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Hi. Today on my radio show I did an interesting interview with Chicago recording artist Renaldo Domino (aka Renaldo Jones). Renaldo started recording while he was still attending Calumet High School on the south side of Chicago. His first recording -- "I'm hip to your game" / "I love my girl" was recorded in a tiny, low-budget studio and pressed in small quantity on the Arnell record label. Renaldo and his manager William Sandy Johnson were able to use the record to get a recording contract with Mercury records. Domino released two records on Mercury's Smash subsidiary -- "I'm getting nearer to your love" and a redone version of "I'm hip to your game". Both records got radio play in Chicago and Domino began to tour around the midwest with his band the Dots. Domino's final Mercury single, "Just say the word", was his biggest hit on the label. Due to lack of promotion, Domino left Mercury and signed to Chicago's Twinight label. He released three singles on the label, all produced by Richard Pegue. "Not too cool to cry" and "Let me come within" received local radio play but the final single, "You need to be loved on" had little promotion and Domino got a release from the label. After a few unsuccessful attempts to secure a record deal on other Chicago labels, Domino left music to pursue his career. You can check out the interview at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html thanks, Bob

i would recommend: the whispers - bingo - janus. Chuck Jackson - through all time - abc

at least you're not asking for the neutron dance

the steve mancha is great too

I'm pretty sure they're all white based on the harmony on their other two singles on the giant step label. Cold hard world is a pretty nice sweet soul title but it sort of gets ruined by turning into a prog jam

there are duplicated numbers on the label so the discog is not necessarily wrong. sebastian appears to be the guy who knows about this label though.

I agree, you gotta know the sellers. For example, if some sellers aren't good graders but I also know that they don't know how to clean records well, I know I can often buy a beat up record and clean it up to make it sound better.

this is a hard record, doesn't come up for sale often, but I guess not as valuable as, say, the idols or intensions. i would still value it around 200-300 pounds mint. i have an MBS acetate of an alternate version of "sometimes baby" along with a different unreleased track on the flip. I assume it's the demo that the cascades took to USA to get a deal.

I didn't realize it was on a 45 (I'm just reading the other posts above), I thought it was LP-only sorry.

I play this track around my birthday every year on my radio show. My birthday is exactly a week from today if anyone wants to send me records as a present... Of course the track is actually about Bobby Rogers (Wanda's husband), I always assumed it was never released as a single just because it was sort of just like a personal song from her to him. Great track.

I was actually shocked at the other thread some time back where people were complaining about having worn needles on the turntables at soul nights. I have never heard of DJs dropping $$$$ or more on records and then not bringing their own cartridges. In any other DJing genre of music there probably wouldn't be any cartridges supplied for you at all on the turntables because it would be assumed you brought your own cartridges (if not your own turntables entirely).

plus there are always true deals that you can get lucky on (e.g. other people don't miss out). I'm just saying I'm not noticing a general trend (other than the book prices being too high in general). I definitely have gotten some deals over the years, usually on mis-listed or undergraded records though.

the one advertised in the thread specifically says "low vinyl wear"

I don't think that record cracked is worth $32. Both the fabulous apollos you won were listed as VG-. I'm not seeing deals.

no, it's a funk record with a nice sweet soul flip. the intentions is chicago (and are not the intensions and are supposedly the pharoahs, even though both groups went to the same high school). The only three is philly i think. I imagine there are other records called "dig it" also...

I'm glad you were able to fill your list. What's funny is that I own two of the titles you needed, but neither of the two chicago titles...

thanks everyone for the feedback, I appreciate it. A lot of these people are very difficult to find, it takes detective work, word of mouth, and sometimes being in the right place at the right time. To Melismo: all the o'jays bell sides are awesome, you should check them out. Look over your shoulder is classic, there is a nice version that george kerr did with the escorts also, and there is also the apparently original version by the implements on phillips. I saw the O'Jays live at a free show in Chicago about 5-6 years ago, they started to do look over your shoulder and they stopped because the crowd wasn't into it and only wanted to hear 70s material. I was pissed. They were still great though.

so did you just drop like 20 grand on 45s?

there is a really good sweet soul 45 by the omystics, I played it on my radio show a week ago if you want to hear it.

That's even better then ... I would be even happier to have a true original.

did he confirm just the deadwax or also the label and vinyl? I didn't really believe that these were represses but last weekend I heard a story about the same people in question repressing a rare doowop record by getting ahold of the original stampers and trying to pass them off as original. I heard Val Shively got a copy and compared it to his original and saw a difference in the vinyl quality and label color and declared them to be represses. I guess while these might be originals, they could also be boots given that the seller might have had access to the stampers given that the record is also from Las Vegas. I would like to know how the frederick hymes actually compared to the confirmed originals. Either way, I don't really feel ripped off having paid $150 for the "newer" copies, even if it turns out to be a repress it still should be worth at least that much given that all are gone, the demand, etc. It's not like other people paid less.

thanks

Hi. Today on my radio show I did a short interview with a member of the soul group the Ringleaders. I also did a music show. Both are online. The Ringleaders were from Saginaw, a small Michigan manufacturing city that was the birthplace of both Stevie Wonder and LJ Reynolds of the Dramatics. The Ringleaders formed in 1964. A year later the group left the city to try to get a record deal. Failing to get a deal in Detroit, the group traveled to Chicago and went to the different companies on record row. The group signed with Ernie Leaner at One-Der-Ful records. The group recorded four songs in one session in Chicago. In 1966, "Let's start over" / "Baby what has happened to our love" was released on M-Pac records (a division on One-Der-Ful). Despite being an excellent two-sider that got local radio play (both on the ballad side and the uptempo side), the group's followup single was never released. The group returned to Saginaw and did only a couple of shows (including a show opening up for the Four Tops) before breaking up. Today "Baby what has happened to our love" is highly collectible as a Northern Soul single in the UK and the studio acetates the group's unreleased tracks ("All of my life" and "Win you over") have sold for large amounts of money. You can listen to my interview at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html I also did a music show. You can listen to the music part of my show at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/9-14-2008.mp3 Playlist follows. Thanks for your interest. Richard Popcorn Wylie - Do you still care for me? - Epic Freddie Butler - I'm gonna be with you - M+M Diplomats - Cards on the table - Arock Uniques - Pretty baby - 620 Rocky Brown - Den of love - Melron Charmers - I cried - Laurie Resonics - I'm really in love - Lucky Token Sonics - This broken heart - Checker Hi C's - Just how it is - Hi C O'Jays - Look over your shoulder - Bell Milton Floyd - I'm a shadow - Rim Burke Family - Under the spell - Cobblestone Brotherly Love - I don't see me in your eyes anymore - Music Merchant Cheryl Williams - I'm your fool - Bengee Al Jay - Reflections - Bumpshop Night Riders - Girls in the city - Eclipse Delfonics - Seventeen and in love - Philly Groove Fourth Creation - I think I would cry - Daran

my copy does not say 'little tony clark', it says 'tony clarke'. the record is from detroit. it is "the" tony clarke.

At a record show today I picked up the delacardos on dimension. the track is called "dance gypsy dance" and it's pretty nice, sounds sort of like the hollywood flames dance senorita. Is this record known at all? It's definitely the atlantic group, but it's not listed in the soul harmony singles book. it's not in the new tim brown guide (I only have a very old manship guide so I can't look there). Is this known at all? the only place I see it listed is in dave rimmer's dimension discography. Thanks.