Who is/was Ann Perry

[Mellorful]

Does anyone know anything about Ann Perry other than she performed on 'That's the way he is' or have photographs of the artist?

Cheers

Stu

[Rob Wigley]

Melvin Davis wrote the song in 15 mins for Mike Theodor (Melvin apparently had the horn intro in his head for weeks before hand) Ann was a 14 year old talent contest winner and the prize was to cut a record.

The artist, song and record disappeared without trace........until being played over here !

[Mellorful]

7 hours ago, Rob Wigley said:

Melvin Davis wrote the song in 15 mins for Mike Theodor (Melvin apparently had the horn intro in his head for weeks before hand) Ann was a 14 year old talent contest winner and the prize was to cut a record.

The artist, song and record disappeared without trace........until being played over here !

Thanks Rob 

Just done some digging based on the details of your reply; Theoda Moore owned the label, Ann Perry released another track and I have stuck it of discogs. Gonna see if I can find out a little more about the artist

 

[Mellorful]

Further info about the label

https://detroitsoulsingles.blogspot.co.uk/

Theoda	Owned by Theoda Moore. Address: 2018 Buena Vista West. Detroit 38
Cat. Number	Artist	A-Side/B-Side	Mattrix	Date
201	Ann Perry	That's The Way He Is*	120a	196
		That's The Way He Is (inst)	120b	196
T 883	Rev. Sylvester Newsome	One Day At A Time		196
		One Day At A Time		196
T 3510	Ann Perry	You Know I Love You		196
		Our Love Is Over		196
TM 3510	Davis & Joe	Double Bad (inst)		196
		Way Out Jerk (inst)		196
T 3206	Clifford Binns	It Was Only Yesterday		196
		It's Christmas Again		196
TM 149	JE Morgan	By My Side		19
		The Heat Is On (inst)		19

[Kenb]

I've been researching this for over 18 months (on and off) for maybe one of my Northern Connection articles.

without too much luck on Ann herself, i have to say.

Armco to American Sound Corp to Ardco (allied record dist co) to CIRCA (consolidated international record co america) - are the distie/label clues to follow, but these and other non-Ann stuff is all i have at the moment( and expect ever to get).

[Hooker1951]

Hi Stuart

That Ann Perry find is a good little Rn B number well done

Mick L