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SWEET INSPIRATION: DAN PENN & TRUDY LYNN
Singer Songwriter Dan Penn is the master behind so many well loved R&B songs, from James and Bobby Purify’s “I’m Your Puppet” to Aretha Franklin’s “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” and Alex Chilton and the Box Tops “Cry Like a Baby,” and many more. We’ll talk with him about his prolific catalog of songs, plus stories behind the scenes at Fame Records in Muscle Shoals and American Recordings in Memphis, and scoring his very first with a rockabilly Conway Twitty. Then, from Houston’s Fifth Ward, it’s Blues singer Trudy Lynn who got her start as a high schooler singing with Albert Collins and Archie Bell and the Drells before going on to her own career in blues and R&B.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Sweet Inspiration King Curtis
Sweet Soul, Atlantic - Segment: Dan Penn
Listen - Shame, Shame, Shame Jimmy Reed
Solid Gold, Vol. 1, Liquid Eight - Cold, Cold Heart Hank Williams
Turn Back the Years: The Essential Hank Williams Collection, UMG - Segment: Dan Penn's First Hit
- Is a Bluebird Blue? Conway Twitty
It's Only Make Believe/The MGM Years, Mercury - So Many Reasons Dan Penn
So Many Reasons: More Fame Recordings, Ace - Instrumental: Ram-Bunk-Shush Bill Doggett
28 Big Ones, Gusto Records - Segment: Writing at Fame
- You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy Jimmy Hughes
The Best of Jimmy Hughes, Fame - Segment: I'm Your Puppet
- I'm Your Puppet James and Bobby Purify
James and Bobby Purify, RCA - Segment: Aretha Franklin and Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
- Do Right Woman, Do Right Man Aretha Franklin
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Atlantic - You Left the Water Running Otis Redding
Southern Soul #1: True Love Travels on a Gravel Road, Warner - Sweet Inspiration The Sweet Inspirations
The Sweet Inspirations, Atlantic - Steal Away Jimmy Hughes
The Best of Jimmy Hughes, Fame - Instrumental: Cry Like a Baby The Memphis Horns
Memphis Horns, Atlantic - Segment: The Dark End of the Street
- The Dark End of the Street James Carr
The Complete Goldwax Singles, Ace - Tearjoint Dan Penn
Nobody's Fool, RCA - Segment: Memphis and the Box Tops
- Cheater Man Irma Thomas
Something Good: The Muscle Shoals Sessions, UMG - Cry Like a Baby Box Tops
Cry Like a Baby, Arista - The Letter Box Tops
The Letter/Neon Rainbow, Sundazed - Segment: Studio Cat
- Sweet Inspiration Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
Moments from This Theatre-Live, Last Music Company - End Bed: Walkin' with the Duke The Mar-Keys
The Great Memphis Sound, Atlantic
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Kissing in the Dark Trudy Lynn
I'll Sing the Blues for You, Connor Ray Music - Crazy Blues Mamie Smith
Crazy Blues: The Best of Mamie Smith, Sony - Kind Hearted Woman Blues Robert Johnson
The Centennial Collection, Sony - Lady Be Good Martin Bogan and the Armstrongs
Barnyard Dance, Rounder - Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday
Lady Sings the Blues, Verve - Careless Love Dinah Washinton
Dinah Sings Bessie Smith, Verve - Instrumental: Last Affair - Instrumental Lightnin' Hopkins
The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins (Expanded Edition), Tradition Records - Stormy Monday Bobby Blue Bland
Turn on Our Love Light—The Duke Recordings, UMG - Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughn
The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble, Sony - Sunday Morning Clarence Garlow
Bayou Blues Blasters: Goldband Blues, Ace - I'm a Good Woman Barbara Lynn
Barbara Lynn—Movin' on a Groove, Demon Music Group - Honey Hush aka Talkin Woman Blues Albert Collins
Ice Pickin', Alligator - Instrumental: Avalanche Albert Collins
The Most Essential Texas Blues, Alligator Records - Segment: Trudy Lynn
Listen - End Bed: Blues Keep Knockin' Trudy Lynn
Blues Keep Knockin', Connor Ray Music
