DESCRIPTION:
"Talk to me" was originally written and recorded by a guy called Joe Seneca who had a double career as a Hollywood actor and songwriter. It was subsequently recorded by Little Willie John in 1958 and by Sunny and the Sunglows/Sunliners in 1963. Both of these artists are largely unknown to the vast majority of today's record buyers, unfortunately. There are also plenty of other covers of the song from artists as varied as the Beach Boys, Al Green and Freddy Fender.

Doug gives us a sterling performance which can definitely be mentioned in the same sentence as those I've highlighted above.

Doug Sahm was an artist who displayed a remarkable capacity for soaking up a wide variety of genres of popular music and demonstrating expertise in such genres, often within one album. Outside of a core set of enthusiastic admirers it is just this ability not to be typecast that may well have hampered his acceptance within the wider public domain. Relatively late in his career he recorded a small number of albums which concentrated on one genre or era of music. "Juke Box Music" is one of those albums. It focuses on music that was popular in the Southern US in the fifties. Much of this comes under the broad headings of R&B or doo-wop. The concept of the album is of a jukebox in that timeframe stacked to the gills with great music to dance or smooch to. Doug assembled an ace big band to interpret this music containing many musicians who'd been part of his various ventures in the past.

The main musicians appearing on the album are:

Doug Sahm - Vocals, Piano & Guitar
Rocky Morales - Tenor Sax
Charlie McBurney - Trumpet
Jack Barber - Bass
George Rains - Drums

Addition musicians include:

Wayne Bennett - Guitar
Derek O'Brien - Rhythm Guitar
Mel Brown - Keyboards
Reese Wynans - Keyboards
Randy Garibay - Vocal duet
Angela Strehli - Background vocals

Produced by George Rains
Arrangements by Doug Sahm