A friend recently kindly gave me a copy of Liz Damon's Orient Express' You're Falling In Love on White Whale.

When I played it I recognised it immediately. The question is where did I hear it? Was it at a soul do or on the radio? If it's the latter it must have been on Sounds Of The Sixties, which I occasionally listen to while doing things at home, or Peter Young's Smooth FM programme in the London area.

Otherwise it must have been at one of my jaunts out. It is poppy but could be played in a Crossover set. Has it been played on our scene? I can't do a sound file as I can't get from vinyl to CD or MP3.

I've definitely heard it recently, and it's really bugging me. My problem is that I usually can't remember what was played at a club when I wake up the next morning.

Help please.

betty everett had a song of the same title could you not of heard this geoff when you were out and about

chris

Edited May 3, 200817 yr by ChrisOD1964

will this do geoff?

chris

Edited May 3, 200817 yr by ChrisOD1964

betty everett had a song of the same title could you not of heard this geoff when you were out and about

chris

Spot on, it's a Betty Everett LP only track. I think the Liz Damon is a cracking version...and it's a real cheapie

Adam.

Spot on, it's a Betty Everett LP only track. I think the Liz Damon is a cracking version...and it's a real cheapie

Adam.

...cheap on White Whale, yes, but not quite so cheap on the original Hawaiian label, methinx....

Spot on, it's a Betty Everett LP only track. I think the Liz Damon is a cracking version...and it's a real cheapie

Adam.

I know another version but Betty's name rings no bells, is there another version Kent records related.

The Betty Everett is the version that you're most likely to hear out, she also did a version of the other side of the Liz Damon track "1900 Yesterday" on Uni records

Des Parker

Edited May 3, 200817 yr by SOUL.INC

...cheap on White Whale, yes, but not quite so cheap on the original Hawaiian label, methinx....

I have this on the Hawaiian label - Makaha? - and it's a completely different take/mix to the White Whale one.

Thanks everyone, yes it is the same one as Betty Everett did. Probably her version I heard out. Might take it to Boogaloo for my set tonight. It's just inside the 60s, lol.

I think the Liz Damon version is just plain awful. Picked it up once in a local shop, asked the owner to play it and after hearing it put it straight back into the box it came out of. Up there with Dean Barlow as far as I'm concerned.

I think the Liz Damon version is just plain awful. Picked it up once in a local shop, asked the owner to play it and after hearing it put it straight back into the box it came out of. Up there with Dean Barlow as far as I'm concerned.

Agree absolutely.

Betty Everett is a 'Pitches' classic - was massive mid 90's.

Came across a boxful of Liz Damons in Baltimore around the same time for $1.00 each... and left 'em.

Wouldn't give it House room myself!

Do yourself a favour and get Betty's "There'll Come a Time" LP for the superior version.

Sean

I think the Liz Damon version is just plain awful. Picked it up once in a local shop, asked the owner to play it and after hearing it put it straight back into the box it came out of. Up there with Dean Barlow as far as I'm concerned.

What Dean Barlow has a version as well any good.

Is the Betty version on Roulette.

Is the Betty version on Roulette.

UNI LP.

Sean

I played Sugar out one night... great track (off the Betty Everett LP)

https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/d/51508/EVERETT%2C+BETTY

1900 yesterday reached number 34 on the US hot 100 in june 1970

ive only got the betty everett lp on UNI..............miles better anywayIMVHO

used to get played at virtually every "PITCHES" do circa 1994/95. i never missed one

never really been a do in rotherham as good since. bout time those days came back

dave

I have this on the Hawaiian label - Makaha? - and it's a completely different take/mix to the White Whale one.

Is it more, or less Northern?

used to get played at virtually every "PITCHES" do circa 1994/95. i never missed one

never really been a do in rotherham as good since. bout time those days came back

dave

Workin on it Dave.

Is it more, or less Northern?

It's almost identical, Dave. In fact I think it's the same recording, just remastered with a different EQ.

For the record I think that Liz Damon versions of both "You're Falling In Love" and "1900 Yesterday" are better than Betty Everett's. Not as soul records or dance records, just as records full stop. They have an ethereal fragility in their production and performance that makes them sound highly unusual. The Betty Everett takes are good, workmanlike Chicago soul with nothing particularly 'standout' about either.

Of course, if you're judging them as soul records then Liz Damon has no soul content whatsoever

It's almost identical, Dave. In fact I think it's the same recording, just remastered with a different EQ.

My ears must be painted on then, cos i could swear its a lot slower...

i'll have to dig it out and remind myself.

It's almost identical, Dave. In fact I think it's the same recording, just remastered with a different EQ.

I'll settle for my JP presses, then...bit of a looker was our Liz too!

Liz Damon's doing gigs round the Freemont Street casinos in Las Vegas and still has a fantastic voice. Her bass guitarist's a Glaswegian who also plays in the House of Blues (Mandalay Bay) house band.

Ali