NORWICH and THE RANCE ALLEN GROUP

Thinking back to our time in Norwich, around the early Part of 1987, I don’t Really have Too many Good Memories, in fact I suppose it would have been Better not to have moved there in the First Place!

Probably the  Best thing was getting the Van (Mobile Shop) and trying too start a Business, things were not going too bad with the Shop, but I was only Selling enough to Buy more Stock, so something Needed too Improve or I would be in Trouble!

I did a Couple of Times at a Horse fair, Selling my Pies and Pasties, this went Well, but I needed more places to go, I also had certain Council Estates I you to Visit nearly every day.

I started getting a few Regulars most days, One Customer I remember, She had Stuff every time I Visited, in fact, she use to get Items through the Week, and Pay altogether on a set Day, this always built up to a fair amount!

I also Visited a Old Peoples Place on the other side of the City, I did Quite well there as well, not to mention when we went back Home on a Saturday, most of my Family had a Few Things!

Whether I would have made enough Money in the Future to carry on with the Mobile Shop was another Question, But after 11 Weeks in Norwich, Something was to  Happen, that was going to Force us to Move back to Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, I shall Post about this next time!  

Just a mention about my Last life Post, If you read it, I Mentioned the Person who we exchanged Houses with and the problems she caused us and how I see Her about once a Year around Our Town Centre, Well you Guessed it, we had the Miss-Fortune of Seeing Her Yesterday, Walking with Her Snout in the air, She thinks She is Something Special, All I thought to Myself was………..what a Tw*t!

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Wattstax (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As for some Music, This Track was never Released as a Single, for The Rance Allen Group, but in 1972 they Performed this Track Live at The Wattstax Concert, (in the Gospel section), it was Entitled “Lying On The Truth”

What a Great Song and a Great Voice, Rance Allen has, it’s a Great Track, the Band also Featured 2 of his Brothers, Tom and Steve Allen.

I have included Video of The Wattstax Concert @ 1.53 mins and the Full Length Version @ 3.31 mins.




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THE GREATEST SOUL SINGER OF ALL TIME…….. AL GREEN.. part 5

Between 1990 and 1995 Al Green had 3 Studio Albums out and several Greatest Hits or Complilations Albums (all on different Record Labels), the 3 Studio Albums and 2 of the Compilations are as follows:

1…1990… From My Soul… on the Arrival Label
2…1991…One in a Million…on the Sony Label
3…1992…Love is a Reality…on Word/Epic Label
4…1993…Dont Look Back…on RCA Label
5…1995…Your Hearts in Good Hands…MCA Label

Albums 1 2 & 4 were classed as Gospel Albums, but the only Album to chart in US Gospel Chart at number 29 was Album 3!!!!!!!! so you work that out!

Album 5 did chart in the US R&B Chart at number 57 though!

“From my Soul” Album had a couple of Tracks written by Arthur Baker, who 3 years later had more Success with Al Green.

“One in a Million” was a Compilation of Previous Gospel tracks!

“Love is a Reality” as I said was not a Gospel Music Album, but did chart in Gospel Charts!

“Dont look Back” had some Great Tracks, including “Best Love” Love is a Beautiful Thing ” Keep on Pushing Love” & One Love, the “Dont Look Back” track featured on Sax and Vocals “Curtis Stigers”

The Executive Producer on this album was Arthur Baker!

“Your Hearts in Good Hands” was a strange Album, it contained 10 Tracks in total with 8 Tracks coming from the previous Album ” Dont Look Back” but the Title Track “Your Hearts in Good Hands” was a Great Track!

Apart the usual “Best of’s” etc Al Green was not going to release another Studio Album (I Cant Stop) for another 8 years!

Download some Great Al Green Tracks!

10th SELECTION FOR F.S.V.B /// STARPOINT RADIO

This week I’m featuring a Radio Show Mix from Starpoint Radio there are 4 different Shows, all lasting 2 hours per show and featuring Soul Jazz Gospel etc, all shows are Hosted my Paul Goldsmith!
You can just listen or as usual go to page for full track listing and under listings press download button to download to your PC.

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THE GREATEST SOUL SINGER OF ALL TIME……… AL GREEN…….. part 3

Between 1982 and 1989 Al Green released 6 more Albums, if you count the Christmas offering’s in 1983 & 1986 that’s 8! I will be doing a seperate feature on the Christmas Album in about a month’s time, with a Download!

The Album titles were as follows:
1982 Precious Lord (4)
1983 I’ll Rise Again (4)
1985 Trust In God (10)
1986 Going Away (11)
1987 Soul Survivor (1)
1989 I Get Joy (13)

All these Albums charted in the Gospel Charts (positions in brackets) but only Soul Survivor made it in the US Pop Charts and only a lowly 131!

The first 3 Albums were on the Myrrh Label and the last 3 were on the A&M Record Label.
Al Green was re-united with Producer Willie Mitchell for his Debut A&M Album “Going Away”

A feature of these 6 Gospel Albums were a few Cover Versions of Big Hits for other Recording Artists!

Up the Ladder to the Roof…The Supremes
Aint no Moutain High Enough…Diana Ross
Lean on me…Bill Withers
Your’e got a Friend…James Taylor
He Aint Heavy…The Hollies

My two favorite Tracks from the 6 Albums were:
“Going Away” from the “Going Away Album” &
“Dont it make you want to go Home” from the “Trust in God Album”.

The “I Get Joy” Album was Al Green‘s last for A&M before moving to several different Record Labels before finally settling at Blue Note Records in 2003!

THE ISLEY BROTHER’S 3+3 part 1

One of the better groups of 70’s & 80’s in my opinion was The Isley Brothers! Between 1975 & 1989 I brought 14 of their Albums, from a “Motown Special” to “Spend the Night” also several Singles! They were one of the few Black Artistes who had their own Record Label “T-Neck”( a suburb of New Jersey), which were released through Epic Records.

The Isleys came from Cincinnati, they started out singing Gospel in the local Baptist Church, in them days they were a Quartet, including Brothers O’Kelly, Ronald, Rudolph and Vernon, but unfornately Vernon died in 1955, so they became a Trio, and in 1959 moved to New York and signed for RCA Records.

It was only their Second Single release, that became a Hit Single “Shout” this record was written by The Isleys. This was later recorded by Lulu.

In the early 60’s they moved to Wand Records, where in 1962 they recorded the track “Twist and Shout” not an original Isley Track, but later that year it was used as a Template and released as a Single by none other than “The Beatles”!



During 1965 The Isleys toured and recorded with a then unknown Artist by the name of Jimi Hendryx. It was also 1965 they signed for Tamla Motown Records, having a Great couple of Singles in 1966 “This Old Heart of Mine”(incidentally, this track was originally written for the Four Tops!) and 1967 “Behind a Painted Smile”



By the late 60’s The Isley Bothers had left Tamla Motown!



Checkout a few earlier Isley Brothers Tracks!

Discover the playlist the isley brothers with The Isley Brothers

THE GREATEST SOUL SINGER OF ALL TIME……… AL GREEN…….. part 2

From 1976 to 1981 Al Green had released another 6 Albums for Hi Records, although the last 2 were recorded for Hi , they were released by “Myrrh” a subsidiary of a Christian Record Company called “Word Records“

Full of fire 1976
Have a good time 1976
Belle 1977
Truth “n” time 1978
The lord will make a way 1980
Higher plane 1981

Al Green had always included at least 1 track dedicated to “The Lord” on all most of his Albums, but for the last 2 Albums featured here, He went all the the way, and these 2 Albums were full of Gospel Tracks!

The reason Al Green gave why he finally went all the way into Gospel from Soul Music, was during a concert in 1979, he fell 12 feet from a Concert stage and spent several weeks in Hospital, he saw this as “The Lord” pushing him all the way into “Gospel”

Incidentally (apart from his 1st ever release) his First full Gospel Album “The lord will make a way” was Al Green’s First Album not to Chart in USA, in either “Pop” or R&B Charts!

I have selected my Favorite Track from each of the Albums here,
Download Track to listen!

Something from “Have a good time”
To sir with love from “Truth n time”
Always from “Full of Fire”
Belle from “The Belle Album”
Where love rules from “Higher Plane”
The Lord will make a way from “The Lord will make a way”