Don Covay - I Was There flac album

Mercy, Mercy" (sometimes referred to as "Have Mercy") is a soul song first recorded by American singer/songwriter Don Covay in 1964. It established Covay's recording career and influenced later vocal and guitar styles.

Don Covay & The Goodtimers. Profile: US soul group. Members: Dud Bascomb (trumpet) Buddy Lucas (tenor saxophone) Haywood Henry (baritone saxophone) Horace Ott (piano, organ) Bob Bushnell, Billy Butler (guitar) Ron Miller (bass?) Bernard Purdie (drums) Don Covay (vocals). Variations: Viewing All Don Covay & The Goodtimers. Don Covay, Don Covay & The Good Timers, Don Covay And The Good Timers, Don Covay And The Goodtimers, The Goodtimers.

Donald James Randolph (March 24, 1936 – January 31, 2015), better known by the stage name Don Covay, was an American R&B, rock and roll and soul singer and songwriter most active from the 1950s to the 1970s. His most successful recordings include "Mercy, Mercy" (1964), "See-Saw" (1965), and "It's Better to Have (and Don't Need)" (1974). He also wrote "Pony Time", a US number 1 hit for Chubby Checker, and "Chain of Fools", a Grammy-winning song for Aretha Franklin

Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band. On CD for the first time ever (originally released in 1969) with classic sought-after tracks by R&B, Soul songwriting kingpin. A rare and potent marriage of soul, blues and rock. This is not the vintage Don Covay sound that many of his fans may know about -- and you won't find any of his big hits on this CD -- but this 1969 album sounds like a labor of love, something that Covay was dying to record for a long, long time. You can hear the sincerity, vitality and enthusiasm on every track. this is a bit of a hybrid. Not a traditional blues album by any means, but one that mixed blues with soul and a dash of rock too. Very satisfying results. There are times when Covay is singing, that I swear it's Mick Jagger

To many R&B fans, Don Covay is better-remembered as a songwriter than as a vocalist, which isn't difficult to understand given the fact his tunes were covered by everyone from Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Steppenwolf

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Photo of Don COVAY; Posed studio portrait of Don Covay (Photo by Gilles Petard/Redferns). From Mercy, Mercy to Chain of Fools, Don Covay wrote some of R&B’s most powerful songs. I attended high school in Harlem and I would go to the Apollo Theater once a week where I saw such greats as Ben E. King, Solomon Burke, Joe Tex and Wilson Pickett. After we finished the recording, one of the producers asked me which of the soul artists they were working with would I like to meet, knowing I was a lover of soul music and had a vast collection of different soul records.

The career of singer Don Covay spanned virtually the entirety of the R&B spectrum, from the electrifying rock & roll of his earliest records to the gritty, swaggering deep soul of his most enduring efforts. The scope and diversity of his catalog no doubt contributed to his failure to enjoy consistent commercial success, however, and the general public is probably better acquainted with his songs than with his own renditions of them. Born Donald Randolph in Orangeburg, South Carolina on March 24, 1938, Covay was the son of a Baptist preacher who died when his son was eight. There he also began work on Superdude, the blistering 1973 album that many groove-heads regard as his masterpiece - the album yielded a pair of hits, the pop smash "I Was Checkin' Out While She Was Checkin' In" and "Somebody's Been Enjoying My Home.