Ace/Kent have a batch of new vinyl releases due on 28 Oct 2022. They will be
released on a mix their Kent Select imprint and various repros on look-a-like
original labels.
Kicking off with the most appealing to me as Darrow Fletcher
has been a long time favoured artist since buying his Northern Soul classic
"What Good Am I Without You" back in the day and also one of the sides
featured on this repro reissue "Infatuation" both of which have the superb
"Little Girl" on the flip and released on Jacklyn in 1967. However, Kent has
gone with the A side from his first release on the label in 1966, "What Have I Got Now". which also has a superb flip side "Sitting There At Night". Prior to that he'd released four singles on Groovy, all well worth checking out.
Jacklyn was a label owned by Fletcher's father Johnny Haygood and named after
his daughter. The label was Chicago based and released just ten singles
between 1966-69 (1001-011 with no listing from 1007) with three of them being
by Fletcher.
A full Darrow Fletcher Discography was posted many moons ago (migrated from an
earlier blog) HERE.
His biggest success was with his debut single on Groovy "The Pain Gets A Little Deeper" / "My Judgement Day" which was #23 R&B and broke into the lower reaches of the Hot 100 at #89. He achieved just two further R&B chart entries "I Think I'm Gonna Write A Song" in 1970 and "We've Go to Get This Understanding" in 1976, but many of his recordings have been played on the UK rare soul scene over the years and he came to the UK to perform at 6Ts soul weekender in 2006.
Available to pre-order from Ace/Kent for release on 28 Oct 2022.
1 comment:
Remarkable singer little known and underestimated because no album. For fans, everything is summarized in the excellent Kent compilations CDKEND 403 (1965-1971) or CDKEND 382 (1975-1979).
Yves
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