Eric & The Vikings - Discography

Eric & The Vikings were Eric McClinon, Phillip Taylor & Cliff Moore who started out in 1969 whilst still in High School.  Their first 45 was on Richard 'Popcorn' Wylie's Soul Hawk label and Wylie co-wrote both sides A side with Tony Hestor and B side with Charles Johnson.  Their next 2 releases were on Motown's Gordy label. I'm not sure when McClinton left the group but they recorded their final 45 on Voyage as The Vikings and by 1980 McClinton had joined Meli'sa Morgan and Alyson Williams to form High Fashion.  He also has a gospel 45 listed as Eryke McClinton on presumably his own label Eryke EM 401 (no release date).

'Hurting', a previously unreleased Soul Hawk track, was discovered and released in UK on Kool Kat in 1987.

Discography

1970 - Vibrations (Made Us Fall In Love) / Get Off The Streets Y'all [Soul Hawk 1009]

1972 - It's Too Much For A Man To Take Too Long / Time Don't Wait [Gordy G-7116F]

1973 - I'm Truly Yours / Where Do You Go (Baby) [Gordy G-7132F]

1975 - Heartaches Don't Last Forever / Never Seen A Stranger [Voyage V-1001]

1987 - Hurting [Kool Kat (UK) KOOL 5]

Eryke McClinton

197? - God Specialises / Peace In The Valley [Eryke EM 401]

The original members got back together in 2010 and release a couple of CDs Motwon Reloaded and CD Retro Millennium Renaissance which includes the singles Vibrations, Heartaches, Stranger and Hurting in addition to a 2011 revamp of Vibrations and a new track(?) Rainy Nite vocal and instrumental.

Live footage of Vibrations and It's Too Much For A Man To Take Too Long.

Eric & The Vikings [1987] - Hurting [Kool Kat KOOL 5]

A UK only release on Neil Rushton / Dave Barker Kool Kat label of a previously unreleased track which has same (similar?) backing to Jimmey (Soul) Clark's Sweet Darlin' on Soul Hawk.

Another 2 unreleased tracks were on the flip side.

Willie Jones - My Baby AIn't A Plaything - an unreleased track which was recorded by The New Holidays on Westbound in 1970.  There is also another version by Willie Harvey which has appeared on a few Goldmine Soul Supply compilations. I'm not sure whether it is the same version as Willie Jones under a different name as the vocals sound the same to my ears.  The track has the same backing as Stanley Mitchell's Quit Twisting My Arm on Dynamo.

Detroit Strings - In The Pocket - a storming previously unreleased Northern Soul instrumental credited to Parker?  Sounds like it could be an alternative instrumental take of Our Love Is In The Pocket? An absolute monster all-nighter sound mid 80s at Top Of The World, Stafford.

Eric & The Vikings [1970] - Vibrations (Made Us Fall In Love) [Soul Hawk 1009]

Soul group harmony written by Popcorn Wylie and Tony Hestor.

Eric & The Vikings [1970] - Get Off The Streets Y'all [Soul Hawk 1009]

Funky Instrumental writteny by Popcorn Wylie & Charles Johnson.

Eric & The Vikings [1972] - It's Too Much For A Man To Take Too Long [Gordy G-7116F]

Deep Soul group harmony

Eric & The Vikings [1972] - Time Don't Wait [Gordy G-7116F]

Northern Soul

Eric & The Vikings [1973] - I'm Truly Yours [Gordy G-7132F]

Not the same song as Spinners - Truly Yours.  This one written by George Gordy (one of the 8 Gordy siblings), Larry Brown (wrote many Motown songs and was a member of Finished Touch) and Elgie Stover (who wrote a couple of tracks on Marvin Gaye's What's Going On  album and performed background vocals on it, he is Kenny Stover's brother who was with Leo's Sunshipp and Finished Touch).

Eric & The Vikings [1973] - Where Do You Go (Baby) [Gordy G-7132F]

Soul group harmony

The Vikings [1975] - Heartaches (Don't Last Forever) [Voyage V-1001]

The Vikings [1975] - Never Seen A Stranger [Voyage V-1001]

Eryke McClinton [197?] - God Specialises [Eryke EM 401]

No sound clip available

Eryke McClinton [197?] - Peace In The Valley [Eryke EM 401]

No sound clip available

COVID-19 7th May 2020

Summary

All countries had an increase in new case and all but UK & FR had an increase in deaths from previous day.

Worldometers for some reason has stopped publishing Active Cases chart.

The other major story is that Russia has started to see a steep increase in new cases in the last 5 days and has seen over 50,000 new cases since 1 May.

	New Cases	Change	Deaths	Change	Rec'ry Rate	Death Rate
IT	1,444	134.33%	369	156.4%	75.85%	24.15%	Inc.
ES	3,121	138.10%	244	131.9%	86.04%	13.96%	Inc.
DE	1,155	135.09%	282	282%	95.06%	4.94%	Inc.
FR	3,640	334.25%	278	84.2%	67.65%	32.35%	Inc.
UK	6,111	138.70%	649	93.7%	0.83%	99.17%	Red.
US	25,459	106.98%	2,528	107.6%	74.01%	25.99%	Red.

Commentary

IT - new cases +369 (134.33%) deaths +133 (156.4%), active cases -8,013 (84.55% of peak)

ES - new cases +861 (138.10%), deaths +59 (131.9%), active cases -3,124 (68.8% of peak)

FR - new cases +2,551 (334.25%), deaths -52 (84.2%), active cases +1,680 ( 98.99% of peak)

DE - new cases +300 (135.09%), deaths +282 (282%), active cases -5,536 (28.8% of peak)

US - new cases +1,661 (106.98%), deaths +178 (107.57%), active cases +21,678

UK - new cases +1,705 (138.7%), deaths -44 (93.7%), active cases ?

UK now has over 200,000 cases and over 30,000 deaths and has averaged 5,113 new cases and 568 deaths per day in the last 7 days.  To put this in context with the rest of EU the closest country to these figures is IT with average 1,552 new cases and 286 deaths per day i.e. more that 3 times more new cases and almost double no. of deaths.

If we look at the growth of total no. of cases, UK is now 10 days ahead of Italy's trajectory.

IT   - 97,689 29 Mar 201,505 28 Apr - 33 days

UK - 98,476 15 Apr  201,101  6 May - 23 days

It still bewilders (and concerns) me where all these new cases are originating from 44 days into lockdown?  I 'presume' it must be front-line workers that are infected? 

UK has seen 35,789 new cases in the last week (and almost 150,000 (149,402) in last month since 6 Apr - 2 weeks after lockdown - an average of 4,980 per day). Is it even possible to contact trace this number of cases? If each of these 35,789 in last week alone have been in contact with just 3 other people that's over 100,000 people who need to be tested, and then what about the people these contacts have been in contact with if they test positive?

Whilst on the subject of testing,  here are the figures since the 100,000 target was 'met' on 30 Apr: (Note testing figure are always 1 day behind so no figures available for 6 May yet)

	Daily		Cumulative
	No. Tests	People  Tested	No. Tests	People  Tested
01-May	105,937	63,667	1,129,907	825,946
02-May	76,496	56,397	1,206,405	882,343
03-May	85,186	62,956	1,291,591	945,299
04-May	84,806	69,839	1,383,842	1,015,138
05-May	69,463	57,006	1,448,010	1,072,144

As can been seen from the figures above, the UK has consistently seen around 5,000 new cases per day for the last month so I cannot conceivably see how the government can relax lockdown until these numbers significantly reduce and testing is significantly increased.

Latest stats from Worldometers

Latest v previous day - Recovery rate v Death Rate

	Total	Active	Conc.	Recvd.	Deaths	Recvd%	Death%
IT	214,457	91,528	122,929	93,245	29,684	75.85%	24.15%
ES	253,682	68,466	185,216	159,359	25,857	86.04%	13.96%
DE	168,162	20,987	147,175	139,900	7,275	95.06%	4.94%
FR	174,191	94,410	79,781	53,972	25,809	67.65%	32.35%
UK	201,010	170,681	30,329	253	30,076	0.83%	99.17%
US	1,263,092	975,306	287,786	212,987	74,799	74.01%	25.99%

Latest v previous day - increase / decrease

Country	New Cases 6 May	New Cases 5 May	New Case Increase	Deaths 6 May	Deaths 5 May	Death Increase
IT	1,444	1,075	369	369	236	133
ES	3,121	2,260	861	244	185	59
DE	1,155	855	300	282	0	282
FR	3,640	1,089	2,551	278	330	-52
UK	6,111	4,406	1,705	649	693	-44
US	25,459	23,798	1,661	2,528	2,350	178

Latest v previous day - actuals

Daily	06-May				05-May
Ctry	New Cases	Total Cases	No. Deaths	Death Rate%	Total Cases	No. Deaths	Death Rate%
IT	1,444	214,457	29,684	13.8%	213,013	29,315	13.8%
ES	3,121	253,682	25,857	10.2%	250,561	25,613	10.2%
DE	1,155	168,162	7,275	4.3%	167,007	6,993	4.2%
FR	3,640	174,191	25,809	14.8%	170,551	25,531	15.0%
UK	6,111	201,010	30,076	15.0%	195,990	29,427	15.0%
US	25,459	1,263,092	74,799	5.9%	1,212,835	72,271	6.0%

Latest v one week ago - actuals

Weekly	06-May				29-Apr
Ctry	New Cases	Total Cases	No. Deaths	Death Rate%	Total Cases	No. Deaths	Death Rate%
IT	1,444	214,457	29,684	13.8%	203,591	27,682	13.6%
ES	3,121	253,682	25,857	10.2%	236,899	24,275	10.2%
DE	1,155	168,162	7,275	4.3%	161,539	6,467	4.0%
FR	3,640	174,191	25,809	14.8%	166,420	24,087	14.5%
UK	6,111	201,010	30,076	15.0%	165,221	26,097	15.8%
US	25,459	1,263,092	74,799	5.9%	1,064,194	62,655	5.9%

Latest v one week ago - percentage rate increase

	Daily		Weekly
Country	Total Cases Increase Factor	Death Rate  Increase Factor	Total Cases Increase Factor	Death Rate  Increase Factor
IT	100.7%	100.6%	105.3%	101.8%
ES	101.2%	99.7%	107.1%	99.5%
DE	100.7%	103.3%	104.1%	108.1%
FR	102.1%	99.0%	104.7%	102.4%
UK	102.6%	99.7%	121.7%	94.7%
US	104.1%	99.4%	118.7%	100.6%