Robbk

Great mid'60s-style group sound. It sounds like about 1965. Too early to have a "collective/singular group name". Could it be possible that that group was called The Majextics, and it was a label misprint, with the "s" left off? Does anyone know where Equador Records was located, and where the artist/group came from, and his/their names?

The age is right. But how do you know that the young woman in the photo is Bonnie Brisker? If she WAS acting in that play, then she was an actress as well as singer. And then, she could well also be the actress, Bonita Brisker.

What is "this"? No picture showed up. What label? What record number? What songs?

Wow! Pretty darned professional recording for a "festival recording".

Pearl Jones was the lead singer of Sidra's Embraceables, and also sung backgrounds at Motown, and for Aretha Franklin. I also seem to remember her having a single-artist 45 release on a small, Detroit label (it was black-was it Diamond Jim?)

"A Dream" by The Creations on Zodiac was actually sung by The Brothers of Soul (Fred Bridges, Bob Knight and Bobby Eaton). I'd love to hear The Precisions singing "A Dream". Can we get a link to an MP3 of it?

Bonnie Brisker was the younger sister of Miller Brisker, a Detroit jazz saxophonist who toured and recorded with Aretha Franklin. He was the arranger on Bob & Fred's Big Mack record, and played sax on many Jazz albums headlined by other Jazz artists. Interesting, that along with Magic City owner, Ernest Burt, Motown's Alan Story and Timmy Shaw were involved. I wonder is Ms. Brisker recorded for other labels under a different name or was a member of any Detroit groups. I haven't seen any reference to anything else she recorded. Does she bear any relation to actress, Bonita Brisker?

I agree. It may have been a studio demo or acetate. Many times, these have no artist name listed.

That's a strange way of referring to what actually happened. Satellite Records wad the first name for Stax Records. The name changeover occurred before Volt Records was started up. So, the Volt issue was merely a re-issue of the Satellite issue, on a different label of the Satellite/Stax/Volt/Enterprise/etc. family of labels.

For all we know, it could have been an unknown group on a studio demo, and was just given a false name. That situation has occurred many times on the scene. Bonnyvetts is a very strange name for an American girls group.

I think that staggered V.I.P. was a misprint, and the real design intended was straight vertical. I've seen the vertical on some other WDJ issues.

And Stevie is at LEAST 16 or 17 here. So Jamerson played upright bass fiddle some years after "the early days of Motown".

It sounds nice and Soulful to me. I never heard it or heard of it back in the day. Bur, i have heard of it from the Northern Soul crowd over the past 10 years or so. What label was it on? Who produced it, wrote it, arranged it? Anyone know who the group members were? Where they were from? Can we have a label scan?

No. It seems to be the same issue as the scan above, from Popsike, with the straddled V.I.P. Here is mine: By rob_k at 2011-05-21

My Downbeats' White DJ is an RCA (Midwest) pressing,- K4M-4907-1.

The Taylor Tones on C & T is supposed to be just Sherri Taylor and her mother. But, I've also heard that Sherri's sister (or cousin?) was also in the group.

It's also on Kent's recent release, "Truly Yours" by The Spinners.

Tom DePierro and I found a Jobete Music Acetate which was titled: "Come On Back To Me Baby". I have seen it listed as "Come On Back To Me Baby (Forever In My Heat)" and simply, "Forever In My Heart". It was one of those Jobete Music songs with several working titles.

I'd like to see a "stationary" scan - so I can read the credits. The split second on the video only allows a quick glance at the font on the word, "Hope".

Yes, Both of those women had some crackin' good rare Detroit records back in the '70s. I even bought some off them!

The label design on "Dear Santa" looks like those New York pressed Laurie Records-distributed labels from 1964-65. The recording sounds 1965-ish. I'd bet it was recorded in 1965. It may have been released later. But I'd be surprised if it was released as late as 1968 with that design. Even 1967 would surprise me. It seems that hope's early recordings were made in Baltimore. But, I read that at least one side of one of the 1966 releases was recorded in New York with Jesse Herring running the session (One of The Roleaks' cuts (if I remember correctly).

I'd also like to know which recording studios he frequented, and if he worked in Philadelphia and New Jersey as well as New York.

Yes, that was late 1961. So, I now haven't heard of anything he's credited for before 1961.

There are no decent bios on him with any timeline. He must have been on leave from The Service in the very late '50s or at the beginning of the '60s. I don't remember any record with an arranging credit for him before 1962.

He seemed to be always an independent arranger. It doesn't appear that he ever had an exclusive contract with any one company. It also doen; look like he was the major A&R man wit any label, unless he was for one or two very small NY labels while he was also free lancing with the majors.