Ricky Le Blanc
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  • 1.
    With Love Always
  • 2.
    What's The Use
  • 3.
    Oldies roy Northern Soul - The Chymes - My Baby's Gone Away
  • 4.
    He'll Be Back
  • 5.
    Escorts - Day By Day (Every Minute Of The Hour) - Underground Oldies Vol. 7(1)
  • 6.
    Tommy James & The Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion
  • 7.
    Latin Olides - Art Laboe's 'Dedicated To You' - 02 - Im Still Here
  • 8.
    The Sylvers ft.Foster Sylvers - Misdemeanor
  • 9.
    The Enchantments - Don´t Fight The Feeling
  • 10.
    Love Jones
  • 11.
    A Penny For Your Thoughts
  • 12.
    Black Pearl
  • 13.
    Fools Paradise
  • 14.
    The Mad Lads - Don't Have to Shop Around - The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (5 of 9)
  • 15.
    Don't Waste Your Time
  • 16.
    Stealing Watermelons
  • 17.
    It Only Takes a Minute Girl
  • 18.
    My Rose
  • 19.
    BRIGHTER SIDE OF DARKNESS - (Can You) Remember The Rain
  • 20.
    The Beginning Of My End
  • 21.
    THE CONTROLLERS-DISTANT LOVER
  • 22.
    Court Of Love
  • 23.
    Terry Huff & Special Delivery - I Destroyed Your Love (Parts 1&2)
  • 24.
    Why Should We Stop Now
  • 25.
    I've Got Love for My Baby
  • 26.
    Satisfaction
  • 27.
    Here I Go Again
  • 28.
    Smokey Robinson - Baby Baby Don't Cry
  • 29.
    Can This Be Real
  • 30.
    Persuaders - Love's gonna pack up
  • 31.
    Try Love Again
  • 32.
    Low Rider Oldies - Brenton Woods - Give me some kind of sign girl
  • 33.
    Still Waters Run Deep
  • 34.
    18 With A Bullet
  • 35.
    One Light Two Lights
  • 36.
    Brenton Woods - Oogum Boogum
  • 37.
    McFadden & Whitehead-Ain`t no stoping us now
  • 38.
    I'm So Proud
  • 39.
    I Wish It Would Rain
  • 40.
    Think About Tomorrow
  • 41.
    Get up and Get Down
  • 42.
    The Tams - Untie Me (1962)
  • 43.
    5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years Of Love)
  • 44.
    Get on Up
  • 45.
    What Kind Of Fool
  • 46.
    By The Time I Get To Phoenix
  • 47.
    Dreaming's Out Of Season (with The Montclairs)
  • 48.
    Sad, Sad, Story
  • 49.
    Not On The Outside
  • 50.
    Escorts - Day By Day (Every Minute Of The Hour) - Underground Oldies Vol. 7(1)
  • 51.
    Curtis Mayfield (Dead Presidents Soundtrack) - If There's Hell Below
  • 52.
    Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers - Malinda
  • 53.
    Look Over Your Shoulder
 

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At 5:47pm on June 19, 2011, maurice f. hill sr. said…
Thanks Ricky for putting me up on this website!!!
At 7:01pm on February 19, 2011, Calihoney said…
Red!Hope all is fine brother.Posted a few pics of Ollan.Enjoy,Cali...
At 3:40pm on February 10, 2011, Lydell Jackson said…

Thank you for the complement my brother! You know I'm always tryin' ta represent the best of the best in all I do! LOL

Peace, Love and Courage to you and yours!

At 1:15pm on February 10, 2011, Shelley "SoleMann" King said…
Good Afternoon My Brother From Another Mother
At 8:45pm on February 9, 2011, Music Maker said…
At 11:25am on January 8, 2011, Shelley "SoleMann" King said…
Weekend Greetings To You My Brother From Another Mother
At 4:39pm on November 28, 2010, Tonya Anderson said…
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At 11:44am on October 26, 2010, Shelley "SoleMann" King said…
What up to my Brother from another mother
At 2:01am on October 25, 2010, Calihoney said…
What's going on redbone?lol

 
 
 

Introspection

Entr'acte

  1. play Norman Brown — Night Drive
  2. play Norman Brown — Feeling
  3. play Norman Brown — Still
  4. play Miles Davis — miles 1
  5. play miles 2
  6. play miles 3
  7. play miles 4
  8. play miles 5
  9. play Marvin Gaye — I Met A Little Girl
  10. play Santana — 01 Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
  11. play Santana — 02 Black Magic Woman-Gypsy Queen
  12. play Mongo — 02. Afro Blue



The history of the Butlers/Raw Soul is dense, but for all of us music nerds, that's normal. It is not totally clear what year the Butlers actually formed but they released their first single in 1963 on Liberty Records. That single was "She Tried To Kiss Me" and another single followed on Guyden entitled "Lovable Girl." After the Guyden single the Butlers took a break not recording another record until the single "Laugh, Laugh, Laugh" was released on the Phila label in 1966. The group also backed Charles Earland and Jean Wells on one Phila single ("I Know She Loves Me"). 


As you might be noticing, the Butlers were doing a fair amount of recording but not achieving much success. The group's recordings sold regionally but never had the promotion to make an impact on the national scene. After the single with Phila, the Butlers moved to the Fairmount label (part of the Cameo-Parkway family) and released a handful of singles, some being reissued singles of the past. The Butlers were with Fairmount for 1966-67 and then moved to Sassy Records. Sassy released the group's greatest single (in my opinion) "Love (Your Pain Goes Deep)" b/w "If That's What You Wanted." A copy of that 45 sold for just under $500 last summer on eBay. Even though that isn't that much in the world of record collecting--it's still a hefty sum. The Butlers released another single on Sassy ("She's Gone" b/w "Love Is Good") that appears to be even 
harder to come by then the "Love (Your Pain Goes Deep)" single.

 

The true history become a bit blurred here as the AMG biography states that the Butlers last record was released on C.R.S. in 1974 (". However, between 1971 and that single, Frankie Beverly formed a group called Raw Soul and released a number of singles. Some of the songs recorded by Beverly during this period are "While I'm Alone," "Open Up Your Heart," (both on the Gregor label) and "Color Blind." "Color Blind" was released by the Eldorado label and rerecorded by Maze. Beverly's big break came when Marvin Gaye asked Raw Soul to back him on a tour. Gaye helped Beverly/Raw Soul get a contract at Capitol. Beverly decided to take the group in a different direction, a name change occurred, and Maze was created. 

The above isn't the most complete history of Beverly but hopefully someone will know a way to get in touch with the man or his management because a comprehensive pre-Maze history needs to be done on Frankie Beverly (his real name is Howard, by the way). Below you'll find every Frankie Beverly (pre-Maze) song available to me right now ("Color Blind" will be up soon). 

If you have a song that is not included below, shoot it over to funkinsoulman (at) yahoo.com and it will go up in the next Frankie Beverly post (later this week--highlighting Maze). Also, if you have any more information please share your knowledge. The Butlers material has been comp-ed sporadically (usually imports) but the entire Maze catalog has been reissued and is available. 

Enjoy.  "She Kissed Me" (Fairmount, 1966 or 1967) 
 
 "I Want To Feel I'm Wanted" (not sure which label or year) "Laugh, Laugh, Laugh" (Phila, 1966) "Because Of My Heart" (Fairmount, 1966 or 1967)
   
 "Love (Your Pain Goes Deep)" (Sassy, 1967)
   
 "If That's What You Wanted" (Sassy, 1967)
 



Frankie Beverly is one of those cats that has lasting power. He started in the music business doing a tour with doo wop group the Silhouettes and then formed his own group called the Blenders. The Blenders never recorded a single, Beverly wouldn't appear on wax until forming the Butlers a few years later. Along with Beverly, the Butlers included Jack "Sonny" Nicholson, Joe Collins, John Fitch, and Talmadge Conway.

Beverly would later enjoy great success fronting Maze and Conway would become a
well-known penning Double Exposure's
"Ten Percent" and the Intruders' "Memories Are Here To Stay." 
 While Maze is a phenomenal group, Beverly's work before that group will always stand out as his best (imo).

The Butlers produced tunes that most Northern Soul fans would kill for and Raw Soul gave the funksters something to pursue. If, by chance, you know of a way to get in touch with Frankie Beverly or his management, please drop me an e-mail. It would be absolutely great to do an interview with him about his pre-Maze work. He's still playing out, most recently doing a New Year's Eve show in Atlanta.
:: Funkinsoulman ::

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