Flamma Sherman No need / Bassa Love SNB label. Demo

£ 20

$ 27

£ 20 Sold For

Nov 4, 2010 Sold Date

Nov 1, 2010 Start Date

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Great Britain Country Of Seller

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Apologies for no sound clip E COMMERCE are renewing their security cert.

Classic record which is more of an african sound than US R&B . 1969. This DEMO-denoted by white label and A sign but as often with SNB it doesn't say demo- copy does have a few light hairlines and occasional light background playing sound and a little light scuff on one side-but overall it's fab.

I will try to find a company sleeve but at the moment It will just be a white card cover. I am aso selling the ISSUE of this track

Here's what Simon Napier Bell said

I started the SNB label in 1968 mainly because I’d got myself into an impossible production deal with EMI – they had the exclusive right to all records I produced but didn't have to pay for them. (The result of a substantial champagne lunch with the managing director two years earlier after which I’d gone back to the office and signed a contract – the incredible foolishness of inexperience). The idea of the SNB label was that I would be able to produce records at CBS’s expense and release them without a production credit but under a label named after my initials. The first artist we signed was Flamma Sherman – four exquisite sisters from Liberia with a very domineering but charming mum who bought them to me and persuaded me to sign them. (She was was the wife of the Liberian ambassador in London, George Flamma Sherman.) The girls were a posh bunch, all at public school in the UK, and exceptionally pretty. The first record was ‘No Need To Explain’ which they’d written themselves with a little help from Bach (‘Air on a G string’). The string and brass arrangements were done by Ian Green, one of the top arrangers round town (Sandie Shaw, Peter Sarstedt, etc). The resulting record was extraordinarily atmospheric – in two sections, the first slow and drifting, the second up-tempo with much ad-libbing, but not in the style of American soul, more African, which wasn’t surprising. At Radio One half a dozen of the top DJs flipped over it, including Kenny Everett. The weekend of release it was played five or six times each day but then disaster struck, Radio One had a strike. The station was off the air for two weeks and by the time it came back many new records were stacked up waiting for release. The producers of the various programmes that plugged new records decided not to go back to previous records but to go only for new ones. The record fizzled out, and although the group made a couple more singles neither were as potentially chart-topping as the first. So rather than become pop stars the girls stayed at school and went on to do the things their family background required of them.

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