Lee Dorsey
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Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, Summer 1980
Interviewed at New Orleans' legendary Sea-Saint studio, Dorsey talks about his recent motorbike crash, then looks back at his first hit, 'Ya Ya', and his subsequent recording career; keeping his automobile repair shop; touring Europe; his recent tour with the Clash; recording with producer Allen Toussaint; his Yes We Can and Night People albums, and the advantages of having a decent road band.
File format: mp3; file size: 29.5mb, interview length: 30' 43" sound quality: ***
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Marshall Sehorn Joins Constellation
Report by uncredited writer, Billboard, 14 March 1964
CHICAGO — Marshall Sehorn, head of his own Seahorn label, last week joined Constellation Records here in a move that brings three strong pop artists ...
Lee Dorsey: Lee's Back — Thanks To The Talented Mister Toussaint
Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 30 April 1966
YOU PROBABLY first heard of Lee Dorsey after you asked the DJ what that record was he just played with the gun banging in it. ...
Lee Dorsey: Things You Don't Know About Lee
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 30 April 1966
FOR A LONG time Lee Dorsey has been the golden boy of the in-most R&B hippies. His first couple of American hits were 'Ya Ya' ...
Lee Dorsey: Panel-Beating Gave Him Rhythm
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 16 September 1966
LEE DORSEY is a small, flyweight ex-boxer who always looks as if he doesn't know where his next dime is coming from. ...
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 29 October 1966
Lee Dorsey and Marshal Sehorn talk about their definition of soul… ...
Lee Dorsey: The New Lee Dorsey (Stateside)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 7 January 1967
IN CASE you were wondering, the old Lee Dorsey was a boxer. There's nothing new about his music — it's groovy, no messing American pop ...
Beatle Blind Date: Paul McCartney reviews the new pop singles
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 25 February 1967
LEE DORSEY: 'Rain Rain Go Away' (Stateside) Lee Dorsey. It's in the same old vein and it'll be a hit. Sometimes I wonder if he ...
This Week's Singles: The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Beach Boys et al
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 6 May 1967
SUBTLE KINKS HEADING FOR CHART SUCCESS ...
Singles from Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Aretha Franklin, Lee Dorsey and Stevie Wonder
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 21 October 1967
MARVIN GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL: 'Your Precious Love'; 'Hold Me Oh My Darling' (Tamla Motown TMG 625). What a beautiful record this is. A medium-pace, ...
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 11 November 1967
LEE DORSEY is a very interesting looking singer. He looks like a brown Bing Crosby and the effect of Lee's new teeth (which he pointed ...
Made in New Orleans: Record Production Techniques and the Land Of Dreams
Overview by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 24 May 1969
THERE WAS a time, not so long ago, when almost all the writing about popular music was descriptive or informative. ...
Lee Dorsey: Yes We Can (Polydor)
Review by Charlie Gillett, Cream, May 1971
LEE DORSEY's one of the easiest singers to underestimate: he seems to be completely unassuming, apparently equally prepared to sing good blues like 'Get Out ...
Behind the Scenes with Harold Battiste
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 9 July 1971
FREQUENTLY, we receive letters from readers' asking us to write about the people behind the scenes in our music. For example, the features we did ...
Marshall Sehorn: The Night They Drove Lee Dorsey Down...
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 12 April 1975
MARSHALL SEHORN had to get him out of jail. ROGER ST. PIERRE raps to one of the mainmen of New Orleans soul. ...
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 28 July 1977
IN NEW Orleans it is easier to perceive an American musical tradition than anywhere else; the city is the fount not just of jazz, but ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 15 April 1978
Allen Toussaint: Motion (Warner Brothers Import)Lee Dorsey: Night People (ABC) ...
Lee Dorsey: Night People (ABC AA-1048)
Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 4 May 1978
DECAY AND decline are never simple in pop music. Take New Orleans R&B as a case in point. A once-flourishing scene had just about sputtered ...
New Orleans R&B Hits The Club Lingerie
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 January 1984
Bill Bentley and Harold Battiste hope to trigger renewed local interest in New Orleans music at Club Lingerie. ...
Lee Dorsey: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 23 January 1984
DORSEY'S NEW ORLEANS R&B SOUL ...
Review by Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 20 August 1985
SOME PEOPLE MAY cherish Holy Cow! (Arista) for making readily available a single-volume collection of Lee Dorsey's irresistible, sublimely lazy '60s hits like ‘Ya Ya’ ...
Obituary by Tony Burke, Blues & Rhythm, January 1987
LEE DORSEY, who died on December 1st, 1986, after a long and brave struggle against cancer and emphysema, will be best remembered in the UK ...
Lee Dorsey: Why Isn't This Man in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Retrospective by Geoffrey Himes, Oxford American, July 1998
NO SINGER in the Big Easy had a more easygoing manner than Lee Dorsey. The rhythms behind him could be wickedly syncopated (they usually were), ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
b. 24 December 1924, Portland, Oregon, USA, d. 2 December 1986, New Orleans, Louisiana ...
Lee Dorsey: The New Lee Dorsey
Sleeve notes by Tim Tooher, Rev-Ola Records, December 2009
"Lee Dorsey's voice has a smile to it. If you listen to Lee Dorsey, you can see a smile and something in you can feel ...
Lee Dorsey: The Star in Greasy Overalls
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Record Collector, October 2011
IT'S 1980; six years before Lee Dorsey's unexpected death, but his recording career is already over. What will prove to be his last album, Night ...
New Orleans Funk Volume Three (Soul Jazz Records)
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 13 November 2013
Note: Contains Spoilers for the HBO TV show Treme ...
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