Jump to content

Inferno releases a classic Luther Ingram 45

Inferno releases a classic Luther Ingram 45 magazine cover

The all time Northern/Detroit classic double-header "If It's All The Same To You Babe"/"Exus Trek" by Luther Ingram/Luther Ingram Orchestra has been re-issued in the UK by arrangement with legendary producer Robert Bateman.

The release, via Inferno, is on a lookalike of Robert's H.I.B label and is available now.

A regular black vinyl issue with no centre is joined by a limited edition multi-coloured vinyl Audition Copy solid centre release with just 150 pressed, all individually numbered from 1 to 150.

"I met Robert in the USA and was really pleased to be able to release the single as it's such a masterpiece. It's one those records you would play to aliens if you had to explain

what Northern Soul sounds like.. I cannot think of many records where the A side vocal and the B side instrumental both stand up in their own righs as classics. It's perfect Northern Soul but when I asked Robert who on earth in the 60's he was aiming such an uptempo record at he just said he wanted to out out something that sounded like The Four Tops!", said Inferno's Neil Rushton.

Robert remembers the making and selling of the record very well.

"We recorded it at Golden World. The musicans were the Funk Brothers moonlighting from Motown. My friend Popcorn Wylie worked on that session with me, and we cut the vocals and the backing tracks there, I then took the tapes by myself to New York and pulled a favour to get use of the Mercury Studio in New York. That is where I added the so called Orchestra. Actually it was just two violinists who I overdubbed until I got the sound I wanted. I had learnt how to overdub from my time at Motown.

I then pressed the records up on H.I.B which is my label. I stands for Ingram, B for Bateman and H for my girlfiend at the time. Luther was very popular in St. Louis and we got radio plays there right away.I sold maybe 5,000 copies and the distributor in St. Louis wanted more and I gor wary about the cost. He said don't worry, I will get someone to help. A few days later I picked up the phone and it was Jerry Wexler from Atlantic and he said the distributor had told him all about the record and could we cut a deal so Atlantic could distribute it? I was real happy as I had made money from selling my copies, and Atlantic gave me a nice advance which by itself more than paid for the recording costs".

Regular black vinyl copies are £10, and the multi-coloured vinyl limited edition £20.

For info on how to order e-mail - neilrushton2@btinterner.com

ccs-1-0-92729700-1315498100.jpg




Members Comments

Recommended Comments

hi neil,

just a thought, but didn't you consider putting that remix i gave you, onto vinyl. nick brown was responsible for that, a good ten years ago. remember i did you a cd?

No, wanted to stick to the original vocal and inst.

It is impossible to improve perfection!

Link to comment
Social source share

just got this in the post, a nice affordable way to have a good sounding copy of this.

AGENTSMITH: how would one remix this? i think it grooves pretty hard as is?

i can assure you, when i first heard it some 10 years ago at notre dame, i was completely gobsmacked!....you should ask nick brown about it, he did the original...i simply went into a recording studio with it fresh in mind, told the tec how the two tunes should be spliced and he mixed it down. it rounds up to something like 5 minutes...i had 3 copies cut, gave one to kenny onions and one to neil....cant for the life of me remember what happened to the other....believe me, it sounds BRILLIANT and it certainly WONT drive you off the dancefloor, even at 5 mins long....so perhaps neil might consider doing a limited run of it just to prove a point.

Link to comment
Social source share




×
×
  • Create New...