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A link to another page of the newspaper ....... https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00028321/00444/7j This dates from December 1966 and had ads for a couple of local shows (Eddie Lovett appearing on one of these). The more interesting photo is of the Vashionettes down from Chicago to dance at a local club. I guess this outfit has to be the same one that cut for Checker a while later.

This thread probably shouldn't be in the 'Look At Your Box' section but it ties it in with the Twans thread. Here's a direct link to the web site & a page showing an ad for a show in 1964 by the Laddins. https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00028321/00157/9j The group (with personnel changes) became the Steinways. They were quite popular down in Miami and so were regular visitors. Coz of this they built up good contacts with local radio DJ's and this resulted in the Steinways 45's getting good radio airplay in the Miami area in 1966.

Frank Williams & the Rocketeers (Little Beaver started out with this outfit). Most of these pictures are lifted from club ads placed in the newspaper, so the quality of them is much reduced from the acts PR / publicity photos.

The Prolifics, who also cut as the Moovers ( for Deep City).

And another (a picture of Helen Glover).

Other items to be found in old editions of the Miami Times ....

Loads of music fans have spent 100's of hours viewing old editions of Billboard mag online & downloading articles, record reviews, ads for new releases from down the years ........ well you can spend (waste?) additional time viewing old editions of the Miami Times newspaper online via the University of Florida web site. It takes patience to find soul related stuff but there is loads of it on there if you keep searching. Here's another ad for a show at the New Parisian Club (see Twans thread for earlier post of show here) ....

BTW, the tale about the Twans being the Swans (of Nat Kendrick and the Swans fame) isn't correct in anyway. Nat Kendrick and the Swans were really James Brown & his band with lead vocal duties (shouts, etc) substituted by local Miami radio DJ King Coleman to prevent JB being sued by King Records. No actual band by the name of Nat Kendrick and the Swans existed though King Coleman did gigs fronting some musicians under that name (& further 45's were issued down in Florida under the same band name).

Another club ad for the group. This time from October 1965 (so they were playing live locally for at least a 6 month period). I'll start another thread relating directly to accessing old editions of the Miami Times via the university web site.

That picture of the Twans was taken from a club ad in the Miami Times that dates from 1966. You can access loads of old editions of the Miami Times via the University of Florida web site. WARNING .... its as addictive (& time consuming) trawling that site as the Billboard site is on Google books.

Do you mean a picture of the actual group ?? If so ........

The line-up of the Younghearts changed over time, on occasions because Bobby Sanders (their manager for some years) upset, fired & hired guys. Bobby set on a whole new group on occasions as the original group broke from his control, hence them being the New Younghearts / Kings of Hearts on some recordings. The Imperial Wonders from Cleveland were even hired by Bobby to become the group after Ron Preyer & his guys went their own way (Bobby telling the Imp.W that the original group had split up but that a new 45 was due out on them). But one night both groups were playing shows in clubs on the same street in LA, the Imperial Wonders went to meet the 'original group' and when told of their situation, the Imp. Wonder's quit as the Younghearts. Full details on the Imperial Wonders site .... https://www.imperialwonders.com/bio.html Ron Preyer's myspace page ... https://www.myspace.com/theyoungheartsfeatronpreyer

He was on Jools Holland's BBC2 TV show a while back (guess clips from that might still be on youtube).

The Skyliners were / are a blue eyed soul group led by Jimmy Beaumont & they came from Pittsburgh. They first hit the charts with "Since I Don't Have You" in 1959. The group continued recording through the early to mid 1960's, with Jimmy also cutting solo tracks between 1961 & 1966 (for May, Gallant & finally Bang). His last solo outing,"You Got Too Much Going For You", when released on London in the UK became a big mod sound. Jimmy was soon back with the Skyliners though but the group didn't land another record deal till the mid 70's. Then 45's on Capitol & Drive were followed by an album (& some 45's lifted from it) cut at United Sound in Detroit. These were produced by Don Davis (a big fan of the group back in the day) and issued on the Tortoise Int label. The group are still going (back in Pittsburgh) and perform oldies sets to this day. They first started doing 'Oldies Shows' in the US in 1971, so they've been getting 'oldies' gigs for over 40 years now. Jimmy Beaumont back in the day

The DVD of The Beat TV shows is available on 2 separate double disc sets -- titled Vol 1 & 2 then Vol.3 & 4 ...

Was going to be her follow-up 45 to the big hit "My Guy" (that was on the US charts from April to July 64). All arrangements made for it to become Motown 1061 in June 64 (b/w "Guarantee For A Lifetime") but she started proceedings to break her Motown contract, so the 45 was pulled.

The El Corols seemed to spend a lot of the early to mid 60's as Billy Stewart's backing band. In addition to touring with Billy & playing loads of gigs around DC, they were also the backing band for lots of shows staged at Carr's Beach (outside Annapolis).

Seems that the publicity for the Wheel that will follow on from Pete Waterman's visit documented in his recent Radio 2 show couldn't have come at a better time.

T K Hulin singing live .... Info on him .... https://www.museumofthegulfcoast.org/personalities-music-legends-tk-hulin.html

I listened into the R2 show & would give it 9 out of 10. PW was just the interviewer asking questions about the scene & I thought (in general) the right people were selected to comment (RS, Ady, Elaine, etc) and it gave a fair reflection of what NS is all about.

Just watched the piece on BBC1 Breakfast Show & must say it came over well & I'm sure will prove a good 'advert' for the scene.

Fred Kibble was lead singer with the Masters of Soul (Ovide, Capitol, Duke, etc). There's a bit about him & the group here > https://bayoucitysoul.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/from-houston-to-vietnam-with-the-masters-of-soul/ He did lots of work at Ovide; singing, writing songs, arranging tracks, etc. He must have stayed in the record biz after the group split (although I guess it wasn't his 9 to 5 job) as he was involved (mainly as a song writer) on the LP by First Love released in 1981 on HCRC. That project was put together in Houston & Fort Worth (Texas), so I guess Fred stayed quite close to home at least until the 80's.

Don't suppose that Bob Schwartz had any connection at all to Schwartz Brothers, the big indie record distributors out of Washington DC in the 60's/70's ? This Washington based outfit was almost bought out by ABC Records in 1968 when that company was getting into the distributing game as well. But they survived that bid and went on to expand their territory into Philly (1971) and Baltimore (early in 1973 when they acquired General Distributing from Henry Nathanson).

A 1960's show ad

Solid Foundation label listing here ........... https://www.ohiosoulrecordings.com/s.htm No LP's were actually released (due to lack of cash to finance pressing of albums) and even the 45's followed a pretty random numbering system (the last 45 on the label from Cleveland Robinson featured 2 cuts lifted off his earlier Nosnibor album).