Zoot Money

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Walking The Dog 00:00 Tools
The Uncle Willie 00:00 Tools
It Should've Been Me 00:00 Tools
Big Time Operator 00:00 Tools
Get On The Right Track Baby 00:00 Tools
The Mound Moves 00:00 Tools
Zoot's Suit 00:00 Tools
Soma 00:00 Tools
Zoot's Sermon 00:00 Tools
Wild Women and Desperate Men 00:00 Tools
I'll Go Crazy 00:00 Tools
Hide Nor Hair 00:00 Tools
Jump Back 00:00 Tools
Let The Good Times Roll 00:00 Tools
The Cat 00:00 Tools
Stubborn Kind Of Fellow 00:00 Tools
Stop The Wedding 00:00 Tools
Oh Mom (Teach Me How To Uncle Willie) 00:00 Tools
Back Door Blues 00:00 Tools
Smack Dab In The Middle 00:00 Tools
Please Stay 00:00 Tools
Arkansas 00:00 Tools
Let the Music Make You Happy 00:00 Tools
Let's Run For Cover 00:00 Tools
Florence of Arabia 00:00 Tools
I Got You (I Feel Good) 00:00 Tools
Zoot's Suite 00:00 Tools
Chauffeur 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah I Love Her So 00:00 Tools
People Gonna Talk 00:00 Tools
Big Time Operator - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Barefootin' 00:00 Tools
Boot-Leg 00:00 Tools
You Know You'll Cry 00:00 Tools
my wife can't cook 00:00 Tools
Train Train 00:00 Tools
River's Invitation 00:00 Tools
Good 00:00 Tools
Captain America 00:00 Tools
Rags And Old Iron 00:00 Tools
Self Discipline 00:00 Tools
Whatcha Gonna Do 00:00 Tools
Feelin' Sad 00:00 Tools
I've Been Trying 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know Like I Know 00:00 Tools
Something Is Worrying Me 00:00 Tools
Stormy Monday Blues 00:00 Tools
Landscape 00:00 Tools
Blues March 00:00 Tools
Ain't That Peculiar 00:00 Tools
Bring It On Home To Me 00:00 Tools
Haunted House 00:00 Tools
Rock Me Baby 00:00 Tools
When I Meet My Baby 00:00 Tools
Just a Passing Phase 00:00 Tools
alone came john 00:00 Tools
Coffee Song 00:00 Tools
Deadline 00:00 Tools
Problem Child 00:00 Tools
Recapture the Thrill of Yesterday 00:00 Tools
Rocking Chair 00:00 Tools
Gin House 00:00 Tools
Cat 00:00 Tools
The One And Only Man 00:00 Tools
fina 00:00 Tools
Watcha Gonna Do 00:00 Tools
Born To Live The Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Little Rock And Roller 00:00 Tools
Roll With My Baby 00:00 Tools
Nothing Can Change This Love 00:00 Tools
Don't Come Down (feat. Zoot Money) 00:00 Tools
Nick Knack 00:00 Tools
The Rock 00:00 Tools
Along Came John 00:00 Tools
No One But You 00:00 Tools
The Uncle Willie - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Many Faces Of Love 00:00 Tools
Nothing's Gonna Change This Love 00:00 Tools
I Really Learnt How To Cry 00:00 Tools
The Star Of The Show 00:00 Tools
Love Is Only You (feat. Zoot Money) 00:00 Tools
La La La La La - The 'In' Crowd 00:00 Tools
Bare Footin' 00:00 Tools
Look At You Now 00:00 Tools
May The Circle Be Unbroken 00:00 Tools
Six Days On The Road 00:00 Tools
Medley - Barefootin' / Walking the Dog 00:00 Tools
It Never Rains But it Pours 00:00 Tools
Prisoner 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Easy 00:00 Tools
Following You 00:00 Tools
Bring It Home To Me 00:00 Tools
Fog On The Highway 00:00 Tools
My Sly Sadie 00:00 Tools
Waiting Here for You (feat. Zoot Money) 00:00 Tools
Good To Be Alive 00:00 Tools
Bright Lights, Big City 00:00 Tools
Promised Land 00:00 Tools
Your One And Only Man 00:00 Tools
Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller 00:00 Tools
Self-Discipline 00:00 Tools
Tear in My Heart (feat. Zoot Money) 00:00 Tools
Heaven and Earth and the Stars 00:00 Tools
You Can't Sit Down (Live at the BBC) 00:00 Tools
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever 00:00 Tools
Chauffeur [Live] 00:00 Tools
James Brown Medley [Live] 00:00 Tools
James Brown Medley_I'll Go Crazy_Poppa's Got A Brand New Bag_Out Of Sight_I Feel Good 00:00 Tools
Medley: (A) La La La La La (B) The 'In' Crowd 00:00 Tools
Sweet Little Rock 'n Roller 00:00 Tools
James Brown Medley 00:00 Tools
Mashed Ptato U.S.A. 00:00 Tools
Let The Good Times Roll [Live] 00:00 Tools
Loving You Is Sweeter 00:00 Tools
Mashed Potato U.S.A. 00:00 Tools
Whach Cha Gonna Do 00:00 Tools
No Shape No Form (feat. Zoot Money) 00:00 Tools
Medley: Barefootin'/Walking The Dog (Live) 00:00 Tools
Eight is the Colour 00:00 Tools
What'cha Gonna Do? 00:00 Tools
Your One And Only Man [Live] 00:00 Tools
Final 00:00 Tools
it should've been me (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
The Man Who Rides the Wind 00:00 Tools
Heavy Load 00:00 Tools
Florence Of Arabia [Live] 00:00 Tools
I've Been Trying [Live] 00:00 Tools
What Cha Gonna Do ? Bout It 00:00 Tools
Mashed Potato U.S.A. [Live] 00:00 Tools
I Loved Another Woman 00:00 Tools
The Mask (feat. Zoot Money) 00:00 Tools
Uncie Willie 00:00 Tools
What Cha Gonna Do? Bout It 00:00 Tools
What Cha Gonna Do 'Bout It 00:00 Tools
On My Way Home (feat. Zoot Money) 00:00 Tools
Thunder (feat. Zoot Money) 00:00 Tools
Nothing Can Change This Love [Live] 00:00 Tools
You've Got to Believe It 00:00 Tools
The Decision Hour 00:00 Tools
Barefootin' [Live] 00:00 Tools
Florence Of Arabia [Live] - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Hideaway 00:00 Tools
Her 00:00 Tools
Alone Again (feat. Zoot Money) 00:00 Tools
The Music Shop 00:00 Tools
Stop The Wedding - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
People Gonna Talk. 00:00 Tools
Barefootin' - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
What Cha Gonna Do About It 00:00 Tools
Good Vibrations 00:00 Tools
The Door 00:00 Tools
Big Time Operaor 00:00 Tools
If Age Brings Wisdom 00:00 Tools
Please Stay - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
You One And Only Man 00:00 Tools
Big Time Operator (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Mound Moves - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
James Brown Medley: I'll Go Crazy/Poppa's Got a Brand New Bag/Out ... 00:00 Tools
The Cat - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller 00:00 Tools
Zoot's Sermon - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Zoot's Suit - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Let's Run For Cover - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Bring It On Home To Me (Zoot Money's Big Roll Band) 00:00 Tools
Stubborn Kind Of Fellow - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
A) La La La La La B) The 'In' Crowd 00:00 Tools
The Cat - Remastered 00:00 Tools
You Know You'll Cry - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
It Should've Been Me (Zoot Money) 00:00 Tools
Only One Heart 00:00 Tools
I'll Go Crazy - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Your One And Only Man [Live] - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Sweet Little Rock And Roller (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Big Time Operator - BONUS TRACK (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Uncle Willie - Bonus Track - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I'll Go Crazy (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah, I Love Her So 00:00 Tools
La La La La La / The In Crowd 00:00 Tools
James Brown Medley - I'll Go Crazy / Poppa's Got A Brand New Bag / Out Of Sight / I Feel Good - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Mr Money 00:00 Tools
I'll Go Crazy (James Brown) 00:00 Tools
Chauffeur [Live] - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
hould've Been Me 00:00 Tools
Loose Madman 00:00 Tools
Along Came John (John Patton) [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Back Door Blues (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Jump Back (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
James Brown Medley [Live] - (Including: I'll Go Crazy / Poppa's Got A Brand New Bag / Out Of Sight / I Feel Good) - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Cat (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Rivers Invitation 00:00 Tools
Bright Lights Big City (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Let The Good Times Roll [Live] - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Courage Buzz 00:00 Tools
I Got You (I Feel Good) [Live] 00:00 Tools
Where The Fruit Is 00:00 Tools
Medley - (Barfootin', Walking The Dog) 00:00 Tools
Stubborn Kind Of Fellow - BONUS TRACK (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Berry) 00:00 Tools
Alone Came John (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Fina (Stuart) 00:00 Tools
Soma [1968] 00:00 Tools
Still Alive 00:00 Tools
I'll Go Crazy - Remastered 00:00 Tools
hould've Been Me (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
My Wife Can't Cook (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Back Door Blues - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Medley - (Barefootin', Walking The Dog) 00:00 Tools
Feelin' Sad (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Walkin' The Dog 00:00 Tools
Fina (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Appreciation Of Others 00:00 Tools
Nick Knack - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Can't Run Silly Karma 00:00 Tools
Good Vibrations - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Feelin' Sad (Jones) 00:00 Tools
Back Door Blues (Weldon) 00:00 Tools
Jump Back (Rufus Thomas) 00:00 Tools
My Wife Can't Cook (Russ) 00:00 Tools
Bright Lights Big City (Jimmy Reed) 00:00 Tools
Jack Tar Blues 00:00 Tools
It Could Be That Way 00:00 Tools
Wouldn't You Just Know It 00:00 Tools
Bright Lights Big City - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Barefootin' [Live] - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Bring It HomeTo Me 00:00 Tools
Geneva/Good Luck Soul 00:00 Tools
James Brown Medley: I'll Go Crazy/Poppa's Got A Brand New Bag/Out Of Sight/I Feel Good 00:00 Tools
Your Feet's too big 00:00 Tools
Zoot's Sermon - BONUS TRACK (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Hellelujah, I Love Her So 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nothin' Shakin' But the Bacon 00:00 Tools
Chauffeur - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Something Is Worrying Me - BONUS TRACK (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Zoot`s Train 00:00 Tools
Mashed Potato USA 00:00 Tools
Rampant Sensationalism 00:00 Tools
Rocking Chair - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Sweet Little Rock And Roller - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Peculiar And Solid 00:00 Tools
Rags and Old Iron (Oscar Brown Jr.) 00:00 Tools
zoots suit 00:00 Tools
The Mound Moves [1966] 00:00 Tools
Liberty 00:00 Tools
Sunny Skies 00:00 Tools
Rags And Old Iron (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Uncle Willie - BONUS TRACK (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Let The Good Times Roll (1966) 00:00 Tools
Please Stay - BONUS TRACK (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
River's Invitation - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Alone Came John - Remastered 00:00 Tools
It Shold've Been Me [Alternate Take) BONUS TRACK (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Children's Television 00:00 Tools
Bring It On Home To Me - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
You Know You'll Cry - BONUS TRACK (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
La la la la La/The 'In' Crowd 00:00 Tools
Tardy Man 00:00 Tools
It Should've Been Me - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Let The Good Times Roll - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
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Zoot Money was one of British rock 'n' roll's homebound heroes -- admired, respected and sought after by his colleagues, and able to fill halls nightly in England, he never managed to sell lots of records, even in England. Born in Bournemouth in 1942 with the name George Bruno Money, he grew up in an Italian-immigrant (but, on his father's side, English-descended) family. He was musically inclined from an early age and his first instrument, taken up at school, was the French horn -- he also sang in the choir as a boy. During the mid-1950's, he discovered rhythm-and-blues and its younger offshoot, rock 'n' roll, which quickly consumed his interest in music -- he switched to the keyboard under the inspiration of Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles, and by the beginning of the 1960's was developing a distinctive technique on the Hammond organ. He'd also picked up the nickname by which he'd be known for most of his career after attending a concert by Zoot Sims. He passed through the line-ups of a few groups as a keyboard player, including the Don Robb Band -- where one of his bandmates was a guitarist going by the name of Andy Somers (aka Summers) -- and the Wes Minster Five, a jazz-based semi-professional quintet. Their line-up, today, sounds like a UK super-group: pianist Dave Greenslade, drummer Jon Hiseman, bassist Tony Reeves, and saxman Clive Burrows along with Money -- get those names together 10 years later doing anything and one would have been guaranteed sales and press attention in England. Burrows later ended up in the first version of the Big Roll Band, but was later replaced by Johnny Almond, and that led -- with an interruption so Money could play as a temporary member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated -- to the classic version of the Big Roll Band. The latter took root in London, consisting of Money on vocals, piano, and organ, Andy Somers on guitar, Nick Newell and Johnny Almond on saxes, Paul Williams on bass and vocals, and Colin Allen on drums. They quickly became a popular attraction on London's burgeoning r&b and jazz scene, partly owing to Money's impassioned interpretations of American r&b standards and his wild sense of showmanship, coupled with the band's overall excellence -- he also had an appealing style on the Hammond organ which, in the days before the Mellotron caught on, was the big noise in keyboards, and which he knew how to exploit fully on stage. They were good enough to attract the attention of England's Decca Records, which released one single, "The Uncle Willie" b/w "Zoot's Suit", in 1964. By the following year, they'd moved over EMI's Columbia Records imprint (no relation to the U.S. Columbia label), where the group debuted with "Good" b/w "Bring It Home To Me", but neither it nor their next two singles that year, "Please Stay" b/w "You Know You'll Cry" and "Something Is Worrying Me" b/w "Stubborn Kind Of Fellow", managed to chart. There was also an album, It Should Have Been Me, as well, but neither it nor the accompanying 45's captured the excitement or appeal that the group or its leader exhibited on stage. In the midst of all of this activity, in the spring of 1965, Money received an unexpected offer from the Animals, whom he knew as neighbors as well as colleagues (and rivals) from London -- their co-founder, keyboard player and songwriter Alan Price, had quit without notice, and Money was first on the list of potential replacements. It was an extremely tempting offer that many musicians might've jumped at, as the Animals at the time were at the peak of their popularity, enjoying a number seven British hit at the time with their version of "Bring It On Home To Me", in addition to a string of American hits and offers of lucrative concert work all over the world. Money also knew the members well and would have fit right into their existing internal dynamic structure, but he wanted to be more than a keyboard player and back-up singer in a group, and refused the offer.At the time, the Big Roll Band was having particular success at Klook's Kleek, a club located above the Railway Hotel in Hampstead, London, and it was decided to record their stage act there on the night of May 31, 1966 -- the resulting EMI-Columbia album, entitled Zoot!, is generally regarded as a classic of its genre and era. Although it was never as uniquitous as, say, the Animals' In The Beginning (which was picked up by Scepter Records in the US and later became a denizen of various budget LP catalogs), the Big Roll Band's live album record did get licensed to Columbia Records in the United States, which released it on the Epic Records label (where, without accompanying awareness in America of who Zoot Money was, it died on the vine, ignored in record store bins from coast to coast).The live album preserved a document of the group's best attributes, but it was already a relic of a fading era by the time it got into listeners' hands in late 1966. By then, the audience for American-style r&b and soul was already giving way to a growing listenership for psychedelic sounds, and while the two weren't mutually exclusive, the name "Big Roll Band" sounded like something just a little bit too far from the wafts of incense and eastern twang of sitars (which had even "invaded" the Yardbirds' work by then, not to mention the Rolling Stones). As a result, in 1967, they transmuted, almost Doctor Who-style, into Dantalian's Chariot. The latter was brimming over with talent, including Andy Summers (still spelling it "Somers") on guitar, but never quite found a winning formula as a psychedelic act. And by the end of the year, Money had received a new offer, this time from Eric Burdon (who had outlasted the other originals and taken the Animals name, and now ran what was known as Eric Burdon & The Animals, a psychedelic outfit) to join his group. This time Money accepted, and he joined a pretty formidable line-up -- in addition to Burdon, who had an awesome set of pipes, there were Vic Briggs and John Weider, two of the most talented guitarists of the whole psychedelic era, and Danny McCulloch on bass and Barry Jenkins on the drums. According to Sean Egan in his brilliant biography Animal Tracks, the addition of Money to the band threw their internal dynamics off-center, however, partly owing to Burdon's longstanding friendship with him (whereas the others were all hired hands whose relationships with Burdon began and ended with the band). Additionally, according to Egan, Money's first gig with the group, in New Orleans, proved to be an unintended disaster due to a language barrier with the Americans -- as told in Animal Tracks, he asked the audience, using working class British slang, if they were "pissed," meaning drunk, an innocent question from his point of view in the circumstances, intended to rouse them cheefully and enthusiastically; but in American slang, the word meant angry, and was considered a profanity as well -- in 1968, in the south -- and the police (in a scene that probably resembled a cross between Alice's Restaurant and Smokey And The Bandit, with a touch of Fawlty Towers or The Young Ones) closed the show. It wasn't exactly the Doors' Miami incident as a career interruption, but it was an unnecessary hiccup in a very heavy touring schedule and at an increasingly stressful time for the members -- despite some successes with singles such as "Sky Pilot", their overall record sales weren't good, and lived gigs were their bread-and-butter.Money was there, credited -- for contractual reasons -- as "George Bruno," on the group's next album, Every One Of Us, released in July of 1968 in America. The latter featured a songwriting collaboration between Burdon and Money, "New York 1963-America 1968" -- this was a conceptual piece and was very ambitious for its time. That LP was also the only production to feature that line-up, as Briggs and McCulloch exited soon after its release. Replacing both players was Andy Summers, Money's old bandmate from the Don Robb group, the Big Roll Band, and Dantalian's Chariot, who had just passed through the membership of the Soft Machine. Summers played bass and guitar, alternating with Weider -- that line-up would only last through one LP, Love Is. Recorded very hurriedly in October of 1968 and in stores in America before Christmas, the album had an extended cover of "River Deep, Mountain High" and a rendition of "RIng Of Fire" (yes, the Johnny Cash tune), among other outside songs, plus Burdon's "I'm Dying, Or Am I?", and closed with a pair of songs that Money had brought with him from Dantalian's Chariot, "Gemini" and "The Madman (Running Through The Fields)".The group had already disbanded by the time the record hit the stores, (and, astonishingly, it still made it to number 123 in America). Thanks to the various reissues of the later Animals' music over the decades (mostly owing to their descent from the older Animals), Every One Of Us and Love Is ended up as some of Money's most visible work of the 1960's, especially in the United States. Both he and Summers ended up staying in America and both pursued acting careers. Money also cut his first solo album, Zoot Money, produced by Vic Briggs, and played on sessions for Centipede, Grimms, Kevin Coyne, and Kevin Ayers, among others, and worked with Alexis Korner on various projects right up to the latter's death in 1984. In 1980, he got his biggest crack at solo success when he signed with Paul McCartney's MPL label (distributed by Capitol/EMI) and cut one album, Mr. Money. He also saw some success as a songwriter, most notably with "It Never Rains But It Pours", and went into the production end of the music business as the music director of the BBC television series Tutti Frutti.He has since played with Mick Taylor, Georgie Fame, Alan Price, the reformed Humble Pie, Spencer Davis, the reformed Foundations, and Geno Washington's Soul Train, but his most visible gig for longtime international fans was back with the Animals, playing keyboards with the reformed original group on their 1983 tour. He formed a new version of the Big Roll Band in the 1990's (with drummer Colin Allen as a frequent guest), and has continued to perform with them right into the twenty-first century. He has also toured England with his fellow veteran bluesmen Ray Dorset (of Mungo Jerry), 1960's Big Roll Band multi-instrumentalist Paul Williams, and Long John Baldry under the collective name the British Legends of Rhythm & Blues. In 2004 he was once again working with Alan Price, and with veteran British soul-shouter Cliff Bennett and Liverpool legend Tony Sheridan -- as is the case with many British r&b singers of the 1960's, Money still has an especially fervent following in Germany. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.