The Adverage Caucasion Church

1. Service and Sunday School are over by 10:30a. m..

2. All cars in the parking lot are either new or three years old.

3. The Pastor delegates his preaching and does not preach every Sunday or every service..

4. When the Pastor retires, they don't have a problem retiring.

5. No one leaves the choir during the entire service.

6. There is only one choir.

7. Choir rehearsal is only once a month, not every week.

8. There is children's church every Sunday, not once every six months.

9. There are 52-inch flat screen TV's posted in the sanctuary, which is where
announcements are posted and not read audibly.

10. No afternoon and night service.

11. You can't tell the pastor's car because everyone drives a nice car.

12. Women wear less jewelry because they know less means more.

13. Communion takes 30 minutes, not two hours.

14 Communion is packaged together and not served in four gold trays.

15. Babies are not passed around in church; they sit only with their parents.

16. MEN DRESS IN POLO AND DOCKERS.

17. Scriptures and bible verses are posted on the FLAT SCREENS IN THE SANCTUARY.

18. Caucasians know the difference between winter white and summer white.

19. Mothers feed their kids FRUIT, GRAINS, AND ANIMAL CRACKERS before service.

20. 80% of the congregation wears real furs in the winter and don't walk in service late to show them off.

21. IT TAKES TWO DEACONS TO COUNT $10,000+ in offering.

22. There's only one offering.

23. 95% of the congregation is married



The Average African-American Church :


1. Service starts at 11 a. m., but 50% of the members arrive at 12:45p. m.

2. All the cars in the parking lot have been freshly washed.

3. The pastor doesn't come out until 45 minutes after service has started.

4. Only 30% of the choir is on time.

5. The choir discusses ten minutes over which song to sing.

6. The choir sings the song, but the musician doesn't know how to play it.

7. The parents whip the kids during worship.

8. The audience has to help the announcement clerk pronounce the words on the church bulletin.

9. Two of the church deacons have gold teeth or NO teeth!!!!!

10. The members socialize and speak during the tithes and offering.

11. When church is over, no one discusses the pastor's message: they just compliment each other's outfits and hair.

12. Members pay $20, but stand there waiting for $18 in change back.

13. The single women give each other signals when a handsome guest minister is invited.

14. You find notes after church that say: 'That's not her hair,' 'Who is that baby daddy?'
'He need to sit down,' 'What you fix for dinner?' 'I know she ain't got that on,' 'Let me borrow $1 for offering'

15. It takes eight deacons two hours to count $400.

16. There is a slot on the tithe envelope marked 'Building Fund.'

17. That afternoon service is either: Choir Day, Usher Day, Or Men and Women's Day
(don't forget Youth Day, Education Day, Pastor's Aide Day, Hospitality Day, New Member Day,
Church Anniversary Day, Pastor's Anniversary Day, and Revival)..

18. The Pastor's car has either a rag top or rims.

19. The women have on expensive heels, but have house shoes in their bags.

20. You see more than five people pass someone gum or a

peppermint.

21. Someone will feed a baby Cheetos, sugar cookies, crackers, or vanilla wafers in the sanctuary.

22. Men will have on suits in the color of bright yellow, lime

green, hot pink, sky blue, and candy apple red with shoes to match.

23. People will have a $80 bible, but will have to look in the

table of contents to find the text of the pastor's message.


The great thing is that if you are familiar with any of these examples, then at least you are in church.

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Alright now Big Papa I thought this might help to get your laugh on !!!!1
That was funny! Sad part is...most of it is true. LOL

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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. The Butlers recorded their first single in 1960 titled "Loveable Girl". Left to right John Fitch, T Conway, Frankie Beverly, Sonny Nicholson and Joe Collins. 

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