THE JET SET LABEL

One of the reasons for Eddie and Raynoma's choice of Washington DC as the base for Shrine was the fact that, despite boasting a large black population and being the birthplace of soul stars like Marvin Gaye and Billy Stewart, the city had no R&B-oriented record label of note to cater to the local market.
Shrine's arrival on the DC scene was soon followed by Jet Set, a label set up by four extremely wealthy white socialites (Dimitri Villard, Leon De Young, Blair Butterfield and Christopher Cerf) who all had a great enthusiasm for soul music and wanted to get involved in making it. Rather than competing against each other, the labels' management teams saw more potential in working together to build a healthy music scene in the region. The Jet Set team used their contacts on Wall Street to secure financial input for Shrine, and Shrine lent some of its musical expertise, production staff and recording artists to Jet Set.
Some releases on Jet Set were leased in from elsewhere and featured worthwhile efforts by New Orleans soulman Eldridge Holmes and a garage collectable by the Creations, a band from Oxon Hill, Maryland. But releases by Barbara Long, Jimmy Armstrong, Jimmy Castor and Strings And Things feature significant Shrine input and have all made a. mark on the Northern Soul scene. Jimmy Armstrong's blasting floorshaker is the most obviously 'Northern' of the bunch, but the Strings And Things instrumental was known to Northern Soul fans as far back as the 70s, and Jimmy Castor's vocal version, received attention during the late 80s.
Last to be found was the rare Barbara Long disc, of which there are around a dozen copies in the UK. With Eddie, Raynoma and Dale Warren on the backroom credits and bearing Shrine's characteristic complex rchestral arrangement and crescendo-packed musical punctuation, this made its presence felt on all-nighter dancefloors in the early 90s, 'covered up' as Shirley Edwards.
Leasing deals with Jet Set brought some income in for Eddie, and other deals were attempted including offering Scepter two new Cautions tracks in November 1966, but nothing came of them and they were to be the last cuts recorded at Shrine. To add insult to injury, when Shrine folded and Eddie left all the Shrine mastertapes at Edgewood, Ed Green forwarded
what he could find to Eddie once he had settled in California, but in the meantime, some tracks had slipped out and eventually appeared unofficially on other labels.
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Two which have been traced are the Epsilons' "It's All Right'V'Mind In A Bind", which came out in 1967 on the DC independent HEM, and a whole album of Jimmy Castor Jet Set recordings (including the Shrine-related "Fabulous New York") which appeared on the Paul Winley label in the late 60s. Collectors can only wonder whether anything else remains to be turned up as unofficial releases on random labels unconnected with Shrine.
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ihrine Discography
US SINGLES
Shrine SR 0100         LINDA & THE VISTAS: Bad Apple / She Went Away (DJ or issue, 2/65)	
Shrine SR 0101	LEROY TAYLOR / FOUR KAYS: Taking My Time / III Understand (DJ/issue. r
(After SR 0101 no	DJ/demo copies of any release was pressed*
Shrine SR 0102	JIMMY ARMSTRONG: I'm About To Say Goodbye / Mystery (1965)	
Shrine SR 0103         RAY POLLARD: No More Like Me / This Time (I'm Gonna Be True) (1965)	
Shrine SR 104	THE CAUTIONS: Watch Your Step / Is It Right 1965)	
Shrine SR 105	unreleased
Shrine SR 106	THE EPSILONS: Mad At The World / I'm So Devoted (early 1966)	
Shrine SR 107	THE DC BLOSSOMS: I Know About Her / Hey Boy (unreleased)	
Shrine SR 108	JD BRYANT: I Won't Be Coming Back / Walk On lunreleased)	
Shrine SR 109	SIDNEY HALL: The Weekend / I'm A Lover i jnreleased) 	
Shrine SR 110	SHIRLEY EDWARDS: It's Your Love/ Dream My Heart (unreleased)	
Shrine SR 111	THE CAIROS: Don't Fight It/Stop Overlooking Me (unreleased)	
Shrine SR 112	EDDIE DAYE / FOUR BARS: Guess Who Loves You /
What Am I Gonna Do (unreleased)	
Shrine SR 113	BILL DENNIS: I'll Never Let you Get Away / Poor Little Fool (unreleased)	
Shrine SR 114	LES CHANSONETTES: Deeper / Don't Let Him Hurt You (unreleased)	
Shrine SR 115	THE CAUTIONS: No Other Way / Poor Loser jnreleased)	
Shrine SR 116	THE PROPHETS: Huh Baby/(If I Had) One Gold Piece (unreleased)	
Shrine SR 117	THE COUNTS: Peaches Baby / My Only Love jnreleased)	
Shrine SR 118	THE ENJOYABLES: Shame / I'll Take You Back lunreleased)	
Shrine SR 119	CAVALIERS: Do What I Want/Tighten Up (unreleased)	
US JET SET SINGLES
(* denotes Shrine involvement)
Jet Set 765	ELDRIDGE HOLMES: Gone, Gone, Gone / Worried Over You (1965)	
Jet Set 766	SUZY COPE: And Now I Don't Want You / You Can't Say I Never Told You (
Jet Set 767	CLARENCE MOBLEY: I'm Falling /1 Knew You When (1965)	
Jet Set 768*	JIMMY ARMSTRONG: I Won't Believe It Till I See It /
I'm About To Say Goodbye (1966)	
Jet Set 1001	JIMMY CASTOR: It's OK / A Dream (also misprinted as "Jimmy Astor", 1966)..
Jet Set 1002	JIMMY CASTOR: It's What You've Got / Block Party (1966)	
Jet Set 1003	BILL ST JOHN: I Can't Hold Back The Tears / One More Mile (1966)	
JetSet1004	CREATIONS: Letters Of Love / Stop Your Sobbin' (1966)	
Jet Set 1005*	BARBARA LONG: We Called It Love/Take It From Me (1966)	
Jet Set 1006	ELDRIDGE HOLMES: Humpback /1 Like What You Do (1966)	
Jet Set 1007*	STRINGS AND THINGS: Charge / Fabulous New York (1966)	
Jet Set 1008	THE DEMON AND JUNE CONQUEST: The Only Way To Correct A Mistake /
In My Dreams (1966)	
Jet Set 1009*	JIMMY CASTOR: Why / Fabulous New York (1966) 	
ASSOCIATED RELEASES
Brunswick 55283	JACKIE WILSON: I Believe I'll Love On / Lonely Teardrops (1965)	
Coral Q 72482	JACKIE WILSON: I Believe I'll Love On / Lonely Teardrops (UK, 1965)	
Hem 1003	THE EPSILONS: Mind In A Bind / It's All Right (1967)	
Paul Winley
(cat. no. unknown)	JIMMY CASTOR: The Roots Of (probably 1969)	
UK REISSUES
Horaces HRH 100	VARIOUS ARTISTS: SHRINE — THE RAREST SOUL LABEL (LP, 1990)	
Horaces HRH 004	EDDIE DAYE & THE FOUR BARS: Guess Who Loves You /
JIMMY ARMSTRONG: Mystery (1990)	
Horaces HRH 005	RAY POLLARD: This Time / CAIROS: Stop Overlooking Me (45 Mix) i 199!
Horaces HRH 102	VARIOUS ARTISTS: CAPITOL SOUL (LP, 1991)	'.	
Ace CDKEND 160	VARIOUS ARTISTS: SHRINE — THE RAREST SOUL LABEL (CD. 7 98)	
Soul City 129	JD BRYANT: I Won't Be Coming Back/THE PROPHETS: If I Had (1999. ....
Ace CDKEND 190	VARIOUS ARTISTS: SHRINE — THE RAREST SOUL LABEL VOL. 2 (CD. dt
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