Solar Radio Tune Played

[21 again 63]

Richard searling played tune through thick and thin on solar radio missed  the artisist. Nice tune. Any info?

[greety 234]

I should email him.

[Steve G 6,904]

richardsearling@solarradio.com

[simon t 320]

Jackson 5?

[constellation161 110]

He said you wouldn't believe who recorded it, and didn't say who it was.

Edited April 26, 2015 by constellation161

[vynilhound 70]

He said you wouldn't believe who recorded it, and didn't say who it was.

I did ask and the reply was " I can't tell you " !!

[21 again 63]

Tune in to next weeks show  got me thinking.

[John Benson 295]

You could always listen to the show again and see if he mentions who it was - he puts them up on Mixcloud.

 

https://www.mixcloud.com/spurs1961/

 

Was it the first hour or the second hour by the way?

[21 again 63]

First hour.

[constellation161 110]

Think Richard said it was a Cameo Parkway artist and recorded in the UK.

[jkpnefc 91]

tried listening but afraid  i couldn't listen to a full hour of that mournful dirge

Cue the baseball bats but sorry I am a philistine and prefer Northern Soul

[John Benson 295]

Think Richard said it was a Cameo Parkway artist and recorded in the UK.

Right, I've just had a listen to it on Mixcloud - it's only 10 minutes in anyway.

He said it's an unissued Cameo Parkway acetate from 1966 and maybe recorded in the UK but definately a US artist.

Firstly, it's not the song done by The Jackson 5 which has the same title, but completely different lyrics.

 

I had to play the song a few times as I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but the singer was very familiar (to me).

Eventually it came to me! .... I'm putting my money on it being Jo Armstead 

 

So, a quick bit of googling turned up this: 

 

THROUGH THICK AND THIN

Writer: Josephine Armstead, Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson

Publisher: Careers BMG Music Publishing/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Co./Renleigh Music, Inc.

 

http://songwritershalloffame.org/index.php/songs/detailed/C325/P280/

 

I'll happily stand corrected if anyone else can come up with any other ideas, but it sounds too much like her not to be - plus she was first with Ashford & Simpson around this period, so it all adds up to it being a songwriter's acetate they did to try and sell the song.   

[Steve G 6,904]

I think that's a good bit of detective work there John. Can hear Nick Ashford and Valerie on backing vocals.

If it's an acetate why wouldn't we believe who it is I wonder? Those three did loads and loads of acetates.

[John Benson 295]

'If it's an acetate why wouldn't we believe who it is I wonder?'

 

That's the bit I couldn't understand either Steve - I believed it sounded like her enough to search for the title and her name - Ashford and Simpson just came up in the writer credits.

I hadn't actually noticed their voices, but again they also have a distinctive sound - so I'll have to go have another listen now to check it out 

[Steve G 6,904]

If I tell you who it is I'll have to kill you