Sammy Brown – Got To Leave This Town from the Grassroots Records 45
As we roll into September, I wanted to drop a few records this month that I really dig, and quite honestly, do not know a lot about. It seems that my last post regarding Stinkie Steve and posting of the (out of date?) Wanted Poster has been making the rounds, most recently over at Waxidermy. I guess I’m not the only one that has a love/hate (more on the hate side) relationship with the Stinkie one. I have heard some shady, shady, and even repulsive reports back from other diggers (and some weird shit I saw first hand) about Steve. If the allegations are true, and it’s not just traffic violations, I hope I’m there when they nail him. Back to the records, because I could write about SS all day. Definitely the weirdest record dealer I have ever come across, and there are many.
I couldn’t hold this record back back any longer. I picked it up in the Summer sometime, and included it on the Heavy Crates Mix I did with DJ Bluewater. It’s a Bluesy Funky side on Grassroots Records in 1972 from Sammy Brown called “Got To Leave This Town”. Although it’s a mellow record, it reminds me of Summer, and since it’s over (officially for me), I thought I’d share a side that I am digging on with the FMF family once again. So until the next post: Larry over at Funky 16 has a sweet 45 mix for his 45th Birthday, and Devil Dick has just started his, telling a tale of private press Jazz. Vince over at FuFu Stew is serving up some damn good leftovers from the weekend dinner, while Philly Phil hits you off with some vintage Grandmaster Caz over at That Real Schitt. I hoped you enjoyed this side as much as I do. I will for sure be back on Friday with another dusty gem to throw your way. Until then, Keep Diggin’!
If anyone has any info about this record, the players on it, or the artist, please feel free to hit me up, I’d love to update the info on it.
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yo i didn’t know that stinkies lechery and deceitfulness went to such depths of depravity…
F’d up man…
allegedly. for what it’s worth, i’m sure ther eis a lot we don’t know about him, and it’s probably all not good. we’ll see if he shows up at “the spot” on saturday, and if egg beard saw my post.
Fantatsic tune. Don’t know if this is the same Sammy Gordon as the one in “Sammy Gordon And The Hiphuggers”? but if it is, I love there “Upstairs On Boston Road” too.
Peace for a wicked post
i’m not sure either, but that record is up in my que to be reviewed. just picked it up this week. that will be up in the upcoming posts.
Is this Sammy Gorden (he of the Hiphuggers) or Sammy Brown?
It’s definitely Sammy Brown, not Sammy Gordon. I do have 2 Sammy Gordon sides on Archives. I do not believe this is the same person.
Late to the party, but I think I MAY have some legitimate information about this record.
If we assume the songwriter to be Rudolph Simmonds, as discogs.com intimates, then it is highly possible that he was “Bop” as in “Bop and the Beltones”. The article here http://www.reggae-vibes.com/concert/trshields/trshields.htm says that Simmonds recorded in the 60’s and then left Jamaica for the States “to find his fortune”, so this would place him in the USA about this time. It also explains the groove of this record, which is, as other will attest, delightful.
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