Monday, July 31, 2023

Johnny Robinson - Memphis High (1970) Epic - Rare Soul Vinyl (FLAC)

Another superb Soul artist who recorded this his only album produced by legend Willie Mitchell at his Hi studios in Memphis. Johnny was born in Alabama in 1939 and is known to Northen & Deep soul fans for his excellent 45,s cut on Okeh & Strike (as Johnny R). His "Gone But Not Forgotten" was featrued on one of the Rare Northern Soul albums,a killer dancer! His 2 Northern classic dancers are featured with Willie Mitchell on sax..Brilliant!....Such a shame he did not record more albums as this really is a pure SOUL faultless gem! Strange that a southern bred singer recorded all his material in the north of USA apart from this pearl. Not to be confused with Prince Johnny Robinson on Andee.

AMM


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21 comments:

soultime said...

This looks good , thanks AMM .

oldsoulrebel said...

A fine album, thanks for the review AMM

PeterH said...

The cover looks familiar - I am looking forward to the music. Thanks for review, P.

Anghellic67$ said...

Great Review Thank you very much AMM

deadwoodie said...

Great vocalist-thanks

gmortars said...

I wonder if this will give me funky feet... Thanks, AMM!

UNKNOWN said...

Your review hast tweaked my interest and I would like to hear this (previously unknown to me)artist,
Cheers!
Bill

ELtel said...

Thanks for the introduction to Johnny Robinson MM.
cheers,ELtel

Little Bill said...

Great to have some not so popular artists reviews AMM, thanks!

Guy said...

Thanks for this review, all new for me

Ray said...

thanks for the review AMM

Big Dave said...

This one is previously unknown to me... many thanks for the review AMM

BigD

RMstorm said...

Thanks AMM for the Johnny Robinson review

pedro B said...

Turned out some great music in his 5 year recording career must have something else floating about some where with a voice like that Thanks AMM

Cheers Pedro

richsoul said...

Yes, I have heard of we are gonna make it. thank you AMM.

hakase said...

i also have this on 1994 jap cd but missed 2005 version which had some bonuses anyway thanks AMM

reb.jukebox said...

nice review AMM
thank you Reb

trinity said...

Looking forward to hearing this out mate - thanks for the review

Bill Pritchard said...

Love Willie Mitchell stuff.

Lordchester said...

thanks for the introduction to Johnny Robinson .

Guitarradeplastico,scraping oddities said...


Many thanks for the digging,another new for me