Just wanted to add a few things about Hunter Hancock. The Swingin' label was owned by Mr. Hancock and his business partner Roger Davenport.
I don't think Hunter had to adapt to the African- American community since he had been playing R & B on KVFD (later KPOP) since the late 1940's.
He joined the station in 1944 and is considered to be one of the 1st deejays to play R & B in the western parts of the U.S. . He started broadcasting
Jazz in 1944 and switched to R & B in 1947. in 1949, Jay McNeely recorded this for Hunter-
I have no idea how e-bay U.K. is set up but in the U.S., once I select R & B / Soul 45's and 7 inch - I can another use another filter with the following options in Item Location- within ____ miles, U.S. only, North America and Worldwide.
I noticed the same thing a few weeks ago- suddenly most of the R& B/ Soul 45's were from the U.K. If you scroll further down on the page, you can pick another filter "U.S. only" if you don't want to look at all the U.K. listings.
I think you're looking at Carole through the wrong lens. She was on tv today and was commenting on this clip. In her interview, she mentioned
Aretha rarely if ever played the piano in her later years, when Carole saw this she was astounded and went into complete fan girl mode!