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The cottage industry that was Dave Hamilton’s studio has revealed
more high quality soul tracks from the plentiful stash of tapes.
? This year’s offerings include some names not just restricted to the
Detroit area. Carolyn Franklin, Aretha’s sister, recorded four
albums for RCA between 1969 and 1976 (see CDKEND 265). By the
early 80s she was semi-retired from secular singing and caring for
her father Reverend CL Franklin who had been shot and suffered a
five-year coma. His church the New Bethel Missionary Baptist
Church was across the road from Dave Hamilton’s home and
basement studios, which explains how a singing star came to
record at the inauspicious location.
? Buddy Lamp was a Detroiter who recorded extensively, having
almost twenty 45s out under his name on labels as big as Duke and
ABC. His recordings with Dave Hamilton were made in the mid-70s.
The Dynamics were a celebrated Detroit group who had national
releases and several R&B hits; they recorded a superb mid-tempo
harmony soul song with Dave in the early 80s. Possibly the most
famous act of them all was included as a member of the female
vocal group the Del Phis; Martha Reeves who soon had everybody
dancing. Motown fans will also be pleased to hear Rita DuShay’s
original recording of ‘Steal Away’, written by Dave with Clarence
Paul and sung by Barbara McNair on her 1966 Motown LP.
? Dave’s own roster of acts provide many of the tracks: Little Ann’s
funky ‘I Gotta Have You’ has only appeared on a Kent 45 (now
deleted). Chico & Buddy’s TCB release ‘Party Time’ gets its first
Ace release. Its flip was Dave’s own in-demand instrumental
‘Cracklin’ Bread’ featured here with some previously unheard vocal
overdubs which take it to a new level. His ‘When I Say Groove’ is
another exciting discovery. The big, growling voice of O.C. Tolbert
gives us a new-to-Kent song, ‘Love Bandit’, and also a very
alternate long rap intro to ‘All I Want Is You’.
? Dave’s gospel and blues talents are revealed with Glemie 'Blues
Boy' Derrell’s TCB 45 ‘Four O’Clock Blues’ and Little Stevie
Reynolds’ awesome Demo Ristic single ‘Moving On’.
? There are new vocal group offerings from Nightchill and Anxiety
and fine female vocals from Elaine Porter and Bobbie Dee. Tobi
Lark’s ‘Challenge My Love’ is in re-mastered multi-track quality
with an extended finish while the esteemed vocal group the Tokays
give their version of Dave’s classic ‘Marriage Is Just A State Of Mind