Tag Archives: Joe Simon

LOVE TRAIN – THE GAMBLE AND HUFF SONGBOOK.

♦ June 26, 2025 ♦ Leave a comment

Love Train – The Gamble and Huff Songbook. Label: Kent Soul. Format: CD. Release Date: 27th June 2025. Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff have been familiar faces on the Philly music scene since the early sixties. The pair first played on a session by Candy and The Kisses in October 1964. Gamble cowrote ‘The 81’ …

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PAUL WELLER PRESENTS THAT SWEET SWEET MUSIC.

♦ March 26, 2025 ♦ Leave a comment

Paul Weller Presents That Sweet Sweet Music. Label: Ace Format: CD. Release Date: 28th March 2025. From an early age, soul music has played an important part in Paul Weller’s life. He grew up listening to, and buying soul singles. This was just the start. Then during his ten years with The Jam, the group …

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SPRING NYC SOUL.

♦ February 14, 2020 ♦ Leave a comment

Spring NYC Soul. Label: Kent Soul. Spring Records was founded in New York by Bill Spitalsky, Roy Rifkind and Julie Rifkind and based at 161 West ‘54th’ Street. This was also home to two new imprints, Event and Posse Records which became part of the city’s thriving and vibrant music scene. The three labels released …

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BACK TO THE RIVER-MORE SOUTHERN SOUL STORIES 1961-1978.

♦ December 16, 2015 ♦ 3 Comments

BACK TO THE RIVER-MORE SOUTHERN SOUL STORIES 1961-1978. With Christmas just around the corner, Kent Soul, an imprint of Ace Records, have just released the perfect present for the soul man or woman in your life, Back To The River-More Southern Soul Stories 1961-1978. This luxurious, and lovingly compiled three disc box set, features seventy-five …

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THE LONDON AMERICAN LABEL YEAR BY YEAR 1966.

♦ August 29, 2015 ♦ Leave a comment

THE LONDON AMERICAN LABEL YEAR BY YEAR 1966. For a generation of British teenagers who embarked upon a lifelong love affair with music during the fifties and sixties, the London American Recordings will forever have a place in their heart. London American Recordings was the label that introduced a British music lovers to American pop, …

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JOE SIMON-DROWNING IN THE SEA OF LOVE.

♦ January 4, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment

JOE SIMON-DROWNING IN THE SEA OF LOVE. Although Joe Simon had been around since the 1959, releasing his debut album Joe Simon in 1963, for the next ten years, he struggled to make a commercial breakthrough. Granted Joe enjoyed a string on minor hit singles on Vee Jay Records and the Sound Stage label. Unfortunately, …

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