Roburt

1968 was a very good year to catch a show in New York ....

Back up to 125th St in Harlem once again ...... Clyde McPhatter was spotted there in 1953 & signed by Atlantic Records. Both Joe Tex & James Brown won Amateur Night there in the mid 50's. Harold Melvin & the BlueNotes 1st appeared on the Apollo stage way back in 1960. .... AND .... a certain 'local' was always topping the bill there .......... The Vibrations were on once again, as was Bobby Sheen !!!

You'll love this one, I just know you will .... Oscar Brown Jr & a little number called ....

An inspiration, not according to my 'near neighbor' Mr Clarkson. He says watching cycling is like watching a person think (no action) .... BUT THEN, like most who live around Chipping Norton, he's a right plonker !!

A bit of 'brown-eyed' soul now .....

OK, back to the Apollo again ..... & this time its just soul stars ... ... top of the bill is another guy who's played Prestatyn ... .....also on the bill is a group who'll be over here next year ....

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy ... this one's more jazz than soul .....

More blues than soul but staged at soul music's spiritual home ....

A well respected (late) soul singer who played Prestatyn .....

A lady who was singing the blues in New York clubs in 1965 ..... ... but she also cut some decent soul sides ........... .. Bev Ann ....

The 'Miami' thread has proved quite popular ..... ... so I thought I'd move north to start another similar posting .... Here's a few New York area soul show ads from back in the day .........

RE: Now if only my favourite Mod, Bradley Wiggins can win the Tour-De-France today then we'll be really rockin'! ... Ian, its a stone certainty that he'll win & end up wearing the yellow jersey !!!

I'm quite partial to this MG cover from Jim Gilstrap (though it would be hard to beat the original version) .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1zQ5JtmbbY

Paul, you're not really trying unless you have his stuff on European releases as well ........

George, you Yanks do mangle the English language (& Microsoft 'spell check' even spells many words incorrectly !!). A Brit would think you had 'disposed of' / thrown away a 45 if you told him you had 'junked it' ..... ... I guess you meant us to know that you bought the 45 at a flea market (a 2nd hand stall / car boot / bring & buy / charity shop to us).

A guy with a troubled personal life who bounced back & forth between the gospel & secular music worlds ....

Mallard is better than Ballard ... .......... built by the best that Dony could muster.

RE: They were made out of coal ........ you had some copies pressed up in Jamaica then Paul !!! AND ..... I have an issue and a promo but the test pressings were first off the press so they were the highest quality before the stampers gradually started to deteriorate with wear as more copies were pressed. .... you're an 'insider', so please let us have the benefit of your knowledge. ...... How many copies (approx) of a 45 had to be made before a stamper would deteriorate badly ?? How many copies would say EMI try to press off of a single stamper (a popular 45) & if it became a hit, would they make more stampers to press off the additional records ? I guess copies of a 45 with a pressing fault (not caused by 'impurities in the vinyl used) would all come off of a single stamper, is that correct ??

I think it was the A side of one 12" / 45 ... & then ... the B side of a 2nd release on Ze.

Found a scan of the 45 piccy cova ............

It was on an Island label .... & it wasn't called Zing, it was Ze ... .. I'm sure my 45 came in a piccy sleeve which was why I can't recall what the label looks like ........... ............ Produced by Was Not Was ........

Dozens of boxes of 45's here & no idea which one to look in to find the Sweet Pea At 45 .... ........ so will this do instead ......... it shows the LP but the label is the same ...

Yep, the GC 45 came out on UK 45. When it was a new release, I came across a bunch of em in the Nottinghill branch of R&T. Didn't realise how rare it was, so only bought 2 copies of it. Sold one to them there Lancastrians at a Withernsea Hotel soul do a few days later.

I have a copy of the S.P.At. 45 .... thought it was on an Island label (was Zing distributed by Island). It's been a while since I pulled it out though (the 45), so my memory may be playing tricks on me.

More Radice & Brass Construction ..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpXQIzvaDmQ