When the Falcons broke up in 1963, Robert West brought in another Detroit group in their place.

Starting out as the Ramblers on Federal, they later became known as the Fabulous Playboys who had discs on Contour and  Daco.

As the Falcons on Lu Pine, and with Carlis Monroe aka Sonny Monroe on lead, "Has it happened to you yet" was one of West's best 45's. The rest of the group was made up of Johnny Alvin, Frank Holt and James Gibson.

A couple of years later this new version of the Falcons had a fair sized local hit for Big Wheel records, "Standing on guard".

As West's tenure in Detroit was coming to an end towards the end of 1964 his penultimate recording was another Mack Rice song, "The whip".

Lu Pine126 was to be West's swan song, and one of his finest. It was by Benny McCain of the Ohio Untouchables called "I don't want no part time love", a fabulous blues/soul ballad written by Schofield, Pickett and West himself. Robert Ward's guitar featured prominently complementing a beautiful vocal performance.

Notes thanks to David Meikle
 

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