Sansu Records Compilation(s)

[HWright]

Lately I've been checking out Allen Toussaint's work as a producer. I stated with the Crescent Soul series on EMI/Capitol and most recently got some of his work with Lee Dorsey (especially enjoying their 1970 collaboration "Yes We Can"). In the liner notes though it says that in the mid' 60's Toussaint was working as a producer for Sansu Records. Other than some Dorsey stuff though I don't think I've heard any of Toussaint's work from that period as yet.

Has there been any kind of compilation of Toussaint's Sansu productions? Anyone know who owns the rights to the catalogue... I understand that it was while Toussaint was at Sansu that he started working with the Meters...must be some pretty funky stuff.

here's an intersting link to a site that talks about some of the specific '45's from Sansu:

http://funky16corners.tripod.com/9_sansu_1.htm

Edited July 19, 2006 by HWright

[HWright]

Well, I found the answer to my own question. The embarassing part is I found it on the webpage from the link I shared with everyone above. I guess I hadn't had time to read it very carefully.

Turns out the answer is that Sundazed put out a two disc collection called "Get Low Down!: The Soul of New Orleans, '65-'67."

Here's an amazon.com link in case anyone is interested in the contents:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/tracks/B0...?ie=UTF8#disc_1

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Well, I found the answer to my own question. The embarassing part is I found it on the webpage from the link I shared with everyone above. I guess I hadn't had time to read it very carefully.

Turns out the answer is that Sundazed put out a two disc collection called "Get Low Down!: The Soul of New Orleans, '65-'67."

Here's an amazon.com link in case anyone is interested in the contents:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/tracks/B0...?ie=UTF8#disc_1

Thanks for posting this.

My favourite Sansu artist was Betty Harris. I have "Nearer to you", which is one of only two of hers I managed to keep. I did a Google search on Sansu records and came up with this on Harris. Astoundingly, she as managed to retrieve the rights to her Sansu recordings and is proposing to reissue them. Wow! I'm forming a queue NOW!

http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/Musi...?oid=oid:157132

MG