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also, everything I'm going to bid on somehow gets bid up to like 4x the actual value, insane, ebay needs to fix this right away.

i can't tell if you're making a joke but i'm pretty sure that's her on overdub

i'm sorry, but this is sort of retarded, they took another modulations video and edited it to look like they were singing hopelessly in love? weak. i guess they did an okay job, it looks believable, but that's not what they're actually singing.

not good

I really don't see the point of posting a link to a live ebay auction, in this case I don't see a motive other than a record that the poster already owns (which he admits to owning) that he wants to maintain the value of, either because it somehow maintains its reputation as "top spin" or because he might even sell it later and doesn't want it to go low. Pretty weak. I hate when people post links to live ebay auctions here and I hate the stupid ebay ads here too, as it draws attention to stuff that I might otherwise get cheap as a buyer (but at least that probably gets Mike some money for the site).

what were your four wants?

the real question is, who the were the charmers, the same names are on the pip record and the laurie records but the laurie records have a female lead with male backing group and the pip record is a female group.

In the interview vandy lane confirms it is the group. The group is from saginaw, mi, which is where lj reynolds and stevie wonder are from.

Hi. Yesterday on my radio show I interviewed Maurice Jackson, solo artist and member of the Independents and Silk. Maurice grew up in Altgeld Gardens, the housing on the southern border of the Chicago. Maurice started singing at an early age in church and began taking voice lessons and singing in talent shows in high school. He even turned down an opportunity to sign with Capitol records, as his father discouraged him from singing secular music. After leaving high school Maurice went to Reno, Nevada and on his first day there, Maurice happened to notice and sign up for a talent audition. When he finally got called up to sing Maurice sang "100 pounds of clay" and was sent home. Two weeks later Maurice got a call and found that he won the competition and that the audition was for a television program called "Break out". He initially started working television and then began to front a band called Maurice and the Mark IV. The band got a lot of work as they were a White band fronted by an African American vocalist so they were able to do a wide range of material and were able to cover R&B material such as James Brown, Otis Redding, and Wilson Pickett that was popular in the area at the time. The band even later changed their name to the Citations (solely due to the fact that "Maurice and the Mark IV" didn't fit on the Marquee for a specific show) and performed for about 5 years but never recorded. Around 1969, the Checkmates recorded Maurice's first record, "Maybe", in Reno. Maurice left Reno and moved back to Chicago and met E Rodney Jones, who took the record to Weis records and released the record. Although the record had a really nice Chicago sound, the record did not get much play. Maurice's followup record, "Lucky fellow", was produced by Emmett Gardner, arranged by Donny Hathaway, and backed by the Contributors of Soul. The record became Maurice's biggest solo record. The record was a huge hit in Chicago, having an all-time classic Chicago soul sound. It was released locally on the Candle-lite label and released nationally on the Lakeside label. Maurice even performed the song on the national Soul Train show show in California. Maurice released one more solo record recorded possibly at the same session (at least it was produced by the same people with the same backing singers) called "Step by step", released on the Plum label. The record did not receive much play, despite having a nice Chicago sound. In the early 70s, Maurice was performing in Chicago with singer Helen Curry in the local club the Green Bunny. They formed a group with a singer named Ben Fernandez called Benjamin and Company and began performing in a club called the Pumpkin Room; the group performed fifth-dimension styled pop soul. After about a year, Benjamin and Company broke up and Maurice and Helen were performing on the same bill as separate artists. Chuck Jackson (brother of Jesse Jackson, no relation to the "Any day now" singer) and co-songwriter Marvin Yancy had recorded a demo (with Chuck singing lead) called "Just as long as you need me" and they came down to Maurice and Helen's practice to try to get a group together to release the track under. Maurice and Helen agreed to form a group with Chuck, named "The Independents" (based on the fact that they were all really independent artists), and signed with manager Eddie Thomas to Scepter / Wand records. Their first record, "Just as long as you need me" was actually just the demo record -- Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy -- backed by a third unknown female singer. The record was a hit, reaching number 8 on the Billboard R&B Charts. The Independents' subsequent recordings were Chuck Jackson, Maurice Jackson, and Helen Curry, occasionally with additional vocals by Marvin Yancy on record; however Yancy was not an official member of the group and did not tour with the group. The Independents were an unusual group in that they released 8 singles and every single record they released charted in the billboard R&B charts. Their record "Leaving me" was a number 1 R&B hit. The group soon found that they needed a permanent fourth member to add the high parts that Yancy sang on record; the group added Eric Thomas (who they found via Jesse Jackson, as Thomas sang in the Operation Push Choir). The Independents toured Internationally and were successful; however, Maurice left in 1974 to join the Ministry and the group soon broke up. In 1976, Maurice decided to get back into music. He formed a new group called Silk, with Eric Thomas (of the Independents) and Arthur Reid (also from the Operation Push Choir). The group got hooked up with a manager in New York who sent them to Al Bell and David Porter in Memphis to record. Silk released an album on New York's Prelude records in 1977, and the first single from the album, "Party" became a national hit. The record had an interesting southern disco sound, being produced by Stax producers but with a contemporary flavor. A follow up single from the record did not get any play. Prelude released a second LP on the group, recorded by Gene Barge in Chicago, but did not release any singles off the LP and it did not receieve any play. Silk soon broke up. Jackson released one more single in 1980 on Sidney Thomas' Parrall / Parallel records -- "Don't Stop Saying you Love me" / "True love is you". The record had an excellent indie soul sound but received little play or distribution. Since then, Jackson went back to focus on his work in the ministry. He has recently began to work in music again, recording as "Maurice" with his daughters, and is currently releasing a second CD as "Maurice". You can check out the interview at the bottom of my interviews page at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html thanks, Bob

yes, this was a local hit ('please stay') nobody represses a record a million times based off of "hope"

chicago group by the way

You should definitely buy the reissue on CD if you like the LP as there are a ton of bonus tracks, all finished and all in the style of the LP, some superior to what's on the LP in my opinion. I think the reissue was also done on LP but I'm not sure if the LP contains all the bonus tracks. There are also extensive liner notes.

noriega sold a few unissued acetates on ebay, i assume he has some more too

mike noriega also did a reissue of this stuff with lee silver and would know, did ace/kent do one afterwards?

rare sam cooke northern record: just for you on SAR

i don't know it and I thought it was pretty good, is it a 45 or LP?

I was going to say the same thing, you have 45 days, not 30 days

hi dave. I believe you and I see he wrote the song, but do you have an accurate source on this? I would like to forward the info on to my friend who is finishing the new volume of the soul harmony singles book and there is a lot of false information and rumors floating around so he wouldn't take the info without a real source. Is ronnie love still alive? Does this mean the essex iv is a white group?

i don't know the ownership by the way, so it might be owned by the spectrum people, but I don't think so.

it's not a sister company, it's a contemporary label that picked up material, they also picked up a mandells single. so it's a reissue in a sense, but not a reissue like a reissue at a later date post-hit, more like atlantic picking up a smaller label, except in this case a small label picking up a smaller label.

the CD was legitimately reissued from the master tapes with many unreleased bonus tracks (NOT BOOTED) with extensive liner notes including interviews from norman whiteside from prison by the folks at Numero Group. When someone from the label asked for people's comments here about how they liked the music to send to Norman in a letter, nobody even responded, some fans...

i love the "try me" 45 but the wee LP always sounded like a weak ripoff of what the Isleys were doing at the time, I always wondered if the rare soul people are so out of the loop of mainstream music that they don't know the connnection or if I'm just way off base here.

thanks for listening to the interview and the feedback, this record sounds like a rock record to me when I listen to it, it's definitely not the chicago group in any case.

i thought this was a great interview actually, I was surprised by the lack of response, maurice has some great stories and people should really check this one out.

why doesn't dave thorley hit up manny campbell for the tapes and license and issue the LP, i bet he would only have to sell the LP for $200 apiece to make a profit