This isn't Planet Records book club but you may well be interested in this little beauty!

Now the title doesn't sound up to much - "The Old Barrio Guide To Low Rider Music 1950-1975" - but wait until you see what's in it.

Basically Low Rider music was the soundtrack for young Mexican/Latino teenagers to cruise around in their cars to. The music is mainly ballads and soul classics such as "Hello Stranger", that kind of thing, in other words - the B sides of the records we are interested in, and therefore many, many Northern Soul tracks and artists are mentioned. There's also a stack of fascinating information about label owners, studios and record producers.

Anyway, this book contains an A to Z of the artists and records favoured by this Low Rider scene and it's an absolute treasure trove for anyone interested in obscure Northern Soul artists. For instance - there's features on:

Admirations

Carltons

Citations

Linda Carr

Johnny Bartel

Commands

Jimmy Conwell

Tony Clarke

Chuck Corby

Cynthia & The Imaginations

Autographs

Attractions

Ruby Andrews

Bleu Lights...

That's just from opening random pages in the A, B and C sections.

Hundreds of photographs of the artists including

Brothers Of Soul

Royal Jesters

Gene Chandler

Elgins (male group)

Informers

Frankie Karl

Royal Chessmen

Little Ray

Vanguards

Ronnie Walker

Younghearts

Etc

And to top it off, there are 8 full colour pages of record scans.

All in all, a cracking read and very reasonably priced too.

I bought this book just as a hunch it might have some useful information on those obscure artists and was blown away by it and thought it might pay me to see if I can sell a few copies, so here we are.

THE BOOK COSTS £15

THE POSTAGE (SENT VIA AIRMAIL FROM THE USA) IS £5

SO THE TOTAL IS £20

I'M MAKING £1.50 PER COPY BEFORE ANYONE ASKS!

Anyone wanting a copy of the book, please pay directly into my paypal account (pete.smith@freeuk.com) or ring or email me me to pay via credit card (01902 893569)

Please allow 14 days for delivery

PETE SMITH

PLANET RECORDS

28 JENKS ROAD

WOMBOURNE

WOLVERHAMPTON

WV5 0BL

01902 893569

pete.smith@freeuk.com

Seven years of research and hard work have produced the first book ever to chronicle the music of the low rider. Interviews with artist and record company owners like Frankie Karl, George Kerr, Weldon McDougal (Harthon), Chuck Corby, Richard Poindexter, Freddie Hughes, Mickey Lespron (El Chicano), Little Ray Jimenez, Tommy Turner, Chris Ollan (Natural Four), Joe Evans, Gene Dozier, Skip Mahoney, Sunny Ozuna, Jimmy Pipkin (Gallahads), Art Laboe, Huggy Boy, Jimmy Conwell and Anthony Renfro plus many others have helped to make this book one of a kind. Listed in alphabetical order by artist the book supplies all group members, group or artist history, city of origin and a low rider discography. The new third edition also includes a list of CD's where every song can be found.  Approx 140 artist photos and several Southern California dance posters and flyers from the fifties and sixties are included.

Link here to author talking about the book on radio station (look for October 25th in list )

https://www.kpfa.org/archives/archives.php?id=1&limit=N

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This isn't Planet Records book club but you may well be interested in this little beauty!

Now the title doesn't sound up to much - "The Old Barrio Guide To Low Rider Music 1950-1975" - but wait until you see what's in it.

Basically Low Rider music was the soundtrack for young Mexican/Latino teenagers to cruise around in their cars to. The music is mainly ballads and soul classics such as "Hello Stranger", that kind of thing, in other words - the B sides of the records we are interested in, and therefore many, many Northern Soul tracks and artists are mentioned. There's also a stack of fascinating information about label owners, studios and record producers.

Anyway, this book contains an A to Z of the artists and records favoured by this Low Rider scene and it's an absolute treasure trove for anyone interested in obscure Northern Soul artists. For instance - there's features on:

Admirations

Carltons

Citations

Linda Carr

Johnny Bartel

Commands

Jimmy Conwell

Tony Clarke

Chuck Corby

Cynthia & The Imaginations

Autographs

Attractions

Ruby Andrews

Bleu Lights...

That's just from opening random pages in the A, B and C sections.

Hundreds of photographs of the artists including

Brothers Of Soul

Royal Jesters

Gene Chandler

Elgins (male group)

Informers

Frankie Karl

Royal Chessmen

Little Ray

Vanguards

Ronnie Walker

Younghearts

Etc

And to top it off, there are 8 full colour pages of record scans.

All in all, a cracking read and very reasonably priced too.

I bought this book just as a hunch it might have some useful information on those obscure artists and was blown away by it and thought it might pay me to see if I can sell a few copies, so here we are.

THE BOOK COSTS £15

THE POSTAGE (SENT VIA AIRMAIL FROM THE USA) IS £5

SO THE TOTAL IS £20

I'M MAKING £1.50 PER COPY BEFORE ANYONE ASKS!

Anyone wanting a copy of the book, please pay directly into my paypal account (pete.smith@freeuk.com) or ring or email me me to pay via credit card (01902 893569)

Please allow 14 days for delivery

PETE SMITH

PLANET RECORDS

28 JENKS ROAD

WOMBOURNE

WOLVERHAMPTON

WV5 0BL

01902 893569

pete.smith@freeuk.com

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Why did you leave him Negative feedback on Ebay then ?

Why did you leave him Negative feedback on Ebay then ?

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Well I bought the book off him buy it now, told him it'd be about a week til I had money in paypal, then after about a week he left me negative saying I'd promised money and never paid. So me being me, Iinstead of asking him why, I just sent him some abuse and left him negative feedback in return. He then writes and apologises saying it was meant for someone else and he'd sent my book anyway - which he had, it arrived the day after that. So it was a misunderstanding but not really my fault...for a change

Well I bought the book off him buy it now, told him it'd be about a week til I had money in paypal, then after about a week he left me negative saying I'd promised money and never paid.  So me being me, Iinstead of asking him why, I just sent him some abuse and left him negative feedback in return.  He then writes and apologises saying it was meant for someone else and he'd sent my book anyway - which he had, it arrived the day after that.  So it was a misunderstanding but not really my fault...for a change

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A classic Pete Smith job then

You can also get this book at Dead Dog Records

Third edition 184 pages (16 added since 2nd edition), 8 full color printed on heavy 8# glossy paper and a 14# matte finished cover 1000 printed.

Since the forties Mexican-American teens have been drawn to African-American music of all kinds. jazz, rhythm and blues, group harmony (doo-wop), soul, funk and most recently rap and hip hop. Since the mid-fifties one group in particular the pachuco a.k.a. cholo has adopted select R&B grinders and tearjerkers (ballads) to provide the sound track for his most prized possession, the low rider.

Early on it was the sound of Don Julian, Jesse Belvin, the Velvetones and Shirley and Lee. It was the sound of El Monte Legion Stadium, Art Laboe, the Shrine Auditorium and Huggy Boy and the sound of Whittier Blvd. By the early sixties homeboys and homegirls were digging the sounds of the Metallics, Billy Stewart, the Blendtones and the up and coming East Side Sound of the Romancers, the Premiers, Thee Midniters and Cannibal and the Headhunters. When disco took the world by storm in the early seventies the homeboys stayed true to those R&B tunes now known as "Oldies but Goodies" a term coined by Art Laboe in 1958.

The hey day of the barrio low rider has passed. Southern California's cruising spots like Whittier Blvd., Van Nuys, and San Fernando's Mission Park have been closed to cruising since around 1975. Teen dances are also a thing of the past and "oldies" stations are dedicated to the Beatles and Beach Boys. However, the underground market for sixties and seventies R&B and soul has produced a new phase in the low rider sound.

Seven years of research and hard work have produced the first book ever to chronicle the music of the low rider. Interviews with artist and record company owners like Frankie Karl, George Kerr, Weldon McDougal (Harthon), Chuck Corby, Richard Poindexter, Freddie Hughes, Mickey Lespron (El Chicano), Little Ray Jimenez, Tommy Turner, Chris Ollan (Natural Four), Joe Evans, Gene Dozier, Skip Mahoney, Sunny Ozuna, Jimmy Pipkin (Gallahads), Art Laboe, Huggy Boy, Jimmy Conwell and Anthony Renfro plus many others have helped to make this book one of a kind. Listed in alphabetical order by artist the book supplies all group members, group or artist history, city of origin and a low rider discography. The new third edition also includes a list of CD's where every song can be found. Approx 140 artist photos and several Southern California dance posters and flyers from the fifties and sixties are included.

Bill

Dead Dog Records