Damn Jonathan nice Track! Google 'bullet rank', they are giving out free plays all month.

The first installment, 481-500, of a list of my 500 favorite original soul 45s from the NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off party (since 2007) in DJ mix/podcast format. While I assembled each set envisioning a mixtape for a friend, I hope this also feels like one of my live sets and makes ya wanna dance!

The tracklist, details about the songs and artists, and rips of each uncut record can be found on my site: https://www.newyorknighttrain.com/2021/03/14/ny-night-train-soul-clap-dance-off-top-500-first-installment-481-500/ ... My goal here isn't merely to give you something to listen to, but to provide inspiration to start a journey into the lives and music of these often unsung or merely deserving heroes - some of whom are still alive and active and others whose legacy needs to grow. 

Since COVID I've been trying to make some order out of my vinyl, and because one Quixotic project deserves another, I've also digitized thousands of my records and organized them into categories and lists as both an intellectual exercise and a way to locate titles in this mess. I assembled the Soul Clap 500 as twenty-five self-contained entities of twenty tracks. I've only included the original 45s (with a couple of second label pressings from the same year) not only for the distinctive original sound and character but also because I view vinyl DJs as museums of culture and want to present the authentic beautiful artifacts every time and not imitations or substandard bootlegs. I'll try to keep these coming once or twice a week until we achieve the complete list.

Since its been over a year since I've worked, and I assume its gonna be a while before there are dance parties again, I also hope this gives ya something to cut a rug to in the meantime... 

thank you for your kind indulgence, 
jt

NY Night Train Soul Clap & Dance-Off Top 500: 481-500

The King of Chicago Blues

Howling Wolf

www.Patreon.com/Chanceswithwolves
www.CHANCESWITHWOLVES.com

Bakafwimbi - Jeff & The Explosives

Sheila E discovered a recording of Erotic City from her concert in Tacoma Washington in 1985. While fans from her Oakland concert a few years back received a copy at the show, this is the first time it has been seen online and Funkatopia was given permission to post it. So there!

Erotic City

Sheila E - Erotic City - SE Tacoma 1985

Talking HeadS le mix

Pequeña selección de acetatos encontrados en mi ultimo viaje a Nicaragua. Discos de 45 ultra desconocidos de grupos que no grabaron mas allá de uno o dos sencillos y solo para promoción en la radio ¿Cuantas copias existen de esto después de un terremoto que destrozo todo Managua en 1972? ¿Después de la revolución Sandinista? y del lamentable Maremoto en Nicaragua en los 90s.  Prácticamente estos discos son FANTASMAS.

DISCODELIC / Top Secret Garage Psych and Funk from NICARAGUA

Multitude - Killing Joke
Resurrection Joe - The Cult
Where The Rose Is Sown - Big Country
America - Killing Joke
Love Like Blood - Killing Joke
Adorations - Killing Joke
Second Skin - The Chameleons
Out Of Hand - The Mighty Lemon Drops
Paper Tigers - The Chameleons
Another Lost Look - Altered Images
Live For Today - The Lords Of The New Church
Change - Tears For Fears  
Heartbeat - The Psychedelic Furs
Original Sin - INXS
Voices - Passion Puppets
Skin Deep - The Stranglers
These Are The Things - The Pale Fountains
Don't Fall - The Chameleons
Up The Down Escalator - The Chameleons

Chameleons Mix

Chameleons - Second Skin (80's New Wave Post-Punk Mix 12" Vinyl)

Somewhere My Love-The Harry Roche Constellation
Martini built for two-Hugo Montenegro
Solo's Samba-Hugo Montenegro
Girl Talk-Pat Williams Orchestra
Megeve-Henry Mancini
Somebody Cares About Me-Manzanilla
The Shortage of Minis-Pat Williams
Fitzwilly's date-John Williams ( C-67 Re-edit )
On Days Like These-Quincy Jones-featuring Pete King-

EL -3-

Bossa 60  -Cinque Brani-

Thee 2019 HAUNTED HOP HALLOWEEN MIX IS UP! Jonathan Toubin retired to his laboratory with his original 7-inch vinyl oddities for the  10th year in a row to Frankenstein together an hour of unique haunted hits and misses for Monster Mashing and trick or treating!  The good! The bad! The ugly! The familiar and the strange! Check out the other nine and make this the soundtrack to your Halloween season!

Definitely pop out on Halloween at the New York Night Train Haunted Hop on Thursday, October 31 at Knockdown Center with The Make-Up, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Protex, Joe Coleman with King Khan, and a cast of thousands!

1. The Caravans "The Spook" (Terra Records, ?)
2. The Tumblers "Scream" (Pocono, 1965)
3. The Tamrons "Wild Man" (Pyramid, 1967)
4. The Kords "Boris The Spider" (Laurie, 1967)
5. Kip Tyler "Shadow Street" (Challenge, 1958)
6. Sam Porfino and His Orchestra "Haunted House" (Heartbeat, 1963)
7. The Elastik Band "Spazz" (Atco, 1967)
8. Marsha Hunt "Walk On Gilded Splinters" (Polydor Germany, 1969)
9. Howlin' Wolf "Evil" (Cadet, 1969)
10. The Lollipop Shoppe "You Must Be A Witch" (UNI,1968)
11. Lee Kristofferson "Dinner With Drac" (Thrust, 1977)
12. Eddie Kirk "Them Bones" (Volt, 1963)
13. Polo "Fuego" (Peerless, 1968)
14. Les Pingouins "Voo-Doo-Twist" (Decca, 1962)
15. Tim Hazel "In Cold Blood" (Lorelei, 1965)
16. Banana "Club De Los Vampiros" (Clave, 1969)
17. Johnny Jay Colonna "The Sea Witch" (Magnet, 1963)
18. Ray Stevens "Laughing Over My Grave" (Mercury, 1964)
19. Little Caesar and The Ark Angels "The Ghost of Mary Mead" (Jack Bee, 1960)
20. The Big Guys "Zombie" (Palette, 1964)
21. Spike Jones And His Sickniks "I Was A Teenage Brain Surgeon" (WB, 1959)
22. Vladimir Brainzoff and the Undertakers "Russian Roulette" (Solid gold, ?)

NY NIght Train 2019 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

Jonathan Toubin's 2019 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

trick or treat! repost of the missing 2014 halloween mix.... one of the best!

Mad scientist JONATHAN TOUBIN was up late in his laboratory making this monster that will be the soundtrack to 2014 Halloween season… From the soundbites to the tracks themselves, everything on this mix was recorded directly from the original 45s from the 1950s and the 1960s! TRICK OR TREAT!

TRACK LISTING:
1. The Creeps “The Whip” (Ginchee)
2. Kenny and the Fiends “House on Haunted Hill (Dot)
3. Bracey Everett “The Lover’s Curse” (Atlantic)
4. Sonny Richard’s “Panics” with Cindy and Misty “Voodoo Walk” (Chancellor)
5. Jeff Barry with orchestra conducted by Billy Mure “The Face from Outer Space” (RCA)
6. Richie Allen “Goochie Bamba” (ERA)
7. Jack Hammer “Little Bitty Goose Pimples” (Kapp)
8. The Rhythm Rockers “The Cave” (CAL)
9. Ray Stevens “Rockin’ Teenage Mummies” (Mercury)
10. Jimmy Oliver’s Orchestra “The Sneak” (Sue)
11. Nightmares with Jimmy Madden Orchestra “(Ooh I’m Scared) of the HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM” (American International)
12. The Three D’s “Graveyard Cha Cha” (Square)
13. Carter Brothers “Voodoo Cha Cha Cha” (Rexie)
14. Marlente Willis “Sticking Pins In A Dolly” (ERA)
15. Gary Shelton “The Trance” (Regis)
16. The Bluenotes “Rigor Mortis” (BLUECO)
17. Skipper Ryle “Wolf Gal” (Saxony)
18. Betty Lavett “Witch Craft In The Air” (Lu-Pine)
19. The Monsters Four “Russian Roulette” (VJ)
20. Jan Davis “Watusi Zombie” (Holiday)
21. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins with orchestra under the direction of Leroy Kirkland “There’s Something Wrong With You” (Okeh)
22. The Cadillacs “The Boogie Man” (Josie)
23. Teddy Durant “The Night Stalker” (Impression)
24. The Executioners “The Noose” (ACTION)
25. Screaming Lord Sutch “Monster In Black Tights” (Decca)
26. Steve Berry “The Nightmare” (Verus)
27. Buddy Emmons “Witches Brew” (Emmons)

2014 NY NIGHT TRAIN HAUNTED HOP HALLOWEEN MIX

Jonathan Toubin's 2014 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

"This 45 hoarder made soul music fun again with his Soul Clap & Dance Off parties, where five-hour sets of rare grooves and B-sides provided a fleshy alternative to the club scene’s industrial snarl. Instead of bucking the trends of American pop music for some underground alternative, Toubin has made his name by embracing pop’s connective tissue, tracing the rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll of the nineteen-fifties and sixties. " (The New Yorker)

"The most-liked man in the soul music scene" (Rolling Stone)

"Jonathan is pretty much the only DJ we actually like." (VICE)

"Particularly chic... one of the most popular spinners in Williamsburg and the founder of the New York Night Train dance parties. His fare is already cleaner and more appreciative of American pop music history than much of the rest..." (NY Times)

Awarded "BEST DJ" in "The Village Voice" 60th Anniversary “Best of NYC”: "We might live in an EDM world, but Jonathan Toubin has no truck with today's musical whims. Since 2007, Toubin's Soul Clap and Dance-Off has brought throwback pizzazz and retro cool to New York's late-night underground. Culled from an endless array of long-forgotten Sixties soul singles, Soul Clap is pure musical dynamite, the kind of after-hours party that exposes today's iTunes-bred, press-play DJs for their relative lack of roots and ingenuity. No fist-bumps or atomic bass drops here... You can try to put your moves to better use, but you'll be hard-pressed to find more cathartic, sweatier fun elsewhere in the city." (Village Voice Critics Choice Award, 2015)

"BEST DJ" (Village Voice "Best of NYC" Readers' Choice Award 2014)

"Jonathan Toubin is the reigning king of the sweaty, non-stop super-fun dance party" (Paper Magazine)

"Jonathan Toubin is a multihypenate in every sense of the word... Toubin fuses obscure rhythm and blues from the '50s and '60s, with rock 'n' roll and soul 45s. His ongoing New York Night Train parties easily draw those typically found sulking in corners of bars out onto the dance floor." (Interview Magazine)

"Jonathan Toubin is New York rock and soul DJ who plays his collection of original 45rpm records to packed dance floors all over the world." (BBC World Service)

"Most fun ever!... Jonathan Toubin is one of our all time favorite DJs who spins rare 45s and travels around the world making people happy" (BUST Magazine)

"The long-running Soul Clap remains one of the sweatiest dance parties to be experienced in New York City. Fueled by his rare and raucous 45s collection, DJ Jonathan Toubin draws on raw soul and the most feral strains of rock 'n' roll from the early 1960s to power the nights." (Wall Street Journal)

"Few people recognize the roaring, crackling songs; even fewer can really dance the blues. It doesn’t matter. The evening’s not about proving you know the most obscure records or looking good; it’s about some kind of soul-shaking alchemy. Before you know it, it’s the opening scene of “Dirty Dancing,” all swerving hips and bare shoulders—you would’ve sworn you’d be the last to dance, but there you are, breathless.... Spellbound bodies slip into the song’s shuffling rhythm, and Toubin reaches for the next bit of black magic." (The New Yorker)

"Soul Clap is the most popular soul dance party in the world, playing to more people in more places than any other... Toubin plays all original soul 45s from the 1960s and uncommon upbeat cuts." (SXSW Music News)



"Indeed, Toubin's 45 r.p.m. record-fueled, rock-and-soul heavy dance parties were some of the best, sweatiest nights we've had in this city." (Gothamist)

"Jonathan Toubin is the only person we can call a "professional DJ" without involuntarily making a jack-off motion with our hand... His parties are like what Ancient Stonehenge was like if it was, as archaeologists theorize, filled with people dressed many times better than you completely losing their shit." (VICE)

NY Night Train Soul Clap & Dance-Off Top 500: 481-500

Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Train

Recent comments

laurendarling

Eric Kolkey

kurtrbulrich

Related tracks