Premium Stuff Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 Anyone tell me anything about the Chalfontes group who recorded a couple of singles on Mercury please? Don't know much about them. Did they do anything else apart from these two Mercury 45s? Any group member info etc.? My favourite track is 'Confessin' My Love To You'. Cheers Richard
Agentsmith Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 great detroit again, ( he loves me )...love the "trivia" in inverted comma's....pronounced, the shal-fon-tays and a fab b-side as well. bateman & mosely seemed to get their credits everywhere in the 60's.
Guest Dave Turner Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) I think they were one of LeBaron Taylor's groups. Named after Detroit's Chalfonte Street or Chalfonte Avenue. Confessin' My Love To You has D. Marsha writer credit which is a typo for Don Mancha Edited March 31, 2013 by Dave Turner
Premium Stuff Posted March 31, 2013 Author Posted March 31, 2013 Cheers guys Is Chalfonte Street/Avenue in Detroit pronounced in the same way as what I call the 'French way' as the group name is shown on the label (Shell-Fon-Tays)? Cheers Richard
Guest Dave Turner Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) Richard, scroll down about half way, paragraph under the Just Brothers photo https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/soul-articles/don-juan-mancha-%E2%80%93-the-story-r2652 Must admit I always used to say it as ChalFonts ... as in Chalfont St Giles (haemorrhoids) Edited March 31, 2013 by Dave Turner
Premium Stuff Posted March 31, 2013 Author Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) Richard, scroll down about half way, paragraph under the Just Brothers photo https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/soul-articles/don-juan-mancha-%E2%80%93-the-story-r2652 Must admit I always used to say it as ChalFonts ... as in Chalfont St Giles (haemorrhoids) Cheers Dave - here's the quote from the Don Mancha article you mentioned: I did some songs for LeBaron Taylor too on one of his acts, Chalfontes. He named them after a street in Detroit he liked the sound of but no one could say it properly so we had to explain how to say it on the record label. I did a couple of tunes for him but he only credited me with one of them (Confessin’ my love for you)” Thanks Richard Edited March 31, 2013 by Premium Stuff
45cellar Posted April 1, 2013 Posted April 1, 2013 www.Popsike.com The Extremely Rare Mercury Black Label for both Issues. www.popsike.com I wonder If there's a DEMO for the Black Label Copies. There should be I reckon.
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