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Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'

02 Feb 00 - 05:28 PM (#172502)
Subject: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: GUEST,Mark Thiele

I need help with the quote "Play it Steve". Where does it come from (I know it's Blues, but more detail) and who said it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Mark


02 Feb 00 - 05:30 PM (#172504)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: GUEST,emily rain

hmm. i've only heard "play it _sam_", the line from casablanca. a request for the song "as time goes by".


02 Feb 00 - 05:35 PM (#172509)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: Amos

I think someone yelled it at the Quicktime demo at Seybold last year.

A


02 Feb 00 - 07:07 PM (#172568)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: GUEST,PJ Curtis...Ireland.

Steve, Try Otis Redding's 'Rock me Baby'(Stax) when he calls out to session guitarist Steve Cropper..."Play IT Steve! PJC


02 Feb 00 - 07:31 PM (#172581)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: GUEST,Rayvon

Also called out to Steve Cropper on Sam and Dave's "Soul Man".


02 Feb 00 - 07:50 PM (#172592)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: Mike Billo

Also called out to Steve Cropper by Pops Staples, on "Tupelo" from the "Jammed Together" album with Pops, Steve, and Albert King.


02 Feb 00 - 08:15 PM (#172606)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: Lonesome EJ

"I'm a Soul Man
I'm a Soul Man(play it Steve)"

Blues Brothers used to cover Soul Man as well, right down to the "play it Steve" comment, since Cropper was in the back-up group.


03 Feb 00 - 07:48 PM (#173163)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: Lucius

Spot on, Lonesome EJ! Cropper was with both Sam and Dave and the Blues Brothers. He also played guitar for Otis Redding's post-mortum hit "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay". I used to want to be Steve Cropper (before his BS & T days).


04 Feb 00 - 03:28 AM (#173375)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: Steve Parkes

Nobody's ever said it to me!

Steve


04 Feb 00 - 03:49 AM (#173381)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: Brendy

PJ. is that you?. How's things in Clare these days?


04 Feb 00 - 10:58 AM (#173484)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: Wesley S

There was a band around here that always used to say "Pick it, Wilson" { get it?? As in Wilson Pickett??}


04 Feb 00 - 01:10 PM (#173569)
Subject: RE: Help: The quote 'Play it Steve'
From: GUEST,PJ Curtis.

Brendy, Yup...Im in Clare...where spring has sprung after a million days of rain and storm. who/where are you? PJ