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Spinning this disk on
the turntable made the logo swirl around.
GREAT ASTORS WEBPAGE
AT 4037: When we
first saw this record it was on the UK black
Atlantic label and looking at it swirling
around the record deck with the logo moving
around at 45 revolutions per minute it made
your head spin too.
We soon heard it blasting out in
Manchester’s Blue Note club in late 66’
where it was played by Roger Eagle; it had
been sent to him by the owner of Stax
records and was of course on the USA Stax
label showing a blue background with an
overflowing pile of Stax 45’s. It was
written for the Astors by Steve Cropper and
Isaac Hayes and was a ‘different’ sound than
the normal chunky riff house style of Stax –
more a smoother harmonising Soul sound (Tamla
influenced?).
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