Barrett Strong - Use Your Head

[Mal C]

Barrett Strong - Use Your Head, Lots of Acetates finishing on E Bay yesterday, loved this sparse cut of Mary well's Classic, by Barrett strong, anybody know much about it, I see 'Strong' in the writing credits on Mary Wells release, so I guess this was a vocal reference by Strong and others backing. Not much to look at being a blk Acetate, but a nice studio track..

Anybody know more about this one, and the other Barrett strong Acetates?

Mal

Edited February 17, 2016 by Mal C

[Robbk]

2 hours ago, Mal C said:

Barrett Strong - Use Your Head, Lots of Acetates finishing on E Bay yesterday, loved this sparse cut of Mary well's Classic, by Barrett strong, anybody know much about it, I see 'Strong' in the writing credits on Mary Wells release, so I guess this was a vocal reference by Strong and others backing. Not much to look at being a blk Acetate, but a nice studio track..

Anybody know more about this one, and the other Barrett strong Acetates?

Mal

I would like to hear this badly.  Can anyone upload a sound file of it?

[Peter99]

2 minutes ago, RobbK said:

I would like to hear this badly.  Can anyone upload a sound file of it?

Me too Robb.

[Robbk]

That was recorded for 20th Century Fox.  Robert Bateman, Andre Williams, Barrett Strong and Sonny Sanders were the ex-Motowners working on her Detroit 20th Century Fox Mary Wells recordings.  For Strong, he was still living in Chicago, working for VJ at that time.  So, this was moonlighting.  Sanders was still at Golden World.  Bateman was a free lance producer in New York, but also worked on some projects with Popcorn Wylie in Detroit.  I suspect that Wylie may have played piano on some of the Fox recordings, especially the demos for Mary.

[Mal C]

I grabbed the sound file, its not the entire song, but gladly send it to you Robb, just ping me your email addy..

So the batch had the following, "This Old Love Of Mine" "Such A Sweet Thing" and the above track 'Use Your Head', got mp3 of all of em, but as Ive said they are the sellers so incomplete, your welcome to them..

Edited February 17, 2016 by Mal C

[Mal C]

oh, it worked... :-))

Barrett Strong - Such A Sweet Thing.mp3

Barrett Strong - Use Your Head.mp3

Barrett Strong - This Old Love Of Mine.mp3

Edited February 17, 2016 by Mal C

[Robbk]

7 minutes ago, Mal C said:

I grabbed the sound file, its not the entire song, but gladly send it to you Robb, just ping me your email addy..

So the batch had the following, "This Old Love Of Mine" "Such A Sweet Thing" and the above track 'Use Your Head', got mp3 of all of em, but as Ive said they are the sellers so incomplete, your welcome to them..

 

[Mal C]

oh and there was this...

Lee Rogers - My One & Only.mp3

[Woodbutcher]

Direct link to the clip here ... https://192.185.225.173/~funkyou/1910z.mp3

[Robbk]

3 minutes ago, RobbK said:

5 minutes ago, Mal C said:

oh, it worked... :-))

Barrett Strong - Such A Sweet Thing.mp3

Barrett Strong - Use Your Head.mp3

Barrett Strong - This Old Love Of Mine.mp3

Fantastic, thanks.  Such A Sweet Thing and "This Old Love of Mine", were of course, done for ATCO.  i don't seem to remember "This Old Lopve of Mine" on Mary's ATCO LP, or on an ATCO 45.  So, I'll be VERY glad to hear that song.  ALL mary's ATCO recordings were great, and most were very well-written Jalynne songs-very close to her Motown level, as were most of her non-Beatles 20th Century Fox songs.

 

[Peter99]

10 minutes ago, Mal C said:

oh, it worked... :-))

Barrett Strong - Such A Sweet Thing.mp3

Barrett Strong - Use Your Head.mp3

Barrett Strong - This Old Love Of Mine.mp3

Wow! Love them.

Peter

[Robbk]

Wow!  They are great!  They were certainly only meant as demos for Mary, given as there was no openly obvious songs marketed for Gay dance clubs at that time.  That must be Barrett, himself, playing the piano.  It's absolutely amazing what Sonny Sanders did to those simple musical renderings of the songs, in his eventual final arrangements and instrumental mixes of the commercial recordings.  The demos are nice to hear, but they give only the slightest indication of how excellent the final product would become.

 

[Tlscapital]

13 hours ago, Mal C said:

oh and there was this...

Lee Rogers - My One & Only.mp3

That is awfully cute ! This is my favorite of the man. I'm happy with my D-Town copy but this is a nice change of dress. Thanks for sharing.

[Roburt]

RE: Robb's comment on Mary Wells ......   as were most of her non-Beatles 20th Century Fox songs.

Did she cut those Beatles songs for 20th Century coz she had become such close friends with the members of the UK group when she was the main support artist on the Beatles big UK theatre tour back in 1963 ?? 

Edited February 21, 2016 by Roburt

[Robbk]

50 minutes ago, Roburt said:

RE: Robb's comment on Mary Wells ......   as were most of her non-Beatles 20th Century Fox songs.

Did she cut those Beatles songs for 20th Century coz she had become such close friends with the members of the UK group when she was the main support artist on the Beatles big UK theatre tour back in 1963 ?? 

Yes, she became enamoured with those songs from hearing them on that tour.  And she suggested that  she record an LP of them.  The Fox bigwigs liked the idea, not knowing that the "Pop market" wouldn't take to them.  Those recordings just don't have much zip and energy to them, probably because her Soul producers and arrangers weren't all that inspired by The Beatles' songs, and making Pop records wasn't their expertise.