#EDWIN STARR INSTRUMENTAL HOW TO#

#EDWIN STARR INSTRUMENTAL HOW TO#

'I watched the movie like three times, and then I went back to my hotel room, and was sitting there contemplating on the idea of what the movie was all about and trying to figure out how to incorporate that into a song. 'The movie just happened to be 'Agent 007,' you know, the James Bond movie,” he said. While in New York with Doggett, Edwin went to the movies on his day off and found the inspiration for his first hit. So I got a chance to get my road experience by traveling with Bill for two-and-half-years.” 'It was less money than I was actually making,”said the late Starr, 'but it was a lot more experience. Bill Doggett's manager, Don Briggs, saw Edwin with them and offered him a gig singing with the organist's combo. Ric-Tic boasted a singer in Edwin Starr whose pipes were powerful enough to knock down the walls of any recording studio.īorn Charles Edwin Hatcher in Nashville on January 21, 1942, Starr grew up in Cleveland and sang with a vocal group, The Future Tones, from 1955 to 1960. Big Ed Wingate's Ric-Tic label released great records that sounded a lot like what was going on over at Hitsville U.S.A.-which makes sense, since various moonlighting Funk Brothers often played on them. Just the same, The Funk Brothers plied their trade with several other independently-owned recording studios around Detroit and elsewhere, by 1965 and early-1966.Īt one time or another, individually or collectively, many of the early 20 or so members of Motown’s “Funk Brothers” also had sessioned for D-Back Records, Karen Records, Carla Records (both located in Ann Arbor) and the Detroit United Sound Studio.Motown wasn't the only label in Detroit pumping out mid-'60s hits.

Hence, outside the boundaries that was confined within the walls of Hitsville U.S.A., in essence, the Motown Sound was central in having once played a large part for Ed Wingate’s Golden World and Edwin Starr’s Ric-Tic releases. Such exposure would pre-empt their eventual path, during that time, inside the recording studios of Golden World and Ric-Tic Records as well. The instrumental backing was pressed on the B-side of the vocal single recorded by Edwin Starr.Īt time not obligated nor legally bound solely to Gordy’s Motown stable, the Funk Brothers, the likes of James Jamerson (bassist), Benny “Papa Zita” Benjamin (drummer) Robert White (guitarist), et al, would “moonlight” their talents elsewhere, which included night clubs, jazz clubs in the city’s predominantly legendary ‘Black Bottom’ district (pre-1963), just the same. Notice the distinct Motown sound in this instrumental recording. When Ric-Tic Records first released “Agent OO Soul” in Detroit in late 1965, many at first thought this was another Motown single. “AGENT 00 SOUL ” (INSTRUMENTAL) * EDWIN STARR * ’65 ĪGENT DOUBLE 00 SOUL. WXYZ RADIO 1270: THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY! JUNE 6, 1966.MOTOWN MONDAYS! THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW: THE TEMPTATIONS.MOTOWN MONDAYS! THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW: THE JACKSON 5.THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW! POP and ROCK 1960s ICONS: STEPPENWOLF.THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW! POP and ROCK 1960s ICONS: THE ASSOCIATION.Lee Alan on IN MEMORY OF A DETROIT RADIO LEGEND.cynthia wozniak watts on PAUL NICHOLAS, SANDRA & BILL BAILEY FROM THE RADIO REUNION.

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