Sunnysoul

What's it worth ?

Here's the Hesitations website , the group are still going strong. https://www.thehesitations.com/ Surely they must be absolutely Number One on every promoter's list to tour as a live act ?!

Said it before in a big, long and very controversial thread about 6 months ago ... To sweep away all the existing deadwood (ie the old the boring the cynical the narrow minded etc) in one fell swoop.... need one massive weekly all nighter in a big modern venue (ie a real nightclub) in a major city.... 1,500 capacity every week, lots of young new faces and the dedicated older crowd .... only the 4 or 5 best DJs on the scene with a couple of fresh young whippersnappers playing two or three hour sets each of totally across the board stuff (oldies newies rnb modern latin funky soul) ... Simple really ! Boom !!!! Another rare soul legend is born !!!

Ronnie McNeir "Sagittarius Lady"

Wasn't the McKinley Travis issued on Soul Town as well ?

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Baz, still think The O'Jays on Saru is the best version of this tune, certainly for the dancefloor .... but they're all good versions ! The Elements and Bobby Dukes are the others . Any other versions ?

Sound clip of Rufus Hunter please ...

Hope this interest in the jazz side of soul will mean more people playing James Mason's "Sweet Power Your Embrace" ... and very tough to get on a Chiaroscuro 7"

real soul , Chalky , real soul ....

Very true Tony, it was just my way of expressing my constant amusement at the blinkered perspective that the rare soul scene often takes as regards the numbers bandied about of certain pieces . But while we're on the mythology of the Frank Wilson 45, the thing that has always bugged me about the alleged story behind it is why did Motown have to destroy most or all of the copies ?!!?!! It's not as if the record was going to be a threat to national security or reveal state secrets !!! And to my knowledge Motown never did this (actively destroy all copies) on any other record. If they didn't want the Frank Wilson record issued or promoted or to have it succeed for reasons such as : not wanting to have Frank score a hit and then seek success as an artist, well they just had to have a word to their pluggers and promotions men and just tell them to drop it from the lists ! Like they did with some other Motown records. They didn't have to go round up all the copies and melt them down or smash them or obliterate them out of existence !!!! It just doesn't make sense ! So can someone actually justify , logically , why they supposedly chose to destroy all copies ????

Why the surprise ? Just as there are surely more than two real Frank Wilson's out there !

Get the LP instead !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheaper and many more great tracks to listen to ... And then play the LP out so you can deliberately pi-- off the "I couldn't be arsed to carry LPs" brigade !

And one of the greatest soul compilation LPs ever ! Off the top of my head, I believe UK journalist Norman Jopling wrote the liner notes on the LP, an interesting figure on the UK music scene in the 60s, and name-checked by mod-soul legend Pete Meaden on the back of the Jimmy James & the Vagabonds LP "New Religion" LP.

Anyone playing her "Cross My Heart" 45 on Metromedia ? Should be an absolute monster !

Just did some net searching and discovered that Gilbert Moorer sadly passed only last month, another sad loss for one of soul's most under rated groups, but Betty Moorer is still with us .

Are the Esquires of "Get On Up" & "And Get Away" fame , featuring the Moorer brothers, still performing ??? And one time member Mill Edwards / Mill Evans ? And sister Betty Moorer of "Speed Up" fame ?

How 'bout Spyder Turner ... or Freddie Hughes ???

Of acts that are still with us and still performing and still have what it takes and who have elevated status on the rare soul scene , I can't understand why someone isn't speaking to Howard Tate and Garnett Mimms ???? How 'bout a double bill ? Both still going strong and Garnett Mimms looking absolutely great. Check this out .... https://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2008/0...ome-old-sounds/ Imagine hearing the opening chords of "Looking For You" and Garnett bursting into song, now that would be something !

Jackie Ross at 20 quid ? Giving it away ! Someone bite his hand off quick !

I've always maintained that the Willie and the Mighty Magnificents and Frankie Crocker 45's use the exact same basic instrumental backing track , but that Sylvia and Joe Robinson used creative licence in the studio by fiddling around with the one take of the track ... for example putting party noises on Frankie Crocker's record , not to mention speeding up the tape , and the sax too ... whereas on Willie and the Magnificents' record the speed is slower , the tambourines are brought up and Willie and the boys rap over the top of it all ... but I am convinced they have the exact same track !!! Anyone who knows the story of the Robinson's eccentric and rudimentary set up at All Platinum/Stang/Turbo would concede that this is entirely plausible.

Tony, is there more than one take of the Shirelles' "Look Away" ?

PATRICE HOLLOAWAY-- BLACK MOTHER GOOSE--USA CAPITOL sol £5 Beats Sam Nesbitt's version everytime !!!

.... and in its most desirable form it was issued on an Australian Invictus 7"

Yep, that's right, Blowfly's version is disgustingly funny, but even more hilarious and comical (and a hell of a lot cleaner!) is the version by Archie Bell and the Drells where Archie turns the lyrics around and laments the fact that Uncle Sam has called him up for army duty just when he's got the biggest record on the planet , so there is poor Archie just ... sitting on the dock of the bay .... !!!!