Roburt

The new edition of SOUL UP NORTH mag is out .... if you want to know the full story behind THE CROW, buy your copy now ...

About the best places to find info on Ronnie are on Soulful Detroit OR on here ... see earlier thread ...

Another from Johnny ...

His partner in crime @ Suron Publishing & Productions (SU_san / RON_nie) .....

As the clip in the 1st post of this thread stated ... Ronnie started his own record label (Gold Dust) ... AND ... he had big plans for it ... but the label only managed 2 x 45 releases and all the other acts he worked with were placed with other labels ... no idea why (one of the labels he licensed stuff to was Roulette and he can't have had many hopes that they'd treat him right) ... it seems Lee Horne was also in a NY studio cutting stuff for Ronnie's Gold Dust, but nothing seemed to escape the tape vaults .... wonder what happened to his label and it's big plans ... guess we'll never know ...

He quite quickly progressed from being just a singer ... he got into writing, then arranging, then production work ...

Another picture heavy thread from me ... Ronnie Savoy was on the music scene for well over 10 years BUT look for detailed info on him now and there ain't too much out there ...

Johnny Copeland definitely had the blues ....

Burning it up with Jimmy ...

More deep soul than the blues ... but still fits the bill ...

This guy is havin a hard time thou it weren't his fault ...

BB also had his bad days (going by this song antway) ...

This guy wasn't usually bluesy, but he was definitely havin a bad day when he cut this ..

Bobby Bland spent time GETTIN USED TO THE BLUES ... but he also had other related laments ...

It seems that a night of bliss took Tommy down a hard road ..

Think this guy might be a bit depressed ...

The next edition of SOUL UP NORTH mag is at the printers ... not long now ... A few pics of the lead singer on "Your Autumn Of Tomorrow" ...

The group on a show down in Miami ...

Contempo, Soul Bowl, Oldies Unlimited, Black (K)night & more ... ohh for the golden days of soul packs.

It started out as digital only but then a CD album was added (THE STORY BEGINS), so who knows ... just maybe a vinyl single will follow.

A 45 B side that got some action in Sth Yorks in the 80's ...

Classy jazz tinged modern soul ...

Didn't see the original thread. Seems the film will be out & about in the coming months, so no doubt the topic will crop up again as it gets further publicity.

Seems a documentary about Whitney Houston is about to come out. In it, it's claimed that Whitney was so screwed up as a adult coz as a child Dee Dee Warwick molested her ... ... QUOTE ... In his latest documentary, Whitney, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald takes us inside the world of the late Whitney Houston and exposes a disturbing revelation about a childhood trauma she suffered. The allegation is uncovered about three-quarters of the way through the documentary film, when friends of Houston reveal that both the singer and her half-brother, Gary, were allegedly molested as children by their cousin Dee Dee Warwick, sister of legendary singer Dionne Warwick. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/whitney-houston-cannes-doc-1.4666815 I know that Dionne, Dee Dee & Cissy (their cousin) sang together in the New Hope Baptist Church Choir in Newark, New Jersey. The two families were always close & spent a lot of time together. The three women then formed the gospel trio the Gospelaires, who often performed with The Drinkard Singers, Houston being a member of both groups. At a performance by the Gospelaires with the Drinkard Singers at the Apollo Theater in 1959, the Warwick sisters were recruited by a record producer for studio session work. Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, along with Doris Troy, subsequently became a prolific New York City area session singing team. Dee Dee Warwick also began to dabble as a solo singer in 1963. Whitney's brother Gary was born in 57 & Whitney in 63, it seems that the timing of the alleged abuse was around 1970 to 72. Dee Dee was recording for Mercury from the mid to late 60's and then was signed to Atco early in 70. She spent the early part of the year in Miami cutting her 1st Atco album, the initial 45 lifted from it escaping in mid April 70. She next cut again in Muscle Shoals at the end of 70 / early 71. 3 x 45's resulted from that session, so it must have lasted a week or so. She turned up again on record in 73, back at Mercury. I know she toured in her 60's Mercury period & again when with Atco, so with that work + the recording sessions, she must have been away from NY / NJ a bit over the late 60's thru to 1973-ish period. As she's passed & Whitney has too, I guess only 'ex drug addict' brother Gary is around to actually spill the beans and confirm if these allegations are true or not. SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS.

Done some more checking & it seems that Chubby Checker appeared on this show (Discs-A-Go-Go) late in September 65 ... his current UK 45 release at that time was "Everything's Wrong / Cum Ma La Be - Stay" ... it is a great pity that footage no longer seems to exist. Solomon Burke was on at the end of June 65 when his UK 45 outing was "Maggies Farm" (I never knew why UK Atlantic put this cover of a Bob Dylan song out here, though I do recall it getting quite a bit of radio airplay at the time). Ben E King was on at the start of Nov 65, so he'd have been plugging a 45 track from some weeks earlier, "Cry No More". Benny was touring the UK at the time (playing gigs at clubs such as the Twisted Wheel), so no doubt he was just handy & available to appear on the show.