Roburt

No trip up north I'm afraid. There was mention made of a live performance to tie in with the film screening but that would be in London too. BUT the team are over in the UK for a few days at the end of September, so if any enterprising promoter wanted to put him on, they should get in touch asap (no air fares to fund, live backing band for him here, full show being rehearsed as we speak; SUFFERING WRATH, GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOL GIRL and more).

That's because it hasn't been announced publicly yet ... I'm part of the team that has helped organise the event ... it is 99% certain to happen ... Rudy Love, his family & friends are already booked onto UK flights, their film festival screening is organised ... .... . . . . . even the after-show party is just about fully sorted ... ....... so just accept it is happening & wait for the official announcement (& for tickets to go on sale) . I was given permission to post about the show ahead of the official news (by the organisers). I thought people would be pleased to get an advance heads-up. Below is another scene from the film; Rudy on stage with Funkadelic George (Rudy worked a lot with Sly Stone in the mid 70's, but I think Sly was indisposed when the film was being made).

A few of the people featured in the documentary film about Rudy's career ...

Seems that it is true .... Hope he recovers really quickly ...

This one always has an uplifting effect ... coz there's a halo around his head ...

An obvious one ....

Anyone heard anything about the above ?? It is being reported on Facebook and I know the O'Jays had a concert in Atlalta last night ... HOWEVER.. there has recently been one of those stupid EDDIE LEVERT DEAD scam news stories doing the rounds & this just could be an extension of that rubbish.

Rudy gives us the RIGHT FEELING ... but here it's performed by Gwen Owens & Hot ... .... this version was also cut @ Wishbone Studios in Muscle Shoals ...

The song was obviously an in-house number at Scepter / Wand which both Chuck J and Lenny Miles cut in 1961. The Anna King version sounds just like the 2 male versions, so I guess she cut it not long after their versions (also in 61) and used the original as a template for her version. She signed with Ludix Records in 63 and so the song's (part) writer Luther Dixon must have been impressed by her efforts on the song. Baby Washington moved in the same NY music circles as Luther Dixon & the Scepter / Wand artists but was signed with ABC in 61 and then Sue from 62 to 67 ... guess she could have cut it for either label. I've no more idea of it's origins though than these musings ... bet someone on here will know though. Neither of the Scepter / Wand versions escaped in the UK (though both artists had UK 45's on Top Rank that featured Scepter / Wand cuts). Likewise, the Anna King version didn't gain UK release.

Anyone here know the provenance of the DEEP SOUL DISCOVERIES series of CD's ... I assume they're boots (tracks not licensed at least) ... I also think they're out of Italy but could be wrong as copies now seem to be up for sale on the net from folk in many different countries.

Totally different outfits. I am guessing that the 'Florida' Spindles were a blue-eyed (or mixed race) group, the Baltimore outfit (who'd started out as Frankie & the Spinners) were definitely black.

Just had word that almost everything is now in place for a live show @ the 100 Club by Rudy Love & Band. It is scheduled to take place on the night of Saturday September 29th. Rudy, his family & John Alexander are truly thrilled about the prospect of a live gig here in the UK. Especially one @ the 100 Club as the venue has links to the Yardbirds (who back in the day cut a cover version of ""Good Morning, School Girl""). Rudy will perform the song (almost certainly) in his live set on the night ... The show will tie in nicely with the Raindance Film Festival, being staged in London at the time & a celebration after-party will most probably take place after the gig has finished.

Sics pics .... I'm in em all (they're not that old, one around mid 80's, tuvas early to late 90's - APPROX DATES) .... numbering in date order #1/ A singer & a chancer @ Hinckley ... #2/ A singer & a chancer @ Cleggy #5/ Fans pay homage to a soul star (well all but one do) ... #3/ Two singers & two chancers, bet you can't guess which is which ... #4/ An assembled group of singers & one non-singer ... #6/ A motley bunch of soulies gettin ready to PARTTEEE ...

It was this package of soul stars that the above article refers to when it mentions the Glories gig @ the Howard Theatre in DC ... the package played the theatre for 7 days, ending the stay there on Thursday 1st June 67. Guess their week @ the Apollo followed on after these shows.

He was on at my first Sheffield haunt (the Mojo) a couple of times, plus the Esquire of course and even the Wheel (a couple of summer gigs there in the late 60's). I never liked his rock stuff, but I do really like his version of the Impressions "I've Been Trying" (cut @ the Mojo).

Thanx Eli, so it's from 1972, was cut in little local Florida studio & never assigned to any label. Looks interesting, now just have to get to hear it.

Numero have put out (or are about to) a Thelma Jones 45 (see scan below) ... anyone know if this is a previously unissued cut (I guess it is) ... if so, what year was it laid down / what original label did it come from ( it says on the label that it was cut down in Florida, I guess sometime in the 70's) ??

Heck, the Mucky Duck, I've been there a few times back in the day (ain't it where Joe Cocker cut his teeth in the music biz). Didn't know they had soul acts on there though. BTW, The Fabulous Platters / Steinways toured the UK sometime in 1967 or very early 68 ... their act was described as one of the most exciting soul shows ever witnessed in this country at the time.

Nobody know anything about this group then ??

As has been said earlier in this thread (a good while ago), many of the original mod / soul boys from the mid 60's never really got the skinhead / suedehead scene. Guess we'd grown up a bit, were much more into steady relationships with lasses & less prone to adopt the more wild clothing choices of some skins. We didn't object to the ska / reggae music they liked as that had always been played in mod clubs back in the day. But they seemed to take over soul nights (@ places like the Attic in Donny) and change them for the worse (from our point of view). I also never got the way that many skins / suedes were quite racist yet were happy to spend their nights dancing to 100% black music ... WEIRD. Never objected to selling some of my old reggae / ska 45's to any of them though (back then).

Love good alt versions of soul songs ... Probably been a thread on here in the past ... BUT ... have to make mention of the Curtis Mayfield song "I've Been Trying" ... loads of decent versions of that around. A late addition to the long list ...

What was it about the wet side of the hills (Lancs) and the Casino name. Seems back in the 60's, there was Wigan Casino Club, Bolton Casino Club, Westhoughton Casino Club, Leigh Casino Ballroom, Burnley Casino Club and Blackpool Casino (club or ballroom) .... and you couldn't bet in any of them at the time.

7" Little LP's / Mini LP's were made (for jukebox use) from around 1962 right thru to the mid 70's ... maybe in the late 60's, there number tailed off but then returned (due to demand) in the early 70's. A good number of intertesting releases are out there, including a few that were put out in QUADRAPHONIC format ( a short term fad, where you had a stereo system with 4 seperate speakers & you only got the true musical effect in one place in the room). Seeburg badged up their machines as being DUAL PLAY -- EP ALBUM 7"ers being listed in a different window on their jukeboxes to ordinary 45's. The list of current releases (well some of them) dates from May 66 -- think it was done especially for venues where jazz tracks were the most popular plays..

Going back to LP covers ... there were always annual Grammy Awards for the best LP cover designs, though until soul labels started taking album cover design seriously (at the end of the 60's), those awards just about always went to pop, rock, classical or jazz releases ... some award winning album graphics with a few decent soul covers added in ...

Is anything known about the Spindles who had 2 x 45's out on ABC in April & October 1966. I know they had links to Dennis Lambert (who produced their sides for Don Costa Productions / DCP), to Lou Courtney who helped write the top side of their 2nd 45 and obviously to Don Costa. "Ten Shades Of Blue" has a matrix number that follows stright on from the two cuts on their 1st release, so all 4 were probably cut at the same studio session & they never then returned to a studio (at least as the Spindles) to cut anything else. It's strange that their singles escaped on ABC as at the time DCP Records had just been bought out by United Artists & renamed Veep, Dennis Lambert was working for Mercury and Lou Courtney was also doing work with Mercury / Smash & Phillips acts. The group was obviously based in the New York area and they just seemed to disappear after their 2 ABC outings. To me the lead singer sounds quite white, so they could have been a Blue-eyed group but they certainly made some good cuts. They obviously have nothing to do with Balto's Frankie & the Spindles, who were still going by the name Frankie & the Spinners back in 66.