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  Jimmy Mack (luke) 2-Debutant Username: luke Post Number: 30 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.198.48.201 |
Whatever happended to this group(Let Me In)? Did Yvonne do solo stuff? | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 3-Pundit Username: luke Post Number: 34 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.198.48.201 |
PS--did they have any success beyond Let Me In? As I remember Yvonne's voice is somewhat like Brenda Reid of the Exciters,tho not a s powerful. | ||
Eli (phillysoulman) 4-Laureate Username: phillysoulman Post Number: 111 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.163.25.69 |
Ms Baker is an elderly woman in her late sixties and is totally jaded by the biz and wants nothing to do with it. Back in '98, Weldon, Dave Brown and I went to se her with a film crew to interview her for the Ian Levine Northern doc and she "didnt say a word" other than she wants nothing to do with it. sensations, Roosevelt Simmons is dead and Tommy Cook is still around. I saw him at the Kimmel center last January in his trademark "pimp suit". | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 3-Pundit Username: luke Post Number: 35 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.198.48.201 |
Thanks Eli--very interesting--whats the Levine documentary?is it available?--did she do much after Let Me IN? | ||
Eli (phillysoulman) 4-Laureate Username: phillysoulman Post Number: 112 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.163.25.69 |
The documentary, This Is Northern Soul is available as a full 12 hour and abbreviated 2 hour version. It is available mostly in the UK. Ian levine sent a crew to all of the major musical meccas, during '97 and '98 to tape and interview a host of artist associated with Northern Soul music. There were bits whereby the acts lip synced or sang along with their respective tracks and were interviewed as well. Rewgarding Ms Baker they had an early version of 'Junkman as wel as yes sir thats my baby and Music Music Music and Ms Baker had a Northern hit with You didnt say a word on cameo/Parkway in the mid to late sixties. | ||
Wonder B (wonder_b) 3-Pundit Username: wonder_b Post Number: 54 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.49.154.173 |
Bobby, if I may correct you the whole box is not 12 hours long but 24 hours!!! LOL I still haven't got through it all... LOL And I bought it months ago... LOL Just too interesting and full of incredible performances and heart wrenching interviews to go through it all quickly... Jimmy Mack if you want to see what it looks like check out that page... : http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/o bidos/ASIN/B000087I1I/qid=1082 226426/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/20 2-9841683-7754242 But I must advise you if you're in the US you will need to de-zone your DVD player (a very easy and quick operation, which all of us Europeans do, or ask the seller to do), and you will need a TV (or TV monitor)which will be able to play PAL system... otherwise the image will be in B&W... But this stuff is outstanding and the research that went into it in order to find all those artists and record them must have taken years... Yes it has some flaws (you can't film over 200 performances in outstanding settings and perfect live conditions) but this some piece of work that will never be duplicated or equalled since many of the artists featured have passed away since the shooting of this brilliant documentary... Wonder B | ||
Mark Speck (mark_speck) 2-Debutant Username: mark_speck Post Number: 16 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 199.183.105.37 |
She also cut a version of Lorraine Chandler's tune "I Can't Change" for the local Junior label, which isn't bad and fairly easy to get, as opposed to trying to find Chandler's version on 45. Interestingly enough, Lorraine did a cover of the tune on the flip of Yvonne's version, "Mend the Torn Pieces". It remained unreleased until the UK Kent CDs of RCA soul material. Best, Mark | ||
Eli (phillysoulman) 4-Laureate Username: phillysoulman Post Number: 119 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.163.25.69 |
Wonder, is there any way that I can get copies of some of that stuff? Ill pay for the labour and materials. | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 3-Pundit Username: luke Post Number: 37 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.198.48.201 |
I tried a website that had been posted here to get Motor City dvds but they said they r unavailable--is this a different one?any way I can get Motor CIty/Levine 80s stuff dvds? | ||
Wonder B (wonder_b) 3-Pundit Username: wonder_b Post Number: 61 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 193.252.46.133 |
Jimmy Mack, the Motorcity were not DVD's but CD's as far as I know... this beautiful box set which I posted the link for above is the only DVD stuff I know from Ian Levine... Bobby, I am not sure I understand you correctly... that link I mentioned is one where you can buy directly online... Unfortunately I do not have any other way to get this kind of stuff... I, myself, did buy my own copy from that amazon UK site... if you're worried about buying online I can assure you the site is safe and secured... I have searched on the net but this is the best deal I have found yet at �39.99... (I paid mine �10 more because I bought it right after it's release... LOL) I would have made copies of it but I do not own a DVD burner (yet! LOL)... sorry... I just realised I made a mistake concerning the technical side of the box set... it seems that you don't need to get a de-zoned DVD player to play that set as it is zone free... so you can buy it online from the UK websites... and play it at home in the US... Wonder B (Message edited by Wonder B on April 17, 2004) | ||
lenny (lennytone) 1-Arriviste Username: lennytone Post Number: 4 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.241.87.19 |
E-bay UK has some Northern Soul DVD's listed: http://www.ebay.co.uk/ Code-free DVD players available under $100. from: http://www.jlist.com/ (They also carry Hello Kitty vibrators!) | ||
Laurence (laurence) 1-Arriviste Username: laurence Post Number: 1 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 195.93.33.10 |
I have a great Yvonne Baker record on Modern My baby needs Me / A woman needs a man. I remember when Yvonnes "I didnt say a word" was first played on the U.K Club scene (Wigan Casino), What a sound on first hearing, It was known at first as that James Bond sounding tune before we knew exactly what it was. So dramactic, its still great after hearing it a million times. |
