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I asked Elsie Gray in case they were a "borrowed" recording from Detroit when Gene was there, but she did not know them

Just brilliant and all we need to know is more about him......as usual. I love the part about Anaerusis as well, so informative, who were they ?

Just spoke to my pal in Chicago and he said he was with Maurice Jackson in 2021 who was singing. I think Maura was referring to Maurice Jackson "senior" and our Maurice is "junior", which would explain why I spotted Maurice's website in Florida (now defunct).

Sam also recorded "The Good Life" and "Caravan" which outed on the box set US Air Force Serenade in Blue "Series 28" Note the lovely piccy of him on the back of the box

I know you care and love this stuff, like I do This quote from 45cat might help you in your search for Lee David "There is a photo of Lee David in one of the trade publications when he signed with Janus. He played at Palisades Park (in NJ) the weekend of July 1-2 1967 along with the Drifters, the Age of Reason, Jean Wells, Linda Jones, George Carrow, the Shandells, and the Petals (plus on July 1, The Four Tops), according to Record World July 1 1967 page 27." Some stuff here from 2003 https://soulfuldetroit.com/archives/3838/3138.html?1053020980

This may be out of date, looks rough for a nice plaque. 21 Deptford High Street https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4756141,-0.0259496,3a,75y,279.83h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sbC4xLXha4_RnkZFIOFZxrA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0%26panoid%3DbC4xLXha4_RnkZFIOFZxrA%26yaw%3D279.83!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Thanks I read he had sent a letter out with them explaining they jumped. Would love to see it.

Everyone wants to sell them as there was a jump fault on the flip, which Ady explained, I believe.

What a tune, my goodness, I nearly fell over and wanted to dance in the kitchen

I guess we will never know, what with Vee-Jays problems, why Tollie only released 2 LP's. Perhaps chaos was all around the business and that's why Tollie was shelved in 1965 as a label, albeit that Vee-Jay carried on fighting the law suits turning up https://www.bsnpubs.com/veejay/tollie.html I find Jay's Jay Lasker quote saying, "We plan to concentrate heavily on the current type of pop single for Tollie. This will differentiate Tollie from Vee-Jay's policy of being r&b oriented." to be fascinating, but perhaps that had influence.

Tim Brown commented on Discogs under the review section 12th August 2022 "Please note...this title NOT been bootlegged as has been stated by at least one seller."

This was the original link and there was so much more. https://soulmusic.com/listen-leroy-hutsons-love-inspired-classics-curtom-years/

Sam sang on this wonderful Jazz track for Harper film score

When you say "re-press" in Belgium I think you mean...... Sounds like the same place though and if Dave went there can you ask him please if the tag does not get a reply and let us know http://starsandstripesimports.com/

Here are the words Johnny posted on FB in 2018 "If Only I Knew Then.. In 1976 as a naive wannabe, I was combing the USA trying to find Northern Soul to bring back to the UK. It was hard back then to make a trip profitable, if didn't pay dividends I couldn't see how I could afford a return trip.. The record were there, my knowledge wasn't.. I had made contact with a Beatles collector in Miami by the name of Rich Ulloa. he had just purchased a rare Beatles related 45 off me. A Tommy Quickly - Tip Of My Tongue - a Lennon and McCartney composition 1963 UK press in Mint unplayed condition. He was a very happy Fab 4 boy, so he said if I get to the states drop by, he knew a few places I may find some records.. that was the biggest understatement of my life. When he took me to a store where the guy had moved down from Chicago with 3 trucks loaded up with Vee Jay 45's and LP's. He used to be a Vee Jay big shot, he thought he would retire in Miami and sell the records he had accumulated within the business.. It was a huge beach front store full to the rafters with sealed albums; the 45's were in the back, a labyrinth of rooms racked up with 45's. Maybe 250,000 or more. Problem was the owner was in hospital having heart surgery, but the lady manager liked my accent so she said sure go dig around, but be careful it's a mess back there (another understatement) The owner had used the rooms as a clutter-tipping point. Bicycles, Fridges, Mops, buckets, Bread bins, mixers, boxes of clothes, shoes, and every other defunct household item you care to mention. His lifetime of jumble and chaos blocked access to the first 8 shelves all three sides of the all the rooms, so I had to climb over his detritus to start looking at the top 3 racks.. I only had 3 days before I flew home... What a dick-head! I should have emptied each room and thoroughly looked at every record. But I was young, excited and knew just about nothing about doing a serious job on such an overwhelming load... worse than that time there was very little on Vee Jay 45's, other than Fred Hughes, Betty Everett that was a Northern Soul wanted 45 at the time. So I concentrated on labels like St. Lawrence, Champion, Exodus.. I scored like a pig. Tainted Love promo's, Batman At The Go Go promo's just a ton of stuff. I was really pleased, all mint, all 50 cents each. Richie was super pleased too, I found a handful of Beatles Vee Jay EP's promo's in picture covers. I let him have (ffs) as I had no interest or knowledge of other priceless records at the time.. a moment that will stay with me forever.. at the very end of the building was a side wall about 8 ' by 8 ' just full of one title on Tollie.. thousands and thousands of copies of yellow label Sam Fletcher's. I didn't know the title so I played it. Thought it was ok but far too slow for a Northern Soul tune. I ignored them and went back to clambering around on the junk, randomly pulling out hand fulls of accessible 45's and finding a few I wanted, every so often. I went to Miami Airport chuffed as hell with my finds.Amazingly my local competitor Rob Lythall of Leicester was in the same airport lounge after a holiday.. I couldn't wait to waft a few St. Lawrence promo's under his nose.. totally cruel but gave me a strange warming feeling inside... Then when I got home, I reflected on what a crap job I did sifting through, this once-in-a-lifetime vinyl hoard... so I rang Richie and said I'd like to come back and do the job properly, clean each room out of junk and see the 80% I couldn't get at. Then the bombshell was dropped, the Vee Jay man never recovered from heart surgery, the shop closed and nobody knows where the records went to.. I was gutted, Richie was gutted .. we lost contact and I never saw Richie again .. But I can tell you, those 3 days still haunt me today, that indelible shining vision of wall to wall of Sam Flecther's ... we all know that record-dealer hurt that strikes all to often when you reflect back upon your mistakes, due to inexperience and haste. PS if anyone knows which "dump" those records went to, me and Richie would love to know.. apparently none of those records, ever turned up again.."

I remember reading a story John Manship told about an room full of the Tollie copies and how they guy who had them passed and John wondered what happened to them all. I must try and find it again

Welcome to SS Troy, you should get lots of pictures and posters from folks here. I wanted to post this for you as your father sang so fantastically and when I played this to my father he said "this man should be recognised as a truly great singer alongside those like Roy Hamilton and Nat King Cole" 1525 S. Berendo was the address of Record Merchandising after about 1971. Jack Lewerke who owned Vault was the Vice-President of Record Merchandising until his death in late 1977.

Is this the one a re-recorded version https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-you-care-re-recorded-single/265131441

Brilliant Ken, as always Found this interview with Jack from 2018 https://warlockasyluminternationalnews.com/2017/12/13/warlock-asylum-interviews-music-legend-jack-gillen-about-elvis-presley-the-record-business-astrology-and-writing/

Odyssey - MoWest

Just had Elsie confirming it was the Debonaires who did the backing vocals @ Golden World

I think they did manage to "get" some recordings from somewhere in Detroit and use them later in Philly from what I have read and been told by Elsie (Debonaires).

Kenny never mentioned "cutting" tunes in Detroit in an interview in February this year. "You’re universally regarded as one of the architects of the Philly Sound. How did that coalesce? Motown was the inspiration for Huff and me; we give credit to Motown for being able to assemble a great group of people who worked together. Berry Gordy, who was a successful songwriter-producer in his own right, created opportunities for some of the world’s greatest songwriters and producers, not to mention the superstar artists on his label. On my first airplane ride, Huff and I went to Detroit to explore working with Motown. It was impressive, and I still have the greatest admiration for Berry Gordy. But at the end of the day, Huff and I decided to return to Philly and set up our own record company." Perhaps they returned ?

Neli Ruston spoke to Robert and I found this (which may give a clue as to an approx date) "Luther Ingram would of course become an icon on the Northern soul club circuit with yet another Wylie penned song that would reach classic status, Luther Ingram — “If It’s All The Same To You Babe b/w Exus Trek” — HIB 698 which saw both the vocal and the instrumental sides grace the turntables. Penned by Popcorn and recorded at Golden World Studios in a moonlighting session by The Funk Brothers, Neil Rushton, after a conversation with Robert Bateman says he (Bateman), took the tapes to Mercury studios in New York and overdubbed strings to create the 'orchestra' feel. Bateman says he sold about 5,000 copies, before achieving a distribution deal from Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records. He was trying to capture a similar sound to The Four Tops and in doing so, produced a stone classic of the Northern Soul scene with a record that still fills dance-floors even today."

There was a thread here (which came to a stop just as it was getting interesting)