Roburt

Thinking of my trips to the Flamingo when I could afford it ,as the Many US acts that appeared there were expensive to see em .you name it and they appeared there. Don't think this statement (copied from above) is correct ... I checked out the Flamingo in January 66 and they didn't seem to have any decent US acts on ...

Surprised that Danny White "Keep my woman home" is classed as very rare on UK Sue, as I (& others I knew) picked up copies quite cheaply back in the late 60's.

Wonder what Fluff Freeman would have made of this version (had he still been around) ...

I opened this thread by referring to the time I'd gone to see Zoot perform @ the Boulevard in Tadcaster at the end of 1966 (Friday 30th December). He was still in Yorkshire the next night, but this time he was on @ the niter at the Mojo ... of course that Saturday session ran through to the Sunday which was New Years Day ... unfortunately for us (Tom Sleight & myself), the Spellbinders weren't on at the Boulevard with Zoot (neither were the Foretops).

Yes, I saw that. I guess the money ran out & the project withered on the vine. VERY SAD. They deserved to have their story told.

Back in 2008, "This Magnificent Moment", a documentary about the Magnificent Men was in production. A trailer had been released to publicise the project in 2006 (see below) and further work was ongoing through 2007/08. A show the reformed group undertook in November 2007 was filmed, this footage to go into the proposed documentary. Anyone know if the project was ever finished & the film released in any form ?

Used to visit the Soul City record shop in Monmouth St ... AND ... send off my postal orders to get 45's sent by them ... ... worked for British Rail at the time, so got free travel to London and to Leighton Buzzard (F L Moores) + Manchester of course.

As already stated, Sam always had a decent TV profile in the US, so he was known to folk across the States even though he had no national hits. Cos of that, a new Sam Fletcher 45 would be viewed by radio stn DJ's as a thing not to ignore ... Don't think Sam did much (live wise) down in Dallas / Fort Worth but this 45 did ... a featured pick record on KNOK in November 1964 ... ...

... "Sam appeared on a top Italian TV show in 1963, thanks to RCA records" ... .... The clip from this show of H B Barum is also up on youtube (but it ain't relevant to this thread).

Sam appeared on a top Italian TV show in 1963, thanks to RCA records. HOWEVER, this was before the Beatles / Stones breakthrough, so the music they wanted US stars to perform on this RAI Saturday night peak time show was very M-O-R ....

This version is a bit closer to home for Edwin (as he used to be the featured singer with Bill Doggett's group) ...

Sam Fletcher appeared on lots of TV shows back in the late 50's / 60's; in the US & abroad ... here he is during one of his TV appearances ...

I interviewed Johnny Pate many years ago. With all the massive tracks he had a hand in, I asked him which of the 1000's of cuts he worked on was he most proud of. He came back with an instant answer; SAM FLETCHER's "I'd Think It Over". I asked the reason for this & he stated Sam was the first BIG ACT he was trusted to work with. This was because Sam had lots of big regional hits including "Tall Hope" & "I Believe In You" ahead of his Tollie recordings. He also starred on lots of US TV shows -- 'The Dinah Shore Chevy Show' (1963 along with Barbara Steisand ) + on American Bandstand and other TV shows., So Sam had a 'high profile' on TV when only a few blacks got to star on US TV variety shows at the time.

Lots of great info on this thread about many folk involved with GW. One of those being Sonny Sanders. Sonny must have been quite switched on (business wise) as he was already getting into running labels as early as 1962 (when he was only 23 years old). Along with Robert Bateman, he had formed the Satintones in Detroit in 1957 (when 18 years old) and they were signed to Motown. But he soon moved on from Motown & with Bateman started SonBert Records (part of Correc-Tone) in 62. He was also working with the likes of Wilson Pickett, James Velvet, Gino Washington (all for Correc-Tone) and Bobby Lee Watson (Maureen). From there, he was onto working at GW and then off to Chicago. Not a bad start to a long & successful music career.

One of Radio One's soul DJ's used to play Terry Callier tracks all the time around the late 70's, guess it was Robbie Vincent (but I could be wrong). After that, his music faded from view for a while & then was picked up on by the British guys mentioned above. I saw him at the Jazz Cafe and he was just brilliant. Lots of those present had copies of his records that we wanted signing. So after the show we asked one of his entourage if Terry would come out to chat & do some signing. Nothing happened for quite a while... and then Terry came running out ... "I've only just been told you lot were waiting on me" he said ... "I'M SO VERY SORRY TO HAVE KEPT YOU WAITING" ... what a complete gentleman he truly was. HUGE TALENT coupled with COMLETE HUMILITY ... a unique combination.