I can see from the archive that there has been previous speculation about Johnny West's one off single 'It ain't love' b/w 'Tears Baby' . Written and produced by Mike Hanks and Buddy Lamp it was released on the Soul label in 1962.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k-KV...feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmQnK...eature=related
Some people have assumed that West is really Lamp [[aka gospel singer Willie Lampkin) using a pseudonym to disguise his secular activity. All well and good but West doesn't sound like Lamp particularly in the improvisations at the end of the cut. I've never been convinced that it is him singing.
I was listening to a Gotham label 45 by The Violinaires called 'Sign of Judgement' b/w 'My Work will Be Done' A Detroit beauty from 1957/58 the lead singer is listed as Robert [[Bob) Gandy. I played it next to Johnny West and it sounds like the same singer. Lamp was also in The Violinaires at one time and knew Gandy - a coincidence?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw6-8Ci9GdU
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