Doc Severinsen And His Sweetheart Band - Ode To Billy Joe

ORIGINATION found on LP in Feb 2001
LAST LISTENED TO no idea, over a year ago at least
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT very low
RATING

Trumpeter Doc Severinsen was bandleader for The Late Show with Johnny Carson. In this cut from the 1974 LP 'Here's Johnny! Magic Moments From The Tonight Show', Johnny lets the band have a moment in the spotlight. They really go for it, with a huge-sounding funk tune in a cop show/spy thriller mould. The brass blows hard, the wah-wah guitar just runs and runs and runs, the bass is funky as hell and there's even a great drum break. Over it all, Severinsen's trumpet squeals higher and higher. It is a classic of the genre and probably about as hard to find as you'll get. The track is so good, in fact, that i bought this double LP solely for it.

Hey! The first wah-wah in my blog. Now that is an occasion worth noting.