Kris Holmes

nice one Justin

I find it equally speculatory that Marvin Gaye himself is drumming on this, doesn't sound like his drumming, there has to be someone else like Benny Benjamin, Pistol Allen or Uriel Jones on there........ or by some weird happenstance Steve Reid. If Quincy Jones was leading the Apollo houseband in the 50s then that probably makes Reid too young to play under him too, he would have been 16 in 1960.

Googling this all last night I found an obit for Reid which also said he was the drummer on "Heat Wave" too. Can anyone dig out the Wax Poetics interview with him? Did he make these statements in print himself? Where did they come from. Someone has got their facts crossed at some stage. Steve Reid was a reasonably important figure in jazz drumming, I wouldn't have thought he'd needed to make these things up himself.

Look, I can take that "tone" or whatever with whoever I want, it ain't my fault you can't use a search function & then get upset when it's pointed out to you. Hey, I think we need a thread on Frank Wilson "Do I Love You", how about you go start one? yours sincerely, Muppet

Hard to say, it seems each strand of info just comes from one source which has then been repeated over & over on the internet. Seems more plausible that Marvin Gaye drummed on it. But sometimes Motown used other session drummers. They could have had more than one drummer on the session. Reid could have drummed on a Quincy Jones arranged session of a cover of Dancing In The Street. Did Quincy Jones even lead the Apollo house band? That fact seems repeated over & over online, but wasn't he in Europe in 1960 & then busy with his own recording career etc through the mid-60s. There are a lot of variables, Reid could have been their live drummer, he may have been talking about a live Apollo concert which was recorded.

guys really need to search for this stuff before posting the same topics over & over March 2010 November 2009 September 2009

my copy is fine, just makes noise on the run-off after the music has ended.

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um, you forgot the name of Syl Johnson? ouch.

I think I've had this at some point, I want to say it's an instrumental of "Heard It Through The Grapevine", but can't exactly remember, I think it was Andre Williams related. Possibly undistinguished since I don't have it anymore. It's a cheapie though so I'd probably buy it again if I came across it. just looked it up online, I actually still have the track on the Vampi-Soul Andre Williams compilation LP. You can listen to a clip on the All Music review page here: All Music Andre Williams

yeah, he posts on some of the record boards from time to time, seems cool. He's a fan of soul & has a good band which is getting some major label shine. All good.

absolutely, it's totally the intro/chorus chords from "Misunderstanding", I remember thinking the same thing when I bought it.

another embarrassingly under-represented label in my collection all I have is this

Don't know about rarest but according to the interwebs in descending order of price it goes something like this: Larry Laster Linda Jones Charles Thomas Soul Shakers Ben Aiken Kell Osborne Delilah Kennebreuw Bobby Reed Carl Hall Marvellos John Wonderling Apollas James Cotton Ike & Tina Mighty Hannibal Lucky Carmichael Belfast Gipsies Voice Box Teen Turbans Tony Amaro Olympics Romeos Jammers Cornel Gunther (is this the same label?) Not sure how closely price relates to rarity in this case? Anything so obscure it's missing from this list? Are some of these just in demand & not actually rare?

I liked the previous album, like the new single (don't really like the video for it though), love his version of Motorhead "Ace of Spades" on 45. Need to hear this new album in it's entirity but I'm pretty sure I'll like that too. Good stuff. I'm all for him getting some recognition & money from a major label to do his thing.

yeah good record, no embarrassment there, I was more embarrassed that the label is one I haven't bothered hunting down too much on. I think there are a few in the thread which I need to cop sooner instead of later

sounds like a personal case of sour grapes, not a good look on your behalf. Brendan is a good dude & it's just not cool to be calling out stuff like this in public.

There's been a lot over the last few years, Vikki Styles on Odex for $3, Intentions on Tiki $5, Natures Time on CEM $5, both Little Buck's on Seven B for $5 each, those are definitely the highlights which spring to mind.

embarrassingly this is the only Loma 45 I own

I am shocked, that one you got off TM & then bam these on the weekend, absolutely nuts, there must have been a shipment come in that got split to the different Real Groovy branches, insanity.

spooky, just this week I found my 2nd & 3rd copies in the last 18 months locally. So that's 4 copies I know of which have surfaced here in New Zealand recently.

ha ha, just noticed the seller put their price up to $800

That copy sounds beyond hammered, not worth it. Not playable out. But yeah, makes clean copies around $1000 seem about right. I like the guy's blurb "may be the last copy that turns up" not ridiculously rare, more than a few people have it, it just doesn't leave collections that often. The good thing about most of those Greenville label 45s is that they do tend to turn up in lots at a time.

You can pick either of them up for around $100 max bid clean on ebay with a bit of patience. A bit less for Roy Ward even. There are a couple of label variations on that too, promo, light blue stock & turquoise stock.

I really like that Chris Jones 45, I always forget about it, then come across it in my shelves, play it & think, "I need to remember this & play it more often", then promptly forget all about it for the next year or so