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A Blues showcase .......

Edited together clip ... but still sounds great .....

Really love this un, a goodie from 72. Most of the guys in the group had a good pedigree, so how could it be anything but great. Pity they didn't play this at the Casino; much better than all that stomper rubbish they did play (& don't even get me started on all the pop shite).

CHEERS, as I said, I don't do Twitter ... life's too short to get involved with all these social media sites ..... don't do texting either, but then that's coz I'm too old to learn (& too tight to pay for a smartphone when me ol'mobile still works fine).

Don't know Chalky ... but I do know that the guys selling the tickets for her Islington show are taking the mickey .... .... Ticket cost (OK) + booking fee (well if you must) + TRANSACTION FEE (almost £4) ..... God help us !!!

The good thing about New York was that (back in the day) you could catch all types of interesting acts ....

What the rest of the Motown family think of the above ad ..........

A (minor) Motown act makes it all the way to Miami ........ ...... is there such a thing as a Minor Motown act, don't think so ...

Finally found a site where its possible to listen to 2 of the tracks off the album ... https://www.directcurrentmusic.com/music-news-new-music/mozella-the-brian-holland-sessions.html ............. can't say she has a soulful voice in any way at all but "Another You" has sort of a 60's Motown feel to the backing..

The tracks are up on iTunes .... but being a dinosaur, I don't iTune either .... You have to be able to listen to the tracks on this site !!! (you can buy them at the site after all) .... https://itunes.apple.com/album/the-brian-holland-sessions/id527639069?v0=9988&ign-mpt=uo%3D1 Anyone point me in the direction of a site where I can actually listen to any of the tracks ??

The album cover & track listing is detailed here, but again I can't seem to find a way to play a sample of any of the tracks .... https://mozellamusic.com.s123765.gridserver.com/?page_id=21

Guess this will not be to most SS'ers taste ..... But Brian Holland has just completed a project for Motown on Detroit singer MoZella .... Not out officially yet but some info here on her Twitter page (I'm not a Twit so don't know how to actually access the tracks via the site .... anyone here who does Tweet -- can you actualy listen to any of the 10 tracks on Twitter) ? ....... https://twitter.com/mozellamusic/

It's on this site Steve ..... ... https://tickets.ents24.com/Event/BARBARA-MASON/Islington-Assembly-Hall/649676?src=ven-670c225bae524fa1&aff=ents24

Cheatin a bit here as I believe this 45 was actually pressed up by the Bajans .... There is no indication of that fact on the actual 45 but I bought this (& a couple more copies of this record) at Cave Shepherd's in Bridgetown (up on the top floor -- a great place to find a few bargains back 20 or so years ago). The store was updated in the early 90's & concessions fetched in to fill some of the shop's vast floor space. CD's had come in & vinyl was no longer selling too well, so the record department was one of the 1st things to go (big shame that). Anyway, another reason I say that this 45 originated in Barbados is coz I also have a LP that has an identical label. The LP (a compilation album) is titled 'Hi Sounds Rare Collection Volume.2' and this does feature the text 'Made In Barbados'. Its a great LP but I have mixed emotions about having it as I don't have it's cover (though I could have done with more foresight). Anyone here got a similar Bajan Hi label 45 from around 1981 that does credit it's island of origin ??

Back up at the Tom Jones now for a local-ish group..... ... who have a few popular 45's with the MS crowd .......

Italian-American doo-wop group Vito & the Salutations only made a few soulful sides in the 60's ... .... but their popularity with doo-wop fans kept them working in New York, even as late as 1974 ..... ........... One of their best 60's outings ...........

The blurb that is up on the site where you can book tickets for the Barbara Mason gig (£22 & £27.50) ......... An interesting minor soul performer, Mason initially focused on songwriting when she entered the music industry in her teens. As a performer, though, she had a hit single in 1965 with her self-penned Top 10 hit, "Yes, I'm Ready" (number five pop, number two R&B), a fetching soul-pop confection that spotlighted her high, girlish vocals. One of the first examples of the sweet, lush sound that came to be called Philly soul, she had modest success throughout the rest of the decade on the small Arctic label, reaching the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 again in 1965 with "Sad, Sad Girl", and "Oh How It Hurts" in 1967-68. In the early and mid 1970s, Mason toughened her persona considerably, singing about sexual love and infidelity with a frankness that was uncommon for a female soul singer in songs like "Bed and Board," "From His Woman to You," and "Shackin' Up." Sweet soul continued to be her groove, and she continued to write some of her material. But the production, as it was throughout soul in the '70s, was more funk-oriented, and at times Mason would interrupt her singing to deliver some straight-talkin' raps about romance. Curtis Mayfield produced her on a cover version of Mayfield's "Give Me Your Love," which restored her to the pop Top 40 and R&B Top Ten in 1973; "From His Woman to You" and "Shackin' Up" were also solid soul sellers in the mid '70s. After leaving Buddah Records in 1975, she only dented the charts periodically, with "I Am Your Woman, She Is Your Wife" (1978), "Another Man" (1984), and a couple of other singles. ..... ... not a real hard sell item to promote her gig then (minor soul performer indeed). What's the venue like (good for live shows with decent acoustics) ??

Seems that at least one Arctic act will make it over to the UK to help promote the package's release ..... https://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/event/500177/Barbara_Mason_Islington_Assembly_Hall_Town_Hall_London_4_October_2012.html

Posted an ad for a Gloria Lynn show up on the New York thread .... .....so lets now feature a show she undertook in Miami ... ... she followed Barbara Lewis & Tommy Hunt into the venue .... .. where for $20 a week you could rent an apartment & have live soul shows 'on tap'.

The earlier Snake-man post (No.8) was for a theatre gig ..... ........ this one is for a club performance ......

It's Frank Lipsius that now controls the Jamie / Phil-LA of Soul / Arctic catalogues & who I refer to in earlier threads. ........ Frank Lipsius: Attorney-at-Law & president of Jamie Record Co. I guess he is Harold's brother .... is that correct ?? Is Harold still around ? (Jimmy Bishop & Jesse James seem to have 'disappeared' off the scene). While we are on about the Philly soul scene ............. Who was Jimmie Rogers was organised Cliff Nobles MoonShot tracks ?

By golly, how right you must be sir. Just checked 2 Ja Tamla Motown 45's that came to hand, coz one doesn't credit any local licensee (the other credits Dynamic Sound). The 1st (uncredited) one has DSR-8065 scratched into the run-out groove, the 2nd has DSR-9985. Neither number bears any relationship at all to the release numbers on the actual 45 labels, so they must be Dynamic Sound Recs numbers. Can't tell which pressing plant they came from (unless a DSR number means Dynamic manufactured them in-house).

It was manufactured by Federal Records, the same Ja outfit that did other local releases of US soul 45's. The Tamla Motown 45 I put up in Post 82 also looks 'too slick' to be a Ja Dynamic Sound made item .... guess Federal & Dynamic knew they had to 'do it right' for some US labels or they might have lost their licensing deals. Dynamic Sound usually released the Columbia / Epic stuff in Ja & didn't seem too bothered about quality control with most of those 45's. Though I have some mid to late 70's Columbia & Epic 45's that state 'Manufactured in Jamaica by CBS (JA) Ltd', so the parent company must have established a local branch for at least a couple of years. Any idea what local reggae labels Federal released stuff on, it's not a local record company that I recall much about (apart from seeing their details on some locally made soul 45 labels -- they were still the local RCA licensee in 1980 -- see Post 84).

The radio DJ's in Miami had their fave artists (many times it would be the singers who would do the DJ's sock jams for free) & so would play their records a lot on their shows. Roy Hamilton was a regular visitor to Miami to play live shows (& do DJ sock hops I guess), so no doubt his 45s got lots of plays over the MIami airwaves (& thus were heard by listeners in Ja). So it seems only natural that his 45's would be licensed for local release there. US soul acts would also travel to do live shows on the Islands (Ja, Barbados, etc). Friends of mine tell me tales of seeing Joe Tex perform in Bridgetown, but say he was blown off the stage by Jackie Opel who was his opening act that night. .... but it wasn't all one-way traffic ........ the Ska Kings hit Miami in 1965 ..........