More digital reissues today from Numero Group. We have actually
featured Harvey Scales and both these songs ("Welcome Home" / "Trackdown") previously as we did a "Harvey Scales - Best Of" in Apr 2020, although it appears that many of the YouTube videos we used
at the time have now been removed, so will have to revisit.
"Welcome Home" was recorded by late great Walter Jackson on Okeh in 1965 (and again with
a longer version in 1976 on "Feeling Good") credited to C. (Chip) Taylor
(real name James Wesley Voight, son of actor Jon Voight, who, if you didn't
already know is the father of Angelina Jolie), yet the Scales single credits
it to Jackson. A few others have covered the song including Garnet Mimms,
Frank Dell, P.P. Arnold (one time member of the Ikettes), Dusty Springfield
and Taylor recorded it himself on "Hit Man" in 1996.
Scales stamps his own mark on the song which starts off as a deep soul
ballad and then towards the end at 4:10 turns into a frantic funky dancer,
so don't be lulled into thinking that as you've heard other versions that it
will be more or less the same.
The flip, "Trackdown", is a thumping Northern Soul dancer written by Scales and Magic Touch
label owner Lenny LaCour. The record was originally released on
LaCour's Magic Touch in 1969 and now fetches high prices (c£300).
Scales' finest moment, commercially at least, was writing Johnnie Taylor's
#1 hit "Disco Lady" in 1976. He was from Milwaukee and began working with
the Moorer's who later formed The Esquires. He died in 2019 aged 78,
although his given birthdate is 1940 on Discogs and 1942 on Wiki.
Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.
NOTE there is a longer version HERE but the uploader has not enabled embedding
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