Roburt

Are the Hopson Family the same outfit as the Wash Hopson Singers (45 on UK Action back in the60's).

A lovely lady who's still fighting for her record company royalties made it down to Miami in 1965 ...

Spent the last 4 days touring around the south coast (everywhere from Hastings / Battle thru to Brighton) ... ... in that time got to listen to CD2 quite a bit & some of the tracks have already hit home. Just have to extract the CD from the car, put it on in the house where I have the CD booklet & track listing .... then I'll know which tracks I now have to seek out on vinyl.

The Violinaires were featured in the BBC TV 'Imagine' documentary tonight on Falsetto singing.

Jacksonville radio stn WAPE .........

A related story ............... https://reading.acade...es_of_the_South EXTRACT -- Register quickly realized these dances were a potential gold mine. He spotted a black group called the Lemon Twisters at the Forest Inn, which was a Westside teen club from 8 p.m. until midnight, when it became an all-adult "bottle club"until 5 a.m. The Lemon Twisters were fronted by nineteen-year-old "Little Robert" Moore, a flamboyant singer in the James Brown/Jackie Wilson mode

I THINK I remember Record Mirror printing a specialist UK soul chart back in the 60's (pre B&S days). I think is was supplied by a London based record shop so wouldn't have been totally accurate for sales right across the UK (though prior to around 1968, there wasn't much of a north / south split in soul tastes).

Going back to a much earlier question on this thread .... Dave Godin had numerous (x 20) boxes of the issue (without drill holes) at Soul City shop from just after it was released in the US. So it can't be too rare on yellow issue without drill holes.

Thanks for those links .... most interesting. Now we have the great 2fer gospel CD from Ian Dewhirst, we need a similar release featuring the Chess / Checker gospel stuff.

A 'northern' guy who's still got 'all the goods' .................

My post was made very 'toungue in cheek' as the FEW on this thread just rubbish every post that displays a view different to theirs. Pete, your response was just SO PREDICTABLE. I really only put it up to ellicit your reply ...... think I'll give it a rest now as I don't want to be 'red carded'. In the end, we all just like what we like, I have never been a NS fan as such .... went to my 1st soul nite in 1964 & my 1st niter in 1966 ... back then it was just ALL SOUL and that's what shaped my taste. Now my main preference is for MS but can still like sumat I hear for the 1st time in a NS room. Though to be brutally honest, I'm usually just chatting with mates when I'm in a NS room, rather than actually listening to the music ... so I must 'miss' a load of great tracks.

All charts are'manipulated' or compiled using partial sales info (only major record shop sales, little or no specialist shop data), so all charts give only an indication of what's popular. Record companies would never release data on actual sales figures as then they had to account to the tax man & the artists themselves. PLUS, I still think the US method of including what is popular on the radio (& in clubs) has some merit as not everyone actually used to buy records but they still had their favorites. Of course, what the top 3 in any chart was is usually about right as the sales figures on the top few were so high compared to the rest that using data from say only 60% to 70% of outlets still gave the correct results.

WOW, the 60's only brigade don't like 70's soul tracks being played .............. ... stop the presses, we'll have to get that story in tomorrow's Daily Sport !! I'm afraid that anyone who would rather 60's pop tracks were getting played than great (funky / latin / southern soul / discofied / blaxplotation) loses all credibily with me. Surely when a night is a SOUL night, it should play soul .... not weak watery pop shite that's only up side is that people without taste can dance to it.

Seem to recall that I have a 'poppy' type UK (little label) 45 that features 2 Sandy Linzer tracks, one of which could well be "WWWMB". Santa Ponsa may be the label its on (or at least a bluey grey label).

Don't think this guy's career ever amounted to much .... He did keep plugging away for a few years though ..... ...... [media=]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8x4mWzMt7M

Patrice isn't with Nolan this visit (I met her at Prestatyn & she has some fascinating tales to tell). I got the impression from Nolan that he would be travelling up to the UK nether regions (anywhere north of Yorkshire) on his own. Paul, I advised him when coming to meet you to travel by CrossCountry trains from Brum New St to Durham (is that your local main stn ?). He was going to ring you to sort out the details. Which was the Madchester group that cut an awful version of "Keep On Keepin On" for John Anderson & Richard Searling? ... & was that cut actually released after they started having pop hits ?

This lady (Annette Larkins) has led a full life .... ..and it seems that she is ageless (aren't all women !) ..... ... https://www.annettelarkins.com/biobiobio.html

Will the 45 be available from Amazon .... & when will it be issued ?

Nolan in full flight at the 100 Club ....

Its over to Ella Washington's Lil' Sis (Audrey Royal) now ...............

Like Robb, I got into the music years before NS was 'invented'. Back at the start it was 45's on UK Stateside (incl Motown), Atlantic (incl Stax), Sue and the like that got me hooked. Sam & Dave + Otis Redding tracks figured large in those days, soon to be followed by stuff like "Harlem Shuffle", "Determination", "Jump Back" & the original versions of tracks that Jimmy James, Alan Bown, the Who, Small Faces & Geno were doing. But then, back in the 60's, all the UK chart & beat groups were covering soul songs .... you just had to go looking for the 'real version' when you heard a soulful type track by a UK artist / outfit.

Went to see Nolan & Stone Foundation at the 100 Club last night & they put on a really good show (2 from Stone Foundation, then 9&1/2 with Nolan up front & the group backing him up). A couple of good 'cover song' choices included in the set ("Somebody, Somewhere" & "Gimme Little Sign" wiich were both well received). It was "Keep On ..." & "If I Could Only Be Sure" that set the crowd alight though. Seemed to be a decent turn out for them but I had to dash off as they finished to get public transport home, so no idea what things were like after the live show finished. Chatted with Nolan (& Neil from Stone Foundation). Nolan is definitely enjoying himself on this visit, cutting a track with the Stone Foundation guys seemed to give him a buzz (& its already out on a 45). In my chat with Nolan, he definitely recalls Johhny G Watson playing on one of his sessions and thinks himself that it was "If I Could Only Be Sure" ... could have been another session though .... as he said himself, its a lot of years ago & the memory is fading.

Another Miami based female soul singer; Ella Washington .... ........ plus support acts ............

Are you going along to the 100 Cub tonight Tony ? I'm almost sure to be there as I want to say Hi to Nolan and have a chat with a guy out of Stone Foundation.

It would be good to ask him about his work with Rick James, I'm sure funk & Motown fans would be interested in that aspect of his career. ALSO, ask him who's idea it was that his 45's were released under so many different artist names .... seems a strange decision for a guy tryng to build a career to have people think his records were by 3/4 different people.