Lee Michaels

Lee Michaels | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 30, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1969
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: One Way Records Inc
• ASIN: B000002R8B
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,292 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the 1996 One Way Records release. Catalog #OW-33642. Still sealed. Has small crack on front of case.Track Listing:1. Tell Me How Do You Feel/(Don't Want No) Woman/My Friends/Frosty's/Think I'll Go Back2. Stormy Monday3. Who Could Want More4. Want My Baby5. Heighty Hi

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LIVE AND WILD, LEE & FROSTY, July 29, 2002

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"dustdr" (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lee Michaels (Audio CD)

The best "live" studio recording of Lee and Frosty ever put on vinyl or CD. By the way, the orginal album, cut in summer of '69, did not ever have seperate cuts for the opening medly.

If you were blessed enough to see Lee and Frosty when they took the album "on the road", you will remember that their set opened up with the medly just as it is on the CD or LP. We remember 'cause we ruined so many records moving the needle off of Frosty's drum solo. We don't skip it on the CD however, as Frosty's bare-handed riffs during the drum solo, bring back such great vibes!

Mounumental in setting all standards for rock, jazz, funk, etal, performed on the legendary Hammond B-3; Mr. Michaels was/is ahead of his time extracting many of the finest licks ever created on the infamos Hammond Organ. He brought the organ to the forefront in the midst of the acid rock scene, wailed on that Hammond and then moved on....

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lee Was Better Live, May 14, 2003

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Christopher T Wood (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lee Michaels (Audio CD)

I saw Lee Michaels, his B-3 and Frosty's drum kit as a teenager on Long Island in a place called The Action House. It was the only place in the late 1960s that would attract name acts from the small NYC venues or larger concert halls. (There was no Fillmore then). The house band at the Action House was the Vanilla Fudge, whose gravel-funked Motown tunes also employed a B-3.

I remember going to see Traffic and the lead act was Lee and Frosty, who I had never heard of and could have cared less about at the time. I just stood there absolutely stunned by the energy, funk and drive of the performance. I always loved the B-3 organ, that was why I was there to see Steve Winwood and Traffic.

Lee just honked on that organ and the spinning leslie speakers just made the experience unforgetable 30 some years later, and I was at Woodstock, George Harison's Concert for Bengladesh, and lived out on the west coast for 20 years catching many a Dead concert.

Still, that introduction to live music in my formative years stays with me. I bought all his albums thereafter, but nothing met the heights of the "live" album.

We also shouldn't forget that the tunes on which Lee played harpsicord were very interesting. "Who'da thunk" that a classical instrument could be used so effectively in rock and roll.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ...Timeless -- and still fresh-sounding, September 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lee Michaels (Audio CD)

What a great memory trigger this recording is....Remember hearing side-two of this album as a high-schooler out in the Los Angeles area, played on KLOS, the whole "Want My Baby, Who Could Want More, Frosty's, etc. piece. Sort of became a nightime cruising-anthem-of-youth piece. I could not stop playing "Heighty-Hi," "Stormy Monday," and the other side before the drum solo. I have gone through 2 vinyls of this and am thankful to have the chance to purchase this c.d., though I have a "Best of" c.d. with 2 of these songs on it. The first part of "Want my Baby," along with "Hold on to Freedom" from the live recording rank as my favorite B3 playing of all-time, though Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff (and Gregg Allman) are really good too. This is Lee at his most sonic; hard to believe that it is a studio recording -- I can still listen again and again and be thrilled!