Susaye Greene on Tru-Glo-Town

[jsmith]

Anyone know how Susaye came to be signed to Trude Heller & Gloria Toote's
Tru-Glo-Town Record label in 67[[?) ??
She had a 45 out on the label - "That's The Way My Love Is" [[T-G-T # 507)

[Roberta75]

Anyone know how Susaye came to be signed to Trude Heller & Gloria Toote's
Tru-Glo-Town Record label in 67[[?) ??
She had a 45 out on the label - "That's The Way My Love Is" [[T-G-T # 507)

Miss Greene actually post here jsmith so she may answer this personally. Miss greene is real gracious and lovely and has shared a lot of things from her career with us.

Yours, with every good wish.

Roberta

[Methuselah2]

Jsmith - From what I've read, T-G-T Records was located in New Jersey in the 60s and Susaye graduated from New York City's High School of Performing Arts, perhaps around 1967. I remember Trude Heller owning a famous nightspot in NYC around the same time, as well. But I have no concrete info as to how Susaye got on the T-G-T label.

I was able to hear a portion of the tune via this link [[1 min.):

http://www.raresoulman.co.uk/sound/53362.mp3

[robb_k]

6780
I bought that record in 1966. Here's a scan of it. It was produced by Jesse Herring, Jr. and written by him and Joe Moore.
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/SusayeGreene_zpsecd281b2.jpg [[http://s77.photobucket.com/user/Robb_K/media/SusayeGreene_zpsecd281b2.jpg.html)

[jsmith]

Thanks for that info.
Jesse Herring seemed to do a lot of work for Tru-Glo-Town around 67/68 though he seemed to start out in the music biz down in the Baltimore / Philly areas [[for the likes of Hope, Phi LA of Soul & Up-Look). He also worked with Jerry Ragavoy on Loma tracks.
... AND ... Yes, Trude Herring owned / ran 2 famous NY clubs from the mid 60's thru to the mid 70's. The 1st ended up sharing her name , whilst the other [[the Trik) had 1 of 2 soul groups on almost constantly as club house band [[Benny Gordon & the Soul Brothers, Eddie Jacobs & the Mighty Soul Rockers).
Trude had promoted a big prestigious NY show [[at the Lincoln Centre Philharmonic Hall) for the Supremes in October 65.
So Trude helped introduce the Supremes to the NY celebrity crowd & also got Susaye Greene's recording career started. Quite a coincidence seeing as Susaye would go on to join the group.

[Methuselah2]

Not to take the thread in another direction but--

· The famous 1965 Joe Eula poster of the concert Jsmith just mentioned:

http://imgc.artprintimages.com/images/art-print/joe-eula-the-supremes-lincoln-center_i-G-65-6534-B4E4100Z.jpg

· And another Joe Eula rendering of The Supremes:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KmnMmkggXh0/TcAGOuMDskI/AAAAAAAAT3E/S5Cra_BgI3w/s280/SupremesEul.jpg

· Plus Mary Wilson 1979 concert poster by Joe Eula:

-- Oops, sorry--problems with the link; but you can see it in a Google search for "mary wilson by joe eula", under the images tab.

· Photo of Joe Eula; died in 2004 at age 79:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2004/10/28/arts/Eula1184.jpg

And finally:

· Photo of Susaye Greene with Ray Charles, 1969, at a taping of a German TV film in LA:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4131/5024633912_4188fb13a5.jpg

[Methuselah2]

Interview with Susaye, 2002:

http://www.storyofthestars.com/susaye_greene.htm