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Renown Records, small label out of Durham, North Carolina was owned by Howard Rambeau.



Impressed enough were Lou Caposi and Bill Lawrence, owners of Calico Records in Pittsburgh, as the Renown single was re-issued on their label.

I met Tim earlier this month, along with a bunch of friends, and he had an amazing tattoo that I wanted him to share:

This piece, which is located on his upper right arm, took about twelve hours and features a large mutant Venus Flytrap attacking Cape Fear. Tim is from Wilmington, North Carolina, and this tattoo is a nod to his hometown, with a twist of disaster movie thrown into the mix. It's a brilliant idea for a tattoo, and very unusual.



I love the detail and color that the artist Josh Payne utilized in this amazing piece.







Josh works out of Artfuel Inc. in Wilmingtion.



Much thanks to Tim for sharing this awesome tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

I met Tim earlier this month, along with a bunch of friends, and he had an amazing tattoo that I wanted him to share:

This piece, which is located on his upper right arm, took about twelve hours and features a large mutant Venus Flytrap attacking Cape Fear. Tim is from Wilmington, North Carolina, and this tattoo is a nod to his hometown, with a twist of disaster movie thrown into the mix. It's a brilliant idea for a tattoo, and very unusual.



I love the detail and color that the artist Josh Payne utilized in this amazing piece.







Josh works out of Artfuel Inc. in Wilmingtion.



Much thanks to Tim for sharing this awesome tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

I met Tim earlier this month, along with a bunch of friends, and he had an amazing tattoo that I wanted him to share:

This piece, which is located on his upper right arm, took about twelve hours and features a large mutant Venus Flytrap attacking Cape Fear. Tim is from Wilmington, North Carolina, and this tattoo is a nod to his hometown, with a twist of disaster movie thrown into the mix. It's a brilliant idea for a tattoo, and very unusual.



I love the detail and color that the artist Josh Payne utilized in this amazing piece.







Josh works out of Artfuel Inc. in Wilmingtion.



Much thanks to Tim for sharing this awesome tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

I met Tim earlier this month, along with a bunch of friends, and he had an amazing tattoo that I wanted him to share:

This piece, which is located on his upper right arm, took about twelve hours and features a large mutant Venus Flytrap attacking Cape Fear. Tim is from Wilmington, North Carolina, and this tattoo is a nod to his hometown, with a twist of disaster movie thrown into the mix. It's a brilliant idea for a tattoo, and very unusual.



I love the detail and color that the artist Josh Payne utilized in this amazing piece.







Josh works out of Artfuel Inc. in Wilmingtion.



Much thanks to Tim for sharing this awesome tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

I met Tim earlier this month, along with a bunch of friends, and he had an amazing tattoo that I wanted him to share:

This piece, which is located on his upper right arm, took about twelve hours and features a large mutant Venus Flytrap attacking Cape Fear. Tim is from Wilmington, North Carolina, and this tattoo is a nod to his hometown, with a twist of disaster movie thrown into the mix. It's a brilliant idea for a tattoo, and very unusual.



I love the detail and color that the artist Josh Payne utilized in this amazing piece.







Josh works out of Artfuel Inc. in Wilmingtion.



Much thanks to Tim for sharing this awesome tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Black vocal group from La Grange, North Carolina. Later, as the Gleems, they sang at all the local functions and made their way north to the New Jersey/New York area, and were discovered harmonizing in a Newark, NJ, night spot by Abner Spector. Recorded for Smash Records and Tuff Records as the Corsairs.

This record is not listed in this Starday Custom Pressings, discography maintened by Malcom Chapman.

The so-called Starday Custom Pressings were actually not pressed at all by Starday Records, but by various pressing plants. Starday Custom Series would be a more appropriate designation, in my opinion.

Early Upchurch And The Tide Water Gospel Singers
CP-7117 - ?
CP-7118 - I'll Not Be A Stranger
Label : Gospel

Early Upchurch & The Friendly Quartet
13973 - I Long For Home
13974 - He's Coming Back
Label : ARC 5689

Early Upchurch, & Willis Pell The Friendly Duet
15133 ~ My Daddy Sang A Song
15134 ~ I'm Going To Tag Along
Label : ARC 5038

Early Upchurch & Doris Kidd
18753 - I Cannot Bring Them Back; Where The Shades Of Love Lie Deep-
18754 - I Don't Want To Miss Heaven; I'm So Glad I've Got A Better Place To Go
ARC EP 3538

Early Upchurch & The Border Mountain Boys
Lp "Everybody Will Be Happy Over There"
Label : ARC (Rite 23231)

Produced for Volunteers for Moore, Raleigh, N.C. (Joe Branch, Chairman)

The story of Gubernatorial candidate Dan K. Moore. Released in time for the 1964 election, it is a ballad / story style song sung by a man accompanied by his guitar extolling the virtues of Mr. Moore and the reasons why one should vote for him. Apparently it worked as Mr. Moore served as Governor of North Carolina from 1965-1969.




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Side 1 -- [35929]

1. Jesus Is Mine (Fowler & Cook) 2 :55
2. The Cross Was His Own (Rutledge & All) 3 :30
3. Touring That City (Harold Lane) 1 :52
4. Step Along (Rowe & Morris) 1 :45
5. How Green Is Your Valley ? 2 :50

Side 2 -- [35930]

1. Mama’s Teaching Angels How To Sing (Rambo) 3 :15
2. Something Beautiful (Gaither) 2 :51
3. He Pilots My Ship (Hinson) 2 :06
4. Love Will Roll The Clouds Away (Reeves) 2 :04
5. Glory Road (Cook) 2 :30

Various sources give the address of Klub Records as Greenville, South Carolina (that's where all the late releases on the label were recorded, at the Mark Five Studios). Yet I suspect that the Klub label was actually rather based in Asheville, North Carolina, at least in the first years.

Jason Perlmutter :

The story of Fayetteville group The Fabulous Tempo’s would emerge despite a slightly rocky introductory telephone conversation. In September 2003, I contacted Shirlean Williams, the vocalist on an obscure but great 45 rpm record by “Shirlean Williams & The Tempo’s Band”. She said she didn’t sing “rock” anymore – she was now involved in the church and making gospel music – and I should be really talking to the band’s owner. This would be Fayetteville’s Nolla Mainor, whom I immediately telephoned.

At the beginning of our conversation, I expressed my love for and my desire to learn more about “the Shirlean Williams record”. This was a mistake. Nolla was upset and declared, “That’s my record! That’s not Shirlean’s record. She messed it up! I brought her up, but she was overconfident and didn’t rehearse and then sang herself hoarse trying to make the record.” I admitted my error, and we proceeded, more cordially. I learned about Nolla’s history in the local music scene, which dated back to the mid- ‘60s, with her first bands, the Soul Rockers and the Be-Boppers.

Hearing Nolla Mainor reminisce in 2003 meant hearing from a fiercely proud woman. And justifiably so: Nolla is a self-educated musician who may well have been the only female band leader in ‘60s and ‘70s North Carolina. After disco, her commitment to music didn’t wane; she successfully adapted by becoming a club deejay known to fans as “Queenie” and/or “Queen Bee”. Now, vintage equipment, consisting of large PA speakers and amps, two turntables, a mixer and microphones, occupies a good chunk of her living room. The blue- and black-colored release of “This Is A Song” and “Ease It To Me”, by Shirlean Williams & The Tempo’s Band, hangs on the wall, overlooking the equipment.

The Fabulous Tempo’s quietly handed out free copies of this, their only release, to dance contest winners at local gigs. There were no lucky breaks, and the record – only pressed in a quantity of 250 copies – would be forgotten. This wasn’t an issue of quality, even though the origin of the killer B-side is a little sketchy. Set this track into motion and within seconds you’ll instinctively be singing, “Without love, where would you be now / Without love-ove-ove-oo/Where would you be now.” But you’ll quickly realize your error as the Doobie Brothers’ indelible “Long Train Running” riff morphs into Nolla’s own rhythmic, sexual Fayetteville funk, with pulsing drums and congas, twangy guitar and punchy Hammond. This isn’t really a song so much as a funky vamp on top of which Nolla and her drummer make their way through an innuendo-shaded dialogue:

Nolla: Hey man, whatcha doing over there?
Drummer: Trying to get this girl to ease it to me.
Nolla: You know all you need to do man?
Drummer: Tell me about it.
Nolla: All you need to do is blow your horn.
Drummer: Blow my horn?
Nolla: Yeah, blow your horn.

Midway through this exchange, the words and music break for a thumping drum and conga solo that ensures that this is much more special than a rock ‘n’ roll rip. Coincidentally, earlier in her career in ’67 or so, Nolla seems to have lifted a few bars from “Open The Door To Your Heart”, by Detroit soul legend Darrell Banks, for her funky instrumental “Reach Down And Get It,” recorded by the Soul Rockers.

JASON PERLMUTTER has been researching N.C. soul groups and plans to one day write a book on the subject.

Selections include: How Great Thou Art, One Day at a Time, Jesus, Lord's Prayer, Show Me the Way, Before This Time Another Year, Resting in My Mansion, If You God I'll God With You.

Black gospel group from Gastonia, North Carolina. Members include: Charles and Jerlean Watson, Betty Tucker, Brenda and Robert Saunders, and Cheryl Anderson.

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