Jimmy Ralph Bailey's avatar as Lee Roye on Decca

[Shinehead]

Least we know Mr Bailey recorded in lots of guises in the 70s I am rubbish at recognising voices unless they are like Womack,  Stubbs , Ruffin etc. but the Bailey 70s tracks all have a light feel to his vocals something that cannot  be said about Chuck Wood.

 

[Tlscapital]

24 minutes ago, Shinehead said:

Least we know Mr Bailey recorded in lots of guises in the 70s I am rubbish at recognising voices unless they are like Womack,  Stubbs , Ruffin etc. but the Bailey 70s tracks all have a light feel to his vocals something that cannot  be said about Chuck Wood.

Yep right OK. As Jimmy Bailey he did tunes or more parts like of tunes where he starts to sing louder like in 'hush' or 'keep on running' both on Columbia.

Or 'hold back the dawn' on Mala as J.R. Bailey where you don't get to hear his silky-er smooth singing 'trade mark' at all times.

That smooth silky singing of his that he will keep after his fantastic rendition of 'love wears off' on Calla in 1968. At least I believe that. 

[Kesalocasoul]

And then there was Kurtis Scott (aka Kurtis Harris or actually Curtis Futch Jr) - see review from Dave Godin's Rhythm and Soul USA New Series #1 (dated 1966) and a couple more early photographs of Jimmy.

 

For anyone still awake on this topic, BMI's Songview website lists 319 of his songs to go through, under various combinations of his names (most interesting are the names of his collaborators, which may - or may not  - indicate they are separate people).

BAILEY RALPH

319 Work Titles

Current Affiliation: BMI

IPI #: 1833916

[Tlscapital]

Landing on this and reading the opening lines I thought for a second 'finally a background on our 'Chuck' but then coming on about the Warner Brothers singer (that which is not our 'seven days too long' Chuck) it all died flat in an instant. With utterly stupid comments -thought forgotten popular in Soul clubs in the UK a decade later- SAY WHAT ?

[Kesalocasoul]

As the Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield once wrote (quoting Edgar Allan Poe), "Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear".  If they had known about the internet, perhaps they would have added " and even less of what you read on-line".