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Tuesday 1 March 2022

Ida Sands [2022] - Start All Over Again [How Big (Numero Group) #202.129 / 202.130]


Following the reissue of The Georgettes last week, Numero Group has reissued both sides of Ida Sands 1969 How Big outing "Start All Over Again" / "Don't Lose A Good Thing".

You will instantly recognise the tune as an alternate version of Tyrone Davis' "Can I Change My Mind" recorded a year earlier and written by Barry Despenza and Carl Wolfolk. Curiously on the Ida Sands release, it also includes Alonzo Tucker aka Mr. T. on writer's credits who did a superb version of "Love Uprising" on Dakar written by Eugene Record. The song was also recorded earlier by Otis Leaville on Dakar and The Chi-Lites and Jackie Wilson on Brunswick. A later version was recorded in 1981 by Joyce Lawson.

How Big was part of Noah Biggs' Norfolk, VA, empire which included Shiptown. There are only four releases listed for How Big with this being the first by Ida Sands who was also a member of The Idets, who released just one 'novelty' single in 1967. She was also half of  The Soul Duo with Joe Webster who was a member of The Anglos whose 1967 Scepter single "Since You've Been Gone" got spins on the  Northern Soul scene and appeared on one of the early NS compilations complied by Ian Levine in 1975, "Solid Soul Sensations". 

Ida was from Portsmouth, VA and was know as little Ida and also 'The Queen of Tidewater Soul', She died in 2013 aged 72.

This is fresh out yesterday (28 Feb 2022) and doesn't even appear on Numero's website as yet.

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Details
Rating: 8.2
Explicit: N
Genre/Style: Crossover / Deep Soul
Format: Single
Media: Digital
Label: How Big (Numero Group) 
Cat No: 202.129 / 202.130
Date: 28/02/2022
Key/BPM: 3B/105 / 3A/91
Value: £1.79


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