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mel(andthensome) (mel)
4-Laureate
Username: mel
Post Number: 110
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 81.154.133.42
| | Posted on Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 2:34 pm: �� |     ���  |
Can anyone please tell me
is the Me-o label a chicago or detroit label?
Is that Thurman Houson/Holison?
on lead vocals?
any info on the backing girls,
who plays the guitar break in it and anything about the group would be appreciated.
also
has
Tootsie and the Versatiles
on Elmor records have any links at all?
cheers
toot tootsie goodbye
mel |
Robb_K (robb_k)
5-Doyen
Username: robb_k
Post Number: 178
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.81.183.209
| | Posted on Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 6:43 pm: �� | ��� |
There's no way in the World ME-O was a Chicago label. I assume that ME-O was a Detroit label, as one of The Martiniques (spelt "Martineques" on ME-O) told us, right here on SD, that it was his same Detroit group that was on Danceland. You can look it up on the Old Forum's archives. I believe the thread was titled "Martiniques", (-but not sure). Thurman Hollis produced both sides, and was a co-writer on both cuts. Herschel Hunter (who was also in Detroit's Moments) was another writer, along with A. Delango. Where did you get the names "Houson" and "Holison"? Could Hollis be his stage and pen name,-and Hollison his birth name? I guess that's a possibility, but I think a long shot. If my name were Hollison, and I wanted to change it to a stage name, I'd change it a lot more than just removing "on".
I, too, am very interested in finding out who the session players were, the background singers, and who R. Taylor was (who was also co-producer on the record).
I am disappointed that there was no question or comment on The Tootsie Rollers. That record sounds very Detroitish, and I've always wondered who the members were, and who played on that session, as well. |
Tony.C. (tonyc)
2-Debutant
Username: tonyc
Post Number: 20
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 195.93.33.10
| | Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 6:20 am: �� | ��� |
Mel,i have the Tootsie Rollers (which i don,t know if u r aware is/was a very popular American type of candy)on red Meo M 1005 and i always believed it to b a New York label.
love and stuff-just got yhe rare Darrow Fletcher -What have i got now.
Tony.C. |
mel(andthensome) (mel)
4-Laureate
Username: mel
Post Number: 114
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 81.154.242.51
| | Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 7:24 am: �� | ��� |
Cheers Tony
didnt think it was New York mate
then what the f... do I know.
its been years since I even saw a copy
and as for the name I have posted to the 45
I thought the guys name were on the credits.
obviously not.
cheers Tony
mel- rollin'out-a-here... |
Robb_K (robb_k)
5-Doyen
Username: robb_k
Post Number: 189
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.81.20.243
| | Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 12:53 pm: �� | ��� |
Tony, what are the credits names on The Tootsie Rollers? Is Thurman Hollis the producer? Was H. Hunter on it? I don't remember seeing a recognisable Detroit name on it. |
Flynny (anoraks_corner)
3-Pundit
Username: anoraks_corner
Post Number: 47
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 81.131.239.242
| | Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 4:29 pm: �� | ��� |
Me-O is from West Virginia...but agree that particular release does sound Detroity...indeed, when it was first played on the NS scene it was covered up as 'Silky Hargreaves'.
Here's the red stock copy...particularly interested in obtaining a WD, if anyone has one.
 |
Robb_K (robb_k)
5-Doyen
Username: robb_k
Post Number: 190
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.81.20.82
| | Posted on Monday, May 10, 2004 - 12:38 am: �� | ��� |
ME-O may have been in West Virginia (of all places!)but that doesn't tell us where the Tootsie Rollers or Martineques were recorded. The Martiniques' member informed us on this forum, that it was his same Detroit group that had recorded on Danceland, that recorded on ME-O. I have a funny feeling that they didn't go to Wheeling or Charlston W.V. to record. The address of the Record Label sometimes matches that of the project's lead financier, and sometimes it represents a p.o. box in a state where the business taxes are lower (and NONE of the parties involved lived or produced the recordings there. How did The TrueTones and Combinations from Chicago, and recorded there, end up on Southern labels??? The Tootsie Rollers and Martineques records sound similar to Detroit recordings, but not really exactly like "true" Detroit recordings. They sound more like the NY "copies" of the Detroit sound. I'm very curious to know where, and by and with whom they were recorded. |
Flynny (anoraks_corner)
3-Pundit
Username: anoraks_corner
Post Number: 49
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 213.122.32.243
| | Posted on Monday, May 10, 2004 - 6:50 am: �� | ��� |
Fair comments Robb, but it did answer Mel's original question 
Just to add a bit more detail, the deadwax reveals that the discs were manufactured in Hollywood. |
Robb_K (robb_k)
5-Doyen
Username: robb_k
Post Number: 191
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 204.108.65.10
| | Posted on Monday, May 10, 2004 - 1:33 pm: �� | ��� |
I hope that Martiniques (Martineques) member sees this thread and enlightens us as to where the records were recorded. Does anyone know where Thurman Hollis worked? |