Roburt

Yes, they're husband & wife and came to the UK to perform together (& solo).

I posted some of myself on Page 3 of this thread (but not from back in the 70's).

Well Greg Perry was involved with the B side cut .. AND ... he was also involved with the Mark V Unlimited 45 on the label, so I guess he'd be the best person to go to. I spent quite a bit of time chatting with Greg @ Cleggy about 4 years back ... this subject never came up though. SORRY.

John Alexander (the film maker) tried to get the Hamburg screening tied in with the Hamburg Film Festival (which starts at the end of this month), but unfortunately he had missed their deadline date ... so the weekender guys truly have to be commended ...

I bought such a white denim jacket in the early 70's (it was cheap), can't recall if it was Levi or Wrangler though. It was made of the same denim as their usual jackets (not paper-thin). Being white it wasn't very practical, so I dyed it yellow but didn't like the colour too much. Then dyed it again, using blue dye, turned out a great military green. A few years later, when it shrunk (honest guy, I didn't put weight on), my daughter nicked it and happily wore it for a number of years.

I'll be at both, as will Cliff Steele.

The poster for the film screenings ...

Seems dozens of labels used that design ... here's just 3 of them ...

He's known (in part) for his rare 45's on Chicago labels ... BUT he had no connection to Chicago at all (apart from being road manager for Chicago's Curtis Mayfield in the 70's). Seems his contacts sent copies of new tracks he'd cut to DJ's from the Windy City ... Don didn't get any bites back in NJ / NY for their release ... so (unbeknown to him), some of his stuff was put out without his knowledge on Chicago labels ... It's a funny old world. I asked him if he had anything to do with the Mr. G label (it put out one of his 45's ) ... GARDNER ... MR. G ... he seemed really surprised by my question and his answer was NO .. he didn't even have the slightest idea who owned / ran Mr .G .. ME, I'd still like to get a copy of his Swedish cut & released 45 & LP ... they date back to when he was based in that country for a number of months (64).

A few Cheetah related bits ...

Back in 82/83, I used to do some work for Move Records out of Edinburger ... They were always being sent indie soul 45's by US outfits wanting a UK licensing deal. Can't remember the other label involved, but there was a popular US 45 about at the time with a label featuring a sunset type scene. Imagine my surprise when Alan sent me copies of 2 new US 45's on the Balt based BEVNIK label. They used the exact same label scene on their singles ...

thread amended (due to my brain being switched off when I originally posted) .. HAMBURG ...

Just a quick heads up for anyone attending the Hamburg Soul Weekender at the start of October. Rudy's film is being screened there (it's mainland Europe debut), so don't miss it if you will be there.

Got loads of stuff on the Cheetah, I've posted bits of it up here in the past. I'm on the move at present (on a cruise), so I'm away from my stuff ... AND only have intermittant access to the net (the charges on the ship are astronomical) ... but if my memory ain't playing tricks on me ... Soul Congress / the Crow were the house band at the club in the late 60's (right up to the time they cut YOUR AUTUMN OF TOMORROW). ...

Another very sad loss for us & the soul world in general. Back when I was a member of the Prestatyn team, I took Don & Lou Pride for a day out in Liverpool. Lou & his manager wanted to do all the Beatles stuff, so went off to the museums. Don wasn't bothered, so I spent lots of time chatting with him till the other 2 had finished. He talked a lot about leaving the biz in the late 60's / early 70's and getting into the building trade. He won a job for Curtis Mayfield & Curtis liked him so much (Don was a real gent) that Curtis persuaded him to become his tour manager. So Don spent months on the road with Curtis & his musicians. He (Don) told me a good few great stories from those times, including how Curtis would go about writing a song (some came instantly to him, others would take months to complete).

Lots of times, musicians gave backing tracks to radio DJ's to use as their theme tunes ... or just to butter them up ... letting them put their name on an old instrumental track in the hope they'd get in their good books & the DJ would then play your next record. . . . . Artists would also do 'free' live shows for certain top radio DJ's ... ... these shows would be advertised as .... 'CERTAIN DJ' (say HOT ROD or FAT DADDY) hosts big gala night of stars ... .... the DJ would then pocket all the ticket money.

The Hot version of the above song from 1977 (I've also got Rudy Love's version here but it ain't up on Youtube ... A few solo cuts by Gwen Owens, cut at the same time & in the same Muscle Shoals studio, escaped on the BBC Radioplay album 'RULER OF THE HUNT'.

So the label was owned & run by Gene Redd. That makes sense as he was recording with Earl Bostic for King from the early 50's and then working directly for King from the late 50's into the 60's. Dayton is just up the road from Cincinatti (King's HQ). He got into production work in the mid 60's and he was also a major player at Musicor at the same time. He had moved on to De-Lite by the end of the decade and enjoyed much success there. Guess Redbug was the first time he dipped his toes into record label admin duties.

A few Sth American Stevie Wonder 7"ers ...

Pruter says Maurice Jackson owned & ran Maurci.

Loads of different Maurci label designs up on 45cat ... https://www.45cat.com/label/maurci Almost nothing about the label in Pruter's CHICAGO SOUL bible. Strange as he loved the local labels that operated in the 60's.

The track that introduced me to the man back around 64 -- ANY DAY NOW.

AND OF COURSE ... KGFJ DJ in the mid 60's Magnificent Montague was involved with the Packers recordings AND wasn't he also heavily involved in Magnificent Records.

The Manhattans made a decent stab at this song ... but the earlier versions by (Gwen Owens &) Hot plus the original demo by Rudy Love are better still ..

Rudy's dad sang this mod classic. Rudy will be singing his own version (as a tribute) on his UK show ...