Joel E Turner

A Review of Mind Over Matter: The Myths and Mysteries of Detroit's Fortune Records View full article

As a part-time Michigander - spend summers in Newaygo county and my son lives in Detroit - I really enjoyed this bit of Detroit music history. So much good music has come out of there!

Thx, you give me hope.

Thx....will have a wary eye on prices. Believe I'll stop by SoulJazz for old times sake. And perhaps Third Man as my son lives in Detroit and likes the store there.

Thx!

Heading to London for a week. Any suggestions for record stores, esp for soul 45s?

Dave, see my comments in that thread. I'm going to pull together a list of followup questions for Bruce W., from comments here and from the article above. Which is a great article, btw. Bunny Sigler is a Philly legend, so glad to hear you got him over to UK.

Dave, I just came across this article, as I was responding to another Soul-Source member who was commenting on my recent article on The Show Stoppers and Bruce Weinroth (This member seemed to think The Four Perfections were the same guys as The Show Stoppers, which is not right). Anyway, I haven't even read the rest of the thread here, but I know Bruce, as you'll see if you've read my piece, and can see if I can get some more info on the production of the "I'm Not Strong Enough". I'll keep in touch.

Marc, thanks for the comments. Two questions/thoughts: - Had not heard of The Fortune Tellers, clearly a Philadelphia group. But all The Show Stoppers were born in 1948/1949, so seems unlikely they were in The Fortune Tellers (not impossible, though). If there is a connection, could it be older Burke brothers? And is that acetate from the 1961 recording? Anything you can clarify on that would be great. - Houseparty was written by Carl Fisher (Del Sharh) and Joe Thomas, The Show Stoppers guitarist, at least according to the publishing credits and my conversations with Bruce Weinroth. Am I missing something here? Cheers and thanks for reading the piece.

Very interesting lists!

Ouch! I really flubbed that one! My apologies. I'll see if I can emend the article and give you a shout out. Surprised Bruce did not catch that but it's all my fault.

Wow - that is crazy. I wonder if they did it. Will do. I'm going to have to comb through these notes for questions before our next chat. I'll try to see if I can get Bruce to join the site and thus chat directly.

Very cool. I'll post a site that I found for finding top xx lists from radio stations when I have a few minutes. That was the source for the comment in article about it hitting #2 in Reading. Are you a Philly guy? BTW, what a Top 30! Including Roland Kirk!

David and Neil, thanks for the info - great to hear that the flip was so appreciated. I will mention that to Bruce, see what he may remember, though I suspect popularity may have been more in the Northern Soul scene a few years after release.

David and Neil, What a Man Can Do got little airplay in US, at least I know not in Philly. Great to hear it got more in UK. Was it on radio, or in the clubs? John, I'll mention this to Bruce, see how his scrap book stuff may match up with some of this. Very cool!