17/07/2008

Blues & Soul 75 January 7-20, 1972



Cover/rear photo's: Wilson Picket & Sly & Family Stone add
Internal photo's: BB Arnau (full page, Doris troy at Rainbow, Rufus Thomas, Arthur Conley, David Simmons DJ, Issac Hayes, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Millie Jackson (half page) Doris Troy 2, Emotions, Sly & Family Stone.
Features: Rufus Thomas, Doris Troy, Arthur Conley, Millie Jackson.
Live dates/news: Detroit Emeralds, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Fantastics, 5th Dimension, Soul To Soul Show (Wilson Pickett, Ike & Tina Turner, Eddie Harris, Les McCann, Santana,Voices Of East Harlem).
Advertisers: MCA; Chilites Have You Seen Her, BJ Arnau I Wanna Go Back There Again, Polydor/Stax; Isaac Hayes 4 albums, B&S poster, Contempo soul club.
UK Soul Charts
Top 50 Singles: None
Top 30 Albums: 1- Shaft Isaac Hayes, 30- This Is Sam Cooke.
US Soul ChartsTop 100 Singles: 1-Clean Up Woman Betty Wright, 100- Together We Find Love 5th Dimension. Top 50 Albums: 1- There's a riot going on Sly & Family Stone, 50- Push Push Herbie Mann
New Single Reviews: Michael Jackson Got To Be There, Rufus Thomas Do The Funky Penguin, Thelma Houston I Wanna Go Back There Again, BJ Arnau I Wanna Go Back There Again, Little Richard Green Power, Chambers Brothers (By The Hair on) My Chinny Chin Chin, Bobbettes That's a Bad Thing To Know, Dee Dee Irwin Swinging On A Star, Little Sheldon Sea Cruise.
Album reviews: Sissy Houston Same, Ronny Dyson When You Get Right Down To It, Curtis Mayfield Roots, Ray Charles 25th Anniversary, Slim Harpo Trigger Finger, Sly & Family Stone There's A Roit Going On.
Readers Letters: DW Plummer (Norwich, Norfolk), PS Forster (Wimbledon, London),Lesley Aspinall (London E4), Phil Jones (Liverpool 15), Stephen Bryant (Barking, Essex), Paul Baldwin (Exhall, nr Coventry), Frank Carney (Erdington, Birmingham), Tero Heinanen (Pennala, Finland).
Dave Godin Column: Al Green's Let's Stay Together, Tired Of Being Alone. Doris Troy at the Rainbow. Dave Bates from Rossendale's top tunes with Hoagy Lands Next In Line, talks about Nazi's & Jews and South African appression of Blacks. Barrie Reader of London also wrote in about how soul music makes him feel happy and feeling real. Letter from Alf Billingham, London.
Misc: Soul Review 1971 Looking back at the years's Top Selling singles.The Coasters on Christmas Sunday. Introducing Honey & The Bees & Chocolate Syrup.
Cost: £5 or £2.50 Pdf.

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