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"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.

Some great choices so far. My main man is – and always will be – Tyrone Davis. The song that got me hooked was “Could I Forget You” (Dakar) on an Atlantic compilation called “Heavy Soul”. https://www.discogs.com/release/6811218-Various-Heavy-Soul What an album that was for someone finding their way in the world of soul music. This track along with John E Abbey’s enthusiastic reviews of each of Tyrone’s releases in Blues and Soul had me searching out all of his earlier recordings and everything he released until his untimely passing in 2005. “The Ladies Choice” triple CD is an easy way to hear all of his Dakar material (but perhaps not for those who prefer to listen to vinyl only); my only disappointment is that it did not include any previously unreleased tracks. There was always much duplication in his output, so amongst my collection of 49 Tyrone albums and 65 singles, I have at least 13 copies and some five different versions of “Can I Change My Mind”. The success of Tyrone’s sound went on to influence many other producers/artists and a future thread might try to identify some of these. Examples include Vernon Garrett “I Am at The Crossroads” (White Enterprises); Air Tight “When It Works Out That Way” (Blues Unlimited); and Nate Evans “This Time with Feeling” (DPR). And, of course, many tracks by, if not the entire works of, Marvin Sease…

A short feature by Colin Paterson on the BBC News at Six about South London funk band Cymande, which may be of interest to some (about 26 minutes in, between the French farmers' protests and the escaped macaque stories). https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001vwr9/bbc-news-at-six-01022024 It follows an article in the Guardian, almost two years ago. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/09/cymande-the-classic-british-funk-band-you-dont-know-you-know They made some great, and clearly enduring, records like The Message, Brothers on the Slide, Dove etc, which I used to hear at the 100 Club in the 1970s. I am not aware of them having much traction on the NS scene at that time, but they might get played in Bristol now.

Hi Simon, A couple of adverts from Blues and Soul, one in May 1985 showing number SOS #038 and then in July 1985 with an offer of buy one get one free (to clear the remaining stock?). I can see no more adverts after that. This was at a the time when CDs were taking over from cassettes (and vinyl, but not for many of those on here!), so perhaps demand for anything on tape was dropping. I'll pm you about the remaining tapes.

Welcome Simon, My collection goes up to number 39 (1985), which as far as I am aware, was the last. It featured interviews with Frankie Beverly, the Dazz Band, Joanna Gardener and Steve Arrington as well as two preview mixes from Mick Parkinson.

Another of my Marlena Shaw favourites is "Could It Be You" from the Phil Upchurch album "Name Of The Game" (1984). Unfortunately, I cannot find a YouTube link to this track (although there are about 1,000 uploads of "You Can't Sit Down" (1961)). Phil's website https://philupchurch.com/ details his interesting career and many other collaborations.

Thank you for sharing this. A sad loss. Here are a couple of my favourites.

Rob, I suspect the one you are referring to is SOS #5, where the mix includes D Train - Keep On, Wham - Young Guns and Rockers Revenge - Acapella Sunshine (Walking On Sunshine), together. There are many, many versions of Walking On Sunshine listed on Discogs, but this one is called Acapella Sunshine. https://www.discogs.com/release/19735-Rockers-Revenge-Featuring-Donnie-Calvin-Walking-On-Sunshine-82 In 1982 I was living in Tanzania, so the SOS tapes were my soul lifeline. This issue introduced me to some wonderful tracks for the first time including Curtis Mayfield - Hey Baby, Johnnie Taylor - What About My Love, Gil Scott-Heron - Explanations, Gwen McCrae - Doin' It, Willie Hutch - Inside Out (we'll ignore Wham, Nick Straker etc). Here is the list of the complete mix:

Rob, Welcome. It must have been one of the early mixes - 1982 - so issues 1 to 10. A version of Walking On Sunshine by Rocker's Revenge (featuring Donnie Calvin) is part of the mix on issue 1, along with Keep On by D Train, but not You're The One For Me or the Wham track (not really our thing!). I'll keep listening and let you know if I come across the other tracks. They are only 30 second bursts and the sound quality of the first issue was poor; they got better. Here is the rest of the mix on issue 1

Did anybody else hear this on Friday? The NS feature starts 29 minutes in... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001v3w2

I have always enjoyed the Originals version of Just To Keep You Satisfied, a sequel to the Monitors original (?) version and a prequel to the re-written version by Marvin Gaye on his Let's Get It On album. Here's all three. There's also a version of God Is Love by Marvin that reuses the music from the Monitors' version of JTKYS. I am sure others on here will know even more connections.

There are so many, but one I have played often recently is the Premium (Fortenberry III) version of Keith Barrow’s “You Know You Want To Be Loved”. The song was written by Michael Stokes and Ronn Matlock; I wonder if there is a Ronn Matlock version somewhere? Alas, both Barrow and Premium died relatively young and in sad circumstances. Incidentally, Premium also recorded an album, Keep It Comin’, with the recently departed Jean Knight.

As my job took me to live in various places in Africa, Asia, Australia and beyond, I transferred much of my record collection onto TDK tapes, which weighed considerably less than vinyl, so less expensive to ship. If anybody in the Chester area is interested in collecting about 200 tapes of every type of soul music, but mainly 70s, do send me a PM. They are yours for a donation to our local homeless charity. https://shareaid.co.uk/ I have an Excel spreadsheet detailing their contents, which I would be glad to send to anyone who is prepared to give the tapes a good home. Can't vouch for their quality; some are 40 plus years old and have travelled 70,000 miles.

I have a CD released in 1995 called Led Zeppelin's Sources of Inspiration