Marc Forrest

Two more great pictures showing Steve`s first involments with the music business Don & The Xciters And the prophets (again not THE Prohpets)

This great picture (above) shows one of the first groups Steve was part of the Rotations (which were not the same group as THE Rotations obviously) Below you see Steve and Stevie Wonder And Steve Jarrell, Willie Tee and Clarence carter the day they were inducted into the Beach Music Hall Of Fame

This pictures shows Tony on the left and Steve on the right This picture taken from the same session shows Tony and Jim Plummer (guitar)

The interesting article Dave Abbott posted starts with this snippet

They were all dfferent to the Salt & Pepper line up except for Tony on the organ. Salt & Pepper split up once they went back to the States. Sadly Tony couldn`t remember all names of the cheques who also recorded for Volt and another of his own labels Big Stone.

Well, seems as if I along the two Daves have been in contact with the band as well. I have so far interviewed all band members (one is not trackable and one sadly has already passed) and the stories they told me are so interesting that I already thought of putting it all togehter and writing one biography of the group and its members. Would already have put everything together if work wouldn`t have been too intense the last couple of weeks as was the cold I catched in Italy...anyway, the singer by the way is one Eddie Mobley who still goes out on the road togehter with Tony. Steve Jarrell these days is a Radio discjockey and one driving force behind the beach music scene...more later

In that case I am clueless then...great find and pretty good tune both sides, just as you say his voice indeed rings more then just one bell and I could swear I have more then one 45 by him. Still no clue though (speak: clouseau) Marc

vinyl-acetate by any chance ? Marc

You might get it mixed up, MD`s first 45 dates back to 1961 on Jackpot. I once sold Steve Z my spare so he might have played that one instead of his Keke 45 (which is MD`s 2nd waxing).

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That is one very sad loss indeed. RIP. Marc

I have a copy in my play and my sales box. the latter is vg+ to ex and has a price of 20 ,- if that is any good to you ? marc

you will struggle to find one single post from me in wants at all. Talking about wants, its been a while since you last posted somebody elses play in wants offering top end dollar "immediate" cash...nth in Wrighty`s playbox for you lately or is it just the economic crisis affecting you I wonder ?

very nice collection Sean, and I just found Barbara Hall`s beauty "Dropped My Heart" in it as well....not TUSKA but still awesome. https://www.youtube.com/profile?user=JustSoulHampsey#p/u/6/Ym3c2Mg8CEg

strange it works ok now in my office. Marc

what year would that have been ?

Jar-Val discog (off georgiasoul.com) 001 Matt & Robert "The Soul Cousins" - Run For Cover / Pride and Joy 002 The Golden Stars of Toomsboro - Until I Get In Glory / My Work Will Be Done 003 Jimmy Lee Bryant - I Want To Hold You / My Little Girl 004 Matt Brown - Everyday / Baby I'm A Want You 005 The Middle-Tone Gospel Singers - We Belong To Jesus / Jesus Will Wash Away Your Sins 006 Matt Brown - Thank You Baby / Sweet Thing 007 Nancy Butts - Only One Love / Letter Full of Tears 008 The Rev E.J. Smith & the Gospel Choir of the Cutliff Grove Baptist Church - Lord I've Tried / The Lord Is Blessing Me 009 Gary Clements - I Wish It Was Me / Let Me Be Your Santa Claus 013 Middletone Gospel Singers - This Thing I Get Came Down From Heaven / My God, He Is On the Throne 013 The Silveraires Monticello and Eatonton GA - Up That Mountain / Got To Be Born Again 014 Nancy Butts - Too Many Yesterdays / I Can't Love But One Man At A Time 015 Jimmy Braswell - This Time It's Got To Be For Real 016 Ronnie Miller - Listen To the Music / I Owe You Love 017 Nancy Butts - I've Been Blind Too Long / I've Been Blind Too Long 006 and 015 I can personally recommend (both not too rare though as that was your initial question

Hi Dave, hope your fine ! Is it just me who can`t open the files ? I see about 80plus downloads on each title and no one said a word..so I suppose it only me ? ATB Marc

Yes, and an old mod tune as well. Somebody not that young from Manchester once told me it was played at the Twisted Wheel as well back in the day.

for I don`t know what reason I can`t pm at the moment...however, best you go thru this raresoulvinyl@btconnect.com atb Marc

Its not about trying to proove that one knows better. Not at all. This thread which was a wants thread originally turned into (as usual) a thread "Its shite I don`t like it / Its great I like it" with no need at all. So after it had turned that way and as I personally like the record in question very much I backed up the "I like it" party and expressed that opinion of mine. The only one left trying to go on and trying to proove that his opinion is the only right one now in fact is you. "The Boiler is one of the best R&B clubs in Europe" is only one of your sentences which goes to show who out of the two of us seems to be slightly arrogant, don`t you think so ? Try to be a bit more humble yourself and we will have achieved a lot my friend. As I fear we already bored most on here I will stop now contributing to this thread, if you feel the need to continue this discussion we can do so next time you`re in Berlin and your time permitts or in Lavarone.

It says its a limited (500 copies) release and all will be sold exclusivley on their UK tour this month. The remaining copies will hit the record stores on Oct 30. Obviously some copies already available

Its already released and did made some noise over here in Berlin as well. My mate Marc Hype is involved in the project so it MUST be good https://soulkombinat.org/funkyberlin/

Hi Thierry if that one features "Turn On YOur Lovelight" I have it in my sales box. marc

Somebody seems to have managed to hack my email and paypal account. Good thing I am having a few days off work so that I can take care of it. If you need to contact me in the meantime, please do so via pm on here, many thanks... atb Marc