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Tuesday 5 July 2022

The Universal Togetherness Band [2022] - I Want You / Call For Love [Soul Direction #SD012]


The Universal Togetherness Band were a student group led by Andre Gibson. In the spring of 1979 he put together a group after seeing a flyer by Chicago's Columbia College engineering department looking for a band to record in their studios. Between 1979 and 1982 they used the studio to record their songs for no cost. Although Mercury records showed an interest in releasing their recordings nothing materialised. Their recordings went unreleased for 30 years until Numero Group stumbled across the group via a recording of an 80s TV show "The Chicago Party" on which they performed live. They tracked down Andre Gibson with a view to releasing some of the groups recordings. In 2014 Numero released a self-titled album on the group on digital, vinyl and CD.

Soul Direction has obtained approval to release two of the tracks from the album, "I Want You" and "Call For Love" on 7" vinyl

Andre Gibson is from Chicago and was influenced to pursue music at the age of six after seeing the great Jackie Wilson perform at The Regal Theatre. He was also further influenced by The Temptations and Stevie Wonder. However it was his maths teacher Artee 'Duke' Payne who was the saxophonist/flutist for Odell Brown and the Organ-Izers (who were signed to Cadet Records) who nurtured him. Not deflated by UTB's lack of success, Andre Gibson still records music to this day at the age of 66.

Details
Rating: 8.6
Explicit: N
Genre/Style: Modern Soul
Format: Single
Media: Digital
Label: Soul Direction
Cat No: None
Date: 11/07/2022
Key/BPM: 9A/83 / 8A/110
Price: £15
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