Everything posted by Roburt
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Holy Spirit - Spiritual Soul and Gospel Funk From Shreveport's Jewel Label
Ian, what will the RRP (if there is such a thing anymore) for this 2fer CD (Amazon charged me £11 for it) ??
- News: William Bell - (Artist Of The Week)
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Holy Spirit - Spiritual Soul and Gospel Funk From Shreveport's Jewel Label
Can't wait for it to come out now .... hopefully as I ordered my copy ages ago, I'll get it on Day 1.
- News: William Bell - (Artist Of The Week)
- News: William Bell - (Artist Of The Week)
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Holy Spirit - Spiritual Soul and Gospel Funk From Shreveport's Jewel Label
Bugga, I bought a copy of the CD on Amazon earlier today & only just noticed that I have to wait about 3 weeks before I get my copy !!
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Holy Spirit - Spiritual Soul and Gospel Funk From Shreveport's Jewel Label
....... RE: We could have done with that for the booklet Roburt! Ian, You only had to ask & a decent definition copy would have been yours. I 'collect' stuff like that and at present am assisting Emily Gibson of the Black Archives in Miami stage a show about the entertainment scene in Overtown (Colored Town), Miami back in the 1950's / 60's / 70's.
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Holy Spirit - Spiritual Soul and Gospel Funk From Shreveport's Jewel Label
Wow, some great tracks on this 2fer , off to buy a copy on Amazon as soon as I've posted this. Hope it sells well enough for a Vol.2 ...... as there's still many great tracks to fit onto CD .... ........ How about these ......... The Violinaires -- "Doing My Thing" OR "Condition" Brooklyn All Stars -- "We Need God" OR "Storehouse of His Love" Willie Morganfield -- "Are You Satisfied" OR "You Are Blessed" Bronner Brothers -- "Hold On To God's Unchanging Hand" .. PLUS ..... an added task ahead ........... I have the Morning Echoes of Detroit 45 track "How Do You Stand" but this is only 2min 40secs long. The 'singing bits' are great but too much of the 45 version is taken up with talking (rapping). There must be a longer version on tape with more & longer singing sections. Your mission (if you take it) is to find , mix & release that version !!
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Holy Spirit - Spiritual Soul and Gospel Funk From Shreveport's Jewel Label
Stan's home base .......... He specialized in BLACK GOSPEL !!!!!
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William Bell live at the 6TS Cleethorpes Weekender 15th-17th June 2012
RE: Glenn Hunter would have been impressed ...... Cleggy & Prestatyn (now also sadly gone) will never seem right without Glenn being there. RIP old mate.
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Chuck Brown Rip
Leader of the Soul Searchers back in the early 70's and DC Go Go star Chuck Brown has passed away. http://www.washingto...6zUU_story.html http://www.washingto...GGxT_story.html added by site Affectionately known as the Godfather of Go Go, Chuck Brown created the Go Go sound. He combined Latin beats, African call and response chants and American Jazz, throwing in a touch of soul with a continuous drumbeat. This nonstop dance music is and has been a trademark of original creative music from the nations capital, Washington, D.C., and has gained Chuck Brown worldwide fans. Chuck Brown began his musical career in the early 60s. His first stage experience was with Jerry Butler and the Earls of Rhythm. Then in 1965, he joined Los Latinos, whose syncopated backbeat enthralled him. This experience gave Chuck the confidence to get out on his own, incorporating all these styles into his band and introducing a sound unlike anything available at that time. I got sick and tired of watching people sitting around, Chuck says Disco was too fast-people didnt want to get all sweaty, and they just sat down. So we cut the beat in half. Chuck called this new sound Go Go, because it never stops. Chuck Brown exploded onto the scene in 1971 with his first hit We The People. In 1972 he scored again, with the hit Blow Your Whistle. This was followed by the gold album Bustin Loose and the ..1 hit single of the same name on MCA/Source Records. full bio can be read via http://www.myspace.com/chuckbrowndc
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Chuck Brown Rip
Another early Soul Searchers collectable 45 ....... their take on JB's "There Was A Time" .......
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Chuck Brown Rip
BTW, Chuck Brown and this group has nothing to do with Jake Wade & the Soul Searchers who were from the Michigan area.
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Chuck Brown Rip
An early Soul Searchers funk track ........
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Chuck Brown Rip
More info on the influence an early Soul Searchers track had on the later US music scene ..... https://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/the-soul-searchers-ashleys-roachclip/
- News: Jimmy Ricks
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Jimmy Ricks
Jimmy Ricks was born in Adrian, Georgia before his family relocated to Florida. During World War 2, he moved to New York where he worked as a waiter at the 400 Tavern in Harlem (148th Street & St. Nicholas Ave). Whilst there, he met Warren 'Birdland' Suttles who originally hailed from Alabama. In early 1946, they decided to form a vocal group and recruited Leonard "Zeke" Puzey (who had just won a talent contest at the Apollo Theater) and 'Ollie' Jones. They found a manager, Ben Bart, and an accompanist, Howard Biggs, and made their first recordings for Bart's small Hub record label. They called themselves the Ravens and so initiated the trend for vocal groups to name themselves after birds. Although the group were strongly influenced by the Ink Spots & the Mills Bros, they used Ricks' bass voice rather than a more conventional tenor as the lead on their recordings and this became their trademark style. The Ravens primarily existed to showcase Ricks voice; he made Isaac Hayes sound like Betty Boop. Ricks' voice became the standard against which every rhythm and blues bass was measured for the next decade. The group had quite a few big chart hits, making it onto the national R&B chart 11 times over a 4 year period (1948 to 1952). This success made them a popular live act and they could command a fee of $2,000 dollars a night. However, Ricks quickly developed an attitude problem and his ego resulted in Howard Biggs quitting. After their initial single, "Honey", Jones had left the group and was replaced by Maithe Marshall. The contrast between Ricks' bass voice and Marshall's tenor soon became an important part of the group's success. They left the Hub label in 1947 to join National Records for whom they had immediate hits (the 1st one making the national chart early in January 1948). Their success with National prompted King to license some of their old Hub tracks for release and one of these even made the US Top 10 in summer 1948. Also that year they were landing gigs at prestigious venues such as the Adams Theater in Newark, NJ, Chicago's Regal Theater, the Million Dollar Theater in LA and a two week long stint at the Club Bali in Washington, DC. 1949 saw them play the Apollo a number of times plus the Paradise Theater in Detroit, the Royal Roost in NY (47th & Broadway), L.A.'s Club Oasis, the Earle Theater in Philly and Broadway's Bop City (Manhattan). Their run of R&B successes continued through to early 1950, with the basic line-up of Ricks, Suttles, Puzey, and Marshall essentially remaining together for several years. The group signed with Columbia & Okeh Records in 1950, before moving to Mercury the following year. In 1951 Marshall and Puzey both left, being replaced by Joe Van Loan and various other shorter-term group members. The group had its final hit on the R&B chart in October / November 1952, when "Rock Me All Night Long" rose to No. 4 (the highest position one of the group's 45's had ever reached). Unfortunately it was to be their last chart entry and in 1953 some of the recordings released as by the group were actually solo efforts by Jimmy. But with the rise of R&R, their style had became increasingly unfashionable. After several break ups within the group, Jimmy's version of the Ravens signed with Jubilee in 1955. But he soon quit the group to try for a solo career (1956). Jimmy must still have been something of a 'handful' to deal with and this showed as he was signed to 6 different labels before the end of the decade (Josie, Baton in 1957, Decca & Felsted being some of these). He was without a record deal in 1958 but was signed up by Felsted Records in 1959. Felsted Records was part of the Decca family and operated out of the New York office of London Records. They were very prolific with their releases in 1959, putting out 96 singles and about 3 LP's (one of these by the Jimmy Wisner Trio). Jimmy's first release for the label was "Secret Love" and this escaped early that summer. His new record label must have put some promotional effort behind this 45 as it seemed to do quite well (radio play wise) in the 'breakout' market of Baltimore. Here it seems to have been a popular track on radio stations WSID and WITH and this helped Jimmy secure two bookings at the top 'chitlin circuit' venue of Carr's Beach (near Annapolis) in September that year. He appeared on a bill with Hank Ballard & the Midnighters plus Faye Adams on Sunday 6th September and returned alongside the Bill Doggett Trio the following day. Jimmy continued to record as a solo singer without too much commercial success throughout the 1960's. He had records out on Atlantic, Atco ("Daddy Rolling Stone" with the Raves), Fury, Felsted Records (an earlier recording ?), Mainstream, Sure Shot, Festival ("Oh, What A Feeling") & Jubilee. Having lost his solo recording contract by 1970, he and Suttles got back together and temporarily revived the Ravens (adding additional members Gregory Carroll & Jimmy Breedlove) in 1971. At the time of his death, at the age of 49 in 1974, he was the vocalist for the Count Basie Orchestra.
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Duck Dunn Rip
Seems that Dunn passed away this morning after a Booker T & MG's gig in Tokyo .... we have lost another great soul musician .... added by site Musician Donald "Duck" Dunn, the pioneering bass player whose grooves drove Booker T and the MGs and hits including Otis Redding's Respect has died in Tokyo, age 70. Dunn was in Tokyo for a series of shows. News of his death was posted on the Facebook site of his friend and fellow musician Steve Cropper, who was on the same tour. Cropper said Dunn died in his sleep. "Today I lost my best friend, the world has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live," wrote Crooper. Miho Harasawa, a spokeswoman for Tokyo Blue Note, the last venue Dunn played, confirmed he died alone early Sunday. She had no further details. read rest of news article here http://www.guardian....o?newsfeed=true official website http://www.duckdunn.com/index.html
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John Rhys - Co-Writer Of Time Will Pass You By
Used to go to nights at the Jungle Club (on harbor slip road) in Brid with the Hull crowd in 1967. .... then lived in Brid from 76 to 79 but wasn't 'on the scene' during those years (more into 70's soul & never took to Wigan stompers). So never went to Fingers (in fact -- unless it was near to the Woolies store in town, can't even remember the place). Used to attend the odd NS nite at Eggboro (or Drax) Power Stn Club though; dragged along by Paul Temple who used to visit us in Brid to plunder my 45 & LP collections.
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John Rhys - Co-Writer Of Time Will Pass You By
During the Wheel's allniter years of 67 / 68 / 69 / 70, the 'management' wanted punters out of place quite quickly at the end of the session ..... when the double doors were flung open, they wanted people to file out asap ..... I was there at the end on many such a night but can't recall what track/s were played but I'm sure it wasn't usually a dancer (otherwise those still with energy wouldn't have left the dancefloors). BB's "Call On Me" was a big Wheel (& personal) favorite but I can't recall if it was played at the end of the session on most / many ocassions. Someone here must recall what the last track played at many of the Wheel niters was.
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John Rhys - Co-Writer Of Time Will Pass You By
Been discussed on another thread recently ... BUT the Mojo ender (back in 66 / 67) was split between .... Artistics "I'm Gonna Miss You" (also said to have been last ever record played at Mojo b4 it closed) ..... OR ...... Billy Stewart "Exodus".
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John Rhys - Co-Writer Of Time Will Pass You By
Dave Godin at Soul City had many many copies (just about all issues) of the US 45 within days of its US release. No idea if Bell sent him them with a view to him releasing it on Soul City but he definitely had a few 20 x boxs of the 45. On every ocassion that I & my mates travelled down from the north to visit the Soul City shop, he would try to sell us all a copy. Just about all of us had bought a copy on our initial visit & so kept turning down the chance to buy a 2nd issue copy for around 12/- (60 p). ..... Obviously we made a sound financial decision at the time !!!!! We all knew that a spare US issue copy would never really be of any use to us & we didn't bother to invest in one.
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John Rhys - Co-Writer Of Time Will Pass You By
Great detective work with pleasing results.
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William Bell live at the 6TS Cleethorpes Weekender 15th-17th June 2012
Ady, You are a top true soul man .... but you do push 60's to the fore at every opportunity !! .... there are some of us that still like the sounds that got us into soul in the 1st place .. .... ... but we've also moved on to love 70's, 80's, 90's & even Y2K stuff.
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William Bell live at the 6TS Cleethorpes Weekender 15th-17th June 2012
Great news ..... in fact it's "Headline News". Hope Ady ignores his usual prejudices and lets William sing some of his MS gems ("Tryin To Love Two" instantly springs to mind).