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Andy was my employee in 1977 and a really good fella. His talents were understated. I too miss him and a timely reminder from Micky Boyle and John Poole as to what a good guy he was. -
A upcoming interview airs this Saturday on Signal 2 - Jimmy Mack Harrison aka Lenny Curtis Info: Jimmy Mack Harrison was born in South Carolina and the brother of late 50's Hitmaker Wilbert Harrison. As a young musician he played on Wil's big hit Kansas City among others before recording himself on the New York based Clock label. During the 1964/65 period he recorded with brother Bob as the Harrison Brothers signing to Emit, Everlast, ABC, Bobalou.....with the excellent Run For Your Life and Pearltone. http://youtu.be/jwqbxk1ZK9E In 1965 he met Robert Bateman who brought the Funk Brothers from Detroit to Columbia studios in New York and recorded Jimmy (as Lenny Curtis) on 'Nothing Can Help You Now' which Roulette's subsidiary End released. Bateman and Harrison had originally met at Motown where the paid worked behind the scenes on various studio projects. Following the flopped 45 Jimmy joined the Fabulous Fiestas who off the back of their earlier hit 'So Fine' got a recording deal with RCA. Moving out of New York, Jimmy continued to perform solo in the Carolina's before meeting his wife Darlene. Together they perform throughout the region with a classic Soul/R&B. Jimmy speaks fondly of his more famous brother and his time in the record business. More importantly he's thrilled that his End masterpiece has a fan base some 3,500 miles away from his roots. He hopes to come over to the UK soon, hopefully clutching a copy of two of the £800 rated rarity. The edited interview airs this Saturday on Signal 2 (AM/DAB/on line/App) © Goldsoul http://www.signal2.co.uk/ Wow! Great find Kev, who'd have thought he was on Run For Your Life as well. Amazing. Don't see a mention of it here, but I think he's also Geronimo and the Apaches on Galiko. Certainly sounds like him, as he has a very distinctive voice. Will have to listen to the Harrison Brothers records again, as the vocals on those never struck me as being similar to Lenny Curtis on End. On 06/08/2014 at 13:51, solidhit said: Will have to listen to the Harrison Brothers records again, as the vocals on those never struck me as being similar to Lenny Curtis on End. Thats consistent with the Discogs page, although I appreciate this is not always correct. It has them recording together as early as 1960 and LC as early as 1959 solo. It has the Bob Harrison as the artist that recorded on Turntable as Bobby Harris. Sure Lenny will be able to verify. This CD would suggest that the Bob is actually Bobby Harris of Turntable etc. Both snippets seem to be confirmed by the excellent Sir Shambling website, although this says the single above isn'tJimmy/Lenny. Would be great to get all this clarified and documented first hand. The Golden 101Aug 06 2014 04:26 PM I think if you really want to 'get Googling' you will find out all you need on the Harrison Bros. At least I found him and discovered more about his anthem 'Nothing Can Help You Now' which is mainly what most want to know about. I will ask him if he cares to join in discussions on the forum. I am friends with Jimmy and Darlene. They are friends with Danny Woods and Maurice Williams. Darlene is the sister of one of the Tams. I have their latest album. Lovely people!! I've been speaking to him for a while now he's on facebook, he'd love to come over here I asked a promoter but nothing came of it. Maybe now it will PS yes he is Geronimo from Geronimo and the Apaches too -
Lenny Curtis - Radio Interview This Saturday View full article
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The story is that Ian Levine and Motown songwriter Sylvia Moy did a version that was far too hi-n-r-g. I was asked to Soul it up so to speak. I think it's a decent job. Yvonne Vernee sounds great on it. I produced it with the late Clive Scott.
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QUOTE Jocko.... (a) I didn't trust the promoter to pull it off, (b) And if he did I didn't trust him to, provide value for money, or to make sure artists received all of the rewards, or even the majority. Yes if I got all of that wrong, I lost, but there were lots of reasons behind these decisions and discussions, none being due to a scene I was leaving behind at the time. Our reply; You got it wrong big time. Four SoultripUSA's, over 200 Artists, writers, producers shared in the success. A fantastic achievement due to them and folks like Dave Moore, Alison Nightingale, Dave Ferguson, Kev Farley, Mick H, Chris Dalton, Andy 'Tats' Taylor, Richard Searling, and countless others who helped drive it forward. Kenny Gamble in person and Berry Gordy by phone thanked me for honouring those artists who attended........ Why you would not trust someone who organises things properly is beyond me and quite frankly as insulting as it gets. Whenever members of the public see aggressive disrespectful comments from hardcore commentators like yourself, they tend to run a mile.....generally in Goldsoul's and similar operators direction.
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Both Richard Searling and I were not missing at all. RS was championing NEW Soul music and also promoting Parkers and the Ritz, Manchester. As for me, I owned a record store for 3 years selling Northern, promoted some local nights occasionally before starting the Avant, Oldham. A very successful Soul night from 1989. The pair of us were both on Sunset 102 in Manchester in 1988 again...playing Northern. The fact the revival started to kick in circa 1990 isn't our fault, we merely took up the reigns and improved standards for the regular non hardcore fan. Let's get things into perspective financially speaking.......were you there to help when I suffered losses ie 30k Skegness Weekender 1980, 10k SoultripUSA 2011? And many other bits of do's dropping a few hundred here and there. This 'they're only in it for the money' is straightforward mischief making and utter bollox. We are fans as well as business people and have been for over 40 years! My good friend Chris King, arguably the best promoter in the 80's quit being so by the early 90's, citing the abuse he took for 'money making'. He tenders apologies for bringing in the Ric Tic Revue and many others. STREWTH!
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Probably the most disrespectful post so far....... Remind me take you on in a Soul quiz......First to 50 and you get 40 start.......... DISGUSTED!
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INSERTED COMMENTS below........ Apologies for SHOUTING my replies.....
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Hang on there fella....I did mention the 80's and 90's for which I was very active in the latter. The fact remains they(Production company) wanted to know about the 70's and now. As for driving it forward from 1990 onwards do you think The Ritz Manchester, Kings Hall Stoke and then Soul Trip USA and hundreds of thousands pounds of investment might have something to do with it? I even had the decency to chat to the producers of the said docu to pass on some useful Intelligence to maybe do a follow up utilising the services of many post 81 players. If it happens...don't forget me........ Remember there's a film just around the corner. Believe me that will attract non Soulies. You can bet your life on it. Ian D might be the answer with his DVD box that contains interviews with a real wide variety of input. And don't forget Pete Smith paid homage to SWONS which covered the scene extremely well with a multitude of NS personalities. To close, the scene has never been stronger IMO. There are endless Soul nights, Rare ones, overseas choice, Weekenders, RnB, Fast n Funky, Handbag do's. What's not to like right now. As said before, let's see a programme based around post Wigan and see how the public react. It's definitely worth a shot mister TV producer. Best Wishes to all.
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pm'd you
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Chalky....I am generalising that the 70's were more popular than a decade or so later. Remember by 1990 the Revival was well underway with the Kings Hall Stoke coming off the back of earlier decade successes like Keele and Winsford, so I have concrete knowledge of those years. No one is saying that the 80's didn't have great moments.......and today's revivalists are certainly enjoying some of those musical discoveries for which operators like myself are truly grateful for.
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Interesting to note, in the 80's/90's a fair amount of the venues listed were not super busy though, neither were they in the 70's apart from the obvious. Today is a different story......there are many that pull healthy numbers. Far outweighing what went before IMHO.
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Kegs- Brilliant times...Torch into the Mecca into Wigan and back to the Mecca. All I can say is during that 73-75 period, Wigan was very innovative as it challenged Blackpool for the coveted top spot. Sadly the Station Rd venue got de-railed by a sudden thirst for a different sound ala Javells, Gary Lewis, Keith etc. However the whole scene was in a state of uncertainty ie Mecca(Cochise, Ladies Choice, Shake n Bump, King Sporty etc). A mere case of youngsters testing themselves musically so to speak. Glad you were there to experience it alongside me and other notable relics !
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Kegs- You mean records like...... World Without Sunshine- Sandra Philips The Duck/Love Runs Out- Willie Hutch Casualeers- Dance Dance Dance Seven Souls- I Still Love You Vernon Greene- Look at Me, Yvonne Daniels- I Don't Want to Get Away from your love Ernie Marbray- Ain't Nobody's Business The Perigents- Love On A Rampage Eddie Foster- I Never Knew(simultaneously with Ian at the Mecca)
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To Toad your quote... Who is Pete waterman? A chancer so i am told. (He's a multi millionaire who played Northern in the early 70's !) To Matt Male your quote..... There was a flyer on the programme about something called The International Soul Club Roadshow, with his name and Kev Roberts on it. Anyone remember that? (I supplied the flyer to the BBC as they wanted relevant material from me circa 1973-75. Pete was the resident DJ at Tiffany's, Coventry. I guested there every Tuesday at the height of Wigan fame) To Byrney your quote...... No we're not, at no point did this purport be a documentary about Northern Soul in the 70s, the narrative structure creates conflicts with that with an incorrect bias that can only be read that NS was there in the 70s then back again now with Kevs nights offering the best of 3 venues from the 70s. (The brief to Myself, Richard, Ian and Colin was to answer questions on the early to mid 70's. They asked me to comment on the scene as I saw it today as a promoter. I gave them a warts n all reply about the popularity, collectors scene, spin off genres Fast n Funky, R&B etc etc etc.....11 second soundbite was used!) Hopefully a program will be made about post 1981..... and what's happening now as we all know it's clearly more popular than ever.
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I found it in New York as a German import on Finger records. I then mentioned it to my friend Tony Gioe who worked at Midland. He licensed it . Finger offered it to EMI and they released it shortly after the US release. Marboo got in touch and thanked me for helping the track get established. We met in London at the follow up recording session.
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Thanks for alerting us to this. I am really sorry to hear of his passing. It was me that got the single released on Midland and UK EMI. Marboo was a friend and I helped him produce a follow up 'Falling In Love In Summertime' - sadly it flopped. I originally covered it over as the 'New York Generation'
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Krissii........I departed Goldmine in 2003 after 11 years helping the label establish itself. The company wound down 6 years after I left!
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Theresa. I found him, did an interview and passed his details to my good friend the late Bob Abrahamian. Soul Source as far as I know were the first forum to publish the interview with Flint Lloyd.
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Goldsoul were first in tracking down the Salvadors. We did an interview with member Flint Lloyd. The two way was published by this very site. Time for a re-launch Mike?
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Thanks. Now purchased.
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Anyone have APPLES, PEACHES on UK Philips for sale?
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Recorded and released in 1968 according to Gino Washington the label owner. Claude Williams aka Dusty Wilson sang lead.
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