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BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | 01/15/2008
Have I posted about Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham before? Surely among the very best ever song-writers, and yet relatively little known. Here are a few of their songs, with links to blog posts featuring those songs (and usually either mp3 downloads or YouTube footage). (This post inspired by the Ella Moon song at Sir Shambling I reached via Andrew .) Woman Left Lonely. Recorded by Ella Moon , Janis Joplin...
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 11/16/2007
Dan Penn is the Alabama-born songwriter who co-wrote several of the classics of the heyday of soul music. Penn teamed up with collaborators including Chips Moman and Spooner Oldham to write such classics as "Do Right Woman," "Dark End of the Street," "Sweet Inspiration," "It Tears Me Up," "Take Me (As I Am," "You Left the Water Running," and "I'm Your Puppet." You may remember the songs as performed...
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