Machine on All Platinum label...
El Prez
NE Ohio 1,141 Posts
anyone have any info on this LP by Machine (S/T) on the All Platinum label..... I know it's the Whatnaughts...it has "World" on it etc....any info would be greatly appreciated.Peace
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So I guess they were AFTER Willie & the Mighty Magnificents (who seem to be the house band on some of the earliest All Platinum releases, say 1968-72)?
Someone needs to write up the history of the early All-Platinum group releases:
Machine
New Sounds
Optimistics
Lee Moses
Gloria Barnes
Heartstoppers
George Scott [anyone got this?]
send it over here, we can do this
but seriously i'd love to hear this!
All Platinum - now THAT'S a label whose discography I'd like to see on Soulful Kinda Music or Both Sides Now.
I would have wanted to get some of those All Platinum comps that Sequel released a decade ago, but about 50% of those albums were from the disco era, which I don't wanna mess with (plus they'd throw in the occasional Sugarhill track for good measure). All well and good if that's your thing, but I'm more into the earlier things, from '75 on back to the beginning. (That Ponderosa Twins Plus One album is surprisingly good!)
I've been wanting to do this story for Wax Poetics for a while now but I've never been able to make the time - the whole thing from All Platinum, Turbo, Stang, up to Sugar Hill etc. There's a dope story there.
I've been told that Oncoming Times is incredible, but I've never heard it myself outside a couple tracks available on 45 ?
Jason
I've never heard it.
I believe they were partly a Chicago group.
The Optimistics LP has two of my fave '70s soul tracks ever on there.
Transplanting hearts and kidneys too
Is there anything that man cannot do?
I'm talking about Man...
When I wrote the "Black Bubblegum" chapter of the book Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth, I called up Sugarhill Records and spoke to none other than George Kerr (former All Platinum recording artist and a house arranger/songwriter/producer)...I wanted to get some info regarding the Ponderosas and Spoonbread*** and he told me to hit him back the following Saturday. Needless to say, no one was in, so either it was an honest mistake or no one felt like talking.
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[color:blue]***I didn't know it at the time, but there was also a "Little Tracy Kerr" on the label who recorded a version of Michael Jackson's "We Got A Good Thing Going"...if there were any other AP kiddie soul acts naturally I would have wanted to talk with them about it, but it didn't go like that.[/color]
I think you underrate Oncoming Times. To me it's more than decent. If you're into albums like The Lovelites and Heartstoppers than this is definitely a solid album too. To me it's one of the few valueble albums that I don't need to cash in on. But that's probably also a matter of taste.
I'm going to upload the Optimistics & Heartstoppers LP's tonight for whoever is interested.
Oh, please do! I need to hear them.
DAMNNN i would kill to hear some of those, like Willie & west etc
Heartstoppers S/T 1970 All Platinum
I've been wanting to hear this for a while....thanks!!!
no prob!
can we get some of these other rare-er joints up?
Optimistics - S/T Turbo 197?
I would love to see a well reserched Sylvia Robinson bio. Was she married to or business partners with the guy from Fire/Fury? She is one Black female r&b artist who did not get ripped off by the record industry.
No, her husband is Joe Robinson, who ran All Platinum and Sugarhill with her.