The Tempest

Great record , and agreed very underplayed , you have good taste mate

Heard the Bobby Smith track - A New Day Dawning - and loved it , what price / rarity ??

Great vocal group and sooooo underated , you can see why this man chose them as his all time favourites ......

The Los Angeles-based Exits made only four singles -- three on Gemini and one on Kapp Records (really three, their debut came out twice) -- but two of them, "Under the Streetlamp" and "Another Sundown in Watts," feature some of the '60s finest soul group harmony. Their sound married late-'50s doo wop with mid-'60s soul and the material was a teary-compound of aspiration and hope and despair and hopelessness. They recorded their first song and biggest hit nameless and the producer came up with their name as James Conwell (lead), Godey Colbert, Esko Wallace, Louis Hendricks, and Charles Colbert were leaving the studio under the gleaming exit sign over the door. A new name was in order as they had recorded "Love Can't Be Modernized" b/w "There's That Mountain" in early 1967 as the Trips for Soundsville Records. Some of the members had prior and post musical experience. Conwell (the Vice Roys, the Minortones, and Smoked Sugar), G. Colbert (the Pharoahs, the Cufflinks, the Visitors, and Esko Wallace (the Visitors). Conwell was the Exits' x-factor, a magnificent lead singer with a voice more melodic, soaring, and harmonious instrument that could jerk tears from a mummy. They made noise in pockets across America with their first release, "Under the Street Lamp" b/w "You Got to Have Money" on Gemini Records (August 1967). It was their most successful record, success being a relative term, as it got aired on many soul stations and was well-received where played. True to its astrological traits, impatient, flighty Gemini didn't work the record long enough, and before 1967 ended released a second recording, "I Don't Want to Hear It." It didn't take off, so ever-changing Gemini reissued "Under the Street Lamp" in early 1968. Not in it for the long haul, Gemini Records went out of business; Jimmy Conwell had also recorded as a solo act for the label, but those 45s withered as well. They went with Kapp Records for one glorious single in 1969, entitled "Another Sundown in Watts" fronted by "I'm So Glad," and therein lies the problem: the B-Side should have been the A-Side. Except for an album credited to Conwell released in 1977, Let It All Out, nothing else by this marvelous group ever surfaced. And while Conwell's album, which has been re-released on CD by United Kingdom's AM Tracks Records, contains some Exits' tracks, it's not definitive as Conwell's most successful solo, "Cigarettes Ashes," is missing.

Never heard it played out in years , any takers ????????????

Because I was playing it before bathing my 19 month old , left him alone for two secs in the living room and he wandered in with the cover minus the vinyl , which I quickly put away , bloody kids !!!!

I had about 500 cd's at one time that basically took up a lot of space !!! Sold the lot and ploughed the cash back into my album collection , get rid everybody !!!!!!!

Killer opening lines , and oh so true nearly fifty years on !!!!!

Current price please

Current realistic price ?

Bought a copy early eighties at Glenrothes Ymca allnighter from Pat Brady , laid it flat on the bottom of my bag and after several hours dancing slumped my entire weight on it as a pillow !!! , they don't half snap well those Columbia demo's !!!!!!

Yep , deffo live version played out of this one

My favourite track by them ,

God I can't stand that record !! It get's right on my ..........

Watched the O'Jays one tonight , absolutely brilliant , but very sad re the drugs side of things , the record title says it all ! , thanks so much for this post and related link

I have seen and responded to a " plethora " of Dancer related topics over the years !! But always wondered about those that did and still do stand out from the floor , We all have our favourites from venues , There have been many posts of dance competition winners from Wigan , Leicester , Morecambe , and beyond , I always believed the best dancers NEVER entered these contests !! So if you were the Wigan Champ in 73 onwards , did you continue at Staffs , Leics and the 100 Club in the 80's , to emerge at a soul night in the 90's or even now at a weekender ? My example would be Tony " Chippy " Nichols , Wigan from 76 onwards and a recent winner at Blackpool , a great dancer , BUT there must be loads out there ...........................................................................................................