Everything posted by John Reed
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Okeh Label
This is a quote from here: https://www.bsnpubs.com/columbia/okeh/okeh.html In June, 1962, Dave Kapralik, the head of the A&R department at Columbia, hired veteran Chicago producer Carl Davis as an A&R producer for the Columbia label and in April, 1963, made him the A&R director for OKeh. Davis immediately hired Curtis Mayfield as an Associate Producer; Mayfield was at that time a singer/songwriter with the Impressions and a much-respected figure in the Chicago music scene. Davis and Mayfield were able to rejuvenate the label and within a year OKeh became a major soul label. Almost all of the hits on OKeh were written by Curtis Mayfield and produced by Carl Davis in Chicago. The sound that Davis and Mayfield created is often called "Chicago Soul". The music featured brass instruments and highly melodic vocals, and was the foundation for the later Chicago rock sound of groups like the Buckinghams, Mob, Mauds, and the Chicago Transit Authority [Chicago], who picked up on the brass, especially. The "Chicago Soul" records did not have the hard rock and roll beat that characterized the Motown and Stax soul records of the time, but reflected an easier, more relaxed, mood. Carl Davis had huge hits with Major Lance, and moderate chart hits with Ted Taylor, Walter Jackson, Billy Butler and the Enchanters and the Artistics.
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Okeh Label
For me, my starting point was when Carl Davis joined Okeh around 62/63. For me its collecting issues rather than WD's.
- News: Top Tips For 2011
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- News: Top Tips For 2011
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Enticers Stax Unreleased Recordings
Cheers Tony
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Enticers Stax Unreleased Recordings
I've been re-reading the John Edwards article in Voices by Jan Barker. In the discography it mentions three tracks recorded at Stax by the group the Enticers which included John Edwards and was wondering if any of these tracks seen the light of day since the article was written?
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Stax
The Canadian releases i've seen are black with silver text. Willam Bell's Soul Of A Bell LP was released on a yellow label with the standard Atlantic distributed stax design
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Virgil Records New Orleans
104 - Sugar Lumps -I've Got A Brand On My Baby/I Can't Fight It
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Willie Walker/willie Bollinger
Tony, as Kev has previously said a great set of tracks and its a shame the 12month time window between the two releases I've recently reacquainting myself with William Bells - The Soul Of A Bell and was thinking what an absolute gem his version of Do Right Woman-Do Right Man a classic Penn/Moman composition of which this was one of many. So looking forward to both.
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How Many Versions Of 'what Does It Take'
Garlland Jeffreys, Don Byron & Eddie M. Theres another reggae version my Winston Francis
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Volumes - I Just Can't Help Myself (American Arts)
Get them all as they're all slightly different in some way or form. The R/W and the B/W demos have the same label layout but with different colour lines and text. The black issue and demo have different fonts and text layouts. The joy's of different pressing plants I suppose. As people have said, a great piece of soul.
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Willie Walker/willie Bollinger
Listening to the show it, looks like in 2011 I'm going to be shelling out quite a bit on previously un-released stuff (as I did this year) in addition to the old rusty dusty's and new new-releases. If anyone wants to take pity on me and send them to me for free, it'll be greatly appreciated.
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Company Sleeves
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Final Decisions - Keep On Walking, Different Flip 'pusher'
They must have had faith in The Pusher as well as it came out on LOVE as well, although it seems to have a catalogue number of GM 162-5 (&162-4) whereas the plumb Bumpshop release has GM 162-1 (& 162-2), so the LOVE copy may have come last? I'm assuming that the white Bumpshop release of Keep On Walking/Hour Of Our Need came out between the two and is GM 162-3 & 162-4?
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Remember Otis
I've Been Loving You Too Long is one of the greatest pieces of soul ever made, a true genius.
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Cd/vinyl Box Sets
Rhino are bringing out a 4 CD box set of Percy Sledge's Atlantic recordings which include some unreleased stuff. https://www.rhino.com...#whatsInside-cd
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Vintage Soul Radio Show Sunday 12Th December 2010 # 304
A nice bit of South African soul there
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Selling Records On The Source
I don't think people should care if they want to list a record on here, cheaper than someone has already recently posted. The sale value of a record depends on many things including how much the seller paid for it and the minimum they'd let it go for or if its a firesale and the seller needs the cash. If you walk down the road and see a shop selling a toaster you're interested in for £100 and the shop a couple of doors down is selling the same on for £90 would you go back to the first shop and buy it there as you saw it first? The seller of the cheaper toaster wins. It's an open market (and an open forum), as long as you don't bad mouth the other seller, saying its chaper that then his/hers, post it up.
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Parcel Force / Customs
I got hit with a customs charge last year and have no issues with paying that. What narks me is the handling fee, which I think is daylight robbery. After speaking to someone at Parcelforce at the time, they explained to me that they pay the import duty to HM Customs and that the admin charge is their fee to you for doing it on your behalf and holding it for you rather than it be stored in a customs facility somewhere near Birmingham, which the general public can't go to anyway.
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E-Bay Stalker ?
The guy (t***g) won Tony Troutman One Way Love on Swagger last month, lucky bugger or maybe I shouldnt have been to stingy with my bidding
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Sound Stage 7
Eddie Hubbard takes the credit on this one.... We were discussing Willie Hobbs on EMS (I think) a few years ago and Eddie highlighted this, which until then was unknown to me also. It's been in refosoul since then... It also got a South African release on Monument
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Cd/vinyl Box Sets
Its not really a box set, but rather a double CD. In 93, MCA brought out "The Essential Etta James" which was a collection of 44 tracks. The first CD focussed on her Argo stuff with the next on her Cadet/Chess releases. Also on the CD is an unreleased version of "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man". Also is a fabulous version of "I Never Meant To Love Him" recorded in Philadelphia in 1973 which I think is worth the purchase of the CD alone. IMO another fine CD collection.
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Xmas Presents For The Soul
Oh Russ, there is....... There's a track in the box set called "I'll Be There" which IMO is a Muscle Shoals classic. Paul Mooney mentioned it in the sweet & Deep thread and he/Garry Cape unearthed it, in some masters but never had the rights to give it greater exposure. If they've knocked it down to $60, 6 CD's, seven hours and one of the most complete sources for Picket, its gotta be a no brainer buy
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Sound Stage 7
A slight variant to the Paul Vann, Dave posted earlier.... The issue of Bill Brantley, the other side of Grandaddy Chuck Armstrong More Paul Vann