Blue-Eyed Soul of Steve Colt

I uploaded this really cool song by Steve Colt from 1970 titled, "Please Please Please (Tell My Mind to Stop Teasing My Heart)." For those of you who aren't familiar with Steve Colt, he had some mid-to late-60's songs where he sounded like the white version of James Brown. In particular he had a song called "Dynamite" which just brings the house down. Check the song out on YouTube if you don't already know it. There are several uploads of the song there along with others. I decided to upload the lead-off track from his Paradox album because no one else has done so on YouTube and because it is my favourite song on the album.




The sound here is a little different from the 60's singles. A little less soul/R&B sounding and more along the lines of blues rock. But the voice is undeniably blue-eyed soul. Absolutely a great vocal performance and solid instrumentation. My only criticism is the horribly weak-sounding snare drum. I realize this was from 1970 but there had been better sounding recorded snare drums up to that point.

Steve Colt died at the age of 62 at a nursing home in 2005. An amazing musician indeed.

I Can't Handle It!

A shout out to Northwestern IL University for playing this song on their weekly R&B Flashback program:




An absolute jewel! Has that classic mid-60s sound which includes, electric guitar, bass, organ, drums and a horn section. And I just love the reverb on the vocal. Gives me chills.

This is one of those songs that once I come across I play it non-stop and annoy everyone around me with it. Sounds so great straight from a scratchy, mono 45. Thanks again to the program host and to the individual who made YouTube even better by uploading it.