Last one for tonight....

I have beti web 'I Know' on XL Records......

I know a good few came out on this logo........

cheers

mel

Tommy Raye - You Don't Love Me came ou on this prior to Pen

Tommy Raye - You Don't Love Me came ou on this prior to Pen

Spot on.............

The Ovations "Til I Find Some Way" came out on an XL label (on the flip of Sweet Thing) XL 950 and on XL 120.

Also, Barbara & The Browns "If I Cant Run To You" XL 1372

Memphis origin.

Only guessing its the same label as Beti Webb (?).

Sean

Can anyone say if it is the same XL logo for all the sounds mentioned please..as I only assumed they were one and the same......

thanks for all the above

Toomy Raye and Betti Webb, defo the same label - others????

Toomy Raye and Betti Webb, defo the same label - others????

Yes, all these XL records are linked. The label was formed, and run, by Gene Lucchesi in the early 1960s and it functioned, on and off, well into the 80s.

XL's biggest ever signing (and record) was Sam The Sham and the Pharoahs' "Wooly Bully', which they sold to MGM. And keeping that MGM connection, Sounds Of Memphis (which MGM distributed) was also an XL label...

TONE

nice one Tony.......

nice one Tony.......

Despite its title, a really good XL single is the last one on the label (from c. 1981), "Everybody Cried (The Day Disco Died)" by Rufus Thomas. The title escapes me for the present, but the flip is a really nice Southern Soul ballad, too.

TONE

Despite its title, a really good XL single is the last one on the label (from c. 1981), "Everybody Cried (The Day Disco Died)" by Rufus Thomas. The title escapes me for the present, but the flip is a really nice Southern Soul ballad, too.

TONE

Aha, you're right Tony, forgot about the Rufus 45.

The flip of "Everybody Cried" is called "I'd Love To Love You, Again" if memory serves me right.

Sean

Aha, you're right Tony, forgot about the Rufus 45.

The flip of "Everybody Cried" is called "I'd Love To Love You, Again" if memory serves me right.

Sean

...Yes, that sounds about right, my friend. It wasn't actually given a full release, either - Linda Lucchesi (daughter of Gene) has a lock up full of copies, somewhere in Memphis. As I understand it, those that are in circulation are all copies that were given out as promos, before the decision not to release it was taken.

TONE

Last one for tonight....

I have beti web 'I Know' on XL Records......

I know a good few came out on this logo........

cheers

mel

Nice label indeed, with some great Memphis soul releases next to those already mentioned: Spencer Wiggins (2x, never seen these 45s though, only know the tracks from a Japanese compilation), Ann Hodge, Charles Chalmers, ...

Peter

I know it sounds unlikely but I think I've seen Alvin Cash "Twine time" on XL a couple of times on Ebay.

ROD

I know it sounds unlikely but I think I've seen Alvin Cash "Twine time" on XL a couple of times on Ebay.

ROD

You didn't imagine this, Rod - I have a copy. It's a late 60s recut. The funk boys go for it in quite a big way, I'm told by one such funk boy who sits across the Ace office from me...

TONE