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Brenda (Lee) Jones (Including - "big Mistake")


Roburt

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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 ??

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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.

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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 .....

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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.

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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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