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Loads of music fans have spent 100's of hours viewing old editions of Billboard mag online & downloading articles, record reviews, ads for new releases from down the years ........ well you can spend (waste?) additional time viewing old editions of the Miami Times newspaper online via the University of Florida web site.

It takes patience to find soul related stuff but there is loads of it on there if you keep searching.

Here's another ad for a show at the New Parisian Club (see Twans thread for earlier post of show here) ....

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Frank Williams & the Rocketeers (Little Beaver started out with this outfit).

Most of these pictures are lifted from club ads placed in the newspaper, so the quality of them is much reduced from the acts PR / publicity photos.

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This thread probably shouldn't be in the 'Look At Your Box' section but it ties it in with the Twans thread.

Here's a direct link to the web site & a page showing an ad for a show in 1964 by the Laddins.

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00028321/00157/9j

The group (with personnel changes) became the Steinways.

They were quite popular down in Miami and so were regular visitors.

Coz of this they built up good contacts with local radio DJ's and this resulted in the Steinways 45's getting good radio airplay in the Miami area in 1966.

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A link to another page of the newspaper ....... https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00028321/00444/7j

This dates from December 1966 and had ads for a couple of local shows (Eddie Lovett appearing on one of these).

The more interesting photo is of the Vashionettes down from Chicago to dance at a local club.

I guess this outfit has to be the same one that cut for Checker a while later.

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Copy writers at newspapers had no idea (usually) who & what they were composing words / ads about.

Because of this, spelling mistakes (& worse) were very common.

This can make searching (on line) for info on someone more difficult & can fail to turn up all related items.

Searching for "Spyder Turner" would have failed to unearth this ad.

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Two fine singing ladies perform in the 'Knight Beat' room at the Sir John Hotel

(with Chuck Jackson, Marv Johnson & Jerry Butler to follow shortly afterwards) ........

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Boba,

Would that set of Vashionettes down from Chicago (see link in Post 7) have any connection to the "Mighty Good Lover" singers?

(many times dancers in clubs would progress to being singers as they then got more gigs).

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Boba,

Would that set of Vashionettes down from Chicago (see link in Post 7) have any connection to the "Mighty Good Lover" singers?

(many times dancers in clubs would progress to being singers as they then got more gigs).

yes, they were mainly a dance troupe and then a few formed a singing group. i don't remember all the details right now but it's all in the sheryl swope interview I did. The photo looks like the photos I have of the vashonettes except the newspaper makes them look extremely light skinned for some reason. The vashonettes became the oncoming times and Sheryl was a member of the oncoming times.

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I wonder what became of these ladies who were tipped for big things on the Miami club scene in 1966.

I guess they failed to hook up with any record label type guys, went home & settled down to family life.

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