Sunnysoul

Remember reading a Johnny Copeland interview where he chastised the interviewer for calling Johnny a "soul" singer ... Johnny thought that was an insult to a true blues man.

For the same reason that there have been a million covers of You've Lost That Loving Feeling, Sunny, Light My Fire and so on ....... Performers want to perform the greatest songs and have often achieved even greater commercial and chart success than the original version, that's why !

One of the best pieces of the relatively little available footage of Jackie Wilson from his "post '66 soul" era is this show he did in an intimate setting in a Detroit nightclub club in 1975: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dG-NDEg__g&list=PL561A5E89087EDACF

With the greatest respect to Robb, let's take some literary licence here and respond to Andreas' original post. Otis Redding's "cover" must have been released (posthumously) only about a year or two after Jackie's hit. and of all the many cover versions, Otis' cover is one of the best, if not the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1odvp-_bhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7L7EhD8x0Q

Sadly there appears to be precious little live footage available from Jackie Wilson's soul era (ie post 1966). As far as I am aware, there is no contemporaneous (1967/8) footage of him doing Whispers, Higher & Higher or Sweetest Feeling even though they were well placed US pop chart hits. One would have thought he would have appeared on some kind of US TV show at the time. There are a couple of clips of Jackie doing Higher & Higher but they are from the early 70s.

Anyone of the view that Mel & Tim's version is FAR superior to Prince Phillip Mitchell's ???

Was The Plebeians first and foremost a soul club for dancing to records as well a live act (or acts), like the Wheel, or was it a club just for live acts?

Just trying to find out if Jeff Perry of Love Don't Come No Stronger, Call On Me etc fame and his brother Greg Perry of Invictus and Casablanca etc are both still in the land of the living and , if so, are they still making music and performing ? Thanks

Bob , you're into the All Platinum label, are you aware of this LP on its Snake Eyes label subsidiary ? https://www.popsike.com/PEARL-BOX-REVUE-2LP-Call-Me-MISSter-SEALED-Dorian-Corey/260694979850.html

Seriously Pete, wouldn't a manufacturing flaw such as a record being off centre , especially as here with a record that has been newly manufactured and sold direct to the public , be a valid reason to return the record to the seller for a full refund .... if that is of course what one is minded to do ?

Mal , the Poets was also released on Australian Red Bird !

Would anyone be kind enough to provide a complete 7" discography of this label? Many thanks.

Pete Smith should be able to help you out ...

Roburt, are we certain he was a white guy ?

PM'd you again

Was the Dupars issued as a 7" in the US ? Or is it UK only as a 7" ?

PMd you

Is he gonna perform "I Don't Just Want Your Body" ?

Great record and .... don't know if it's just me ... but it sounds not too dissimilar to the Vibrations "Cause You're Mine" !

PM'd you Jacko

Would be nice if someone issued "Cycles Of You" on 7" vinyl .

In light of the recent posts and topics on Soul Source is this record in the midst of a massive "revival" .... so to speak ???

Bob, as mentioned above, it was Leroy Hutson that replaced Curtis wasn't it? Then Leroy left and Ralph Johnson and Reggie Torian joined for the First Impressions LP around '73 onwards? Did Reggie Torian record before he joined the Impressions?

Issued twice, which one you after?

Guilty m'lud. What do you want to know?