Hoagy Lands ~ Two Years And A Thousand Tears ...

Hoagy Lands recorded five singles for Laurie Records during the mid to late sixties including The Next In Line/1967 backed by The Chiffons and Two Years And A Thousand Tears/1968 ...

James & Bobby Purify ~ I'm Your Puppet ...

James & Bobby Purify's I'm Your Puppet reached #6 in 1966 on Billboards Hot 100. A re-recorded and re-released version peaked at #12 in 1976. Not that that counts for anything... except maybe a popular simple charm.

Sandy Wynns ~ Touch Of Venus ~ 1965 ...

Edna Wright adopted the stage name Sandy Wynns in 1964. She had success with a number of songs produced by Ed Cobb also wrote and produced the Gloria Jones Tainted Love/1965 original ...

Etta James ~ I Got You Babe ~ 1968 ...

A later day interpretation of Sonny & Cher's 1965 hit single...

Jackie Wilson ~ Am I The Man ~ 1960 ...

Jackie Wilson grew up quick. By the time he was 15 he had dropped out of school and served two sentences in juvenile detention where he learnt Boxing. He began to fight on the amateur circuit at 16 but with a Golden Gloves record of 2 and 8 and his mother begging him to stop he hung up the gloves and took up music instead...

Dakota Staton ~ My Babe ~ 1959 ...

Dakota Staton is best known for the 1957 hit The Late, Late Show. This is her cut of My Babe, a song written by Willie Dixon who penned numerous memorable classics including Little Red Rooster, Hoochie Coochie Man, Evil, Spoonful ...

Billy Preston ~ Billy's Bag ~ 1965 ...

This is Billy Preston's first solo single on Vee-Jay Records. He had previously worked as a session musician with artists including Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles. Apparently John Lennon suggested that Billy should incorporated as a 'Fifth Beatle' -  difficult to imagine as it may be this anecdotal oddity can only be supported by that fact that Billy is the only other musician apart from Tony Sheridan to be credited on a Beatles recording...