Dore LA Soul Sides 2 - Kent Soul Release
Gettin' Back Into Circulation
After a bit of a revamp the news/article section has a spring in its step and is full of lofty aims and ideals. Getting the 'releases' section underway is word of a just released summer 2015 offering from Kent,Titled 'Dore LA Sides 2'
This (as you may guess) is the follow up to the 2014 release 'Dore LA Sides 1' which Chalky reviewed back then here on Soul Source Dore LA Sides 1 and again focuses on the Dore label. The tag line below does makes life easy when describing this release as it does sort of say it all...
Twenty years’ worth of elusive West Coast dancers, sweet soul ballads and all points in-between.
Heres a preview all tracks via Junos records very smart player
Here's the blurb
This is the second and final volume of our Doré Soul story. As with the first volume, it’s strong on harmony groups, uptempo dancers and quirky one-offs from the vivid imagination of label owner Lew Bedell. The tracks were cut at the best Los Angeles studios using arrangers of the calibre of Miles Grayson, Gene Page, Ernie Freeman and Jack Eskew. Bedell produced most of the recordings and wrote several too.
The rarest of the rare is Little Johnny Hamilton’s ‘Keep On Moving’ of which there is one known issue that resides in the Potteries. The same scenario applies to the Swans’ punchy ‘Nitty Gritty City’; just to finally see the label scans was a thrill. The Milton James disc is almost as rare and the beautiful flipside ballad ‘That’s What Love Will Do’ is on CD for the first time. It was re-recorded by the outfit when they became War in ...
Read more at: http://acerecords.co.uk/dore-la-soul-sides-2#sthash.e1hUNRTv.dpuf
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The Track List
01 Gettin' Back Into Circulation - The Entertainers IV
02 I'm Givin' You Notice Baby - The Fidels
03 What Did You Gain By That? - Kenard
04 Wind In My Sails - The Superbs
05 Funky With My Stuff - The Natural Resources Unpolluted
06 Pictures In My Window - Eddie Williams
07 That's What Love Will Do - Milton James
08 I Wanna Chance - The Vows
09 I Want You - Dee Torres
10 My Pillow - The Darlings
11 We Together Baby - Smoky & The Bears
12 Keep On Moving - Little Johnny Hamilton
13 The Girl That I Loved - Bobby & Eddie Unlimited
14 Nitty Gritty City - The Swans
15 I Only Cry Once A Day Now - The Puffs
16 Goddess Of Love - The Superbs
17 Nothing Lasts Forever - The Natural Resources
18 Just Ain't My Day - The Entertainers IV
19 Stuffin' The Bird - Rambling Willie & The Euphonics
20 Just A Little Ugly - Gail Anderson
21 This Girl Is A Good Girl - Johnny Braff
22 Saigon To San Francisco - Toussaint McCall
23 As I Sit Here - The Whispers
24 I Look In The Mirror - Eddie Kool
Purchase highlights:
Available as cd album and also mp3 downloads at all good stores, links to just 3 follow
Ace Records Website
http://acerecords.co.uk/dore-la-soul-sides-2
Juno Records
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/la-soul-sides-2/573574-01/
Amazon
Edited by mike
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