Spencer Wiggins [2023] - Holding On To A Dying Love / I'm At The Breaking Point + Let’s Talk It Over [Hit And Run#HR 1555]

The second of two vinyl releases from Hit And Run contains three tracks from Spencer Winnins' Fame period. It covers several bases, a southern soul deep cut, a crossover soul and one for the Northern Soulies.

"Let's Talk It Over" is an unreleased Goldwax recording which gained a release in 2009 on Kent Select having been released on Torch and Soul Series around 1996. The song first saw the light of day on a 1991 Japanese compilation CD "Goldwax Collection" released by Vivid Sound who had licensed Goldwax recordings for release. It transpires that this song (as well as others) had been sold to Fame but were inadvertently included. The Kent Select one is the only one 'properly' licensed.  In addition the Torch release is a different mix with an organ (listen @ 0:13 and again @ 1:26 below).

The crossover track "I'm At The Breaking Point" is another unreleased recording from 1969 (not the Brad Lundy song of the same name also recorded by Deena Johnson). It was also first released on Kent Select as a single in 2011 having been included on Kent's Spencer Wiggins compilation "Feed The Flame - The Fame And XL Recordings" CD. The flip is a cover of Bettye Swann's "Make Me Yours".

Finally the A side, "Holding On To A Dying Love", was previously unreleased until it featured on Kent's "Feed The Flame - The Fame And XL Recordings" in 2010 which also includes both of the B side songs. It was also recorded by Otis Clay, an album only track from  on "Trying To Live My Life Without You" in 1972 on Hi.

Wiggins left secular music in 1973 leaving his birth town Memphis for Miami and became a deacon and choir director at the New Birth Baptist Church. He died in Feb '23 aged 81

It's available now paypal hitandrunsoul45@gmail.com (as 'friends and family').

£15 each + £3 UK postage (good for 1-3 records) OVERSEAS - please pm for current postage rates.

Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Southern Soul / Crossover / Northern Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	7" Vinyl
Label:	Hit And Run
Cat No:	HR 1555
Date:	17/09/2023
Key/BPM:	N/A
Price:	£15

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