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Some freelance work was
coming through from Nate Dore's Mutt Records which was
based on Michigan
Avenue, about fifteen miles west of Detroit. At that time
the building was also doubling as a Bail Bondsman's
operation.
Several tracks were put together on The Two Fellows and The Majjestees (sic).
Fred remembers The Two Fellows as "Two guys from
Inkster who were like brothers. Nice guys, we recorded them
in a studio way up in Mt Clemens; It was either called SuperDisc/ProSound
or Sound Incorporated, something like that, and I think the La Beat
Production Team provided the backing tracks. The songs were
'Stop' and 'Yea yea yea yea'.
The song we did for The Majjestees was
called 'Let her go' and was the flip side to 'Take back all
those things'. I remember the lead singer was called
Michaelo who eventually moved to Motown in LA before hitting
with a song called 'Reach for the stars'. The Promo guy at Mutt was also working
for Sidra."
Fred recalls his name as Bill Craig and it is
possible that it was he who helped get BKE some work at
Sidra's new studio on Wyoming.
The owners,
Raymond Jackson and Joe Brown, approached BKE with a view to
them supplying some new material for their group The
Precisions, who were being showcased on Sidra's subsidiary
label, Drew.
The result was the release of two songs,
some 9 months later, called 'A place' and 'Never let you
go'. The 45 was good enough to reach #50 in the R&B
charts.
Bill Craig's name is
stamped on this promo disc
During the sessions a guy called Ric
Williams appeared who was building a reputation in
Chicago through his Zodiac label.
This chance meeting would prove to be
very significant.
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