Staying with my posts on underplayed sounds  I got this the same day as the gloria hill .Howard tate you're looking good  utopia.  Played this covered  up as Jimmy bishop .as its wrote by him & jerry raglan great uptempo dancer that should see more spins

Another you don't hear very often - if at all ! And another scarce 45 too..

Good choices @speedlimit - keep 'em coming !! 👍

Ace included this track on their fine 'Jerry Ragavoy Story' comp CD  and it was also put on a Various Artists Goldmine bootleg album about 20 years ago. 

Got this in a soul pack years ago and it was the first record I had heard by Howard

 

Later I got Baby I love you, and then a few more started to appear like Half a man.

Very powerful singer indeed.

Ed

Just about everything by Howard Tate on US verve and turntable was in quantity on Bradford market in 70/71.

I found Howard's story 

https://www.kcur.org/post/fresh-air-remembers-soul-singer-howard-tate#stream/0

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Great read.  So sad yet with a special ending. Love the bit about asking the church whether he should be singing secular or gospel and he took the risk again. Thanks for posting. 

Remember this. 

 

Got this on a UK Demo,nice early R'n'B, The b-side of the wonderful "ain't nobody home" Nice !

 

 

On 09/01/2019 at 13:46, speedlimit said:

Staying with my posts on underplayed sounds  I got this the same day as the gloria hill .Howard tate you're looking good  utopia.  Played this covered  up as Jimmy bishop .as its wrote by him & jerry raglan great uptempo dancer that should see more spins

Great record, but a little awkward to dance to.

Love the instromental bridge, a complete lift from "Theme from a Summer Place" by Percy Faith!

Howard & Jerry Ragavoy came over to the UK to help promote his return to recording in 2003. Howard did a live show in London at the time (can't recall the venue but it was in central London). He put on a really good performance & I got to chat to both Howard & Jerry Ragavoy after the show. A truly spiritual gentleman. The pair then went over to Paris for another show, here's one of the songs he performed ...