Renaldo Domino [2023] - I Love My Girl / I'm Hip To Your Game [Epsilon #EPS 019]

Back in Jan 2021 we did a full feature on Renaldo Domino so are very pleased to see that the latest release from Yann Vatiste's Epsilon label are two sides of his first single released on the tiny Arnell label, "I Love My Girl" / "I'm Hip To Your Game" in 1967.

However, Yann has informed us that, unfortunately, the quality of the original Arnell master tape wasn't of sufficient quality to use (as we stated in the feature a couple of years ago it was a low budget production) so it is the later 1968 Smash release that has been used, which to be fair is probably the better version.

We won't regurgitate the previous article here, just summarise, so if you wish to learn more about the artist then visit "Renaldo Domino - Discography". He recorded some great songs with that Chicago mid/late 60s sound, sadly none of them dented the R&B charts.

Domino is a nickname given to him as his voices was 'as sweet as sugar' and Domino was the name of a sugar brand in the US. His real name is Renaldo Jones and after retiring from music when released by Twinight in 1971, he made a comeback in recent years with several singles. 

His first single was as Renaldo Domino & The Orientations and are the two songs released by Epsilon, with the above caveat. The songs were written by two obscure writers, Melvin Johns who wrote the A side and the B side with Nate Taylor, and produced by William Sandy Johnson (who also worked with LaShawn Collins and Wendy Woods, both of whom have seen action on NS dancefloors) and a J. Parnell.

I believe that this is the first ever vinyl reissue for either side, although it appears "I'm Hip To Your Game" was released on a 'dodgy' looking CD "The Best of Northern Soul, Vol. 4" issued by Malibu Public Library in 2019.

Available now from Epsilon Records £17.50 incl. UK P&P or £22.50 worldwide.

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Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Northern Soul / Reissue
Format:	Single
Media:	7" Vinyl
Label:	Epsilon
Cat No:	EPS 109
Date:	03/02/2023
Price:	£17.50 (UK) or £22.50 (worldwide) incl. P&P

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