Jack Ashford: Just Productions / Various: Jack Ashford: Just Productions / Various
Jack Ashford: Just Productions / Various: Jack Ashford: Just Productions / Various
Format: CD
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Artist: Jack Ashford: Just Productions / Various
Label: Kent
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 029667244725
Genre: Soul/R & B
UK collection. When Jack Ashford and Shelly Haimes' Pied Piper Productions folded in late 1967, Ashford continued to produce soul music in Detroit with Pied Piper artists and songwriter and artist Lorraine Chandler taking on a producer's role. Ashford's contacts from his time as one of Motown's Funk Brothers were considerable and he continued to work with some of the city's top musicians and singers. His new set-up, Just Productions, found a brilliant new talent in the gruff-voiced Eddie Parker whose 'Love You Baby' and 'I'm Gone' made a little noise in the Motor City but stunned UK Northern Soul fans in the ‘70s with the soulful intensity of music and vocals. It was perfect for adrenalin-charged youths and took up tempo soul to a new level; the records were heavily bootlegged. Like 'I'm Gone', the Four Sonics' 'Tell Me You're Mine' and Al Gardner's 'Sweet Baby' creatively utilized tracks from the Pied Piper days. Billy Sha-Rae was a Pennsylvanian-based singer whose band, the Soul Congress, became the nucleus of the Just Productions musicians. Their song 'Do It' was a hit but the instrumental version by ex-Funk Brother Billy Griffith was even more powerful and is hugely popular in soul clubs nowadays. Sha-Rae was an exciting vocalist whose excellent take on Parker's beat ballad 'Crying Clown' is featured. Just Productions appeared on their own Sepia, Triple B, Ashford and Awake labels and there were licenses to Jay Walking, Buddah, Spectrum, Premium Stuff and Inter Soul. Ray Gant & The Arabians' 'Don't Leave Me Baby' was a musical high-point: the song was covered by Maxine Brown on her Epic LP. In the mid-‘70s they approximated the Philly Sound with the Smith Brothers' brilliant double-sided 'Payback's A Drag' / 'There Can Be A Better Way' on Soul Dimension. In 1975 Eddie Parker cut the now in-demand 'Body Chains' and also 'But If You Must Go' unreleased until MAM-Miko issued it after Ashford moved to Los Angeles around 1976.
Tracks:
1.1 I Can't Stand It - Al Gardner
1.2 Sweet Baby - Al Gardner
1.3 Watch Yourself - Al Gardner
1.4 Crying Clown - Billy Sha-Rae
1.5 I Found the One - Billy Sha-Rae
1.6 Let's Do It Again - Billy Sha-Rae
1.7 Body Chains (Vocal) - Eddie Parker
1.8 But If You Must Go - Eddie Parker
1.9 I Need a True Love - Eddie Parker
1.10 I'm Gone - Eddie Parker
1.11 Love You Baby - Eddie Parker Acc By Billy Sha-Rae's Soul Congress Band
1.12 Where Are You - Four Sonics
1.13 Tell Me You're Mine - Four Sonics Plus One
1.14 J.C.'s Grit Gitter - J C Heard
1.15 Do the Choo Choo Part 1 - Jack Ashford ; the Sound of New Detroit
1.16 I'll Fly to Your Open Arms - Jack Ashford
1.17 Do It (Instrumental) - Johnny Griffith Acc By Billy Sha-Rae's Band
1.18 I Need Your Love (To Satisfy My Soul) - Lee Rogers
1.19 Don't Take Your Love from Me - the Perfections
1.20 Don't Leave Me Baby - Ray Gant ; the Arabian Knights
1.21 Stay Here with Me - Sandra Richardson
1.22 Payback's a Drag - Smith Brothers
1.23 There Can Be a Better Way - Smith Brothers
1.24 The Ring - Sandra Richardson
1.25 Lost Without You - Four Sonics Plus One
