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Just listening to this great double sider, I used to have covered up as the fantastic four before selling to Mr Dyson. What do we know about the group??? 

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  • Simon T
    Simon T

    The best thing to do is keep checking Youtube posts and maybe one day will comment saying 'that's my dad, uncle, cousin  etc etc In the meantime groove along to (Cry Baby Cry?)  

  • The Yank
    The Yank

    The Checkerboard Squares were based in San Francisco. The group was made up of Billy and Bernie Rivera, Billy Schwartz, George Whitsell and of course Frank Jones.  Various horn players like Jerry Mart

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    Is Mike Lewis still around?  Artie Butler probably wouldn't remember who  they were.  He arranged sessions for hundreds and hundreds of groups.  Last I remember, he was operating a recording studio in

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That makes complete sense since Herb was known as the DJ  Bert Bell  "The Ding Dong Daddy of Soul" on KSOL.  Here's one of their surveys with Kim at # 30 - 

 

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55 minutes ago, The Yank said:

That makes complete sense since Herb was known as the DJ  Bert Bell  "The Ding Dong Daddy of Soul" on KSOL.  Here's one of their surveys with Kim at # 30 - 

 

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And a photo here he was still playing tunes until 1970 when KSOL stopped it's Soul Show and clearly knew Sly Stone

https://bayarearadio.org/audio/ksol/ksol-1450-july-12-1966

https://airchexx.com/archives-sly-stone-on-ksol-san-francisco-1967-828-scoped/

The Sly Stone show is the most amazing amazing 8 minutes EVER , take a listen 

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