Posted July 22, 201212 yr The 'Miami' thread has proved quite popular ..... ... so I thought I'd move north to start another similar posting .... Here's a few New York area soul show ads from back in the day .........
August 28, 201212 yr Author Junior Mance STILL plays every Sunday at a French restaurant in the Village. Heck he's doing well -- nearly 84 years old, still going strong & playing live dates. ............. IMPRESSED
August 28, 201212 yr Author I could see the Soul Survivors & Vanilla Fudge working on the same bill ..... ..... or Vanilla Fudge and the Mothers of Invention .......... ........ but not all three groups on the same show ........ (mind you, the M of Invention did start out as R&B & doo wop group; the Soul Giants) This show was actually staged in Philly but both Vanilla Fudge & the Mothers were NY based during that period. Edited August 28, 201212 yr by Roburt
September 1, 201212 yr Author Not an ad this time but a review of a show held at the Apollo Theater in late May 1970. Seeing the songs that each artist performed live brings home to you just how some artists (without a recent hit 45 track) struggled when it came to live shows. If you were a Motown artist without a hit, you could always do a Motown section in your show, giving name checks to the 'original artists' & telling a tale of something that happened when you were in their presence. Likewise if you came from Chicago (or NY), you could perform a section dedicated to hits of your home town artists. But, for lots of acts, this was their showcase to get more attention from their record company, to land a new recording contract or just an exercise to show how versatile you were. Guess in the cases of Carolyn Franklin & the O'Jays (who at the time were signed to Neptune which wasn't really getting much of a push from Chess), they were trying to show how versatile they were ....
December 26, 201212 yr Author Bored at the moment (can you tell ?) ... so thought I'd re-activate this old thread ......... .......... here's a montage of loads of New York area shows from back in the day .... BTW, Blue Mitchell (jazz guy) was the brother of Ru-Jac's owner Rufus Mitchell.
March 14, 20169 yr Author Thought I'd resurrect this thread as I have more interesting show ads to put up ............ I wonder if the Swordsmen were still part of her live 'company' at this time (early 70) .......... Another soulful female on the NY club scene ...........
March 14, 20169 yr Author Chicago hits New York in some style (with help from Philly & Detroit: the 2nd show on this ad -- late Feb 70) .......... Edited March 14, 20169 yr by Roburt
March 14, 20169 yr Author Coming to London soon, but back in 1970 he was on in NY ...... Mor of Chicago's finest taking on NY audiences in 70 ..........
March 14, 20169 yr Author A group from Detroit, don't think they ever amounted to much but at least they got a NY gig ........
March 15, 20169 yr Author As the jazz thread is going strong at present, thought I's post up an ad for the 1970 'Sold On Soul' concert ........... .... more of a jazz line-up than soul .......... I bet Madison Sq Gardens was jumping that night ..........
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The 'Miami' thread has proved quite popular .....
... so I thought I'd move north to start another similar posting ....
Here's a few New York area soul show ads from back in the day .........