Jay & Cathy's Clowns - THE LP

[Sunnysoul]

The 7" release of The Bottle says "Taken from the LP "Doin The Best I Can"."

Anyone ever seen the LP ?

[Roburt]

There are huge numbers of US soul 45's that refer to an upcoming LP that never actually materialised.

This was usually due to financial problems the indie label experienced at the time.

Many small 'new' indie labels sent out 45's to numerous distributors & / or record stores but were never paid for them as the records didn't sell initially & then were just dumped in discount bins to sell for a few cents. Thus the label never even got it's money back for the 45's that did go out to wholesale / retail outlets & soon found themselves insolvent.

Mind you, sometimes labels had too much success too soon & so went into early bankruptcy. The LA based Canyon label (which distributed / ran a number of labels as well as Canyon itself) enjoyed good success with releases by the likes of Doris Duke, the Whispers, etc. But they put out so many 45's / LP's in such a short time that before the money really started rolling in, they had huge debts and so went out bust.   

BTW, Cathy Lynn was the Cathy in the group Jay & Kathy's Clowns and she was working with the likes of Lou Lawton ( of "Nic Nak Paddy Wack" fame) at the time (68/69). I guess that makes her & the group (+ S & K) New York based. 

 

Edited December 16, 2015 by Roburt

[Roburt]

Again a bit 'off-topic' but Cathy Lynn also worked with Marsha Brody (of "Right Combination" fame). According to a youtube post, Marsha went to school in the early 60's in Chester, Pa (Smedley Jr High). Chester is just SW of Philly.

On Marsha's tracks Cathy worked with Arthur Schroeck who was New Jersey born and from 1965 was a New York based studio musician. He posted a reply on the following youtube post ...........

 

Cathy & Art Schroeck also worked together on the Preparations sides for Heart & Soul Records.

 

Edited December 16, 2015 by Roburt