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Another sought after 45 from guys out of the team that cut the Troy Dodds tracks .......... This (demo) 45 features Walter Hawkins (Edwin's brother) & his sisters. It wouldn't be a bad guess that the El Camino cuts were also laid down at Studio 10 in SanFran.

The HBR 45 (the one with & without the mis-press) ........... he only had 2 x 45 releases on the label (+ the mis-press version of this un) ............ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkSvRKcc_1M

The US 45 version .............

Yep, numerous different Jamaican Stax 45 label colours exist ............ here's just a few ............ https://www.45cat.com/label/stax-jm

Probably a multitude of reasons. The uva side of this Sam & Dave 45 ("It Was So Nice While It Lasted" -- US) 1st gets a mention in Billboard mag in March 1963 when it is noted that Roulette's Bud Katzell had cut the song on the duo -- BTW till their 1st 45 release in 62 they were still known (for all their live gigs) as Sam Moore & Dave Prater ...... The track was released again in March 66 but with a different tuva side ("It Feels So Nice") and not "You Ain't No Big Thing Baby". "You Ain't No Big Thing Baby" escaped in the UK (on King 45 + LP) in 1966 .......... both the 2nd US 45 & the UK 45 being put out to 'cash in' on the duo's Atlantic / Stax success. My guess is that the tracks they had cut for Roulette in 62/63 were remixed for their 1966 outings, to make them sound more like the duo's Stax tracks. The uva side of the UK King 45 -- "No More Pain" -- was the duo's 1st release on Roulette in 62.

..... and if you don't know the cut ............... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeBs_zfsLLE

The 45 itself .............

This Guess Records 45 has been getting plays for some years now ......... So I thought I'd get in touch with Ishola to ask him what inspired him to make the track. ........ I got this reply ............ I got the idea of trying to make "Open Up Your Heart" sound like a live recording from Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" which, incidentally, is one of my all time favorite recordings. At the time I did the track (my first recording) I was only performing live occasionally, with a couple of jazz acts. During that period, I had been in and out of the Air Force and had re-enrolled in college. Ishola also sent me the piece attached below ............

..... AND ......... a piece from the New York Times on the Andantes ......... https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/04/04/arts/ap-us-music-motowns-unsung-singers.html?ref=arts&_r=0

A 6 page long piece from Vanity Fair (mag) that mainly consists of quotes by people involved with Motown back in the day ..... https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/motown200812

Recently Melba has been doing gospel shows in the US (I believe she's also working on her biography at present). She's doing a gospel show just outside Albany (New York State) in a fortnights time ....

Dusty does Motown .............. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWxRtFlvOZo

Anuva Dusty gudun ........... here she does Garnett M .............

Back to the Wreck Bar once again ............ I wonder if Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose actually started out as Cornelius (Cornileus even) Brothers & Baby Rose ... ........ or if the type setter just made a major error ............

Mr. Biryani, it may not be quite right (I presume you're talkin bout the info on SirShambling) but its no good telling me .. ...... you have to tell John Ridley. BUT pray tell us why there were so many weird Wand happenings such as this (Wand licensed tracks not appearing at all or only in limited quantities) ...... then we can save some money on the book !!! BTW, I posted up a scan of the Wand 45 in the opening entry of this thread, so I know it exists (just have never seen one 'in the flesh').

You got it all wrong, his surname is spelt .... Giryani or Biryiani .... or sumat like that ........ Its found it easier in the early 80's just to call him Steve G (or alternatively Mr. Wand) and that has always seemed to work.

Copies of it are also floating about on Soultown ......... .. guess these are later bootlegs (when do they date from ?)

Earl's club biggie ............ So was there actually a dance called the Humphrey Stomp ..... I guess so.

The great SirShambling web site has posted up some new pages and one of them is on Earl Harrison ...... .... https://www.sirshambling.com/artists_2012/H/earl_harrison/index.php I never realised that "Humphrey Stomp / Can You Forgive" was the guys only release ............ ... even though it came out on 3 US & 1 UK legit labels . ... PLUS ... was one of the 1st British soul bootleg 45s. A UK 45 release on the London label back in the day, "Humphrey Stomp" quickly became a top UK mod / soul club anthem. The track was a big allniter play from 1967 onwards. The track was such a club anthem that when copies of the 45 on UK London 'dried up' (& imports were still hard to get here in 1970), the record became one of the 1st ever UK soul 45 bootlegs when put out on the SOUL SOUNDS label. A great double sider that has stood the test of time well. Is much of anything known about Earl ??

Don't know why they can't have acts like these on at the Children's Centre near me ...............

Just goes to show then. A few copies must have found there way over here in the last 20 years or so.

I know that the Soul Machine 45 is rare. I guess most copies were sold in Baltimore back around 1966/67 and then disappeared into collections / were lost / thrown out. So the few copies that are in the collections of US / UK soul 45 collectors must be minimal. Anyone on here own a copy of the 45 ? RELATED INFO ....... When Denny (Picasso -- the lead singer on these cuts) joined the Hitchhikers they were an all white group (there's a young Balt pop trio who have tracks posted up on youtube who go by the same name and I'd guess that they are the same outfit prior to Denny joining them). The group (with Denny) appeared on a music TV show in Baltimore in 67 and were appointed as the house band at a local black club --- the Black Jack. Kenny joined them after Denny quit & took over as their lead singer on dates at the Black Jack. As guys dropped out of the group, he got old musician friends (black guys) to replace the leavers. One such guy was James Gilyard who had led the Shyndels (the outfit who backed up a lot of artists on Ru-Jac recordings). James was an old hand & good arranger. He soon took over leadership of the Hitchhikers.

With the current thread on soul dances, I thought I'd ask some questions about the above 2 tracks. Cliff Nobles & Co cut vocal & instrumental tracks (with producer Jesse James) for Phil LA of Soul back in 1968. The instro version ("The Horse") of Cliff's vocal track became a big hit after a radio DJ flipped the 45. That hit prompted tracks to be cut for an album, the album featuring both vocal & instro cuts. One of the tracks on the LP (a 1968 release) was the instro "The Camel" ...... ... no doubt the dance was just supposed to be a variation on "The Horse". Anyway, in 1969 "The Camel" was lifted from the LP and put out on a Phil LA of Soul 45 (C/W "Gettin Away" -- another instro). Whatever the reason (perhaps Phil LA were experiencing problems getting airplay on the Cliff Nobles & Co version), Jesse decided he wanted to put out a vocal version of the cut. He 'borrowed' Kenny Hamber from Jimmy Bishop's Arctic Records and took Kenny straight into a Philly studio.There Kenny added his vocals to the original instro track and a single was quickly issued on Mean Records (the B side of this 45 again featuring the instro take on "The Camel"). It's noted on the net that Kenny's version features his usual live backing band -- Baltimore based the Hitchhikers -- but that info is totally false. ....... QUESTIONS ........ 1/ Anyone know why Jesse didn't just get Cliff Nobles to add a vocal to the instro track ? (I know Cliff was pissed coz the records bore his name but his vocals weren't featured on any of the hit sides). 2/ Anyone know why Jesse chose to put out the Kenny Hamber version on Mean Records ... Was Phil LA of Soul having difficulties at the time -- mid 69. 3/ Are there any other releases on the Mean label ? 4/ Why does this Mean 45 seem to be rare (though there are both demo & issue versions of it out there) ? 5/ Why have two 45's out there at almost the exact same time that featured the same track ("The Camel" instro) especially as it had also been put out a year earlier on an album ? 6/ DANCE RELATED Q ..... is there actual footage out there (youtube?) of people actually doing 'The Horse' dance ??

An article about a US documentary on radio DJ's and the influence they had back in the day .... in Richmond, Va .... https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/i-know-you-got-soul/Content?oid=1590226