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Those Old Sweet Rolls: Light In The Attic Reissues Carole King's "The City," Spooner Oldham, Lee Hazlewood's Kitchen Cinq

August 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

The CityAn upcoming trio of releases from Light in the Attic turns the label's spotlight on two of popular song's most enduring writers and one maverick producer/label impresario (who also happened to be one heckuva songwriter!) - namely Carole King, Spooner Oldham, and Lee Hazlewood.   LITA is bringing King's one remarkable album with her band The City back to CD and LP, and premiering on official CD and vinyl a reissue of Oldham's 1972 solo LP Pot Luck.  Then the label continues to dig deep into the archives of Lee Hazlewood Industries for a definitive anthology dedicated to the group The Kitchen Cinq!

Freshly relocated to Laurel Canyon and with nearly a decade of hit songs already behind her, Carole King joined bassist (and her future husband) Charles Larkey and guitarist Danny Kortchmar in the band The City.  The City only recorded one album before King went solo with Writer and then, seminally, Tapestry.  But what an album it is!  Now That Everything's Been Said included some of King's most evocative compositions, many co-written with her ex-husband Gerry Goffin.  Now That Everything's Been Said - named after the title track also recorded by artists including American Spring and Peggy Lipton - includes definitive recordings of such familiar titles as "I Wasn't Born to Follow," "A Man Without a Dream" and "That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho)" as well as incredibly worthy gems like the haunting "Snow Queen" and "Victim of Circumstance."  Nodding at folk, rock and pop, and pointing the way towards the singer-songwriter boom epitomized on Tapestry, Now That Everything's Been Said is a lost classic.  Light in the Attic's newly-remastered reissue features liner notes from Steve Hochman drawing on new interviews with producer Lou Adler and the band members.  It will be released on both CD and vinyl (standard and limited edition gold and "haze wax" versions) on September 25.

Spooner Oldham - Pot LuckPianist-composer Dewey Lindon "Spooner" Oldham earned immortality with his string of hit R&B songs, many in collaboration with Dan Penn, such as "Cry Like a Baby" and "I'm Your Puppet."  In 1972, the veteran Muscle Shoals session man and songwriter struck out on his own to record Pot Luck for the Family Productions label.  The first side of the LP featured songs written with Penn and Paul Revere and the Raiders' Freddy Weller, while the second side addressed his string of hits - both those he wrote and those he played on, including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)," "Respect" and "Cry Like a Baby" - via a lengthy, conceptual medley.   Pot Luck disappeared without a trace after its initial release, however, and Oldham returned to his successful career as one of R&B's top musicians.  LITA's release marks the first official vinyl and CD reissues; the vinyl will be pressed in standard black and limited "Lucky Green" and "Galaxy Blue" colors.  Andria Lisle has penned new liner notes based on a fresh interview with Oldham himself.  All editions are due on September 1.

Kitchen CinqOriginally The Illusions (and, for a time, The Y'alls), Amarillo, Texas' The Kitchen Cinq attracted the attention of Lee Hazlewood's LHI label in Los Angeles.  A hybrid garage/harmony group, The Cinq was placed under the aegis of LHI's Suzi Jane Hokom.   At LHI, the band issued a total of five singles and one album, Everything But. However, more was left on the shelf.  All of the music recorded by the group before it broke up in 1968, including sides by The Illusions and The Y'alls, is included on When the Rainbow Disappears - An Anthology 1965-1968.  Among the many treasures here, you'll hear the band's takes on such familiar songs as Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man," Evie Sands and The Hollies' "I Can't Let Go," and The Beau Brummels' "Still in Love with You, Baby."  The Kitchen Cinq didn't last long, but did help launch the careers of musicians including fill-in member J.D. Souther!  Alec Palao has compiled and annotated this long-overdue collection which features three previously unreleased songs.  It arrives August 28 on CD as well as black vinyl and limited blue and marbled vinyl.

You can pre-order all three titles below!

The City, Now That Everything's Been Said (Ode Z 12 44 012, 1968 - reissued LITA, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

  1. Snow Queen
  2. I Wasn't Born To Follow
  3. Now That Everything's Been Said
  4. Paradise Alley
  5. Man Without A Dream
  6. Victim Of Circumstance
  7. Why Are You Leaving
  8. Lady
  9. My Sweet Home
  10. I Don't Believe It
  11. That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho)
  12. All The Time

Spooner Oldham, Pot Luck (Family Productions FPS 2703, 1972 - reissued LITA, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

  1. The Lord Loves A Rolling Stone
  2. 1980 (Keep On Smiling)
  3. Life's Package Of Puzzles
  4. Julie Brown's Forest
  5. Easy Listening
  6. When A Man Loves A Woman (The Way That I Love You)
  7. I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
  8. Kentucky Grass
  9. Cry Like A Baby
  10. Respect
  11. The New World
  12. My Friend
  13. Will The Circle Be Unbroken

The Kitchen Cinq, When the Rainbow Disappears - An Anthology 1965-1968 (LITA, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

  1. You'll Be Sorry Someday
  2. Solitary Man
  3. Determination
  4. Please Come Back To Me
  5. Codine
  6. Young Boy
  7. Last Chance To Turn Around
  8. Still In Love With You Baby
  9. If You Think...
  10. I Can't Let Go
  11. Need All The Help I Can Get
  12. Young Boy
  13. Searchin'
  14. Figareux Figareux
  15. Try
  16. Gloria
  17. Run For Your Life
  18. Please Come Back
  19. (Ellen's Fancies) Ride The Wind
  20. When The Rainbow Disappears
  21. The Street Song
  22. I Want You
  23. Wasn't It You
  24. I Am You
  25. Dying Daffodil Incident
  26. Does Anybody Know
  27. Good Lovin' (So Hard To Find)
  28. For Never We Meet

Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Carole King, Dan Penn, Lee Hazlewood, Spooner Oldham, The City, The Kitchen Cinq

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. jeff seckler says

    August 18, 2015 at 10:11 am

    How is going to sound compared to the 1999 reissue on Legacy?

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  2. Andrea says

    August 18, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    Good question! 🙂

    Reply
  3. John Ryan Horse says

    August 25, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    Who is doing the mastering? I stupidly missed the '99 remaster, which I assume was overseen by the Legacy Team (Bob Irwin etc) so I imagine it sounds good. But this one is affordable and available.

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    • Avatar photoJoe Marchese says

      October 11, 2015 at 8:49 pm

      Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters has remastered "Now That Everything's Been Said" for what is in every respect - from packaging to sound to liner notes - a superb reissue from LITA.

      Reply
  4. Jan Baart says

    September 18, 2015 at 1:47 am

    With regards to the Spooner Oldham release on LITA, "Pot Luck", I read that this was the first "official" release on LP and CD. Maybe for the LP but the CD was first (officially) released on the Big Pink label from Korea. All releases on Big Pink are tip top quality and are authorised releases. The Big Pink release was also accompanied by Oldham's 2nd release dating from 1982, "Spare Change" with 8 new titles.

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    • Jan Baart says

      September 18, 2015 at 1:50 am

      Forgot to add that "Pot Luck" was released on Big Pink Music in 2009.

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  5. edd says

    September 29, 2015 at 11:32 am

    Oldham's "Spare Change" is essentially the same record as "Pot Luck," and it sounds like "1980" is the same track on both, just remixed. "Julie Brown's Forest" is an instrumental on the 1982 album, vocal on the '72. Strange. I've been getting ready to record vocal versions of both those songs here in Nashville, looking to have them done later this year. Big Pink's 2009 reissues of the 2 records sound good. Were they indeed authorized? I believe they have done other reissues of similarly obscure stuff

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