RUSS/RALPH...Bass player on Love Hangover & Dont Leave Me This Way???
Question on a bass website I occasionally visit...Who played bass on Diana Ross' Love Hangover and Thelma Houstons Don't Leave Me This Way? Confusion arises because some posters claim Henry Davis [[who passed away last year I believe) played both those tracks. Eddie Watkins Jr personally told me that HE played Love Hangover and DLMTW sounds like Eddie. Scott Edwards and Eddie Watkins Jr BOTH claim Shake Your Groove Thing and Gloria Gaynors I Will Survive [[which I always believed to be Eddie) on their discographys, and to further complicate things, my old friend Tony Newton lists DLMTW on HIS discography. I believe that Russ engineered Love Hangover and possibly DLMTW. Not looking for opinions here based on playing style, but someone who was AT either of those sessions and could give a definitive answer. At least Carol Kaye hasn't claimed those tracks...yet.
Proof of who played bass on "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor
Hello. Glad to be on this site. A documentary was done on the background and history of the song "I Will Survive". The documentary has the writer and co-producer of "I Will Survive", Dina Fekaris doing the honors. To see excerpts of this video, click on the following link and then click on the video - http://scottedwardsmusic.com/i_will_survive_proof.htm
As far as the question of other songs I played on, you can go to Discogs.com, Allmusic.com and Artistdirect.com and see that yes, I did play on all of this material. There is also an article "Bass Player" magazine did on me at this link http://www.bassplayer.com/article/le...t-edwards/4635
This is not the complete article but an excerpt. I'm glad for this site because I like all other "real" bass players, owe Jamerson "the world". he was the "epitome". Once he saw me in a studio in LA and asked could he have my bass and I almost said yes. So thanks for this site. Later.
Scott Edwards/Bass
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StuBass1
Still haven't conclusively solved the LH or DLMTW question, bassist Scott Edwards has come on the TalkBass site to dispute Eddie Watkins Jr's claims on Shake Your Groove Thing and I Will Survive claiming that he, Scott Edwards played those tracks and says that James Gadson and Ed Greene will verify his claim. Whew. Scott also claims most of the Tavares and some of the Philly hits of the 70's and 80's [[some of which I assumed were Ronnie Baker), and Donna Sommers hits, some Smokey Robinson stuff and a bunch of other songs. He does post some pictures on his website of bhimself and some of the musicians we know like Sylvester Rivers, Ray Parker Jr, Dean Parks, along with pics of him performing with Stevie Wonder, Boz Scaggs, and some other artists. Whew. A real can of worms. I've heard Scotts name around, but he's claiming credit for an awful lot of hits here.