Roburt

Pure speculation .... but could she have cut an early demo of the song & then forgotten about the fact that a 'rudimentary master tape' might be 'floating about' out there when she re-recorded the song (with full backing & production effort) for the 45 that was released on Mercury. If that was what happened, someone could easily have shopped the original master tape to that little Chicago label without her even knowing. Maybe that's why the 'little label' effort has a different title .... that might have been the song's 'early' working title OR the guys shopping the tape to the people who put out that 45 could have used a different song title in an effort to ensure they weren't found out. These happenings bring to mind the situation surrounding the Tobi Lark / Tobi Legend tale.

Philly International even hit the island ......... but Dynamic Sound could still manage to fix the label off-centre.

One of Chicago's finest came south .... .... not all the way to Miami, but not too far away ....

A Philly group who went to Coventry .....

Ja Tyrone Davis .............

Donny lads are the most soulful guys on the planet, so you don't need to be sorry for owt. Mind you, in my day, Sheffield & Manc were 2nd homes for Donny soulboys.

"Big Mistake" got a mention (& play) in a post started about 6 weeks ago in 'All About The Soul'.

BUMP .... as we have a new thread (in 'Look At Your Box') about Brenda's "Big Mistake" 45.

A top gospel group played some Miami gigs in 1959....

No straight up soulers on this bill ........ but Tommy Chong (Cheech & Chong) hadn't long quit Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers .... ... and Brian Auger had run UK mod soul group Steampacket in the mid 60's. Mind you, I bet Smashy & Nicey think "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is soulful !!

A 45 from an old Motown fave; manufactured by CBS (Ja) Ltd ....

Did they get their suits from Burtons or Hepworths ??

........ aural exciters ........ a lot of women I know like these.

Didn't the Internationals come to the UK around 1968 as the 'International Showstoppers' to pretend to be the Showstoppers (not that they knew that when they left New York). Think they came back for a 2nd tour under their own name, but the mists of time have left my hard-drive (memory) quite fragmented. Anyone know why they changed their name to the Persuaders (name clash with 2nd group; split with label & / or manager) ???

Another Ja Atlantic 45 .......

Where'd that Mockingbird go ??

A jazzy groover was on, ahead of Tower of Power ....

Checked Bob's site & the interview ... guess they weren't from Miami after all ..... and my memory is even more shot than I thought.

I've got their mid 70's Wand 45 somewhere here (no idea where though). I always thought they were Miami based .... didn't KC & some of his mates write their "I Get Lifted" song & help out on backing / production duties on the track ?? (mind you Steve, my memory gets more mis-filed info everyday now; old age, gotta love it). .

RSO, another label that Dynamic Sounds were the Ja licensee for ...

It don't get any better than this ......... .. the best record the Masqueraders ever made (by a country mile ) ....

Another Tamla Motown 45 'Manufactured Under License In The West Indies' .....

If there were no live shows you fancied watching back in 74, you could always go record buying at J & R's .... The shop still has a music department, though now it sells more electronic items (computers, smart phones, music systems, digi cameras, etc). Pleased to see they still have recording artists dropping in to their Manhattan CD store (I saw Dianne Reeves perform live there about 10 years back) ....... https://www.jr.com/category/music/

Invictus hits NY ..........

WMBM DJ Butterball in the studio ...........