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nice impressions type sound. how expensive is this? is this hard?

Thanks for the feedback. I don't think that there was a connection to Donald Jenkins with the Elgins (although he was in a couple doowop things before the delighters). I posted some other shows here, PM me if you want links to them or if you want me to put you on my weekly emailing of a link to my show. Thanks.

It didn't come out on another label. There is a lee dorsey song called people gonna talk, don't know if you're thinking of that?

the group's other witch 45 ("lonely boy") is much much harder to find (and better in my opinion)

You can listen to the show at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/8-5-2007.mp3 Here is the playlist. Thanks. Nobles - You ain't right - Stacy Jay Wiggins - Tears of a lover - Solid Tony Williams - 24 hours a day - Phillips Carl Lester + the showstopper - When you see me hurt - Brent Bossmen - Take it easy - Vim Richettes - This is our first date - Apt Ruby Lee - I believe in you - Poptone Varetta + the Thomases - Fly by night - Brent Upnilons - He fell for me at first sight - Lummtone Elgins - Finding a sweetheart - Lummtone Notations - Now I know - CRA James Bell + Highlighters - The love of my girl - PRP Pearls - Shooting High - Lamp Rock n' Co - You live only once - AMG Moments - My thing - Stang Gil Billingsley - I'm just me - Landy Bug Hodges James Smith + Crawford - Let's pick up the pieces - Mpingo Sharon Clark + Bits of Honey - Don't push my love cup aside - Penthouse Phil Lowman - I'd like to make it with you - Palos High and Mighty - The fire's all over - Chelsea Energy - Better not live outside your heart - Shout Whatnauts - You forget too easy - Stang Bad News Band - Diamond Feather - NMI

it's the same detroit guy

Hey Tommy, what's up. I have this record, it's Clear Hill 101 - Woman (I can't do enough) / bye-bye I have a record question for you, I'm gonna PM you... thanks, Bob

I'm 100% ikea bookshelves (not totally floor to ceiling but works well):

yeah, that's me. it's a long list though.

Andy knows about Duke + Peacock, I think he told me he was waiting to put it up or something. I think these regional sites are great, even when they start off sparse, just by their focused nature they became a place to really collect all the information about that specific place. For example, if I see an unlisted texas 45, I'll submit it to that site before submitting it to one of the several other discography sites (which are also very good, just less specific).

my favorites: Linda Jones Barbara Lynn Dee Dee Warwick Patti Hamilton (not a solo artist though)

If someone wants to trade a little oscar for a continental showstoppers, i think i have a double of the little oscar somewhere

throwaway instrumental flips got reused a lot as b-sides. For example, the 'soulin with the whatnauts' track got put on at least 3 singles I think. Also, there's all those dore 45s that reuse the same instrumental flip sides as filler.

I don't want to be ultra-negative here, but I would suggest that before buying this book someone looks through a copy before dropping the $$$. I was going to buy them and was at a friend's house and he started complaining about it. The thing is rife with errors -- obviously any discographical attempt will have errors, but this thing would have, for common labels with many known titles, only two entries, combined with some entries from totally unrelated labels from different time periods. The information in the book was so sparse (missing so much really basic information) that I would consider it not useful at all for a serious collector. Also, the person who was complaining about it to me runs one of those regional discographical websites and said that information was completely stolen verbatim from his site with no credit. All I have to say is that it's a pretty big investment to buy this book, so someone considering it should look at one of them first. Thanks.

it is, they are all chicago records

I have the valentine adams record, it's a new york label I think. It's more doowop even than "deep". I will check if it's the falcons record when I get home (I don't think it was).

the lovations were a philly group that recorded on a DC label. This info came from one of the fawns (relayed to me by someone else). So it makes sense that they were at least on another pennsylvania label. I guess they might have been Pittsburgh also (if the woman didn't remember well). But they definitely weren't from DC.

I will try to make you a recording when I get home from work. That should have said the impalas on down to earth (not bunky) by the way, that's the cut that shares the backing track. Thanks.

yes, the bandolier record was AZ. Thanks.

that was a good price on the record. Probably almost no one knows this, but the capitols has the same backing track as the impalas on bunky. One of the impalas told me that bunky sheppard had somehow brought the already made backing track over, I don't know how he ended up with it.

hey Jason, I liked that Force record and had never heard it before. Do you know if it's the same group as on Bandolier? The Bandolier record has a nice group side also.

thanks, it's not a big deal, it would just be cool to get to the bottom of this.

can you tell when the vashons was pressed by matrix / deadwax markings? Do you know where the vashons record is from? If it's not from LA, it's probably a cover. Totally unrelated, but I have a bizarre phonetics record no one knows about, I got it on ebay a few years ago (it was actually cracked, I hate cracked records, but I just wanted to hear it). It's on a label called H-E-D and both sides are doowop (one is uptempo, but still too early to have northern interest). It's probably earlier than all the trudel stuff, but it's definitely the same or connected phonetics as willie hutch has writing credits. I even asked doowop people and no one knew it. Strange that there would be an unknown phonetics 45.

I don't know the history. The reason I thought it was a cover and not an original is that the Marvellos "We Go Together" was their hit (obviously minor) in the US (I know the northern side is the flip, but people in the US remember "we go together"). Even one of the Marvelows talked to me about it, he was like "they ripped us off and did our songs at shows, but they did have one good song 'we go together'". I always assumed that it was a cover of a minor hit song by an obscure group. Also, lots of times when groups covered records they or the label owners credited themselves, even though they were not the writers (I can pull out a bunch of examples if you care). So it's hard to tell from just the label, unless it's possible to date it somehow as before 6/66, which is when the soul harmony singles book says the marvellos came out.

that vashons is a marvellos cover, in case anyone cares