Bobby Barnes [2021] - Super High on Your Love / I've Had My Share of Loving You [Soul4Real #S4R14]

Alex Subinas has just announced the latest release on Soul4Real which will be two superb tracks (previously unreleased on vinyl) from Bobby Barnes recorded for Lawrence Carroll's Phoenix, AZ, based  Raina label. The record isn't currently posted on their website but I've put links to the site on the label images so you can keep checking and also look at their other releases.

Alex is taking pre-orders €13 plus postage (€6.80 UK/Europe, €2.50 Spain, €10.50 US & rest of world) via PayPal (Friends & Family) soul4realrecordlabel@gmail.com 

Coincidentally, Sean Hampsey's Diggin' Deep has also announced the release of three new singles and one side is Bobby Barnes 'Super High On Your Love'. Another is a brilliant track I posted a while ago by Lee Hurst 'Whole Lotta Your Love'.

DD015 - James Carr - I Don’t Want To Be Hurt Anymore / There Goes My Used To Be

DD016 - Lee Hurst - Whole Lotta Your Love / Terry & The Pyrates - Someone

DD017 - Bobby Barnes - Super High On Your Love / Chuck Womack – Losing Your Good Thing

You can pre-order all three for £44.40 incl. postage (UK only) at Diggin' Deep.

Listen to samples of each here.

Raina released three singles from him in 1973,1974 & 1985. In total the label only issued around ten (listed) singles between 1973-84.

Barnes & Carroll met when Barnes was performing at Harlem's famous Apollo. Carroll was a staff drummer, producer and label executive at Motown at the time they met but remembered Barnes when he set up his own label in Phoenix.

Barnes actually released 'I've Had My Share of Loving You' on Raina in 1985, but the version on Soul4Real is a previously unreleased version from 1984.

Both tracks have been previously issued digitally by Fervor in 2017 on a five track EP which features both versions of  'I've Had My Share of Loving You', plus 'Super High on Your Love', 'Keep It Funky' and a previously unissued track called 'Neon Lady'.

Listen to Full EP here.

Barnes is credited with releasing six singles, the three on Raina, plus two sides released on two different labels, The Scamm Sound and Cross-Tone, both released in 1969.  He did a great version of Eddie & Ernie's 'You Make My Life (A Sunny Day)' on Poormans in 1980. The only other known release is on a Las Vegas label, Discovery, which released only three known singles. One of the singles was recorded, and the other two produced, by, Buck (Samuel) Ram (who managed The Platters as well as The Drifters and The Coasters, Ike & Tina Turner and others), so I would hazard a guess that he owned the label. Ram also wrote The Platters' biggest hits 'Only You and 'The Great Pretender'.

SirShambing has a good article on Bobby Barnes.

Details

Rating:	8.5
Genre/Style:	Deep Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	7"
Label:	Soul4Real
Cat No:	S4R14
Year:	01/05/2021
Key:	N/A
BPM:	N/A
Value:	€13