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

I should email him.

richardsearling@solarradio.com

Jackson 5?

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

Edited April 26, 201510 yr by constellation161

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 " !!

Tune in to next weeks show  got me thinking.

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?

First hour.

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

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

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.

 

https://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.   

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.

'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 

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