Timmy84 said:

Pari got some records man..

hahahahahahaha.. OMG

this woulda fit

IAintTheOne said:

URight!

IAintTheOne said:

Sure do! lol

MrSoulpower said:

didn't bring it with you did ya?

IAintTheOne said:

Nope! Sorry. But I'll play it soon.

MrSoulpower said:

s'cool bro

Oh man this is a Jersey record.. on Sylvia's Label

Esther on Kudu

Playlist and download for last night's show here:

http://wrir.org/x/modules...oryid=9843

- Baby Huey & The Babysitters: Listen to me (Curtom)
- Marie Queenie Lyons: See and don't see (DeLuxe)
- The Sisters & Brothers: Chained (Calla Records)
- Larry Saunders: Fly Away Love Bird (Soul International)
- Five Stairsteps & Cubie: Baby make me feel so good (Curtom)
- Ruby Andrews: Just Lovin' You (Zodiac)
- Rhetta Hughs: Light My Fire (Tetragrammaton)
- George Benson: Smokin Cheeba-Cheeba (Paul Winley)
- Sly and The Family Stone: Love City (Epic)
- Scull Snaps: It's A New Day (GSF)
- The Dynamics: Murder in the First Degree (Cotillion)
- Chairmen of the Board: Hanging on to a Memory (Invictus)
- Swamp Dogg: Sal-A-Faster (Canyon)
- S.O.U.L.: My Cherie Amor (Musicor)
- Leroy Hutson: More where that came from (RSO/Curtom)
- Hidden Strength: All We Need Is Time (United Artist)
- Olympic Runners: Put Your Music Where Your Mouth Is (London)
- Compost: Life Is Round (Columbia)
- The Mighty Chevelles: Shadow Boxing (Flaming Arrow)
- Mathew Larkin Cassell: In My Life (reish on BBE)
- Soul Sister: Loop De Loop (Sue)
- Otis Clay: Got to find a way (One-Derful)
- Otis Redding: I'm a Changed Man (Atco)
- Joe Hinton: I'm Satisfied (Back Beat)
- Tony Fox (I've got to) Do it to it (Calla Records)
- Leo's Sunship: Im Back For More (lyon's)
- The Vast Majority: Muddy Sneakers (D&M)
- Miami: Chicken Yellow (dRIVE)
- Bare Knuckles: Gonna Getcha (Gucci)
- Ebony Rhythm Funk Campaign: Watchin' You, Watchin' Me (ChiSound)
- Lou Courtney: I don't need nobody else (Epic)
- Derek Martin: That's what I'll do (Vibration)
- Esther Phillips: Home is where the hatred is (Kudu)
- The Naturals: I can't share you (Callo Records)
- Devotion: Dawning of Love (Colossus)

MrSoulpower said:

Grabbin it right now

MrSoulpower said:

George Benson, I hardly knew ye
[Edited 5/16/09 11:53am]

Cinnie said:

Winley had listed this record on some pressings as " The Harlem Underground band"

IAintTheOne said:

Yeah that's who I thought it was.

MrSoulpower said:

Great picks!

69 Cents from the same Ebony Rhythm Funk Campaign album is also the bomb

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Thank you, sir. I agree.

I don't have the original because it rarely appears at an auction, and if so, it sells for a lot of $.
Was very surprised that a reissue was recently released. Their track "I'm All Changed" is one of my faves : http://www.imeem.com/peop...l-changed/



Wee recorded at an obscure Ohio studio but their rare album 'You Can Fly On My Aeroplane' has retained a strong enough following to gain CD release.
WEE comprised of Norman Whiteside (their leader), Spanky Jones, Victor Martin, Benji Harris, Bimbo Brown.

The group also had a few 45 releases.....
I'm All Changed / Stay .....May 1975
Try Me / Teach Me How ....OWL 2 ....1976
Can You Boogie Real Hard / Find Me Love Me

The blurb on the CD states..... Very nice spacey soul from the late 70s Columbus, Ohio scene by Norman Whiteside's Wee -- a mindblowing mix of jazz funk sophistication, harmony vocals and electric keyboard led psychedelic soul! Whiteside started Wee after the dissolution of Capsoul Records, where he was an important figure to say the least -- and here he's working with a great group of Columbus players harmony vocals in the frontline, backed by some great jazzy arrangements, with slight touches of a Mizell groove. Many of the tracks have a mellow midtempo feel, and some really innovative use of electric keyboards and flanged production on the vocals. A fanastic rediscovery from the fertile 70s Ohio scene! This stellar Asterisk reissue of the 9 track original Owl LP extends the tracklist to 19 songs -- including a bunch of previously unreleased tracks -- with "I'm All Changed", "Alone", "Put It In Real Good", "Leavin You Alone", "Try Me" (album and 45 versions), and "Find Me, Love Me", "Stay", "Trying To Tell You How I Feel", "I Luv You", "Do You Know", "I Think I Am In Love With You" and more.
Owl recording Studios was the brainchild of Youngstown Ohio's Tom Murphy. Tom moved to Columbus Ohio after high school and began assembling equipment in 1972 with partners Don Kyre and Mike Wheeler who had played in a Columbus band called The EbbTides. In September of 1972, Mike Wheeler was playing guitar with Osiris, and Tom brought his recording equipment to their gig (at Mr. Brown's Descent near Ohio State University) and recorded them. That introduced Tom to Osiris members Sterling Smith, Dan Lawson, and Dave Hessler, who would later become partners/stockholders in Owl.
Mike Wheeler pulled out of the Owl premise in the Summer of 1973, and Tom enlisted Sterling and his friends (The Load and The Grayps) to help him build the studio in a (then) 165 year old house that had once been a stagecoach station in northeast Columbus. The downstairs of the building was converted completely into a recording studio, with living quarters upstairs. In this country setting, they leased a Scully 8 channel tape recorder from Bill Hanley (Hanley Sound) that was one of two that had recorded the entire Woodstock festival. Jon Townley designed the logo (an Owl with tape reels for eyes) and Owl Recordings Studios Inc. was now in business.
Very much a studio "of and for musicians," a creative and supportive atmosphere produced a number of great records, and helped a few artists to national prominence. The first Owl "45" was The Load's "Now We'll Say We Tried," which Elektra records had liked in a demo two years earlier. While not representative of the band's larger output, it was still the milestone of the studio's first in house effort. Soon, clients were putting out records, either on Owl's label, or under their own label name.
Artists who cut at the studio included the Total Experience, the Buckeye Politicians, Cleveland's "Polystyrene Jass Band,", The Challengers, Ebony Expressions, Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr (released on the Capsoul label), whilst 'Hot Ice' would go on to national success after their sessions at Owl.


Ebony Expressions

Wee (Norman Whiteside) enjoyed regional prominence with two singles ("I'm All changed" and "Try Me)" and an album titled, "You can Fly On My Airplane." In 1975, Owl acquired a 16 channel MCI recorder, and Tom was building a self-designed console to integrate with it. Owl also did a number of on-location records of gospel music, recording church services and then sweetening and mixing at the wish of the clients. A number of those sessions resulted in albums that were sold within those congregations.
WCOL-FM's Terry Wilson become a strong ally of Owl, and produced a show called "Homegrown In The Studio" which featured interviews and music of local talent, both from Owl and other studios. Owl explored a venture to build a studio above The Bottom Line nightclub in New York City, but when the situation collapsed (late 1977), several of the partners decided to head west to Los Angeles.
Tom Murphy's passion for recording evolved into what is now Track Record, a very successful studio in North Hollywood, California. Robin Jenney went on to engineer a number of platinum selling R & B records for the likes or Roger Troutman and Zapp, and others. Alex Vertikoff engineered for Terry Reid, The Rolling Stones, Lisa Hartman, and Philips & McCleod, and is now a published photographer. Almost everyone who was involved directly with Owl has stayed in the music business or is still active in some phase of music.

One of the outfits that recorded at the studio had an interesting history that led them from N Y thru Philly to Europe, England and back to Ohio. The Buckeye Politicians came into being in February 1970 while performing a 2 week engagement in a night club in Albany, N.Y. Under the name The Soul Partners, the group drove to New York City for an audition at Smalls Paradise club in Harlem. They auditioned as The Buckeye Politicians and were so successful that they were hired for the night. The group returned to Albany and immediately started performing there as the Buckeye Politicians. The group were loved in New York City and in the fall of 1970 they recorded an album at Sigma Sounds Studios in Philadelphia, Pa with producer Luther Dixon. A single “Girl I Could Love You More / I Wish It Would Rain” was released on Scepter Records. In 1972 they met Herb Gart (manager of Don McLean) signed a contract with him. Through their friendship with the Commodores they were able get an engagement for six weeks on the French Riviera. During a performance at the Byblos Hotel in San Tropez, an A&R man from EMI Records in London heard the group and signed them to a recording contract. After completing their engagement in San Tropez they flew to London where they checked out possible producers for their album. There they met and chose Alan Parsons (Alan Parsons Project and engineer of the Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd). The Album with Alan Parsons was never released because the master tapes were lost by an airline enroute back to the USA. In the Fall of 1975, their manager Herb Gart contracted Jeff Berry to produce their album ‘Look At Me Now’ on Utopia, RCA released in the summer of 1976. The album never charted but has since gone on to find favour with fans worldwide.

With the exception of "Stay", all songs including bonus-tracks of the reissue can be completely heard at imeem :

1 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...aeroplane/

2 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...you-alone/

3 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...real-good/

4 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...e-reprise/

5 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...l-changed/

6 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...wee-alone/

7 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...e-love-me/

8 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...ee-try-me/

9 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...e-reprise/

10 - http://www.imeem.com/pitc...5-version/

11 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...ch-me-how/

12 - "Stay" ( no complete audiotrack on imeem )

13 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...-show-you/

14 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...ow-i-feel/

15 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...i-luv-you/

16 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...-together/

17 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...-you-know/

18 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...about-you/

19 - http://www.imeem.com/peop...-with-you/


An album-download is for sale on the quality Juno-site from the UK : http://www.junodownload.c...890-02.htm


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"Try Me" is one of their popular/in-demand singles :