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Groovin by The Power - Nice soulful version of the rascals classic

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Short thread on it a couple of days ago

Here's an older thread with discography, plus an addition to that discography:

The Elliot Small is a rare one. Took me an age to find.

Sean

I presume Elliot Small and Grandpa Elliot Small are one and the same guy ????

Nice double-sider...raw!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZovtA-WOsCI

plus great flip "not the best woman"

There's a nice version of Pillow talk by Fern Kinney on her Groove Me album. Great label.

Have a refo clip, much better than the u-tube effort

denise lasalle - come to bed - malaco

A few of my MALACO faves comin' up!

First, a truly great George Jackson song from the Incredible Johnnie Taylor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufxDwfvRkag

Sean

A most sublime ballad from JT with "Everything's Out In The Open"

Majestic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpRe7fl-BkM

Sean

A taste of midtempo magic from the pen of Sam Dees.

Now enjoying a new lease of life up at Just Soul.

Sean

Edited April 23, 201114 yr by Sean Hampsey

A huge Real Soul hit for ZZ Hill, oft covered, never bettered!

Sean

A slab of Bobby 'Boro' Bland on one of the finest Soul ballads of the mid 80's.

Angel!

Sean

Early Malaco indemand 'Crossover' 45 from the underrated Hank Sample.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LxIOTQ4umU

Sean

I used to sell Malaco product when I was at Charly, where they had a distribution deal during the 80's and early 90's. I say sell, but the truth was outside of London they hardly sold into the shops at all, let alone sell off the shelves. Sometimes we'd only bring in x100 copies of a LP title...UK based stores just weren't interested even on CD. Shame, some cracking stuff hidden on some LPs.

I used to sell Malaco product when I was at Charly, where they had a distribution deal during the 80's and early 90's. I say sell, but the truth was outside of London they hardly sold into the shops at all, let alone sell off the shelves. Sometimes we'd only bring in x100 copies of a LP title...UK based stores just weren't interested even on CD. Shame, some cracking stuff hidden on some LPs.

My old company Ardent Enterprises imported a lot of Malaco LPs in the early 1980s and I helped out when Malaco opened a UK office, headed by Peter Felstead.

Malaco were distributed thru PRT at the time but they hardly sold anything so John Ridley and I sold them to stores in the UK and Europe (and some direct to the public).

We did very well, I remember we wholesaled more than 300 copies of ZZ Hill's I'm A Blues Man album, just after he died, and good quantities of the first Malaco LPs by Latimore, Denise LaSalle, Little Milton, etc. Our biggest customers were in Holland and Sweden.

Bobby Patterson was a promo man for Malaco at that time so we also imported his Bobby Story LP Storyteller and sold more than100 copies.

I persuaded Peter to issue 'Cheating In The Next Room' on a Malaco single in the UK but sales were poor.

All that activity was what inspired me to start my Ardent label (again) a few years later.