Sad news from Detroit. No confirmation, but it's from a trusted source. Happened today....
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2011 brings yet even more sad news with the departure of Steve Mancha (Clyde Darnell Wilson)
The following informative articles detail his recording legacy.
RIP
Hitsville Soul Club Article by the late Alan Pollard on the Soul Train Yorks website
On Christmas Day 1945 in Walhall, South Carolina a musical legend was born. Clyde Darnell Wilson, or as all collectors and lovers of Detroit soul music know him ... Steve Mancha. Clyde moved to Detroit at the age of five years old and by 1960 he was already singing locally around the Detroit area when he met another future Detroit icon, Melvin Davis. Melvin Davis was already recording for Jack and Devora Brown's Fortune Records....
http://yorksoultrain...allcamefrom.htm
Soulful Detroit page by Graham Finch
...Steve then kicked off the groovy looking Groovesville label in October '65 with the great "You're Still In My Heart" and followed it up in March '66 with a Billboard hit - "I Don't Want To Lose You". This was the second of his five singles on the label - each of them a jewel of Detroit Soul. One of them is Tony Hester and Popcorn Wylie's first collaborations, "Friday Night", but sadly only
http://www.soulfulde...teve-Mancha.htm
Bio on Amg by Andrew Hamilton
... the record simmered on the charts, Mancha hit again, this time as 8th Day with "She's Not Just Another Woman," a song he wrote that was the same track on 100 Proof's debut album...
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