I have this 10" acetate without a artist name and does not sound like the four tops, so who could it be.  Looking for info.

 

 

Edited April 20, 20178 yr by briank
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What is tne acetate?  I take it not a Jobete acetate?

Not a Jobete.  Does that help?  Have you heard it before?

It's a Dick Charles.

Don't know the vocalist but the drummer's very familiar ... 

 

 

Who  pray tell.

Edited April 19, 20178 yr by briank

Ray Brown & The Whispers ? ( Australian Group)

I just play their version on utube and does not sound like my acetate.  Ray Brown is a white guy and the one on the acetate sounds black.  I know white guys wanted to sound rnb back then, but I don't think it's him in my opinion and ears.

I never heard of Ray Brown before, so thanks for the input.  What did you think of the track?

Anybody else that listened to the song have a guess or comment?

Where is the link to it?  I haven't been able to listen to it?

 

Edited April 23, 20178 yr by briank
No one knows the artist.

Sounds like a white guy to me and he tries too hard.

I guess I could be wrong and it does sound like he's pushing it a bit.  Does any one know what artist Dick Charles used?

No surprise that I don't recognise it.  It's in a style that's not to my taste at all.  Usually, from the style of the arrangement, and the sound of the instrumentation, I can peg the recording in time, and sometimes to a given record label, or even producer.  But, I can't even tell roughly when this recording was made.  I would guess 1967-68.  Definitely a "White" artist.  He sounds "American".  I don't hear an underlying "accent" under his "fake American 'Black' accent".  I'd guess that he was from The US.  But that's no guarantee.  As that similar "fake American 'Black' accent" is often fairly close whether sung by US Blue Eyed Soul Singers, Aussies, (Anglophone) South Africans, Canucks, Kiwis and the like.

Thanks for your input.  Yea, it fooled me.  They just wanted to make a rock version of the hit?