Roburt

You left the Mojo allniter biggie ("Ooh, Baby, You Turn Me On" ) off the Willie Mitchell CD !!! ......... otherwise they all seem pretty perfect !!

RE: Webs 45 featured in the above post ....... Was there any reasoning why a particular 45 would be issued on Riverside rather than Pop-side by the mid 60's ?? (the Webs on Pop-side; Lou Courtey on Riverside) .. ... and is it known where the Webs tracks were cut ? I know some of Lou Courtney's stuff was laid down at Gloria Toote's Town Sound Studios in Englewood, NJ but have no idea on the Webs recordings.

Some from December 67 now ..........

Yet another Clover Records acetate; this time the track is by Joe Castro himself ............

R&B singer Kitty White (who had earlier cut for Mercury) was another artist signed to the label ........

The Demons track initially appeared on an RCA acetate ........

Clover Records was a vanity label that had loads of money put into it by LA based heiress Doris Duke (not the soul singer, though this Doris Duke did perform in a black gospel choir for a while ... even though she was white !!). Anyway, this Doris Duke lived in a mansion in Beverly Hills and around 1960 took up with jazz piano man Joe Castro. Probably at his prompting, she bought $1000's of recording equipment and had it installed above the garage at her mansion. Castro organised loads of jam sessions at the place & recordings were made on a regular basis. By the mid 60's, Castro wanted to have some new recordings released and so Clover Records was set up mainly for this purpose (though other artists were quickly signed to the label). National distribution was arranged and big trade ads taken out. Other acts were signed, tracks cut and 45's released. One of these 45's was the Demons "Going To The Dance", a R&B style track that sounds earlier than its mid 1966 date of issue. Anyone know much of anything about the group ?? However Duke & Castro's relationship was breaking down & maybe the amount of money going into this label also put additional strain on their romance. Whatever the reason, the couple split and the label was gone almost overnight.

You keep getting plugs for the book into threads I start Dave; maybe I should be on a % ... ........perhaps I can be a 50% owner (like Dick Clark at Swan). ..... BTW, what's the book called again ????

Profile on Bill Moss (who ran / owned Capsoul) ........

Did the likes of Eddie O'Jay or Frankie Crocker ever own / run a label ?? They were greatly involved with groups & record labels; but did they ever actually have their own record companies ?

Some DJ tips from 1965 that no doubt quickly turned into regional breakouts ...... Dixie Drifter's Roulette 45 was getting a push in various different areas & the airplay it got obviously worked ..... .... as the 45 (by WWRL DJ Enoch Gregory) made it onto the US R&B chart for a 9 week period commencing at the end of August that year Enoch Gregory passed away in 2000 at the age of 63. The Dixie Drifter was one of New York's great soul DJ's in the 60s & 70s (on WNJR and WWRL). He got his nickname from his birthplace of Hertford, N.C. "I'm the Dixie Drifter, the soul sifter" was one of Gregory's on-air raps. "I comes when I wants to and I leaves when I pleases." He used to end his radio show by saying, "Walk tall and stay loose."

Robb, John Richbourg was a very obvious one that I didn't list ....... BUT I did get Magnificent Montague (though I was thinking of his Miko label).

Many many radio DJ's ran / owned their own record labels -- Jimmy Bishop, LeBaron Taylor. Magnificent Montague, Skipper Lee Frazier, Lucky Cordell, Sly Stone, Bill 'Sparky' Evans, Al Perkins, E Rodney Jones, Al Bell, etc. Another guy who ran his own label (after he relocated to Columbus) was William Moss ... .... back in 1963 he was working in Miami for radio station WMBM (see stn poster below) ....... Has a definitive list of all the soul radio DJ's who ran labels (& the label names) ever been made ??

This listing isn't of 'regional breakout' albums but of LP's 'bubbling under' the US national album's chart .......... Must say the entry for EVD's LP shocks me as most US Motown fans I have spoken to down the years tell me they were never aware (due to lack of promotion) of any EVD 45 & LP releases back in the day. If this LP almost made the R&B LP charts in 65, tracks off it must have got some radio airplay and it must have sold a decent number of copies.

The guy obviously thought that Bobby was just 'doing it by the numbers' when he sang; both on record & to some degree when live. I guess he is correct in that Bobby was never one to lose control during a song (as most gospel trained singers do). When many other singers would take the intensity level up a notch, Bobby would ease back down in his level of vocal passion. Certainly Bobby's tracks changed when Robey / Duke sold out & ABC got their hands on him. This guy doesn't seem to like Bland's early ABC albums; they are way different to his Duke recordings but I have always liked them. Guess, as is displayed on many threads on here, everyone's opinion of what makes a good cut is different.

Never gave too much thought to B'B'B's singing style .... got turned on to "Call On Me" (& it's B side) back in the mid 60's and have liked him ever since. ....... but the guy who wrote this article for a US 'white' music paper back in 1975 certainly had his own view on Bobby's way of delivering a song .....

A young kid (from LA ?) whose 45's have seen some action on the NS scene .........

Jumped forward to 1975 now ...........

Of course Chess could always get their records played in Chicago as the label (or its owners) had their own radio station .... The Springers & Midnighters 45 on this list were local outings, so no real mystery why they were tipped here .... .... but some eclectic stuff was featuring in Detroit back in February 65 ..........

I believe that by the 60's (coz of all the payola prosecutions), label bosses were being a bit more sutble. They were directly employing radio DJ's as regional promo guys or sales dept. guys (or both), rather than just slipping them money to play their company's records ..... I know that top Nashville DJ Bill 'Hoss' Allen (WLAC) left the station in 1960 to work for Chess Records. But he was back at WLAC by 1963 & was hosting 'The Beat' TV show not too long afterwards ....... ......... then there was the likes of Bob Garner of KYOK in Houston ......

Up to Cleveland again for this one (which dates from 64) ...

I could see the Soul Survivors & Vanilla Fudge working on the same bill ..... ..... or Vanilla Fudge and the Mothers of Invention .......... ........ but not all three groups on the same show ........ (mind you, the M of Invention did start out as R&B & doo wop group; the Soul Giants) This show was actually staged in Philly but both Vanilla Fudge & the Mothers were NY based during that period.

An ad that links Miami & New York now .......... By all accounts, Rum Bottoms was an innovator in the disco field .... ..... and it was owned & run by the guys in the group Calhoon .... acts like the Miracles, Ecstasy, Passion & Pain, the Trammps, Gloria Gaynor, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes appeared at the place ..... It was hot for almost two years but went bust in late 76, when it was bought and reopened as the Limelight.

Princess Selene Pub. is based out of New York (107 E 10th St) and the 2 songs on this 45 are the only ones registered in Ronnie West's name. .... unless he also wrote as Ronnie Bernard West .......... who's songs are registered with outfits based in Gordon, GA & Milledgeville, GA.

Heck he's doing well -- nearly 84 years old, still going strong & playing live dates. ............. IMPRESSED