Prayers for Rosalind Ashford Holmes of Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

I have sadly been informed that our Vandella Ros Ashford has been admitted into a care facility with advanced dementia. I am sending all my prayers and asking for others for this sweet lady. Met her a couple times when she was on the road with Martha.

Her passing was announced today on her official Facebook page...

"ON BEHALF OF MY DEAR FRIEND ANGIE, I AM SADDENED TO ANNOUNCE HER PASSING ON THE MORNING OF JUNE 13TH. THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD AT ST. DOMINCKS CHURCH IN VALEJO CA. ON JUNE 28TH AT 1:00pm."

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100044180243805

https://www.adampwhite.com/westgrandblog/detroit-forum

Nice article that might have been posted before

Darin got a nice mention

We struggled to get to hear much US soul music on the BBC in the early 60's. The corporation had problems though, as they had to do as the powerful musicians union wanted. So most of their broadcast time was taken up with live music broadcasts, record plays came 2nd best. Even then, the BBC had a 'policy' of supporting UK acts recordings over US ones, so many times we'd be played a UK beat group cover version of a recent US R&B / soul hit.
This all changed when the pirate radio stns set up off-shore of England. They had little or no space & no money, so live musician sessions weren't a possibility for them. So vinyl ruled 100% of the time & with US black music being the hip thing, they played the US versions not the UK cover.
The BBC eventually adapted [[by creating RADIO ONE, etc) but it took them a few years.
HOWEVER, with R&B being the in-genre, all the top UK acts were soon playing R&B / soul ... so when they were asked to do a live BBC radio session, it wasn't only their own tunes that they played ...

In 06/11/24 Detroit News:

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...m/74055178007/