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Dexter Gordon: Tower of Power. ACTUAL SONG NAMES???

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Does anybody know what the tracks "Montmarte" and "Stanley the Steamer" are actually called? Apparently those aren't the right titles for the songs. I already figured out that track 2, "The Rainbow People," is actually "Fried Bananas."
Thanks in advance, this has been driving me crazy.
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dubrosa22
This Dexter Gordon discography entry for the 3 records recorded at those Prestige dates may clear things up for you:

Dexter Gordon - The Tower Of Power! (Prestige PR 7623)
Dexter Gordon, James Moody (ts) Barry Harris (p) Buster Williams (b) Albert Heath (d)
NYC, April 2, 1969
-----Montmartre
omit Moody
NYC, April 4, 1969
-----The Rainbow People
-----Stanley The Steamer
-----Those Were The Days
** also issued on Original Jazz Classics OJC 299, OJCCD 299-2.
** part of Prestige P 24087.

Dexter Gordon - More Power! (Prestige PR 7680)
Dexter Gordon, James Moody (ts) Barry Harris (p) Buster Williams (b) Albert Heath (d)
NYC, April 2, 1969
-----Lady Bird
-----Sticky Wicket
omit Moody
NYC, April 4, 1969
-----Meditation
-----Fried Bananas
-----Boston Bernie
** also issued on Original Jazz Classics OJCCD 815-2.
** part of Prestige P 24087.

Dexter Gordon Plays The Blues - Blue Dex (Prestige PRCD 11003-2)
Dexter Gordon, James Moody (ts) Barry Harris (p) Buster Williams (b) Albert Heath (d)
NYC, April 2, 1969
-----Sticky Wicket (alt. take)
Dexter Gordon (ts) Wynton Kelly (p) Sam Jones (b) Roy Brooks (d)
NYC, August 27, 1970
-----The Jumpin' Blues (alt. take)

http://www.jazzdisco.org/dexter-gordon/catalog/#prestige-pr-7623
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Yeah, I realised the names may be wrong on those releases but they'll give you an idea of the various albums pulled together from those recording dates.

You'll have problems IDing the tracks if they appear on different versions of the same album with different names.

For example swperry1 says his Tower of Power contains the tracks from the Prestige More Power! album!

Weird.
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