Bowlegs’ was in fact Jackey Beavers (his real name being Robert).

I’m not sure, but I suspect that Beavers is the keyboard player on this track, which features piano and organ.

Though the flipside ‘Bowlegs’ is faster moving number with some very hard hitting drums, ‘Goobah (African Twist)’ , released in 1968, moves at a more deliberate pace, with a groovy organ soloing over drums and hand percussion, with minor vocal interjections, and a very cool reverbed guitar solo.

As Hammond instros go, it’s a killer, and well worth whatever it takes to move one into your playbox (and a lot cheaper than their earlier Jaber 45 which can cost hundreds).

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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