This week: The connection between the song “Jackson” and the Coasters, dance crazes that weren’t, honky tonk barfights, Detroit soul 45s, jazz funk, and even some gospel.

TRACKLIST

Shadows of Knight – Shake
Martha and the Vandellas – Ready for Love
Timmy Willis – Mr Soul Satisfaction
JJ Barnes – Every Time I See You, I Go Wild
The Cavaliers – Hold to My Baby
TJ Fowler – Tastie (pt 1) 
Betty James – I Like the Way You Walk
Ted Taylor – I Lost the Best Thing I Ever Had
Sugar Pie De Santo – I Don’t Wanna Fuss
Solomon Burke – Maggie’s Farm 
Johnny Otis – Keep the Faith pt 2
The Country Gentlemen – Baby Blue
York Brothers – What Would I Do
Billy Edd Wheeler – Jackson
Ron Davis – Lay It on the Line
Jerry Evans – Go On Home
The Coasters featuring King Curtis – The Climb (instrumental)
The Coasters  – The Climb
Bo Diddley – Do the Frog
Pat and Lolly Vegas – Robot Walk
Bob Kuban and the In-Men – The Pretzel
Detroit Sex Machines – The Stretch pt2
Minako Yoshida – Midnight Driver
Minako Yoshida – Keppeki Niisan
Dr Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band – Sunshower
Donald Byrd – Think Twice
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly – Love Is the Key
Donald Fagen – Green Flower Street
Ubiquity – Midnight After Dark
Chuck Carbo and the Soul Finders – Can I Be Your Squeeze
Jimmy Castor – Hey Leroy, Your Mama’s Callin’ You
Jackie Lee – Bring It Home
Bob and Earl – Puppet on a String
The Velvelettes – Lonely Lonely Girl Am I
Lulu – Try to Understand
Cha Cha Hogan – Grit Gitter
Louis Jordan – Caldonia 
Frankie Dunlop and His Orchestra – Uptown Downtown
Pearlettes – Can I Get Him
Pearl Woods – Don’t Tell It All
Freddie Hall and His Aces – Can This Be Mine
Nolan Strong – Since You’ve Gone
Joe Weaver – Too Hot to Trot
Fairfield Four – Don’t Let Nobody
Pilgrim Travelers – Straight Street