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Thank you for sharing this. A sad loss. Here are a couple of my favourites.

Rob, I suspect the one you are referring to is SOS #5, where the mix includes D Train - Keep On, Wham - Young Guns and Rockers Revenge - Acapella Sunshine (Walking On Sunshine), together. There are many, many versions of Walking On Sunshine listed on Discogs, but this one is called Acapella Sunshine. https://www.discogs.com/release/19735-Rockers-Revenge-Featuring-Donnie-Calvin-Walking-On-Sunshine-82 In 1982 I was living in Tanzania, so the SOS tapes were my soul lifeline. This issue introduced me to some wonderful tracks for the first time including Curtis Mayfield - Hey Baby, Johnnie Taylor - What About My Love, Gil Scott-Heron - Explanations, Gwen McCrae - Doin' It, Willie Hutch - Inside Out (we'll ignore Wham, Nick Straker etc). Here is the list of the complete mix:

Rob, Welcome. It must have been one of the early mixes - 1982 - so issues 1 to 10. A version of Walking On Sunshine by Rocker's Revenge (featuring Donnie Calvin) is part of the mix on issue 1, along with Keep On by D Train, but not You're The One For Me or the Wham track (not really our thing!). I'll keep listening and let you know if I come across the other tracks. They are only 30 second bursts and the sound quality of the first issue was poor; they got better. Here is the rest of the mix on issue 1

Did anybody else hear this on Friday? The NS feature starts 29 minutes in... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001v3w2

I have always enjoyed the Originals version of Just To Keep You Satisfied, a sequel to the Monitors original (?) version and a prequel to the re-written version by Marvin Gaye on his Let's Get It On album. Here's all three. There's also a version of God Is Love by Marvin that reuses the music from the Monitors' version of JTKYS. I am sure others on here will know even more connections.

There are so many, but one I have played often recently is the Premium (Fortenberry III) version of Keith Barrow’s “You Know You Want To Be Loved”. The song was written by Michael Stokes and Ronn Matlock; I wonder if there is a Ronn Matlock version somewhere? Alas, both Barrow and Premium died relatively young and in sad circumstances. Incidentally, Premium also recorded an album, Keep It Comin’, with the recently departed Jean Knight.

As my job took me to live in various places in Africa, Asia, Australia and beyond, I transferred much of my record collection onto TDK tapes, which weighed considerably less than vinyl, so less expensive to ship. If anybody in the Chester area is interested in collecting about 200 tapes of every type of soul music, but mainly 70s, do send me a PM. They are yours for a donation to our local homeless charity. https://shareaid.co.uk/ I have an Excel spreadsheet detailing their contents, which I would be glad to send to anyone who is prepared to give the tapes a good home. Can't vouch for their quality; some are 40 plus years old and have travelled 70,000 miles.

I have a CD released in 1995 called Led Zeppelin's Sources of Inspiration

Has anybody mentioned Muscle (Mussel) Shoals?

Which reminds me "I've seen fish full of mercury". Marvin Gaye : Mercy, mercy me (the ecology)

Junior Parker: Just Like A Fish on Mercury

From the earlier days of our music

If we add Cod Bless The Child by Billie Holliday A Plaice in the Sun by Stevie Wonder and You Set my Sole on Fire by Edwin Starr we'll have enough for an album (the Compleat Angler?)

Here are DG's comments on "Secret Sounds" and two reveals, printed in B&S #74 (Dec 1971). He promised more in subsequent issues, but I haven't found them, yet.

The last issue I have is #39 (Frankie Beverly - bottom right), so it ran on for a few more months. Two different issue 33s inside two 34 boxes (see pic), a planned club in central London and the addition of northern club news around this time, so production issues and seemingly a last attempt to expand its audience, before its inevitable demise, I fear. I'm playing number one as I am typing and it plays OK for a forty plus year old much-travelled tape. I can't find any more, but if anyone is interested in making a serious offer (as seen, not heard), do send a pm...

Here are a few more. I think I have some of the half dozen missing numbers too; I just need to go through a few more boxes! If I remember rightly they made a mess of the numbering and labelling around #33 and 34. Not my favourite soul music-era, but I was living in Tanzania when these were first issued (1982), so they were a bit of a musical life-line at that time.

You might like to read this article about Moses Dillard, which appeared in Blues and Soul #160 (May 1975). Moses was also politically active, so it runs in the family. (I'd forgotten that Joshua Dillard was a fictional brother; he was actually a Mr James Moore.)

As the Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield once wrote (quoting Edgar Allan Poe), "Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear". If they had known about the internet, perhaps they would have added " and even less of what you read on-line".

Why not contact daughter Chandra Dillard, who is a South Carolina State Representative. A busy lady I'm sure, but she will be pleased to read of your (our) interest in her father's work (see link). https://www.localmusicscenesc.com/moses-dillard By the way what an interesting album "Now!" is. Way ahead of its time when released in 1969.

And then there was Kurtis Scott (aka Kurtis Harris or actually Curtis Futch Jr) - see review from Dave Godin's Rhythm and Soul USA New Series #1 (dated 1966) and a couple more early photographs of Jimmy. For anyone still awake on this topic, BMI's Songview website lists 319 of his songs to go through, under various combinations of his names (most interesting are the names of his collaborators, which may - or may not - indicate they are separate people). BAILEY RALPH 319 Work Titles Current Affiliation: BMI IPI #: 1833916

Ken Williams, the one person who could probably have helped identify his musical partner's vocals, sadly passed away last Summer. Ken Williams a-dish-a-tunes website still stands giving a partial (not full) discography and thirty second introductions to some of his songs, including Big Jim's Border Crossing and J.R. Bailey's take on Sweet Music, Soft Lights and You, which I hadn't heard before. https://www.adishatunes.com/full-discography

Is the second part " Let us not get too convivial"?

Here's the B&S 168 (Sept 1975) and Black Music (Oct 1976) and the notes to the Soul Brother CD. My collection is bound so not so easy to scan or photograph.

Just been listening through the various tracks mentioned above. Great, great vocals (especially on That's Her (That's The Girl For You)), but one wonders what impression (pun intended) his Jerry Butler-style (or clone) vocals created on Curtis Mayfield, when Curtis' former group-mate and friend was performing at his peak in the late sixties/early seventies, albeit contracted elsewhere (Mercury). I do not have the "gimme some mod jazz" compilation, or the original 45/album, so can't check the liner notes/credits, but is Mission Impossible our man? He is described as a bassist above and a guitar-player and musical director elsewhere, but neither instrument comes to the fore on the Hammond-organ driven canter through this oft-recorded film music.