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I have the lions, will try to scan it when i'm home later

I doubt there's a 100-103 given that there's a 1, 2, and 3. They probably switched to a new numbering system at that point. I can't explain the anomaly of the "5" listing for the furys though.

Hi. Yesterday on my radio show I interviewed one of my all-time favorite Chicago groups The Ledgends. The Ledgends had a local hit with their cut "Something to remember you by" but all the sides they recorded that were released were excellent. You can listen to the interview at the bottom of my interviews page at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html thanks again for your interest, Bob

just guessing, maybe the third one is maxine brown "it's gonna be allright"

Curtis produced a lot of groups. He wasn't just a musician, songwriter, and singer; he was a record producer trying to get hits. A lot of the tracks that the Impressions did were first done by other groups. If Curtis had intended it to be mainly an impressions track he would have released it as a single.

Sure. I was partly pointing out that the Windy C records are the best Stairsteps records. I'm assuming you know them. Thanks.

thanks for posting this, this is pretty nice. I think it would sound a little better if it were a little slower, but that also might make it sound more like modern R&B. Not trying to derail your thread but given that you're talking about new soul/funk I have a question. I was in the grocery store the other day and heard a cover of Cymande "The Message". It was terrible, by itself it wasn't that bad but it was way worse than the original. I assume it's a new soul/funk band doing the cover but I just googled and couldn't find any info. Some british reggae group called Aswad did a cover in '88 but that's not it. Anybody know who it might be? Thanks in advance.

Is the vinyl much cleaner than the label? Because independent of the marker, it looks worn and there's a sticker on it.

I stand by my statement. The natural four (while a great group) aren't even from chicago. And the best stairsteps 45s are their windy c records, not even comparable to the natural four. You also spelled Alohe wrong.

the best version is the original version by the impressions

the stairsteps are possibly the greatest chicago soul group of all time, maybe next to the impressions

Keni told me they were actually big beatles fans when they were kids and listened to a lot of rock music when they were driving around touring. It sort of explains their more rock / pop sound on the later LPs.

now I have 3 more crappy 45s (mainstream and as the buccaneers) to buy just because they do an okay smokey impersonation on "to be my friend". "today'" is funky northern though, would have appeal on the northern scene.

actually Alohe was also not in the stairsteps on dark horse. so the invisble man's band and the dark horse group are the same group.

I think the stairsteps on dark horse was pretty much the same lineup (maybe without cubie?). The Invisible Man's Band was the same group minus Alohe and Cubie.

yeah I have the other release (which was actually earlier), it's way rarer than this one for some reason

They all were kids, they were all siblings. This is the one track that Cubie sings on:

thanks for confirming this

also, are you sure it's not clarence (who was the main lead of the group)?

Keni (or Kenneth) Burke

Hi. Does anyone have a current value on this? I remember a year or two there was some discussion about the value, is in in vogue do to being funky soul? I know the sweet side has been known by (mostly Japanese) sweet soul collectors for a long time. I bought a copy on ebay as an upgrade and it ended up being polished which is a pet peeve of mine. It's shiny and plays well, hard to grade because of the polishing, maybe VG? I want to price it so someone actually buys it (or I could trade it). Thank you.

nice one, I didn't know this one. I'm sure you know this but that's not an original soul train line done to this song. thanks a lot.

cubie isn't a she, it's a he, he was the very young brother they added later, almost as a novelty thing. He's currently a dancer in the alvin ailey troupe. The girl in the group was Alohe Burke

there are two buddy scott 45s on the label. I think the scott brothers owned the label, they also owned shi-lush and al-tog. Some of the missing capri numbers are shi-lush numbers.

It's great that you enjoy your collection. This thread is about a deluded record hoarder who thinks his collection is worth half a million. He probably just accumulated records and didn't even enjoy them.