Best of Slim Harpo [Import]

Slim Harpo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B000024GFY
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,644 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Baby Scratch My Back

2. I Got Love If You Want It

3. I'm a King Bee

4. My Little Queen Bee (Got a Brand New King)

5. Shake Your Hips

6. Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu

7. Buzz Me Babe

8. Buzzin'

9. Rainin' in My Heart

10. Still Rainin' in My Heart

11. Late Last Night

12. Tip on in, Pt. 1

13. Bobby Sox Baby

14. Don't Start Crying Now

15. I Need Money (Keep Your Alibis)

16. Strange Love

17. Rock Me Baby

18. Blues Hangover

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Slim Harpo recorded really good rhythm and blues. He never got too fancy; he never forgot the importance of the groove. He died young in 1970, but his music reached the Rolling Stones (who covered his "I'm a King Bee"), the Kinks (who sang his "I Got Love If You Want It"), Van Morrison, and Them (whose first single was Harpo's "Don't Start Crying Now"). These songs and other greats--"Tip on In," "Baby, Scratch My Back"--are all included in this excellent collection of Harpo's greatest sides. --Robert Gordon

From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD

Harmonica player and singer James "Slim Harpo" Moore patrolled the Louisiana swamplands for the Excello Label from 1957 to 1966, recording slinky, lubricious numbers such as "Baby Scratch My Back" and "I'm a King Bee" (note Fats Perrodin's supernatural bass), which found favor with the Rolling Stones and other young white shapers of blues-dripping rock 'n' roll. This collection has the aforementioned and sixteen more of the grinning iconoclast's wettest and spongiest grooves, including three 1967-70 tunes outside the Excello fold. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quit teasin' me, baby., January 11, 2006

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Slim Harpo (Audio CD)

This is an excellent compilation of some of Slim Harpo's best recordings. Slim played the blues in a way that was accesible to a mainstream audience. He actually had two crossover pop hits, with "Rainin' in My Heart" and "Baby Scratch My Back". His songs "I Got Love If You Want It" and "I'm a King Bee" are also recognized classics, although they are perhaps better known for their cover versions by British Invasion groups. Slim's songs are enjoyable, although he did tend to repeat himself. For example, both "Little Queen Bee" and "Buzz Me Babe" are rewrites of "I'm a King Bee". And he did rewrites of his other popular songs, too. But such a thing is common in the blues field, so he can't really be faulted for that. Blues fans should enjoy this CD.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BuzzzZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzin', September 14, 2002

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David Bradley "David Bradley" (Sterling, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

It's no wonder that the Stones aped Slim Harpo on so many of their early records: they were slaves to the groove and had a truly thumpin' bass player; Harpo's records were all about the groove, usually led by a great bass line. The Stones version of
"Hip Shake" on the classic EXILE ON MAIN STREET is a near perfect copy of the Harpo version found on this record.

The sound on these recordings is excellent. How a little label like Excello, recording low-budget acts in the (relatively speaking) middle of nowhere could capture such a great sound is beyond me.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shake Your Hips, January 2, 2001

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booknblueslady (Woodland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

One of the things about the blues is how well it ages. Some of the standards stay surprisingly fresh and new after many years, waiting for new fans to discover them as if for the first time. I believe that this CD and Slim Harpo exemplifies this.

This is a very easy to listen to CD, with great standard songs written by James Moore aka Slim Harpo. Among them are TeNi Nee Ni Nu, Shake your hips, Baby, Scratch My Back ,Rainin' in My Heart, I'm a King Bee, and I've Got Love If You Want It. Harp was a talented guitarist and harpist. Harpo had a unique nasal vocal style which was developed because a producer didn't like his singing so told him to sing through his nose.

Harpo was a truly gifted song writer. His songs have been covered by Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Hank Williams, Jr., Elvis Presley and Muddy Waters among others.

This is a good CD for those wanting to learn more about the blues and begin developing their own collection. If you are already a blues fan and are not familiar with him take a listen.