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  Soulaholic (soulaholic) 1-Arriviste Username: soulaholic Post Number: 6 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.41.40.105 |
Hello All: I have done a search to see if Leon's name had been mentioned before and came up empty. May be I am not accessing the "old forum" information corectly. Any way I can't believe that with all the writing of song for others (many many artist, M. Jackson. M. Gayes. Isley Brothers, Ike & Tina, different musical styles - Minnie Riperton, Al Jarreau, Bobby Wormack - Loose Ends, And all of the many numerious covers and samples by rappers of his material - Ice Cube, EPMD, 2Pac heck even Prince sampled him, and lp's that Mr. Ware has produced over the last 5 decades (60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's) that his has never been mentioned before. Whats up with this over site??? Did we miss a great but often over looked writer and artist or can I just not pull up the info from the "Old SD Post" ????? | ||
Eli (phillysoulman) 1-Arriviste Username: phillysoulman Post Number: 22 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.236.62.71 |
Ive known Leon and Carol ware for decades and they are both wonderful people. Leon makes the BEST BBQ sauce on earth and at one time was considering marketing it under the brand name "Ware's The sauce" | ||
Edgar (edgar) 1-Arriviste Username: edgar Post Number: 3 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 200.46.13.193 |
Recently Leon Ware was mentioned in a thread I created about Pam Sawyer. We mentioned that he and Minnie Riperton recorded the song he wrote with Sawyer, "If I Ever Lose This Heaven." | ||
Wonder B (wonder_b) 1-Arriviste Username: wonder_b Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.249.168.39 |
Last time I saw Leon on stage was at the North Sea Jazz Festival (what a great festival) in Den Haag in July 2002 (how time flies...) and he was brilliant... He did a couple of numbers with Sandra StVictor and that was superb too.. Wonder B | ||
Uptight (uptight) 1-Arriviste Username: uptight Post Number: 4 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.55.0.68 |
Leon's "Musical Massage" CD (recorded in the mid-1970s) is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! It is the perfect companion to MG's "I Want You" CD, since Ware wrote and produced on both albums. Leon and wife Carol are beautiful people. He throws down in the kitchen as well as in the studio. His label for one of his recent indie CDs is even called Kitchen Records..! (Message edited by Uptight on April 10, 2004) (Message edited by Uptight on April 10, 2004) | ||
Richard Felstead (felstead2001) 1-Arriviste Username: felstead2001 Post Number: 5 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 128.40.91.183 |
Mmmm, that sauce sounds good Bobby. :-)) A great name too, with a clever play on words. One of my fave's is the classic "Why I came to California", amongst others. | ||
SDF (handsome) 1-Arriviste Username: handsome Post Number: 8 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
What's Up! I have a lp recorded by T- Boy Ross (I believe his real name is Chico-Diana's brother now deceased I think) called Changes, which was produced by Leon Ware. M7-913R1 - Changes - T-Boy Ross [2/79] I Want You/I'm In Between Changes/She's My Lover/Somebody's Sneaking And Peeking//Forever Is As Long As It Lasts/Slow Down/Smile And Be Beautiful/To The Baby Handsome | ||
Uptight (uptight) 1-Arriviste Username: uptight Post Number: 7 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.55.0.68 |
I wish I could hear the album. T-Boy was Arthur Ross, now deceased. The other Ross siblings are all alive. (Message edited by Uptight on April 15, 2004) | ||
SDF (handsome) 1-Arriviste Username: handsome Post Number: 9 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
What's Up Uptight! Wasn't Chico his nickname though? Handsome | ||
Uptight (uptight) 1-Arriviste Username: uptight Post Number: 9 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.55.0.68 |
Hey, handsome: Arthur's nickname was "T" or "T-Boy." Chico is their other brother next to Fred, Jr. | ||
LadyMystique (ladymystique) 1-Arriviste Username: ladymystique Post Number: 8 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 216.222.243.107 |
Yes I have the MUSICAL MASSAGE CD and was happy that it was remastered. He is truly talented. | ||
Don (don) 1-Arriviste Username: don Post Number: 5 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.75.49.50 |
While I was waiting to be processed in SD's New Forum, I was checking out the archives. I ran across something about Ric Tic/Golden World. I didn't know that Mr. Leon was writing tunes for RT/GW. I was surprised. I remember before he left to head for LA he spent a whole week and some days staying with my friend Larry of the Vows/Majors/Major IV apartment to join up with either Quincy Jones or Motown? I think this was in the early 70's. I remember him playing and transribing on Larry's out of tuned piano. I mean he had thousands of lyric and sheet music cramped into his satchel- case. I had at least 3 of his lp's except for the elusive lp he did for motown's Gordy label. Leon's compositions we're ahead of time. I believe if he we're to have had his own musicians, studio, and production staffer's at the time he'da been awsome. The music he's been composing sounds like now as it did then. Like with Maxwell's first 2 lp's, I get goosebumps when I hear his CD's (that Chicago sound) is very identifiable. I remember a car commerical that came out a few yrs ago, it had one of his tunes titled "Spellbound", does anyone remember that? I wonder if he remember Larry's apartment on Drake across the street from the senior citizen home, hmm? | ||
acooolcat (acooolcat) 2-Debutant Username: acooolcat Post Number: 16 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 210.200.105.227 |
I think it's Leon singing lead on a Holidays' 45 that was released on the Revilot label: "Love's Creeping Up On Me." It's a Detroit recording from 1967. (Message edited by acooolcat on April 17, 2004) | ||
roger (roger) 2-Debutant Username: roger Post Number: 12 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.35.87.17 |
Hello Everyone. Acoolcat. There is a verion of "Love's Creeping Up on Me" on Stax/Volt by a group called UNITED IMAGE .. I have it on a C.D. of "Stax Vocal Groups". Presumably this is the same song as the THE HOLIDAYS as the backing track sounds (to me at least) incredibly like the backing of one of my all time favourites .. "Warning" by PAT LEWIS .. on Solid Hitbound .. which credits LEON WARE. ( I don't have my 45 to hand at the moment but I think he wrote and arranged it). Does this HOLIDAYS 45 sound at all like PAT LEWIS's gem? Roger | ||
acooolcat (acooolcat) 2-Debutant Username: acooolcat Post Number: 21 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 203.69.208.9 |
Roger, Although I'd never compared them before, there is a similarity. I don't know the United Image track/version you're refering to though. | ||
roger (roger) 2-Debutant Username: roger Post Number: 13 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.35.87.17 |
Acoolcat. I'll post the details of the other version of "Love is Creeping Up on Me" as soon as I can (probably tomorrow). If anyone else is aware of it please feel free to pre-empt me. Roger | ||
acooolcat (acooolcat) 2-Debutant Username: acooolcat Post Number: 22 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 210.200.105.227 |
Roger, Leon Ware wrote and produced "Love's Creeping Up On Me" - with Mike Terry credited as co-writer. Leon also wrote & produced some other Revilot label releases: I Still Wait For You / Come Back in a Hurry (Rose Battiste) I Keep Holding On (Holidays) | ||
Lars (lg_nilsson) 1-Arriviste Username: lg_nilsson Post Number: 4 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 213.112.151.23 |
Leon Ware was supposed to release a single on Gordy 7148 �Comfort� b/w �Share Your Love� in March 1976. That single was also scheduled for release on Motown 1368. Both were cancelled! �Share Your Love� was included on the album �Musical Message� on Gordy 976, but I haven�t heard �Comfort� yet. Some test pressings do exist. Has anyone here heard it? The below single was released 1979 after Leon left Motown.  I have got four albums by Leon Ware: �Musical Message� Gordy 976 released 1976 �Inside Is Love� Fabulous 8500 released 1979 �Rockin� You Eternally� Electra 6E-332 released 1981 �Leon Ware� Electra E1-60050 released 1982 I am not sure if he has released any other albums but this is what I found� Lars | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 151 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 199.224.119.131 |
Lars...COMFORT was released on the remastered MUSICAL MASSAGE last year. I did hear it and to me, it sounds great! | ||
roger (roger) 2-Debutant Username: roger Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.35.87.17 |
Hello Everyone. Acoolcat .. The UNITED IMAGE version of "Love is Creeping Up on Me" was track #17 on a U.K. Ace/Fantasy C.D. called "Just A little Overcome(Stax Vocal Groups)", CDSXD 019, released in 1989. It has to be the same song as it is credited as written by L.Ware and A. Terry for Enigmatic Productions. The C.D. states it was released as a 45 on Volt 4065 in 1971. I played it this morning and the backing sounds almost exactly the same as "Warning" by PAT LEWIS. Now all I need to do is find a copy of THE HOLIDAYS version and compare all three. Roger | ||
Don (don) 2-Debutant Username: don Post Number: 22 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.75.181.48 |
So, Leon was a freelancing. I didn't know it at least not to my knowledge. I know he 's done some some writing with Venture. I guess you always learn something new ev'ry day. He's one one of my favorite songwriters in my book. |
