That bio. is almost completely inaccurate - during their Motown days they didn't even visit the UK never mind move here.
"This Old Heart .." didn't reach # 3 in 1967 - it was late '68. By that time...
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That bio. is almost completely inaccurate - during their Motown days they didn't even visit the UK never mind move here.
"This Old Heart .." didn't reach # 3 in 1967 - it was late '68. By that time...
I think she's wonderful - capable of taking the most hackneyed songs and making them MEAN something again. I never thought hearing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" could
move to tears but Eva's version...
To my ears it sounds as if Ian used the Motorcity studio version of "Don't Mess With Bill" as the soundtrack to that clip - that doesn't sound like the Monitors on background vocals.
happy birthday, Soulwally ... hope you all have a great time.
I have scans of their other records but uploading them is taking forever - I'll try again later and see if things move a bit quicker
The first single
I think Charles Drain and William James Drain are brothers.
The Tabs on Noble are, I think, a completely different group. One of their Noble singles was reissued on the larger Gardena label in...
I liked this one - brings back memories of trying to figure out who was who in the collage of photos
Another favourite - far superior to the U.S. cover - it's so simple but so dynamic.
This is my favourite - my first Miracles' album - I knew next to nothing about them at the time but I loved that cover. The combination of the yellow and red background, like a
poster for a holiday...
Little Lisa is not Ron Miller's daughter - her mother is Kay Lewis of the Lewis Sisters not Ron's widow Aurora Miller.
Hi Jim, thanks for posting that Undisputed Truth pic - my copy of that issue has a piece missing from the back cover. You sure keep your mags in good condition :)
If you're open to requests...
That chart's from around March 1966 not October - October 1966 was real important to me because that was when I bought my first record, the Four Tops' "Reach Out I'll Be There'.
I've still yet to...
Talent.
The main difference is that in Classic Soul nobody deluded themselves that they could do everything - a great singer did not necessarily mean a great writer. So Classic Soul was ...
Fred Moss who wrote the A-side of the Big B single had a solo single on Vanessa which was a St. Louis label so it now looks definite that The Perfections on Big B were from St. Louis or
thereabouts....
Graham, I don't think the Perfections on Big B have any connection to the group on S.V.R. or any of the other Perfections groups [[ there were at least 8 different groups of that name).
The Big B...
The Messengers' "Window Shopping" is an R.Dean Taylor song - nothing to do with The Valaquons
Check Donald Byrd's Elektra albums from the eighties - Art Posey's on quite a few of them as writer and vocalist.
I usually find that when I do one of these lists I forget some people I really rate but just haven't played for a few months - the list ends up being people I've
listened to recently ... probably...
The first single was issued as by The Young Vandals not The Young Temps.
The concert that became the basis of the film took place months before the group were signed
- they were signed when...
The Blossoms - "Brown Eyed Woman" was written about Darlene Love
Hot Biscuit existed for less than a year - the first release was in Nov 1967 the last in June 1968.
HB 1450 THE EPIC SPLENDOR [[11/67)
HB 1451 TENDER JOE RICHARDSON [[01/68)
HB 1452 THE...
A bit of advanced googling finally turned up some concrete info. on the Detroit Sound group
http://indangerousrhythm.blogspot.com/2006/12/sequins-hes-gonna-break-your-heart.html
Thanks Robb - I couldn't find anything about them other than the titles which don't help identifying if they were male or female.
there were at least 7 different girl groups called The Sequins, maybe as many as 10 different groups.
1. The Sequins on Terrace, United Artists and Ascot are the same group - they were from...