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  1. Roburt
    That looks like it will make great viewing .... all we need now is to get a UK TV company to pick up the rights to show it here.
  2. 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 ??
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    It's the B side to this .........
  4. Roburt
    Back to the Village Gate again .... ... but as a few of these feature jazz artists.... ... I've lumped them all together in a montage ..
  5. Roburt
    !973 & Herb Reed was still getting Miami Beach bookings ....
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    Now where have I heard of this group before ?!?! ...
  7. Roburt
    A big stadium show down in Miami ........
  8. Roburt
    Well Cleveland is just across the lake from Canada, so no doubt Cleveland radio stn signals were good & strong across a large area of the country. I guess the Canadian label sent 45's across there in the hope that they would get plays ... & that one obviously did.
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    Ian, I have lots of info on local charts for Baltimore, St Louis (only for a certain time in the 60's) & Miami. Got odd bits of info on what was going on in Cleveland town as well .... early 68 breakouts ... ......... Tony Clarke, Timothy Carr, Jean Wells, etc.
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    Although many labels were still making good use of regional reps in the mid 70's, some record companies were so small & / or 'off the beaten track', that the guys there couldn't run to such a facility ........ ..... for them it was still the old 'tried & tested' (but not too effective) trade ad ...... still I suppose at least it got the word out, how many people seeing the ad actually followed up on things I have no idea ... ... Cobra Records of Marlboro (west of Boston) tried the method to promote their artist Arlene Bailey ...
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    Another show at the Village Gate .............
  12. Roburt
    The James Brown package was down in Miami (again) in May 72. Wonder who the 'Soul Twins' were that featured on the bill ?
  13. Roburt
    One from January 1966 here ........... Bit suprised that the Artistics were getting action in LA and Darrow Fletcher in Miami.
  14. Roburt
    Robb, thanks for that info .... yes it makes a lot of sense that old 'vaulted' cuts would (at times) be used as a new 45 release's B side. It does make sorting out an artist's recording history a whole lot more difficult to pin down though. Wasn't the Major starting to get into record production (with 'new & young' artists) himself by the end of his 'Okeh years' .... I guess his studio work with these guys was back in Chicago even if his own sessions were no longer held there.
  15. Roburt
    I know Major Lance cut for Okeh in cities other than Chcago, but after Carl Davis left Okeh, didn't Ted Cooper produce a lot of his tracks ?? Where (city) would Major have laid down his vocal tracks on those cuts (surely a few had to be done in Chicago ?). Perhaps I should have used the words .... lots of the classier sounds always came from Chicago artists !!
  16. Roburt
    Two regional breakout 45's in March 65 ........
  17. Roburt
    Some Boogaloo 45's were popular with the teens miles away from their home city ......
  18. Roburt
    Of course, payola or appointing a regional rep to act as your promo man wasn't the only way to go for a little local label based off the beaten track. You could always place an ad in a trade paper .............. and hope ...........
  19. Roburt
    This KATZ chart rundown from 1968 features a piccy of Donny (as he had returned to the St Louis stn by then).
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    I suggested to B&S back around 1970/71 that they should feature a series in the mag on little indie US soul labels. They never really took up the suggestion in any meaningful way .... BUT ... they did do an article on Ston-Roc. Only filled a page in the mag but it contained some (superficial) info on how the label worked plus photos of a couple of their artists (I think Cody was one of them).
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    As he classier sounds always came out of Chicago, I'd have to nominate the likes of Johnny Pate, Carl Davis and Ted Cooper.
  22. Roburt
    Two good acts down at a Miami Beach club in 72 .... ...... Latimore was featured there a lot in 72.
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    Two good acts on at Lloyd Price's Turntable Club .........
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    ............. A mid 60's WCHB Detroit ad ......... .... Donny Brooks was on their roster at the time .........
  25. Roburt
    ....... More (in Aug 64) from WSID's Fat Daddy ......... with the bottom 10 of WSID's Top 30 added in for good measure


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