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Donald Height

SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
edited April 2007 in Strut Central
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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  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    favorite non-erotic digging fiction imaginary album:

    Height, Donald - Singing Preacher of Soul - Shout SLPS-500 - Stereo/1967
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    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, but
    I want some bio/discog action for the man.

    He's got releases on like 40 labels and they
    never fail to satisfy. I buy any Donald Height
    45 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))

    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.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts

    I think the man is overrated myself


    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?
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts

    I think the man is overrated myself


    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)! Sorry, but I hope you can track down the article in ITB (which I also mentioned - in spite of my quick burst of opinion, it's a great story that'll probably answer all your questions)!
  • funky16cornersfunky16corners 7,175 Posts
    This (an alternate vocal take on Lou Courtney's 'Hot Butter N'All') is the shit...

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    Yes, yes it is - so, does anybody know
    where he was from? What vocal groups he
    was in before going solo? Anything ABOUT him?
  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts
    I'll tell you one thing, he gives really good back rubs. And front rubs too.
  • DCarfagnaDCarfagna 983 Posts
    I can't find my copy of In The Basement with the article, but here are some 45 releases:

    "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.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts

    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.
  • holmesholmes 3,532 Posts
    My girlfriend has that 365 Days 45 on Shout. It is great, don't know much of his others though.
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