The Mighty Typhoons [2022] - One More Chance / I'm Com'un Home In The Morn'un' [Acid Jazz]

What a pleasant surprise (and relief as it's very, very poor for good quality new releases again so far this week) this landed in the inbox this morning. A cover version of one of my all time favourite crossover tunes (picked up very cheaply many moons ago, which has since become very popular) from Margie Joseph "One More Chance" from 1969 on Volt.

The flip side is also a cover, of Lou Pride's monster Northern Soul song "I'm Com'un Home In The Morn'un'" which has seen one or two other covers and I'm afraid that this isn't one of the best of them. Men Of North Country, who are actually from Israel, covered it on Acid Jazz in 2014 (included below) as did Lifford Shillingford on Sonic Wax. 

Lou Pride is a four figure tune to find on the original 1970 Suemi (green) label with the highest price listed on Popsike being $4,350 in 2012. There are plenty of blue 70s pressings (i.e. bootlegs) floating around as it was a very popular record in it's day. Pride re-recorded a slower version of the song and released it on a 2005 CD "Keep On Believing" which was reissued only last year by Last Bastion records on 7" vinyl.

The cover of Margie Joseph is pretty sympathetic to the original. Not surprisingly, as it has his signature all over it, it was written arranged and produced by one Wilson Turbinton otherwise known as the great Willie Tee. What an underrated talent Margie Joseph was. Unfortunately for her she was competing with Aretha when she was at her best.

It is digitally released by The Mighty Typhoons on Acid Jazz in collaboration with TARanto-AmsterDAM based label Tardam Records who released it on vinyl (and CDS promo) in 2015.

I'm not aware of anyone else covering the Margie Joseph song but I'm sure if you know of any you'll leave a comment. There is a bootleg of a Willie Tee version on Gatur but many dispute that it is Willie Tee actually singing it. Ian Levine claims he has an acetate/carver of an unreleased Gatur tape of it which he played on his monthly podcasts (episode 38 in March 2016). It certainly doesn't sound like Willie Tee to my ears and some have suggested Jimmy (I'm Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse) Helms which I wouldn't disagree with but Jimmy Helms is a British based singer! I would guess 'at best' that it is a demo version of the song that Willie got someone in to sing. However, Mr. Levine has been known in the past to try to pull the wool over people's eyes, (The Four Vandals "Wrong Side Of Town" with X Factor winner Steve Brookstein in 1999 for example) so who knows could he have got Jimmy Helms to sing it and try and pass it off as Willie Tee, does he think we're all stupid, as this is definitely not Willie Tee singing as far as I'm concerned? I've extracted the song from his podcast and posted it below so you can decide.

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Willie Tee? - One More Chance

Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Crossover / Northern Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Acid Jazz / Tardam
Cat No:	None / TA-004
Date:	28/07/2022 / 2015
Key/BPM:	N/A
Price:	£3.50

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