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Pioneers Of Northern Soul On The Radio Back Then
Roburt replied to Sjclement's topic in All About the SOUL
RE: Your'e right with the Kelly Temple, but before his time there John Green run a soul show .... That was the early to mid 70's soul show guy on Hallam .... John Green. I'm sure he quit the radio stn show when he bought a record shop in Woksop. -
Leader of the Soul Searchers back in the early 70's and DC Go Go star Chuck Brown has passed away. http://www.washingto...6zUU_story.html http://www.washingto...GGxT_story.html added by site Affectionately known as the Godfather of Go Go, Chuck Brown created the Go Go sound. He combined Latin beats, African call and response chants and American Jazz, throwing in a touch of soul with a continuous drumbeat. This nonstop dance music is and has been a trademark of original creative music from the nations capital, Washington, D.C., and has gained Chuck Brown worldwide fans. Chuck Brown began his musical career in the early 60s. His first stage experience was with Jerry Butler and the Earls of Rhythm. Then in 1965, he joined Los Latinos, whose syncopated backbeat enthralled him. This experience gave Chuck the confidence to get out on his own, incorporating all these styles into his band and introducing a sound unlike anything available at that time. I got sick and tired of watching people sitting around, Chuck says Disco was too fast-people didnt want to get all sweaty, and they just sat down. So we cut the beat in half. Chuck called this new sound Go Go, because it never stops. Chuck Brown exploded onto the scene in 1971 with his first hit We The People. In 1972 he scored again, with the hit Blow Your Whistle. This was followed by the gold album Bustin Loose and the ..1 hit single of the same name on MCA/Source Records. full bio can be read via http://www.myspace.com/chuckbrowndc
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Another early Soul Searchers collectable 45 ....... their take on JB's "There Was A Time" .......
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BTW, Chuck Brown and this group has nothing to do with Jake Wade & the Soul Searchers who were from the Michigan area.
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An early Soul Searchers funk track ........
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More info on the influence an early Soul Searchers track had on the later US music scene ..... https://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/the-soul-searchers-ashleys-roachclip/
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Leader of the Soul Searchers back in the early 70's and DC Go Go star Chuck Brown has passed away. Affectionately known as the Godfath... Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full
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Pioneers Of Northern Soul On The Radio Back Then
Roburt replied to Sjclement's topic in All About the SOUL
Before Richard Searling hit Radio Hallam (Sheffield) for the 1st time around 1980, there was a Saturday evening soul show (might have been presented by Kelly Temple but it was an 'everyday' Hallam DJ who had this one soul show each week). Anyway, he always had a NS spot, the records (about 3 each week I seem to recall) were provided by Worksop DJ / collector / dealer Pete Ward. Many years earlier (1973/4-ish), Hallam had a specialist guy on who always had a NS show but I think he bought a record shop in Worksop & went off to run that. -
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Jimmy Ricks was born in Adrian, Georgia before his family relocated to Florida... Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full
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Jimmy Ricks was born in Adrian, Georgia before his family relocated to Florida. During World War 2, he moved to New York where he worked as a waiter at the 400 Tavern in Harlem (148th Street & St. Nicholas Ave). Whilst there, he met Warren 'Birdland' Suttles who originally hailed from Alabama. In early 1946, they decided to form a vocal group and recruited Leonard "Zeke" Puzey (who had just won a talent contest at the Apollo Theater) and 'Ollie' Jones. They found a manager, Ben Bart, and an accompanist, Howard Biggs, and made their first recordings for Bart's small Hub record label. They called themselves the Ravens and so initiated the trend for vocal groups to name themselves after birds. Although the group were strongly influenced by the Ink Spots & the Mills Bros, they used Ricks' bass voice rather than a more conventional tenor as the lead on their recordings and this became their trademark style. The Ravens primarily existed to showcase Ricks voice; he made Isaac Hayes sound like Betty Boop. Ricks' voice became the standard against which every rhythm and blues bass was measured for the next decade. The group had quite a few big chart hits, making it onto the national R&B chart 11 times over a 4 year period (1948 to 1952). This success made them a popular live act and they could command a fee of $2,000 dollars a night. However, Ricks quickly developed an attitude problem and his ego resulted in Howard Biggs quitting. After their initial single, "Honey", Jones had left the group and was replaced by Maithe Marshall. The contrast between Ricks' bass voice and Marshall's tenor soon became an important part of the group's success. They left the Hub label in 1947 to join National Records for whom they had immediate hits (the 1st one making the national chart early in January 1948). Their success with National prompted King to license some of their old Hub tracks for release and one of these even made the US Top 10 in summer 1948. Also that year they were landing gigs at prestigious venues such as the Adams Theater in Newark, NJ, Chicago's Regal Theater, the Million Dollar Theater in LA and a two week long stint at the Club Bali in Washington, DC. 1949 saw them play the Apollo a number of times plus the Paradise Theater in Detroit, the Royal Roost in NY (47th & Broadway), L.A.'s Club Oasis, the Earle Theater in Philly and Broadway's Bop City (Manhattan). Their run of R&B successes continued through to early 1950, with the basic line-up of Ricks, Suttles, Puzey, and Marshall essentially remaining together for several years. The group signed with Columbia & Okeh Records in 1950, before moving to Mercury the following year. In 1951 Marshall and Puzey both left, being replaced by Joe Van Loan and various other shorter-term group members. The group had its final hit on the R&B chart in October / November 1952, when "Rock Me All Night Long" rose to No. 4 (the highest position one of the group's 45's had ever reached). Unfortunately it was to be their last chart entry and in 1953 some of the recordings released as by the group were actually solo efforts by Jimmy. But with the rise of R&R, their style had became increasingly unfashionable. After several break ups within the group, Jimmy's version of the Ravens signed with Jubilee in 1955. But he soon quit the group to try for a solo career (1956). Jimmy must still have been something of a 'handful' to deal with and this showed as he was signed to 6 different labels before the end of the decade (Josie, Baton in 1957, Decca & Felsted being some of these). He was without a record deal in 1958 but was signed up by Felsted Records in 1959. Felsted Records was part of the Decca family and operated out of the New York office of London Records. They were very prolific with their releases in 1959, putting out 96 singles and about 3 LP's (one of these by the Jimmy Wisner Trio). Jimmy's first release for the label was "Secret Love" and this escaped early that summer. His new record label must have put some promotional effort behind this 45 as it seemed to do quite well (radio play wise) in the 'breakout' market of Baltimore. Here it seems to have been a popular track on radio stations WSID and WITH and this helped Jimmy secure two bookings at the top 'chitlin circuit' venue of Carr's Beach (near Annapolis) in September that year. He appeared on a bill with Hank Ballard & the Midnighters plus Faye Adams on Sunday 6th September and returned alongside the Bill Doggett Trio the following day. Jimmy continued to record as a solo singer without too much commercial success throughout the 1960's. He had records out on Atlantic, Atco ("Daddy Rolling Stone" with the Raves), Fury, Felsted Records (an earlier recording ?), Mainstream, Sure Shot, Festival ("Oh, What A Feeling") & Jubilee. Having lost his solo recording contract by 1970, he and Suttles got back together and temporarily revived the Ravens (adding additional members Gregory Carroll & Jimmy Breedlove) in 1971. At the time of his death, at the age of 49 in 1974, he was the vocalist for the Count Basie Orchestra.
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Years Ago...for A Moment...this Was Northern Soul....is It Now?
Roburt replied to a topic in Look At Your Box
No Bob, I think he's saying that many moons ago (30 years ?), this track was a top NS club play. -
Seems that Dunn passed away this morning after a Booker T & MG's gig in Tokyo .... we have lost another great soul musician .... added by site Musician Donald "Duck" Dunn, the pioneering bass player whose grooves drove Booker T and the MGs and hits including Otis Redding's Respect has died in Tokyo, age 70. Dunn was in Tokyo for a series of shows. News of his death was posted on the Facebook site of his friend and fellow musician Steve Cropper, who was on the same tour. Cropper said Dunn died in his sleep. "Today I lost my best friend, the world has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live," wrote Crooper. Miho Harasawa, a spokeswoman for Tokyo Blue Note, the last venue Dunn played, confirmed he died alone early Sunday. She had no further details. read rest of news article here http://www.guardian....o?newsfeed=true official website http://www.duckdunn.com/index.html
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..... More info on Joe Haywood ....... https://music.yahoo.com/joe-haywood/ https://www.sirshambling.com/artists_2012/H/joe_haywood/index.php
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The arrangers on these 2 cuts were Robert Banks (NY/ NJ based) and Lawrence 'Larry' Lucie. Larry Lucie was New York based & a top jazz guitarist whose career went back to the 1940's. He played with loads of the top jazz big bands & then got into recording work, shows & music teaching. In the mid to late 70's, he cut tracks for his own Toy Records but I don't think this label was connected with the early 70's Toy label that put out soul stuff. In the 1960's, Larry arranged cuts for Joe Haywood (a vocalist / drummer from Spartanburg, SC). Joe had earlier been a member of Larry Lucie's band. Joe Haywood's tracks were released on Bobby Robinson's Enjoy and Fury labels (NY based) plus on Deesu (NOla) but Deesu's Marshall Sehorn had close links with Bobby Robinson. So, it seems the 2 arrangers on the Bobby Joy sessions were New York based but don't know if Sentry Records was out of Philly or NJ / NY. Hope this helps.
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Had to be the Virtue studio group guys (who became MFSB & also had Philly 45's out under numerous other names). They were on loads of Philly instrumentals dating way back to early Cameo / Parkway days (though some of the early tracks were taken up to New York for 'finishing' I believe). Thus we have tracks supervised by the likes of Broadway Eddie (Warhoftig) & attributed to the likes of Georgie Woods (the famous DJ) plus all the many Philly based label instro B sides that still credit the cut to the singer featured on the A ("The Horse" being an example). So who Big Al T was, I know not .... but it's a good bet that most of the musicians on "25 Miles" ended up as part of MFSB.
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The Sink Club.. Liverpool... Short Film Of Its History
Roburt replied to Little-stevie's topic in All About the SOUL
Great piece on this club ......... ... it's strange how this club's story matches that of a place in Liverpool's 'twinned' city HULL. Both were / are ports with the pluses & minuses that comes with that status. The L& Y Railway linked the cities, followed later by the M62. Eastern European immigrants heading for the US came into the UK at Hull & traveled across to Liverpool to catch a boat westwards. Lots of links between the 2 cities and Hull had its own Sink Club in the 60's ...... ... the Gondola was a coffee bar by day & a disco by night (the building didn't have a basement that was big enough to open to the public). So the coffee bar became a club and even hosted live singers (Chris Farlowe, etc) at times. The local 'in-crowd' met up there -- no booze, you had to get a 'pass-out' & shoot round the corner to the White House pub. Saturday afternoon & early evening was quite busy but many of the crowd would then head out (via Dony) to the Mojo allniters in Sheffield. The club's resident DJ, Ricky Dobbs, took his musical direction from the Mojo. A new big record at the Mojo was played to death at the Gondola a couple of weeks later. When the Mojo had to swap to alldayers to try & prevent the council shutting it down, bus trips were run for Gondola regulars to attend the dayers. So the Gondola was much like the Sink Club .... just displaced by around 130 miles. -
Seems that Dunn passed away this morning after a Booker T & MG's gig in Tokyo ....we have lost another great soul musician ....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AafriqbxMcwadded by siteMusician Donald "Duck" Dunn,... Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full
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I'd guess that the ABC 45 had strong DC connections as well ....... the name MizAX probably being derived from Max (Kidd), the writer of the song. DC soul was in transition in 1969; the earlier era of soul singers / groups such as Billy Stewart, the Unifics, Summits, Carltons, Emanons, Epsilons, 4 Bars seemed to die out after the big D.C. riots of 1968 that destroyed much of the local record biz (buildings, stock, etc). By the early 70's, funk was the big influence on local outfits such as the Soul Searchers who would spearhead the evolution into Go Go music. Max Kidd was hooked up with Curtom (probably via Donny Hathaway & LeRoy Hutson who were at college in DC) and had secured the Stridells a deal with the Chicago label. But with the majority of local labels out of business after the riots, Max probably took this outfit up to New York to get them a record deal. Anyone know in detail what Max Kidd was up to in 1968 & 1969 ??
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You don't mean this do you ........ ... https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Northern-Soul-Mizak-and-Flizaps-ABC-11222-DJ-Test-Me-Other-Si-LISTEN-/120908134089 SORRY for pasting it up before the bidding ended, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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