Anne Heywood: Crook His Little Finger

[Picky]

Hi,

 

Can anybody here clarify if Anne Heywood who is singing "Crook His Little Finger" is the same English movie actress?

 

 

[Guest MrC]

GreaT Question!

 

Anne Heywood Movie Actress:

 

She did sing on the soundtrack to 3 of her films:

 

Midas Run - performed: "The Midas Run" 

The Fox  - performed: "Roll It Over" 

The Heart of a Man - performed: "Love Is..." 

 

Never occurred to me she could be the same Anne Heywood. Could be worth giving those soundtrack performances a listen.

She was Miss Great Britain when she was 17.....

[Picky]

 

GreaT Question!

 

Anne Heywood Movie Actress:

 

She did sing on the soundtrack to 3 of her films:

 

Midas Run - performed: "The Midas Run" 

The Fox  - performed: "Roll It Over" 

The Heart of a Man - performed: "Love Is..." 

 

Never occurred to me she could be the same Anne Heywood. Could be worth giving those soundtrack performances a listen.

She was Miss Great Britain when she was 17.....

 

Hi MrC,

 

Thank you for your posting.  So, do you think they are the same?  When I listened to the "Crook His Little Finger", I felt that she is a blue-eyed singer so googled and found that movie actress.  I listened to her soundtrack and feel similar voice.

[Mick Sway]

Hi,

 

Can anybody here clarify if Anne Heywood who is singing "Crook His Little Finger" is the same English movie actress?

 

I seem to recall seeing this discussion before some while ago.

Is it likely, do you think that the English Actress would have written and sung this esstential R'nB record

which was arranged by the famous Sam Cook arranger and guitarist Rene' Hall?

As it happens the disc was put out twice on the same number Hondo 100 with both

yellow and black labels. However the black label has the name spelled "Ann" , without the E.

Interesting thought though.

Can anyone confirm that this is an LA label?

Edited January 31, 2014 by Mick Sway

[Pete S]

I seem to recall seeing this discussion before some while ago.

Is it likely, do you think that the English Actress would have written and sung this esstential R'nB record

which was arranged by the famous Sam Cook arranger and guitarist Rene' Hall?

As it happens the disc was put out twice on the same number Hondo 100 with both

yellow and black labels. However the black label has the name spelled "Ann" , without the E.

Interesting thought though.

Can anyone confirm that this is an LA label?

 

Well it was on a LA Soul compilation....no address on the label though.

Doubt very much if they are the same person for the reasons you state above.

[Guest MrC]

The Actress was from Handsworth, in Birmingham.  Just thought I'd mention that.... just up Queens Head Road from "Benefit Street" 

[Simon T]

In September 1965 'Crook' was one of Oliver (BIG O) Moss', KCAK Phoenix Artz, picks of the week

[Chalky]

Ernie Freeman spent much of his life in Los Angeles and worked with Rene Hall so I'd say it was an LA recording.

[Frankie Crocker]

On the Northern Soul of LA Vol 2 CD so almost certainly from LA. Odd that over 30 copies were found at Skippy Whites in Boston and other finds have turned up, notably on Craig Moerer's auction lists.

[Billy Jo Jim Bob]

On the Northern Soul of LA Vol 2 CD so almost certainly from LA. Odd that over 30 copies were found at Skippy Whites in Boston and other finds have turned up, notably on Craig Moerer's auction lists.

Hi all

 

It was me and Mick Brown who found the copies of Skippy Whites. It wasn't 30 copies, from memory it was around 16. Most had label damage and were the black label copies. We found other nice stuff much of it with lable damage including copies of Steve Mancha - Friday Night.

 

We let most of them go to dealers and kept a few for sale ourselves. This was around 12/14 years ago.

 

Incidentally Skippy was the producer on Frank Lynch - Young Girl 45. We wondered why there were loads of them

[Frankie Crocker]

Hi all

 

It was me and Mick Brown who found the copies of Skippy Whites. It wasn't 30 copies, from memory it was around 16. Most had label damage and were the black label copies. We found other nice stuff much of it with lable damage including copies of Steve Mancha - Friday Night.

 

We let most of them go to dealers and kept a few for sale ourselves. This was around 12/14 years ago.

 

Incidentally Skippy was the producer on Frank Lynch - Young Girl 45. We wondered why there were loads of them

I must have been careless... I took 33 Anne Haywood's and 2-3 of everything else. I left a small quantity of Exits and a huge load of Precisions on Skippy's label - did you get these? By then, the local funk boys were into the place and had snaffled my stash from previous year, but in six visits over seven years, I was pretty pleased with the pickings.

[Billy Jo Jim Bob]

We got a decent haul, but as you say some of the local funk collectors had been in and from memory we had followed some Japanese collectors a few days before. But overall we came away with about 100 + 45's I guess. Ann Crook, 5 Steve Mancha's, 4 Barbara Middleton on TRC (these were mint), 5 Devonnes on King Falcons on Big Wheel, most were single copies but a few we had quantity. We did leave lots of stuff though which at the time we thought wasnt worth bringing back. Probably a mistake now !!  

[Robbk]

I'm sure Hondo was a small, local L.A. label.  I only saw the record in shops in L.A.  I doubt that the record had any distribution outside Southern California.  I never saw it in San Francisco Bay Area shops, nor in any other part of USA that I looked for records  (rest of USA other than The Deep South).  I'm sure that the label was located in Eastern Culver City, near where Modern, and SAR had been.  That has The Rio Hondo (a tributary of The Los Angeles River) running through it, which, I believe gave the label its name.  

 

I would be very surprised if Hondo's Anne Heywood was a Caucasian.  Not all Soul singers sang in "Ebonics".  Some had professionals for parents, and were raised in integrated neighbourhoods, and used "good" diction.