Robbk

You didn't finish your sentence. The notes say................ What do they tell us that we didn't know? I read them all on both videos, and saw nothing new.

The background tracks are good. The song is okay, writing wise. But he's not much of a singer. I've seen that record before in Chicago in the late '60s, and passed it up, even for 25 cents, or whatever the low price was. I know it was a low price, because I was wrestling with myself to decide if I should waste the few cents just to hear it and satisfy my curiosity. But, I finally decided there was 99.7+ % it would be garbage (and it turns out I was right). 😎 I'd never heard it before just now.

Interesting. I didn't know that.

I agree. That sounds more likely, given that we haven't seen Amnon Feldman listed as a Chess writer. I forgot about Artie Feldman. I wonder if he was Amnon's father? 😁

I don't know for sure. But that group worked with Chess Records, and so did he. Despite the fact that his record was out a few years before Rotary Connection had that LP released, he might well have known Minnie Ripperton when she was a member of The Starlets. Maybe Feldman was hired as a staff songwriter for Cadet-Concept's not-so-soulful (more mainstream) material? How many Feldmans worked for Chess? The odds are good that he was the writer.

Also the fact that The Chess Brothers knew Feldman's name when they signed him. Why would they wait until his record had already been, slated, assigned a number, and some of his records were pressed up before realising that his name might cause sales to be less than reasonably profitable? I don't remember any major atrocities committed by Jews in USA around that time. Had they felt that way, they'd have signed him only under the condition that he'd adopt a "stage name", if he wanted to have a significant singing career.