James & Bobby Purify - I Take What I Want / Sixteen Tons mp3

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This version has a paper label and does not have the Papa Don Productions logo.

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1967: James & Bobby Purify version as the B-side to their single I Take What I Want. 1967: Johnnie Taylor covered the song on his 1967 album Wanted: One Soul Singer. 1968: Bobby Darin performed the song on the Jerry Lewis Show Feb. 1970: A psychedelic rock version by Freeman Sound as the B-Side to their unique single Singing My Own Song. Album by James & Bobby Purify. I Take What I Want. is a cover of. I Take What I Want by Sam & Dave 1966. Summer of 1967, produced by Papa Don Schroeder at Chips Moman's brand new American Sound Studios in & Bobby Purify were an R&B singing duo, whose biggest hit was I'm Your Puppet in 1966. James Purify was born May 12, 1944 in Pensacola, Florida. Bobby Purify was actually two different singers the first was James's cousin Robert Lee Dickey Sep 2nd 1939 - Dec 29th 2011, who adopted the Purify name for performing, and sang on their early records. The I'm Your Puppet Songfacts states that after retiring, Dickey returned to his hometown of Tallahassee, Florida, in 1972 where he became a custodial crew supervisor at the Tallahassee read more. Artist: James & Bobby Purify. Album: The Pure Sound of the Purifys, 1967. Bell 680. I Take What I Want Sixteen Tons. James and Bobby Purify sometimes get described as a poor man's Sam & Dave. Both covered each others songs including the A-Side of this 45. Ijro royxatiga qoshish. Navbatga qoshish. Sixteen Tons. Wish You Didn't Have To Go. James & Bobby Purify. Writer: PennOldham, Composers: PennOldham. You Left The Water Running. Writer: PorterHodges, Composers: PorterHodges. When Something Is Wrong With My Baby. 16 Tons. I Don't Want to Have to Wait. Album: Keep Pushin'. Heyo SONGLYRICS just got interactive. You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store. I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal And the straw boss said Well, a-bless my soul. The James & Bobby Purify cover of Sam & Dave's I Take What I Want entered the R&B chart on 5 August 1967. Compare the versions here. James & Bobby Purify had made the scene in the latter part of 1966 with the classic Im Your Puppet, written by yet another powerful duo in R&B circles at the time, the writers Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham. After that top ten soul and pop success, they had more modest, top 30 R&B success with Wish You Didnt Have To Go, then made the top 20 with Shake A Tail Feather