The latest vinyl release from Soul4Real on it's offshoot imprint
Jai Alai, specifically set up to reissue CD only tracks on vinyl for
the first time, consists of two tracks from David Sea's 1996 album "Groove Mission", namely "Back In The Day" and "Back In Love Again".
The single is available to pre-order now from Soul4Real (for release on 27 Jan 2023) via PayPal soul4realrecordlabel@gmail.com €14 plus postage (1-5 copies) (€3 (Spain) €6.90 (UK & Europe) €10.45 (rest of the world)).
David Sea was born in 1948 in Sumter County, AL, and raised in a
suburb of Birmingham called Hueytown. Like so many soul singers,
he began singing gospel music from the age of 5 and joined the family
group The Spiritual Nightingales. In 1970 he formed David Sea &
The Question Marks who later became known as David Sea & The
Uptown Movement which was more of a rock n roll group.
He recorded a couple of solo singles in the early 70s at Neal
Hemphill's Sound Of Birmingham Studios written and produced by Jerry
Weaver. I don't believe that they were released at the time but two
sides ("Believe In Me" & "Let's Just Get Together") appeared on a
Shotgun 7" in 2007 after featuring on a 2006 compilation "The Birmingham Sound: The Soul Of Neal Hemphill (Vol 1)" with another track "Work Hard" featuring on Vol. 2.
Whether or not any other material was recorded, which is highly
likely, he didn't surface again until 1981 with a single "Angel (You're The Sunshine)". It was initially released by Birmingham label Hy-Tyde (which is
most likely a private press as this is the only release) and then
picked up by Ted Jarrett who owned a Nashville based label T-Jaye (and
also owned Ref-O-Ree and Spar and a few other labels) who re-released
it in Aug 1982. It had a big underground following on the UK modern soul
scene.
The song didn't seem to register at all in the U.S. and only one of
his singles, his last, charted in 1991 with "Shake (You Make Me Shake)" on Magic City. In between he released around eight singles from
1982-91. Two for T-Jaye, Two for Crown Limited (owned by Hemphill)
("Do It Right Now" / "Who's Been Warming My Oven" and "Night After Night" / "When Did You Start To Stop Loving Me") and the remaining six on Birmingham label Magic City. He released
two albums for the label "An Ocean Apart" (1988) followed by "Born To Sing" (1991).
After a worldwide tour he became popular in Japan, in particular, and proceeded to release a further three albums for Victor
Entertainment between 1993-96, the third of which ("Groove Mission") is where the two tracks on this release were selected from. His final album appeared in 2006 on a
Jackson, MS, label, Park Place, linked to Frederick Knight.
It is said that he was close to replacing Dennis Edwards (who was a
neighbour from Fairfield, AL) when he left The Temptations in 1984 but
opted for a solo career. There are further Temptations connections as
Eddie Kendricks lived in nearby Ensley where he met Paul Williams and
along with Kell Osbourne and another (some sources quote Jerome
Averette and another Willie Waller) formed The Cavaliers, later moving
to Cleveland, OH, becoming The Primes and then moving to Detroit. They
disbanded in 1961 when Osbourne left for California and a chance
meeting with Otis Williams of The Distants resulted in a merger of the
two groups to become The Temptations.
In more recent times, rather than replacing Dennis Edwards in The
Temptations, he has joined forces with him along with Paul Williams,
Jr. (the son of Paul Williams), Michael Pattillo, Chris Arnold and
Curtis 'CJ' touring as
The Temptations Review
and released a live album "Live At Casino San Pablo" in 2001 which consists of classic Temptations songs. A video trailer
below shows them performing (Sea on far right/foreground of photo) and they have an active
facebook page
which indicates that they are still performing together at the turn of the new
year.
| Rating: | 8.6 |
| Explicit: | N |
| Genre/Style: | Modern Soul |
| Format: | Single |
| Media: | 7" Vinyl |
| Label: | Jai Alai |
| Cat No: | JAR08 |
| Date: | 27/01/2023 |
| Key/BPM: | N/A |
| Price: | €14 + postage |
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