the rest of the hues corporation's *Freedom For The Stallion* album sounds NOTHING like "rock the boat".

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total post-rotary connection hippy pop/soul. rightous and sometimes quite beautiful stuff. just thought you might like to know that. it's easy to forget that rock the boat came out in 1973 and not at the height of the disco era or something.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

That's a great album title, I gotta say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

that's an allen toussaint song.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Freedom for the Stallion is a Lee Dorsey tune (written by Toussaint tho, probly...?)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

d'oh x-post

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

yeah, he just wrote it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

anyone heard Toussaint's solo stuff...? I'm curious, I don't think I've ever seen/heard any...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

The title track actually preceded "Rock the Boat" as a single, iirc.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

the album just called Toussaint from '71 is wonderful. Best version of "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" ever! The cd reissue on Castle is pretty easy to find.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Toussaint´s Life, Love and Faith is great too, and I think most of the Meters dudes are on it.

― mucho, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

That's funny - I was just listening to the David Toop compiled "Sugar And Poison" collection of lovin' soul tracks and was blown away by Toussaint's version of his own "Southern Nights," which was a big hit for Glen Campbell. Campbell's version was nothing to write home about, but Toussaint's (which I assume was recorded before Campbell's) is an eerie, swampy sounding thing that's not entirely like a cross between a rhythmless soul version of a Lee Perry Black Ark production and a Van Dyke Parks tune circa "Discover America," if you can imagine that, - spooky and shimmery and beautiful and a little trippy.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Dee OTM. That's a great track.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

i agree that this is a great title -- almost ween-esque!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

I'd like to know where you got the noooootion....

― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:52 (sixteen years ago)

"Freedom for the Stallion" DOES sound like a Ween song title.

― keine Macht für dich mehr! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 23 May 2010 15:40 (sixteen years ago)

nine years pass...

avro's toppop is en blijft van jou!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASzHbb3zX7U

I always assumed the Hues Corporation was named after somebody in the band called Hues, or maybe the producer/songwriter, but it turns out it's a terrible bit of worldplay on the (Howard) Hughes Corporation and 'hues', as in colours. Also the band's songwriter/mentor - he wrote "Rock the Boat" - was a 40-something white guy.

― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 March 2020 16:05 (six years ago)

Great song btw - even minus the weird dissonant middle eight of the Lee Dorsey version.

― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 March 2020 16:06 (six years ago)

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