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You didn't finish your sentence. The notes say................ What do they tell us that we didn't know? I read them all on both videos, and saw nothing new.
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The background tracks are good. The song is okay, writing wise. But he's not much of a singer. I've seen that record before in Chicago in the late '60s, and passed it up, even for 25 cents, or whatever the low price was. I know it was a low price, because I was wrestling with myself to decide if I should waste the few cents just to hear it and satisfy my curiosity. But, I finally decided there was 99.7+ % it would be garbage (and it turns out I was right). I'd never heard it before just now.
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Interesting. I didn't know that.
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I agree. That sounds more likely, given that we haven't seen Amnon Feldman listed as a Chess writer. I forgot about Artie Feldman. I wonder if he was Amnon's father?
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I don't know for sure. But that group worked with Chess Records, and so did he. Despite the fact that his record was out a few years before Rotary Connection had that LP released, he might well have known Minnie Ripperton when she was a member of The Starlets. Maybe Feldman was hired as a staff songwriter for Cadet-Concept's not-so-soulful (more mainstream) material? How many Feldmans worked for Chess? The odds are good that he was the writer.
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Also the fact that The Chess Brothers knew Feldman's name when they signed him. Why would they wait until his record had already been, slated, assigned a number, and some of his records were pressed up before realising that his name might cause sales to be less than reasonably profitable? I don't remember any major atrocities committed by Jews in USA around that time. Had they felt that way, they'd have signed him only under the condition that he'd adopt a "stage name", if he wanted to have a significant singing career.
