Does anyone know anything about Ann Perry other than she performed on 'That's the way he is' or have photographs of the artist?

Cheers

Stu

Melvin Davis wrote the song in 15 mins for Mike Theodor (Melvin apparently had the horn intro in his head for weeks before hand) Ann was a 14 year old talent contest winner and the prize was to cut a record.

The artist, song and record disappeared without trace........until being played over here !

7 hours ago, Rob Wigley said:

Melvin Davis wrote the song in 15 mins for Mike Theodor (Melvin apparently had the horn intro in his head for weeks before hand) Ann was a 14 year old talent contest winner and the prize was to cut a record.

The artist, song and record disappeared without trace........until being played over here !

Thanks Rob 

Just done some digging based on the details of your reply; Theoda Moore owned the label, Ann Perry released another track and I have stuck it of discogs. Gonna see if I can find out a little more about the artist

 

Further info about the label

https://detroitsoulsingles.blogspot.co.uk/

Theoda	Owned by Theoda Moore. Address: 2018 Buena Vista West. Detroit 38
Cat. Number	Artist	A-Side/B-Side	Mattrix	Date
201	Ann Perry	That's The Way He Is*	120a	196
		That's The Way He Is (inst)	120b	196
T 883	Rev. Sylvester Newsome	One Day At A Time		196
		One Day At A Time		196
T 3510	Ann Perry	You Know I Love You		196
		Our Love Is Over		196
TM 3510	Davis & Joe	Double Bad (inst)		196
		Way Out Jerk (inst)		196
T 3206	Clifford Binns	It Was Only Yesterday		196
		It's Christmas Again		196
TM 149	JE Morgan	By My Side		19
		The Heat Is On (inst)		19

I've been researching this for over 18 months (on and off) for maybe one of my Northern Connection articles.

without too much luck on Ann herself, i have to say.

Armco to American Sound Corp to Ardco (allied record dist co) to CIRCA (consolidated international record co america) - are the distie/label clues to follow, but these and other non-Ann stuff is all i have at the moment( and expect ever to get).

Hi Stuart

That Ann Perry find is a good little Rn B number well done

Mick L