Whats your fav' by this chap . Anyone know if he is still around .?

Cheers

Simon

Edited August 4, 201113 yr by Simon M

1) "Love Don't Feel Like Love No More" on Juana.

2) He is still around. John RIdley interviewed him about 2 years ago. He's getting up there in years, though, and he hadn't been terribly well when John spoke with him. I get the impression that his singing days are over, from the way John wrote...

Ah thanks Tony !! Where can I get that Interview .? Have you got his Pelican 45 ?

Edited August 4, 201113 yr by Simon M

Always had a soft spot for this tune:

The Man Who Had Everything on Scepter

What can i do

  On 04/08/2011 at 06:56, Simon M said:

Where can I get that Interview .?

In the great mag In The Basement, issue 59 (Autumn 2010).

Edited August 4, 201113 yr by Philippe

  On 04/08/2011 at 17:30, Godzilla said:

Always had a soft spot for this tune:

Top pick got one, for a fiver, off here.

Thanks chaps. Has anyone got the Pelican stuff , I thought I had a copy but could not find it .

Edited August 5, 201113 yr by Simon M

'Fools Love' for me. 'What can I do" and "Two times one is two" also up there.

Double up does it for me on the uptempo side.

I'm Glad To Do It is excellent on the deeper slower side

he must be in his late 60 t's early 70 t's by now, as he first recorded under his real name of junior lewis in the early 60 t's.

Actually he's much older than that, Bri - he made his first record in 1953, on 78 only as far as I'm aware!

His real name, Clarence Lewis, appears as a co-writer on numerous R & B classics that came out in the late 50s and early 60s e.g. Buster Brown's 'Fannie Mae', Lee Dorsey's 'Ya Ya' and Lightnin' Hopkins' 'Mojo Hand'. Now while he was a good songwriter I don't personally believe that he wrote any of those, so I wonder what kind of deal he struck with Bobby Robinson (on whose Fire/Fury labels they all originally appeared) to be rowed in for a piece of those and other songs of Fire/Fury, like Elmore James' 'The Sky Is Crying' and 'Done Somebody Wrong'...

Edited August 6, 201113 yr by TONY ROUNCE

Never forgiven Ady for putting 'The man who had everything' on Big city soul album all those years ago, blew me away as a 17 year old and still does.

'What can I do'', 'Love don't feel like love' and 'Fools love'..............wonderful.

Ps Does anybody know how much the Clintone 45 is? I love it and want it.

ATB

Jim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIYcAaAGYg

  On 06/08/2011 at 16:58, bri pinch said:

he must be in his late 60 t's early 70 t's by now, as he first recorded under his real name of junior lewis in the early 60 t's.

He was born in 1934 and his first record "Your Heart Must Be Made Of Stone (Red Robin 136) was issued in 1955.

Edited August 8, 201113 yr by Philippe

  On 08/08/2011 at 12:28, Philippe said:

He was born in 1934 and his first record "Your Heart Must Be Made Of Stone (Red Robin 136) was issued in 1955.

This is the record to which I was referring, only you got the date right and I didn't!

I can add that it came out in August 1955 if you want to be even more precise...

Tony, I read it in the article by John Ridley in ITB. John also mentionned and reviewed that elusive South African LP.

Edited August 8, 201113 yr by Philippe

  On 08/08/2011 at 19:17, Philippe said:

Tony, I read it in the article by John Ridley in ITB. John also mentionned and reviewed that elusive South African LP.

I have that album myself - it's a bit of a mixed bag, but some of it is very good indeed.

Found my copy years ago in the reggae section at Record and Tape Exchange in Goldhawk Road, on one of my occasional visits there. It had obviously been in stock for a while, and had worked its way down to 30 pence from a starting price of eight quid. Clearly no reggae fans were interested, and no soul fan would have bothered looking there for it.

As the cover was stil EX++ and the record inside was stone mint, I had a bit of a result, if you ask me!

I'll take the case

Edited August 21, 201113 yr by pat bleasdale