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Kris Holmes

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  1. Sorry for the double up, didn’t see the front page
  2. sad news, a lot of 45s in my collection bearing his fingerprints, absolute legend.
  3. shame the liner notes weren't better fact checked/proofread & if they'd just included one (or three if you count the Lee Dorsey duets 45) extra track they could have made it a complete definitive collection of her Sansu sides. So close.
  4. Just heard via his brother James Gaylyn that Nate Neblett passed away last Sunday. http://obituaries.invocare.com/tribute/details/385/Nathaniel-Neblett/obituary.html
  5. i was ruminating over an incomplete discography you have up the other day but now i can't remember what it was to submit the additions
  6. 2016 continues taking artists from us. Sad news. Below added by site confirmed by family on social media As often happens its not till the sad news that the full details of their life come into focus... Info below from a Black Cat a Dutch Rockabilly site Born Earl Solomon Burroughs, 16 September 1925, Fulton County, Georgia. Jack Hammer is probably best known as the co-writer of one of the immortal classics of rock n roll, "Great Balls Of Fire", Jerry Lee Lewis' # 2 hit from 1957. Born in New Orleans, he moved to California as a youngster and then, probably in the mid-1950s, to New York City, where he became the M.C. at the Baby Grand Theatre.Earl Burroughs (his real name) started writing songs in the 1950s Hammer is probably more important as a songwriter than as a singer. The story behind "Great Balls Of Fire" (as revealed by Stuart Colman) is as follows. Hammer wrote a song of that name and submitted it to New York songwriter Paul Case, who at that time also happened to be musical consultant for the forthcoming movie "Jamboree". Case was unimpressed with the contents but loved the title. He subsequently called Otis Blackwell, who had never met Jack, and commissioned him to write a new song around the title, to be used in "Jamboree". Hammer was in full agreement to this arrangement as the deal was to be split right down the middle. The album had a different title in every country where it came out ; in the UK it was called "Hammer + Beat = Twist" (Oriole PS 40020, 1963). Some of the more successful twist recordings were also recorded in German and/or Spanish for the local markets. By 1971 he was living in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he played the U.S. military bases. Apart from "Swim"/"Color Combination", there were no new releases in the 1970s. Hammer moved back to New York in order to play the part of Jimi Hendrix in a proposed film, but the plans for this movie foundered in the early to mid-1980s. more details can be read via the link below http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/jack_hammer.htm Also a discography and more info can be read here http://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursh/hammer_jack.htm
  7. Very sad news. Session drummer on a lot of classic Chicago Soul 45s as well. Absolute legend.
  8. http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/01/northern-soul-an-oral-history added by site: Drawing from the DJ History archives, we present an oral history of the beloved genre from the DJs that soundtracked it January 14, 2016 By Lauren Martin
  9. i contributed to this with scans of original 45s & some money, the Memphis premier last week looked amazing. can't wait to see it when it gets to Los Angeles!!
  10. Sad news, RIP to one of the greats.
  11. ah, just got these in the post today but The Sharpees 45 is a mispress which plays The Valdons 45 instead, pressing plant fail. have emailed about a replacement. the other stuff is great though!
  12. terrible news, RIP Fontella
  13. very sad news, i too saw him at the Jazz Cafe at some point. RIP. I played this 45 on the radio yesterday but didn't know he had passed away at the time
  14. sad news RIP, will have to play some FW this weekend
  15. Yes, Wash Hopson Singers on the Songbird 45s, also The Hobson Family on the Select-O-Hit 45s/HSE LP & then finally The Hopson Family on the Jewel 45s/LP.
  16. this widely contradicts the boxes of unplayed stock coming out of texas a few years back, but ok then. also one of the ones i have on 45 too great track meditation singers on 45 should be cool though. will definitely buy it regardless
  17. sad stuff, RIP.

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