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Just noticed that my head appears bottom left of the screen at 1min 55 secs into the clip ...... you just can't keep me out of things !!!
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A bit about the end of All Platinum / Sugar Hill Records ......... https://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/music/Sugar_Hill_Records_tax_issues_latest_chapter_in_Englewood_hip-hop_familys_rock_history.html
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You never know, but this might be the guy .............. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z0VdBGK8XI
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The above label scan has allowed me to solve the identity problem here ...... ... seeing that the song writer was called Samuel Mickles, I did a bit of checking and found this info on a Toledo based 60's singer ........ ........ the guy was (is?) called Samuel Mickles aka Sweet Sammy J Mickles and he was a mainstay on the 60's Toledo music scene ....
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By 1981 Richard was playing a much classier selection (IMO) that included loads of great Modern Soul tracks. I think he was just about to cut his ties (buying wise) with John A @ Soul Bowl & he had started DJing on Radio Hallam in Sheffield. I much prefer the stuff he was playing in the early 80's than most of the tracks listed in the 1st post of this thread.
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Unless his name was something like Sammy J Kaplan / Sammy J Ward or similar (I.E. the J was his middle initial). Of course, he could also have (usually) been a group lead singer (with the Earthquakes or similar) who just had the one 45 out as a solo artist.
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Don El Records was Philly based & owned by real estate man Donald White. His labels flourished from about 1960 through to around 1967. The company was based out of 2020 Ridge Ave, Philly for some time (62 to 66 at least). He had three labels Don El, Chestnut and Alpha. Chestnut was primarily used for country music which he also liked. Wally Osbourne & Bobby Martin were his main producers. Artists signed to his labels included Eddie Holman, the Celestrals, Bobby Holland, the Daychords, Little Grier, Lady Fox & the Foxettes, Fluffy Falana & more. The Celestrals started on Don El & transferred across to Alpha. No real idea who Ronnie & Joyce were though, obviously a Philly based pairing. see here …..https://www.discogs.com/artist/Celestrals%2C+The & here …. https://www.45cat.com/label/alpha-records-philadelphia
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Bettye LaVette is also on at the Stamford Bridge club ........ https://underthebridge.co.uk/events/bettye-lavette/
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I've been told that Winfield Parker was just over in the UK but I don't recall seeing anything about him visiting these shores. Has he just been here & if so, did he perform anywhere while here ?
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A show Marva undertook in Baltimore in 1967 ...........
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Dunstable (California Ballroom) & Portsmouth (Birdcage & more) were great for live acts in the mid to late 60's. A great web site about the Portsmouth scene (especially the Birdcage) .... https://michaelcooper.org.uk/C/birdcage.htm
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Back in the 60's / early to mid 70's most towns / cities had good soul clubs. Most didn't host nighters and many didn't feature live acts but the sounds spun were good. Places such as Hull, Bridlington, Scarboro, Goole, Grimsby, Doncaster, Tadcaster, Sheffield, Rotherham, Leeds, Worksop, Castleford, Bradford, Dewsbury, Retford, Nottingham & more had great clubs that catered for the mod then soul crowd. A great venue in Dony was the Attic (Co-op Ballroom) which used to host great soul nites that featured fine live acts. With the passage of time, skinheads took over & reggae music was also introduced and the club eventually faded away .... but in its time it was a great place.
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I've done everyone though I certainly haven't been there for the full weekend every year. Charlie Rees & Paul Dunn have done everyone as well and they may well have been there for every Friday / Saturday / Sunday of every weekender. But there are others in our 'team' who have been part-timers (Snake Hips Temple, Kegsy, Swish, our kid & more).
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New York event in under two weeks time .......... https://tickets.thecuttingroomnyc.com/event/271961-evening-motown-legend-new-york/
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That shot from the Kerby Scott TV Show is great. That show was broadcast by WBAL-TV 11 in 1967 and was the new Baltimore dance show. The original dance show on Baltimore TV had been the Buddy Deane Show ( WJZ-TV) on which the film 'Hairspray' was based. The Kerby Scott Show had commenced around April 1967 and was soon attracting stars such as Kim Weston (promoting her new MGM 45 “I Got What You Need”), Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (they were on in early July 67) plus Jimi Hendrix & the Experience. Local groups were also booked to appear on the show, one such outfit being Denny & the Hitchhikers who were on the show in mid September (67). Another lesser known group, the Soul Clinic were on the show in June 68. The local bands played their tracks live in the empty studio ahead of the show's broadcast slot. They then lip-synced to the track during the actual broadcast. I believe the show lasted for just over a year. The Soul Clinic were from York, Pa ... so they don't qualify as a Pittsburgh soul outfit (York being much closer to Baltimore than to Pittsburgh) ..... ... this is the track they performed on the Kerby Scott Show ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJVZuVOHItg
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Shelbra Bennett (ex of the Soul Children) has passed away. This sad news has just been posted up on the Stax website ....... http://www.staxmuseum.com/video-images/videos/view/r-i-p-shelbra-bennett-of-the-soul-children I have loved the tracks the group made ever since I first heard one of their Stax 45 outings back in the day. They made great records for Stax till the company went bust and then moved across to CBS/ Epic where they made yet more goodies. My fave Soul Children track ....... added by site The group was formed in 1968 by Isaac Hayes and David Porter of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, after one of the label's top acts, Sam & Dave, left Stax to join the Atlantic label. As leading songwriters and producers for the label, Hayes and Porter put together a vocal group with two male and two female singers, all of whom sang lead on some of the group's recordings. The original members were Norman West, John Colbert (aka J. Blackfoot), Anita Louis, and Shelbra Bennett. Anita Louis was a backing singer on some of the records produced by Hayes and Porter. Shelbra Bennett had recently joined the label as a singer. The group's first record, "Give 'Em Love", produced by Hayes and Porter and released in late 1968, was a Bilboard R&B chart hit, as were two follow-ups. Their fourth single, "The Sweeter He Is", became one of their biggest hits, reaching no. 7 on the R&B chart in late 1969 and no. 52 on the Hot 100.The group also released their first album, Soul Children, in 1969. Musicians used on the recordings included Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr., of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, as well as Hayes. However, after the group had a minor hit with a slowed-down version of "Hold On, I'm Coming" in early 1970, Hayes left the project to develop his solo career. The group recorded a second album, Best of Two Worlds, at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, but their next few singles failed to make the charts. In 1972, they recorded another album, Genesis, arranged by Dale Warren and produced by Jim Stewart and Al Jackson, which produced another hit single, "Hearsay". Written by West and Colbert, it reached no. 5 on the R&B chart and no. 44 on the US pop chart.They appeared at the Wattstax concert in August 1972, and followed up with several smaller hit singles. In 1973, they recorded the ballad "I'll Be the Other Woman", written and produced by Homer Banks and Carl Hampton, and with lead vocals by Shelbra Bennett, which became their biggest hit, reaching no. 3 on the R&B chart and no. 36 on the pop chart.They also recorded a final album for Stax with Banks and Hampton, Friction. The Soul Children left Stax in 1975, and Shelbra Bennett left for a solo career. Shechanged her name to Shelbra Deane and under this recorded a few solo 45s for TK, Casino and Muscle Shoals Sound. Also a couple of tracks for Sound Town in Memphis in the early 80s which remained unreleased till recently -
Her Detroit recording ........... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxD7lxguehU
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Marva had a 45 out on UK Polydor in summer 66 ......... She seemed to work quite a bit with Julius Dixon, who was an old guy by the 60's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP_StFwpSAU
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By the 70's, Marva was making jazz show appearances across Europe (for instance in Germany in 1970 and Holland in July 77). Anyone know if she did any concerts in the UK during that period ?
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Marva Josie was from Pittsburgh and gave her first live performance there at the tender age of 9. She was trained in opera but was soon singing R&B. By the early 60's she was performing in nightclubs and in 1962 secured a gig at a Detroit club. This seems to have resulted in her signing with Correctone Records, though her tracks were leased out to the Time label. She went on to cut for Sahara, United Artists, Julmar, City, Thimble and many other labels after those. In 1965 she cut a song written by Herbie Hancock and I guess this signaled the direction she was heading in. Marva started singing jazz after the soul boom was over & she has become well respected on the jazz scene down the years. ...... BUT ... did she actually cut any soul tracks in Pittsburgh ??
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Another of the group's fine tracks .......
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Shelbra Bennett - Soul Children R I P View full article
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As stated above, Tru-Glo-Town Records and their 'in-house' Town Sound Studios were located in Englewood. TRU-GLO-TOWN was owned by TRUde Heller, GLOria Toote and Ed TOWNsend. Trude Heller being the odd one out. She was a middle aged Jewish woman who had escaped from Austria with her parents just before WW2 kicked off. She established a life in New York and by the 60's was promoting music shows & running clubs. She had a famous Manhattan club that just became known as Trude Hellers (at Sixth Avenue and 9th Street). In 1965, she promoted a big Supremes show at the Lincoln Centre Philharmonc Hall in New York. In 1967, she opened a 2nd club in New York, the Trik (at Broadway & 49th St). Here she had live groups on and just about always had either Eddie Jacobs & his Mighty Soul Rockers (who became the Eddie Jacobs Exchange) or Benny Gordon & the Soul Brothers on live. She obviously got close to Benny Gordon as he was allowed to record at Town Sound Studios. She also booked him & his group to play live at just about the biggest / swankiest private party ever staged in NY .... Truman Capote's Black & White Ball. Like the clientelle at her clubs, only the very top celebs (500 guests) were invited to attend this event staged at the swanky Plaza Hotel in 1966. Other acts who she had on at her clubs included the Sandpipers (T-G-T artists), Otis Redding, Ben E. King, Joey Dee & the Starlighters and Sam The Sham & the Pharaohs. But Trude, like many rich New Yorkers, got into the habit of flying down to Florida in the winter time. She soon opened a club there as well and quit New York altogether for a few years. She kept her NY clubs though but went with musical fashion and seemed to loose interest in soul acts before the end of the 60's. Still, in the time that soul music had been fashionable, she had booked & helped many acts plus of course had helped finance Tru-Glo-Town and their Englewood based studio.
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Yes, Ace / Kent have put out loads of Fame stuff on vinyl & CD since they set up a deal with the Muscle Shoals based concern. As you would expect with Ace, the known gems PLUS loads of great previously unissued stuff have been escaping.
