David Meikle

You don't like Mr Big Shot one bit? Written by Keni Lewis/Carl Kidd, arranged by Sonny Sanders, Produced by Carl Davis and a Bunky Shepard Pick. Not to mention sung by GC and released by Constellation Records. As you say, strangely enough, top class pedigrees so don’t worry about upsetting others as there is not a chance in a million of your opinion upsetting most people!

He was a great singer. Sadly he killed himself close to the Motown studio at West Grand Blvd and 14th street. He was only 34 years of age.

Great vocalist. RIP Evelyn.

The end of one of music's great groups. I met Abdul twenty years ago when he visited Glasgow with Fred Bridges who was the latter day manager of the Four Tops. Abdul was a gentleman. RIP. Here is the group performing on the back lawn of the Roostertail in 1966.

Starts 1950 tonight and ends 2200, just before the Stax programme. Sky Documentaries channel.

Programme is repeated tonight 2200-2300 (part one). Other parts 2-4 will follow later if hou tape the series.

Try Soul Bros Inc - Tear Drops on Salem records

Good suggestion Headsy. It’s also got the Hesitations “You’ll Never Know” written all over it. Sam was 1 year earlier however.

Thanks for advance notice. Should be great.

Ralph was a member of the Sunliners (not the Manhattans) along with his brother Russ and Pete Rivera (aka Hoorelbeke) plus Gil Bridges and two others. Bridges and Rivera joined Rare Earth. Ralph Terrana created Tera Shirma along with Al Sherman. Russ went to Motown and worked with Ed Wolfrum. https://soulfuldetroit.com/web07-golden world/golden world story/38-gw-sunliners.htm On the following page you will find detail on Stephanye/Maltese. At the time of writing about these labels nothing much was known about them.

Can’t get my head around this discussion. Post number 2 has a label scan. An extract from the SoulfulDetroit forum in 2004….. https://soulfuldetroit.com/archives/1019-APR MAY 04/1077.html?1082740731

One of the “Golden World Manhattans” came along to an event that we held in Detroit circa 2003/4. He was caucasian as were the rest of his group. He was dressed in one of those “all in one” denim outfits that I recall Dan Penn used to wear. To my eternal regret I never got his name but he was a member of the SoulfulDetroit forum.

Nearly forgot ‘Mr Schemer’….(can’t embed image hence link only) https://youtu.be/rvSviBAHICU?si=zQPgWqQ1Erk6V80R

Found a few by searching for “Brenton Wood Live”.

Clee - your last para sums it up. I was 18 years old in 1969 and just got into Soul the previous year. Used to go to Locarno in Glasgow where “Gimme” was played incessantly by the in house band due to radio popularity. Being a teenage Soul extremist meant that Brenton got dumped until only a few years ago when I saw that cd on YouTube. Absolutely brilliant. Thanks to everyone for seventies tips which I will play this weekend.

Do we make enough fuss about this guy? IMO no.

I was looking at that Bell Sound studio on a map a few months ago. It was right behind another building of note. Escapes me right now. Eventually facility moved to W54th Street. Gil Askey another recording genius. Much appreciated David

Thanks Andy. What a great image on there of Jackie at the mic.

Thanks Alan. The sound on this recording is absolutely pristine and so New York. If you don’t have studio detail it should be easy to find out now. Wiltshire and Jacobs were top of their game.

Arrangement, Production, Songwriter(s), Label detail please for this wonderful song. It has gone right under my radar!

The internet was a double edged sword. It blew a lot of Soul fans out of the water but today we can hear them all free of charge. Fifty years ago I could never have predicted any of that.

What a great link Blackpoolsoul. In particular, Craig Jamieson’s Soul City interview with David Nathan and the section on Dave Kapralik.

Para 3 of image uploaded by The Yank. Enormous talent. No wonder our scene loves the Detroit sound.

One of my first introductions to the future world of Northern Soul. Beam me back to the Compass Club in Torquay in July 1969 where this B Side was incredibly popular. Well done Martha Reeves but lets not forget the wonderful Vandellas.