THE LOST LADIES OF SOUL MUSIC |
Lea
Roberts was born Leatha Roberta Hicks in Dayton, Ohio on 15 April, 1946.
Interview with Lea can be found in the magazine
'In
The Basement'.
Issue 37
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Prove
It/When Something Is Wrong With My Baby |
Minit
32069 |
1969 |
Love
On My Mind/Stay With Me |
Minit
32095 |
1970 |
Don't
Let Me Fall In Love Alone/Fifty-Fifty |
United
Artists 50733 |
1970 |
Can't
Get
Enough Of You/You And I |
United
Artists 50785 |
1971 |
Hold
Me, Thrill Me, KissMe/ Mr Preacher Man |
United
Artists 50796 |
1972 |
I
Understand/It's Love That Makes A Woman Do Right |
United
Artists 159 |
1973 |
If
You Don't Want My Love Give It Back/Coming Back Home |
United
Artists 223 |
1973 |
Excuse
Me/Maybe I Don't Show It |
United
Artists 288 |
1973 |
I
Know/Ivory |
United
Artists 358 |
1973 |
Find
A Place/Let It Shine |
United
Artists 429 |
1974 |
Laughter
In The Rain/She Will Break Your Heart |
United
Artists 539 |
1974 |
All
Right Now/All Over Again |
United
Artists 626 |
1975 |
Loving
You Gets Better With Time/All Over Again |
United
Artists 667 |
1975 |
LEA
ROBERTS - EXCUSE ME I WANT TO TALK TO
YOU United Artists 088 1973
1. Give It Back
2. Excuse Me
3. Coming Back Home
4.Jeremy
5. Find A Place
6. Maybe I Don't Show It
7. I'm Losing My Mind
8. I Know
9. Ivory
10. I Take My Fire With Me
11. Let it Shine |
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LEA ROBERTS -
LADY LEA
United Artists 1974
1.All Right Now
2. Laughter In The Rain
3. All Over Again
4. Lost In Your Love
5. I'm Going Left
6. Loving You Gets Better With Time
7. Don't Let It Mess Your Mind
8. She Will Break Your Heart
9. You're Gonna Need A Man
10. Chained To This Memory
Arranged by Reggie Lucas & Mtume, with one track arr. by Hubert Eaves
String arrangements by Jimmie Haskell or Gene Page
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LEA ROBERTS -
MY SILENT PLACE
Skies Unlimited Records Inc. 1982
1. My Silent Place
2. Free
3. Together
4. Love Can Break You
5. Another Lonely Night
6. You Can Never Forget
7. I Won't Fall In Love
8. In Days Gone By |
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Reverend Robert J.Lucas and
his Christian Temple Choir - The King And I(Minit Gospel 1969)
Click on back cover to enlarge - Lea is arrowed
Thanks To Fredrik Lind for the scans |
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Margie
Alexande was born Marjorie Lucille Alexander in Temple, Georgia on 11 October,
1948 was born Marjorie
Lucille Alexander in 948
Interview with Margie can be found in the magazine
'In
The Basement'.
Issue 19
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Can
I Be Your Main Thing/ It Can't Last Forever |
Atlantic
2828 |
1971 |
Keep
On Searching/Love Slave |
Future
Stars 102 |
1974 |
It's
Worth A Whippin'/Take My Body |
Chi-Sound
849 |
1976 |
Gotta
get A Hold On Me/What'cha Trying To Do To Me |
Chi-Sound
1003 |
1977 |
Looking
Back/Blue Vibrations |
Star
Town 005 |
1984 |
Looking
Back/Blue Vibrations |
Goldwax |
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Annette
was born in Miami, Florida. She died on 4.April
1977 in a plane crash.
Taken from
Paul
Kelly Inteview ....Annetta had a single release on Love Hill (and, subsequently, Juggy) called 'Since There Is No More Of You'. Written by Paul Kelly, recorded on a trip by the lady to New York and featuring his additional vocal support, 'Annetta' is better known as Annette Snell. Paul took a little time out to talk about the lady, whose career was tragically curtailed by a fatal plane crash in Georgia on April 4, 1977 but not before she had recorded a number of his songs for Buddy Killen and Dial in the earlier part of the seventies, most notably the #19 'Billboard' r&b hit, 'You Oughta Be Here With Me'... 'I met Annette Snell about 1960 with Waymon Walker. He used to go with a little girl in Opa-locka whose name was Mattie [Lovett]. And we dealt with Mattie and they had a group - the Mar-Vells, that was they name of the group. It was a good group. They moved to the city and we started putting songs together for them. I used to give them Marvelettes songs to sing live and Annette Snell was part of that group. She was super. Loretta [Letlo] used to do all the lead singing. We didn't know at the time that Annette was so good. The group were all good.'The Mar-Vells would do a lot of session work in Miami in the early sixties, before going on to record in their own right for Sound Stage 7 and Monument as the Fabulettes in 1967/68. They split when Annette opted to go solo and, specifically discussing 'Since There Is No More Of You', Paul said, 'I didn't duet, I do the background. If you call it a duet, in that case it's a 'triple-et', because there's Juanita there too. She used to be on all my songs in the seventies.' He added, 'Annette's death was a tragedy. There is stuff we recorded on her that has never been released. Buddy Killen may still have the tracks.'
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Since
There Is No More You / Get Away Boy |
Juggy
404 |
1970 |
I’ll Be Your Fool Once More / Footprints On My Mind |
Dial
1019 |
1972 |
I’ll Be Your Fool Once More / ? |
Dial
1022 |
1972 |
You Oughta Be Here With Me / Footprints On My Mind |
Dial
1023 |
1972 |
Get Your Thing Together / I’ll Be Your Fool Once More |
Dial
1024 |
1974 |
Just As Hooked As I've Ever Been / Love Connection |
Dial
1028 |
1974 |
It's
All Over Now/Promised Should Never Be Broken |
Epic |
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Lorraine
Johnson was born in Huntsville, Alabama on 26 January, 1949.
Interview with Lorraine can be found in the magazine
'In
The Basement'.
Issue 33
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Can
I Hold You To It/If You Want Me To Be More Of A Woman |
Atlantic
2967 |
1973 |
Let's
Make Our New Love Something Special/Let Me Be Your Full Time Groover(Bill
Brandon) |
Moonsong
001 |
1973 |
The
More I Get, The More I Want/Just For The Moment |
Prelude
71096 |
1977 |
If
You Leave Me Now/Next Time I Cry |
Prelude
71100 |
1978 |
Feed
The Flame/Who Do You Think You're Fooling |
Prelude
71113 |
1978 |
LORRAINE
JOHNSON - The More You
Want Prelude 12148
1977
1. More I Get, The More I Want
2. Let Your Love Fall Like Rain
3. If You Leave Me Now
4. Save Me Your Love
5. Just For The Moment
6. Next Time I Cry
7. If You Don't Love Her (When You Gonna Leave Her)
8. My Sweet Baby
9. I'm Learning to Dance All over Again
10. Nobody's Wrong
11. Feed the Flame
12. Who Do You Think You're Fooling |
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LORRAINE
JOHNSON - Learning To Dance All Over Again Prelude 12161 1978
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