#Joe Bataan

[guessimdumb]

Joe Bataan - I Wish You Love (Part 1) (1972)

As I sat in the crowd at a high school graduation earlier this week, the band began playing a song that I instantly recognized. The younger folk that I was sitting with insisted it was a song by Laufey, while I saw things differently. I've posted Chris Montez's wistful version, but here is Joe Bataan's take. It's a bit mushy, but I like it; Part 2 is also pretty cool.

[cosmonautroger]

Joe Bataan, Drug Story, 2022

[soulmusicsongs]

Ordinary Guy - Joe Bataan (Gypsy Woman, 1967)

[peninsularian]

Classic from 2005, now out first time as a 7″

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

Live Concert Photography: Academy Records and Union Pool Presents Summer Thunder at Union Pool 7/7/24: Joe Bataan

Live Concert Photography: Academy Records and Union Pool Presents Summer Thunder at Union Pool 7/7/24: Joe Bataan @AcademyRecords @UnionPool @JOE_BATAAN

Live Concert Photography: Academy Records and Union Pool Presents Summer Thunder at Union Pool 7/7/24: Joe Bataan Summer Thunder is a free weekly summer showcase, presented by Academy Records and the folks at Union Pool that features up-and-coming nationally and internationally touring acts and DJs at the Williamsburg hotspot and music venue’s back patio.  Throughout the course of the annual…

[gochujangst]

I have been listening to joe bataan's mujer nonstop for the past 4 days and I cannot get it out of my head

[philashworth]

-10 YEARS OF SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF POSTERS

-Featuring the artwork of Phil Ashworth

-TV EYE - 1647 Weirfield St. Ridgewood, New York

-Friday, March 22nd. 7-9PM

I did one of these shows back in 2017 when we had only been at this for 3 years and had about 15 posters but now after 10 years and 47 posters in total, Jonathan Toubin and I decided it's time to get these babies back up on a wall for round 2. The poster shows kicks off at 7pm, March 22nd at TV EYE followed by live music from Joe Bataan and then all night dancing with dee jays Jonathan Toubin and Tenosh.

[lesmachins]

Drug Story

[guessimdumb]

Joe Bataan - Under the Street Lamp (1969)

Los Angeles soul group the Exits (see yesterday) recorded the original, but there’s something so believable about this tune with Joe Bataan singing.  And you gotta love any song that mentions Willie Mays:

Willie Mays' a fella like you and me He made it big in the major leagues But before he became the major league champ He stood around just like me and the fellas

[kala-ya-aan]

Just chillin at a park near the projects in Queensboro NY w/ the "King of Latin Soul" aka manong Joe aka Mr. Bataan. 😁 #Brownpride 🇵🇭

[soulmusicsongs]

Too Much Lovin' - Joe Bataan (Gypsy Woman, 1967)

[leonardcohenofficial]

picked up this LP by nuyorican northern soul OG bobby paris from the shop today (my boss was less enthusiastic about the album than i was LOL); cannot highly recommend this album enough

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[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

The B-52's - Roseland, New York City, April 19, 1982

I was in NYC for a couple of days earlier this month and though time was limited, I did of course find a minute to visit a local record store — Academy Records on W. 18th St. Digging through the $5 bin, I found a nice copy of the B-52's' David Byrne-produced Mesopotamia mini-album, which I've always loved, but have never had on vinyl before. A no-brainer! As I checked out, I noticed that Mesopotamia had been recorded at Bob Blank's Blank Tape Studio, and some quick Google mapping revealed that I was just moments away from where that studio used to be on 37 W. 20th St. A legendary spot, as a footnote in Jesse Rifkin's great This Must Be The Place details:

"[T]he studio's discography includes Television's seminal punk single "Little Johnny Jewel"; disco hits by Musique, Class Action, Crown Heights Affair, and Inner Life; groundbreaking remixes by deejays like Larry Levan, Francois Kervorkian, and Tee Scott; and no-wave/mutant disco albums by the likes of James Chance, Lydia Lunch, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and DNA. It was the favored studio of genre-bending auteur Arthur Russell, and classic albums by Talking Heads (Speaking In Tongues), the Gun Club (Miami), Joe Bataan (Mestizo), Ashford & Simpson (Solid), the B-52's (Mesopotamia), Miami Sound Machine (Eyes of Innocence) and Sun Ra (Lanquidity) were all tracked there."

All that and Madonna's first single, too! New York City is like this, of course — a neverending web of connections, a labyrinth of layers upon layers upon layers. You could spend your life walking down its streets, discovering the strange stories behind every building's facade. I could never hack it there full-time, but god bless the people who can!

Anyway — the B-52's! What a wonderful band. Here they are at Roseland (239 W. 52nd St.) right around the time that Mesopotamia came out. A killer SBD tape, featuring an expanded lineup: Dave Buck and Ralph Carney on horns. We get a bunch of the new mini-album, plus plenty of stuff from their already stuffed back catalogue. As with any B-52's tape, I'm sure it's not as good as being there in person, but it's still one heck of a party. Nip it in the bud!

(Oh and hey — this old Pitchfork column of mine has more live jams if you need to further celebrate the miracle of the B-52's.)