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Looks more likely to me, great digging more back up here (scroll down) https://timsawley.co.uk/50-bubbling-under/

I agree, I was just attempting to "bark up some sort of tree" with the name thing and you are correct artists moved around and used name variations often, but I think when we are investigating, all options need looking at

https://vidco.su/watch/7lu_6-rWwS4/ocapellos-the-stars-beautiful-nj-doo-wop-soul-crossover-ballad-gus-gossert-favorite.html

Am I completely wrong here or was The Bobby Kline (Kilne) pictured here on the right, the same guy that was in "The Genos" from Reading, PA

I apologise if this has been covered before I was looking for more info about the group and came across this interesting article.....WOW, you live and learn https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/see-which-whispers-singer-went-to-prison-for-1-8-mill-jewelry-heist/

That's an interesting point, more bothered to know about Carol and her life (which would be connected I guess to her family), I believe they call it a bio , surely most folks would "like", if they knew, her story, like other artists.

Here's a couple

Found this article ....who is the lady in the middle ? This thread is also connected

Please let me say sorry if this story has been covered and perhaps someone will direct me to any previous thread No doubt a lot of us have danced to or owned a copy of "Sad Girl" at some stage and of course Carol made a number of classy recordings I have noted her passing in 1984 and have tried to find out more about her and her family They ran Mid-Town records I spotted some comments on Amazon that were made about her family and it appears something happened including her mother Essie "Reading the liner notes took me back down memory lane. My family owned a record store next door to a boutique the Anderson's opened in 1979 or '80 on Jefferson Avenue on the east side of Detroit, Essie's Boutique. It was located in a block long stretch of black owned businesses who were all doing well. They were like royalty pulling up every day well dressed in a long gray Lincoln Continental, driven by Carol's brother George, with her mother Essie as the matriarch. Cheryl, Carol's daughter, completed the quartet. I was a preteen and friends with Cheryl, who at that time was a regular on The Scene, a locally produced and televised dance show. A poor man's Soul Train if you will. The family was tight knit and respectful. They were always together. Always. So I found the comment of Cheryl being a "wild child" in the liner notes a little off-putting. I'm not sure where that came from but I knew her, and she was anything but that. She once shared with me that Carol was not her real mother. If that was the case then it would certainly explain why she was never heard from again after Essie's and Carol's unfortunate deaths. In any event, I appreciate that the author put together this incredible CD. Carol may not have hit the big one in the music industry, but she touched many people. Anyone who can say that had a good life." This "looks" like a sad story (perhaps Ironic too with the title of her most famous record) and I would like, hopefully, for help in finding out what happened please.

There's one for sale (yellow) on Discogs as you said for a £1000 but average price is £116, a red copy is unusual but £2000 would be fantasy land me thinks but with Al Johnson all over it, who knows.....good luck

Played at Cleethorpes and Mary Chapman told me how one day, when the system went down, the crowd just sat and and sang Do It, Do It, must have been great, perhaps someone here remembers being there

Maybe I am clutching at straws again This couldn't possibly be him ? https://www.hendersonmemorialchapel.com/obituary/1866627

Skipper founded some great acts I wonder who the ladies are

The band (named after the school where they were students, and their favorite car, the Oldmosbile Toronado) This is a great article https://www.houstonpress.com/news/the-tsu-toronadoes-6540593

I think it was the name thing, but I agree should be a different thread

Don't know if this helps "Female vocal soul trio from Miami, Florida. Active in the mid 60s. Discovered by Blackpool Mecca DJ Ian Levine on one of his regular US trips to Miami in 1975, this became a massive sound at Wigan Casino in 1977. A typical mid 60s girlie group sound so popular at the time which sounded great in big all-nighter halls. I'm not sure of the year it was issued but would guess around 1964/65. The Twans are a mystery and it is not known if they ever released anything else. According to Jeff Lemlich (author of 'Savage Lost' a 416 page book covering the music scene in Miami in the 60s) in a comment in response to Colin Dilnot's article, The Twans were one of many Miami girl groups of the 60s and one of the singers replaced Annette Snell ('It's All Over Now' Epic) as lead singer of The Fabulettes ('The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall' fame). You can read more about Annette Snell Written by Brad Shapiro and Steve Alaimo and issued on Henry Stone's Dade label, this is the most elusive record to find on the label. According to Jeff Lemlich this is the only Miami girl group record that he does not own and he has never been able to find it despite living in Miami all his life!"

Is it me just getting "old", or does that mean that the 7 Dwarfs (apart from Rick) were a totally different group Can you help with where info has come from please

I am newish to Soul Source and found this thread Did we ever find out about Sam and who he was as Dave's website has disappeared of into orbit somewhere (I apologise if it is somewhere else and I have missed it)

I Lincolnshire's own Hillbilly and he is STILL wearing the exact same shirt I last saw him in, seems no matter how much money you have, you can't buy "Class"

Years ago someone told me that Gloria had done another album with Barry White (and was supposed to be better) and Glodean had the masters since he died and refused to release them Course could be speculation and Chinese whispers

More importantly, can she sort out that unreleased album that she did with Mr White, whatever happened to it ?

It would be nice to find out who this group were and I apologise if I have missed a thread on here Net stuff quotes and it's all the same !!! "Ron & the Embracers were a semi-obscure group from East Los Angeles, CA. That’s about all that I know of them. “Latin Blood” is the A-side to their highly sweated Brown-eyed Northern Soul tune “You Came Into My Life” on Spectrum, and it’s a heavy instrumental complete with nice keys, a reverbed-out guitar and loud horns a la Los Vampiros. I’ve personally been jamming this out all winter, since it has a nice vibe to it that suits this time of year. Perfect for a crisp, sunny winter day in California. Now for the Northern Soul tune. The horns on this track are what it’s all about for me here, but really it has a lot going for it. For one, Ron’s voice is like butter over the backing soul music. I’ve never heard of this fellow named Al Maldonado, who apparently produced both of the songs on this 45, but I’d love to hear anything else he had a hand in!" M.R. Martin production might be a clue, but I am stuck and I guess they had nothing to do with the Chicago group on Lucky Label Inc "Mr Sunrise"

A record under the sponsorship of South Carolina "department of correction", first appearing on "Music World" records. As Charles E. Smith and the Department of Correction Blazons", then it amazingly surfaced on a "vanity" label from California. A label that came up with the concept of putting your "Poems or Lyrics" to music, for a fee. The Preview label 6311 Yucca Street, Hollywood released multiple very low-run "vanity" 45's some of which became Northern Grails.. Several of Rod Keith's releases are the perfect example. The styles were wide ranging, from Country, Pop, R&B and Soul with one thing in common they are all rare. So quite why Charles E. Smith and His Department Of Correction Blazons, would appear on this label is a complete mystery. The Preview label in their wisdom adjusted the artist credit from, "His Department Of Correction Blazons" to "The New Coronets Band". Every 45 on the "Preview" label was a low run, commercial exercise, for this concept label, that aided writing "talent" to enter the record release market.. https://www.songpoemmusic.com/labels/preview.htm