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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.

I'd like to see that too Benji

I wouldn’t want to go out and listen to a DJ playing affordable records I have, and that I can play at home myself.

Why aren’t they played then? Is it because in reality there aren’t lots of allnighter tunes at affordable prices….just affordable N.S.tunes.

PM'ed ya

https://www.soultracks.com/story-katherine-anderson-marvelettes-dies

I think people are buying them and flipping them 6 months- 18 months down the line OR truly putting them in their boxes…I concede perhaps a few DJs might be driving the prices.

I get your point Chalky...but you've made an assumption people paying big bucks for records are DJ's who want tham to play out. I don't think that's the case.

thank you Max, Peter.

had notification today that the book has shipped.

enjoy Sandra

Any promoter or plugger will tell you that a soon as the very word "soul" is mentioned in connection with a new release then the BBC is going to classify it as "specialised". It is shaming to think how hard "soul" records and artists have to struggle in order to get equal air-time from the BBC. Sadly (or luckily) "soul" music has never become sufficiently trendy or chic to gather much of a middle class following and so it remains unknown amongst the mass public. No, not me Dave Godin letters extract, The Guardian 1975. Oh how he would have gone to task with this lot now!

Let’s give the guy a break now…he knows how we feel, and we have to let him sort it. let’s take a deep breath for a week

Max-a lot of guy’s run as one/two person enterprises-and manage.Your real failure is really bad communication with customers. you might want to re-think your marketing and distribution. as said in my previous post…you are obviously a soul devote, so I have lot of time for you on that score…but you can’t keep advertising stuff you can’t fulfill in a timely manner

Not sure about that. I thought $7 for post BUT my PayPal account /brewery invoice was more

tha maddening thing is...Max wrote and did a great piece of research/interviews on the Ultimates-and published it in The Philly Enquirer Jan 2022. So he is a devotte.

they might just as well be saying "alexia play"!

yes...like a fool i thought it can't be as bad as the Nu-Ron's fiasco. It's a book! It's in Print isnt it? but having emailed them (20th Aug), this is what i got back Hey now! How goes it. So we blew through 100 copies and need to link with the author to get more - he’s an odd fellow, but we are working on it! Thanks for writing. sometimes i'm thick and sometimes i'm stupid. on that day i was both @Brewerytownbeats

the very funny Rose Matafeo appeared on The One Show tonight wearing a big logo Wigan Casino t-shirt? It's a BBC epidemic and it is spreading a pseudo Northern Soul virus.

It's (the book) under copyright protection...but it is page 172. As for the B&S issue, i don't have it.