Recent Releases -2

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(The Best of) The Essex Featuring Anita Humes
After Having Scored A #1 Hit With "Easier Said Than Done" And A #12 Hit With "A Walkin' Miracle" Their Third Release, The Diamond-Radcliffe Song "She's Got Everything" Stalled At Number Fifty-six On The Hot 100 November 1963. Rival Versions Of The Song  by Sugar Pie DeSanto for Checker and Barbara George for Sue Remained In The Can For Twenty-five and Thirty Years Respectively.
(1994 Sequel Records- 24 Tracks 5 Previously Unreleased)
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Aretha Franklin "Spirit In The Dark"
A solid, blues-based return to form. Besides the gospelly hit title track (one of four Franklin compositions here) there's plenty of stripped-down soul recalling her heyday, including a cover of the 1962 Ben E. King hit "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)." She covers two B.B. King hits, "Why I Sing The Blues" and "The Thrill Is Gone" (with a spine-tingling echo of Martin Luther King's "Great God A'mighty, I am free at last"); her version of Jimmy Reed's "Honest I Do" puts the Rolling Stones to shame. Half the tracks were cut with the Memphis Shoals section, the rest with the Dixie Flyers, featuring Jim Dickinson and Mike Utley on piano, Tommy McClure on bass, Charlie Freeman on guitar, and Sammy Creason on drums. Gregg Allman turns up again, on "When The Battle Is Over," first recorded by Delaney & Bonnie, and  Jimmy Radcliffe & Carolyn Franklin's "Pullin'" -- an excellent tune with odd tempo and chord changes.
The Song Is Also Featured On The 86 Track Box Aretha Franklin "Queen Of Soul" issued by Rhino - Atlantic #R4 71063 (1992) and
R2 71063 (10/31/00)
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The Hour Glass     
Before They Were The Allman Brothers Band They Were Known As The Almond Joys, Alman-act And Eventually The Hour Glass Once They Moved To Los Angeles And Were Signed To Liberty. This Lineup Would Include: Gregg and Duane Allman, Bruce Hornsby(piano/guitar), Jonny Sandlin(drums) And Pete Carr(bass). They Recorded two LP's Before Disbanding And The Brothers Forming The Allman Brothers Outfit.
Their First Single Was The Scott-Radcliffe song "Nothing But Tears"  b/w "Heartbeat" Liberty # 56002 The First Album Was Reissued 1997.

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