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  1. realized i have a least 6 x 45's depicting different animals on each of the labels. How many are there? 1. Pelican 2. go on...it's nearly xams.
  2. I bet any Gen X or Millennials reading this topic would laugh. Pills to keep you awake and “up” to carry on dancing until 8. Hardly gonna worry Columbia drug lords, even though the 60’s/70’s UK DS would have had “the public” believe so.
  3. I don't know anything about the records obscurity, but there's quite bit known about Black Jack.
  4. Now at #35 in the long running informative 'Northern Connections' series by @Kenb Northern Connections # 35 - Child Of Friendship, Train Robbers Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full
  5. Now at #35 in the long running informative 'Northern Connections' series by @Kenb. Northern Connections # 35 - Child Of Friendship, Train Robbers The eagle-eyed amongst you will have spotted two different addresses on the 2 versions of Natural Records 1516. 1516 25th Ave versus 1510 16th St. The latter being a small room and the location for Black Unity, Inc-at least from 1971 to 1974. Black Unity, Inc was incorporated in 1967 and was essentially founded to raise the political consciousness of black people through education. Whether this 'room' at 1510 16th St was vacated before the (apparent) release date and therefore has nothing to do with Black Unity, Inc. - OR - whether the release date is inaccurate (perhaps earlier than 1976) and it does have a Black Unity, Inc connection? I don't know. You can check out all Kens other quality 34 Northern Connections and more via his 'activity' profile page, via the link below... https://www.soul-source.co.uk/profile/37754-kenb/content/?type=cms_records5&change_section=1
  6. Hi Paul, @Paul-s, the thought of anyone having lessons ( back in the day) would have been laughable. If known, you’d have to hide from your mates never to be seen again. equally £22 a week for “skilled “ turners, fitters, etc , let alone apprentices ( as I was) would rule it out anyway. finally, teaching-wise, no one would even know what Northern Soul was, let alone Northern Soul dancing.
  7. I'm interested. And my explanation is, I have no issue with 1977 or the dancing of that tme. But that's not what goes on today ( which will become the norm).
  8. the thing is though... when we are all dead ( probably me not too far in the distant future) 'their' dancing will be the norm.
  9. the bad news is...if i can't dance ( because of my knee), i won't come. the good news is...I've recently had injections for my knee, so i'm coming
  10. It's definately the same Marty Lewis who was involved with Soulin' Record Co at 1812 Constantinople, N.O. But i thought Flame Records ( and Emalf [Flame backwards] Music Pub) was someone else's. Big Deal records, or maybe Marty himself was at one time located in Cheneyville, just South of Alexandria. Not sure which.
  11. me too
  12. back in 2018 i did a piece on Philharmonics ( New Orleans, Isaac Bolden, etc). i have a few notes from then... Marty was ( i believe ) a construction worker who won a talent comp about 1955/56. Coincidentally, Kenny Guidry and The Clouds of Joy were runners up.I don't know if the 'Joy biit' has anythng to do with Oliver Joy. @Michael Bailey
  13. @Frost Byte https://garagehangover.com/new-york-public-library-gigs-1966-1970/ this should help, i hope
  14. I doubt this would get played at a nighter/or real deal venue. Although watzit (Ms Junoff) and many others ‘did get a go’. I quite like it. But I’d leave if I heard it out at a venue.
  15. What a mammoth task. Congrats Steve
  16. I think DJ’s get (are getting) a bad rap on these topics of late. No…I’m not a DJ, and don’t want to be a DJ. In the majority of cases, many of the DJ’s play lists (I hear out) seem very mixed with new and old(er). From ‘younger’ DJ’s like Jordan to our ‘ faithful’ DJ’s, it all seems pretty good to me. So where are those ‘lazy’ DJ’s everyone’s banging on about who play ‘same old, same old’- I’ve obviously missed them.
  17. wasn't it Domain 1st, then Megaphone? Sepe and Brooks Megaphone label only really started late '67 early '68.
  18. not fond of camera's at venues at all. At least 'Skippy Sue' (R.I.P) would ask first. i've seen them held up to Shazam 'tunes' which seems a bit over the top.
  19. I'll leave it there...because unlike you i don't have to win best ken
  20. here's one Paul. You can't have it both ways fella. i.e a Manefesto of unwritten rules and then when challenged in a topic you make that challenge Public. Especially if the person on the receiving end of the perceived 'slant' feels it's just plain unjust. another of the unwritten rules of yesteryear, sort it out. what happens in PM should stay in PM.
  21. Ralphie D= may well have been Italian/Amercan from Florida...and potentially a radio D.J. from that area
  22. @Bunderthollox https://billleslie.com/about/ and, Bill Covington who plays piano on “Peaceful Journey” was the keyboardist for the Cyntriks
  23. i don't think it's catalogued correctly on discogs. i.e. United Record Profile: Sublabel of Blanco y Negro. Jim Stanton did do stuff (eng) at United Music World/United Low Country Records. These are Columbia, South Carolina. hope it helps? P.S. Soul Ufonics (from Bamberg, S.C)
  24. I'd happily play 70% of the 'tunes' posted here, at home. Some very worthwhile 45's. again...for those who 'gun jump' to post-some very nice 45's. worth buying. However, i wouldn't want to hear more than 1 or 2 played at a venue. God forbid all of them. more than 2 or 3...then as a one time acquaintance would say to me...i'm not gettin' off my boney Arse for that Sh*t. And I'd been getting the bus home. It seems to me that the original post has in someways become a 'race to the bottom'. OP - "many unknown to the majority"... really
  25. I was meaning to bring a little new info to this topic after the original OP in April 2019. After the initial post I did some digging… but got side-tracked, and so i totally forgot. Until…John M’s auction listing of ‘Let My Heart…’ (ending 25/10/2023) jogged me to ‘post -up’. Group names can be found on Discogs and elsewhere. I’m going to touch on the other folks associated with the groups recording. Better known locally as ‘Tike’, Plato Theophilos wrote the lyrics and the melody on ‘Let My Heart..'. Nick Barker was a senior at the University of Maryland. Recorded separately on 3 tracks Nick wrote the music for the musicians. 12 violins, 9 Brass, 3 Rhythm. Vocals were added, and Ron Bollon, ‘Tike’ and Joe Bradley did the mixing at his studio. Ron Bollon who was a native New Yorker working in Baltimore, took it to Okeh. If the record could do well, they would get finance for more projects so they ‘shopped’ the 45 around the DJ’s and Radio Stations (as per previous post Al Jefferson at WWIN) including Eddie C at WEBB, with the help of some members of the group, ‘Tike’ and Fred Teves promo man at Schwartz Bros. Plato Theophilos (Tike) was an entrepreneurial guy. Since 1974 he had owned and ran Revolution Bar, and then in 1988 opened another bar called Rev on Maryland Ave, and his connections continued with WHFS Radio (Annapolis) DJ’s showing up on opening night. Rev maybe didn’t do so well? -because in 1989 Rev and an after-hours club called Cignel merged as Studio 10 on Lafayette Ave. There was an intention to use it as a ‘studio’ for record promo parties. Perhaps lofty ambitions. Plato was owner manager. Some other associations in print at Baltimore Sounds by Joe Vaccarino; Tangiers & Jetsons 1965 p479, Chancellors as backing group 1968 & name change from Tangiers to Tan Geers p480. Plato also managed Koffee Beans and name-changed them to Gross National Product, Nick Barker on keyboards, p194.Three members of the band had been together with the Jetsons p257. Jim Buckley ‘Third Time Today on Format Records, Bollon & Plato produced p59. Ron Price recorded at Bradley studios and released on Newark Records co-produced by Bollon p376. There are more I’m sure, and even think Nick Barker had been in the Uptowns who backed Clay Hunt (Bay Sound).


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