Jiggy and the Passions - "So Tough to Mix!"

 

I was walking to pick my kids up the other day and blasting Jiggy and the Passions on shuffle and "Beatrice from Baltimore" came on. Now, I've always preferred the Jiggy Flows version of the tune and I find myself only really listening to Carl and the Passions in the fall and winter -- it's never been summer music for me. But with it being the first unofficial stereo remix, I let it play through. Now, this was just a gorgeous New England winter day. We don't really get many anymore, for years it's felt like it goes from January to February. But hearing that bombastic bridge/B-section -- the fiddle, the ring modulator, mixed with the perfect temperature, dead trees, and limbo-like coldness -- my heart just exploded. It was LITERALLY "the thing." It took me RIGHT to that place. The place where there's joy, and hope, and you can't help but look and DWELL on the bright side. Just ZENITH Beach Boys heaven.

After all these years, that's never happened with me and that song until the other day and THIS comp. Perfect timing.
Jiggy and the Passions - "So Tough to Mix!" is amazing and done with love -- and I am THRILLED with it.
Some stuff may not be for everyone -- and GOOD; I'd loathe to live in a world where we were all the same.

This is the deal, it's anyone's prerogative to have and voice opinions on ANYTHING, but I've found that the people who do -- and do so negatively, often and VOCIFEROUSLY (usually with an ugly and personal bent) do it because NO ONE asks THEM their opinion. The unseen seem to either remain invisible -- or choose to spread ugliness (e.g. "Jiggy is bad. . . Jiggy is wrong. . .  I hate jiggy. . . )

I'm SO LUCKY that with the work I do, I'm part of a team of fanmixers that aims to spread the goodness, instead of feeling so left out and unseen that I need to spit and curse loudly in the street to prove I'm actually here.

That would break my heart.

Have a GREAT 2023 everybody -- thanks for all the love and well wishes we've been getting on the set.
It's the best music.

Disc One: Carl and the Passions - "So Tough!" Remix + Bonus Tracks

   1). You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone (New Mix)

   2). Here She Comes (New Mix)

   3). He Come Down (New Mix)

   4). Marcella (New Mix)

   5). Hold On Dear Brother (New Mix)

   6). Make it Good (New Mix)

   7). All This is That (New Master)

   8). Cuddle Up (New Mix)

   9). Beatrice from Baltimore

   10). Marcella (Alternate 1972 Mix)

   11). Marcella (A Cappella) (New Mix)

   12). Make it Good (Alternate Version)

   13). Make it Good (Orchestra Section)

   14). All This is That (Alternate Lyrics)

   15). All This is That (A Cappella) (New Mix)

   16). Old Movie (Alternate Version)

   17). Cuddle Up (Single Mix) (New Master)

   18). In the Country (New Mix)

   19). Sea Cruise

   20). Just for You

   21). Untitled #1

   22). Untitled #2

   23). Ten Years of Harmony

   24). Carl and the Passions Promo (New Mix)

Disc Two: Holland Remix + Bonus Tracks

   1). Sail On, Sailor (New Mix)

   2). Steamboat (New Mix)

   3). California Saga: Big Sur (New Master)

   4). California Saga: The Beaks of Eagles (New Master)

   5). California Saga: California (New Master)

   6). The Trader (New Mix)

   7). Leaving This Town (New Master)

   8). Only with You (New Mix)

   9). Funky Pretty (New Mix)

   10). Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale) (New Mix)

   11). Sail On, Sailor (Brian Sings Lead)

   12). California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a) (New Mix)

   13). City Jim (Demo)

   14). The Trader (Alternate 1972 Mix)

   15). Only with You (Long Version)

   16). Fairy Tale Music (New Mix)

   17). Pa Let Her Go Out (New Mix)

   18). Mount Vernon and Fairway (Home Recording)

   19). Fading Love Song (New Master)

Disc Three: In Concert Original Rejected Single LP

   1). Wouldn’t it Be Nice

   2). Leaving This Town

   3). Heroes and Villains

   4). Marcella

   5). You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone

   6). Let the Wind Blow

   7). Do it Again

   8). Wild Honey

   9). Fun, Fun, Fun

   10). Jumpin’ Jack Flash

Disc Four: The Flames' Second Album

   1). Mother of the Century

   2). Sigh Baby Sigh

   3). High Overdrive

   4). Sunny Skies

   5). Thank Someone

   6). Seven Sisters

   7). Have You Ever Been

   8). Henry’s Son

   9). Sweet Jane

   10). Hello My Friends (Bonus Track)

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