Dr. Feelgood And The Interns - Dr. Feelgood And The Interns (1962) Okeh - Rare R&B/Soul/Blues (FLAC)

I forgot about this fantastic album i hunted out many years ago for the mega rare Northern Dancers only to discover the incredible quality of the rest of the album that also helped me to investigate the man further. This has everything for the black music lover. Dr. feelgood is really the legendary Willie Lee "Piano Red" Perryman born in 1911 & passed in 1985 who had amused and entertained rhythm and blues audiences since the 1940s with his zany, inimitable style, a real joker but talented performer who joined OKeh in 1961. Perryman and his group of musicians, at that time not yet named, gathered in Columbia's Nashville studio on May 31, 1961, and by 6:30 had recorded eight new songs, including a remake of Piano Red's 1950 hit "The Wrong Yo-Yo". They also recorded an original song which the Beatles would make very famous a few years later , "Mister Moonlight" and another novelty song, "Doctor Feel-Good," about a "doctor of love" who only liked women who weighed over 400 lbs. When the latter song was released in 1962, the group became known as Dr. Feelgood & the Interns. Although "Dr. Feel-Good" (Okeh 7144) and second follow up "Right String But the Wrong Yo-Yo" (Okeh 71560 both charted, and a subsequent album was issued, we have been left all these years with the question, "Who were the Interns?" We knew that "Dr. Feelgood" was Willie Perryman, who played piano on the session, but there was no information on the album or anywhere else, it seemed, to identify the backing group. One well known reference source even claims Willie Perryman was the whole group! But after digging the internes were Roy Lee Johnson, Jr. (guitar), Howard Hobbs (bass), Bobby Lee Tuggle (drums), Curtis Smith (guitar), and Beverly Watkins (guitar).Still a very hard album to obtain but once you hear this you will be hooked for its sheer dymanic energy. Quite a few of these tracks were played on the scene many years ago, but what an album still sought out by hard core Northern Jocks & Blues collectors! Just this one album with the interns but nearly 60 x 45,s and 16 albums as Piano Red/Dr feelgood. Check his albums out as i love this guy!!!

AMM

                                                                  The Northern Tasters!