Robbk

I wonder if that is Chicago's arranger, or a different Johnny Cameron, operating out of New York? Is this a vocal or instrumental?

Yes. Those Metros and Nelson Sanders cuts came from the Gold Soul masters that Ron Murphy purchased.

All the Soul King releases were legitimate. The label was run by my good friend, Ron Murphy. He was honest as the day is long. He bought all those Gold Soul masters from the owner, and he bought the Doni Burdick from its owner, as well. They were released in 1991.

I would guess that Ruth Dolphin was the money partner with Al Scott in Call Me Records, and was a half-owned subsidiary of Money Records.

Those group histories above were written and researched by Marv Goldberg, and come from Marv Goldberg's (Group) Notebooks, with help from Victor Pearlin, Gordon Skadberg, and Ferdie Gonzalez. If such copyrighted Internet sections of articles are posted, the author should be credited.

Yes. I thought I had made that clear in my post. But I don't speak English very often, so maybe mine is rusty.

That Grand Opening in 1962 (above photo) was Dolphin's #2 store on Crenshaw Blvd. near 51st St. in Liemert Park (The Crenshaw Area). The original store on South Central Avenue near Vernon Avenue, in South Central Los Angeles (about 6.5 miles east of the new store) was opened in the late 1940s.

The last session WAS in 1974, and I do believe it was a Junior Walker session (or, at least, Walker's was one of the very last).

If you mean Johnny Manship, I'll agree. But why would you think Joe Moore was a Caucasian? Or do you think he was an African-American with Blue eyes, like Billy Eckstine. I seem to remember seeing a photo of Moore, and he was a Black man. Do you have some authoritative source for that information?

I like "I Still Can't Get To You" much, much better than its flip. I guess I;m still a Chicago Boy, at heart. "I'm Lost Without You" seems to wander some, and doesn't have the nice horns. I just don't like the song, nor the arrangement.

"I'm Lost Without You" sounds a lot more like a normal Jesse Herring-written song, arrangement by him, and a New York recording than its flip. Clearly, as Andy stated above, Jesse Herring produced, arranged, and had these 2 cuts recorded in New York, as normal, and Gloria Toote just leased them to Mar-V-Lus, instead of releasing them on Swa-Ray, Toote Town, or Tru-Glo-Town. It was just a coincidence that the other side sounded more like a Chicago song, and maybe that helped The Leaner Brothers decide to lease it.

Also, it was "false advertising", as the only song on it that was released as a single, ("Tistin' Postman" wasn't even a hit, and the others were garbage LP filler material. The first cover is very rare, while I've seen scads of the 2nd. I;m sure that they switched covers very early in the LPs sales run, maybe near the beginning of 1963.

Yes, I mixed up "Can You Talk" being on Dootone, rather than Money, but I remember some very late Money re-issues (but maybe I'm just remembering the mid '70s re-issues. Anything after 1971 or so, is a blur to me.

I thought I remember yet another re-issue of "Can You talk, and maybe a couple others of Money's '70s releases being re-released (pressed up) for The Low-Rider Scene in 1980 or 1981. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly, and that was in the late 1970s?

Record shop owner ("Dolphin's of Hollywood"), John Dolphin founded Money Records in 1954, after having sold his Recorded in Hollywood Records label masters. He ran Cash and Money Records until his untimely death from a shooting in late 1958. His wife ran the label into the 1980s.

Maybe Mar-V-Lus leased these particular cuts, as they sounded most like their own regular product.

Joe Moore's "I still Can't Get To You" is a Jesse Herring written song and production, but strangely appearing on The Leaner Brothers' small Chicago label, Mar-V-Lus. As both Herring and Moore worked out of New York, one would think this was just another of Herring's New York productions, leased to an out-of-town label, as Herring had done several times. But, surprisingly, this one SOUNDS like a Chicago recording! Could Herring have taken Moore to Chicago, to record Moore at One-Derful? Anyone know where it was recorded?

Clearly Monica must be Monk's wife or daughter. I guess he must have legally changed his name to "Higgins", as Cary Grant and so many actors legally changed their family names.

Monk Higgins' birth name was Milton Bland. I'm pretty sure he was related to Billy Bland (Satellite/St. Lawrence artist). Could Monica Higgins have been his daughter or wife? Was Monk credited on her '73 record?

I dwelt in The L.A. Area during 1966-72, and I've seen LOTS of BOTH green issues and the yellow issue. Actually, the yellow was the rarest, and I don't remember seeing that one until 1970 or so, so maybe that was a legit re-issue?

We all know there are a fair amount of dishonest dealers in the used record business. that's what made me leave the active collecting pursuit. I was sick and tired of meeting greedy, sick, dishonest chiselers, who would cheat their own grandmothers to make more money. I met so many that it turned me off from dealing with collectors and dealers. Too bad, because there are a lot of really great collectors, some of whom have become some of my best lifelong friends. Too bad we can't drum those thieves out of circulation (tar and feather them and abandon them on Pitcairn Island and force them to constantly listen to Dora Hall records until the go mad and die from choking on their own vomit!)

A Canadian born during or before WWII! Certainly not a current young Brit or American!

We also had a thread with hundreds of scans (with hundreds from myself, representing many hours of work by me) on a now defunct forum, called SoulTalk. But, alas those threads are lost. I still have all the sleeves and the individual scans. But, I'll never have the time again to post them (I have other priorities).

Yes. That's the one I used to use. Here's a comment on it: "I really hope 45cat can do something to save all the hard work Erling put into his site, As well as being a useful source of information it was an invaluable historic resource for the world of 7" records, over time i have contributed to his site and as a collector of 7" sleeves from the 50s and 60s i still have the sleeves, Erling recorded the smallest differences on what might appear to be identical sleeves A real shame if all his work was lost." I contributed to it as well.

Here is one website of which I know: https://www.45rpmrecords.com/ms/index_list.php But, there is a much more complete one I have used in the past: