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Northern Soul Connections #34 - Ken b's Latest Issue

Lew Hanson, Mary Mundy & Soul Syndicate/Seven Sense

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Published 31 Jul 2023

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We have just reached #34 in @Kenb's long running informative 'Northern Connections' series. Read and digest below

Northern Connections # 34
Lew Hanson, Mary Mundy & Soul Syndicate/Seven Sense

Insurance City Records said it would give 10% of its profits to The Newington Children's Hospital & Bellevue Square Boys Club, from (this} its first original production release. The record was cut at Creative Sound and released in early 1972.
Two musicians and three businessmen started Insurance City Records and Big Street Music Publishing. Prexy of the two firms was Lew Hanson, a native of Jamaica, but had lived in Hartford since about 1957. Mary has a Batchelor's degree in Business Administration. She had won an amateur night prize at the Apollo Theater in 1962 and a 1968 Hartford Chamber of Commerce talent contest sponsored by Hartford Insurance Group. Billed as 'the largest amateur talent show, ever held in Hartford' and run at the Bushnell, it featured the 7 piece Soul Syndicate opening the show, who later in 1972 went on to back Mary Mundy on 'Electric Ghetto'/ Open Up Your Heart'.
 

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Billy Jo Jim Bob

In 2000 myself and Mick Brown were record hunting in the US. In an old barn full of 45’s we pulled a copy of Mary Monday & Soul Syndicate on Insurance City out of a box of 200 45’s. The owner gave us on old kids record player to spin anything we didn’t know, and as soon as we heard it, we knew it was a tune. We subsequently found 6 more copies but one was cracked and off centre. We kept one each and the others were snapped up by well known collectors. Open up your heart’ was the side we liked, but lately Electric Ghetto has really grown on me.

Andy

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On 02/08/2023 at 22:04, Diamondjim said:

Wish we'd had another few days there Andy & gone through all them Albums up stairs!!!

Too right Mick thousands of sealed albums….who knows what was there ? 

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