Roburt

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.

............ RE: King Davis Houserockers "We all make mistakes sometimes" Bill Risbrook was a member of the King Davis Houserockers (the group were actually managed by King Davis & I believe Richard Thomas / Richard Thompson was their lead singer). The group (along with a similar group that Billy Nichols was in at the time) played as 'covers bands' on the local New York club circuit -- the two groups even playing on the same bill one night at a local show. As the KDHr's the group enjoyed a 2nd 45 release in 1972. Billy Nichol had written a song that he had cut himself around 1972/73 but he couldn't get a deal for it's release. So when his friend Louie Risbrook asked if Billy had a song that the KDHr could cut he suggested "Do It (Till You're Satisfied)". The membership of the KDHr's had evolved from their days on Verve, three of the group's musicians (guitarist Richard Thompson plus sax player's Bill Risbrook and Carlos Ward) had formed Madison Street Express along with bassist Louis Risbrook (AKA Jamal Rasool). After percussionist Dennis Rowe, drummer Terrell Wood, and vocalist Barbara Joyce Lomas joined them they cut "Do It" and for the release of their new 45 took the group name Brooklyn Trucking Express (their new name almost instantly being shortened to just B.T. Express.) ............ the rest is history (the 45 becoming a massive hit in August 74).

So it seems that Oma was 'substituting' for Mary Wells around 1964 and not Tammi T later in the 60's. Other 'ladies' did get to substitute for Tammi, though some (Valerie Simpson) now claim that they didn't (mainly in respect of Tammi's memory). Seems Motown always wanted to team Marvin with a female on duets; getting him to sing on tracks with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, TT & Diana Ross. When one of those singers wasn't 'available' (due to disputes with the company, illness, etc.) others stepped up at least to provide 'marker vocal' tracks.

Dave, from your recent discussions with Oliver did you find out what he's currently up to ?? Still running that French night club ? Still have plans to record new stuff ?

Dave, was this 45 made under a 'limited press' agreement whereby you can't press up more copies ?? ... or would it be uneconomic to press up more copies not knowing how many of them would 'fly out the door' ?? It has to be just about your fastest selling release whatever the case !! Seems those folk that don't immediately chase up a copy from one of the existing stockists are gonna be out of luck.

Towards the end of Tammi Terrell's life, she wasn't well enough to get to the studio. Sessions were set up for MG & TT tracks to be cut & so Oma stepped in (as did Val Simpson) to do 'leader vocals' in place of Tammi. Obviously Tammi had some better days than others and it was always hoped that she would be able to get into the studio on a 'good day' and add her vocals to lots of those tracks. Sadly, she didn't really get the chance & so lots of proposed MG & TT tracks existed just with 'female marker' vocals on them. Some of these escaped at the time, credited as MG & TT efforts, many others only escaped years later without any credit going to the 'absent' TT. Of course, Marvin also had his good (co-operative) & bad days; so some of those tracks may just have been laid down (with any suitable female singer who was in the studio) when Marvin was there and happy to be cutting stuff.

Do you mean this type of place Roger ??? ....