The Sims Twins

Listen/Download – The Sims Twins – A Losing Battle MP3

Greetings all.

Today’s selection is one of my favorite 45s to come out of what I call the Los Angeles/New Orleans connection.

I use the term to cover the diaspora of New Orleans musicians, including Harold Battiste, Mac Rebennack, Jesse Hill and Earl Palmer among others that ended up working in a wide variety of settings in the studios of LA in the 1960s.

The Sims Twins were originally from New Orleans, before being discovered by Sam Cooke and moving out to the West Coast where the recorded a grip of singles for Cooke’s SAR records between 1961 and 1963 (including the original version of ‘Soothe Me’ later covered by Sam and Dave) and going on to record for Omen, Parkway, Specialty and Crossover, eventually running out of steam by the mid 70s.

Today’s selection was recorded for Omen Records in 1966. Written by Mac Rebennack and John Dauenhauer and arranged by Harold Battiste, ‘A Losing Battle’ is a great slice of upbeat soul with a fantastic arrangement.

Oddly enough, a while back, I was listening to Little Royal’s 1972 album, and one of the songs sounded vaguely familiar. It turns out he had covered ‘A Losing Battle’ but slowed the tempo way down, turning into a mournful ballad, rendering it almost unrecognizable.

That said, I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all next week.

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Keep the faith

Larry

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One Response to “The Sims Twins – A Losing Battle”

1. Jeff Hill says:

   January 28, 2019 at 11:10 pm

   Hey, fantastic version of this song! Johnny Adams did the original on Ric in 1962…