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my radio show from last year. I maybe have enough for another one but I'm doing an interview this year. Anyone see that ebonys version of "christmast just ain't christmas" that was just on ebay? I've never seen that before. 12/23/2007 Listen to show Horace Williams - I'm going Christmas Shipping - Magic City Binky Griptite - Stone soul Christmas - Daptone Nibbs - Spending Christmas day with you - Arc Lark Impressions wish you a merry christmas Playboys - The night before Christmas - Legato Honey and the Bees - Jing a ling - Chess Poets - Merry Christmas Baby - Red Bird Mamie Galore and Big Dee Irvin - All I want for Christmas is your love - Imperial Gems - Love for Christmas - Chess Stridells - I remember Christmas - Curtom O'Jays - Christmas just aint Christmas without the one you love - Neptune Supremes - Children's Christmas Song - Motown Emotions - Black Christmas - Volt Orchids - Christmas is the time to be with your baby - Columbia Blenders - You trimmed my Christmas tree - Witch Carla Thomas - Gee Whiz it's Christmas - Atlantic Jan Bradley - It's Christmas time - Hootenany Emulations - My Christmas tree - Emulate C-Quents - Merry Christmas Baby - Captown Manhattans - It's that time of year - Carnival Emotions - What do the lonely do at Christmas - Stax Miracles - It's Christmas time - Motown Impressions - I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus - Cotillion Impressions wish you a happy new year Electric Jungle - Soul Santa - Nike

Mike, all you gotta do is have no reserves your next auction and I'll be ready to set all the prices!

Thanks for the info.

Hi Ian. Are those the original members of the Vonettes? The spectropop interview with Sandi Sheldon says it's just Sandy and Van McCoy and a misprint of the "Vanettes" but I've also seen a promo photo of the "vonettes" with 3 girls and now I'm seeing your video. If they are original members on record, do you know the names of the other two members? Here is the spectropop interview: https://www.spectropop.com/SandiSheldon/index.htm thanks, Bib

Hi. Today on my radio show I interviewed Chicago musician and producer Bruce Thompson. Bruce was born in Indianapolis but at a young age moved to the Harold Icke projects on the South Side of Chicago. His first professional recording happened when he played organ on the Emotions' first Stax/Volt record, "So I can love you" (the backing track was actually recorded in Chicago). Bruce and his parents moved to Morgan Park right before Bruce started high school. Bruce saw local Morgan Park group Raw Umber performing and joined the band as a keyboard player, playing on their 3 released 45s. The group broke up when one of the members was drafted in 1971. Bruce soon joined the air force. On returning from the military, Bruce began working as an organ demonstrator at a Wurlitzer store. At the store, the road manager for the band 24 Karat Black approached Bruce. 24 Karat Black were originally a Cincinnati group called the Ditalians; the group recorded a legendary funk / rare groove LP on Enterprise records. Several of the original Ohio members had left the group and Bruce and several other Chicago musicians joined the group as replacements. Bruce toured with the group for two years and even recorded an unreleased 24 Karat Black LP. After the group broke up Bruce came back to Chicago and, with the former Chicago members of 24 Karat Black, formed a group called Chocolate Sunday. The group cut a single -- Second Story Man / Beautiful Sounds, on the local Chicago Dynamic record label. Bruce worked at the studio set up by the label, engineering and producing records by the Nikki Buzz band and Split Evolution. The label and studio soon folded, without distributing or promoting the Chocolate Sunday single. Bruce joined the Mel Hayes Boogie Man Orchestra (who had a national hit "Lady Lady Lady" in 1976) and performed with the band for about 5 years. Bruce also started his own studio and has been engineering, producing, and playing on local Chicago recordings for the last 30 years. You can check on the interview on my webpage at: www.sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html thanks, Bob

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many acetates have b-sides. anyways, your record would only be worth something if it was an alternate version / mix

i think i'm wrong and that he had a different lennan title up

i think kevin cox had one on ebay in the last few years but i could be remembering wrong

they have two 45s on drive, I think it's the same number but with two flips. I have the more common one, it's a straight temptations "wish it would rain" ripoff. They actually are the same group as on avco despite it not being listed that way in the soul harmony singles book, Jeff Lemlich posted the info somewhere once.

yes, same group as on brent / deep city who also later recorded as the prolifics

i was reading this thread a couple of days ago and everyone was saying "this is the greatest track ever" and i was getting confused, like "this is soul source, where are all the haters?" I'm glad it's almost back to normal, we still need some "It's total shite!" posts to set things right.

they borrowed the acetate from clarence reid from the comp and it was totally messed up, like the metal was about to flake off of it and the guy doing mastering worked miracles. the flip was a really nice sweet soul cover of a clarence reid and the delmiros doowop track.

if the yellow copies are real originals, they should be worth more as they are rarer and the bronze copies are styrene and hissy a lot

my info comes from howard pittman of the 5 chances. maybe they sing on only some of her records, I don't know.

is the yellow label vinyl? the bronze is styrene in all the cases i've seen but i have a later record of theirs on a yellow label that is vinyl.

it's not just philly sounding, though, it's written and produced by philly people though ... obviously the same is true for executive suite. I'm sure you know this, I'm just noting it.

random info: she was a chicago artist (like many king/federal artists) and the backing singers on her records are the five chances

the boston cobra had a release by the energetics as well as the energies

I think the executive suite version was first. It was the hit version. I always assumed the amibtions was a cover. I also think the ambitions are not a philly group but I could be wrong. Soul harmony singles book lists both records as 1974 but I think it lists the executive suite as 1/1974

no it was early 60s, there are two intruders 45s on gowen and those two are their first 45s.

the early intruders 45 are on GOWEN

what was I thinking, he not only says 'batman watusi' in the record but he says the guy is from the 'funny books'. either way, it still sounds good, if anyone figures out if this is released (I don't think so), let me know.

I don't think so, Gene Barge thought she was from not Chicago and part of a girl group. I can ask Jo Ann Garrett about it. I still have not called Raynard Miner to ask him (I have never talked to him before and I have to call someone to get his number). I will try to do it sooner. Thanks.

i must have misheard (I can't listen at work now). i agree 'batman' is sort of cheesy. still was soulful though, obviously not an amazing record, just a nice sounding rarity for me (e.g. like the pretenders 'temptation walk').