As there's another current thread about a Brenda Lee Jones 45 & that 'style setter' Cliff Steele recently featured the Brenda Jones & Coconut Love track on his radio show, thought I'd bring her up ...

This topic may well have been 'done to death' on here in the past ......if so, please feel free to point me in the direction of the best original thread ......

....... BUT JUST IN CASE IT AIN'T ........

.... here are a few 45's by a / the Brenda (Lee) Jones .......

Brenda was recording from quite an early stage (1962/63?) as half of Ohio duo Dean & Jean (45's on Rust) ...... solo wise there was also .....

RU-JAC #08: BRENDA JONES -- Let's Go Back To School / Can't You See (1963; US)

RUST # 5112; BRENDA LEE JONES -- Thread Your Needle / You're The Love Of My Life (1966; US)

IMPERIAL # 66440: LONDON FOGG & THE CONTINENTALS FEAT. BRENDA LEE JONES -- Easy Mover/ Trippin' (1969; US)

MERCURY # 73482; BRENDA JONES -- Super Stroke / Big Mistake (1974; US)

MERCURY # 73645: BRENDA JONES WITH COCONUT LOVE -- I Am The Other Woman / Good Thing (What It Is) (1974; US)

USA # 8 BRENDA LEE JONES --You're The Love Of My Life / Thread Your Needle (1975; UK)

FLYING DUTCHMAN # 10671: BRENDA JONES WITH GROOVE HOLMES -- This Is The Me Me (Not The You You) / This Is The Me Me (Not The You You) (1976 US)

The 1st 45 above, on Baltimore label Ru-jac, is by a lady who was a regular on the Baltimore club scene around 1963/64/65 & 'locals' there think of her as being Baltimore based but as she originally came from Ohio & seemed to end up in New York, I'm not to sure how everything fits together & if there was actually more than one Brenda Jones singing soul back then.

As she recorded with Groove Holmes in 1976, you would have thought that there would be some info out there on her as jazz music people seem to research / document everything of interest.

I have some club ad photos of the Ru-Jac / Baltimore Brenda Jones from around 1964 & she does seem to resemble the Brenda Lee Jones who started out in Dean & Jean.

Anyone know for sure if all the above recordings are by the same lady ?

Edited August 3, 201212 yr by 45cellar

Yes quite a few John. It's recorded @ Scepter. Bennings was also a singer and also wrote for people like Hoagy lands and Lily Fields. Augustus was a "girly guy" since he also wrote the odd side for Maxine and Dusty. I just don't know who Brenda J Jones was - yet!

I'll ask "da boys" if any of them have any recollection of her.

Oh yes

https://www.midwest45s.org/IllinoisSoul/JeanLee_UnwedMother_Cedric_C3306b_clip.mp3

Bloody wow! never knew this existed!

Think I first heard it on Dave Evison's signal radio show...John Farrar played it?

Anyway led me to buy a copy a few years later which I still have.

Shame levels so low!! Very quiet!

Tell you what, I'd pay big bucks for Jean Lee "Unwed Mother" on Cedric.

It's stunning.

Sean

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If the wand artist is a NY area artist different than Jean Lee, this might be referring to her:

Seems that sorting out the 'Brenda Jones' from THE 'Brenda Jones' could well be a tricky task ...

...... there's the Brenda J, Brenda Lee & just plain Brenda .... confusing or what .......

Edited August 4, 201212 yr by Roburt

The Wand & SSI 45's are obviously New York efforts (Sammy Turner & Robert Banks being the guys behind the SSI track).

"Big Mistake" was also cut in New York & then there are the shows a New York based Brenda Jones undertook with Ohio's Buckeye Politicians ... ... none of this makes sorting out which Brenda is which any easier .....

Has anyone got the SSI track? I don't think I do.

Has anyone got the SSI track? I don't think I do.

I have the funk 45 I posted a pic of above, I can try to dig it out and listen to the voice at least

Cheers Bob.

Steve, the SSI track is up on YouTube .... THAT Brenda Jones ain't the best of singers ......

I wonder if this Brenda was related to Linda & Terry Jones ??

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Edited August 4, 201212 yr by Roburt

And which Brenda Jones is this .........

... the fine C M Lord was involved with this track ...

Edited August 4, 201212 yr by Roburt

... and which one is this ....

The 'jazzy' Brenda Jones .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI2MS15DnE8

Then there's always THIS Brenda Jones ......

In the movie Ali (starring Will Smith) a singer portrays Linda Jones at a night club performing her version of "For Your Precious Love". Linda's daughter Terry Jones recalls her aunts and uncles discussing the time when Linda came home from a concert and said Mohammad Ali had been at her show. The producers of the film did not know who to contact for clearance of Linda's likeness and because of this they could not use Linda's name in the film Ali, just the song. Terry Jones did not know anything about her mother's version of "For Your Precious Love" being used in Ali until after the film was released.

......... .......... I wonder if any of Terry's aunts were called Brenda ??

Anyone seen a handbill / newspaper ad for the engagement at NY's Apollo that Linda was undertaking when she died on March 14, 1972.

Edited August 8, 201212 yr by Roburt

In the movie Ali (starring Will Smith) a singer portrays Linda Jones at a night club performing her version of "For Your Precious Love." Linda's daughter Terry Jones recalls her aunts and uncles discussing the time when Linda came home from a concert and said Mohammad Ali had been at her show. The producers of the film did not know who to contact for clearance of Linda's likeness and because of this they could not use Linda's name in the film Ali, just the song. Terry Jones did not know anything about her mother's version of "For Your Precious Love" being used in Ali until after the film was released.

If they couldn't find her daughters who had already recorded, they didn't try very hard. But somehow they got the historical details about a (fairly obscure to non-fans) singer who played at a club ali was at?