Soul Symphony

[Dayo]

This has been bugging me for years:

Everyone knows that Soul Symphony was an instrumental version of Get Out Of My Heart (Moses & Joshua Dillard). So it made perfect sense that it came out on Coral by The Sons of Moses. But around 1974 the tune turned up on a British issue - was it the London label? - credited to an obscure outfit; think it may have been Hammond Brothers and Maggie. Same recording. If memory serves - and these days it is well dodgy - the issue was a B-Side to a song called Garbage Man (or similar).

Was it a mis-press? Any Soul Detectives know the full story on this?

[Guest in town Mikey]

Wasnt it on a black label with multicoloured writing??

MGM seems to be jumping out at me. Tough it could still be London in that it is also a black label

[Guest]

Was released as Sons of Moses on MCA but also released as Hammond

Brothers could of been on Decca but not sure on that but with a different title if my memory serves me correctly ( which I doubt after 30 bloody years!!!)

See you tonight Mikey

Dave G

[Guest in town Mikey]

Ha ha. Echoes of our conversation on saturday night.

MGM - MCA

Isleys - 4 tops

Can you see the link??

I keep nearly getting there, but not quite.

No smutty comment thank you ;-)

[Paul R]

"Soul Over Easy" by Hamond Bros and Maggie on london. Had the long piano intro as did the vocal version "There Must Be A Love Somewhere" by Edie Robin on (Le Cam?). I'm sure there were a couple of other versions around as well.

[Dayo]

You got it Paul: it was Soul Over Easy. But who the heck were the Hammond Brothers and Maggie? And does anyone recall that the official A side was awful, bearing no relation whatever to the classic flip? Still like to get to the bottom of this!

[Paul R]

I Think Kev Roberts talks about it in the Top 500 book. Something about the entrepreneur owner of the track milking it for all it's worth. Still a cracking instrumental. I didn't actually realise until a couple of years ago that it was the instrumental version to Get Out Of My Heart, and I've had both sounds for 30 years.

[Mike]

"Soul Over Easy" by Hamond Bros and Maggie on london.  Had the long piano intro as did the vocal version "There Must Be A Love Somewhere" by Edie Robin on (Le Cam?).  I'm sure there were a couple of other versions around as well.

yep on lecam

interestingly maybe ?

there's another version of "there must be a love somewhere" on lecam by Betty Brooks, which sort of fits in with thread

but on flip of her version that there's a great harlem rumble type instrumental called "funky funky" thats been popular round this way for a fair while , and likes of Robbo recently been playing elsewhere, think someone once also covered it up as "sons of moses"

[Mike]

anyone got decent links to worthwhile "major bill" related articles