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Silly Wasnt I

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Leonard Caston Productions
« on: January 19, 2020, 02:49:02 am »
Stumbled over this on YouTube:-



The single was priced at £150 last year. I hadn't heard this single or of the Vashonettes (love that name) so does anyone know anything about them?

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Re: Leonard Caston Productions
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2020, 06:56:47 pm »
Loving it Eric.  Here's the 'b' side too.



From Discogs.

Sheryl Swope's older sisters were members of the Vashonettes (Vashon was Sammy Dyer's middle name who ran the dance school Sheryl used to attend) and Sheryl was a member of the Junior Vashonettes. In 1968, four singing members of the Vashonettes recorded a record for Checker records -- Love / A mighty good lover. Around 1970, due to their singing talents, Sheryl and one other Junior Vashonette were promoted to be members of the regular Vashonettes, forming a new four-member singing group with two of the original members. Sheryl went on her first tour with the Vashonettes to Acapulco. The new Vashonettes lineup did backing work for Chess and Checker records, and backed Donny Hathaway on his "Everything is Everything" LP. The group also recorded radio advertising jingles. In the early the 70s, the Vashonettes continued to tour, playing resorts and clubs in the US and South America. The group broke their ties with the Sammy Dyer school to go with Sheryl's previous manager Deke Atkins. Deke renamed the group the Oncoming Times.
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Silly Wasnt I

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Re: Leonard Caston Productions
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2020, 04:13:07 am »
Thanks for that, John. Here's another fabulous track co-composed and co-produced by Leonard Caston. Presumably, that's him going wild on the piano:



I like this one a lot.

My favourite Mitty Collier track has to be I Had A Talk With My Man. I know Leonard Caston co-wrote that one, too, but I don't know who produced it.

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Re: Leonard Caston Productions
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2020, 08:08:35 am »
Quote from: Silly Wasnt I on January 19, 2020, 02:49:02 am
Stumbled over this on YouTube:-



The single was priced at £150 last year. I hadn't heard this single or of the Vashonettes (love that name) so does anyone know anything about them?

SWI

It looks likely that the £150 price tag is due to NS interest in "A Mighty Good Lover" as I see it was issued as part of a Box Set of Chess NS favourites back in 2016 with Marlena Shaw's version of "Wade In The Water" on the "B" side …

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Chess-Northern-Soul-Volume-II/release/8965256

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