Jump to content
Soul Source

Roburt

Members

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Feedback

    0%
View Profile Find content

Posts posted by Roburt

    ·

    Edited by Roburt

    Info on the group back in the day ....

    https://books.google....ghtower&f=false

    With the Orlons, she sang backing on lots of Dee Dee Sharp recording sessions.

    Rosetta quit the group & moved to the UK in the late 60's.

    She became a top studio session singer as well as recording in her own right.

    She sang on recordings made by the likes of John Lennon & Joe Cockup.

    Today, she still lives in London biut I don't think she's performed in years.

    I met Oliver in the mid 80's & spent the day with him, he's a very friendly guy. The day ended in him performing live in a Scottish club & he was good.

    He lives (lived ?) in a town in central France and runs a club there. A mate of mine had a place a few miles away & we went to stay there for 4/5 days about 2 years back but didn't have the time to visit the club.

    Just found a Junior label listing that puts the first one as 66 and the second one as 67. That makes more sense I think? But the Junior numbering and release dates are a bit confusing - some Philly afficianado needs to sort it out :lol:

    Dave Moore probably already has ... as part of his book project.

    ·

    Edited by Roburt

    Steve, if you were asking about the solo show featuring Barry Smith at the Swinger Dating Bar on Miami Beach ....

    ... that was staged in July 1973 (long after Patti had exited his world I think) ....

    I .... THINK ..... Kurtis May & the Gang were a white outfit that were backing him up on the shows (there's still a Kurtis May on the Miami music scene and he looks to have 'aged' as well as most of us .... well, he certainly looks as though he enjoys his food !!) ...

    ·

    Edited by Roburt

    Steve, the article I included in my 'montage' is dated July 71 ......... from Evening News, Newburgh, NY ....

    https://news.google.c...pg=5126,4935112

    There's other very similar ones from around the same time. An article was featured in the Robesonian (July 25th, 71) and in the San Mateo Times (Aug 3rd, 71) .......

    Mateo Tuesday August 3 1971 Young Singer Wins Plaudits in Musical Purlie Production Patti Jo the female lead of the musical had seen one Broadway show in her life before she went on the way stage herself That show was Purlie She had gone to it after she'd been hired as a replacement for Melba Moore to see how it went Miss Moore had grown restive in a show about black people which isn't militant and left it But Patti Jo says she isn't the militant type She had been in nightclubs starting in rock n roll bars and strip joints including songs from Purlie in her act. In fact it was a newspaper review of a Miami engagement last winter that brought Patti Jo the attention of Purlie producer Philip Rose and got her the job of the sweet young hing discovered in the junior choir by sharp-eyed Rev Purlie victorious When Patti Jo talks about her brief history the themes that recur are determination to be- come a star and saving money to use to further her career She was born in Otter Creek Fla named Patricia Demps with three older ers and three older sisters Both her parents died when she was very young Reared by the est sister Jane McKenzie Patti Jo as she was always called grew up in DeLand Fla then Miami during high school years She went to Florida in Tallahassee determined to get graduating with a major in speech and ma Demps didn't sound a last name to Patti Jo and she couldn't think of er one so when she started singing on weekends while in college she just Patti Jo In Miami performing she met a young singer Barry Smith who gave her some ad- vice see a music teacher get an arranger quit singing hard rock work up an act get a manager all to get better bookings

    This one dates from 1st Aug 71 and is from another New York newspaper .....

    ·

    Edited by Roburt

    Bob, as I wrote in Post 15 .... the actual origins of Boogaloo / Bugaloo is as clear as mud .... it started on the streets & so it took the media / record companies some time to tune into what was happening.... but I tend to go with the assertion that it sprung up first in the NY Latin community.

    I obviously wasn't there though, so can't be sure of what came first, the Bugulu or the Boogaloo. It is written though that the earliest exponents of this music form included Ray Barreto & Mongo Santamaria who picked up on the beat popular with the 'kids on the street'. I don't believe that Bugulu was actually mentioned (as an actual word) on the earliest tracks.

    ·

    Edited by Roburt

    Patti Jo & Barry Smith both started out in the music biz in Miami.

    They met when both still young & teamed up;

    thus Patti Jo + Barry Smith = P. J. Smith & Co.

    .. P.J. = Patti Jo ... Smith = Barry Smith ... & Co. = their backing band.

    ............. that part of the story I understand quite well ............

    I also know that Patti Jo landed a part in the Broadway play 'Purlie' & so moved up to New York.

    .............................. SO HOW COME .......

    it seemed to be Barry Smith that recorded in New York, while Patti Jo teamed up with Curtis Mayfield

    ............ anyone know how that came about ??

Advert via Google