RarePhillySax

Yes, there have been six years since I opened my blog. Although I'm often tired to present articles, I love it and I will never stop doing it. As I remember at some time 5 years ago, I said that when I will find the vinyl of Grady Tate and Gwynne Michaels ,  I will stop presenting articles on my blog. I found the vinyl and now I say that I will continue doing it. In many occasions, the articles I have presented appeared for the first time in the world. I always try to present articles concerning special and rare vinyls. First of all, I want to thank all my visitors. Especially I want to thank some musicians who gave me the opportunity to come in contact with them last year. Special thanks to Lee Mays who is a real gentleman and helped me on my article Lee Mays - Real Love (Upcoming CD) .  For the past 15-17 years Lee Mays has written several songs which were " stashed away ". The songs are available for the world to hear. For Nick Fradiani what ...

--> Grady Tate Starting my article, it is worthy to mention that the legendary Grady Tate is one of my favorite singers, although he became known as a drummer of jazz music. It was a night of October 2008. I was in Kavala in Greece. I tried to buy a 12" record by Grady Tate & Gwynne Michaels on ebay. I lost it in the last second. It was sold for $ 100.99. I was very disappointed. I remember this night like now. However I believed that I would find it some day. Gwynne Michaels I started to search in web concerning this record. I found only a mention on  Jet Magazine of June 1984. Later I was looking concerning Gwynne Michaels. I found some information about some live performances she did in New York during the 90s and later. In one of those performances, Gwynne Michaels appeared in June 1990 at New York Women's Jazz Festival  along with the bassist Carline Ray , the pianist Bertha Hope , the trumpeter Jean Davis and the saxophonist Carol Sudh...

I decided to present another obscure record 45". It is a special song which reminds me of jazz standard songs. However it is an original song which was written by Gael Smith in the late 70s. He performed under the name Gayle Smith . His real name is Gael Gorman Smith and was born in 1946. He released a single " Hey Little Girl " on Tama Records in 1979. It was recorded at T.J.Productions, San Antonio, Texas. Arranged by Mike Feliciano . Note: The above posted single is not played in full

I saw it for the first time on ebay several years ago. However I had the opportunity to buy this record in Athens. In fact this album is not soul. It was influenced from AOR and pop music. Bama was a studio group from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The members of the group were Terry Skinner , Ken Bell and Jerry Lee Wallace . All of theses guys were songwriters on Welk Music Group. They released one and only album in 1979 on RCA/Free Flight Records. It was recorded at East Avalon Recorders, Inc, Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The self titled song " Touch Me When We're Dancing " was released as a single on the same label. The same song was also recorded by Carpenters in 1981. The album was produced by Jim Vienneau and Bama. I have chosen two songs. The first song was named " Summer Nights (Are Made For Making Love) " and the other " Touch Me When We're Dancing ". Both songs were penned by themselves. I want to mention that the member...