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The family tree is here The Drifters and that is just the list for the official Drifters as owned by the Treadwells. The American versions such as Bill Pinkney's original Drifters and Charlie Thomas's Drifters combined would probably run to similar lengths.

Yes, you tell the kids of today that and they won't believe you. Thirty years ago

Tghere are some women who have this concept expressed in the question "Don't you have enough records?" Enough?

His slight dissatisfaction took up half the Blog. He ignores the existence of Leiber and Stoller Present the Spark Records Story 2001 CD, Ace CDCHD 801 and Elvis Sings Leiber & Stoller RCA 3026 As if BMG woudl lease Elvis recordings to Kent.

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Am i right in thinking the Soul City compilation CD was mastered from the re issued singles?

Only the ones who own the clubs they play in.

thank you Senator Joe McCarthy for naming everybody bar the black guy who wrote the song , Solomon Linda. One off payments were not uncommon and as the article you directed us to indicates the Weavers' publisher registered the song and credited The Weavers as arrangers. Like Alan Price registered himself as the arranger of the "Traditional" song The House of the Rising Sun and Paul Simon lifting Martin Carthy's arrangement of Angie and if you have the album you'll see the sole credit as Trad Ar. Simon. You also missed out the names of the other songwriters who lifted the tune then again George Weiss, Luigi Creatore, and Hugo Peretti, may be connected to an Italian American cultural society so I understand your reticence. as the article states

Frank Wilson was a Jobete songwriter and a Motown producer. I don't think he's skint and I'm sure he took more money home from Motown than most of their non song writing artists. As for taking money from Kenny Burrell I understand Frank offered hiim a larger sum of money for his single.

Don't they all?

All record companies did his but there were no special covers made for the southern states. I think we've discussed this before so The Supemes had a photograph and Martha and the Vandellas had a cartoon cover

It is unlikely that the sound system at The casino was set up in stereo. Most Club systems were mono thus ensuring that most dancers heard the sound properly rather than those on the left hearing the rhythm section and those on the right the brass section. EMperor Rosko who used a well regarded Orange system in his road show claimed he could use it to "fake " stereo and "chase " sounds" from left to right. I'm taking a guess here but her probably fed the left and right stereo signals into amps that fed speakers on both stage left and right. Some early stereo singles (69 -73) had a wide stereo field which was OK in a living room but would be lost on a crowd in a hall. Most dance oriented singles today are almost mono in that there is very little difference between what is on the left and right channels. Over to you Russ.

Were the working classes too poor to buy records?

So which member of the Dells left the group, died of drugs etc. The Dells were consultants on the film in that writer , producer and director Robert Townsend accompanied them on tour. I am sure they gave him lots of stories which he included in the film. Like the story when Jackie Wilson was hung out of a window. The Five Heartbeats was mostly an exaggerated film based on The Temptations but given that most of them were alive when it was filmed it could not mention the group. The Temptations Movie was based on the memoirs of sole surviving original member Otis Williams so it would have been difficult to sue. The ells were formed in the early 50s in Harvey, Illinois by high school friends Marvin Junior, Charles Barksdale, Johnny Funches, Verne Allison, and Michael McGill. In 1961, a frustrated Funches left the group and was replaced by falsetto singer Johnny Carter. the current line up is still Marvin Junior (lead baritone), John Carter (lead tenor), Charles Barksdale (bass), Michael McGill (baritone) and Verne Allison (second tenor) .that's what over 45 years continuity and their nearest competitors in the longevity state with a stable line up were the Four Tops.

The Dells were consultants in that Robert Townend (writer and director) went on tour with them. But given The Dells hold the record as the group with the same line up for the longest period I would not say it was based on them. Nobody left the Dells or died of drugs. If you watch the film the group that springs to mind is the Temptations. All Movie guide says this Plot Synopsisby Hal EricksonLoosely based on the life and times of several R&B artists (The Dells, The Temptations, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others) The Five Heartbeats traces the rise and fall of a popular African-American 1950s singing aggregation. The story is told from the point of view of one of the "Heartbeats," played by Robert Townsend (who also co-produced, directed and co-wrote the script with Keenan Ivory Waynans). The film is an amalgam of anecdotes drawn from real-life experiences: the long struggle upward, the first rush of success, the dishonest record-company executives, the hard-nosed but nurturing managers, the sex, the drugs, the isolation and the precipitous downward slide. The film begins and ends in the 1990s, as the middle-aged "Duck" (Townsend) ruminates on the past and makes the best of the present.

Yes that's because Sonny Boy Williamson heard Green Onions in 1962 and decided to borrow its riff for his 1963 release of Help Me. of course in Bluesland they believe it was Sonny Boy who was ripped off by Booker T. Thus ignoring Sonny Boy's (or Aleck Rice Miller as he was known to his family) habit of "borrowing" other things. Like taking his name from the original Sonny Boy Williamson a younger blues man born John Lee Curtis Williamson. Anyway Help Me is still a great record.

No there wasn't . There was a petition on the government's site calling fo a non existent (as usual with these petitions) non impending and utterly fictituous ban on public photography. What we do have is heavies and other members of the great British public thinking photographers should not be taking photographs in public because they might be paedophiles, terrorists or that the public has the right not to be photographed. For the rest of this story which was started by a photographer harrassed by some of the above check here "Thousands sign petition"

I do a Monday morning show on Subcity radio and had been thinking of taking in a box of the many twelves I have sitting about shelves. So I haulwed out a random mix of funk, disco and pop. #3 on the list was Muddy Waters Mannish Boy Sylvester Dance (Disco Heat) Gray and Hanks Dancin' France Joli Come to me If you want to check the rest opf the list and maybe listen to the show click here https://www.subcity.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6089

Somebody at Boots has a copy....

The Bill withers' clips from the Old grey whistle test features this line up. /index.php?showtopic=59934

According to Simon White ia an album only track. I can't find it on the singles discography on soulfulkinda music. I've got it on the UK London Cameo Parkway sessions Thanks Pikey for the original release.

Slutsky, Allan, Standing in the Shadows of Motown. Hal Leonard Corporation, 1989 the Book was about James Jamerson and his bass playing. It included bass charts and a CD of a number of people he influenced including paul mccartney playing Jamerson's bass lines, There's some reviews here https://www.amazon.com/Standing-Shadows-Mot...n/dp/0881888826 Ignore the bit about LA sessioneers playing on Motown hit singles. Jack Ashford's book is called Motown The view from the bottom https://www.amazon.co.uk/Motown-View-Bottom...d/dp/1904408206

You've got nu jazz, nu funk and Nu soul so why not. I presume it's to distinguish recent mod bads from original mod and mod revival outfits. It also involves the wearing of hats and using the demonstrative "Thee" rather than the simple "The" in your name. I do believe the tag mod band in any shape or form is the kiss of death for any decent guitar band that plays uptempo music.

Soulful Allsorts with Fraser Dunn Saturday afternoons 2 till 4pm live on www.subcity.org and on Listen again to Soulful Allsorts

Fopp used to sell these at £3.00.