Just found out last week that in fact there was only one Tomangoe!! Dusty Williams.

Anybody know any other songs where Dusty was lead singer on? Just love that voice.........

https://youtu.be/zfUKdGT3Mtg

Ed

Just found out last week that in fact there was only one Tomangoe!! Dusty Williams, and that he has been ill.

Anybody know any other songs where Dusty was lead singer on? Just love that voice.........

https://youtu.be/zfUKdGT3Mtg

Ed

Just found out last week that in fact there was only one Tomangoe!! Dusty Williams, and that he has been ill.

Anybody know any other songs where Dusty was lead singer on? Just love that voice.........

https://youtu.be/zfUKdGT3Mtg

Ed

hi Ed

going by the 3 duplicate posts it seems that there's an issue with your browser and site

have merged all 3, but ask in future can you check your posts and if any repetition shows up then please flag them up

thanks

mike

Crazy!

 

Will do.

Claude Williams, the songwriter and pianist on this great recording, is apparently Dusty Williams.

A Dusty Williams was deemed good enough to be on a Memphis Sounds Revue in February 1968 along with such luminaries as Eddie Floyd, Pigmeat Markham, Barbara Mercer, Timmy Willis, JJ Barnes, Pat Lewis, Ruby Andrews etc, at the Riviera Theater on Grand River Avenue.

Having listened to some Dusty Wilson tracks, these untrained ears hear bits of Dusty Williams of the Tomangoe’s.

Just a thought!

 

Not sure, but I guess somebody knows..

I get where you are coming from...detroit writer and singer..quite soulful, but lacks umph..in my opinion. 

But what about anything recorded from D Williams?

Keith Rylatt’s book ‘Groovesville USA’ tells us the following about Tomangoe’s.

”A session group consisting of a Dusty Wilson vocal on top of a Bob Seger band track sewn together by label owner Gino Washington”.

This advert backs that up...

‘Tragedy’ was probably recorded in 1967 and was Dusty Wilson’s final release under that name. Tomangoe’s came a year later.

Keith’s book does not list ‘Williams’ as having a release.

But Williams was ‘well known’ enough to appear on a top class show as mentioned above.

The producer of the show would have known Dusty Wilson well enough to let him take part under his new moniker.

Reasonable assumptions I think, and my ears still pick up similarities in both 45’s, albeit minor.

Edited October 28, 20177 yr by David Meikle

Ok!

So did Dusty W...appear at the Westwood Ho weekender?

If he did, then it's 99.9 % Wilson and Williams.

Gino Washington is certainly a very talented guy, so putting together this tune as described above would certainly be possible. He did say Dusty was the only tomango just last week.

 

Ed

Kev Roberts interviewed Claude Williams/Dusty Wilson on one of his radio shows. @Kev Roberts

Some more info in this previous topic 

 

Umm..

 

Just my luck...

My lass has just been having this conversation with Hitsville Chalky who says that when he interviewed Claude 'Dusty' Williams, Williams stated categorically that he wasn't the artist known as Dusty Wilson and didn't record under that name at all.

I had heard both singers, on records and before I'd read up on it I thought that they sounded like the same voice. My lass did show the evidence she was basing the assumption on that they were one and the same. HC is adamant and does say he got it from Claude Williams himself, linking to an interview, which for some reason I couldn't view but that is by the by.

Not an argument just an interesting discussion about an enigmatic record, all friendly. 

 

Well how absolutely bizarre, watched the interview and Williams did indeed state that he wasn't the artist known as Dusty Wilson.

Which begs the question why was he booked and billed by Phil and Neil for that Soulvation appearance as Dusty Wilson?

The strange world of Northern Soul indeed!

An interesting discussion that seems to have no satisfactory conclusion...