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Outstanding Goldwax soul, unreleased at the time.
A once-bitten-twice-shy wailer, backed with some rocking Northern.

‘Two tracks from early 70s Los Angeles, around the time of his eponymous first LP. Say You is a superb updating of the Monitors’ harmony hit from 1965, given the distinctively sensitive McNeir treatment. I’m Sorry is a self-penned slow-burner that builds a perfect dancefloor beat.’

Superb, refined soul music, mostly written in the Brill Building (including a bunch of Bacharach & Davids), originally issued by Big Top in New York.

Another knockout diggers’ selection of sweet, stately soul music; heavy on the hurt and harmony, just like its predecessor.
Both volumes are stuffed with killlers, and hotly recommended.
Terrific.

Hip dance sides and Lowrider ballads from Darrow’s Chicago years.
From his career-opening smash The Pain Gets A Little Deeper, via Northern dancefloor classics like My Young Misery, Infatuation and Gotta Draw The Line, and ballads like Sitting There That Night and My Judgement Day, through to the new social consciousness of Now Is The Time For Love, recorded in 1971 for his step-dad Johnnie Haygood’s Genna label.

Funky mid-tempo sister soul, recorded at Dave Hamilton’s studio in Detroit. (Plus Little Ann’s tribute to the producer, on the flip.)

This time coupled with an unedited version of his crossover modern dancer It’s No Mistake.

Supersedes the Timmion LP from ten years ago by unearthing a markedly different take of Who Are You Trying To Fool, I Gotta Have You with added backing vocals, and a cleaner version of Wigan monster What Should I Do. It also dips into Ann’s only other known recordings, cut in Canada under her real name of Ann Bridgeforth, in 1972 and 1973: her self-penned ballad That’s All I Want From You is right up there with Deep Shadows.
The CD has twice the number of tracks.