Roburt Posted August 3, 2012 Author Posted August 3, 2012 You'll know a lot more about this subject than I do Steve ..... BUT .... .... weren't a lot of Wand 45 tracks just 'licensed in' items in 1969 (cut elsewhere by outside production teams, some being released on local labels prior to Wand). However the Brenda J Jones seems to be an in-house session cut in Scepter / Wands NY studios. Were many other things released on Wand around the same time also in-house efforts ??
Steve G Posted August 3, 2012 Posted August 3, 2012 Yes quite a few John. It's recorded @ Scepter. Bennings was also a singer and also wrote for people like Hoagy lands and Lily Fields. Augustus was a "girly guy" since he also wrote the odd side for Maxine and Dusty. I just don't know who Brenda J Jones was - yet! I'll ask "da boys" if any of them have any recollection of her.
Mark Jones Posted August 3, 2012 Posted August 3, 2012 https://www.midwest45s.org/IllinoisSoul/JeanLee_UnwedMother_Cedric_C3306b_clip.mp3 Bloody wow! never knew this existed! Think I first heard it on Dave Evison's signal radio show...John Farrar played it? Anyway led me to buy a copy a few years later which I still have. Shame levels so low!! Very quiet!
Sean Hampsey Posted August 3, 2012 Posted August 3, 2012 Tell you what, I'd pay big bucks for Jean Lee "Unwed Mother" on Cedric. It's stunning. Sean 2
boba Posted August 4, 2012 Posted August 4, 2012 If the wand artist is a NY area artist different than Jean Lee, this might be referring to her:
Roburt Posted August 4, 2012 Author Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) Seems that sorting out the 'Brenda Jones' from THE 'Brenda Jones' could well be a tricky task ... ...... there's the Brenda J, Brenda Lee & just plain Brenda .... confusing or what ....... Edited August 4, 2012 by Roburt 1
Roburt Posted August 4, 2012 Author Posted August 4, 2012 The Wand & SSI 45's are obviously New York efforts (Sammy Turner & Robert Banks being the guys behind the SSI track). "Big Mistake" was also cut in New York & then there are the shows a New York based Brenda Jones undertook with Ohio's Buckeye Politicians ... ... none of this makes sorting out which Brenda is which any easier .....
Steve G Posted August 4, 2012 Posted August 4, 2012 Has anyone got the SSI track? I don't think I do.
boba Posted August 4, 2012 Posted August 4, 2012 Has anyone got the SSI track? I don't think I do. I have the funk 45 I posted a pic of above, I can try to dig it out and listen to the voice at least
Roburt Posted August 4, 2012 Author Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) Steve, the SSI track is up on YouTube .... THAT Brenda Jones ain't the best of singers ...... I wonder if this Brenda was related to Linda & Terry Jones ?? .... Edited August 4, 2012 by Roburt
Roburt Posted August 4, 2012 Author Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) And which Brenda Jones is this ......... ... the fine C M Lord was involved with this track ... Edited August 4, 2012 by Roburt
Roburt Posted August 4, 2012 Author Posted August 4, 2012 The 'jazzy' Brenda Jones ..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI2MS15DnE8
Roburt Posted August 4, 2012 Author Posted August 4, 2012 Then there's always THIS Brenda Jones ......
Roburt Posted August 4, 2012 Author Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) In the movie Ali (starring Will Smith) a singer portrays Linda Jones at a night club performing her version of "For Your Precious Love". Linda's daughter Terry Jones recalls her aunts and uncles discussing the time when Linda came home from a concert and said Mohammad Ali had been at her show. The producers of the film did not know who to contact for clearance of Linda's likeness and because of this they could not use Linda's name in the film Ali, just the song. Terry Jones did not know anything about her mother's version of "For Your Precious Love" being used in Ali until after the film was released. ......... .......... I wonder if any of Terry's aunts were called Brenda ?? Anyone seen a handbill / newspaper ad for the engagement at NY's Apollo that Linda was undertaking when she died on March 14, 1972. Edited August 8, 2012 by Roburt
boba Posted August 4, 2012 Posted August 4, 2012 In the movie Ali (starring Will Smith) a singer portrays Linda Jones at a night club performing her version of "For Your Precious Love." Linda's daughter Terry Jones recalls her aunts and uncles discussing the time when Linda came home from a concert and said Mohammad Ali had been at her show. The producers of the film did not know who to contact for clearance of Linda's likeness and because of this they could not use Linda's name in the film Ali, just the song. Terry Jones did not know anything about her mother's version of "For Your Precious Love" being used in Ali until after the film was released. If they couldn't find her daughters who had already recorded, they didn't try very hard. But somehow they got the historical details about a (fairly obscure to non-fans) singer who played at a club ali was at?
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