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Mr. R. McLoughlin
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2018
Good things don't happen every day and never a truer word; there are better examples of Junior Parker's talent than these tracks. Having listened to this more than once, I believe neither did each other any favours.. An interesting project that did not succeed, in my view.
a walther
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2016
GOOD THINGS DON'T HAPPEN EVERYDAY is so true ... unless you play this Junior Parker and Jimmy McGriff cd on a bad day. It could only help.This R & B album is similar to Junior's Love ain't Nothin But a Business Goin' On released in 1971, also.This album even has 2 songs (instead of 3 on ...Nothin' But a Business...) written by ex-Beatle mates.Junior Parker sings on all 9 songs with Jimmy McGriff adding his signature keys -- especially that organ sound.Junior gets to add his harmonica work on the first song "Drownin' On Dry Land". I wish he could have (maybe should have) played his bluesy harp on the Quincy Jones redo "In The Heat of the Night". Seriously, think about that one. Whose decision NOT to let Junior's harp play on that famed blues tune? Oh, well, "In the Heat..." is still good, a little different, with the McGiff organ chiming and grinding in nicely "..of the Night".GOOD THINGS DON'T HAPPEN EVERYDAY is a can you "dig it", pretty cool concoction at 31 minutes that should not disappoint any fan of genre, Junior and/or McGriff. Yes, there is the prerequisite loves lost and bad jobs a plenty on this smooooth R & B record.Just to clarify no other musicians are mentioned on this Groove Merchant Digital Remaster but there are saxophones and electric guitars aplenty. All sound good.
Mary L. Pieratt
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2016
A classic. I played my vinyl copy to shreds in the 70's and have been looking for a cd to be reissued, very cool.
Mark Anderson
Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2015
This is a 1971 recording by Jimmy McGriff and Junior Parker. I think it was recorded in Memphis, although the liner notes are pretty basic and don't show that information.It's a decent album, but certainly not up the standard of Junior Parker's classic 1950s and early 1960s material. It's definitely a 1970s album, influenced by the funk that was getting popular back then, with bass heavy backing and 1970s synthesizers on a few tracks. Junior Parker and Jimmy McGriff were both very talented musicians but this is not like their earlier, and best, material that you're probably familiar with.There are no original compositions here; it's all covers, including In The Heat Of The Night (by Quincy Jones), Oh! Darling (by the Beatles, from the Abbey Road album), In The Inner Light (by ex-Beatle, George Harrison) and Ain't That A Shame (by Fats Domino, and nowhere near the standard of the original Fats Domino version).The album is 9 tracks with a total playing time of just over 31 minutes. Liner notes are very basic.If you're a Junior Parker or Jimmy McGriff fan this album is worth having but if you're not familiar with Little Junior Parker or Jimmy McGriff, I wouldn't recommend this one as an introduction. If you're not familiar with the music of Jimmy McGriff or Junior Parker, start with the 1950s and early 1960s material.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2015
Was everything we wanted to hear from Parker and McGriff. Loved every song.
Roberto Shidokan Curtis
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2010
A long time ago and far away I was a sophmore at college. My next door neighbor, Rico, brought in this vinyl record, a Chas. Earland record and something else because his stereo broke. He was/is blessed with talents at playing the organ like few others and after listening to this for this first time, Wow, I almost wore the record out! Junior Parker's throaty blues/jazz vocals combined with Jimmy McGriff's caressing the electrical organ mesh for a masterful and incredible musical journey. Unfortunately, Rico asked for his records back a couple days later and I went back to the Blue Note artists like George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, etc., plus Led Zep, the Stones, the Doors, Iggy Pop and The Stooges and the other sorts of music from that era. Yet I had made a cassette copy of this album. I soon left for four years in Paraguay and at least once a year had to make another copy of this cassette before it wore out. Upon my return I became obsessed with trying to find a record or tape original as the copy of the copies of the copies I had were really pretty ratty. I tried to order off of music catalogues in music stores, wrote letters, all to no avail. I played this ratty cassette so often in the car my daughter's first song started off, "In the heat of the night......." Yikes! I hoped she hadn't memorized all the words!Once Amazon became I scanned it regularly. Nuttin, Nada, Zilch, niente, naqueri daipori. There are all sorts of Jimmy McGriff CDs and other Junior Parker CDs. This was a 30+ year obsession to get a good copy and finally there it was! I ordered it, and a couple extra just in case something terrible happens to the original. Ahhh, now I cruise down the highway with Junior Parker crooning off the CD "In the heat of the night,....." Life is Good![...].
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