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Here is a great label well known to Soul collectors and northern fans alike. with many classy releases. The label formed in the 1970,s was the brain child of Clarence Johnson a one time member of The Chi-Lites who went onto become a legendary composer and producer of many soul groups over the years.
AMM
Review Courtesy of ELtel & OSR & Thank You!
The Tasters!
28 comments:
Thanks oldsoulrebel & ELtel for putting this together.
Fantastic group thanks for the review AMM .
Thanks for this review.
/Jumpstart
Another venture into the 70s, thanks.
Thanks OldSoulRebel & ELtel for another fine label showcase.
Very interesting to have their discography together.
Thanks ELtel & OSR & Thank You! And AMM to share it.
Yves
Thank You All For Sublime Mellow Grooves!
A great collection! Thanks for review, P.
Gimme! It's the right thing to do! 😁
Thanks, ELtel, OSR & AMM!
Wow wow, what freshness is this (?) Thx x 1000 ☮️✌🏻☀️
Thank you for this review!!
Thanks OSR & ELtel for putting this together and thanks AMM
Another great one. Thank you, Gents!
Here is another article that interests me, thank you AMM.
Pierre
Looks good, many thanks for the review.
Great Review AMM,ELtel & OSR
Thanks to the best team for this nice record!
Oldsoulrebel and ELtel, nice chicago soul, you two. Thanks for this one.
another great works of OSR & Eltel thank you so much!
Thanks for the review ELtel and OldSoulrebel love the tasters
This looks good... many thanks ElTel, OSR & AMM For this review
BigD
Brilliant review my friend.
Thanks a lot.
Rocco
Many thanks ELtel, OSR and AMM for sharing this fine comp
Reb
Thanks for uncovering this. thank you Eltel, OldSoulRebel & AMM.
thanks for the review , a new name to me.
Thanks for the lovelite record set big thanks to Eltel,Oldsoulrebel&AMM another milestone posted with flying colours
Cheers Pedro
Many thanks,the full info of the great band ( plus info in ):
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/voices-from-the-vault/Content?oid=901316
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/recordings-history/Content?oid=901486
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Typical for the time, Hamilton and her fellow singers--her sister Rozena and Ardell McDaniel, later replaced by Joan Berlmon and Rhonda Grayson--knew nothing about publishing rights, so they failed to notice until too late that Johnson had claimed them for himself. Hamilton says he also copyrighted their name without telling them or her mother, Bernice, who acted as the group's manager. Now 49, she says the girls were too busy swooning over their brushes with stardom--including a raucous food fight with Marvin Gaye while they were recording the album in LA. "[Johnson] was telling me he was going to give me the world and feeding me beans," says Hamilton, who currently drives a CTA bus and is trying to launch a career as a gospel singer. "But I don't have any malice toward the man." She says Johnson only told her about the compilation when it was a month or two from completion, and our conversation was the first she'd heard of the Lovelites stuff Johnson has licensed overseas. "Outside of the publicity there's really nothing I'm getting out of it," she says. "If there's money to be made, I don't think I'm going to see any."
In 1973, the Lovelites broke up. "Tension in the group kept growing," says Hamilton. "We were jumping from one of his labels to the next, and eventually [Johnson] decided our name should change to Patti & the Lovelites. I was against it, but he insisted that it was a good idea. It caused some animosity in the group and we started snapping at one another." Berlmon and Grayson became successful studio backup singers, but Hamilton never fronted another group. Johnson went on to produce records by Brighter Side of Darkness, Heaven and Earth, and Coffee; he also worked with Denise Chandler (aka Deniece Williams of "Let's Hear It for the Boy" fame), four of whose songs for Lock are tacked on to the end of The Lovelite Years. He had financial interest in a profusion of small labels, including Lovelite, Lock, G.E.C., and Starvue. But in 1975, the legendary soul station WVON--which was owned in its prime by Leonard Chess and had broken quite a few hits for Johnson--shut down, a casualty of the migration of the entertainment industry to the coasts, and Johnson's career ran up against the wall...
Patti & the Lovelites, Yes, Thank you for the review
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