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The top banana, radio soul wise, for me was gudol TrickieDickie Searling. His Radio Hallam (Sheffield) show in the early to mid 80's was the bees' knees if you wanted to hear new releases, NS, MS, deep soul & jazzy soul each & every Saturday. His 'end of year' top 100 was always a must listen (which also usually ended up being recorded onto cassette). It was a great loss when he had a falling out with the management at Hallam (over show content) & moved on to Red Rose up in Preston. He would send me tapes of his new show on a pretty regular basis but it wasn't really the same. ALSO used to listen in to Dave Evison's slot on Radio Derby (was that on a Tuesday night ?), but RS's output was the tops IMO. Of course, back then, Radio One just about always had a decent weekly soul show back then but that hardly ever had any NS / MS track content.
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The Memorial for William Franklin Bell Saturday, November 23, 2013 Time: 11:00 AM Where: Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services, Horis A. Ward Chapel, 1999 GA Hwy. 138 SE, Conyers, GA 30013 ................ Online Memory Book: www.mem.com ; In upper right hand corner, do search by his name - William Franklin Bell
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A Montage showing three of the Zenette 45's ........... ... these include the B side of the Rita & the Upsetters single ...
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Has anyone written a detailed article on Robert Staunton's music career ?? He certainly did seem to do stuff for lots of different labels and out of different cities ! No doubt these just list a few of his many efforts ............. https://www.discogs.com/artist/Robert+Staunton https://www.discogs.com/artist/Robert+Staunton+and+Robert+Walker
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The King Mojo (Sheffield) had niters from around 1964/65 thru till the council ensured it was closed down (by not granting it a license when club licenses were brought in) in 1967. ........ the main reasons for this were ................ 1/ Every niter at the club featured live acts (mostly visiting US soul acts). Those acts would play a normal Saturday nite gig (8 pm to midnight -- going on stage about 11pm). So they had already been paid for one show but only having a limited time in the UK were willing to go on to another club (Mojo, Wheel, Nite Owl, etc) and do a 2nd show of the night. ADVANTAGE of this for act was two pay cheques in one nite, for the club it was (usually) a discounted fee from the group for the early hours show. 2/ Getting to & from the club. The Mojo / Wheel /Nite Owl live show niters attracted soul fans / mods from a wide geographic area. So someone could get from Hull to Sheffield (say) after work and still meet up with mates (in cafe, pub) before heading off for the niter session starting at 11pm / midnight (or whatever). Night spent dancing and watching the live act. Club throw-out time around 8am. Catch 1st bus back into city centre (if you'd been at the Mojo, didn't apply at Wheel, Nite Owl) and then hang around with friends for hour or so for 1st train of the day to get back home. So niters suited the club, the acts & the audiences. When dayers were introduced, getting home late on a Sunday evening was a bit more problematical. HOWEVER the act could perform at the dayer around 5pm and then move onto another club for a normal Sunday nite session (going on stage around 10pm). Again 2 fees in 1 day.
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Good to learn that some of those old Zenette 45's were still turning up years afterwards (even if it was only yards from where they were originally commissioned). Which of the Zenette 45's did you find; the Kenny Hamber, Sonny V & the Velvets, El Ray, Rita & Upsetters or the Christian All Stars. Kenny Hamber grew up in the area as well, he spent his teenage years in the Lafayette Courts projects (after moving from the Somerset Projects). I haven't heard some of those tracks, would really like to get to listen to the El Raye (Sonnye Daye) & Christian All Stars cuts. A WSID ad for Sparky Mullen's radio show; this dates from around the time that the Rita & the Upsetters 45 was released.
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A Quick Soul Train Cruise Lookback - San Diego Oct 2013
Roburt commented on Sheila Hart's article in News Archives
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings doing 3 concerts in Florida in mid to late Feb .......... have to see if I can make it to one of them as well ! -
Invisible Soul posted this old Soul Notes club ad up on Facebook ............. ........ I thought it deserved an airing here as well ................
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Wanda Mcdaniel And The Ultimate Choice-Gangster Boy (Appleray)
Roburt replied to Russ Vickers's topic in Look At Your Box
I was sure it had to be BUT had no proof of that fact. So I just kept my remarks limited to 'could easily have been same group'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSZQY-5UKEg -
I can believe that the 'Richard Carrington related' deal wasn't fully legit. A lot of the tracks he sourced back then (after promising the artists cash) were pressed up, but many of the artists never actually received a dime from him.
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You shouldn't be featuring articles by J R Smith; he's a nutter (or was that J R Hartley) R I P Bill.
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Wanda Mcdaniel And The Ultimate Choice-Gangster Boy (Appleray)
Roburt replied to Russ Vickers's topic in Look At Your Box
I contacted Ron (via Facebook) and he has this to say about the track & his work with these artists ............... ...... The track was recorded by a band from New Castle, Pennsylvania called Reality band and Show. Wanda McDaniel is my sister (.... as Dave said). She (sang lead) and the Ultimate Choice (a vocal group from Ohio who Ray also managed) sang the background, which I arranged. Wanda is married now and designs jewelry, she's living in New York state. Danny Friendly from the Ultimate Choice now sings with the Edsels (of "Rama Lama Ding Dong" fame). As regards Reality band, I hear that all but the drummer have passed into time ! So it seems that the Ultimate Choice were from Ohio, so they could easily have formed the basis of the group that soon after recorded for Heat & Montage. Danny Friendly (of Ultimate Choice) has been lead singer with the Edsels since 2007. New Castle, which is where Reality Band & Show came from, is to the north of Pittsburgh and just across the Ohio state boundary from Youngstown (where the original members of the Edsels hailed from). -
Wanda Mcdaniel And The Ultimate Choice-Gangster Boy (Appleray)
Roburt replied to Russ Vickers's topic in Look At Your Box
Back to info on the people involved with the record as the discussions on a possible release of this track seem to be going up the usual cul-de-sac ......... ........ info on Co-PRODUCER RON 'TINY' CRAWLEY (I guess the Tiny is an ironic nickname) ........ Ron Crawley is still involved with music, being one of the lead vocalists with Pittsburgh based group Pure Gold. He's been singing with the outfit since the late 70s. Born in Pennsylvania he moved to Pittsburgh in the mid-1950s and there befriended guys active on the city's black music scene, they gave him tips on singing. One of his close friends back then sang with George Benson and the Altairs. From the mid 60's, Ron did stuff with DJ's such as Sir Walter of WAMO and Wash Allen of WABQ (Cleveland). Around 1970, along with another old friend, (Alex Richburg) he began to write song lyrics and signed up with a new local music operation; Steel City Recording based in East Liberty (Mervin and Melvin Steals were also working for the enterprise). Another of the talents at Steel City back then was the late Phyllis Hyman. In fact, Phyllis was one of the backing singers on a Crawley-Greenley-Richburg song “Dancing on a Daydream” in 1974 (Soulvation Army Band on Soulvation Army Records). Through the 70's, he continued to sing with local groups and for a short time worked for the late Ray Mitchell’s Pittsburgh Music Industries with acts such as the Reality Band, Youngstown based group JC and the Soul Angels and the group Ultimate Choice. Whilst there, he worked on the track “Gangster Boy” which escaped on Apple Ray Records in 1977. Soon after that, he began singing with Pure Gold. Ray Mitchell's organisation already had a track record by the time Ray Crawley joined the set up. Back in 1973, Aliquippa teenage group the Hifadelics had cut tracks at Hartman & Associates' studio (Pittsburgh) for their manager George Perkins. The recordings led to them meeting Ray Mitchell around the time of the release of the group's only single, "Hifidelics Groove / Quiptown" on Quip (actually released as by the Hifidelics). Signed to Ray Mitchell's Pittsburgh Music Industries, he immediately put them to work playing gigs on the rust belt (Pennsylvania, central New York state, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Lower Michigan, northern Illinois and eastern Wisconsin) club circuit. The group fell apart when the heavy industries in their hometown were closed and the members had to head off to find new daytime employment. ......... related tracks .......... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfk2uxwi5xk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAFoWGz9FBU As some Ohio based groups worked with Ray Mitchell and Ron Crawley at Pittsburgh Music Industries, I wonder if Ultimate Choice were from Ohio. If so, this outfit that cut for Heat Records & Montage in the first half of the 80's may be related (or even the self same group) ............. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNqaBZzI9s What Ron 'Tiny' Crawley looks like these days ........ -
Wanda Mcdaniel And The Ultimate Choice-Gangster Boy (Appleray)
Roburt replied to Russ Vickers's topic in Look At Your Box
Coz I'm old skool and like 'physical product'. Mind you, it being included on a comp LP or CD would be just fine too (not obsessed with 45's, though they are very very nice). -
Here's the details ......... Release: January 7, 2014 ..... Label: Real Gone Music
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So it is a version of the Isley's classic given a Bettye / Southern Soul type edge ...... I like it.
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The Maydie Myles jazz number that she performed last night as an encore ............... What a great show ....... 'light & shade' from start to finish .... 60's & 70's (+ a 2011 cut); dancers & deep gems; a jazzy soul number ..... this show had it all. Sell out venue, great backing musicians (& singers) who had really prepared well. A 'star' who still has her full vocal abilities. A show I'm really glad that I made the effort to attend (and even though I'd travelled around 160 miles to be there, there were others who had come further).
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Due out in the new year ............... https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Atlantic-Recordings-Bettye-Swann/dp/tracks/B00GJ7CSB2/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1 I wonder if track 16 is her take on the Isley's Motown anthem. If so, it could be interesting.
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Wanda Mcdaniel And The Ultimate Choice-Gangster Boy (Appleray)
Roburt replied to Russ Vickers's topic in Look At Your Box
Can't agree with the feelings of many on this thread. It would be great to have this available on a Jazzman 45 so those who aren't interested in paying 100's for an old 45 can own (& listen to) a copy. -
If You Could Have Compiled It What Would Be Your Choices
Roburt replied to Smudger's topic in All About the SOUL
Just coz it's an old 60's UK mod / soul club classic, I'd put the Hit Pack's "Never Say No To Your Baby" on one side of one of these 7's. Not too much was ever known about the group, though I believe they were only a 'studio creation' and probably consisted of Robert Dobyne (lead vocals), Robert Staunton & Robert Walker with the Andantes on back up. -
Will we get a chance to have 45's, photos, CD's signed by Debbie after her show has finished ??
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Pittsburgh is about halfway between Baltimore & Cleveland (one of Ohio's soul recording hot spots), so these outfits could easily have come from the general area between Cleveland & Baltimore. However, many Baltimore artists 'left town' to record (going to Philly, DC, New York, etc.) coz the local recording studios and pressing plants weren't too advanced back in the 60's. Pittsburgh seemed to have better studios / pressing facilities (though lots of local acts also headed out to Philly to record). If the Montereys & Grandeurs were from Pittsburgh (where lots of their 45's ended up), I don't really see why their 45 would be pressed up in Baltimore. I have loads of Pittsburgh club ads from around 1966 thru to the 1970's but can't find any local shows that feature these outfits (looked at ones from the 67/68/69 period in particular). I'd guess that the group / band weren't actually from the Pittsburgh area itself (or from Baltimore) but were based somewhere in the Pennsylvania, Maryland, East Ohio or Virginia region and just had their 45 pressed up in Baltimore.
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Got quite a few Pittsburgh club / show ads & so decided I'd look through them to see if there were any Billy Sha-rae shows amongst them. Struck lucky: Billy seemed to be ever-present on live work in the Pittsburgh area clubs from the beginning of 1967 through to at least July 67. Back then, he was usually to be found performing in venues such as the Sunset East (in Irwin, south east of Pittsburgh) and at the Las Vegas Club in Whiskey Gulch. At the start of 1967, his band was named the Dynamites but he was soon performing all his live shows with the Soul Congress (I have no idea if these were two different outfits or if they just adopted a different name). Lots of good live venues in the area back then, see show montage below -- all the ads shown date from the first half of 1967 except the one at the Hilton Hotel that was staged in October 67 (presumably after Billy & the Soul Congress had headed off to Detroit). Other local artists who feature include the Contrails, Bobby O Brown, the Captions, Chuck Corby, Gary Glenn, Georg(i)e Benson, Jimmy Beaumont, Soul Survivors (?), Cleveland Martin, Sonny Gilmore & more.
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Seem to recall buying a couple of copies of the UK CD single of 'Where Do You Want Me To Put It' as the cover says it features 'Blowin' My Mind' as an additional track. BUT it wasn't actually on there (so have had to make do with my CD copy of the album to own the track).
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A Quick Soul Train Cruise Lookback - San Diego Oct 2013
Roburt commented on Sheila Hart's article in News Archives
Done a few cruises & always enjoyed them. Didn't realise a 'Soul Train cruise' was departing from Miami in March as it does seem interesting (do you know which acts will be on-board when you need to make your booking ?). ..................... ANYWAY .............. We've already booked a cruise in January from Florida to the Bahamas. Anyone know of any decent record shops or clubs (that feature soul / reggae bands) in Funky Nassau ??