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    Soulstrutter

    A great double-sider from 1969  I'm In Love (Oh, Yes I Am) / Crazy 'Bout You Baby Don't be fooled by long intro on I'm In Love as it kicks in after 50 secs P.S. covered in 1974 by Little Mel

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    45cellar

    Artist of the Week revisits Billy Stewart  

  • Alan T
    Alan T

    This was first done by Billys uncle Calvin, Billy covered it in 1964. Where all the copies went is a mystery, it's a very rare record to find.  

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Gotta be Temptation on lp or french EP only TUNEEEEEE

Al H :rolleyes:

Love Billy Stewart. My favourite is "I'm No Romeo".

Love Billy Stewart. My favourite is "I'm No Romeo".

Good choice Gareth thumbsup.gif

One of my Favorites is A Fat Boy Can Cry

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Not forgetting Crazy Bout You Baby

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Billy Stewart

Absolutely love the recordings of Billy Stewart .

In respect of selecting favourite tracks , that is almost impossible , but I will go for these two as they hold personal memories for me .

Malc

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Got to agree with Malc Because I Love You is tremendous!

A few more

https://youtu.be/5rSvVt82Mo4

Tremendous choice ....... 10 / 10 thumbsup.gif

Malc

how has no one mentioned "strange feeling" and "sitting in the park" yet?

As a yound mod in the 80s Billy was one of the first 'go to' artists amongst myself and a few friends. Remember eagerly awating copies of 'Sitting In The Park' & 'Summertime' to arrive from PJ Ludlams cheapie list to come through. What a sad sad end to a young & brilliant talent.

Is there much or any? unissued material on Billy available?

Does anyone know if all of the Secret Love demos are one sided?

As a yound mod in the 80s Billy was one of the first 'go to' artists amongst myself and a few friends. Remember eagerly awating copies of 'Sitting In The Park' & 'Summertime' to arrive from PJ Ludlams cheapie list to come through. What a sad sad end to a young & brilliant talent.

Is there much or any? unissued material on Billy available?

Off topic here... Pete Ludlam's lists, remember them well, you used to get some real good cheapo bargains off pete, if you trawled through his fifty or so paged lists, ending up with purple fingers from the ink coz he printed 'em on an old "bander" hand cranked duplicator!!! often wondered if he still does them lists...starting at 20p each or 6 for a quid! :yes:

...Anyway back on Topic...

Adore the late great Billy Stewarts work...so unique.

His last 45 (I think) put out just a few months before he was so tragically killed when he drove his car into a Nth Carolina river in Jan 1970 was his rendition of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" here's the 45 edit, but the album cut is better coz its longer.

also here's a Canadian label scan....

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steve

What an artist just truly subline and makes every song his own, one of my faves by him is his version of paul robinsons OL, MAN RIVER quality

What an artist just truly subline and makes every song his own, one of my faves by him is his version of paul robinsons OL, MAN RIVER quality

With ya on that Charlie mate,someone on ere was dissing Billy's "Teaches Old Standard New Tricks" LP but for me the great man just took a classic and put his inimitable stamp on it!

(ps. looking forward to the catch up at Wkey! :thumbsup:

steve

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On 11/07/2011 at 14:27, CapitolSC said:

Gotta be Temptation on lp or french EP only TUNEEEEEE

 

Al H :rolleyes:

What a Choooooooooooooooooon

 

What an artist this guy was.

Great track.

Billy Stewart - Tell Me The Truth

 

Another great track

Billy Stewart - Love Me

 

 

Last one or I will get in trouble.

What a Choooooooooon.

Billy Stewart - Every Day I Have The Blues

 

1 minute ago, 45cellar said:

Not a problem. It's all about celebrating his work.

I get told off for posting on a thread to much lol. I will leave it at that for tonight.

Great video about Billy.

Billy Stewart Story Pt 1 On Soul Facts Show

 

Billy Stewart Story Pt 2

 

This was first done by Billys uncle Calvin, Billy covered it in 1964. Where all the copies went is a mystery, it's a very rare record to find.

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    Don't think this has been posted yet (apologies if it has) How Nice It Is from 1965:

     

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    ... and can't believe no one has posted his storming version of Summertime:

    After first 40 secs you get (blurry) live footage.

     

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    A great double-sider from 1969  I'm In Love (Oh, Yes I Am) / Crazy 'Bout You Baby

    Don't be fooled by long intro on I'm In Love as it kicks in after 50 secs

    P.S. covered in 1974 by Little Melvin & The Boleros on flip to Jealous Lover here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NndBkImtCpA

     

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    1 hour ago, Soulstrutter said:

    Don't think this has been posted yet (apologies if it has) How Nice It Is from 1965:

     

    Cross My Heart.

     

    Yet another great track by Billy.

     

    What about this lesser known(?) one ... LP only from One More Time 1988 (double LP)  presumably previously unreleased at the time

    Golly Golly Gee (but don't let the 'twee' title put you off it's a fab crossover track

     

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    Great Choooooooon.

    Billy Stewart - Once Again

     

    Another great track

    Billy Stewart - Fat Boy's Boogaloo

     

    What a Choooooooon

    Billy Stewart - You've Got Such Good Loving

     

    I went through a big Billy Stewart phase 20 odd years ago and bought everything I found by him ... many whilst working in Utrecht which had some good records shops on the canal ... dead cheap and many on Dutch only pic sleeves!  I don't think many of his records are worth big money but I don't buy records for their value but for their quality.

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    have this on 45, my fav of his

     

    18 hours ago, 6T's Mojoman said:

    What No Exodus! for me his is the definitive version from Teaches Old Standards LP

    OK here ya go! remember this being done as an instrumental by Biddu Orch 1976! ... and what about 'Temptation' also from same LP (and French EP only) not be be confused with Temptation's 'Bout To Get Me.

     

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    Billy's 1st Chess was reviewed by Billboard and was said to be

    "a dangerous disk". The guitar riff was re-used later on Mickey

    and Sylvia's Classic "Love Is Strange" - 

     

    soul BB 45

    soul B B

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    Billy Stewart - Sugar And Spice

     

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