Soul Strutter: Bobby Burn [1968] - I'm A Lonely Man / I'm A Dreamer [Chant #522]

Staying with the theme of rarities, here's a superb double-sided 45 by Bobby Burn (aka Wilburn) with two great crossover sides.

A four figure rarity (approx. £1,500) on the original Chant label owned by Bill Hanley in Atlanta Georgia (Kent have released a couple of CDs full of Haney's productions: Atlanta Soul Brotherhood Vol. 1 & Vol. 2).

It got a national release on Gamble in 1971 under his real/full name Bobby Wilburn, and has recently (Sep 2020) been reissued on Sean Hampsey's Diggin' Deep label adding the twelfth issue to their catalog in 2 years, these are limited edition vinyl represses which sell out very quickly so grab one before they sell out.

This is the only release for Burn/Wilburn. There's a story on the Diggin' Deep site if you want to learn more. Interestingly Discogs credits a track by Tim Taylor (We Were Fallin' (on a 1992 Canadian album 'Big Plans') to him (Bob Wilburn) but it's not registered to him on BMI, so I suspect it's a different Wilburn. BMI has the two titles above and another 'He Said It With Flowers' under him but the latter is registered to Robert Charles Wilburn whilst the other two are Bob Wilburn, so again I wonder if it's the same Wilburn. So, unfortunaetly we'll have to make do with the only two tracks he wrote and recorded.