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1961 Atlantic Record's ad .................

Soul music tracks seem to have been the hip tool to use to help sell products via radio / TV ads for a good while now. But, in the US, they were using soul singers / soul cuts on radio / TV ads as far back as the 60's. The likes of Chuck Jackson did cigarette ads. Aretha, Motown stars & many more did coke ads .... & so on .... Seems that some companies ran competitions to select who would sing on their ads ........... ..... one such company, back in 1969, was Schaefer Beer. There 'Talent Hunt' competition was won by some acts who all got to add their vocals to adverts used to sell their beer. Three of those acts were the Devonnes, Ray P(ollard) and Ann Duquesnay. Here's the newspaper announcement as to who had won their 'talent hunt' (with the acts 45's added in) .......... Anyone know of other such contests back in the 60's. I (already) know of the famous 80's 'talent hunt' 45's ...

A poster for a nightclub / disco now .............

On to the early 60's now ............

Back to the 50's again .......... .. & who's that lurking in the group (Ray P methinks) ....

Come see Gloria Lynn ............

A poster (from Baltimore's Globe Posters) to get you to order your own show poster ........ $5.50 for 100 full colour posters ........ I'll have a bit of that deal !!!! .........

Another Otis Redding Show ..........

Some gigs in 1971 in Baltimore ...... .. 4 live shows in 4 nights at the Scene Nightclub .... one of the guys on was Cap City's Marion Black ...

And sitting down to watch a show in London on a Sunday .........

Dancing at the Ipswich swimming baths ..........

Were you in with the in crowd back then ...........

Yet another for a Jackie Wilson 45 ..........

Bet you didn't have to hand across a 3 Dollar Bill for any of these 45's .............

Another 1950's record ad .............

An earlier ad for one of Jackie's releases ...........

Shouting about a Jackie Wilson 45 ..............

Think he was a white guy who cut in New York. Here's a little mention for him from 1963 ...........

Ike & Tina feature again on this montage of East LA shows ..........

The Ike & Tina Turner Revue...............

A gospel show poster ...........

More from the Blendells (Rampart / Reprise) ...........

The West Coast group the Blendells ("La La La La") on a show in San Diego with UK group the Dave Clark Five .....

Some shows Carole Hughes did in the LA area .............

Mr. Excitement on with Sam Cooke (& others) back at the end of the 50's .........