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  1. Sunnysoul
    I was only making the point that covers are a staple part of the music industry. As for songs being made into a big hit chart hits on more than one occasion by different artists ... off the top of my head ... in the soul context ... here's a few : Grapevine - Gladys Knight / Marvin Gaye / Creedence Clearwater Respect - Otis / Aretha My Girl - Temptations / Otis Never Can Say Goodbye - Jacksons / Isaac Hayes / Communards (!) and so on and so on ... just the Motown songbook alone has produced numerous multiple hit covers.
  2. Sunnysoul
    Remember reading a Johnny Copeland interview where he chastised the interviewer for calling Johnny a "soul" singer ... Johnny thought that was an insult to a true blues man.
  3. Sunnysoul
    For the same reason that there have been a million covers of You've Lost That Loving Feeling, Sunny, Light My Fire and so on ....... Performers want to perform the greatest songs and have often achieved even greater commercial and chart success than the original version, that's why !
  4. Sunnysoul
    One of the best pieces of the relatively little available footage of Jackie Wilson from his "post '66 soul" era is this show he did in an intimate setting in a Detroit nightclub club in 1975: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dG-NDEg__g&list=PL561A5E89087EDACF
  5. Sunnysoul
    With the greatest respect to Robb, let's take some literary licence here and respond to Andreas' original post. Otis Redding's "cover" must have been released (posthumously) only about a year or two after Jackie's hit. and of all the many cover versions, Otis' cover is one of the best, if not the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1odvp-_bhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7L7EhD8x0Q
  6. Sunnysoul
    Sadly there appears to be precious little live footage available from Jackie Wilson's soul era (ie post 1966). As far as I am aware, there is no contemporaneous (1967/8) footage of him doing Whispers, Higher & Higher or Sweetest Feeling even though they were well placed US pop chart hits. One would have thought he would have appeared on some kind of US TV show at the time. There are a couple of clips of Jackie doing Higher & Higher but they are from the early 70s.
  7. Sunnysoul
    Anyone of the view that Mel & Tim's version is FAR superior to Prince Phillip Mitchell's ???
  8. Sunnysoul
    Was The Plebeians first and foremost a soul club for dancing to records as well a live act (or acts), like the Wheel, or was it a club just for live acts?
  9. Sunnysoul
    Just trying to find out if Jeff Perry of Love Don't Come No Stronger, Call On Me etc fame and his brother Greg Perry of Invictus and Casablanca etc are both still in the land of the living and , if so, are they still making music and performing ? Thanks
  10. Sunnysoul
    Bob , you're into the All Platinum label, are you aware of this LP on its Snake Eyes label subsidiary ? https://www.popsike.com/PEARL-BOX-REVUE-2LP-Call-Me-MISSter-SEALED-Dorian-Corey/260694979850.html
  11. Sunnysoul
    Seriously Pete, wouldn't a manufacturing flaw such as a record being off centre , especially as here with a record that has been newly manufactured and sold direct to the public , be a valid reason to return the record to the seller for a full refund .... if that is of course what one is minded to do ?
  12. Sunnysoul
    Mal , the Poets was also released on Australian Red Bird !
  13. Sunnysoul
    Would anyone be kind enough to provide a complete 7" discography of this label? Many thanks.
  14. Sunnysoul
    Pete Smith should be able to help you out ...
  15. Sunnysoul
    Roburt, are we certain he was a white guy ?
  16. Sunnysoul
    PM'd you again
  17. Sunnysoul
    Was the Dupars issued as a 7" in the US ? Or is it UK only as a 7" ?
  18. Sunnysoul
    PMd you
  19. Sunnysoul
    Is he gonna perform "I Don't Just Want Your Body" ?
  20. Sunnysoul
    Great record and .... don't know if it's just me ... but it sounds not too dissimilar to the Vibrations "Cause You're Mine" !
  21. Sunnysoul
    PM'd you Jacko
  22. Sunnysoul
    Would be nice if someone issued "Cycles Of You" on 7" vinyl .
  23. Sunnysoul
    In light of the recent posts and topics on Soul Source is this record in the midst of a massive "revival" .... so to speak ???
  24. Sunnysoul
    Bob, as mentioned above, it was Leroy Hutson that replaced Curtis wasn't it? Then Leroy left and Ralph Johnson and Reggie Torian joined for the First Impressions LP around '73 onwards? Did Reggie Torian record before he joined the Impressions?
  25. Sunnysoul
    Issued twice, which one you after?


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