Roburt

Info on the group back in the day .... https://books.google....ghtower&f=false With the Orlons, she sang backing on lots of Dee Dee Sharp recording sessions. Rosetta quit the group & moved to the UK in the late 60's. She became a top studio session singer as well as recording in her own right. She sang on recordings made by the likes of John Lennon & Joe Cockup. Today, she still lives in London biut I don't think she's performed in years.

I think this is the club that Oliver was running .... https://www.stax-club.com/xy.html

That clip is just the trailer ...... .. here's the real thing ....

French youtube piece that is Oliver Cheatham related ....

I met Oliver in the mid 80's & spent the day with him, he's a very friendly guy. The day ended in him performing live in a Scottish club & he was good. He lives (lived ?) in a town in central France and runs a club there. A mate of mine had a place a few miles away & we went to stay there for 4/5 days about 2 years back but didn't have the time to visit the club.

Oliver Cheatham (of Gaslight, Roundtrip, Oliver) was in the Young Sirs. He also sang lead on Mad Dog & the Pups tracks (though he wasn't actually in the group).

Dave Moore probably already has ... as part of his book project.

Made at RCA Recording studio ...........

Tom Jones .... New York City ....

Another 'guy of interest' played shows at the Swinger Dating Bar in 1973 .........

A Motown package hits NY .....

Steve, if you were asking about the solo show featuring Barry Smith at the Swinger Dating Bar on Miami Beach .... ... that was staged in July 1973 (long after Patti had exited his world I think) .... I .... THINK ..... Kurtis May & the Gang were a white outfit that were backing him up on the shows (there's still a Kurtis May on the Miami music scene and he looks to have 'aged' as well as most of us .... well, he certainly looks as though he enjoys his food !!) ...

Steve, the article I included in my 'montage' is dated July 71 ......... from Evening News, Newburgh, NY .... https://news.google.c...pg=5126,4935112 There's other very similar ones from around the same time. An article was featured in the Robesonian (July 25th, 71) and in the San Mateo Times (Aug 3rd, 71) ....... Mateo Tuesday August 3 1971 Young Singer Wins Plaudits in Musical Purlie Production Patti Jo the female lead of the musical had seen one Broadway show in her life before she went on the way stage herself That show was Purlie She had gone to it after she'd been hired as a replacement for Melba Moore to see how it went Miss Moore had grown restive in a show about black people which isn't militant and left it But Patti Jo says she isn't the militant type She had been in nightclubs starting in rock n roll bars and strip joints including songs from Purlie in her act. In fact it was a newspaper review of a Miami engagement last winter that brought Patti Jo the attention of Purlie producer Philip Rose and got her the job of the sweet young hing discovered in the junior choir by sharp-eyed Rev Purlie victorious When Patti Jo talks about her brief history the themes that recur are determination to be- come a star and saving money to use to further her career She was born in Otter Creek Fla named Patricia Demps with three older ers and three older sisters Both her parents died when she was very young Reared by the est sister Jane McKenzie Patti Jo as she was always called grew up in DeLand Fla then Miami during high school years She went to Florida in Tallahassee determined to get graduating with a major in speech and ma Demps didn't sound a last name to Patti Jo and she couldn't think of er one so when she started singing on weekends while in college she just Patti Jo In Miami performing she met a young singer Barry Smith who gave her some ad- vice see a music teacher get an arranger quit singing hard rock work up an act get a manager all to get better bookings This one dates from 1st Aug 71 and is from another New York newspaper .....

Bob, as I wrote in Post 15 .... the actual origins of Boogaloo / Bugaloo is as clear as mud .... it started on the streets & so it took the media / record companies some time to tune into what was happening.... but I tend to go with the assertion that it sprung up first in the NY Latin community. I obviously wasn't there though, so can't be sure of what came first, the Bugulu or the Boogaloo. It is written though that the earliest exponents of this music form included Ray Barreto & Mongo Santamaria who picked up on the beat popular with the 'kids on the street'. I don't believe that Bugulu was actually mentioned (as an actual word) on the earliest tracks.

Before she teamed up with Barry Smith, Patti Jo had been a member of Jesse Ferguson's Gospel Jazz Singers .... ... this outfit had later changed their name to Jesse Lee Ferguson & the Outer Limits.

The Marco Polo had a lot going on back in 73 ....... .. and not just in the Swinger Dating Bar ....

Anyone for tennis ..............

That looks like it will make great viewing .... all we need now is to get a UK TV company to pick up the rights to show it here.

Patti Jo & Barry Smith both started out in the music biz in Miami. They met when both still young & teamed up; thus Patti Jo + Barry Smith = P. J. Smith & Co. .. P.J. = Patti Jo ... Smith = Barry Smith ... & Co. = their backing band. ............. that part of the story I understand quite well ............ I also know that Patti Jo landed a part in the Broadway play 'Purlie' & so moved up to New York. .............................. SO HOW COME ....... it seemed to be Barry Smith that recorded in New York, while Patti Jo teamed up with Curtis Mayfield ............ anyone know how that came about ??

It's the B side to this .........

Back to the Village Gate again .... ... but as a few of these feature jazz artists.... ... I've lumped them all together in a montage ..

!973 & Herb Reed was still getting Miami Beach bookings ....

Now where have I heard of this group before ?!?! ...

A big stadium show down in Miami ........

Well Cleveland is just across the lake from Canada, so no doubt Cleveland radio stn signals were good & strong across a large area of the country. I guess the Canadian label sent 45's across there in the hope that they would get plays ... & that one obviously did.