Roburt

Steal Away ... a gospel cut from late 59 .... Not the same song but most probably inspired by the gospel song ....

Loads on his music biz work on his Discogs page ... including ... Miles Grayson Real Name: Harold Lee Grayson Profile: American musician, arranger, producer, conductor, singer and songwriter, born September 10, 1939. He founded Grayson Productions and the publishing company Respect Music Co. / Respect Music. Web Site: rizingsunrecords.com In Groups: The Miles Grayson Trio At his peak (songwriting) -- 1966 to 1975 Arranged / conducted studio band on quite a few goodies too .... by comparison, didn't produce that many tracks. Info on who cut his songs here ... https://www.discogs.com/artist/705802-Miles-Grayson?filter_anv=0&subtype=Writing-Arrangement&type=Credits

One last un .... Lots of US latin soul / mainstream soul tracks were released in Brazil (via record companies such as EMI / Capitol) and also licensed for local release by Brazilian labels. PLUS, loads of US soul acts travelled down there to play live gigs ... so that influence was bound to rub off on the outpurt of local artists.

Anuda from her ...

Femme soul from Brazil ... Sandra De Sa ...

The label on that 45 looks a lot different to all the other Heigh-Ho releases. PLUS ... on the net there's reference to 1ST PRESS not re-press of some Zircon's 45's ... there's also a later numbered 45 on the label from the Youngsters that looks just like the earlier releases on the label. Was there demand from US R&R, doo wop garage collectors in the past that led to re-issues & vaulted tracks getting pressed up many years down the line ?

Ray says that Hy Fenster just got him & Sam Siciliano to do the one track with the Dagenites. He did nothing else for Heigh-Ho / Fenster.

I'd guess he'll do his solo hits (Invictus/ Warner Bros/Columbia) + some of his Motown hit songs.

Watch these guys go from about 3 mins 30 secs into this video ... they appeared at the Wheel in the mid 60's, guess that's what inspired the Wheel dancers to improve / adapt their style ... though at the Mojo in 66/67/68, we were still trying to learn / dance the set US dances (jerk, hitchhike, dog, etc.).

Another group on Heigh-Ho in the mid 60's were the Dagenites. Two of the guys in that group were brothers John & Julian Bardi. Ray Dahrouge wrote the top side song on their 2nd Heigh-Ho 45 (released in Jan 66). Ray, at that time, was working out on NJ and travelling into NY to sell his songs. He was working (as a writer or singer) with NJ outfits like Ray & The Darchaes. Sam Siciliano who co-wrote the Dagenites song with Ray had started the group the Darchaes up and Ray told me that Sam had a great ear for music. No idea if Ray or Sam also knew / were involved with the Delicados but I could ask him. Ray was in college at the time, however when he'd come home, he'd go into NY to write songs with the likes of Neil Levenson and Sam. He also worked with the likes of The Jay Walkers (featuring Mickey Holiday) and the Soul Set featuring Norman Seldin. No doubt all these groups were on the same circuit as the Delicados. The Delicados sound quite like a white doo-wop group to me, just the type of outfit that Ray Dahrouge was working with back then.

Tuesday 12th June @ Brum Town Hall BUT no tickets on sale yet (probably coz it's a council run venue & they ain't into sorting out 2018 gigs yet). The whole visit (the Manc / Brighton or the London / Blackpool gigs) will most likely be very close in date to next years Cleggy Weekender (when / if that's sorted & dates / acts are announced).

Link to a ticket page for his London show ... https://www.stereoboard.com/lamont-dozier-tickets/london

I passed along the link (tunefind) to Lou so he could pull up the page that had his UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER listed. Lou's not the greatest at web based tasks (well, he is well into his 70's) ... BUT he made use of the site and e-mailed back to let me know he had already found 2 other TV shows that had used old tracks of his. So, he's now onto his US rep to chase up any royalties due ... He sends his thanks to Dylan.

Not all the cuts used in the show are listed on the web site ... lots of folk sending in questions to try to find out the other stuff that ain't listed.

Many thanks ... so UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER was used in the pilot episode .. have to check the other episodes out too ...

I started watching this show, that BBC2 are currently screening .... but then (a couple of weeks in), we shot off to Florida for over a month. So, on our return, with many other TV shows for my wife to catch up on, I decided to wait till it was repeated to get back into it. . . . . . . HOWEVER ... today, I chatted with Lou Ragland and he told me that in one episode, as one of the main guys in the show was going into a shop, the background music played was .... WE HAD TRUE LOVE .... anyone here watch the show & can tell me which episode to check out ??

Seems that they're also doing a Studio 54 disco style group dance ... using Van McCoy's THE HUSTLE as the music.

Strictly goes soulful again this weekend ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04k23cx

Yes, Contempo (thru it's big buys from US record companies of old stock 45's) certainly helped massively in increasing the number of US import soul 45's over here around 1970/71/72 ... but they had no real idea what they'd got (hence them including numerous records that they could have sold for 30/- each in '10 for £1' soul packs).

Dave Godin 1st started defining records as NS in Soul City Record Shop in 1968. He had a box of soul dancers on 45 that he would tell the shop staff to pull out whenever he heard a northern accent among the customers. It was ... pull out that soul singles box that will appeal to these northerners ... the box usually contained UK & US copies of stuff such as issue copies of Tobi Legend -- he must have had around 100 copies of that 45 over those times. Soul City closed down (went bust) in 1970 ... so NS was recognised (at least in the Soul City Shop) way before 73. I also used to travel down to F L Moore's house / store in Leighton Buzzard from 1969, and by then he knew to point northerners straight to the Motown / Detroit / Bell shelves in his place. So 1973 is way out as the correct date ... many attendees of places like the Wheel were turning to such establishment's to find import copies of good soul dancers (as the stock of UK released copies had all gone to like minded collectors within weeks of a sound becoming a Wheel fave).

My granddaughter (who's now 15) started going to live gigs in London with mates over a year ago. The indie style groups she likes were jumping on the vinyl bandwagon at the time. So, not even knowing what a record was, she decided she wanted to listen to vinyl on a record player. I had a 'suitcase type' cheap deck system and she 'borrowed it' (along with about 20 of my spare 45's). The stuff I gave her was mainly 70's 'commercial soul' 45's ... not much appealed but her & all her mates really got into KUNG FU FIGHTING ... so much so, that my son & his wife now have nightmares about hearing it. Needless to say, I never got the deck back, she's now got her own vinyl collection & is asking for money for records as her Xmas pressie.

He was very well know back in the 60's / 70's and played gigs right across the States ... He became close friends with the likes of Elvis and Otis Redding. His high energy show was so good that he was booked as the act to appear on opening night at the famous Sugar Shack Club in Boston (an R&B venue that catered for both blacks & whites from 67 thru to the mid 70's). It was said (many times) that his dynamic vocal style was never fully captured on any of his studio recordings, if true it was a crying shame.

Well I was totally unaware of them both & only began looking if there were UK shows after I saw a Facebook posting about the Euro Weekender. If folk who are on here knew about them months ago, then why not pass the info along ??

I went into FOPP today and they have books like DETROIT 67, YOUNG SOUL REBELS and (not soul but mod) PRETEND YOU'RE IN A WAR ... you get 2 for £5.

I worked for British Rail in the late 60's / early 70's ... so got free trips on trains & BR / Sealink ferries. We used to take regular trips on the Harwich -- Hook of Holland ferry service. So back then, I got to pick up quite a few Dutch 45's .... though the initial enthusiasm of Dutch record shop workers on hearing my British accent died instantly when I asked for Tamla Motown / Stax / soul stuff .... a Chi-Lites release (the black label was the 1971 release, no idea when the one with the coloured label followed) ...