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One of them sold comics & records. I think Joe Tex sold jeans, I can,t recall what the Funkshop sold.I took pictures of all 3 shops & close ups of their signs, but it will have to wait until I get home before I can download em from my camera & post em here. BTW, came across an open market & one of the stalls sold records. Only got to look thru the 45,s (the wife was on my case) but I came away with 3 French 45,s (all 70,s soul).God, these French computer keybords are difficult, they have loads of wrong keys (they don,t follow QWERTY rules anyway).

Not really the right thread to post this under ... ... but as I started this thread .. who,s gonna complain ... In France at present; well Lille to be exact. Went out this morning with the camera & walking down one street, came across 3 shops next to each other ... 1st one was called Joe Tex ... next one Jet Set (after the DC record label or French reggae label?) and the last one FUNKSHOP .... most soulful street of shops I,ve come across.

Yep, thats true.Gene Dozier had himself quite a good thing going at Golden World until the Philly soul crew turned up to cut some tracks there. They asked why everyone in Detroit referred to Ugene under a false name ..... it was only then that the Detroit crew learnt who Ugene really was & coz he had told them a few lies to get his foot in the door, his services were dispensed with.

Soulwaxusa, the Wreck Bar at Castaways sounds quite a place. What was it like to watch a show there ?? Here's another 'white' venue from back then ....

I have a couple of ads for Wayne Cochran shows .... ... here's one of them .....

Steve, "Housewife Blues" gets a mention in post #12 -- from what Rudy told me, the song's theme seemed to be inspired by Jessica Cleaves. Bob, I spent hours talking with Rudy & he never once mentioned the Kanwic 45. His 1st 45 on Canyon ("Sufferin Wrath") has enjoyed quite a bit of exposure here in the UK over the last few years.

Just about all the Lonnie Youngblood tracks that its claimed Hendrix played on (his Fairmount ones) have been released on numerous CD compilations .... usually badged up as 'Early Hendrix'. Many of these CD's used to be in all the UK 'discount stores' at 99p a copy (or similar prices). You can still easily get them on-line for a few quid a copy -- think they include some Fairmount tracks that never actually escaped back in the day (some of these CD's include 2/3/4 takes on a couple of his tracks). Daft thing is, according to Lonnie Y, Hendrix didn't play on any of his sessions. Have the 'other' Hendrix tracks (including "it's gonna take a lot") also been made available on CD in recent times (there are SO MANNYYY 'Early Hendrix' CD compilations out there, I can't find the time to check through them all).

A poster produced to plug the 'Night Train To Nashville' CD's (see post 118)........

The Drifters at the Island Club in 1965 .....

Whilst at an early Cleggy Weekender, I guy came round our chalet with some 45's for sale. Back then, Paul Temple was still allowed to 'come out to play' with the soul boys, so the guy was pitching his 45's to Paul (being a Merchant *anker he always has £100's going spare). Anyway, he put this 45 on the deck & Paul said ... "no, don't like that". Everyone else in the room jumped forward saying "If it ain't too expensive, I'll have that" (think Charlie Rees was the one who's cash was accepted). Paul T stood there nonplussed & couldn't understand why anyone would be clamouring for a 45 you couldn't dance to !!! Needless to say, I searched out a copy right after the weekender & its been in my collection ever since.

Back to the 'black' clubs ......... The Drifters didn't just play the Miami Beach venues in the mid to late 60's ....

A link to the 'Night Train To Nashville' book ........ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Train-Nashville-Rhythm-1945-1970/dp/0915608227/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342174369&sr=1-1

As Miami related tracks are now being discussed in this thread .... ... thought I'd add this bit of info about the Marvells / Fabulettes (already featured in a number of earlier posts here) ... There is a US CD series (2 x 2fer CDsets) + an associated book titled 'Night Train To Nashville' that deals with Nashville R&B .... One of the tracks on Vol.2 is the Fabulettes "Screamin & Shoutin" cut for Sound Stage 7 in 1966. I guess this had to be recorded in Nashville (& their earlier cuts as the Fabulettes must also have been cut up there). Anyone know for sure where their tracks were cut (studio; city) ?? NIGHT TRAIN TO NASHVILLE Vol.2 CD .... TRACK LISTING .... Disc: 1 1. Boogie Woogie Jockey - Jimmy Sweeney 2. Gene Nobles Boogie - Richard Armstrong 3. All States Boogie - Ivory Joe Hunter 4. Wail Daddy - Charlie Dowell & Orchestra 5. 31 E blues - Billie McAllister 6. No Better For You - Gay Crosse & The Good Humor Six 7. You Belong To Me - Helen Foster 8. Too Much - Bernard Hardison 9. If Things Don't Change - Gene Allison 10. Love, Love, Love - Ted Jarret 11. Miss You So - Lillian Offitt 12. Little Darlin - The Gladiolas 13. No Fool No More - Charles Walker & The Daffodils 14. Pretty Please - The Kinglets With Leroy Thomas 15. She Can Rock - Little Ike 16. I'm Coming Home - The Neptunes 17. You Better Change - Hal & Jean 18. OK, So What? - Freddie North 19. She Wears My Ring - Jimmy Bell Disc: 2 1. Docter Feel Good - Dr. Feelgood & The Interns (Piano Red) 2. I'm A Woman - Christine Kittrell 3. Don't Pity Me - Herbert Hunter 4. Next To Me - Clyde McPhatter 5. Release Me - Esther Phillips 6. Soldier Of Love - Arther Alexander 7. Don't Take My Kindness For A Weakness - Earl Gaines 8. That's My Man - Marion James 9. Strain On My Heart - Roscoe Shelton 10. Soul Poppin' - Johnny Jones & The King Casuals 11. Swinging Soul Medallion Commercial - John Rouchberg 12. Right On Time - Jimmy Church 13. Judy - Frank Howard 14. Leave It Up To The Boys - Sandra King 15. Don't You Forget That You're My Baby - The Spidells 16. I'm Free - Johnny Bragg 17. Screamin' And Shoutin' - The Fabulettes 18. (You Keep Me) Hangin' On - Joe Simon 19. She's All I Got - Freddie North 20. Lucky Lou - The Imperials

Roy Hytower was still at it in the recent past (& maybe is even today) .... https://articles.chic...es-storytelling Back in the 60's, he cut some good tracks for Expo & Blue Rock ....

The Wreck Bar at Castaways still featured good live acts in 73 ..... .... a Chicago (Blue Rock) bluesman a long way from home ....

Back down on the Beach for a couple more now ...... ... 1973 was a very good year to catch a live show down there .... The Swinger Dating Bar; I guess the wife wouldn't have let me go there ...

Got a box of 250+ Bajan 45's here (most being WIRL product) ... but ain't got that Richard Stoute recud .... ..... yet anuva one to chays ..... thanx alot Waggy !!!

Another 'northerner' down to sing for his supper ......

As Cleveland's Moving Violation seemed to go down well ..... ... I'll post up piccys of a few more Cleveland based acts ...

........... Your wish is my command ......... the group's image changed quite a bit when they left the Elements behind to become Moving Violation

I know Bob wishes he could grow a giant Afro ....... ... so to give him some inspiration ....... .... here's a guy from Cleveland who was in the Elements / Moving Violation ... ..... bet he looks nothing like this these days ...........

............. Q & A with Rudy Love ........... QUESTION: How did he get into singing?? Church/school? Did the family move to LA? Rudy Love: My dad was a great gospel singer. I fell into his footsteps. His name was Robert Love. His group was on the Chess Record Label under the group name Don and Bob. They wrote, performed and recorded the great song "Good Morning Little School Girl" in 1961 which has been recorded by Eric Clapton, Five Yard Birds, Taj Mahal and many more. I started off at an early age singing in church. I had my own groups named Junior Canaanites and Junior Brotherhood to name a few all patterned after my fathers group. In high school my groups were Doug and the Intruders, John and the Interpretations, and in college my group was called The Jades. Rudy Love: No my family never moved to L.A. We are from Wichita, KS. At the age of 17 my band the Company Soul moved to L.A. Q: How did he land the record deal with Canyon in L.A? Rudy Love: I was walking down the street and I saw Tyrone Davis, Barry Dispenza and Caldwell Wolfork in a limousine. I had met them in Chicago when I worked with Little Richard. I got in the car and they took me to introduce me to Wally Roker Dee Ervin and brother Renny Roker who owned Canyon Records. I song for them a little and they signed a deal that night. The songs were: "If You Wanna Keep Him", "Where Have You Been Hidin", "I Gotta Tell Somebody", "After Lovin You", "Happiness", "Your Love Is So Doggone Good", "You've Become A Part of Me", "I'll Take You All The Way There", "Home", "Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong". Q: Who were the members of Company Soul (his family??) Rudy Love: The members of Company Soul were: Raymond Fowler, W.L. Mitchell, Kenney Witherspoon, Grover Level, Charles Wakefield, Wendell Jones, Robert Hardyway, Steve Johnson, Ace Love, Joe Lotson, Sylvan Watson and Louie Caldwell. Q: How many tracks did he cut for Wally Roker's Canyon? What can he recall about Wally, Dee Irwin (Ervin) & Art Freeman? Rudy Love: I do not recall how many tracks at this time. Wally was the president of the company and I remember him being very experienced in the laws of music business. He was very well connected. Dee was very talented and very astute and he took me around and showed me a lot about the business and some of it the hard way. Art was a talented arranger. Q: Are all the tracks on the above UK LP indeed by Rudy?? Rudy Love: I am singing on all of the tracks. I co-wrote half of them with there staff and my staff. Q: Why did he cut 3 covers of Whispers tracks?? Rudy Love: The record company was smart in publishing. I actually did not cover them they covered me. Mine was never released. The Whispers learned from me and chose the songs based on my performance. They used me to sell them to other people, bigger stars. I have done a lot of that in my life. Q: How did he get the deal with Earthquake Records, was it arranged by Dee Irvin after Canyon folded? Rudy Love: Dee Ervin was working for Ray Charles and Ray Charles funded Earthquake Records. Yes it was arranged by Dee Ervin after Canyon folded. Q :( Big) Dee Ervin released the 45 on Rudy; "Then I Found You" on his Kent-Modern distributed Earthquake label. What does he remember about this & the people involved (Earl Foster, David Braithwaite, and Ruth Robinson)? Rudy Love: Ruth Robinson worked for Ray Charles. David Braithwaite was Ray Charles engineer. It was all done in Ray Charles studio at 2107 Washington Blvd in LA. Earl Foster was one of Earthquakes artists and who was a great musician and a great friend of mine. Q: Did he record any more before Calla in 1976?? Rudy Love: I have done tons of recordings before 1976. Q: How did he get signed to Calla Records. When was the Love Family group formed?? Rudy Love: A friend of mine Vernon Burrough from my home town introduced me to a lot of people, one of them being Tony Sylvester with the Main Ingredient who introduced me to Nate McCalla and Bob Currington. They took our song "Does Your Mama Know You Do This" and signed us on the basis of hearing this song, and the rest is history. The Love Family Band was formed right after my band Company Soul started to disband; I decided to teach members of my own family to perform. Donald Duck Lattin suggested that I name the Company Soul band the Love Family Band. He told me that anyone or anything that I work with from now on will be secondary to me. Since 1976, most of the leadership for Love Family was done by Rudy and Bob Love. Bob Love is the President of Rudy Love Productions and Love Fam Music BMI. Bob wrote the song "That Girl is Dangerous" for the movie That Summer in LA. Bob has recorded with Sly Stone, George Clinton, The Gap Band and The Love Family. Bob performs lead and background vocals. He is a songwriter, producer and percussionist. Q: Where were the Calla tracks cut, NY?? Does he remember the good ballad cut "Housewife Blues"? Rudy Love: The Calla tracks were cut in L.A., New York, Muscle Shoals, Alabama and Wichita, KS. Of course I do remember Housewife Blues. Jessica Cleaves was married to my friend Vernon Burrough (WRONG SPELLING). She sang with Earth Wind and Fire, Friends of Distinction, Brides of Funkenstein, and Parliament Funkadelic. She was also married to George Clinton. Q: What can he remember about the Calla sessions & producers, arrangers, musicians involved (Tony Sylvester, Bert DeCoteaux, Randy Muller, Norman Harris, members of EW&F + Crusaders) Rudy Love: I always worked with the finest of people at Calla including the Persuaders who recorded my song "Hey Sister" that I co-produced. This was a hit song for them. Q: Any more recordings in the 70's after Calla? If so, details?? Rudy Love: Yes we recorded many more. We mostly recorded with Sly Stone, George Clinton, the Gap Band, Vann Morrison, Bobby Womack, Bill Wyman, Billy Preston, New Riders of the Purpose Age, and pilot vocals for Clayton Ivy, Ruth Robinson, and a lot of our own record labels. Q: What can Rudy remember about his time at Motown? Was he based out of LA or at Motown South in Muscle Shoals with Terry Woodford and Clayton Ivey. Rudy Love: Motown South was just getting started and they used me for pilot vocals for Alabama, Soul Sisters, Ronny Millsap, Clarence Carter, Ruth Busy, Thelma Houston, Temptations, Marvin Gaye. I also was a pilot vocal for a song "Baby Won't You Bring Your Love to Me" for Michael Jackson but it was not released. I met Terry Woodford and Clayton Ivey in L.A. while working with Susan DePasse and Bottom and Company. Q: Did he only perform 'scratch' vocal duties. Were no sessions meant to result in tracks on Rudy himself?? Rudy Love: I recorded for Calla and for myself where some was not released. I recorded and produced for a country western artist, Andy Summers.

Rudy went on to front Rudy Love & the Love Family (mid 70's on Calla) and then cut loads more stuff that he released on his own label in the 80's / 90's. He was living in Vegas last I heard & I have copies (somewhere) of all his issued & many of his unissued recordings.

BTW, the UK released Manhattan label LP 'Can I Change My Mind' attributed to Tyrone Davis (# MAN 5034) actually featured unissued Canyon tracks cut by Rudy Love & Company Soul. Some of the group's songs (that feature on the album) were used by the Canyon / Soul Clock team for the Whispers which rather pissed off Rudy !!!. That Manhattan label LP was released here in the UK in September 1980. In 1980, a number of albums were released in the UK on the Manhattan label. Two of these purportably contained tracks by Doris Duke (plus friends) and Tyrone Davis. However, none of the tracks included on the album attributed to Doris Duke & Friends ('Funky Fox') were actually by Doris. The cuts contained on the LP were actually 1960's Chicago recordings made for Monk Higgin's Sack label by Mamie Glore, Bobby Jean Bland & Tyrone Davis. Although some tracks by Tyrone Davis were included on the album attributed to Doris Duke, none of the tracks on the LP credited to Tyrone were actually by him.

Rudy's web site seems to have disappeared. I met up with him in New York about 8 to 10 years back & got loads of info on him but apart from posting some of it up on the net (on an old SDF thread I think), I never did get around to writing the full article I intended to do back then. Rudy worked with Sly Stone (& the Family Stone) in the mid 70's ... he was Sly's musical director & assisted on one of the group's albums. Rudy's son was also in the music biz; Wade Love (the Wade Love Band).