Category: Catalog

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Take Me

Side B
1. Take Me (Bonus Beats)
2. Ebony Rhythm Band – The Thought of Losing Your Love

12″ Single. 2003. NA2001.

Introduced by the the Soul Seven’s Charles Hunt, who nicely sums up the last, lost thirty years by proclaiming how great – and underrated – South Dallas’s musical community was, the South Dallas Pop Festival 1970 is one of American soul and funk music’s crowning moments. From the Marchel Ivery Quintet’s funky stab at Cal Green’s rare-groove classic “Trippin” with festival promoter Roger Boykin on guitar, to the Soul Seven’s cover of “Kool and The Gang” to the heady psychedelia of the Black Maffia to the show-stopping Apollo Commanders’ rough, rugged James Brown medley of soul diva Marva Whitney’s “I Made A Mistake” and JB’s own, burly “Low Down Popcorn” – the Festival provides a glimpse into the late 60s and early 70s club nights that would have been the stuff of legend had archivists such as Boykin not chosen to document the proceedings. An incredible archival trawl.

Tracklist:

A1 Charles Hunt– Charles Hunt Speaks
A2 Apollo Commanders*– Medley: Only You / Lowdown Popcorn
B Marchel Ivery Quintet– Trippin’

7″ Single. 2003. NA7013.

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Screaming out of the sleepy city of San Bernadino, 60 miles to the northwest of Los Angeles, Lil’ Lavair and The Fabulous Jades were a monstrous, late 60s ensemble that confounded researchers and record collectors from the late 70s, when the A side of their solitary seven inch single first hit the UK’s Northern Soul scene. Thus, when the Godfather of Deep Funk, Keb Darge, started spinning their rarely heard B side – “Cold Heat” – in the late 90s at London’s legendary nightspot Madame JoJo’s, he only fanned the flames of a collecting fury that had been burning for quite some time. It wasn’t until we discovered the band – still alive and well (and, for the most part, completely removed from music) in 2004 that their story was told.

Tracklist:

Side A
Cold Heat (stereo)

Side B
Cold Heat (mono)

7″ Single. NA7012. 2003.

Tracklist:

Side A
Too Much Tenderness

Side B
Red Yellow Moonbeams (Part 2)

7″ Single. 2003. NA7007.