Hi. Today on my radio show my interview rescheduled so I did a music show. I did a special show where in addition to playing 45s, I did a special set at the end where I played all unreleased acetates, including an unreleased Patti and the Lovelites track as well as a set of Esquires demos. You can listen to the show at https://www.sittinginthepark.com/shows.htm . Playlist follows. Thanks for your interest.

Constellations - I don't know about you - Gemini Star

Contemplations - Alone with no love - Dontee

Emory and the Dynamics - Let's take a look at our love - Peachtree

Al Haskins - Wish you were my girl - Quest

UST Topaze - Check it out - BCMK

Southern Productions - Disco Dancing - Chanita

Message Untold - I can feel the change in love - Padang

Witch Doctor - All I know, I love you - WD

Majestic Arrows - Magic of your love - Bandit

Fragile: Handle With Care - Loving (Sweet Thing) - Exit Six

Spectrum - If you change your mind - Ragdoll

Johnny September and Princess Edward - The love I had is gone - K&K

Frankie Davis and Marion James - Our Little Love Song - Ma Fra Da

Movin' - Start all over again - Skyhigh

Prana People - All around my world - WB

Starfire - Almost Insane - Dynamic Artists

Lovelites - Fall in love - Unreleased Acetate

Unknown artist - I won't give my heart to you - Audiodisc Acetate

Unknown artist - Sweet Temptation - Unmarked Acetate

Esquires - Things gonna be alright - Demo acetate

Esquires - You Say - Demo acetate

Esquires - At the world's fair - Demo acetate

thanks,

Bob

That 'Sweet Temptation' Unknown plate is a great tune.

Love that 'Our sweet love song', such an intimate heartfelt song, it looks pretty obscure !

Thanks for keeping 'em coming Bob

Rob, London - England

That 'Sweet Temptation' Unknown plate is a great tune.

Love that 'Our sweet love song', such an intimate heartfelt song, it looks pretty obscure !

Thanks for keeping 'em coming Bob

Rob, London - England

thanks for listening, I really appreciate it! the flips of those two acetates are actually northern records... (the lovelites was one-sided, the other ones had northern sides)

Hi Bob!

Great music show, so many wonderful tunes, my personal favourites:

UST Topaze - Check it out

Southern Productions - Disco Dancing

Message Untold - I can feel the change in love

Witch Doctor - All I know, I love you

Majestic Arrows - Magic of your love

Fragile: Handle With Care - Loving (Sweet Thing)

Spectrum - If you change your mind

Johnny September and Princess Edward - The love I had is gone (not absolutely sure about the title, since I think you gave a slightly different title on the show)

Frankie Davis and Marion James - Our Little Love Song

Movin' - Start all over again

Prana People - All around my world

Lovelites - Fall in love

Esquires - Things gonna be alright

BTW, seeing your playlist prompted me to send you a PM...

That Prana People track was also in a previous set of mine.

One of my all time favourite soul tunes that one.

I guess that Prana People LP is rather hard to find?

Featuring the two twins (Aleem) that later formed Black Ivory (and later Aleem)

together with Leroy Burgess.

Always get a bit excited when I spot things on your show that I actually have in my collection,

I´ve never really specialized in rare records, just picked up along the way all the good soul

LPs and 45s that I have been able to buy over here in Sweden where I live.

Best regards,

Melismo

Edited February 4, 201015 yr by djmelismo

Hi Bob!

Great music show, so many wonderful tunes, my personal favourites:

UST Topaze - Check it out

Southern Productions - Disco Dancing

Message Untold - I can feel the change in love

Witch Doctor - All I know, I love you

Majestic Arrows - Magic of your love

Fragile: Handle With Care - Loving (Sweet Thing)

Spectrum - If you change your mind

Johnny September and Princess Edward - The love I had is gone (not absolutely sure about the title, since I think you gave a slightly different title on the show)

Frankie Davis and Marion James - Our Little Love Song

Movin' - Start all over again

Prana People - All around my world

Lovelites - Fall in love

Esquires - Things gonna be alright

BTW, seeing your playlist prompted me to send you a PM...

That Prana People track was also in a previous set of mine.

One of my all time favourite soul tunes that one.

I guess that Prana People LP is rather hard to find?

Featuring the two twins (Aleem) that later formed Black Ivory (and later Aleem)

together with Leroy Burgess.

Always get a bit excited when I spot things on your show that I actually have in my collection,

I´ve never really specialized in rare records, just picked up along the way all the good soul

LPs and 45s that I have been able to buy over here in Sweden where I live.

Best regards,

Melismo

thanks for clearing up that prana people thing (I played it off 45, not LP), I wasn't sure if it was chicago because there are two 45s by "kenny delt and prana" that look like Chicago productions and I thought was the same group? I think those are on Mercury. Are those not related to the Prana People 45 I played?

Also, Black Ivory was long before that Prana People 45 I played, which was like '78, so I'm confused about what you're saying about the timeline.

Thanks for listening and commenting, I'm trying to find out more about the prana people thing now though, maybe it would be more obvious if I collected Lps...

thanks for clearing up that prana people thing (I played it off 45, not LP), I wasn't sure if it was chicago because there are two 45s by "kenny delt and prana" that look like Chicago productions and I thought was the same group? I think those are on Mercury. Are those not related to the Prana People 45 I played?

Also, Black Ivory was long before that Prana People 45 I played, which was like '78, so I'm confused about what you're saying about the timeline.

Thanks for listening and commenting, I'm trying to find out more about the prana people thing now though, maybe it would be more obvious if I collected Lps...

Must have been very tired when I wrote that, got the timeline wrong of course. To clarify, Black Ivory´s Leroy Burgess later teamed up with Prana People´s Aleem twins (Talib and Zayeed Aleem) to form electro-soul act Aleem.

More on Prana People, here are some details from the album that I have:

PRANA PEOPLE: Self-titled LP on Pretty Pearl/Prelude Records from 1977

All songs written by Talib Aleem and Zayeed Aleem

Produced by Wade Marcus

Songs:

Pranian Man

Is Your Life A Party?

Wishful Thinking

Time, Weave Your Spell

Angels Say Flee

Rainbow

All Around My World

Disco-Mania

Other musicians on the album apart from the Aleem brothers are:

Curtis Robinson Jr.

Warren McLean

Neftali Santiago

Cornell "Corky" Hodges

Mike Mandel

Abdul Lateef Seifullah

Bill Summers

and vocals by

Fatima Halim

Tommy Lockhart

Taro Meyer

On the front cover you find four faces in the photo,

but the backside photo shows only the Aleem twins

If you need more info please let me know.

I am primarily a collector of LPs (which probably won´t give me much credibility in Soul-Source circles...LOL...), although I have a fair share of 45s too.

I have been told by a fellow collector that the Prana People LP is a rare one, but don´t know how hard it is to find?!

I found my copy at a record fair over here in Sweden some 15-20 years ago.

Best regards,

Melismo

Must have been very tired when I wrote that, got the timeline wrong of course. To clarify, Black Ivory´s Leroy Burgess later teamed up with Prana People´s Aleem twins (Talib and Zayeed Aleem) to form electro-soul act Aleem.

More on Prana People, here are some details from the album that I have:

PRANA PEOPLE: Self-titled LP on Pretty Pearl/Prelude Records from 1977

All songs written by Talib Aleem and Zayeed Aleem

Produced by Wade Marcus

Songs:

Pranian Man

Is Your Life A Party?

Wishful Thinking

Time, Weave Your Spell

Angels Say Flee

Rainbow

All Around My World

Disco-Mania

Other musicians on the album apart from the Aleem brothers are:

Curtis Robinson Jr.

Warren McLean

Neftali Santiago

Cornell "Corky" Hodges

Mike Mandel

Abdul Lateef Seifullah

Bill Summers

and vocals by

Fatima Halim

Tommy Lockhart

Taro Meyer

On the front cover you find four faces in the photo,

but the backside photo shows only the Aleem twins

If you need more info please let me know.

I am primarily a collector of LPs (which probably won´t give me much credibility in Soul-Source circles...LOL...), although I have a fair share of 45s too.

I have been told by a fellow collector that the Prana People LP is a rare one, but don´t know how hard it is to find?!

I found my copy at a record fair over here in Sweden some 15-20 years ago.

Best regards,

Melismo

thanks. "prana" must have meant something spiritual or something and I'm guessing that "kenny delt and prana" (who I think are from chicago) had no connection to the "prana people" and I made a false assumption. thanks for the info. google reveals "prana" to be some sanskrit / hindu thing like Qi relevant to yoga.

thanks. "prana" must have meant something spiritual or something and I'm guessing that "kenny delt and prana" (who I think are from chicago) had no connection to the "prana people" and I made a false assumption. thanks for the info. google reveals "prana" to be some sanskrit / hindu thing like Qi relevant to yoga.

i sent this thread to my friend who's compiling the new volume of soul harmony singles, apparently the prana people must have evolved out of the master four on tayster as the vocalists are almost exactly the same.