{"id":2856,"date":"2012-06-10T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2012-06-21T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T20:57:39","slug":"f16ciron-leg-twin-spin-ted-taylor-love-is-like-a-ramblin-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2856","title":{"rendered":"F16C\/Iron Leg Twin Spin: Ted Taylor – (Love Is Like a) Ramblin’ Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Ted Taylor – (Love Is Like a) Ramblin’ Rose<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greetings all and welcome to another week at the vinyl ranch.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I should get things started by updating you on the 2012 Pledge Drive\/Allnighter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mixes are coming in, and we have some hot ones for you this year, including some heavy funk, reggae, old school Hammond, rock steady, mod soul and more, from all the usual suspects.<\/p>\n

The launch date \u2013 barring any disasters<\/em> – should be Monday 6\/18, so strap yourselves in.<\/p>\n

Today I\u2019m going to launch\/modify a feature that I used here and at Iron Leg<\/strong><\/a>) in the past, i.e. the ‘Twin Spin’, presenting two different, yet complimentary versions of a particularly hot song, on both blogs simultaneously.<\/p>\n

Here at Funky16Corners<\/strong> you get the soul side, over at Iron Leg,<\/strong> the garage side, both sides hot and tasty!<\/p>\n

The song in question is one that ought to be familiar, but from a third, completely different source.<\/p>\n

\u2018(Love Is Like a) Ramblin\u2019 Rose\u2019 was first recorded by no less a light than Jerry Lee Lewis<\/strong> in 1962.<\/p>\n

However, the first place most people had it slip into their ear-holes was in the stomic blast of the MC5<\/strong>‘s 1969 LP \u2018Kick Out the Jams\u2019, where it was the opening cut.<\/p>\n

Now, when I was an impressionable teenager, and first heard the mighty Motor City Five let loose with the double axe-attack of Sonic Smith<\/strong> and Brother Wayne Kramer<\/strong> (BROTHER WAYNE KRAMER!!!) and then Wayne whips out that crazy falsetto, I must be truthful and say that I was left dizzy (mainly from banging my head).<\/p>\n

I had no idea that the song was in fact a cover, until a few years later when I picked up an import Jerry Lee Lewis comp and right there \u2013 at a slightly slower pace<\/em> \u2013 is the very same song.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell hows about that?\u201d says I, continuing on my merry way.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until many years after that, that I found out that the version of the song that inspired the MC5 was dropped by a cat by the name of Ted Taylor<\/strong> in 1965.<\/p>\n

Ted Taylor was born in Oklahoma, but headed west as an adult where he hooked up with the Cadets\/Jacks<\/strong> (though does not appear on the famed \u2018Stranded In the Jungle\u2019) and went on to record for a number of labels from the late 50s to the 70s, but mainly for Okeh and Ronn.<\/p>\n

Taylor was possessed of an unusual (and occasionally unnerving) falsetto, a righteous conk and a pencil \u2018stache that rivaled that of the mighty Little Richard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He recorded \u2018(Love Is Like a) \u2018Ramblin\u2019 Rose\u2019 in Nashville, under the masterful ear of producer Billy Sherrill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Taylor version of \u2018Ramblin\u2019 Rose\u2019 is nothing short of epic, and in its own way manages to take the same reckless power that the MC5 would use to light up the song and present it in a more polished (and ultimately more powerful) fashion.<\/p>\n

Sherrill\u2019s production is booming, and the guitar \u2013 I wish I knew who was playing<\/em> \u2013 is as deep and wide as the Grand Canyon, especially that opening, sliding note. I\u2019d go as far to say that there\u2019s a touch of country in that guitar sound which helps make Taylor\u2019s version so distinctive.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the song was originally credited to writers Marijohn Wilkin<\/strong>* and Fred Burch<\/strong>, but at some point in the process (that being the Ted Taylor 45) the name of Obrey Wilson<\/strong><\/a> was suddenly appended to the writing credits.<\/p>\n

Wilson was a soul singer himself, who was also working with Sherrill in Nashville during 1964 and 1965. I\u2019m hard pressed to see what he added to the song that required a writing credit. Though the Lewis OG was slower and more menacing (It was Jerry Lee, after all\u2026) the basic song structure is the same.<\/p>\n

Of course, back in the olden days, people (DJs, producers, label owners, publishers etc) were getting their names slapped on other people\u2019 songs all the time but I can\u2019t figure out where Wilson fits into the puzzle.<\/p>\n

That said, Ted Taylor\u2019s \u2018Ramblin\u2019 Rose\u2019, a disc that I chased for years** and eventually scored for less than a Jackson, is a brilliant record.<\/p>\n

Hop on over to Iron Leg to dig into a garage version of the tune.<\/a><\/p>\n

See you later in the week.
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*Wilkin was a master tunesmith, writing songs like \u2018Long Black Veil\u2019 and \u2018Cut Across Shorty\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

** Oddly, ‘(Love Is Like a) Ramblin’ Rose’ is not a particularly rare or expensive disc (it seems to hover between 30 and 50USD) but it was very hard (at least for me) to find a copy.<\/strong>
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