The only known/listed recording by Hard Tymes. The composer / arranger / producer on this track (by sheer coincidence)
is Roosevelt Matthews mentioned in the previous Hamilton Movement
post, who recorded 'Tighten Up' / 'You Got Me Diggin' You' with Billy Ball
& The Upsetters. I wonder if it's Roosevelt Matthews on lead?
There are 2 other releases on Ruby, out of St. Louis Missouri, are by
Chuck Wallace, and Chuck (Wallace?) & Mac - although I found a post
for Chuck & Mac - Powerful Love (which was used in Looper soundtrack) stating that Chuck & Mac is Roosevelt Matthews and Aubrey
Wallace. It was released on Twinight 135 in 1970 and has been
reissued (presumably due to being used in Looper?).
Curiously, 45Cat has this 45 listed as Chuck & Mac ... perhaps the poster knew something?
Little did I known when posting this release that it was going to have connections with Roosevelt Matthews, hence I have also posted most of his known material and assumed that he was one half of Chuck & Mac. If anyone knows otherwise then please leave a comment.
Curiously, 45Cat has this 45 listed as Chuck & Mac ... perhaps the poster knew something?
Little did I known when posting this release that it was going to have connections with Roosevelt Matthews, hence I have also posted most of his known material and assumed that he was one half of Chuck & Mac. If anyone knows otherwise then please leave a comment.
Hard Tymes with Hard Tymes Band [1976] - I As A Question 'Answer Simply' [Ruby 38976]
SoulStrutter's Rating: 9.6
Absolutely sublime deep soul cut.
Chuck & Ray [1972] - You're The One Who Loved Me [Ruby 29799]
Funeral paced southern style deep soul.
Chuck & Ray [1970] - Powerful Love [Twinight 135]
Another funeral paced southern style deep soul cut released on Chicago's
Twinight label and featured in the 2012 movie Looper and subsequently
reissued by Numero group on Twinight.
As stated above it has been claimed that Chuck & Mac is Roosevelt
Matthews and Aubrey Wallace. If anyone knows otherwise then please
leave a comment.
The flip is a funky number called
The Bear.
Billy Ball & The Upsetters Feat. Roosevelt Matthews [1969] - Come
On Home [S.B.I. 517]
SoulStrutter's Rating: 7.2
This track is pretty average to my ears, however it has unearthed some
interesting info regarding the label. S.B.I. was based in
Nashville, Tennessee and owned by Robert Stanley Riley Sr. who co-wrote
'Just Walking In The Rain' whist in Tennessee State Penitentiary with
fellow in-mate Johnny Bragg (who had a NS monster 'They're Talking About Me' on Elbejay) which he recorded with the
Prisonaires
in 1953 on Sam Phillip's Sun records but was a world-wide hit for Johnny
Ray in 1956.
As an aside, amazingly, I have found a live clip of Johnny Bragg & The Sheps (The Prisonaires) performing 'Just Walking In The Rain' live from May 2001. Bragg died aged 79 in 2004 of cancer.
Only 4 releases listed for S.B.I. circa 1968-69. One of them
being a slower version of The Amazers/The Passion's 'Without A Warning'
under a different title 'Turn On Your Lovelight'.
As an aside, amazingly, I have found a live clip of Johnny Bragg & The Sheps (The Prisonaires) performing 'Just Walking In The Rain' live from May 2001. Bragg died aged 79 in 2004 of cancer.
Roosevelt Matthews with Billy Ball & The Upsetters [1968] - You Got
Me Diggin' You [King 45-6173]
Great crossover.
Roosevelt Matthews with Billy Ball & The Upsetters [1968] - Tighten
Up [King 45-6713]
Speeded up version of Archie Bell & The Drells classic.
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