Donald Height
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Somebody drop some knowledge about this cat.Ever try to find info about him on the Internets?Funky 16 Corners comes closest to some info, butI want some bio/discog action for the man.He's got releases on like 40 labels and theynever fail to satisfy. I buy any Donald Height45 I find, haven't been let down yet. As prolific he was, you think some info would be around.Give it to me how I know I want it.((clever graemlin))
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Height, Donald - Singing Preacher of Soul - Shout SLPS-500 - Stereo/1967
In The Basement, the UK soul magazine, did a massive article on Height (R.I.P.) not too long ago which reviewed his various singles one by one.
I think the man is overrated myself (quite a few of his 45's go in one ear and out the other for me), but "Talk Of The Grapevine" is a fave of mine.
Sometimes I imagine that you carry a sewing needle
around in your pocket, just in case you see a little kid
walking around with a balloon.
Couldn't you have let the thread die a quick
and natural death before discrediting it?
That's why I ended the thread mentioning one of his better songs, to take the edge off (even though I probably shouldn't have put the edge on in the first place)!
where he was from? What vocal groups he
was in before going solo? Anything ABOUT him?
"Don't Cry/ You Take Your Loving On The Outside" (Soozi 110)
"I'm Willing To Wait/ Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days" (Shout S-208) 1967
"Bona Fide Lover/ Good To Me" (Shout S-223)
"Please Don't Hurt Me/ Rags To Riches" (Shout S-226) 1968
"Don???t Let Me Down/ Looking For My Baby" (Jubilee 5671) 1969
"If I Can/ If It Ain???t Clean" (Jubilee JB-5696) 1970
"Life Is Free/ De Da Da" (Hurdy Gurdy HG-100)
"I Choose You/ Sompin??? And Sompin???" (Dakar 4556) 1976
There's at least one other record on Mayhew, but I do not have the details handy.
Surely Height has a few additional early-to-mid '60s airings.
Thanks, Dante - I wonder how that mid-70's track on Dakar is.
Height definitely has some other mid-60's releases, at least a
couple on Roulette and Old Town. I'll have to look for that article.