Kenb

Now at #35 in the long running informative 'Northern Connections' series by @Kenb Northern Connections # 35 - Child Of Friendship, Train Robbers Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full

Hi Paul, @Paul-s, the thought of anyone having lessons ( back in the day) would have been laughable. If known, you’d have to hide from your mates never to be seen again. equally £22 a week for “skilled “ turners, fitters, etc , let alone apprentices ( as I was) would rule it out anyway. finally, teaching-wise, no one would even know what Northern Soul was, let alone Northern Soul dancing.

I'm interested. And my explanation is, I have no issue with 1977 or the dancing of that tme. But that's not what goes on today ( which will become the norm).

the thing is though... when we are all dead ( probably me not too far in the distant future) 'their' dancing will be the norm.

It's definately the same Marty Lewis who was involved with Soulin' Record Co at 1812 Constantinople, N.O. But i thought Flame Records ( and Emalf [Flame backwards] Music Pub) was someone else's. Big Deal records, or maybe Marty himself was at one time located in Cheneyville, just South of Alexandria. Not sure which.

me too

back in 2018 i did a piece on Philharmonics ( New Orleans, Isaac Bolden, etc). i have a few notes from then... Marty was ( i believe ) a construction worker who won a talent comp about 1955/56. Coincidentally, Kenny Guidry and The Clouds of Joy were runners up.I don't know if the 'Joy biit' has anythng to do with Oliver Joy. @Michael Bailey

@Frost Byte https://garagehangover.com/new-york-public-library-gigs-1966-1970/ this should help, i hope

I doubt this would get played at a nighter/or real deal venue. Although watzit (Ms Junoff) and many others ‘did get a go’. I quite like it. But I’d leave if I heard it out at a venue.

What a mammoth task. Congrats Steve

I think DJ’s get (are getting) a bad rap on these topics of late. No…I’m not a DJ, and don’t want to be a DJ. In the majority of cases, many of the DJ’s play lists (I hear out) seem very mixed with new and old(er). From ‘younger’ DJ’s like Jordan to our ‘ faithful’ DJ’s, it all seems pretty good to me. So where are those ‘lazy’ DJ’s everyone’s banging on about who play ‘same old, same old’- I’ve obviously missed them.

wasn't it Domain 1st, then Megaphone? Sepe and Brooks Megaphone label only really started late '67 early '68.

not fond of camera's at venues at all. At least 'Skippy Sue' (R.I.P) would ask first. i've seen them held up to Shazam 'tunes' which seems a bit over the top.

I'll leave it there...because unlike you i don't have to win best ken

here's one Paul. You can't have it both ways fella. i.e a Manefesto of unwritten rules and then when challenged in a topic you make that challenge Public. Especially if the person on the receiving end of the perceived 'slant' feels it's just plain unjust. another of the unwritten rules of yesteryear, sort it out. what happens in PM should stay in PM.

Ralphie D= may well have been Italian/Amercan from Florida...and potentially a radio D.J. from that area

@Bunderthollox https://billleslie.com/about/ and, Bill Covington who plays piano on “Peaceful Journey” was the keyboardist for the Cyntriks

i don't think it's catalogued correctly on discogs. i.e. United Record Profile: Sublabel of Blanco y Negro. Jim Stanton did do stuff (eng) at United Music World/United Low Country Records. These are Columbia, South Carolina. hope it helps? P.S. Soul Ufonics (from Bamberg, S.C)

I'd happily play 70% of the 'tunes' posted here, at home. Some very worthwhile 45's. again...for those who 'gun jump' to post-some very nice 45's. worth buying. However, i wouldn't want to hear more than 1 or 2 played at a venue. God forbid all of them. more than 2 or 3...then as a one time acquaintance would say to me...i'm not gettin' off my boney Arse for that Sh*t. And I'd been getting the bus home. It seems to me that the original post has in someways become a 'race to the bottom'. OP - "many unknown to the majority"... really

I was meaning to bring a little new info to this topic after the original OP in April 2019. After the initial post I did some digging… but got side-tracked, and so i totally forgot. Until…John M’s auction listing of ‘Let My Heart…’ (ending 25/10/2023) jogged me to ‘post -up’. Group names can be found on Discogs and elsewhere. I’m going to touch on the other folks associated with the groups recording. Better known locally as ‘Tike’, Plato Theophilos wrote the lyrics and the melody on ‘Let My Heart..'. Nick Barker was a senior at the University of Maryland. Recorded separately on 3 tracks Nick wrote the music for the musicians. 12 violins, 9 Brass, 3 Rhythm. Vocals were added, and Ron Bollon, ‘Tike’ and Joe Bradley did the mixing at his studio. Ron Bollon who was a native New Yorker working in Baltimore, took it to Okeh. If the record could do well, they would get finance for more projects so they ‘shopped’ the 45 around the DJ’s and Radio Stations (as per previous post Al Jefferson at WWIN) including Eddie C at WEBB, with the help of some members of the group, ‘Tike’ and Fred Teves promo man at Schwartz Bros. Plato Theophilos (Tike) was an entrepreneurial guy. Since 1974 he had owned and ran Revolution Bar, and then in 1988 opened another bar called Rev on Maryland Ave, and his connections continued with WHFS Radio (Annapolis) DJ’s showing up on opening night. Rev maybe didn’t do so well? -because in 1989 Rev and an after-hours club called Cignel merged as Studio 10 on Lafayette Ave. There was an intention to use it as a ‘studio’ for record promo parties. Perhaps lofty ambitions. Plato was owner manager. Some other associations in print at Baltimore Sounds by Joe Vaccarino; Tangiers & Jetsons 1965 p479, Chancellors as backing group 1968 & name change from Tangiers to Tan Geers p480. Plato also managed Koffee Beans and name-changed them to Gross National Product, Nick Barker on keyboards, p194.Three members of the band had been together with the Jetsons p257. Jim Buckley ‘Third Time Today on Format Records, Bollon & Plato produced p59. Ron Price recorded at Bradley studios and released on Newark Records co-produced by Bollon p376. There are more I’m sure, and even think Nick Barker had been in the Uptowns who backed Clay Hunt (Bay Sound).

this brilliant piece by Gary E. will help you understand the 'vagaries' of these Tide recordings.... https://topshelfoldies.org/tide_edit_records.htm

about 1998 - Rev Ralph Beechum, Pastor of the House of Joy Miracle Deliverance Church. The church is/was at 31st ave Denver, became MLK blvd ( Martin Luther King). i'll take another look when i get a mo

i may have posted this ( or something with it) before..anyhow; World Wide Sound Dist Inc 407 Hamilton First American Bank Bldg: Memphis based, co-owned by businessman Bill Harper in early 1975, and formed to help the “little man” in the recording industry. Originally ‘homed’ at 147 Jefferson, Bill was also owner of River Records. In 1973 Bill’s partner and v.p. at River Records was Harold Streibich, quite a renowned attorney and music man. As early as 1968, Harold Streibich was president in Music Memphis Inc. formed to promote ‘the Memphis sound’. Other officers included Jim Stewart (Stax), Rufus Thomas, and Knox Phillips. Harold was also on the board of governors of the Nashville Chapter of The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, as well as prexy of Memphis Music Bill also owned First American Music Co & Memphis Artists booking agency. Most of the River Records output before 1975 had been distributed by NSD (Nashville Sound Dist). Addresses can be a revealing thing! Investors Associates of America (pre-Oct 1972 formerly known as Hamilton Security Inc, Liberty National Securities & Harper Investment Co) at 147 Jefferson had officers that included Bill Harper. Essentially Liberty was in the Municipal Bonds business (debt securities issued by states, cities, counties and other governmental entities to fund day-to-day obligations and to finance capital projects such as building schools and highways). All had connections to First American Bank Bldg, Suite 407. In Feb 1976 the sale of Hamilton First American Bank went to United American Bank.

Affordable AND good (for DJ purposes at nighters) don't often go together. Rare and underplayed are by their very nature expensive. Sure DJ's can slip more affordable 45's in their sets...but if they are any good they won't stay affordable for long.