The Rose Battiste Story
 SOLID HITBOUND PRODUCTIONS

 Revilot Promotional Photograph

(courtesy Graham Finch)

Rose again followed Don Davis, this time to Solid Hitbound, a production company that had been formed at Golden World with ex-radio DJ LeBaron Taylor and station manager George White. Their labels included Groovesville, Revilot and Solid Hit and boasted George Clinton, Mike Terry and other talented Detroit musicians and writers.

Rose's tremendous up-tempo Revilot double-sider, I Miss My Baby b/w Hit And Run, followed in the wake of Darrell Banks' hugely popular Open The Door To Your Heart (Revilot 201). Steve Mancha's Don't Make Me A Storyteller (Groovesville 1005) also proved to be a big regional hit, so it was another case of being in the right place at the wrong time. The company's promotion drive was focused on these two 45s, leaving hers to sink without trace.

Consequently it's now a highly sought-after disc.

Notes thanks to Graham Finch

 


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