"🤣🤣🤣...Treasure is our site."
Frankie Valentine
I have found a treasure! Oh my goodness!
Frankie Valentine is a well known DJ and producer but information about him has been one of the best-kept secrets in the British music industry so far! As one of the pioneering club DJ's during the dance music revolution in the eighties, Frankie's love for new sounds quickly established him as one of the major British exponents of dance music. His talents were inevitably recognized abroad where he has spent much of his time DJing and producing.
Frankie began his DJ career in the mid 70s in London lifting reggae sound system speaker boxes at the tender age of 13. After serving his apprenticeship as a box boy he then began to explore his musical tastes more in depth. Some of You may remember. Frankie as one of london's cutting edge House/Electronic and leftfield DJ's during the 80's/90's and beyond.
Some of his past residencies in London include: Ronnie Scotts in Soho, The Limelight, The Park in Kensington, The Rotary Club held at The Gardening Club - Covent Garden, Madame JoJo's in Soho, Right Area @ Plastic People and The End. He also held a residency abroad at the famous Tresor in Berlin. He has also supported many internationally known acts such as: Electribe 101, 808 State, Underground Resistance, Yoruba Jazz People, Bah Samba and Ultra Nate.
In 1990 his first recording, "Aerotec" was released on Scien Records in Japan and since then, he has recorded on countless labels around the globe Frankie has been known to take on the occasional remix, remixing artists such as Blaze, Leroy Burgess, Chari Chari, Revsionaries featuring Alexis P. Suter and Nicky Lawrence.
Frankie Valentine has yielded a journey of artistic integrity, developing and experimenting in an industry growing in quantity, and demanding in quality and originality. He remains true to his originality, through the confides of the industry.
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Comment by Edie Antoinette on July 24, 2009 at 8:02am
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Not sure why those little lines appear in front of the "http" on the 2nd 3rd and 4th url's. They should not be there. And I am just like my Daddy I'm always noticing. An imperfect perfectionist..LOL
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Here's the four tracks up there. I was thinking that you need the url's too for your LL player.
http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2164368281?profile=original
http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2164369789?profile=original
http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2164372363?profile=original
http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2164375525?profile=original
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LOL!!! You always make me smile and laugh out loud. Thank you. Mi casa es Su casa.
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Comment by Lydell Jackson on June 13, 2009 at 1:35pm
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I'm affraid to join your Lab site...I may get lost in the Lab and never come out!! (LOL)...I'll do that later...Thank you E. I will only use this privalege for my personal enjoyment. You are such a treasure to the world...
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LOL!! I started out putting him in HotHouse, and I still will--however, until people come in there more, I wanted this to be featured more broadly...so I did him as a blog first. I'll do it now though and change the order of the play.
Personally, I think the second one should go first--powerful stuff right there!!!! Whew!!
Now: You have full access to everything that I post. Just place your cursor on the track within the player above,
then right-click it. a box will open giving the option to "download this track". Ignore that little arrow that appears on the upper-right of the track. That's just some Yahoo mess. It doesn't lead to anything. Take whatever you want from wherever you want. Another option is join my Lab site and I will make you admin--that way you have carte blanche to ALL of my treasures.
For some reason the number 2 track isn't playing through. Let me investigate. I can't be havin that! LOL
By the by: I went berserk last night when I found Frankie...I mean I went mad!!! LOL
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E,
I need all this stuff on a CD...How can I do that? U got me hooked like a big FISH!!! (ROFL)
Why didn't you put this in the HotHouse group?
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I would love to use these tracks as the intro for "Living Legacy" if I knew what he was sayin! Especially track 2
Amazing...Quite Amazing!!! The rythms on the second track have so many layers that your body can only shake and quiver tryin' to follow all that percussive lead....OUTSTANDING...I got to get up now (LOL)...*dancing wildly* uncontrollable...my peoples callin' me now...
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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. 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.
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