(If It Is) Only For Tonight (Vinyl LP) Electronic

(If It Is) Only For Tonight (Vinyl LP) ElectronicO. V. Wright was born in Tennessee in 1939. He started singing gospel music at a young age, joining the Sunset Travellers whilst still a teen, and recording with them for Don Robey's Peacock Records. He later joined the Harmony Echoes, which also included James Carr, and it was through them that the two of them were discovered by manager songwriter Roosevelt Jamison. Jamison persuaded both Wright and Carr to mave the move into the R&B world, and he

Waylon Jennings and Andy Williams

you wouldn't be able to find much of Malcolm's back catalogue on CD other than the oft-reissued Bonanza Ska

Nick Drake pulled something of an about-face with the follow-up

and a letter from

making 'Nightcall'

A cobweb dispersing buried treasure that stands alongside the debut of The Damned and draws a shaky line through grunge to At The Drive In and way beyond

Taken from her 2001 second album Mahogany Soul

It's no surprise that it's also his masterpiece

it just wasn't an option for me to be out any longer

Manchester reggae band X-O-Dus are best known for their single English Black Boys

Many of these records never made it out of the city they were made in and would have been doomed to obscurity if not for the international network of Soul collectors

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