Herb Kent played this song a lot, and it sounds like a Chicago recording.  Does anyone know if The Chappells were a local, Chicago group?  I lived on Chappel Avenue near 87th St. in South Chicago, during the 1960s.  If so, maybe the group members lived on that street (adding an "L" to the end of the name).  Ray Patterson was their producer.  I seem to remember his name.  Did he work out of The Windy City?  But, I don't recognise Bedford as a Chicago label (Bedford, Massachusetts?), and the label font and label design don't look like late '60s Chicago style. 

 

The group was based out of Baltimore.

Here's another 45 from the group - 

 

Edited January 15, 20196 yr by the yank

8 minutes ago, the yank said:

The group was based out of Baltimore.

Here's another 45 from the group - 

 

I knew about this Baltimore group.  They are clearly a group with a male lead, and sound like all members are male.  They don't sound, AT ALL, like The Bedford Chappells, who clearly sound like an all female group.  I really doubt that these 2 groups have anything at all to do with each other.

Thanks!  I see that they ARE the same group, having sung the 2 Double Check cuts.  The 3 ladies dominated the sound on "You're Acting Kind of Strange", so as to sound like an all-female group.  The  2 men's voices are strong on their Double Check cuts.

Two great tunes the Bedford label has two different designs as well the uptempo  help me somebody side was first played at the casino late 1979 by Gary Rushbrooke covered up as Lorraine chandler . Now the other side is getting it's turn at crossover and upfront venues

 

Used to play YAKOS, about 10 years back, either early doors or later last hour. Always thought Somebody was hard to dance to, even though its a great tune. Sold my orange/ white copy last year.

This was spun at Bridlington last year in the under played room.

Heard it and went over to see who it was and then remembered I already had a copy oops.  

great tune...

the lp above was a limited subscription release  from Numero Group at first yep?

full background on group and all via

https://www.numerogroup.com/products/the-chapells-are-you-ready

also lp avail in full via music streaming service such as

https://play.google.com/music/listen#/album/Bny67qeg5ffafxfbq3owcov3skq/The+Chapells/Are+You+Ready+for+The+Chapells%3F

Anyone know where I can get a good digital WAV/WAVE file of the non-strings version? Numero only have the strings edit out?