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The Ensign Sue EP ENS 2 Inez and Charlie Foxx – Mockingbird was issued in 1983. There is an error in spelling on the sleeve.
Track listing: Mockingbird | La de da I love you | Hurt by Love | Here we go round the Mulberry Bush
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Record created 8 December 2015
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ILP 911 | Inez and Charlie Foxx Mockingbird | inez_and_charlie_fox-mockingbird
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Complete track listing: Mockingbird | Ask me* | Broken hearted fool | Here we go round the Mulberry Bush* | Searching for my CC | Hurt by love | Jaybirds | Sittin’ here* | Tom and Jim* | Hi diddle diddle* | Talk with me* | He’s the one you love
Sequence has been corrected. Tracks marked * may be by Charlie Foxx.
Track listing kindly supplied by Paul
Updated 8 March 2019
109 | 3 February 2024
Brother and sister Inez and Charlie Foxx had the first release on the UK Sue label just before touring the UK with a great show. The record remains an R&B/Soul classic. The record has been released a number of times on other labels in the UK.
Collection of Martin Whitell
“Mockingbird”, US Symbol 919, June 1963. UK Sue WI 301, December 1963.
Chart Position: “Mockingbird” – US No 2 R&B, No 7 Pop, 1963
The 1969 UK reissue went to UK Pop No 33.
115 | 11 April 2024
Inez and Charlie Foxx | Last FM | 14578
Inez Foxx was born on September 9, 1942 and her elder brother Charlie Foxx was born on October 23, 1939 and died on September 18, 1998.
Symbol 201, 1964. UK Sue WI 356.
Chart position: data not available.
Collection of Martin Whitell
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There is a photo of a test pressing of this single on the Test Disks page.
111 | 17 December 2023
Bert Berns (r) with Solomon Burke (l) | Rare Soul | 14614
Russell Byrd is a pseudonym for song writer record producer and record company executive Bert Berns (Bertrand Russell Berns) who was born in New York City on 8 November 1929 and is regarded now as one of the major song writers and producers of rhythm and blues music and of 1960s music. His masterpieces include “Twist and Shout” and “Piece of My Heart”.
As a child he developed rheumatic fever which affected his heart and gave him poor health for all his short life.
In 1963 his work with singer Solomon Burke brought him to the attention of Atlantic Records’ co-owners who hired him as a staff producer, and also lent him to Decca Records in London on a part time basis to help them modernise their output.
With his friends from Atlantic brothers Ahmet and Nesui Ertegun and Gerry Wexler he founded the “Bang!” record label which debuted with The McCoys’ update of an earlier Berns masterpiece, “Hang on Sloopy”, co-written with Wes Farrell, and which he had first recorded for Atlantic with The Vibrations.
Berns died, age 38, in New York City on 30 December, 1967.
“Hitch hike”, Symbol 915, 1962.
Chart Position: data not available.
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114 | 17 March 2024
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Inez Fox (Inez Foxx) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on September 9, 1942 and her elder brother Charlie Fox (Charlie Foxx, also known as Chuck Johnson) was born on October 23, 1939. Charlie began singing with a gospel choir in the 1950s, his sister joining him in the choir. In 1963, after an unsuccessful recording of Inez was released by Brunswick (as Inez Johnston), they approached Juggy Murray of Sue Records and sang their arrangement of the traditional lullaby “Hush Little Baby”. “Mockingbird” as it was now called became a million selling and their most successful recording. Charlie went into record production; Inez continued to record into the 1970s and also wrote songs, including “With This Ring” recorded by The Platters (with her husband Luther Dixon).
Charlie Foxx died on September 18, 1998.
Inez Foxx died on 25 August, 2022.
US: Symbol 919/922, 1963.
Chart Position: Did not chart.
112 | 8 March 2024
These recordings by Inez and Charlie Foxx licenced from Symbol were issued on Sue WI 314 in April 1964. Although Charlie doesn’t get credited he is on both records. The UK Sue label also shows the US Symbol label number. Inez Foxx was born in 1942, her brother Charlie was born in 1939. Charlie died in 1998. Inez died in 2022.
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Symbol 924/934, 1963. WI 314, May 1964.
Chart Positions: “Ask me”, US Pop 91, 1964
“Hi diddle diddle” US Pop 98, 1963
Collection of Martin Whitell
110 | 19 December 2023
Inez Foxx was born on September 9, 1942, while her elder brother Charlie Foxx was born on October 23, 1939 and died on September 18, 1998 from leukemia.
Collection of Martin Whitell
“Hurt By Love” Symbol 20-001, 1964. UK release Sue WI 323.
Chart Position: US Pop 54, UK 40.
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