The Yank

Glad you liked it but just about anything would sound good next to Tim Tam and the Turnons !

I thought that weird intro to Tim Tam and the Turnons seemed familiar-

In 1955, he added a co-host to his radio program- Margie the wife of Tony WIlliams of the Platters. He also had a tv show on KCBS- "Rhythm and Bluesville". In this year he started working nights at KGFJ where he worked until 1968. So - he may have been white but he did had ties to the black community for over 20 years.

Just wanted to add a few things about Hunter Hancock. The Swingin' label was owned by Mr. Hancock and his business partner Roger Davenport. I don't think Hunter had to adapt to the African- American community since he had been playing R & B on KVFD (later KPOP) since the late 1940's. He joined the station in 1944 and is considered to be one of the 1st deejays to play R & B in the western parts of the U.S. . He started broadcasting Jazz in 1944 and switched to R & B in 1947. in 1949, Jay McNeely recorded this for Hunter-

"The Poet" album actually came out in 1981(October?/November?) so it's possible but doubtful that it was played at Wigan.

A boxed set has been on e-bay for over a month. It's in near mint condition .

Marvin re-writes "Pretty Little Baby" into this Winter song-

Fine version from Bobby

Classic-

One more....

The Exciters went for 572 pounds !

The Monarch info is posted in the Look At Your Box section in the "Soul Source Guide To Record Collecting" thread.

I have no idea how e-bay U.K. is set up but in the U.S., once I select R & B / Soul 45's and 7 inch - I can another use another filter with the following options in Item Location- within ____ miles, U.S. only, North America and Worldwide.

Lots of similarities between these two-

Not a lot of the same lyrics but enough to make you think of you know what .....

I would just order one from Ace / Kent's website -

I noticed the same thing a few weeks ago- suddenly most of the R& B/ Soul 45's were from the U.K. If you scroll further down on the page, you can pick another filter "U.S. only" if you don't want to look at all the U.K. listings.

I think you're looking at Carole through the wrong lens. She was on tv today and was commenting on this clip. In her interview, she mentioned Aretha rarely if ever played the piano in her later years, when Carole saw this she was astounded and went into complete fan girl mode!

Rest in Peace Aretha. Much R-E-S-P-E-C-T to you !!!

Fine tribute to Aretha Like all of those song titles near the end!