Professor Eddy

Here’s some soul and pop music to start the day with. One of the best voices in popular music is the one of Scott Walker's. I love his voice, whatever he sings… He was the front singer of the Walker Brothers for quite some time. After their split Scott went solo and sang a lot of Jacques Brel songs. He discovered the French 'chansonnier' in the record collection of a German Playboy bunny he’d met at the opening of a Playboy club in London. Hopefully this mix gives you the feeling of drinking coffee with the one you love in a café near the Seine. By the way, James Gang was sampled by Fatboy Slim (‘Right here, right now’) and Robbie Williams (‘Bodies’). Enjoy! Tracklist: The Dells – I Miss You (1973) Candi Staton – Another Man's Woman, Another Woman's Man (1970) Giovanca feat Leon Ware – Where Love Lives (2010) Liz Hogue – Dream Lover (1989) Al DiMeola – The Embrace (1991) James Gang – Ashes, The Rain And I (1970) Chico Hamilton – The Morning Side O...

Whoops, there it is, the long awaited Soul Searching number 9! Last year I tried to play ‘Shadow’ from Motown songwriter R. Dean Taylor on an American online radio station. But they were afraid that 'it would not go down so well with everybody', because of its lyrics. So they refused to put my show online. This is strange, because the song came out as a single on a Motown sub-label and no one complained about the lyrics at the time. Times have changed, to paraphrase Bob Dylan. The E.G. Daily video has the same Lolita theme as the R. Dean Taylor track. American Gypsy is best known for their track 'Inside out', which is much sampled (by DJ Shadow and Groove Armada, for instance). This funk band never had any big hits, but I like ' I'm OK, You're OK ' a lot! The song was written by Piet Souer, the same guy who played guitar on ' The troubadour ', the Eurovision Songcontest winner of 1969... Tracklist: American Gypsy – I'm O.K. You're...

Part 1 of ‘Soulful takes and breaks’ was quite a success on Mixcloud, so hopefully part 2 will work for you as well. It’s always good to hear the voice of Del Shannon . For a long time dj’s in the US thought he was Afro-American, because of his high falsetto voice. That’s why his first hit ‘Runaway’ entered the R&B charts as well. I love the magical sounds of the self built Musitron (early synthesizer) played by Max Crook. In his heyday Del Shannon wrote songs and played together with guitarist Dennis Coffey. He was a Detroit session musician for Motown and Hot Wax and the same guy who brought us the outstanding soundtrack for the Blaxploitation movie ‘Black Belt Jones’. In the 1970s Del Shannon became a country rock singer. His life ended tragically when he shot himself on the 8th of February 1990. ‘What kind of fool do you think I am’ (best known by the Tams) in this mix was produced by Jeff Lynne (Electric Light Orchestra) and was released after his death. Tracklist: Sly ...

I saw Mayer Hawthorne doing an incredible version of ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ from Electric Light Orchestra at the Liberty Festival in Groningen last month. Jeff Lynne and his mates started as a symphonic rock band in the early seventies, but by the end of the decade they were infected by the disco virus, as so many at the time. They came up with many great songs, like ‘Shine a little love’, ‘Last train to London’ (sampled by Atomic Kitten a few years ago), ‘Hold on tight’, ‘Twilight’ and ‘Here is the news’, the one included in this D.I.S.CO. mix. In the second part of the eighties Jeff Lynne became a producer of Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Del Shannon and Paul McCartney. But these productions sound very similar and have nothing to do with his earlier more innovative ELO-sound, although I like Del Shannon's album 'Rock on' very much. Sparks discovered disco as well in 1979. Ron and Russell Mael started as a glam rock act in the early seventies (their 1974 hit ‘This town ain’t big enou...