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Detroit Files: Major Reynolds Interview - Tri-Sound and Amazing labels Frustrated that Ed Wingate wouldn't sign up any of the local talent he was auditioning for Golden World, in 1966 Major decided to create his own recording company. It was the start of an expensive and mostly fruitless venture in the music business, but the recordings live on.

Detroit Files: Ronald Davis Interview Ron's songwriting career was short but sweet and revolved around CorrecTone recording Co. The first song that got recorded - Gino Is A Coward - became a hit when released on the Ric-Tic label. Ron got disillusioned with the recording business and who knows what would have happened if he'd joined Motown as was proposed by Mickey Stevenson. Reposted for reference and navigation ease Forum original post and comments https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/448033-ronald-davis-interview/

Don talks about his early years in the music business - at the birth of Soul - and the influence of church and jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, as well some recordings by local pioneers such as Robert West and Johnnie Mae Matthews. Reposted for reference and navigation ease Forum original post https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/447731-don-davis-interview/#comment-100205351

'Mike Hanks was a true pioneer of R'n'B is remembered by his wife, Gracie, and some of the people, such as Johnnie Mae Matthews and Joe Hunter, who worked with him. Mike's career took in the birth of Soul in the late 50s as well as Detroit's heyday as a recording center.' Reposted for reference and navigation ease Forum original post and comments https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/446690-mike-hanks-story/

Detroit files: Fred Bridges of The Brothers of Soul interview (Bridges, Knight & Eaton) Reposted for reference and navigation ease 24 Dec 2023 After a couple of solo records in the early Sixties, Fred teamed up with Robert Eaton and Richard Knight - The Brothers of Soul. The trio had some success, but their 45s should have sold more and after listening to them, you have to wonder what went wrong. Forum original post and comments https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/446260-fred-bridges-interview-brothers-of-soul/

Reposted for reference and navigation ease 29 Nov 2023 Robert was at Motown almost from the very start and his bass can be heard on early Tamla recordings, many of which he and Brian Holland had a hand in producing. He left Berry Gordy and set up Correc-Tone, where he launched Wilson Pickett's career, which then took him to New York. Forum original post and comments https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/445772-robert-bateman-interview/

Reposted for reference and navigation ease The Volumes crossed over with their first recording in 1962, but it wasn't until Duke Browner began penning their songs via Harry Balk that the group began making trademark Detroit Sound discs. Forum original post and comments https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/445117-eddie-union-of-the-volumes-interview-uploaded/

Reposted for reference and navigation ease Starting to dream of The Big Time at the age of 12, Ron's journey to success wove its way through gigging in Detroit's array of nightclubs and cabarets when just 13, to recording for Ed Wingate at 15. After a close shave during the riots of '67, the Big Time duly arrived once The Dramatics hooked up with Tony Hester in 1969. Forum original post and comments https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/444883-ron-banks-dramatics-interview/

Detroit Files: Carlis 'Sonny' Munro interview (Playboys & Falcons) Reposted for reference and navigation ease 14 Oct 2023 Influenced by a combination of his mother's gospel singing, his own recitals of Haydn's choral pieces and Jackie Wilson's early career with The Dominoes, Sonny's tenor started to feature on recordings in the fifties, with his last session in 1980. Sonny and his group worked with Robert West, a pioneer of Detroit R'n'B, and in this interview he shares his memories of Detroit's golden era. Forum original post and comments https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/444666-sonny-munro-interview/

Reposted for reference and navigation ease Juggling work on the assembly line at Dodge Main and gigging at night clubs and show bars during the 1960s is something of a Detroit phenomenon. Edward Hamilton did it with pizzazz. And then there are his recordings. Forum original post and comments https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/444374-edward-hamilton-interview-on-youtube/

Buddy was a close friend of Tony Clarke and talks about their experiences in Detroit during the late 1950s, plus his own 1967 recording for Brute Records. Posted in the forums originally https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/444195-buddy-smith-interview-on-youtube/ Reposted for reference and navigation ease

Reposted for reference and navigation ease Memory lane has never had so many diversions. Al recalls recording two of Berry Gordy's early compositions at Chess studios in Chicago in 1957, his brother Bobby's contribution at Ed Wingate's Golden World Records in Detroit, and his own experiences at Ric-Tic. It's quite a journey, one filled with lots of great music. Forum original post https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/444053-al-kent-interview-on-youtube/

Joe's personal account in this edition of The Detroit Files encompasses decades of music - from honing his piano skills with a jazz maestro in the military during the 1940s to touring with Hank Ballard & The Midnighters in the fifties, then helping Berry Gordy build the foundations of Motown, working with Mike Hanks and going on to create a rich legacy of superb Soul during the sixties. Note this video was posted in the forum on October 11, 2021 Can read comments and such here https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/423667-joe-hunter-interview/