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Has anybody mentioned Muscle (Mussel) Shoals?

Which reminds me "I've seen fish full of mercury". Marvin Gaye : Mercy, mercy me (the ecology)

Junior Parker: Just Like A Fish on Mercury

From the earlier days of our music

If we add Cod Bless The Child by Billie Holliday A Plaice in the Sun by Stevie Wonder and You Set my Sole on Fire by Edwin Starr we'll have enough for an album (the Compleat Angler?)

Here are DG's comments on "Secret Sounds" and two reveals, printed in B&S #74 (Dec 1971). He promised more in subsequent issues, but I haven't found them, yet.

The last issue I have is #39 (Frankie Beverly - bottom right), so it ran on for a few more months. Two different issue 33s inside two 34 boxes (see pic), a planned club in central London and the addition of northern club news around this time, so production issues and seemingly a last attempt to expand its audience, before its inevitable demise, I fear. I'm playing number one as I am typing and it plays OK for a forty plus year old much-travelled tape. I can't find any more, but if anyone is interested in making a serious offer (as seen, not heard), do send a pm...

Here are a few more. I think I have some of the half dozen missing numbers too; I just need to go through a few more boxes! If I remember rightly they made a mess of the numbering and labelling around #33 and 34. Not my favourite soul music-era, but I was living in Tanzania when these were first issued (1982), so they were a bit of a musical life-line at that time.

You might like to read this article about Moses Dillard, which appeared in Blues and Soul #160 (May 1975). Moses was also politically active, so it runs in the family. (I'd forgotten that Joshua Dillard was a fictional brother; he was actually a Mr James Moore.)

As the Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield once wrote (quoting Edgar Allan Poe), "Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear". If they had known about the internet, perhaps they would have added " and even less of what you read on-line".

Why not contact daughter Chandra Dillard, who is a South Carolina State Representative. A busy lady I'm sure, but she will be pleased to read of your (our) interest in her father's work (see link). https://www.localmusicscenesc.com/moses-dillard By the way what an interesting album "Now!" is. Way ahead of its time when released in 1969.

And then there was Kurtis Scott (aka Kurtis Harris or actually Curtis Futch Jr) - see review from Dave Godin's Rhythm and Soul USA New Series #1 (dated 1966) and a couple more early photographs of Jimmy. For anyone still awake on this topic, BMI's Songview website lists 319 of his songs to go through, under various combinations of his names (most interesting are the names of his collaborators, which may - or may not - indicate they are separate people). BAILEY RALPH 319 Work Titles Current Affiliation: BMI IPI #: 1833916

Ken Williams, the one person who could probably have helped identify his musical partner's vocals, sadly passed away last Summer. Ken Williams a-dish-a-tunes website still stands giving a partial (not full) discography and thirty second introductions to some of his songs, including Big Jim's Border Crossing and J.R. Bailey's take on Sweet Music, Soft Lights and You, which I hadn't heard before. https://www.adishatunes.com/full-discography

Is the second part " Let us not get too convivial"?

Here's the B&S 168 (Sept 1975) and Black Music (Oct 1976) and the notes to the Soul Brother CD. My collection is bound so not so easy to scan or photograph.

Just been listening through the various tracks mentioned above. Great, great vocals (especially on That's Her (That's The Girl For You)), but one wonders what impression (pun intended) his Jerry Butler-style (or clone) vocals created on Curtis Mayfield, when Curtis' former group-mate and friend was performing at his peak in the late sixties/early seventies, albeit contracted elsewhere (Mercury). I do not have the "gimme some mod jazz" compilation, or the original 45/album, so can't check the liner notes/credits, but is Mission Impossible our man? He is described as a bassist above and a guitar-player and musical director elsewhere, but neither instrument comes to the fore on the Hammond-organ driven canter through this oft-recorded film music.

Here they are.

You have to put in J.G. Lewis (not J G Lewis), then it comes up with three titles.

Let the Music Play (as J G Lewis) on Super Duper Love (Mainstream Hits and Rarities 1973-76) - (CD KEND 457) You Make Me Feel Like Someone on Kent/Modern's Serious Shades of Soul (CD KEND119)

Thanks Mickey. I am looking forward to receiving Soul on the Real Side number 15 later today. In the meantime, partly to stop myself grumbling about the missing volume, I have curated my own playlist on iTunes for #13. I do not think any of the tracks below have been included on modern soul CD compilations before. And as a non-club-goer I do not know if all of these would light up the dancefloor, but they certainly set my soul on fire. I know I should get out more… 1. I've Got What You Need Smokie Norful 2. You Lose This Time Joe Graham 3. Get Down Spyder Turner 4. Just Me and You Juggy Murray Jones 5. I've Been Down Peabo Bryson 6. Crème De Crème William DeVaughn 7. Through All Times Chuck Jackson 8. I Destroyed Your Love Special Delivery featuring Terry Huff 9. Come Live with Me Stan Ivory 10. Finally Got Over on You Matt Covington (Philly Devotions) 11. Where Did I Go Wrong Rance Allen Group 12. Wouldn't You Like to See Norman Connors featuring Eleanor Mills 13. I Believe in Love Dee Dee Sharp Gamble 14. Rising Cost of Love Jean Terrell 15. The Finger Pointers Choice Four 16. I Love You (Over and Over) J W McGee 17. If You Want a Love Affair Mighty Pope 18. Helping Hand Arthur Miles 19. Hold On (To Your Dreams) Wee Gee

Hold On by Sam Cooke

Great series, look forward to ordering, but where's number 13? See link to my earlier grumble...

Much better in its natural form, without the scratchin', or whatever it is called

Another sad loss. Sincere condolences to his family and those close to him. Here is Barrett describing the creative process, before launching into "I Heard It Through The Grapevine".