Hi everyone

How many versions of the classic Curtis Mayfield song I've been Trying are there please?

Impressions

Mayfield Singers

Fabulous Peps

Four Gents

Jerry Butler

etc. ...

Cheers

Richard

  On 23/07/2010 at 16:00, Premium Stuff said:

Hi everyone

How many versions of the classic Curtis Mayfield song I've been Trying are there please?

Impressions

Mayfield Singers

Fabulous Peps

Four Gents

Jerry Butler

etc. ...

Cheers

Richard

barkays

clarence reid

  On 23/07/2010 at 16:00, Premium Stuff said:

Hi everyone

How many versions of the classic Curtis Mayfield song I've been Trying are there please?

Impressions

Mayfield Singers

Fabulous Peps

Four Gents

Jerry Butler

etc. ...

Cheers

Richard

Nu Sound Express on Silver Dollar is one of my favourites....

The Heptones 1972 reggae cut on Jamaican Gayfeet is nice, too...

  On 23/07/2010 at 20:09, TONY ROUNCE said:

Nu Sound Express on Silver Dollar is one of my favourites....

The Heptones 1972 reggae cut on Jamaican Gayfeet is nice, too...

I think paul kyser was saying the nu sound express was the same group as some other group, anyone remember?

Also Notations on Twinight. Stunning version arranged by Floyd Morris:thumbsup: On the other side of "Just You And Me"

One of the most underated and distinctive groups imo

steve

Can we post them all up do you reckon?

Cheers

Richard

archie bell

temptones

pat kelly

les fleur de lys

mel brown

blues busters

phil collins .......you did ask

zoot money

reggie sadler revue........i like this one

Am sure there was a thread a couple of years ago on this same question. May have been started by Blake Helliwell, if my memory serves me correctly.

Sean

Neal Sharpe and Velma Jewel

Cheers

Manus

  On 24/07/2010 at 09:19, Sean Hampsey said:

Am sure there was a thread a couple of years ago on this same question. May have been started by Blake Helliwell, if my memory serves me correctly.

Sean

Cheers Sean

Found this

Richard

OK - here's a list of all the versions listed above and in the previous thread that Sean spotted

Can we fill in all the labels too please?

Cheers

Richard

Barkays

Archie Bell & Drells LP "I cant stop dancing" (Atlantic)

Blues Busters

Mel Brown

Phil Collins

Jerry Butler (Vee-Jay)

Fabulous Peps (Wee 3)

Four Gents (HBR)

Heptones (Jamaican Gayfeet) 1972 Reggae

Impressions (ABC)

Pat Kelly

Major Lance (Okeh)

Les Fleur de Lys

Mayfield Singers

Zoot Money

Notations (Twinight)

Nu Sound Express (Silver Dollar)

Clarence Reid

Reggie Sadler Revue (De-Lite)

Neal Sharpe and Velma Jewel (Joint Venture)

Temptones

Edited July 24, 201014 yr by Premium Stuff

C Reid....Dancin with nobody but you babe.......Water music...LP...(think also on cd)

Zoot Money....Repertoire..LP

Mayfield singers Charley..cd

Temptones....Bear...LP

mine were all LP tracks will seek rest ASAP

Edited July 24, 201014 yr by SCOOBY

  On 24/07/2010 at 10:16, Premium Stuff said:

OK - here's a list of all the versions listed above and in the previous thread that Sean spotted

Can we fill in all the labels too please?

Cheers

Richard

Barkays

Archie Bell & Drells LP "I cant stop dancing" (Atlantic)

Blues Busters (Kentone)

Mel Brown (what, her from theSpice Girls? surely not!!!!)

Phil Collins -

Jerry Butler (Vee-Jay)

Fabulous Peps (Wee 3)

Four Gents (HBR)

Heptones (Jamaican Gayfeet) 1972 Reggae

Impressions (ABC)

Pat Kelly

Major Lance (Okeh)

Les Fleur de Lys (Polydor)

Mayfield Singers (Mayfield)

Zoot Money (Columbia LP)

Notations (Twinight)

Nu Sound Express (Silver Dollar)

Clarence Reid (Alston)

Reggie Sadler Revue (De-Lite)

Neal Sharpe and Velma Jewel (Joint Venture)

Temptones (Demo recording first issued on Bear family CD)

Filled a few more in for you, inclding adding and correcting Scooby's for the original releases rather than CD issues...

Edited July 24, 201014 yr by TONY ROUNCE

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Filled a few more in for you, inclding adding and correcting Scooby's for the original releases rather than CD issues...

Nice one Tony

Cheers

Richard

Interesting to read how many have recorded this song.

I first heard it at the Flamingo, an evening there during the week when they simply played records, no live act, either the DJ announced it was the b side of People Get Ready or I went and asked (so nothing changes, still do it now). I thought it was brilliant and went and bought it the next day in my lunch hour at Imhofs in New Oxford Street. It would have been late 65 or early 66, probably the former as it was before I started going out with Lesley.

It's always been a favourite of mine, but not sure if I've ever heard it played out in a club since then.

Thought of another one over the weekend that had slipped my mind, but that I came across again while researching something for the upcoming FAME projects:

The Hour Glass - I've Been Trying (Liberty 56091)

This of course is the group that morphed into the Allman Brothers. It's a decent blue-eyed version.

I've got a Swedish cover version, I'll need to dig it out. Sure some of the Scandinavians on here will know what it is...

  On 27/07/2010 at 12:19, cover-up said:

I've got a Swedish cover version, I'll need to dig it out. Sure some of the Scandinavians on here will know what it is...

Actually, it's Finnish:

PETRI & PETTERSON BRASS "Tietaa En Saa" (I've Been Trying) (Scandia)

Updated

Any more for anymore?

Plus, can anyone fill in the missing details please?

Cheers

Richard

Barkays

Archie Bell & Drells LP "I cant stop dancing" (Atlantic)

Blues Busters (Kentone)

Mel Brown (what, her from theSpice Girls? surely not!!!!)

Phil Collins

Jerry Butler (Vee-Jay)

Fabulous Peps (Wee 3)

Four Gents (HBR)

Heptones (Jamaican Gayfeet) 1972 Reggae

The Hour Glass - I've Been Trying (Liberty)

Impressions (ABC)

Pat Kelly

Major Lance (Okeh)

Les Fleur de Lys (Polydor)

Mayfield Singers (Mayfield)

Zoot Money (Columbia LP)

Notations (Twinight)

Nu Sound Express (Silver Dollar)

Petri & Petterson Brass "Tietaa En Saa" - I've Been Trying (Scandia) From Finland!

Clarence Reid (Alston)

Reggie Sadler Revue (De-Lite)

Neal Sharpe and Velma Jewel (Joint Venture)

Temptones (Demo recording first issued on Bear family CD)

  On 23/07/2010 at 22:39, boba said:

I think paul kyser was saying the nu sound express was the same group as some other group, anyone remember?

Rhyze.