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i never made the connection to the four gents? i will compare names across the records tonight. I have the gents on paramount, will compare names on that also when I get home.

i don't think mike noriega would bootleg something and then put his name on it but who knows. he did legitimately do lee silver stuff, this is probably also legit. I like his label design.

i agree, both sides of the brent 45 are great, love the male group backing

about the going rate. decent group funk track.

Hi. Today on my radio show I interviewed legendary Chicago guitarist Larry Blasingaine. Larry started to learn to play guitar at age 7 as therapy in order to recover from a car accident. In a few years he formed a band called the Four Dukes and began to play the Teens with Talent shows on the west side of Chicago. The band became the backing band for the Baby Miracles, playing together as one of the main "four acts" of the teens with talent shows. The Baby Miracles / Four Dukes were discovered at a show and signed a contract with One-Der-Ful records, changing their name to the Young Folk. The Young Folk released one record, "Joey", an excellent mid-tempo Chicago teen sound, in 1967. The group had to change their name due to a dispute with another group of the same name and One-Der-Ful expressed interest in the lead singer, Madeline, as a solo artist. The label released one more record, "Behave yourself", as by Miss Madeline, actually not backed by the Young Folk. The Four Dukes, although still in their early teens, became house musicians for One-Der-Ful records, backing many artists on their records. The group was initially billed as "the Registers" on Alvin Cash' records and soon was renamed as "Larry and the Hippies". In the interview, Larry even tells the story of adding extra guitar on "Big Boy", the first Jackson Five record. Larry and the Hippies soon had their first record released on Toddlin' Town records -- Gimme some of yours / Enough for everybody. The record got some play in Chicago, especially by DJ Butterball Crane. The Hippies also soon began to get bookings by Perv Staples, who took them on his live tours backing the Emotions, and who had the band as the house band at his many local clubs. The Hippies were managed by Tommy Dark (formerly of the Ideals) who also managed Gene Chandler. Tommy introduced Larry to Jackie Wilson, and the Hippies backed Jackie on a show. The Hippies soon became Jackie Wilson's touring band and Larry became Wilson's personal guitarist and touring producer. Larry soon became the live show producer for all Brunswick touring artists, doing the charts and backing such artists as the Artistics, Barbara Acklin, etc. Larry also joined his own group at Brunswick, Channel 3. Although the group wrote and recorded many songs, they only released one single. Although he continued to work with Jackie Wilson as his personal guitarist, Larry soon left Brunswick records to work as a record producer with Clarence Johnson. He was initially called in to help finish producing and mixing the Brighter Side of Darkness LP. He produced other material for Chicago artists on 20th Century / GEC, for such artists as Pat and Pam, North, South, East, West, Betty Jean Plummer (who later recorded as Jean Plum on Hi records), etc. 20th Century even flew in artists from other cities (such as Chuck Walker) to be produced by Larry for the label. Larry also released a record by Keanya Collins on his own Forever label. After the death of Jackie Wilson, Larry ceased his production work, but has continued to play in local bands and is beginning to produce new music again. You can check out my interview on my interviews page at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html thanks, Bob

there are 3 marvels on finer arts, all killer group soul records from denver somehow. i also have 4-5 photos of the group, the label owner died and some junker guy got all the stuff of the estate and sold all the stuff on ebay a few years ago. there is a terrible pop version of 'miracle of life' that i have also.

I just looked at the sir shambling site, the "person who found him" was just the guy from this page: https://www.djmadlad.com/ I already had been in contact with some associated people, including donny brown, who cut the excellent 45 "fool i was fool I am", who contacted me a while ago after I played his record on my show to ask me to make me a recording of his 45 for him, I asked him a little bit about robert tanner and he talked about him and knowing him but I didn't pursue it because I thought that he had already been contacted, etc. i didn't go into detail about the 45s because people tend to not remember all the details about the 45s from back in the day or have anything anyways. nobody i ever interview ever has any copies of any of their records for example. it would still be interesting to get confirmation from andy whether he was talking about a 3rd robert tanner 45 or that other artist just backed by the jivers.

maybe andy meant the melvin lewis? I have seen at least one other megatone record on ebay, I don't remember if it was melvin lewis or something else

other side "miracle of life" is a very well known sweet soul record. 150 pounds seems high though

i can't believe the chapter one issue copy is still there at that price, it never turns up and is always on all the sweet soul collectors want lists. "have it your way (let me down easy)" took me forever to get.

it's been on ebay a few times, i think it went sort of cheap (not crazy cheap) at least once. aren't there 3 robert tanner 45s on megatone? i think andy dyson told me once? I think i've only seen these two though.

the soundville trips have always been said to been the same lineup as the exits, and it's clearly jimmy conwell singing lead on the soundville trips, I'm just saying that I think something funny must have happened where the soundville trips were supposed to have been the frankie karl group and it either ended up being the exits or that jimmy conwell ended up singing lead, I don't think the exits ever officially called themselves the trips as there was already another LA "trips" out there (although it's strange as their record got released as with two "p"s). The exits already had a hit as the exits, why would they change their name? Maybe someone should ask jimmy the story.

the one on gemm wasn't actually mint by the wasy

i got the copy that was on gemm (but for less than $500). i think the record is just okay in my opinion (but obviously way better than the forte release). not for sale though. the gemm one was also a promo and not a stock copy like the one dave posted...

the tripps on victoria are frankie karl and the dreams, it's their first record. i'm pretty sure they have some connection to the soulville group but something strange happened (don't know the story now as frankie karl died last year) and jimmy conwell ended up singing lead or something like that. but it said on frankie karl's myspace page, etc. that the tripps were the exact same group as the dreams.

once i got the temptashuns on lemco in a pic sleeve as a stiffener, not great but sort of cool

it was licensed to musicor with a different flip "some girls want me for their lover", rarer than the steeltown record actually and even rarer with the lyrics insert

very hard with the lyrics insert actually, i don't have one with the lyrics insert

PM'ed you!!!!!!

photo of the group is here: https://www.indiana45s.com/indiana45s_detail.php?recordID=581&group=Ripples%20and%20Waves%20plus%20Michael

the ripples and waves were another kiddie group from indiana. their lead singer was not named michael but apparently did sound exactly like him. there were two separate stories, one was that gordon keith just stuck 'featuring michael' on the record to imply some sort of jackson five connection. someone from another gary group told me this and i thought gordon confirmed this story when i hung with him a couple of times. however, the other possible story is what you said, that michael sings on the record. that version of the story is actually corroborated by this, written by one of the members of the ripples and the waves: https://www.mp3.com/artist/michael-jackson/reviews/?review_id=485462&flag=3 this story says that michael's voice was put onto the record. I don't know if it's true, however, just saying that the voice sounds like michael isn't enough because a billion kiddie records sound like michael. the backing group is 100% not the j5 though.

Hi. Yesterday on my radio show I did a music show, starting off with a tribute to the early recordings of Michael Jackson. Playlist follows. You can listen at the bottom of my shows page at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/shows.htm Jackson Five - Big Boy - Steeltown Jackson Five - We don't have to be over 21 - Steeltown Jackson Five - Some girls want me for their lover - Dynamo Michael Jackson - I wanna be where you are - Motown Jackson Five - Eeny meeny miny mo - Motown Jackson Five - Never can say goodbye - Motown Jackson Five - Looking through the windows - Motown Jackson Five - The love you save - Motown James Phelps - Don't be a cry baby - Phillips Eddie Holman - She's beautiful - Don-el Joe Johnson and the Admirations - Better days and better ways - Crown Ted "Soul" Hawkins" - Baby - Money Deboniers - Why pick on me - Orr Deltones - How I wish - Teen Joe Jama - Phases of time - Optimum Sound Experience - Hey love - GSF Voices - An imitation of life - Victoria Everyday people - Life - Encore Black Nasty - Rushing Sea - Enterprise Wild Honey - Only September - Georgia Peach Elusions - Stolen Love - Malone Sylvia - Private Performance - Vibration PHD - I can't get you out of my mind - no label test press thanks, Bob

i've actually also never seen it on this white label west coast looking styrene atlantic press that was pictured in this cd compilation of steeltown stuff i was looking at this weekend either. weird how many presses there were of that record. can you post your scan of the green though? is it styrene or vinyl?

big boy was never released on a green steeltown label as far as I know, was it?

the acetate was sold as an unreleased track by the jackson five, even though it was not the jackson five, it was the magical connection who are exactly the same group as the next movement. it's in popsike. the a-side of the acetate "girl why you want to take my heart" was released on solar sun records as by the magical connection. They talk about what the unreleased b-side "jackson man" is about (it has nothing to do with michael jackson) in my interview with them.