Festivals - Baby Show It / Take Your Time

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Festivals - Baby Show It / Take Your Time

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Festivals - Baby Show It / Take Your Time (Colossus CS-136, 1970)

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Une petite perle de Soul "Old School" datée de 1970 se cache sur la face B "Take Your Time" : l'émotion effleure à fleur de peau, les voix fondantes se conjuguent avec les arrangements somptueux de Johnny Pate... :drunk:
Festivals est un quatuor de Philadelphie qui a sévi d'abord sur le label Smash à partir de 1966 pour enregistrer après leurs meilleurs singles sur Colossus, le label de Jerry Ross, dont celui-ci.

Take Your Time :


Et pour enfoncer le clou écoutez cette autre face B sur Colossus (CS-122 ) "So In Love" (qui a été repris sur Gordy en 1972) :
So In Love :


C'est un festival de faces B pour un groupe de Soul de série B ;)
Modifié en dernier par Revpop le 16 mars 2019 19:06, modifié 1 fois.


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Festivals - Take your time

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"Take Your Time" vraiment très bon mais "So In Love" avec les violons :drunk: c'est juste par moment SUBLIME.
"Music Makes You Move" : Funkhouse Express (1974) so... "HIT THAT ONE!" : JB
"They Call Us Wild But We Got Soul" : Wild Magnolias (1975)
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Revpop a écrit :Festivals est un quatuor de Philadelphie qui a .....
Pourquoi Philadelphie ?
Parce que Take Your Time est sur cette compilation : https://www.discogs.com/fr/Various-This ... er/1160303 ou tu l'as lu ici : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw0Z-mXd5Lk

Je pense plutot que ce quatuor vocal ( Vaughn et Woody Price, Earl Moss et Leon Thomas ) est originaire de Dallas au Texas.
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Tu as tout à fait raison Silverfox, j'ai pris l'info via ces deux sources.
J'en ai trouvé une autre qui me parait nettement plus fiable et qui corrobore ton hypothèse. Elle date d'avril 2015 et elle est signée George O'Leary (ici).
Je la cite intégralement :
"The Festivals are one "Northern Soul" group whose music has been almost totally overlooked when it comes to reformatting in quality CD compilations, leaving mainly scattered used 45-rpm discs such as those covered here - a few of which aren't even currently available through Amazon sources. From Dallas, Texas they were singer/songwriter Earl Moss, brothers Vaughn and Woody Price and Leon Thomas, a close-harmony quartet who, although getting their recording start with subsidiary labels of the giant Chicago-based Mercury Records, never were given the nation-wide promotion necessary to produce a nation-wide hit - at least while with those labels.

Take, for example, their first single, the Moss-penned I'll Always Love You which emerged in September 1966 b/w Music as Smash 2056, a subsidiary launched in 1961 by Shelby Singleton. The reception it received in a few major northern urban areas should have resulted in a vigorous national promotional effort right across the spectrum - but it didn't. And that went double for their next release, the May 1967 You've Got The Makings Of A Lover. Also written by Moss, and paired with High, Wide And Handsome as Smash 2091, their perfectly blended voices had "hit" written all over it and is now regarded as their best among Northern Soul collectors.

That casual approach by Smash wasn't helped at all by the infrequency of releases, evidenced by their next single, the upbeat Hey, Girl (written by Moss and Thomas and not the same as the 1963 Freddie Scott hit), which didn't come out until late October 1968 b/w Not Gonna Let Her as Smash 2196. That, too, should have been seen somewhere on the R&B charts at least. In fact, it did so well on a local/regional basis that another Mercury subsidiary based in Chicago, Blue Rock Records, re-released it early in 1969 b/w a new cut, Checkin' Out, as Blue Rock 4076, again with decent local attention but never breaking nation-wide.

That finally changed when they relocated to Philadelphia and Jerry Ross' small independent, Colossus Records where their first two singles broke nationwide. You're Gonna Make It (written by Moss with the Price brothers), peaked at # 28 R&B, # 114 on the Billboard Pop Hot 100 Bubble Under entries and # 99 Cash Box b/w So In Love as Colossus 122 in Sept 1970, followed in March-April 1971 by the Moss-penned # 29 R&B/# 116 Bubble Under Baby, Show It b/w Take Your Tiome as Colossus 136. With nowhere near the promotional clout of the Mercury labels, these serve as graphic illustration that, with even modest publicity, they had the talent to go far. You're Gonna Make It seems to be their only side reformatted for CD and can be found in the compilations Colossus Gold and The Heritage-Colossus Story.

Moss and the Moss-Thomas collaboration also wrote both sides of their final Colossus release, Gee Baby b/w Give Her Up which came out later in 1971 as Colossus 146, but failed to dent any national charts. In the summer of 1972, the Motown Empire gave them a single shot with So In Love b/w Green Grow The Lilacs as Gordy 7120, but again neither side charted. In 1975, Moss and Thomas were part of the large backing vocal ensemble on the side You Put The Shine On Me in the Epic LP "Night Journey" by Doc Severinsen.

If someone could collate the rights to all 14 sides by The Festivals it would be well-received, I'm sure, by Northern Soul devotees"
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