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Lars, do these help at all ... from 1959 & 1963 ... Dizzy was a sax player who led a band back then (if it's the same guy; this is the guy known to Henry Stone in Miami) ...

Miami's Birdland Club ... later in the 60's ... and Willie John in Miami ..

A bit off topic BUT I think it fits in with the thread ... Miami back in 64 ... at the start of the period when many islanders were becoming Jamericans ... I'm sure lots of reggae singers became quite influenced by soul during those years ...

No problem at all ... he was basically a reggae artist who made soul tracks ... lots of the best reggae soul (IMO) was actually made in the UK but owed much to Jamaica.

Mel Turner made quite a few goodies from 1962 onwards ... I have an old mag article on him from around 63 (it's on my other computer, so can't post it up here till I get home). He was from Trinidad / Tobago & did nearly all of his recording in the UK & Europe.

Jackie Opel was from Barbados, but he did his recording in Jamaica ... some of which was great soul.

Rekkids are round pieces of playstick that you put on raydiowgranns. You shouldn't have let me know it annoys you, it'll be used even more from now on BIG BRO

John Schroeder was Orioles A&R man in the period 1962 to 64 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schroeder_(musician) He was the guy behind Oriole's decision to release Motown product in the UK. He had a distinguished 'soul linked' music career ... SEE ... https://www.johnschroeder.co.uk/ for more details He obviously lost his job when Oriole was bought out by CBS but he moved on to Pye Records (1964) and stayed with soul there & later ...

BUT MONGO ... is it Latin soul or is it just jaaazzzzy soul ... ... another one .... this one is Latin jazz ...

A few of the rekkids pressed up by CBS in Aston Clinton in the 70's ...

70's Latin jazz ... the 1st one just released here on a 45 too (only Streetwave 12" here in the past) ...

No doubt a lot of their workers transferred to the new Aylesbury plant in 1980, after initially being employed at the Aston Clinton facility. Up to 1964, this is where all of Oriole's records were made. Thinking about the stuff the staff could have 'taken home' from the new place from 1980 onwards is totally eclipsed by what the guys in the Aston Clinton facility could have gotten hold of ... all the early Oriole America Motown stuff, all the CBS / Direction 60's / 70's soul 45's & LP's .. plus 70's stuff on Warner Bros, Atlantic, Reprise, Whitfield, etc .... ... bet there were a few priceless 45 acetates & test pressing made in there.

When I was still working (for Thames Water), I used to get jobs in the Aylesbury area a lot. Many times I'd have to attend meetings at TW's works at the end of Rabans Lane. That meant I'd drive past the old CBS Pressing Plant on that road. CBS moved from their old record pressing plant in Aston Clinton (a village just south of Aylesbury) in 1980, after starting building their new plant on Raybans Lane in 1978. From 1980 onwards, all their rekkids (& some other UK record companies) were pressed up at the Aylesbury plant. Ahead of that move, as I said, they had their factory in Aston Clinton, just to the south of Aylesbury. They'd bought this off Oriole's Morris Levy in 1964 but the plant had actually opened up way back in the 50's. JUST THINKING ... what great modern soul stuff was manufactured on Raybans Lane in Aylesbury from 1980 till the plant was taken over by Cinram in 2004. I guess some of the guys who worked there ended up taking home old 45 / 12" / LP acetates / test pressings when it was working & again when it was closed down ... Anyone from the town come across any old CBS workers who have a stash of rare soul rekkids ??

I've stirred up a hornests nest with the thread on Dora Hall, so don't want to get any flack here .... BUT .... About 90% of the time, I can't stand soul versions of pop / country/ rock songs ++ By The Time I Get To Phoenix has never been a song I like ... ... so can't say I am taken much with Court's version. Nothing against him or his vocal style, I just don't like the song.

Not quite totally true ... The Velours were brought over to the UK and made to appear as a fake version of the Temptations by UK promoter Roy Tempest. Lots of the early UK gigs they did were for Pete. He liked them & they liked him, so they asked him to become their manager. He accepted the role but got them to change their name to the Fantastics ... the rest is history ... SOME ON-LINE BITS about Roy Tempest .. ... In the late 60s I booked a lot of Roy Tempest's acts - Alan Isenberg was the agent there that I dealt with. One time I'd booked 'Fontella Bass' into a club in Wrexham for a Friday night and 'Mary Wells' at a venue in Telford on the Saturday for the same promoter. He and I went to Wrexham to see Fontella and were spotted by one of Roy's road managers. In the ensuing conversation he casually dropped in, "oh you've got Mary Wells tomorrow night in Oakengates haven't you". We had. Early the next morning, a telegram arrived saying Mary Wells had had to return to America unexpectedly, but all was not lost, Fontella was 'free' that night and could appear in her stead. Whoever the girl singer was, she was obviously being both artists. All of that said, I don't remember ever having a 'bad' act from Roy Tempest. see here for more details on the Velours & their UK backing band back then ... .... https://www.garagehangover.com/tag/roy-tempest/

Just about the biggest anthem at the Mojo ...

The news report ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44394076

Peter Stringfellow has passed ... R I P The guy who ran the best mod / soul club in Yorkshire in the mid 60's has left us. In later life, he became a bit of a joke figure due to his lifestyle & efforts to remain young forwver BUT for anyone who was a teenager in SouthYorkshire in 1965/66/67/68 he was an icon. First with the King Mojo, then RSG, Down Broadway, the Penthouse, Tin Chicken, Queens Hall, etc. To us, Mojo members he really was KING.

Brit groups like the Move & Amen Corner always used to perform this live (though many more did "Open The Door") ... that's how it was back then ... MIND YOU ... I think a lot of the time (by 67/68-ish), their managers were telling them what to include in their live acts ... the Move, Amen Corner & Eyes of Blue all had the same manager ...

Surely this is a much better version ... the group always did it in their live show in the mid to late 60's ...

Just about all the output on the LABELS (?) named above were by her. They were owned / run by her multi millionaire husband & (as already stated) were give-away items not shop sold records. She released 100's of tracks, nearly all total crap (even if some of the songs were decent, here singing on them wasn't). She cut vanity records coz she had the time & money to do so. Most were covers of existing hits performed by a grandmother in her 60's who could no longer carry a song. SORRY, but if this is what NORTHERN has recently descended to, I will be staying in the modern room.

Chalky, you obviously don't know what gets played just up the road from you, as her "Barefootin" was a big play at King Bee Rhythm ‘n’ Blues Club in Sheffield (they promoted their nights on here too). ALSO a "Franklin St" track video was put up on YOUTUBE by Lancashire AGoGo ... and all their posts are of NS spins.

They weren't trying too hard to hide the links to the plastic cup company of this LP's record label.... wonder what HB made of it all ... Think I'll try covering this one up ...

Others by her that get plays .... AND the one Chalky mentioned ... her vocals are just as bad on this ..

I'm well out of the loop these days with regard to what gets played in 60's NS rooms BUT I do sometimes come across tracks on YOUTUBE that have been posted by Northern guys ... I was surprised to see a couple of tracks by Dora Hall posted up as NS spins ... made me really laugh .... Dora was born in 1900 and was a music hall star (of sorts) in the 1920's before marrying a multi-millionaire. She settled down, started a family & the like .. BUT by the early 60's, she was wanting to make a comeback and so started cutting 'vanity recordings'. Her hubby, via his company (Solo Cups), sponsored TV shows that starred her and added free 45's (by her) as give-aways with packs of his disposable plastic cups ... He also started (what are called on-line) a couple of fake record labels on which to put out LP's & singles by her. So her 45's were free give away items that now seem to be commanding decent money ... Nothing about the NS world shocks me these days BUT to have DJ's chasing / spinning freebies made by a rich white grandmother in her 60's seems to take the biscuit. MORE INFO on the couple & his cup company ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_Cup_Company#Founder