Roburt

. I never dance to anything that's not OVO ........ Norman Soultrousers at Kings Hall Niter.

In 1981, Moses Dillard & Jesse Boyce were producing C M Lord for Montage (her LP tracks were big plays for Mr. Searling back in the 80's), In 71, Jesse Boyce was still down in Miami working with a guy out of Jesse (Lee) Ferguson's group ............ ........ Jesse has a long & distinguished CV ....... He was a top session musician at various studios -- he was at Papa Don's Pensacola (Florida) studio from 1968-1970. A member of the Fame Gang studio band at Fame in Muscle Shoals in 1973 ... and one of the top rated (& utilised) session musicians working in Nashville studios from 1972 to 1985. In addition to all that (& the stuff I listed above), from 1973 to 76 he was leader of Bottom & Co (he still has a web site if anyone's interested in learning more).

By June / July 68 Moses was definitely down in Florida with Papa Don .... after having been in Muscle Shoals some months before that ... Moses must have started cutting his own tracks with Jesse Boyce (Joshua Dillard) around September 67 ... where were those cut (MS I think) ....

But where did they record in 67 ?? I'm sure 67 was when Moses had teamed up with Otis Redding and was down in Muscle Shoals working on Arthur Conley tracks. It was at Fame that Moses teamed up with Fame studio musician Jesse Boyce (aka Joshua Dillard). By 68, Moses had teamed up with Papa Don & was down in Florida.

Perhaps the Dynamic Showmen date from before Moses D was working in the Muscle Shoals / Fame studios .......... .. .. where's a Fame expert when you need one ?!?!?!

Well the Fame studio guys were Spooners Crowd ("2 in the Morning") and so I guess those guys could easly have made up the numbers in the Dynamic Showmen as well. Didn't Moses D work with Papa Don Schroader as well back then .......... which musicians did Papa Don use on his studio sesssions ?

Us Dony lads used to go up to Leeds on a Saturday to buy clothes in the mid 60's (Cecil Gee's & the like I seem to recall). When we got finished shopping for clothes & records early, we would sometimes go to the Saturday afternoon session at the Spinning Disc (it was in an old Victorian arcade I seem to remember) Didn't Jimmy Saville DJ at the place earlier in the 60's. The wife recently talked to her older brother about Saville. He told her that in the very early 60's some lads from Hull would go to Leeds for the Saturday night & end up having to stop there all night (in clubs till the early hours & then hanging about for an early train home to Hull on the Sunday). Saville DJed at some places they went . As they were all young (16-ish), a bouncer they got talking to, told em to keep well clear of Saville. So by all accounts he was 'up to his tricks' as early as that.

They pre dated his Moses & Joshua recordings ( around 1964). About that time he was employed on sessions as a studio musician in Muscle Shoals (Fame, etc.). Wasn't he really James Moore who was responsible for the Sons of Moses stuff a bit later on. I'd guess the Ace / Kent guys who have been working on the Fame reissues should know more about him & maybe about the 'Dynamic Showmen' (might they have been some Shoals recording studio guys ?).

Moses & Joshua's big US & UK 45 back in Nov 67 .....

More on what Moses was up to in 1970 (he relocated from SC to Atlanta for a time to work with Rod Kinder ) ...............

Moses back in the 60's was part of Moses & Joshua Dillard who had big soul 45's on Amy / Mala / Bell. In 1972 he had a duet out on Shout with Martha Starr. Also in the 70's he led the Tex-Town Review in Sth Carolina that included Peabo Bryson in their line-up. Next came Moses Dillard & LoveJoy on 1-2-3 Records (1975). In 78 he was Bill Brandon's manager & supervised his Piedmont tracks ("Streets Got My Lady" etc.). In 79 he was hooked up with Prelude, working with Jesse Boyce (Saturday Night Band. Constellation Orchestra, Lorraine Johnson). After that he got more into the admin side of things and helped run the Nashville Music Assocs Black Music Committee for a while. In the 80's he was running his own Dillard Music Pub (based in Nashville) plus recording & performing with Jesse Boyce.

Yep, you must be right ......................

I know it was 50 years ago ... but did anyone here (or their parents) go to see the 1962 tour package 'The Rock 'n' Twist - USA' It starred Johnny Burnette, Gary U.S. Bonds and Gene McDaniels. The tour began on April 21st with a show at St. Andrews Hall, Glasgow. It then did 6 / 7 different venues each week through to the final show on May 13th when the tour closed at the Walthamstow Granada (cinema) in London. Along the way it had taken in towns such as Mansfield (the Granada Cinema, Saturday May 5th) .... So that meant Gene did around 20 UK shows that year ..... and yet I can't recall much ever being written about any of them. He was 'hot' at the time (back in the US & Canada) for tunes like "100 Pounds of Clay" & "Tower of Stregth" (he would have "Point of No Return" released after his return to the US).

A Hi 45 from Barbados .......... don't think this was pressed up in any quantity (if at all) back in the US ....

Solomon Burke -- a French EP .....

A south east Asian EP ..... various soul artists ........

A Stax track .... put out on an Indian Dot 45 ...

Another one ......... various artists this time ....

A Brazilian EP ...........

The Sweet didn't register much in US music news ... But the British Walkers did ...

It seems that Marie was signed to a record deal in 1949 by The Major Distributing Company (New York). Billboard notes that she was due to have a release on their Lee label in December 1949. However I don't believe she ever had anything out on the label and tracks she cut in 1949 eventually escaped (in the 80's) on an MCA album that attributed the cuts to Decca Records. A group that did have releases on Lee Records were the Shadows. Ed Levy (of Major Distributing) was the group's manager & he seems to have created Lee Records to have a label to release their records on. By a strange co-incidence both Marie Knight & the Shadows were both having releases on Decca by 1953; though the Shadows had got their deal with the company via Paul Kapp (brother of Dave who started Kapp Records).

Seems he started another label in January 1954 ................. Pax Records was formed in Union City. N. J. -- label execs were Dante Bollettino and Al Zimel. The firm specialized in putting out 'hot and cool jazz' .... no doubt he got the name by just shortening PAradoX ......

RE: Paradox industries which formed in New York under a man named Dante Bollettino. He seems to have set up Paradox Records in 1949 ......... MARIE KNIGHT also gets a mention in this piece, though I don't believe she ever had anything released on Lee ... ........ .. about the same time that Dante opened Paradox, Don Robey got started .... the two guys must have both decided early on that they wouldn't steer a straight course !!

It a Euro issue (Belgium or the like) that was released when his "Reet Petite" got back in the UK charts in the 90's.

Eula letting rip on the main show .............