Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Banks & Hampton - Passport to Ecstasy - LP (1977) Warner Bros CD (1992) Warner Bros - Rare Soul (FLAC)

Continuing on with the career of the greatly talented Homer Banks here duetting with equally prolific writer/performer Carl Hampton great pals from their days at Stax. After Stax closed, Homer Banks and Carl Hampton moved on to Warner Brothers Records. In 1977, performing under the group name of Banks and Hampton, they recorded this their only album ‘Passport To Ecstasy’ for Warner Bros.During the late Seventies, Homer worked with the artist Randy Brown, penning 'We Ought To be Doin' It' amongst other songs.Its a shame that carl never recorded any 45,s or albums as with homer only recording less than a dozen 45,s and no albums,so basically you have everything the duo have recorded with these 2 posts. this is a really wonderful album mainly ballads highlighting relationships and ably executed with perfection by these 2 great writers/Performers.

AMM 


                                                                       The Tasters!





17 comments:

Little Bill said...

Deep in the disco area, this one should be an exception. Thanks amm!

PeterH said...

And here with another album, and a little bit less souly ... Thanks for review, P.

soultime said...

great review thanks AMM

Rush said...

Great review AMM my das introduced me to this excellent album

ELtel said...

One i've not seen before, thanks for the review.
cheers,Eltel

Jumpstart said...

I have this gem on vinyl, and it contains some really good songs. Now I look forward to having the album in digital format too.

/Jumpstart

Big Dave said...

Very nice... many thanks AMM for this review

BigD

Anghellic67$ said...

Great Review Thank you AMM

richsoul said...

I must have still been in a trance or something. These two were good. I enjoyed the tasters and I have never heard of them before. thank you AMM.

RMstorm said...

Thanks AMM for both Banks reviews today.

hakase said...

i also have this real cd so can offer that liner but no english you see! anyway thank you AMM

reb.jukebox said...

Looks interesting many thanks Reb

Guitarradeplastico,scraping oddities said...

Many thanks for the digging in Homer Banks

clash said...

This should be real good. Please and thank you!

Bill Pritchard said...

Looks a goodie.

Tel said...

Never Heard Of This One But If Homer Banks Is Involved I'm In
Cheers AMM

pedro B said...

Great review for this last of the homer recordings a sad as it is i enjoyed listen to this i didn't know that he had a twin brother who wrote a fair few songs at stax and other labels Dont much background on Carl Hampton accept for being a songwriter and Pianist and producer some of the last of the soul men along with Reg Jackson Thanks for this one AMM worth the wait

Cheers Pedro