Songwriter Clyde Milton also recorded “I’d Rather Leave On My Feet”.
His version was released on the local Disco-Tac label.
 

Emanuel Taylor also penned and recorded Remember Me Always, one of two 45s that he cut in Toledo, Ohio via radio DJ Charles Welch. The song became Emanuel Laskey’s next 45. “I sang that song with an asthma attack,” Emanuel told me, not that you’d notice. It’s another moody number with Emanuel’s delicate voice expressing remorse, love, jealously and a jilted lover’s sense of loss: a desperate cocktail.

As you can see above, the song was released twice. on Stag and DT. Arthur Fleming started Stag, with financial help from Cyril Clark. Once Cyril backed out, Denis Talley stepped in.
 

There were quite a few years between Emanuel’s Stag 45 in 1973 and his next release, I’d Rather Leave On My Feet. This flirtation with late-70s Disco came from Clyde Milton, who had an anti-drugs song released on Stag’s sister label – Column. Emanuel’s dancer didn’t sell by the truckload and it’s hard to find now, making it one of the most expensive of his recordings. A copy sold on eBay in sold for $300 in 2006.

After the 45 failed to garner Emanuel any cash, Emanuel left Dennis and went to Los Angeles. “I’ve never told a lot of people this,” he told me. “In 1978, I stayed with Mrs. Gaye and did some recordings at Stone Diamond Productions, which is owned by Robert Gordy. She was the one who got me affiliated with the company and I did very, very good music at Motown in California. I had signed a contract at that point in time, but they were never released.”
 

Notes thanks to Graham Finch

Page Lead-in Clip from “Remember Me Always"  [Stag ST10009-13PL]

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