101 | 22 March 2024
Did not chart.
Category: Back Beat
O. V. Wright – I can’t believe
“I can’t believe” by O. V. Wright is featured in Sue UK LP ILP 975 O. V. Wright – Eight Men Four Women.
O V Wright – What about you/What did you tell this girl of mine
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O V Wright was born on October 9, 1939 and died on November 16, 1980 and is one of the most important southern soul singers. What about you was issued on UK Sue WI 4043.
“What about you” R&B No 46, 1967
O V Wright | Public domain | 14581
Updated 11 October 2017
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O V Wright – Motherless child
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“Motherless child” by O V Wright was released in the UK on the Sue LP ILP 975 “O V Wright – 8 men 4 women”.
Did not chart.
Updated 18 October 2016
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O V Wright – Monkey dog
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“Monkey dog” was released in the UK on Sue LP ILP 975 O V Wright – 8 men 4 women.
Did not chart.
Updated 18 October 2016
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O V Wright – You’re gonna make me cry
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“You’re gonna make me cry” was released in the UK on Sue LP ILP 975 O V Wright – 8 men and 4 women.
US Pop No. 86, R&B No. 6, 1965.
Updated 18 October 2016
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O V Wright – Bachelor’s blues
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“Bachelor’s blues” was released in the UK on Sue ILP 975 O.V. Wright: 8 Men, 4 Women.
Did not chart.
Updated 18 October 2016
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O V Wright – I could write a book
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“I could write a book” by O V Wright was released in the UK on Sue LP ILP 975 – O.V. Wright: 8 Men, 4 Women.
Did not chart.
Updated 18 October 2016
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O V Wright – Everybody knows
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“Everybody knows” by O V Wright was issued in the UK on Sue LP ILP 975 – O.V. Wright: 8 Men, 4 Women.
Did not chart.
Updated 18 October 2016
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O V Wright – I don’t want to sit down
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“I don’t want to sit down” was issued in the UK on Sue LP ILP 975 – O.V. Wright: 8 Men, 4 Women.
Did not chart.
Updated 18 October 2016
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O V Wright – Can’t find true love
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“Can’t find true love” by O V Wright was issued on Sue LP ILP 975 – O.V. Wright: 8 Men, 4 Women.
Did not chart.
Updated 18 October 2016
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O V Wright – Why don’t you believe me
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“Why don’t you believe me” by O V Wright was issued in the UK on Sue LP ILP 975 – O.V. Wright: 8 Men, 4 Women.
Did not chart.
Updated 18 October 2016
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O V Wright – Gone for good
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Gone for Good by O V Wright was issued in the UK on Sue LP ILP 976 – The Duke and The Peacock – Various Artists.
Chart position data not available.
Updated 9 March 2019
Roy Head – Wigglin’ and Gigglin’
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Wigglin’ and Gigglin’ by Roy Head was issued in the UK on Sue LP ILP 976 – The Duke and The Peacock – Various Artists.
US Pop No 110, 1966.
Updated 19 October 2016
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ILP 976 – Various Artists – The Duke and the Peacock
101 | 3 October 2023
ILP 976 – The Duke and The Peacock – Various Artists | Popsike | dukeandpeacock
Complete track listing: Roy Head – Treat Her Right | Joe Hinton – Funny How Time Slips Away | Bobby Bland – Good Time Charlie | Lisa Richards – Let’s Take A Chance | Al ‘T.N.T.’ Braggs – Earthquake | O.V. Wright – Gone For Good | Roy Head and The Traits – Apple Of My Eye | Bobby Bland – I’m Too Far Gone To Turn Around | Junior Parker – Goodbye Little Girl | Minnie Epperson – It’ll Last Forever | The Late Johnny Ace – Pledging My Love | Roy Head – Wigglin’ and Gigglin’ | O.V.Wright – Eight Men , Four Women | Bobby Bland – These Hands (Small But Mighty)
Track listing kindly supplied by John
Note: Sue LP issued with Island labels.
ILP 975 – O V Wright – Eight men four women
110 | 22 March 2024
ILP 975 – O.V. Wright: 8 Men, 4 Women | Limetreeslad | 15176
Sue LP released with Island Labels
Confirmed track listing: Eight men and four women | Why don’t you believe me | Can’t find true love | I Don’t want to sit down | Everybody knows | I could write a book | Bachelors’ blues | You’re gonna make me cry | Monkey dog | You’ve been crying | I can’t believe | Motherless child
Track listing kindly supplied by Paul
O V Wright: Eight men, four women
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Probably one of the most famous records of O V Wright, Eight Men Four Women was issued on ILP 976.
US Pop No. 80, R&B No. 4, 1965.
Updated 18 October 2016
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Roy Head and The Traits: Apple of my eye
104 | 6 September 2023 | External Links Checked
Roy Head | Associated Press
Roy Head and the Traits in 1957 | Copyright control | 14617
Roy Kent Head was born in Three Rivers, Texas, on January 9, 1943. In 1955 he moved to San Marcos where he formed a group, The Traits, who first recorded in 1958 while they were still at school. Their hits on the Back Beat label were recorded at Gold Star Studios (later renamed SugarHill) in Houston. His son is Sundance Head. He is best known for the recording “Treat Her Right”, 1965, produced by Huey Meaux of Houston. Roy Head had a number of country record chart entries in the 1970s and 1980s.
Roy Head died in Porter, Texas on September 21, 2020.
Variety reports: “Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top paid tribute to Head as a “rock ’n’ soul phenomenon who had been one of our early and continuing inspirations. Roy will always be remembered for his music, his drive and the fact that, as he liked to put it, he was most happy when he was ‘a-wigglin’ and a-gigglin’.””
“Apple of My Eye” (US Back Beat 555,1965; UK Vocalion VP 9254, January 1966), Chart Position: US Pop No. 32 in 1965.
Variety: Obituary: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/roy-head-dead-treat-her-right-rocker-once-upon-time-hollywood-1234779102/
Lisa Richards, Let’s take a chance
102 | 11 October 2023
Lisa Richards’ Let’s take a chance was recorded in New York in 1964 and appears on ILP 976. It is the only known recording by Lisa Richards, who is not understood to be related to the current Canadian singer of the same name.
Lisa Richards | Steve Bryant/Sir Shambling | 14620
“Let’s take a chance”, Jovial 728, May 1964. Chart position: data not available.
Joe Hinton, Funny how time slips away
102 | 7 September 2023
Soul singer Joseph Hinton was born on November 15, 1929. He began singing gospel music with the Blair Gospel Singers. He signed as a secular singer with Peacock Records in 1958, but did not achieve much chart success until 1963.
Joe Hinton died on August 13, 1968 from skin cancer aged just 38 and, like Otis Redding, at the peak of his career.
Joe Hinton’s recording of “Funny How Time Slips Away”, which sounds older but dates from 1964, really is a classic rhythm and blues recording. The song was one of the first successful compositions by songwriter Willie Nelson. There have been many cover versions. “Funny” spent a month at number one on Cashbox’s R&B Chart in 1964 and sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
The recording was first issued in the UK on Decca’s Vocalion subsidiary, V-P 9224 on 25 September 1964. The track was re-issued on Sue ILP 976, The Duke And The Peacock.
US Pop No. 13, R&B No. 1, 1964.
Joe Hinton | Telasource | 14621
O V Wright: What about you/What did you tell this girl of mine
102 | 8 October 2023 | Picture Credit Corrected
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Blues and gospel singer Oberton Vertis Wright was born in Lenow, Tennessee on October 9, 1939 and is one of the most important southern soul singers. He began singing in Church as a child. In 1956, while still at school, he joined the gospel singing group The Sunset Travelers. Then he became lead singer of The Harmony Echoes. He was discovered by Roosevelt Jamieson, a song writer and manager. Their first pop recording in 1964 was “That’s How Strong My Love Is” for the Goldwax label but it turned out that Wright was still under contract to Duke/Peacock, so his further recordings were issued on their Back Beat label.
Wright was imprisoned for narcotics offences in the mid 1970s but a new recording contract with Hi Records after he was released, failed to produce any successes. He continued to battle his drug addiction until he died in Mobile, Alabama on November 16, 1980,age 41. His is described as one of the most remembered voices of soul music.
“What about you”, Back Beat 586, November 1967. Issued on UK Sue WI 4043 on 1 March 1968.
Chart Position: US R&B No 46, 1967.
Roy Head, Treat her right
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Roy Head’s Treat Her Right was on the This is Sue! Sampler LP. Originally issued in the UK on the Vocalion label in 1965, licenced from Back Beat records. Treat Her Right was produced by Huey P Meaux (although not credited) and recorded at Gold Star Studio, Houston, Texas. Roy Kent Head was born on January 9, 1941. With his group The Traits, Head began recording in 1958. Treat Her Right is his best known recording. Previously issued by Decca Group on Vocalion VP-9248.
US Pop No. 2, 1965.
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