Dayo Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Just musing... Whatever happened to John Abbey? Is he still with us? I haven't read B&S since the mid 80's, so I've know idea. Forgive me if this is a dumb question!
Guest Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 (edited) Just musing... Whatever happened to John Abbey? Is he still with us? I haven't read B&S since the mid 80's, so I've know idea. Forgive me if this is a dumb question! Dont he make tunes in the USA,ichiban and related labels,are his i think he like the blues i rekcon Edited November 9, 2006 by ken
Guest TONY ROUNCE Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Just musing... Whatever happened to John Abbey? Is he still with us? I haven't read B&S since the mid 80's, so I've know idea. Forgive me if this is a dumb question! John's in his 60s, now still alive, still living in Atlanta but basically out of the record business since Ichiban collapsed and with no real desire to get back into it. Did you know, by the way, that John is also a huge Country music fan as well as a Soul buff? A man after my own heart.... TONE
Guest Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Did you know, by the way, that John is also a huge Country music fan as well as a Soul buff? A man after my own heart.... TONE no
Paul McKay Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Didn't he once own or at least write for Country Music People?
Guest TONY ROUNCE Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Didn't he once own or at least write for Country Music People? No - but I have to admit that I do (write for CMP, not own it!) I believe, though, that John did, at some time, write a round up of Country releases for Record Mirror in the late 50s/early 60s. It was John who got me into George Jones and Merle Haggard, two things for which I will be forever grateful and which make up for the fact that it was his Ichiban label that first inflicted Vanilla Ice on the world! TONE
Paul R Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Wasn't he also married to Tamiko Jones & was also involved with the OOTP pressings with Chris Burton? Paul
Guest Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 No - but I have to admit that I do (write for CMP, not own it!) I believe, though, that John did, at some time, write a round up of Country releases for Record Mirror in the late 50s/early 60s. It was John who got me into George Jones and Merle Haggard, two things for which I will be forever grateful and which make up for the fact that it was his Ichiban label that first inflicted Vanilla Ice on the world! TONE And "trying to love two",B Lynn.................a top album,i did own,once
Guest TONY ROUNCE Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Wasn't he also married to Tamiko Jones & was also involved with the OOTP pressings with Chris Burton? Paul Yes to the first bit, not quite to the second - it was actually John's good friend Otis Leavill who was Burton's accomplice in OOTP (certainly in the first series that were mastered and pressed in Chicago, at any rate)... TONE
Guest biggray1 Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Wasnt John the man behind Contempo Label.
Dayo Posted November 10, 2006 Author Posted November 10, 2006 Yes he was, Action & Mojo too. Action? I never knew that!
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