Graham Anthony

Dolly and The (Her) Fashions were sisters Doretha and Loretha Moody who had been gospel singers in their fathers church before backing Zeke Strong as the Queen Tones and then becoming Dolly and The Fashions. Info courtesy of Steve Propes.

Very underrated West Coast singer. A great voice that has emotion and feeling rather than histrionics. His vocal on The Newports "Dixie women" is superb and I love "Cross the bridge" on Brent. Alfred Smith is still a legend around the West Coast club circuit.

The Rotations "trying to make you my Own" sounds like Morris Chestnut to me. I thought his cousin Ralph Chestnut was a bass singer as on The Cheerios "Ding dong honeymoon" and that Morris was a tenor. Different group names and recordings were rife at the time with producers using old tracks and issuing them with new names, so not much of a leap to put out an Attractions disc with a different name on the same group of labels. Producers often put out tracks without the artist(s) knowledge so Morris Chestnut may not have known about The Rotations disc.

Very sad news. I knew Kev many years ago and he was a great bloke who loved the Northern scene. Had a few lifts off him to a Niter or two and remember he thought Kashif was the greatest soul singer going and collected Northern re-issue demos! He made some great wooden record boxes too. He will be missed by many who knew him

I have it listed as on A&M 774, but I've never had it confirmed or know anyone who's seen one. Maybe an Urban myth?

How about Bobby Hebb doing "The joker went wild" or Major Lance covering "Under my thumb" great backing tracks that just need a decent vocalist!

Thanks for your input Robb. Has anyone ever done a definitive listing regarding the work of Frank E. Wilson and Frank Wilson of the Remarkables/Wil-Sones/Frankie Vance etc. ? I think the 2 often get confused and I'm sure some of their work is often mis-credited. Did both of them work at West Coast Motown at some stage? Nevertheless, I think "together" is still quite rare as a stock copy and why the different artist credit?

Brilliant! Thanks for the scan

Chester St. Anthony-Together-A&M Demo does it actually exist as an issue with the artist credited as Chester Fields? I've never seen one and if it does exist it must be rare. It is also usually stated as being Frank Wilson of "Do I love you" but I think it sounds more like the OTHER Frank Wilson of The Remarkables/Frankie Vance etc. Any thoughts?

Great Soulcial as usual. Must agree that flip of Lenis Guess "Working for my baby" is awesome!

Also noticed on the Freddie Chavez scan artist is FRED DIE CHAVEZ-charming!

Hiya-was just speculating that's all. Got no direct proof other than Leon was working on loads of sessions for Nathan Nathaniel at this time (1966) and had a disc on Josie a few months before. It does sound like a lot of other stuff they were doing together at this time-Hideaways, Packers, Romeos etc. Do you know for definite it's the Sir John Jeffrey Quintet you're talking about as they seem to be later. Cheers Graham

Yep! Sorry got the wrong side

Don't forget that Curtis Mayfield did it himself with "You've been cheatin" and had to give Motown some of the publishing. Happened all the time and is still happening with the current Ed Sheeran court case.

Could this actually be Leon Haywood and the guys whose disc on Josie was 6 releases before the "Sir John" record? This was Leon & The Burners-Crack up and the link being N.Nathan( Magnificent Montague) who put out loads of discs with Leon under different names such as the Romeos, Soul Runners etc.