Dave Thorley

Hi All Got some interesting stuff closing in 3 days inc Elements Of Love Ravenettes Freedom Vessie Simmons Jewel Bass Richard Brown Eula Cooper Joe Graham Plus More, follow the link. https://shop.ebay.com/nomoretime10/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340 Thanks for looking Dave

Pocorn told me that it was a contract job. She came in wanting to put a record out, paid Richard whatever, he recorded her, arranged pressing and handed them over to her. As far as he was concerned that was the end of the story. Took him a while to remember the record when he was first asked about it. Producers like him would work on their own material for their own labels or the label they were signed to at the time and also do contract jobs. So Richards name does pop up on a few Detroit things where his involvement may have been little. Normally when you see executive producer on a label, the chances of them being at the studio when the track was cut is only 50/50 Dave

Hi Pete I posted up on here a few months ago 'Whats happened to UK Ebay' but few people seem interested at the time. The gist of the post was that I couldn't see the point of UK Ebay anymore. It's stuffed full of very bad (Illegal) bootlegs and it's hard to find many reasonable originals. Those that are on there are at silly buy now prices or equally silly starting prices and guess what there don't sell. Ebay has no interest in clamping down on sellers of bootlegs here or in the US. As for sales I only use .com as that gets the best response and prices. Put a few things on UK a while back, Uk Pop, very poor response. Put them on .com sold nearly all of them. I first put them on Uk thinking that would be where most of the buyers are, none of it. I can't see why Ebay simply dosen't have a single global market place or the option of a single market place site for those that want to trade all over the world.

I have sold a bunch of boogie stuff in the last month on Ebay, of those that have gone to France 1 in 3 has been a problem, just spent 30mins this morning scanning proof of postage etc to send to guys that say that they haven't recieved stuff.

Hi Guys Got a bunch ending in the next 24/48 hours icluding Freedom Lou D Washington Robert Lee Krash Band True Image Floyd Beck Falcons Nathan Bartell And more, follow link https://shop.ebay.com/nomoretime10/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340 Thanks for looking Dave

I saw them playing live last year in Detroit, Brad and his group were the backing band. It was a 4th of July outside gig on West Grand Blv, great fun. Later that day we went done to the lakeshore to see Mary Wilson and Martha Reeves doing an outdoor gig, a nice day out all round. Dave

Hi Bob Thanks for that, some of that I was aware of, some not. It seems that it lacked that home town power house type of lable that alot of other cities had, and as you say seems alot of the groups traveled else where for success. I know that in the 70's through the Harvey Fuqua connection some of the members of both The Nite-Lighters & New Birth came from Louisville, but it always seems to be a city without it's own strong music industry. I know Butch (lead singer with the Heartbreakers) well. He had a nice cd out a couple of years ago, that gained a little interest over here. Also the 70's gem Detroit Sounds Of Friction is credited to a Louisville lable, but no one in Louisville seemd to remember the group or the label In the 80's Ron (Mr Wonderful) Lewis put out a fair bit of material and Jerry Green was fairly active with his own stuff. Jerry still hosts his club every saturday night in the city, where he picks up the mic and sings a medley of soul classics and some of his own material. Thanks Dave

Hi Guys What can anyone tell me about stuff from the city in the 60's. Been through the city a few times and can never really get a handle on it's 60's output. Did it have that big a music industry ? Anyone have any label listing? Anyone have any scans of old music articals ? I Know a bit more about it's 70's/80's stuff, but would be interested. I have the Heartbreakers on Derby City, but off the top of my head that's the only one from the 60's Dave

Out most weekends at venues I like going to or look interesting, if I get asked to DJ I see that as a bonus

Hi Guys Got a whole new bunch of stuff up for auction, some rare Northern, Modern, Boogie and Funk 45's Inc Krash Band Robert Lee Freedom True Image Lou D Washington Nathan Bartell Floyd Beck Follow link https://shop.ebay.com/nomoretime10/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340 Thanks for looking Dave

I know it a hard one, but at the end of the day, it's just an earlier release of Gaslite on Grand Junction, otherwise it's the same record

The story thickens, just spoken to Ian on the phone. He says that he told Steve at Yarmouth that it was real and it would be going out on a list soon. So Mr G bit of a curved one there then Anyway he has one and it's for sale for the'right money', he also tried some years to get to the bottom of the story about it's release and came up with about as much as me. Very small pressing either about the time of the LP or a little after, very few ever saw life in the U.S., but it does seem that a few got out to a few DJ's, the rest were sold wholesale to ?????

I was reading back through my interview that I did with McKinley Jackson a few years ago in Detroit and it struck me that often we know little about the backing groups of many the artists we love. In the interview he said that he was with the Peps along with Danny Moore. Now I had always thought of The Peps as Tommy "Storm" Hester, "Little Joe" Harris, and Ronnie Abner. But when ever they where out on the road they needed more than the three vocalists and some guys that knew there music intimatley and these guys concidered themselves very much part of the Peps. Often when groups like this went into the studio the producer would have his musicians, that knew his music, gave his type of sound. So not all of the road group would be involved in the recording. But that doesn't take anything away from the fact that often they were very much part of the group. I would suggest that while at Motown, not all of the Isley Brothers appeared on their Motown recording. As records show most of the the sessions here were with The Funk Brothers. A year or two ago I was down south of Atlanta and talking with a bunch of old guys about back in the day and one of them said I was in Otis Reading group, now this just proves my point, I can't remember his name. Otis made his name as much with his live performances as his recording, we probably know more about the guys on the sessions than we do about his day to day group. But what I do know from this interview is that the Peps where Tommy "Storm" Hester, "Little Joe" Harris, and Ronnie Abner, along with McKinley Jackson, Danny Woods, Stanley Cleveland, Melvin Griffin, Chuck Boyd, Zak Slater, much of the time.

Colin was the first to play Jerry

That will be the one Jerry And yes Tony your eye sight is going mate, it's way back in the thread

Hi Guys Just got through the new CD from Ebony Evans - You did it all - Coastal records, outta Atlanta. A couple of years ago her 12" got a fair bit of play with a nice cover of the old Tearra song 'Loving you' that came out on Midtown. The first studio cd followed to good aclaim, now we have a the second studio set. This has been a labour of love for all involved in the project, delivering a cool mix of soulful contemparary dancers, steppers and stunning ballads. Recorded at The Coffee House Studio in Atlanta, the set has nice instrumentation, and producer Manny Campbell (the man behind The Nu-Ron, Tearra, Rotations, Lazzistics etc) turns up on one track 'Away with you' on vibes. This is a slightly jazz edged soulful slow jam. For the club jocks there is the first track on the cd 'Just because of you', a midtempo driving rhythmnic dancer, that matches Ebony's vocals so well. Track 3 'Keep on dancin' you can win' is another cool uptempo dancer, with a as so cool sax running through the track. All in all this a quality independant release worth some of your hard earned cash. You can find it on CD Baby, Soul Tracks plus a bunch of other sites for sale Dave

Been an interesting thread. One of the main things to come from it is the massive turnover of records, but this is no great suprise, not just because the dj's there were open minded and it was a time of lots of material turning up, but also it was a weekly event. Someone else can work out the maths, just say 30% of each week from 75 onwards was new material X the hours availble, thats one helva lot of records played. Anyway here a few I don't think have been mentioned before some on the jazzy tip Hubert Laws - Chicago Theme Rubin Wilson - Get you some Magnetic Force - Ain't gonna be a next time/Just in the nick of time Vibrations - Man over board Monday After - Merry go round Kim Tolliver - Don't know what foot to dance on Paulette Reaves - Jazz freak Loleatta Holloway - Mother of shame Weapons Of Peace - Just can't be that way Intrepids - After you've had your fling 5 Degrees Farenheit - Just let your heart be your guide

Don't you start, over Xmas we had a 'Shameless feast' and that comment was made then. Dave

Hi Mike Was speaking to Kev the othr day, you've got a nice thing going on over there. Dave

I know I've put this up before, but heres a picture of the big man and I mean big!!!!!!

Hi All Just want to big up my local station it gives you what few others do, a daily soul show, plus great weekly shows. Jerry (Hippo) Hipkis can be found every morning between 8am and 11am playing the finest in soul, northern, jazz funk, soulful house and reggae everyday. He does a nice nine after nine, northern show case and with his knowledge it's always interesting. On the weekly side you can find Leon Brown, giving you 'The best of Northern' every wednesday evening 7pm-9pm. JJ Watkins disco and club classics saturday 12noon-2pm Donavan Smith cool soulful house sunday 4pm-6pm The station is a community radio set up and has worked hard to become a powerhouse in the Gloucester area. https://www.gloucesterfm.com/index.html Anyone else got any good local station we should be checking out

Every morning as I drive Malayka to work we hear Jerry (Hippo) Hipkis play it on GFM on his daily drive time show, it sound so good over the radio. Just show that quality will always come through, even if it does take 30 years for some tunes. Extra Plug for Jerry, his show is great and you can hear it on line, he does a nice nine after nine northern set as well. Overall he plays a great mix of soul, jazz funk, boogie, soulful house and reggae every day. New release to classics, not that many show that will give you that daily. Dave

By the late 70's some of these guys were very aware of what was happening in the European markets and Japan. So some of them released stuff as much for these markets as their own local market. These guys are no fools!!!!!!!

No, when I ask Ernie about it he was a little sparse with the info, just said they all sold as soon as it was pressed. Don't think it ever saw sight of a U.S. shop, a few have been seen in Detroit I'm sure Ernie would have let DJ's like Foody, Butterball, Jay Butler etc have a copy to see if there was any interest in the local market. But if there had been then you can be sure he would have pressed a bunch more. Dave

I thought this had been done to death. The question should be when was this released ? Don't think it was contemporary with the LP Is it a legit release ? yes, Earnest Kelly in Detroit had something to do with it How many were pressed ? not many, no more than 500 Where are they ? Mostly in Japan at a guess