Soul Strutter: 07/20/22

Wednesday, 20 July 2022

Gloria Scott [2022] - All Of The Time, You're On My Mind [Acid Jazz]

A single "All Of The Time, You're On My Mind" is pre-released today from a forthcoming album by Gloria Scott, "So Wonderful" due on 30 Sep 2022.

Gloria Scott's music has been admired for decades on the rare soul scene. She released just one album "What Am I Gonna Do" in 1974 produced by Barry White. It spawned a couple of singles ("What Am I Gonna Do" and "Just As Long As We're Together (In My Life There Will Never Be Another)") followed by a third and the most sought after, issued only in Australia on 7", "(A Case Of) Too Much Lovemakin'" which was covered by Lisa Stansfield many years later in 1993 on "So Natural" and Paprika Soul had a stab at it in 2018. I think from recollection it was also recorded around 2000 by Kim Weston but I think it was a white label 'bootleg' taken from a compilation CD that Ian Levine was behind. All above versions were posted in Nov 2020.

The new single is one of three on the forthcoming album that is from the period she was working with Barry White that were never released.

She recorded her first single in 1964 as Gloria Scott & The Tonettes "I Taught Him" on Warner Bros. which is a rockin' R&B tune written and produced by Sly Stewart (Sly & The Family Stone). It failed to chart and later she became an one of The Ikettes, before meeting Barry White who signed her on a 7 year contract, but owing to his own career taking off, and being signed to a start up label, which Casablanca was at the time, Scott was neglected.

The album has been reissued multiple times on both vinyl and CD such is it's popularity.

She recorded a second album with H. B. Barnum but it was not released and she later became a background singer for Mary Wilson (Supremes).

In more recent times Gloria has become a regular performer at The Baltic Soul Weekender in Germany each summer.

Both her 1974 singles entered R&B chart with the first reaching #74 and second "Just As Long As We're Together (In My Life There Will Never Be Another)" getting to #14 which garnered it an appearance on Soul Train but only with dancers featured in video below not a live appearance. In typical Barry White fashion, both flip sides were instrumentals of the A sides.

A few weeks ago (3 Jun) she released a cover of Joe Smooth's "Promised Land" which will be on the new album.

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Rating:	8.2
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Acid Jazz
Cat No:	None
Date:	20/07/2022
Key/BPM:	5B/78
Price:	£1

Roger Williams [2022-07-20] - The Soulsorts Michael Henderson Retrospective

Well they say 'great minds think alike' (and also 'fools never differ!') and Roger Williams has just sent a 3 hour podcast tribute to Michael Henderson and a SoulStrutter tribute was posted earlier today. Ours was 'thrown together' in haste, whilst Roger's, to use Dave Lee's phrase, is 'produced with love'!

He writes:

"An artist who’s played a major part in the soundtrack to my life, and his passing has made me very sad, I can think of two other artists which have affected me previously when they’ve passed, Gerald Levert and George Duke, and the great Michael Henderson who passed on 19th July 2022 at the age of 71 is another one, it's had me trawling his album collection today and this is a Soulsorts retrospect of all his tracks which are my personal favourites, the man was definitely one of the all time greats in my book, rest well in soulful heaven big man x"

Podcast available on Mixcloud and Podomatic where from the latter you can also download from to listen offline

Playlist:

Stay With Me This Summer (LP: Solid) 1976

Treat Me Like A Man (LP: Solid) 1976

Let Love Enter (LP: Solid) 1976

Be My Girl (LP: Solid) 1976

Valentine Love (LP: Solid) 1976

Goin' Places (LP: Goin' Places) 1977

Won't You Be Mine (LP: Goin' Places) 1977

At the Concert (LP: Goin' Places) 1977

Let Me Love You (LP: Goin' Places) 1977

I'll Be Understanding (LP: Goin' Places) 1977

Take Me I'm Yours (LP: In The Night Time) 1978 (with Rena Scott)

In The Night-Time (LP: In The Night Time) 1978

One To One (LP: In The Night Time) 1978

Whisper In My Ear (LP: In The Night Time) 1978

We Can Go On (LP: In The Night Time) 1978

Am I Special (LP: In The Night Time) 1978

In the Summertime (LP: Do It All) 1979

Everybody Wants to Know Why (LP: Do It All) 1979

Riding (LP: Do It All) 1979

To Be Loved (LP: Do It All) 1979

Wait Until the Rain (LP: Do It All) 1979

You're My Choice (LP: Wide Receiver) 1980

There's No One Like You (LP: Wide Receiver) 1980

What I'm Feeling (LP: Wide Receiver) 1980

Ask The Lonely (LP: Wide Receiver) 1980

Can't We Fall in Love Again (LP: Slingshot) 1981 (with Phyllis Hyman)

Come To Me (LP: Slingshot) 1981 (with Venna Keith)

Never Gonna Give You Up (LP: Slingshot) 1981

Take Care (LP: Slingshot) 1981

In It For The Goodies (LP: Slingshot) 1981 (with Venna Keith)

Assault With A Friendly Weapon (LP: Fickle) 1983

You Wouldn't Have To Work At All (LP: Fickle) 1983

One Step At A Time (LP: Fickle) 1983

Feeling Like Myself Once Again (LP: Fickle) 1983

Back In Love Again (LP: Bedtime Stories) 1986

Tonight I Give In (LP: Bedtime Stories) 1986

Norman Connors feat. Michael Henderson & Phyllis Hyman – We Both Need Each Other (LP: You Are My Starship) 1975

Norman Connors feat. Michael Henderson – You Are My Starship (LP: You Are My Starship)

Norman Connors & Jean Carne – Valentine Love (LP: Saturday Night Special) 1975

AR Santiago [2022] - #SadGirlHours [Empire] (Full EP)

A three track EP "#SadGirlHours" released last Friday (15 Jul 2022) by AR Santiago.

AR Santiago (Ashley-Renee Santiago) is another new artist from Atlanta, GA, although she is originally from Philadelphia, PA. This is only her second release following a debut single "Crazy" in Feb 2019. She was discovered by one half of The Juggernauts duo Maurice 'Verse' Simmonds.

The standout, and the only non-explicit, track is "Tokyo" which features L.A. singer Breanna Marin.

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Rating:	8.4 (for Tokyo)
Explicit:	Y Tracks 1 & 2
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format	EP
Media:	Digital
Label:	Empire
Cat No:	None
Date:	15/07/2022
Key/BPM:	5A/87
Price:	£2.97

Jada Shan'nel [2022] - Harley Quinn [Self Released]

Released on Sunday (17 Jul 2022) is a debut single "Harley Quinn" by Jada Shan’nel (Foxworth) from Atlanta, GA. Neo soul with an R&B edge.

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Rating:	8.2
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul / R&B
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	17/07/2022
Key/BPM:	8A/63
Price:	£1

Esther Phillips [1975] - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes [Kudu #KU-925 F]

I couldn't resist the title of this song as we were sweltering in 39C heat here yesterday and today it's a more bearable 22C. Thankfully, touch wood, the desktop is holding up as the laptop was unbearably slow making creating posts absolute purgatory!

I did have a much better laptop and that gave up the ghost only a couple of weeks ago with the graphics chip overheating (unrepairable!). With that, and two hard drive failures only last week, and the desktop playing up in the last few days, I'm beginning to think I must be in the middle of the 'twilight zone'!

Anyway, What A Diff'rence A Day Makes! ... is a jazz song written in 1934 by Mexican songwriter María Grever with the title "Cuando vuelva a tu lado" ("When I Return to Your Side") and recorded by many including Dinah Washington. An update by Esther Phillips was one of those new releases that got played on the Northern Soul scene back in 1975 from where the term Modern Soul was coined.

Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Modern Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	1975
Key/BPM:	3B/136
Price:	£2-£5 (approx.)

Prolific Official [2022] - Me [Self Released] (Full EP)

Prolific Official is from East London who classifies her music as Neo soul/Jazz with elements of Lo-fi Hip hop. She has released a debut four track EP "Me" on 18 Jul 2022.

The opening track "Sleepless Night" features rap from KWEST and is yet another that uses 'that' sample and was released as a single on 7 May 2021. "Fool" was also released as her debut single 25 Sep 2018 even though she states that "Sleepless Nights" is her debut single, in fact there is another in between that's also not on the EP, "Kissing On Your Tattoos", which is included in the 15 minute live video session included below.

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Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	Y Track 3
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	EP
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	18/07/2022
Price:	£2.76

R.I.P. Michael Henderson (7 Jul 1951 - 19 Jul 2022)

Bassist, singer/songwriter, producer and arranger Michael Henderson has died. He was admitted to hospital two weeks ago shortly after his 71st birthday but never recovered. The news was announced on his facebook page

He was born in Yazoo City, MS, and moved to Detroit in the 60s to work as a session musician playing bass as a 13 year old with The Fantastic Four, Detroit Emeralds, Billy Preston and some Motown acts in the mid sixties. He got his big break after he was spotted by Stevie Wonder who invited him to tour with him. This in turn led to him featuring on ten of Miles Davis' 70s fusion albums. After working with Davis for seven years he started his solo career debuting with "Solid" which contained "Valentine Love" which he later recorded with Jean Carn.

He had a relatively short solo recording career releasing eight albums (seven on Buddah and his final one on EMI-America) between 1976-86 before he retired. He also featured on several Norman Connors albums and did some duets with Phyllis Hyman.

The list of artists he recorded and/or toured with include Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Norman Connors, The Dramatics, Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Womack, Mtume and many others.

He achieved seventeen R&B chart entries (all included in playlist below) with only "Take Me I'm Yours" reaching the Hot 100 at #88 and two others bubbled under at 101 and 103.

Below are two tribute playlists, the first consists of all his A sides which entered US R&B chart and the second cherry picked from his albums which are mainly album only tracks but one or two (e.g."Riding" and "Come To Me") may have appeared as B sides.

Album Discography

with Miles Davis

1970 - The Cellar Door Sessions

1971 - A Tribute to Jack Johnson

1971 - Live-Evil

1972 - On the Corner

1973 - In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall

1974 - Big Fun

1974 - Get Up with It

1976 - Agharta

1975 - Pangaea

1977 - Dark Magus

with Norman Connors

1975 - Norman Connors - Saturday Night Special

1976 - Norman Connors - You Are My Starship

Solo

1976 - Solid

1977 - Goin' Places

1978 - In the Night Time

1979 - Do It All

1980 - Wide Receiver

1981 - Slingshot

1983 - Fickle

1986 - Bedtime Stories

The Singles (A Sides)

Album Tracks / B Sides

Baegod & XL Middleton [2022] - You Not Me (Remix) [Bedroomtrap]

A new single from Baegod & XL Middleton "You Not Me (Remix)" released on 18 Jul 2020 is an 80s throwback. God forbid we start seeing the re-emergence of 'The Mullet'!

XL Middleton was presumably brought in to do the remix for the song originally released almost exactly a tear ago on 23 Jul 2021 (included below for comparison).

Baegod (aka Maryann Hunter) is from Sacramento, CA, and set up her label with producer Sbcve in 2013.

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Rating:	7.6
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Nu Disco
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Bedroomtrap / Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	18/07/2022
Key/BPM:	10A/113
Price:	£1