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Thank you for this. Mercifully there is an instrumental version too - which still names the sporting hero Henry "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron in the title. Country soul reminiscent of Roy C's Honeydrippers/J Hines and the Boys etc.

Here is Paul Kelly's "The Upset". Great tune, from a great talent, which I had not heard before, so thank-you. Btw on the Pieces of a Dream song Fo-Fi-Fo (4-5-4), Moses Malone is talking to Dr J - who I now discover is Julius Erving, another basketball player.

Saddened to learn of the passing of ex-baseball player Willie Mays, aged 93. He was featured in the Joe Tex song “I’m A Man”, b-side to S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song) on Dial. Any other songs featuring sporting heroes? I can think of basketball player Moses Malone in Pieces of a Dream’s Fo-Fi-Fo and a few that feature Muhammad Ali (Alvin Cash, Matt Covington etc).

"Love Is Trying To Got A Hold Of Me"

Saddened to learn of the passing on 26 April 2024 of Nick Daniels III, vocalist on Tavasco's "Love Is Trying To Get On Me" (Rampart - 1980). Sincere condolences to his wife, family and friends. https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/festivals/dumpstaphunk-bassist-nick-daniels-iii-has-died/article_e0e290f0-04bb-11ef-967f-57af343b4fc3.html Apart from the Tavasco 504 album mentioned in my earlier post, he was also the featured vocalist on an album called Run To Daylight released in 2022 by the Groove Krewe, a New Orleans musicians' collective. He also worked closely with the Meters/Neville Brothers and was a member of their off-shoot band Dumpstaphunk. Here is the title-track from Tavasco 504's "Be Yourself", with Nick (left below) singing and playing his distinctive five-string bass.

Here is an article on Tavasco (now known as Tavasco 504), written at the time of the release of their Be Yourself CD (Mar/Apr 2021). Its release coincided with the start of the pandemic, so it probably didn't get much promotion. The album is a mixed bag, albeit with occasional bursts of great vocals. There is no mention in the article of Love Is Trying To Get A Hold Of Me, but it definitely the same group given the solid New Orleans credentials and the uniqueness of the name, which is explained in the article (a verbal conflation of Courvoisier and Tabasco, apparently!). Does anybody know the tracks that were supposedly released in the UK on the "Hidden New Orleans" album? I can't find any reference to it elsewhere. BandTavasco504_MarApr_2021.pdf

I particularly like his later sides, including "Better Believe It" (link attached), "Just Like The First Time" and the ballad "Bless Your Little Heart". There was a great compilation called Better Believe It: The Cream Of The 70s Sides issued by Westside in 2000, which included the bizarrely titled "Watchin' Johnny Carson Thru' My Toes"

Alas, the end of the second clip perpetuates the myth...

Thanks for this. Sad to learn of Edith Brown's passing. Shame no one took up Willie Barney's offer to reissue all of the Four Brothers material (final paragraph of the article in Juke Blues #14).

I can't find any reference to Sam and Kitty in Robert Pruter's book "Chicago Soul" (Bayou Press 1991), but he did refer to them in an article on Four Brothers/Bright Star/Hit Sound for Juke Blues #14 (Winter 1988/89) and in a discography in the following issue #15 (Spring 1989). He names them as LeRoy Dandridge and Edith Brown, perhaps the source of the information for the "In The Basement" article.

A member of the Tymes may have forgotten the name of the writer of "You Little Trustmaker", but it is on the disc and can be confirmed by searching https://repertoire.bmi.com/ (then enter writer/composer Christopher Mark Jackson), which also show the 26 other songs he wrote and registered on BMI.

I said in my first post that I am having feelings of déjà vu with elements of this thread and it seems we have been over this ground at least four times before! Chris L;'s reply on 15 June 2012 (page 3 of Artists We Know Nothing About -below) seems most interesting.

There is also this Van McCoy article (Black Music, July 1975), interviewed by Tony Cummings (not NS's favourite scribe, if I remember correctly), which refers to both Chris Bartley and Mark (Chris) Jackson (end of column seven and column eight).

BMI lists 27 songs by Christopher Mark Jackson, including all of the songs mentioned in the article, and the BMI award-winning "You Little Trustmaker" by the Tymes (1974). Meanwhile, in 1972 Chris Bartley was recording with the the Ray Alexander Technique "I Am In Love With You", "I Wonder Why", although I prefer "Taking The Long Way Home", with a different lead?

I am having feelings of déjà vu with elements of this thread. Here are the three articles in Blues and Soul about Chris Bartley (December 1968) and Chris Jackson (April and August 1970). One has already been attached to this thread. Both appear to be real people! One a native New Yorker, the other from Detroit.