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Where known, chart data (US Pop, US R&B and UK) has been added to the UK Singles page.

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Following final search for missing US single numbers, and complete check of the whole web site, both completed, I am now adding chart position data where known to the UK singles listing.

Updated: Clarence Samuels

The post on Clarence Samuels has been updated.

The Vashonettes

Taking their name from a dance school they attended, The Vashonettes were formed in the late 1960s when four of the school’s singing group set up on their own. The group was led by Sheryl Swope but we do not have a complete line up for the group, who recorded briefly for Checker before going on to sing background vocals on a number of recordings including an Atlantic label album by the late Donny Hathaway, with whom they are closely associated. Their manager, Deke Atkins, renamed them The Oncoming Times, under which name they recorded for Duo Records (arranged by Hathaway).

Can anyone help, please, with an image and a full line up for this group? Thank you.

Remembering Koko Taylor

Rex Features | 2007

It is ten years since blues singer KoKo Taylor died. Writing in The Independent, Paul Wadey remembered her career and influence.

Although temporarily sidelined by a near fatal road accident in the late Eighties, Taylor proved a battler. She toured exhaustively with her band, Blues Machine, continued to record and appeared in both David Lynch’s offbeat Wild at Heart (1990) and Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), a futile attempt by director John Landis to tap into the cult success of The Blues Brothers (1980). She also received a clutch of awards including, in 1997, induction into the Blues Hall of Fame and, in 2004, a National Heritage Fellowship from America’s National. She made her last public appearance in May when she performed at the Blues Foundation’s Awards in Memphis and collected a record 29th trophy from that organisation.

When asked what the blues meant to her, her reply was typical of a performer who for 50 years had consciously eschewed the stereotypically hard-living approach to life of a veteran blues musician: “Blues is my life. It’s a true feeling that comes from the heart, not just something that comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and singing the blues is what I always do.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/lifeinfocus/koko-taylor-death-obituary-american-singer-chicago-blues-scene-a8955901.html

CD: Mitty Collier – Shades of a Genius

Discogs

Track listing:

I Had A Talk With My Man Last Night | Little Miss Loneliness | I Gotta Get Away From It All | My Babe | Let’s Get Together | Would You Have Listened | Let Them Talk | So Little Time | It Looks Like Rain | I’ve Got Love | Thats What A Man Is For | I’m Your Part Time Love | Pain | Don’t You Forget It | One More Time | I Dedicate My Whole Life To You | Don’t Let Her Take My Baby | Free Girl In The Morning | Hallelujah (I Love Him So) | Drowned In My Own Tears | No Faith No Love | Ain’t That Love

CD Issued 1998.

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CD: Various Artists – Soul Boppin’ Ladies

Discogs

This CD was released in Belgium in 1995.

Track listing:

Jackie Ross: Jerk And Twine | Selfish One | Haste Makes Waste | I’ve Got The Skill | Honey Dear | Dynamite Lovin | Hard Times | Hold Me | Nella Dodds You Don’t Love Me Anymore | Come See About Me | Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers | Honey Boy | Come Back Baby | Your Love Back | Dream Boy | P’s And Q’s | Jan Bradley: Mama Didn’t Lie | Xmas Time | Please Mr. DJ | I’m Over You | We Girls | Baby What Can I Do? | Your Kind Of Lovin’ | The Brush Off | Mitty Collier: Pain | My Babe | Don’t Let Her Take My Baby | Little Miss Loneliness | Free Girl | I’ve Got Love

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