You know that album that was often on in your dad's car when you were really young? This one's mine. It's not the only tape he had in the car or anything like that, but I definitely remember listening to it, sitting in the back of an old Austn Metro, looking out the back window while Ray Charles sings "Shake A Tail Feather", or Cab Calloway sings "Minnie The Moocher". It was one of the first of my dad's albums that I stole assimilated into my own collection, (I remember it being in my tape box along with "Theseus & The Minotaur and other Greek Myths", "Musical Times Tables" and mixtapes of Queen, R.E.M. and Jimi Hendrix) and I've still got it in my car now. It's got a great cast of musicians on it, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, James Brown, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin and even the non music legends, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi don't sound out of place.
Years later, I have more great memories of this album, from listening to it on the way to Leeds Festival, stuck in the most community minded traffic jam of all time, with people passing Jaffa Cakes between the cars! Here's Aretha Franklin's contribution to the album "Think"...
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