1966

The songs

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An interesting album for two essential reasons:
• a great collection of well played classics of the sixties.
• 6 Pat & Lolly Vegas songs to discover

Excellent sound, great voices, superb rythms. All the ingredients that would later made Redbone are still here. And to hear the brothers interpret "Satisfaction" or "In the Midnight Hour" is really a great moment.

In the Midnight Hour
Walk On (Right Out of My Life)
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Under You
Let's Get It On
Baby, I Need Your Loving
Here I Go (Falling in Love Again)
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Keep Me Up Tight
Good Lovin'
Any Old Time
High Blood Pressure

The Band Members:

Lolly Vegas: vocals, guitar
Pat Vegas: vocals, bass

Produced by Leon Russel and Snuff Garrett

1. Fais-Do

Fais-do, Fais-do…
Fais-do, play the bambula beat
Fais-do, Fais-do…
Fais-do, play it out in the street
Fais-do, Fais-do…
Fais-do, do it like a bim-bam-boom
Fais-do, holler like a dog at moon.

Dance under the voodoo moon
Dance out of your body's glow
Dance into your spirit room
Dance, dance, dance…

Fais-do, Fais-do… Fais-do, Fais-do…
Fais-do, Fais-do… music man
Fais-do, Fais-do…
whip it on me, whip it on me like you can
Fais-do, play the bambula beat
Fais-do, oo-ma-boom-a-bim-bam-boom

Dance under the voodoo moon
Dance out of your body's glow
Dance into your spirit room
Dance, dance, dance…

Fais-do, Fais-do…
Fais-do, Fais-do…
Fais-do, Fais-do…
Fais-do, Fais-do…

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2. Motivation

From an airplane, a freight-train
To a motel, a hotel
Grab a bite at the corner
Money's short on the road.
Motivation…

High above the street in your suite
Working out your schemes
Cadillac and nude almanacs
Motivation…

From a limo, a taxi
To a club from a concert
First you're up then you're down, yeah
Take a smile, give a frown now
Motivation…

Is your voice an echoing thought
Are you someone's fool
Hide behind your desks and your books
Motivation…

Earn a nickel, lose a dime now
Say it's fun, it's a drag, wow
The way I'm treated is a crime, ow
Give your heart and your soul, pow !
Motivation…

High above the street in your suite
Working out your schemes
Cadillac and nude almanacs
Motivation…

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3. Power
(Prelude to a Means)

She doesn't know of love
Laughs when I offer mine
It's you she's thinking of
I can see, I'm not blind
You give her a feeling that's real
And you make her feel
Like I want her to feel.

You've got the power
Show her what love is
You've got the power
Show her what love is

You've got the power
Strength that I've never had
You fill all her empty hours
When she's happy
I'll be glad
You give her a feeling that's real
And you make her feel
Like I want her to feel, so

You've got the power
Show her what love is
You've got the power
Show her what love is

You've got the power…

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4. Speakeasy

Night gave way and darkness fell
On the rivers of the man in white
Love benign, from place to place
To the rythm of the train in Hell
Holding out their hands
Though hate denied them
Piercing all the way
To where I feel

Speakeasy, unfriendly
Here in no where
So far away from home
Speakeasy, where are you now
Oh, I wish I knew, I wish I knew.

Four young men, three red and brown
In the belly of a great white bird
Something lonely through the skin
In the kingdom of her majesty
Singing through my soul
I sought to touch them
Even though they took me
For a fool

Speakeasy, unfriendly
Here in no where
So far away from home
Speakeasy, where are you now
Oh, I wish I knew, I wish I knew.

Murmurings in foreign tongue
When they thought I couldn't understand
Smiling through their fear for real
For the faces of the living sob
Lacking was the honesty for reason
Seing what it was
Just made me cry

Speakeasy, unfriendly
Here in no where
So far away from home
Speakeasy, where are you now
Oh, I wish I knew, I wish I knew.

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5. Condition your condition

You've twenty-twenty blindness
yet sneaky as a rock
You're up to your neck in power
And full of B.S. jive

Your friends inflate your ego
Completely out of sight
I've got to get a message to you
Where can you be found

Use it brother, don't abuse it
Condition your condition
Condition your condition
The latest word you are fixin
Your body for your mind
Your family's heart is broken
And still you criticize

You put your trust in no one
And no one can trust you
I've got to let you know my friend
What it is is what it is

Use it brother, don't abuse it
Condition your condition
Condition your condition
Dig where I'm coming from my friend
If you can be that
Condition your condition
Condition your condition
I'm just being up front my friend
Why can't you see that
Condition your condition
Condition your condition

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6. Song from Moulin Rouge
(Where is your heart

Fire's above, ice is below
Loyalty so, friendly is cold
Where is your heart
Why don't you know
You didn't hold
Tight, you let go

Out of your mind
You drift away
Red brown is nay
Black's just okay
Where is your heart
Why don't you know
Is that the real
You that you feel

In your design
I can't find mine
Courage and tears
Were left behind
In a world belonging to me
Oh this world belonging to me…

If you can hear
Me and my fear
Cause what I say
Came down that way
Where is your heart
Why don't you know
Can you erase
Behind your face

In your design
I can't find mine
Courage and tears
Were left behind
In a world belonging to me
Oh this world belonging to me…

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7. Good enough for jesus

In a world of shadows follow
But never head

Slow in thinkin' it over
Quick to put us down

Tryin' to show somebody
Right from wrong

When they don't like your face
Cause your hair's too long.

But remember… remember…
remember… remember…
What's good enough for Jesus
good enough for Jesus
good enough for Jesus
Oh Lord… Lord !
So it's good enough for me.

Before you start looking down
Look up your family tree
Know you've been related to long hairs
Just like me.

Blood's thicker than water
Love is free
Close your eyes, give your heart
A chance to see

And remember… remember…
remember… remember…
What's good enough for Jesus
good enough for Jesus
good enough for Jesus
Oh Lord… Lord !
So it's good enough for me.

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8. Poison Ivy

She comes on like a rose
And everybody knows
She'll get you in dutch
You can look but you'd better not touch

Poison ivy, poison ivy
Late at night while you're sleeping
Poison ivy comes a creeping all around

She's pretty as a daisy
But look out man she's crazy
She'll really do you in
If you let her get under your skin

Poison ivy, poison ivy
Late at night while you're sleeping
Poison ivy comes a creeping all around

Measles make you bumpy and mumps'll make you lumpy
and chicken pox'll make you jump and twitch
A common cold'll cool you but whooping cough'll fool you
but poison ivy's gonna make you itch

You're gonna need an ocean
of calamine lotion
You'll be scratching like a hound
the minute you start to mess around

Poison ivy, poison ivy
Late at night while you're sleeping
Poison ivy comes a creeping all around

Measles make you bumpy and mumps'll make you lumpy
and chicken pox'll make you jump and twitch
A common cold'll cool you and whooping cough'll fool you
but poison ivy's gonna make you itch

You're gonna need an ocean
of calamine lotion
You'll be scratching like a hound
the minute you start to mess around

Poison ivy, poison ivy
Late at night while you're sleeping
Poison ivy comes a creeping all around

La la la la
La la la la

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