Roburt

Seems that Darrow & Jean must have got the same tape of Grey / Hanks songs for consideration. She cut their song "Rising Cost of Love" & it was released in 78; Darrow also cut it & his version was released as a Atlantic / Crossover 45 in 79. Darrow cut one of their songs as early as 1970, whereas Jean cut 5 of their songs that went on her 1978 LP. Wonder which of the two of em cut "No Limit" & "Rising Cost Of Love" first; guess we'll never really know.

Breakwater - No Limit Arista promo 12” (in 1978) & 79 release as a 45 track (also 78 on their LP). Their LP has been reissued on both vinyl & CD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6jI7_9iCVc

Anyone know the full story behind this song ?? It's currently back in vogue due to Ady / Kent releasing Darrow Fletcher's previously unissued take of it on 45 / CD. However, it has long been a soul scene fave via the 1978 released versions by Breakwater & Jean Terrell. The song was written by stalwarts Zane Grey & Len Roy Hanks (multi-hit composers & sometime recording act Grey & Hanks). No doubt they cut the 'original' version but I haven't checked to see if their's was just a demo version to 'sell the song on' or if they cut a 'finished version' themselves for actual release purposes. ANYWAY, here's the long time UK MS scene play from Jean Terrell ........ ..... Jean Terrell — No Limit A&M 45 & LP track in 1978

Another show the Royalettes were on ..............

That was only about 95% certain !!

... and a show the Royalettes were on at the Howard Theatre in DC ...

Well Bob you opened up the thread for my google-scans by saying ... I'm sure Roburt will screencap every single soul related thing .... I'll fetch it back on topic then with a couple of Royalettes related items .... ... a show the group were on in Baltimore ....

I'm sure he wasn't trying to say that he DISCOVERED the track ..... ... just that he FOUND the 'not known by many' track to be on this box CD set.

And some bits from Cleveland ........ In 1963, business partners Leo Frank and Jules Berger opened Leo's Casino in the lounge of the old Quad Hall Hotel at 7500 Euclid Avenue. The club could host 700 people and regularly booked the top jazz and R&B acts of its era. The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, John Coltrane, the Miracles, Ray Charles and the Temptations all performed at Leo's Casino, as did comedians Richard Pryor and Flip Wilson. Otis Redding played his final concert there on December 9, 1967, dying in a plane crash in Wisconsin the following afternoon. Co-owner Leo Frank opened his first club - Leo's - in 1952 at East 49th Street and Central Avenue. Leo's attracted the nation's leading jazz and R&B acts, but burned down in 1962, leading to the opening of Leo's Casino the following year. The new club was one of the most racially integrated nightlife spots in Cleveland. In July 1966 The Supremes played to a packed house of blacks and whites at Leo's not long after the Hough Riots broke out mere blocks away from the club. Eventually, bigger venues offering bigger paydays began to lure the top performers away from the venue. Continued population decline and disinvestment in Cleveland's east side after the Hough Riots further hurt the club's fortunes. Leo's Casino closed in 1972 and was later torn down.

North of the border now .........

Pittsburgh, July 1969 ........

Back to Maryland now; Harford County to be exact (up by the state's borders with Pennsylvania & Delaware) ....

Miami ........... May 1962 .... Clyde Killen's Knightbeat Club .... BTW, you were right Bob, many of the newspapers that you can now access on-line via google went up just over 4 years ago.

Those Vibrating Vibrations sure loved to play the Howard ..........

More back in the day at the Howard .............. .. I'm talkin bout them good .. VIBRATIONS

The Howard Theatre in DC ............... now & then ....

Back to Kansas .............. The Fabulous Flippers, led by amazing white soul singer Danny Hein, were one of the bands that orbited around the Red Dog Inn in Lawrence, Kan., in the mid-1960s. They were managed by John Brown, who owned the club, and promoted heavily on KOMA-AM out of Oklahoma City. They tore up dance halls up and down the center of the country. Their recording of “Harlem Shuffle” was released on Cameo Records C-439 in September 1966. Flip side was “I Don’t Want to Cry.” For fans of the Lawrence-based 1970s-80s reggae act the Blue Riddim Band: look for saxophonist Jack Blackett in the background of this video .....

Mr. Kelly's in Detroit ...........

Its suprising just what you can find on-line (old newspaper wise) ........... I have found soul related stuff in on-line newspapers for loads of cities across the US (& even in Canada) ..... So have stuff from New York, Miami, DC, Baltimore, Dallas, Kansas, Toledo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Montreal, etc. I'm sure that there's lots more out there on the web still waiting to be 'found' .... .... An ad here from the famous 'Red Dog Inn' in Lawrence, Kansas ....

A show staged at the end of the 70's now ...........

A big Balt area outdoor show staged in 1967 ............

A weird show at a local shopping centre ............ ........... a circus & fair + live music presentation ....

............ plus some articles ..............

Been doing so for 5 years already Bob. Have 1000's of bits that I have 'extracted from the Afro-Am including loads of show ads ...............

..... RE: King Davis Houserockers featuring Richard Thomas (AKA Rick Thompson) -- "We all make mistakes sometimes" The Rick (Richard) Thompson credited version of "We All Make Mistakes" on Columbia ....... Produced by King Davis Productions & released around June / July 69. The KDHr's Verve 45 escaping around March / April 67.