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I'm gonna learn something this week, I don't think I've ever heard of this label. What happened to the Fania label of the week? That could have been fun, not very northern thoughwink.gif

KATHY AND THE CALLENDERS - PLEASE DON'T GO

kathy and the calendars - please don't go -

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I'm gonna learn something this week, I don't think I've ever heard of this label. What happened to the Fania label of the week? That could have been fun, not very northern thoughwink.gif

It was Mossy I think who started the Fania label of the week. We will use the label another week but things were already sorted for this week :D

Small but perfectly formed label. Two of my favourites. I'll post a load of scans when i can sort out my camera.

Daisy Burris - Take The Same Thing -

King Coleman - Get On Board -

Just for info. The 7000 numbers tend to be more rock and roll type tunes, but the 3000 numbers are where all the soul and R&B is that we play out.

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Soothers - I Believe In You - Port - (Soundclip from Refosoul Archive)

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Robert Neal "Im So Glad"

Intrigues "Dont Refuse My Love"

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good thread, great label..........never dissappoints.....had every track mentioned so far at some point...........not now tho ..............and port is nice dripped onto the stilton after a posh dinner:thumbsup:

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good thread, great label..........never dissappoints.....had every track mentioned so far at some point...........not now tho ..............and port is nice dripped onto the stilton after a posh dinner:thumbsup:

totally:cheese1: agree there ezzie regards johno

I tried to find out everything i could about Port a few years back but it's a pretty elusive label. I know it was out of the Jubilee/Josie stable in New York, but other than that no idea.

Anyone have any more info?

I tried to find out everything i could about Port a few years back but it's a pretty elusive label. I know it was out of the Jubilee/Josie stable in New York, but other than that no idea.

Anyone have any more info?

I'm sure i read somewhere once that Carol Fran's 'Crying In The Chapel' (the A side to 'I'm gonna Try') was the orig but Elvis recorded it and had the huge hit with it which blew Carol's chance with the song. apparently, she met with Elvis some time later and told him about her recording of it and how his rendition could have stopped her earning money, so he gave her a heafty sum as a token gesture :lol:

Edit: Orioles did the orig version :thumbsup:

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I'm sure i read somewhere once that Carol Fran's 'Crying In The Chapel' (the A side to 'I'm gonna Try') was the orig but Elvis recorded it and had the huge hit with it which blew Carol's chance with the song. apparently, she met with Elvis some time later and told him about her recording of it and how his rendition could have stopped her earning money, so he gave her a heafty sum as a token gesture :hatsoff2:

Edit: Orioles did the orig version :thumbsup:

I was starting to think I made the whole thing up :lol: but just found this:

In 1964, Fran recorded a glorious cover of the Orioles' song "Crying in the Chapel." Right after the record was sent to radio stations, Elvis Presley's version of the song was released, burying Fran's. When Fran bumped into Presley by coincidence later that year, she showed her independence and fearlessness by confronting him. "I was in California to see [songwriter] Jerry Capehart," she remembers. "There was a little restaurant next door, and I went in there, and Elvis Presley was on the back porch eating cantaloupe and ice cream. I went up to him and said, 'Why would you take bread out of my mouth?' He didn't know who I was. He said, 'Little one, what do you mean?'

"I said I'm Carol Fran, and I did 'Crying in the Chapel,' and he said, 'Oh, little one, believe me, I had no control over that. It was just one of the tunes that I recorded and it was there. When they saw fit to release it, they released it.' He wrote me a check and gave it to me. He said, 'Here, baby, this'll buy you lunch. Don't be mad at me.' He folded it and gave it to me. I put it in my purse, and I kept it for two months. Then one day, when I opened it, there was no end to all the zeroes -- he gave me $10,000! I couldn't get to the bank fast enough to cash it."

taken from https://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A32151

Port-tastic

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Soothers - I Believe In You - Port - (Soundclip from Refosoul Archive)

A different issue.

Blue and White DJ copy instead if the later black/white.

Carol Fran - Any Day Love Walks In...

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Lovely little label and punching well above it's weight in terms of the number of quality tunes and a number of the northern scene's favourite artists, such as Carol Fran, King Coleman, The Channels, Johnny Newbag, The Soothers and Daisy Burris.

Thanks Roger. :boxing:

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