Home Grown Chicago Souldiez - Vol. 2

 I miss my Chi-Town friends conversation on the phone he always knew how to make me laugh & taught me alot about this music! 

                         Rest in peace Mello  😭💔

01. Chicago - No Tell Lover (DustyRose)

02. Otis Leavill - Tell The World (Mello)

03. Bull & The Matadors - Love Come Down (DustyRose)

04. The Classic Sullivans - I Don't Want To Lose You (Mello)

05. Age Of Bronze - I'm Gonna Love You (DustyRose)

06. The Desires - Black Girl (Mello)

07. Sheppards - Tragic (Echo Version) (DustyRose)

08. The Creations  - Oh Baby (Mello)

09. Fascinations - Tears In My Eyes (DustyRose)

10. George Jackson - Macking On You (Mello)

11. Gems - Dear One (It Was A Night) (DustyRose)

12. Impressions - That You Love Me (Mello)

13. Holly Maxwell - Never Love Again (DustyRose)

14. The Steelers - The Flame Remains (Mello)

15. Tyrone Davis - You Can't Keep A Good Man Down (DustyRose)

16. The Notations - It Only Hurts For A Little While (Mello)

17. Andrea Davis - Lonely Girl (DustyRose)

18. The Classic Sullivans - We Can Make It (Mello)

19. Monique - Never Let Me Go (DustyRose)

20. Gerald Sims - Little Echo (Mello)

21. Lintons - Lost Love (DustyRose)

22. The Impressions - Minstrel & Queen (Mello)

23. Dells - Tell The World (DustyRose)

24. Magnum Force - Your Lady's Just A Dream (Mello)

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Home Grown Chicago Souldiez - Vol. 3

I'm gonna let Mello's original Intro out here but I just wanted to add that since he is having problems entering this blog for responding comments, I'm gonna just let the comments roll till we see enough to release the link...I know I messed up previously when I added this link to another comp so a few of you got a early start, we hope you enjoyed it!
Thanks, ())>--- Rose


Thanks again to RossyBoy for fixing up another Chicago cover for us. Nice Job!!

Now heres my Homie Mello....

We, Rose & I finally return with our annual "Home Grown Souldies" series compilation.
This time though, we welcome our fellow Chicagoan "Chi-Town" for our third installment.
No new comer to the soul scene, he happens to host a Doo-Wop radio show covering
the full gamut of Doo-Wop sounds. If you will, a guru of sorts!

Once again Rose has done all the heavy lifting & delivers in true "Gold Medal" fashion
just like a true olympian champion as usual. Ain't we lucky to have her around!

The three of us hope you enjoy it & also pick up some new rolas from our "Windy-City" connected presentation. We do it for all our familia to enjoy along with love for your continued support.

We do hope to hear what you think of our comp?

Gracias from the three of us!

00. Chicago Old Radio Jingles of WVON (Courtesy Of Chi-Town)
01. Chicago - Happy Man (DustyRose)
1974 - Original Issue Columbia
02. The Chi-Lites - The Sly, The Slick and The Wicked (Mello)
1998 - Copper Sun Records
03. The Masquerades - Fanessa (Chi-Town)
1961 - Boyd Records
04. The Mystics - Bring Back The One I Love (DustyRose)
1964 - Teako
05. The Admirations - My Admiration For You (Mello)
1966 - Paree Records
06. Sugar Pie DeSanto - Ask Me (Chi-Town)
1962 - Checker
07. The Profiles - A Little Misunderstanding (DustyRose)
1969 - Bamboo Records
08. The Fascinations - O.K. For You (Mello)
1968 - Mayfield Records
09. Faith Taylor & The Sweet Teens - Won't Someone Tell Me Why (Chi-Town)
1959 - Federal
10. Monique - Please Let Me Stay Awhile (DustyRose)
1976 - Maurci
11. Center Stage - Everyday Is A Fantasy (Mello)
1971 - RCA Records, arranged by Donny Hathaway
12. The Desideros - I Pledge My Love (Chi-Town)
1963 - Renee
13. The Vibrations - So Blue (DustyRose)
1960 - Checker 954
14. Heaven & Earth - If It Was Me (Mello)
1976 - GEC label
15. The El Rays (AKA The Dells)- Darling I Know (Chi-Town)
1954 - Checker #794
16. The Five Stairsteps - You Don't Love Me (DustyRose)
1967 - Windy City label
17. The Knight Brothers - I Really Love You (Mello)
1963 - Checker 1064
18. The Dells - Don't Tell Nobody (Chi-Town)
1961 - Vee-Jay (Unreleased Early)
19. The Ideals - You Lost And I Won (DustyRose)
1965 - Satellite
20. Otis Leavill - To Be Or Not To Be (Mello)
1965 - Blue Rock Records
21. The Ze-Majestics - Bobby Ann (Chi-Town)
1959 - Fox
22. Center Stage - Someday Someway (DustyRose)
1975 - Chess
23. Saborian And The Los - Something Happened To Susie (Mello)
1975 - Karma Records
24. Seaphus Scot & The Five Masqueraders - Nature's Beauty (Chi-Town)
1958 - Joyce

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Home Grown Chicago Souldiez Vol. 2

Back by popular demand, DustyRose & I, Mello the goodfellow now present the long awaited "Home Grown Souldiez Vol. Two". Your Chicago dusty duo has scoured our home grown archives & again have selected some of the finest Soul and DooWop that ever blew out of the Windy City. (Home Grown means that the artists, labels or recordings are related to Chi-Town.) We've also supplied some 411's (Roses' signature) that many of us have come to enjoy as an addition to her comps. Without further ado, click below to get the turntable spinning! And remember, this is Chicago, so vote early & often! Big thanks to RossyBoy for his work on our cover again and Extra Thanks to Mello for his additional 411 & Intro

01. Chicago - No Tell Lover (DustyRose) 1978 - Columbia, This group was originally "The Chicago Transit Authority".

02. Otis Leavill - Tell The World (Mello) 1975 - Contempo, A U.K. B-side release that was not availabe in the States.

03. Bull & The Matadores - Love Come Down (DustyRose) 1969 - Toddlin' Town, After this "45" failed to sell they faded from the scene.

04. The Classic Sullivans - I Don't Want To Lose You (Mello) 1974 - Kwanza , This promising group was history after three singles.

05. The Age Of Bronze - I'm Gonna Love You (DustyRose) 1974 - Guava

06. The Desires - Black Girl (Mello) 1968 - Starville, Recorded On Chgo's westside.

07. The Sheppards - Tragic (Echo Version) (DustyRose) 1960 - Apex , The Sheppards were named After Bill "Bunky" Sheppard who managed several groups & ran a slew of Chgo.-based labels including "Bunky".

08. The Creations - Oh Baby (Mello) Globe Label, This is the Chgo. group, as there were a few groups with this name.

09. Fascinations - Tears In My Eyes (DustyRose) 1963 - ABC, Their second & last recording for this label before moving on to Curtom.

10. George Jackson - Macking On You (Mello) 1976 - Chess, Along with Louis Williams he was the co-founder of the group the Ovations.

11. The Gems - Dear One (It Was A Night) (DustyRose) 1962 - Chess, These teenage classmates got together in 1959 and began recording in 1962, they were a group backup for chess/checker studios, The late Minnie Riperton was part of this group.

12. The Impressions - That You Love Me (Mello) 1961 - Vee-Jay

13. Holly Maxwell - Never Love Again (DustyRose) 1970 - Smit-Whit, Maxwell occasionally sang background for Barbara Acklin and worked with Ike Turner as Tina Turner's fill-in, Acklin was her manager...

14. The Steelers - The Flame Remains (Mello) Crash - 1966

15. Tyrone Davis - You Can't Keep A Good Man Down (DustyRose) 1970 - Dakar

16. The Notations - It Only Hurts For A Little While (Mello) 1974 - Gemigo

17. Andrea Davis - Lonely Girl (DustyRose) 1966 - Chess, Born Minnie Julia Riperton, she was still just in her mid-teens when she signed a recording contract with the girl group the Gems. Minnie died in 1979 in Los Angeles.

18. The Classic Sullivans - We Can Make It (Mello) 1971 - MasterKey, This was their debut recording on this obscure label.

19. Monique - Never Let Me Go (DustyRose) Released on Maurice Jackson's tiny Chgo. label from the 60's.

20. Gerald Sims - Little Echo (Mello) 1964 - Okeh, A multi talented gent that's a key figure in Chgo's soul history.

21. The Lintons - Lost Love (DustyRose) Erica Label

22. The Impressions - Minstrel & Queen (Mello) 1962 - ABC

23. Dells - Tell The World (DustyRose) 1955 - Vee-Jay, AKA The El-Rays

24. Magnum Force - Your Lady's Just A Dream (Mello) 1982 - Kelli-Arts, Having formed in Chgo. they recorded this here at Universal Studios.

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Link by DustyRose

Tracks courtesy of Mello & DustyRose

Cover by RossyBoy

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Home Grown Chicago Souldiez

TALK ABOUT DUSTY, THIS IS LONG OVERDUE BUT WE HOPE IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT! HERE YOU HAVE 2 CHICAGOANS DOING THEIR THING. AT THE TIME MELLO & I WERE DISCUSSING THE TITLE FOR THIS COMP, WE SETTLED ON SOULDIEZ INSTEAD OF DUSTIES & FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT "DUSTY" REPRESENTS, IT IS WHAT DISCRIBES OLD 45 RECORDS HERE IN CHI-TOWN THAT DON'T GET PLAYED OFTEN THEREFORE MAKING THEM DUSTYS, HENCE, IS WHERE MY NICKNAME CAME FROM...LOCAL RADIO DEEJAY'S HERB KENT & THE LATE RICHARD PEGUE FROM THE OLDIE STATIONS WANTED TO TAKE CREDIT OF THE INVENTED DUSTY RECORD NAME, BUT I KNOW IT WAS HERBIE BABY CUZ HE TOLD ME SO LOL...WELL WE HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY THIS WELL OVERDUE COMP THAT MELLO AND I HAVE COMPILED WITH SOME OF THE BEST GROUPS/ARTIST IN CHI-TOWN OR IN ANYWAY AFFILIATES WITH CHICAGO......WE WANT TO THANK ROSSYBOY FOR HIS DECORATING TALENTS ON THE CHICAGO THEATRE COVER, MAKING IT OUR VERY OWN HOME GROWN SOULDIEZ COMPILATION...ENJOY!



Some 411 Mello and I came up with if interested...

01. Otis Brown & the Delights - Southside Chicago (DustyRose)
1966 - Ole Records
Brown and his ad hoc group the Delights are so delighted about coming from here they sing "South Side Chicago" some 38 times through the record.....
02. Kaldirons - To Love Someone (That Don't Love You) (Mello)
1970 - Twinight
Becoming one of Twinight's most obscure singles, with purportedly less than 500 copies ever distributed. This failure is hard to reconcile against the song itself: In short, it's a monster of a ballad....
03. Impressions - Guess What I’ve Got (DustyRose)
Curtom - 1974
Ralph Johnson were among the replacements & who sings the lead on this gem...
04. Dee Clark - Warm Summer Breezes (Mello)
1964 - Constellation
05. Artistics - Being In Love (DustyRose)
1972 - Brunswick
06. Mighty Marvelows - I'm Without A Girl (Mello)
1968 - ABC Records
07. Donald Jenkins & Delighters - (Native Girl) Elephant Walk (Take 2) (DustyRose)
Cortland - 1962 (Possibly re-issued on Black Beauty CHEST, or ASTRA Labels)
Formed in Chicago's South Side in1955 as The Fortunes, later recorded both as The Starr Brothers and Donald Jenkins & the Daylighters/Delighters.
08. Billy Butler & Infinity - Now You Know (Mello)
1972 - Pride
09. Fascinations - Such A Fool (DustyRose)
Mayfield - 1968
10. Lovehorn - If (Mello)
1972 - Zodiac
11. Starr Brothers - Don Juan (DustyRose)
1963 - Cortland
(Brothers Donald Jenkins and Ronnie Strong)
Ronnie Strong of The Ideals, Donald Jenkins of the Delighters
If you have the cortland 45 w/Don Juan/Go Gorilla
(A little info from a former Radio DeeJay I know, that this was a typo
on The Ideals doing this A -Side, the typo was never corrected on cortlands 45's & were released )
12. Nolan Chance - I'll Never Forget You (Mello)
Thomas - 1969
13. Vibrations - Remember The Rain (DustyRose)
1968 - Okeh
14. Chi-Lites - (Um, Um) My Baby Loves Me (Mello)
1968 - Revue
15. The Fabulous El Dorados - Ease The Pain (DustyRose)
1987 - Delano
16. Jerry Butler & The Impressions - The Gift Of Love (Mello)
Abner - 1958
17. The Ideals - Tell Her I Apologize
1966 - St. Lawrence
18. Jo Ann Garrett - Stay By My Side (Mello)
1966 - Chess
She recorded this song at the age of 15 for Chess
after appearing at the Regal Theatre
19. Tony Clarke - This Heart Of Mine (DustyRose)
Chess - 1964
20. Cicero Blake - You Got Me Walking (Mello)
1967 - Brunswick
21. Otis Leavill - Gotta Right To Cry (DustyRose)
1963 - Lucky
Written by Curtis Mayfield of course...
22. Green Berets - (Lord) Send Me Somebody (Mello)
Uni - 1970
23. Carltons - Keep On Hoping (DustyRose)
1965 - Argo
24. Mystique - All Of My Life (Mello)
Curtom 1977
25. The Mystics - I'll Never Forget You (DustyRose)
1967 - Teako
I went to school with a couple of these guys, They did lots of weddings & dances in my old nieghborhood....
26. Earth Wind & Fire - I Think About Lovin' You (Mello)
Warner - 1972
Lead vocalist on this record is Sherry Scott who wrote and sang lead on this groups first hit single ....

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Tracks by Mello & DustyRose

Link by DustyRose

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