Roburt

Some Cameo Parkway distributed releases ............

Capitol pushed the Magnificent Men's record ........

Another Shout Records ad ................

Kegy (!?!?!), start a new thread & get em posted up. I have quite a lot as well that I can add in. When they include a picture of the artist, some can be quite enlightening (lots of white singers doing soul tracks back in the 60's when it was that sound that was selling).

No, James Bell's outfit were an entirely different group.

Last ever live act to play the Mojo ...........

That would be good. So their 45 must havebeen pressed up twice & yet it still remains a rare item. Does your 45's label give any clues to where the label was based ? .... CHEERS

Yes, Lorraine .......... a story I tell to my grandkids ........... Once upon a time, in a land far far away, they made Northern soul music. Only nobody knew it was Northern Soul until Wigan Casino discovered it. And then they all lived happily ever after. That is the full NS story, nuff said.

A poster for one of the Motown Review shows ............

Any chance that we can get to see it ? Take a photo of it & post that photo on here !!

..... OR ........ just maybe it was at Wigan Casino ........... watch out there are loads of fake posters doing the rounds out there !!

Fats Domino at the Wigan Casino ......... NO, sorry, that's the Wig Wam Casino

The UK Government are getting ready to sell off Royal Mail. So everything that increases profits is being done at present & nothing that takes any time (getting packages signed for) is being undertaken. .......AND when it's sold off & run by a private outfit ......... THINGS WILL ONLY GET WORSE !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5tYPaO4Go An out & out early 60's US pop record ......... soul content = ZERO Where was this spun ?, glad I never remember hearing it played out.

My big worry is that the missus has no idea on values. I collect all soul / gospel 45's /LPs /CDs that I like so many in my big collection are worth very little but some are worth loads. She says I have to sort them into separate boxes, but by value. Loads of boxes of 45's that have decent values & the same for 12"ers and LPs. When I pop my cloggs, then (& only then) will she have any idea which ones to take to a specialist dealer and which ones to take to the charity shop. Of course, she could just be planning to run away with the milkman & want to know which 500+ records to have it away with !!!

He ran the Now (the O’Jays, Masqueraders) and Energy labels (the Valentine Brothers), so can't be all that bad.

Two of Motown's best female groups on together at the Apollo in Harlem in 1966 (?) ........

Met Gloria Miller down in Corfe Castle about 18 months ago. She was performing as the singer with a guy who plays keyboards in a pub in the village. She put on a great show & I chatted with her for a while afterwards. The group must be good if they had the sense to name themselves after Curtis (M).

A link to info on his passing ........... https://sandrarose.com/2013/07/r-i-p-charles-pope/

Anyone here got copies of rare old soul show posters. In our first house (after I married), I made the mistake of pasting up some posters from the Mojo Club (Sheffield) that I had 'liberated' at a few of the club's final live act shows back in the 60's. I put them up inside a built-in wardrobe in our bedroom but of course, when we sold the house, I had to leave the posters behind. In addition to UK club posters, there are also 100's of great US soul show posters, many printed up by the likes of Globe Posters in Baltimore back then. Venues would commission such posters but many times the acts themselves would have 'standard' posters made up, justleaving the actual venue details off. When they were to it a town for a live show, these posters (with the venue / date details hand writtenin, would be fly-posted around the area. Then, when the psychedelic era kicked in, loads of arty looking posters were produced, some being for soul acts such as Sly & the Family Stone & the Parliaments. So anyone got paper or electronic copies of really interesting soul act posters from back in the day? I'll post one up for a show that never actually took place ..... on December 9th 1967 Otis Redding was in Cleveland for a live show and a TV appearance ........... see here .......... https://rockhall.com/blog/post/7045_otis-reddings-last-day-in-Cleveland/ Late that night, Otis & some members of his band boarded a plane to head for their next engagement at the Factory Club in Madison. They never made it as the plane came down in a lake near their destination. The posters for that show had been produced & hung around town though.

This bio on the group that is up on the net states that the Highlighters first recording was "" in 1969 .......... Formed at Indianapolis' Crispus Attucks High School in 1963, the original lineup of saxophonist Cliff Palmer, trumpeter Clifford Ratliff, organist Richard "Boola" Ball, bassist Richard Corbin, and drummer James "Porkchop" Edwards drew their initial inspiration from modern jazz, but quickly evolved into an R&B outfit. Managed by Herb Miller, owner of the Indianapolis record store Good Vibrations, the group regularly shared bills with local girl group the Tri-Dells, but just as their career began taking off, military duties forced the Highlighters to go on hiatus in 1966. Upon returning stateside in mid-1968, only Palmer and Ball expressed an interest in reuniting the group, so guitarist James Brantley, bassist James Boone, and drummer Dewayne Garvin (a former military drummer whose uniquely syncopated style proved essential to the band's distinctive approach) were recruited to form a revamped roster. While visiting a local hotel lounge, Brantley chanced upon vocalist James Bell, and with his addition the classic Highlighters lineup was complete. In the spring of 1969, WTLC DJ Paul Major issued the band's debut single, "Poppin' Popcorn" on his Rojam label That would mean that they definitely didn't cut "Chittlin Pot" in 1966/67. The Indianapolis outfit weren't playing together in 1966 & 1967 anyway.

The above track is up on the last.fm site ...... there it says ....... When the Highlighters first started playing together in the early ’60s, they didn’t have James Bell on vocals or Dewayne Garvin on drums. They were just another jazz group gigging in the back room after band practice at Crispus Attucks High School. It wasn’t long before the group decided to call themselves the Highlighters. “Our name came about because Clifford Ratliff had a couple of older brothers. They used to go out and party and in those days they used to call it highlighting,” says saxophonist Clifford Palmer Jr. Those Highlighters were from Indianapolis which is almost 600 miles from Baltimore. So I still doubt that it was James Wells' Highlighters that did those gigs at the Zebra Room in summer 1967. But stranger things have happened.

More vintage Melba .............. she had a TV show (with Clifton Davis) back in 1972 .......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZzKklSAQHo Clifton wrote songs for Motown and he also wrote 2 songs she cut for her 1971 Mercury album (the likes of Jimmy Wisner, Bert DeCoteaux & Tom Bell worked with her on that project).

Melba (along with La La Brooks of the Crystals) singing together on this clip from the 1969 version of Hair .......... ......... Melba & La La are dueting "What a Piece of Work Man Is" ....... check it out at 4 mins 25 secs for a close-up shot) .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGx7IBn7HCM

Nita looks after that side of things for me, I'm so far gone these days, I can't even remember where I live.