NORTHERN SOUL - GAYLE STAR - PAIN OF REMEMBERING b/w MEMORY- TIDE 45 - INSCRIBED

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GAYLE STAR - THE PAIN OF REMEMBERING b/w MEMORY - TIDE 45 - INSCRIBED BY GAYLE STAR...

The record has been played and it does have some light scuffs (but nothing deep)...  We'd grade the overall condition of the record as VG+ to VG with an inscription by Gayle Star on "the pain of remembering"....

Thanks to Dennis Bartok for the following description :

GAYLE STAR -- The Pain Of Remembering/Memory -- ex. rare, original mid-1960's U.S. 45 single. This is an excellent and apparently completely unknown mid-1960's Dusty Springfield-style Northern Soul/Girl Group 45 credited to Gayle Star, on the tiny Tide Records label out of Los Angeles...

Sound is fantastic uptempo female stomper that moves like a rocket, really unique and memorable vocal delivery on the hook "the pain of ... remem ... ber ... ing..."

It was arranged by Ernie Freeman, a seminal figure in early rock and R&B classics for Specialty, Modern and Aladdin, and later worked with almost every early-to-mid 1960's artist on Liberty inc. Bobby Vee, Julie London and Johnny Burnette, as well as Connie Francis, Petula Clark etc...

B-side "Memory" is weepy pop ballad, nothing special to be honest (especially compared to the irresistible "Pain of Remembering"), but it was likewise arranged by a major guy, Rene Hall, who discovered Billy Ward, Clyde McPhatter & The Dominos and produced/arranged many of their early hits on Federal, and later worked at Specialty with Little Richard etc...

From Gary E. Myers  :

The name Gayle Star on Tide was a fairly obvious stage name and, with no other clues, I expected her to remain a mystery. In 2011 I googled “Gayle Star+Pain of Remembering” (one her Tide titles) and I was astounded to bring up an article from a 1968 St. Petersburg, FL newspaper mentioning her appearance at the Palmetto Womens’ Club, a place where I had played in 1960! Her real last name was Groff (b: 7/17/45) and in 1963 she graduated from the same Bradenton FL high school that I did. While still in high school she hosted the Teen Time show on WTRL in which she interviewed pop stars who appeared in the area. Soon after that she connected with Chicago-based manager Tony Ensweiler, who was visiting the Florida gulf coast. Initially based in Chicago, Star toured the Midwest as a guitar/vocal single and then headed to SoCal around 1965, gigging up and down the California coast with a drummer named Gary and a piano man named Frank as Gayle Star & the Knights.

Ensweiler got her the audition for Tide apparently by cold calling record companies. Star recalled that she had to sing “The Pain Of Remembering” with a phrasing that didn’t fit her usual style. Ernie Freeman arranged the A-side, Rene Hall the B-side, and the pop/rock songs feature nice vocals, though both songs have odd forms on the bridge. (Among the Triune-composed songs, there are several that use extra beats or odd phrase lengths, probably because Stratchborneo and Saunders both had difficulty staying in meter, a fairly common malady of amateur singers).

Star had write-ups in Teen Screen and Silver Screen and sang a mix of country and pop on her gigs. She returned to the Eastern US, still working as a single but sometimes singing with house bands, with Key West as one of her stopping points. She last gigged around the early 70’s and worked as a radio DJ in a few small markets, eventually settling in Massachusetts.... 

***  To everyone’s amazement, her Tide release sold for nearly $1500 on ebay in 2011...

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