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"We're gonna make it" is a positive Black power song, in the style of curtis mayfield's move on up. Sorry for assuming you knew my website, it's www.sittinginthepark.com. Thanks so much to you and everyone else that helped with the audio

"New World" is just a play on the name "World Column". It's idiotic, I knew two of the members for at least two years (if you look at my website I already interviewed one of the members in the passions interview) and nobody ever thought of it. I was just talking to one of them about their recordings the other day, I was like "was the world column the last thing you did" and then he was like "well, we went to curtom but they ditched the band and only recorded us vocalists" and that's how we got into the new world stuff. They had previously told me that the world column vocalist had sounded exactly like curtis though, I guess it's most clear on "we're gonna make it". I have no idea why it came out on polydor, I will try to ask Rich Tufo about it. A bunch of nice people here helped me with the "we're gonna make it" side but I still need audio of the other side, please email to bobabrahamian (at) gmail.com. I'm interviewing the other guy later this month about the many other groups he was in. thanks.

i will dig stuff out when i get a chance. off the top of my head there is a cherries on big beat. there is an ultra-rare triplett twins 45 on markeda. I think you're missing a whole sublabel, like greens iii or something like that.

it's missing this record which is a duplicate number: https://cgi.ebay.com/Northern-Soul-SOMETHING-NEW-on-Curtom_W0QQitemZ170352906443QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item27a9d310cb&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65:1|66:4|39:1|293:6|294:200

So apparently new world on polydor are the vocalists from the world column. The world column were a mixed race soul / horn rock group. Curtom signed them but ditched the band and just kept the vocalists (all Black), 3 men and one woman, all from Gary, In. One of the members was previously in the passions / newday. Another was in the senators on abner and valiants on destination. Can anyone supply me with audio of both sides of the polydor 45 to send to the group members? Thank you

the multi colored release has a different number, like 501 or something like that, and is vinyl. the ladue high school I think is later than the multi colored, it's red or orange i think it's styrene, and was probably pressed for their prom or graduation or something like that.

the problem is that many of these were not only pressed in chicago but many actually ended up being chicago artists. for example, the spencer jackson family "bring back peace to the world" on little lynns. i can fill in a bunch of random numbers for you later if you want though. there are a ton of big beat #s.

some good info here, they say that the HBR / Liberty group was flint (and include the lineup) and probably not the Encore group: https://soulfuldetroit.com/archives/1/636.html?1020915993 the flint group still might be related to the sound impressions group if I can find a common publishing, I have to check the publishing on the record still

maybe there was a common publishing or something, I will check that later.

the sound impression record sounds almost like a garage record but I think it's a black group because of 1) the bass voice and 2) the lead does sound pretty black. I think the names on the record sound like white people's names though, like white people were producing the record and trying to make it sounds garagey. The names on the sound impression record are: writer: Powl Christianson Produced by Greg Sutton Engineer: Brian Dombrowski Arranged and conducted by Martin simmons the four gents records on encore are written by Tom Kemp. one is arranged by Dale Warren, one is arranged by Henry Smith Jr. They are a Meehan - McGuire production. I suprisingly don't have the HBR record, can someone check that one for a common name? as it is, there is no common name across these two. For the record, here is the info on the gents on paramount: Both sides written by Bobby Flax, Lenny Lambert Arranged by Paul Griffin Engineered by Jerome Gaspar For the record, I was wrong when I said 40 pounds was the "going rate", I think I paid $50 for my VG copy of the Gents on sound impressions and have only seen it for sale a few times, I think $100 for M- copy once, so it is pretty rare and 40 pounds is a pretty good price for a M- copy I guess. I would say the value is still based more on rarity than quality though as it's just a garagey group funk record to me. Can someone post the info on the HBR record? it's common but I don't have it.

my friend called gordon keith today and gordon keith confirmed that it is 100% not michael singing on the ripples and the waves track, that mp3.com story is total BS. he just put "featuring michael" on the record to sell more tracks. there was a member of the ripples and waves named michael but he wasn't the lead singer and if michael jackson was the lead, he would have written "featuring michael jackson". additionally, the record was done after the jacksons were already on motown and there was no way he would have had access to michael at that point and it was not an older recording. ben brown was also previously perpetuating another story that the ripples and waves was the original name of the j5 before the j5, but that is obviously not true as evidenced by that newspaper clipping.

i told you i didn't have it with the lyrics insert, i was the second bidder, you could have just offered it to me for your minimum and saved the fees.

i'll give you 210 pounds for it

pressing looks more detroitey than ohio, don't you think? i will look at the names on the encore and paramount and sound impressions records later.

pressing looks more detroitey than ohio, don't you think? i will look at the names on the encore and paramount and sound impressions records later.

I think people are getting the two different leonard adair titles and their respective values confused in this thread.

i never made the connection to the four gents? i will compare names across the records tonight. I have the gents on paramount, will compare names on that also when I get home.

i never made the connection to the four gents? i will compare names across the records tonight. I have the gents on paramount, will compare names on that also when I get home.

i never made the connection to the four gents? i will compare names across the records tonight. I have the gents on paramount, will compare names on that also when I get home.

i don't think mike noriega would bootleg something and then put his name on it but who knows. he did legitimately do lee silver stuff, this is probably also legit. I like his label design.

i agree, both sides of the brent 45 are great, love the male group backing

about the going rate. decent group funk track.

Hi. Today on my radio show I interviewed legendary Chicago guitarist Larry Blasingaine. Larry started to learn to play guitar at age 7 as therapy in order to recover from a car accident. In a few years he formed a band called the Four Dukes and began to play the Teens with Talent shows on the west side of Chicago. The band became the backing band for the Baby Miracles, playing together as one of the main "four acts" of the teens with talent shows. The Baby Miracles / Four Dukes were discovered at a show and signed a contract with One-Der-Ful records, changing their name to the Young Folk. The Young Folk released one record, "Joey", an excellent mid-tempo Chicago teen sound, in 1967. The group had to change their name due to a dispute with another group of the same name and One-Der-Ful expressed interest in the lead singer, Madeline, as a solo artist. The label released one more record, "Behave yourself", as by Miss Madeline, actually not backed by the Young Folk. The Four Dukes, although still in their early teens, became house musicians for One-Der-Ful records, backing many artists on their records. The group was initially billed as "the Registers" on Alvin Cash' records and soon was renamed as "Larry and the Hippies". In the interview, Larry even tells the story of adding extra guitar on "Big Boy", the first Jackson Five record. Larry and the Hippies soon had their first record released on Toddlin' Town records -- Gimme some of yours / Enough for everybody. The record got some play in Chicago, especially by DJ Butterball Crane. The Hippies also soon began to get bookings by Perv Staples, who took them on his live tours backing the Emotions, and who had the band as the house band at his many local clubs. The Hippies were managed by Tommy Dark (formerly of the Ideals) who also managed Gene Chandler. Tommy introduced Larry to Jackie Wilson, and the Hippies backed Jackie on a show. The Hippies soon became Jackie Wilson's touring band and Larry became Wilson's personal guitarist and touring producer. Larry soon became the live show producer for all Brunswick touring artists, doing the charts and backing such artists as the Artistics, Barbara Acklin, etc. Larry also joined his own group at Brunswick, Channel 3. Although the group wrote and recorded many songs, they only released one single. Although he continued to work with Jackie Wilson as his personal guitarist, Larry soon left Brunswick records to work as a record producer with Clarence Johnson. He was initially called in to help finish producing and mixing the Brighter Side of Darkness LP. He produced other material for Chicago artists on 20th Century / GEC, for such artists as Pat and Pam, North, South, East, West, Betty Jean Plummer (who later recorded as Jean Plum on Hi records), etc. 20th Century even flew in artists from other cities (such as Chuck Walker) to be produced by Larry for the label. Larry also released a record by Keanya Collins on his own Forever label. After the death of Jackie Wilson, Larry ceased his production work, but has continued to play in local bands and is beginning to produce new music again. You can check out my interview on my interviews page at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html thanks, Bob

there are 3 marvels on finer arts, all killer group soul records from denver somehow. i also have 4-5 photos of the group, the label owner died and some junker guy got all the stuff of the estate and sold all the stuff on ebay a few years ago. there is a terrible pop version of 'miracle of life' that i have also.

I just looked at the sir shambling site, the "person who found him" was just the guy from this page: https://www.djmadlad.com/ I already had been in contact with some associated people, including donny brown, who cut the excellent 45 "fool i was fool I am", who contacted me a while ago after I played his record on my show to ask me to make me a recording of his 45 for him, I asked him a little bit about robert tanner and he talked about him and knowing him but I didn't pursue it because I thought that he had already been contacted, etc. i didn't go into detail about the 45s because people tend to not remember all the details about the 45s from back in the day or have anything anyways. nobody i ever interview ever has any copies of any of their records for example. it would still be interesting to get confirmation from andy whether he was talking about a 3rd robert tanner 45 or that other artist just backed by the jivers.