Jump to content

Luke LJ James

closed
  • Posts

    3
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Feedback

    0%

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Tilbury Essex England
  • Top Soul Sound
    Northern Soul - Motown - Songs from the soul

Profile Fields

  • A brief intro...
    Whats mine is yours Np's - Dj'ed all over europe for 25+years

Recent Profile Visitors

283 profile views

Luke LJ James's Achievements

Member

Member (1/20)

  • Week One Done
  • One Month Later
  • One Year In

Recent Badges

1

Reputation

  1. thx joe .... Apparently there was some issues with label release and contracts so it ended up being unreleased completely motown , .... This demo was erroneously credited to the Contours, but it is unknown who is singing lead. It was suspected possibly William Weatherspoon, one of the song's writers, but I don't know his voice to be sure if its him. It was never written or intended for the Contours and I believe by this time they were no longer recording at Motown. This song was written by William Weatherspoon, James Dean, and Marilyn McLeod in 1968 and assigned to the Four Tops. Levi added his lead vocal to the track and background vocals provided by the Originals and the Andantes. Surprisingly, no Tops on this track. The song was left in the vaults until a few years ago when it was finally released on Ace's One Track Mind - More Motown Guys. As for this demo, if I remember correctly the beginning portion with the piano riff was added in the 80s by Ian Levine because the beginning part was missing from the acetate. then theres this too, Records actually show two demo vocals and two leads of this track being recorded with the very first late in 1968 and there is no mention anywhere of the Contours - the only group associated with the song are The Tops. Only the one released (eventually) vocal by Levi remains although there is a Tops stereo mix still to come (hopefully) some day. My guess is the acetate was indeed by producers - writers for evaluation and the increase in speed has been caused by constant re-recording and sharing over the years onto tape by fans. But ive seen the promo in a video it does exist and i want one lol
  2. Apparently there was some issues with label release and contracts so it ended up being unreleased completely motown , .... This demo was erroneously credited to the Contours, but it is unknown who is singing lead. It was suspected possibly William Weatherspoon, one of the song's writers, but I don't know his voice to be sure if its him. It was never written or intended for the Contours and I believe by this time they were no longer recording at Motown. This song was written by William Weatherspoon, James Dean, and Marilyn McLeod in 1968 and assigned to the Four Tops. Levi added his lead vocal to the track and background vocals provided by the Originals and the Andantes. Surprisingly, no Tops on this track. The song was left in the vaults until a few years ago when it was finally released on Ace's One Track Mind - More Motown Guys. As for this demo, if I remember correctly the beginning portion with the piano riff was added in the 80s by Ian Levine because the beginning part was missing from the acetate. then theres this too, Records actually show two demo vocals and two leads of this track being recorded with the very first late in 1968 and there is no mention anywhere of the Contours - the only group associated with the song are The Tops. Only the one released (eventually) vocal by Levi remains although there is a Tops stereo mix still to come (hopefully) some day. My guess is the acetate was indeed by producers - writers for evaluation and the increase in speed has been caused by constant re-recording and sharing over the years onto tape by fans. But ive seen the promo in a video it does exist and i want one lol thx you lot
  3. Not too sure What to say unless i say it with music lol .... Ive Dj'ed all over europe but secretly collected Soul for years ... Theres nothing else like it . check these out i finished Processing and trying to filter/repair a load more songs beefing up the frequencies and trying to repair some old harsh sounding ones (mic repair - smooth distortion - bounce the L n R channels to mono then add Stereo imaging in the studio and maximising the so they rich warm and powerful as can be & make em beefy . took me 2 weeks to do 200 tracks my eyes are so sore and the studio chair has crippled my back had a mix up this morning though to test thru some normal speakers instead of monitors ..... was jumping aroung singing happy , Till i realised id been dancing round for 2 hours 20mins haha .. Time flys with these tracks my god... Any comments , memories , stories you got about any of these tracks or anything id love to hear and chat about . If any of you need anything , just ask its always np's ...... . Its all free non profit and just for the love of the music what i do ...its always a pleasure to help anyone i can . here goes memory lane time ..... i mastered it up Real quick but ya should really feel the low end and nice richer vocals througout .... except the couple of tracks that cost me £1000 :*( still sound wicked though haha <3 thx people nice to meet you all


×
×
  • Create New...