Unknown Northern Soul 45 Acetate The Chokin Kind / Warren Roche / DCT Recordings
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Unknown Soul 45 Acetate / The Chokin Kind / Warren Roche / Mono DCT Recordings.
Unknown acetate
Killer version of the Chokin Kind
Listen to audio here
Plays at a strong VG
https://youtu.be/rTaSckXwUxs
Great vocals / male and female
Recorded in LA
I tracked down the gentleman who did the horn arrangements. He said that it was a demo that they shopped around to see if someone would pick it up. Apparently Joe Simon wound up doing a record of it but this was the first demo. He didn’t recall the singers on the session but he said that “This was probably done in late 1967 or 1968. In 1969 I was in Hawaii for 11 months conducting the Don Ho Show. I came back to L.A. in 1970 and by 1972 was working steady at Motown and other accounts. I don't know the singers. There was no shortage of hopefuls. I guess Joe Simon poached the song when I was in Hawaii.”
I found some information about the arranger Warren Roche
BY WARREN ROCHE
I was formerly a trumpet player. I did my Bachelor’s Degree at The University of Southern California and my Masters at Arizona State. I also did some arranging, conducting, teaching, producing and contracting.
I played Principal Trumpet in the Orange County Symphony (now the Pacific Symphony) and the Phoenix Symphony as well as a few others. I briefly went out on the road playing lead trumpet with Aretha Franklin, Lou Rawls and a few others. I went out conducting for Connie Stevens and did eleven months in Waikiki conducting for Don Ho.
In between all this, starting in the late fifties until I quit the biz in 1980, I did jingles (radio and TV commercials), TV shows, movies, opera and probably played on at least a thousand records. Most of the records were forgettable and I only remember a few that I did. I also worked at MoWest, MoTown’s L.A. studio, from the time they opened it in 1972 until i hung it up in 1980.
The usual routine was that we would record four songs in each three-hour record date or “session”. We would most often do all the songs for an album in two or three sessions. So, for example, when I recorded September for Earth, Wind and Fire, that was during two sessions over two days where I played with the other trumpet players Oscar Brashear on one day and Bobby Findley on the other, recording about eight tunes for the album that September was a part of. I remember September because it was so challenging and for the sad fact that the contractor, Ben Barrett, made a mistake and didn’t put me on the roster and I never got paid or credited. At the time, I was so busy I never caught the oversight until I noticed years later that I wasn’t getting residuals for the hit song being reused in movies, etc. By then it was too late.
I remember Can’t Get Enough of Your Love because Gene Page, the arranger, forgot to write the trumpet parts. Bud Brisbois, the other trumpet player, and I had to play the lick Barry White sang for us when he would cue us from the recording booth.
Listed here are a few records that I remember doing or for which I received a “re-use” payment i.e. you get paid when the recording is reused for a movie, TV, a commercial or when it is “sampled” into a new song, etc. To this day I am still being surprised by receiving a re-use check for a song I don’t recall recording. Anyway, here are a few. Perhaps you’ll recognize some of them.
Records
Barry White
Can’t Get Enough of Your Love
Oh Love, We Finally Made It
Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
Marvin Gaye
Trouble man
After the Dance
Life’s Opera
Cleo’s Apartment
Earth, Wind and Fire
September (from the I Am Album)
After the Love Has Gone
Boogie Wonderland (with The Emotions)
In the Stone
Can’t Let Go
Let Your Feeling Show
StarWait
You and I
Diana Ross
Touch Me In the Morning
My Hero Is a Gun
The OJ’s
She Used To Be My Girl
Smokey Robinson
Tears of a Clown
Boz Scaggs
You Make It So Hard (and the rest of the Slow Dancer album)
Bill Withers
She’s Lonely
Hello Like Before
Eddie Kendricks
Each Day I Cry a Little
Time in a Bottle
Edwin Starr
Easin’ In
Runnin’
Big Papa (from the movie Hell Up in Harlem)
The Commodores
Mary, Mary
Tower of Power
So Very Hard To Go
Hues Corporation
I Caught Your Act (and the album from those sessions)
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