Recommended Listening: Never Too Much by Luther Vandross Recommended Listening: Kid Charlemagne by Steely Dan Recommended Listening: Dirty Laundry by Don Henley Recommended Listening: Tunnel OF Love by Bruce Springsteen Recommended Listening: Under The Bridge by All Saints Recommended Listening: Slam Dunk by David Lee Roth Recommended Listening: Nashville Skyline Rag by Bob Dylan Recommended Listening: Live at Madison Square Garden by Elvis Presley + King Of America by Elvis Costello Recommended Listening: Sugarcoated by Aimee Mann Recommended Listening: Shoot Speed / Kill Light by Primal Scream Recommended Listening: I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me) by Marilyn Manson Recommended Listening: The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails Recommended Listening: China Girl by David Bowie Recommended Listening: by The Beat(en) Generation by The The Recommended Listening: Heroes album by David Bowie + Starless & Bible Black by King Crimson Recommended Listening: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue by Ian Hunter Recommended Listening: The 'playout version' of No More Lonely Nights by Paul McCartney Recommended Listening: Mama Said by Jeff Beck Recommended Listening: While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles Recommended Listening: Shy Boy by David Lee Roth Recommended Listening: Beat It by Michael Jackson Recommended Listening: Visions by Stevie Wonder Recommended Listening: Beck's Bolero by Jeff Beck Recommended Listening: Anything apart from that bloody 5ive record! Recommended Listening: Soul Man by Sam and Dave Recommended Listening: Always On The Run by Lenny Kravitz + Give In To Me by Michael Jackson We name the players the big stars most wanna use and explain why. They're the most wanted players in the world: the best session players, the hottest hired guns, the greatest collaborators. (Weirdly is doesn't give the actual month?) Anyway, I thought a few of you here would enjoy this & they are not in any particular order. In 1990 Atkins was joined by the British guitarist/singer-songwriter Mark Knopfler in a version of Yakety Axe on which Atkins recited verses written by Merl Travis, the man whose style of guitar picking originally inspired Atkins.Still working my way through an old bunch of Total Guitar Magazines. As an actor in the 1970s, Reed co-starred with Burt Reynolds in several movies, including all three of the ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ films for which he also composed the sound track. Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash both recorded songs written by Reed. Reed was an associate of Atkins, and the latter is on record as saying that Reed helped him work out the fingering for Yakety Axe.Īs well as being acknowledged as one of the best country guitar players, Reed was an actor, composer and singer. A track I played frequently was Jerry Reed’s version of Yakety Axe.
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Randolph and Atkins sometimes played the tune as a duet during joint TV appearances.įor a short while in the early 1990s I produced a country music record show for a small hospital radio station. In 1965, Atkins recorded a guitar version of the tune which he called Yakety Axe. Yakety Sax was Randolph’s updating of a piece originally composed by James Q ‘Spider’ Rich and references a saxophone solo on a 1958 Coasters recording of the Lieber and Stoller song ‘Yakety Yak’.Īnother musician who worked alongside Randolph on recordings by Elvis and other Nashville based stars is the country guitarist Chet Atkins. Hits featuring Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Brenda Lee and REO Speed Wagon all benefited from his distinctive saxophone style. British saxophonist Peter Hughes was responsible for the version used on Hill’s show.īoots Randolph was a Nashville based session musician who played on recordings by many country and rock artistes during the 60s and later. Originally recorded in 1963 by its composer, Boots Randolph, the raucous nature of the saxophone notes and the insistent rhythm were an ideal accompaniment to the jerky motion of Hill’s many pursuers. If you are old enough to remember the Benny Hill show, after it transferred to Thames Television in 1969, you will know the tune that accompanied the closing chase sequence.
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