Birdlegs, by Birdlegs & Pauline

Birdlegs

by Birdlegs & Pauline

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1.	Spring 02:52	buy track
2.	In So Many Ways 03:55	buy track
3.	Never Be Free of Me 03:08	buy track
4.	Mist of a Dream 03:41	buy track
5.	Pickin' the Chicken 02:48	buy track
6.	Tell Me Why 02:41	buy track
7.	Suffer 02:57	buy track
8.	Teardrops 04:26	buy track
9.	Please Don't Cry 02:48	buy track
10.	Just Can't Help Myself 02:38	buy track
11.	Hey Birdlegs 02:56	buy track
12.	Summertime 03:41	buy track
13.	Deep Thoughts 02:41	buy track
14.	Monkey Willie 05:06	buy track
15.	Pauline 02:12	buy track
16.	Chickenwawa 02:37	buy track
17.	Dishrag 04:21	buy track

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Recommended if you like: Cruising the strip with the top down in your Oldsmobile Starfire.

Why you should care: Classic jazzy R&B for an alternate universe Under The Sea dance. More sax than you can fit into the Delorean.
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Sidney “Birdlegs” Banks and his wife Pauline made the trek from Rockford, Illinois, to Sauk City, Wisconsin, in early ’63 to cut a record on the cheap at Jim Kirchstein's Cuca Records. Backed by brothers Mack and Floyd Murphy as The Versatility Birds, the couple cut the bluesy shuffler “Spring” b/w “So Many Ways” issued on Cuca that February and eventually climbing to #18 on the R&B chart and later reissued by a near-bankruptcy Vee Jay. “Pauline was one of the finest vocalists I’ve ever heard,” Kirchstein said. “Could have been a lot of money if [Vee Jay] had stayed in business. We did an album on them shortly after.” That album came and went with the season, and by the end of the decade the Bankses had split. Former Mrs. Banks Pauline Shivers cut a handful of records under her maiden name for Chicago’s Expo and Opex concerns. Birdlegs never recorded again, a rare one and done hit artist.

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released February 9, 2018

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From The Stacks

A visit to the Numero office makes it very clear that ‘the stacks’ is a literal description of our process: we accumulate stacks of records, master tapes, photos, flyers, and old newspapers while assembling a project. From The Stacks is our way of illuminating the experience: the selections here are presented without curation. While we’re digging for gold, these are the lesser minerals we find. ... more