Marc Forrest

Cheers Neil, really appreciate your feedback. And you are so right with your statement. Actually I said to Ian Wright just a few months ago, Leroy Clofer easily the next Harvey Scales "Trying To Surivive"

Would be great Rich..think you would really like it ... nice little small club...some even dared to call it a shit hole... and a up for it crowd who like to dance from 11 till seven Next and final Hip City Soul Club for this year will be on November12th

Here are some of the tunes (almost all I would say) I had teh fun to play during our small but intense little Hip City Soul Club weekender. Obviously not in order Tabby Thomas "One Day" Hitch The Highway Killer C/UP Eddie Clover "Think It Over" Harmonics "Be Your Man" William C. Belton "Come On Back To Me Baby" Fred Williams "The Dance Got Old" Salt & Pepper C/UP Grey Imprint "Do You Get The Message" Clay Brown "Talking` Soul" Roy Roberts " So Much In Love" Fred Williams "Tell Her" John Harris & The Soul Sayers "Hangin` In" John Ellison C/UP Sacred Four "Somebody Watching You" Brother Love "Precious Dove" Vontels "Ta-Hula Hoop" Marlyn Barbarin "Just A Teenager" Romona Collins "You`ve been Cheating" Jimmy Andrews "Big City Playboy" Adkins Brothers unrel. acetate Leroy Clofer "Mr. Big Man" Chain Reaction "Search For Tomorrow" World Committee Of People C/UP Chymes "Wrong Crowd" Jospeh Webster C/UP Energetics "You Make Me Nothing" P.J. City "Straight Forward" Rideout "Spend Some Time" Joanne McDuffie C/UP Mc Duffie Sisters C/UP Classics "So Glad I Found You" Sidney Barnes "I Hurt On The Other Side" Hank Hodge "Eye For An Eye" Paul Vann "One Track Mind" Grey Imprint "Do You Get The Message"

Met Tim Brown this week and he comfirmed Jr McCants being part of the Harmonics as well. thought I`d pass this on..

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I`ll try to post you a clip later mate

Ouch! of course..how could I forget Mac Staten...nice 45!

mmmh, would be interested to know what these sound like..

Yes Col, Junior McCant sadly passed away shortly after. The King session was held in ´67 too if I remember the liner notes to that great Kent CD correctly. This recording was first released in ´67 on Sock It Records so it must have been recorded in or before ´67 and therefore shortly before Charles Spurling had brought him to King. You can clearly hear his unique voice on both sides as on the other Harmonic 45s by the way. Marc

ah, glad my memory still working

The Gold Plate release (Ohio as well) is by the way from 1972.

No, I acme across a lot of early Detroit labels but no Prelude for sure. It must be a mistake or typo. As I said , I am with you on that this label was based in LA.

The Eddie Daniels, Hopkins Bros or both ?

yes robb, only these two releases on this Prelude label. strangely enough McGrath has it down as being Detroit but as you say it must be LA.

next to the fabulous topside what may also exlain the demand for this 45 is the bonus of a flipside which is SO right for the funkeir sets of today Plus, and that really adds on the "myth" side of things of this great 45...both sides of this record feature the fantastic falsetto voice of Junior McCants !before he went to King Records via Charles Spurling. The Harmonics were an Ohio based group consisting of the McCants brothers Junior, James, Sam, Chris, and Leroy McCant. The record in question was their third record after having released on Dupree. "Be Your Man / Sum-A-Doom-Doom" witten by James McCant and produced by Leroy McCant was first released on Detroit based SOCK IT records (VERY rare..) in 1967 and re-released on 77 Records in 1971. The Haronics developed into the Chicago Gangsters, Leroy McCants went on to become label owner of HEAT Records beginning of the eighties. And before you ask, only one of the Mccant brothers has a opy of the King rarity and he is not willing to sell.. Marc

as it uses the "tighten up" riff I myself wouldnt have thought the reocrd being from the seventies...late sixties, around 67/68 would have been my guess.

think you sold it to me, top copy, many thanks again

that reminds me..the guy I asked for you had already sold his copy. good luck !

BIGTIME

...but its on Goldmine`s "Rare as Hen`s Teeth" CD

First heard it when Andy Dyson played it at the Uptight Weekender Frankfurt (Germany) maybe 5 years ago and it simply blew me away..!...had to rush to the decks to see what it was..never thought I would find one.

THANKFULLY NOT

hi fellas, it was reliable soul source-r who usually knows his stuff who posted said statement on facebook...I wont name him as he will put himself in the spotlight if he feels the need to do so. As I said on the LIfeline Look Back thread...I was surprised myself to hear it had been played at Wigan. But then, why not ? Surely isnt doing the track/record any harm. A great and rare record stays a great and rare record...More so, the fact that in case it really had been played at WIgan and still stayed under the radar for 30 more years only adds kudos to the myth of said 45 IMO. Personally I first heard said tune at the Soul Shakers Bamberg Weekender in 2008/9 via butch. Beside that..I think its a bit greedy of them Lifeliners to now have all three copies up there in Wolverhampton. Over here in Berlin we could do with at least one of them. LOL

It defo is...I play the "So Tired" side...think Pomonky from NYC favours the other (more funkier) side ? Seeing you like the McGee`s I may add that I have a C/UP which I tend to play next to this Prelude 45 which indeed is AS good and very similar to it. Played it at Lifeline and it didnt clear the floor