Dave Hamilton's Detroit Dancers is the first in a series called The Soul Providers dedicated to producers, arrangers, writers and musicians who have moulded the shape of Soul music while the artist stole the headlines.
The Ace webside gives a more detailed biography of the man namechecked and pictured in the middle of the album cover - Producer, arranger, writer and musician Dave Hamilton is one of the unsung heroes of blues and soul. He worked with John Lee Hooker, Jackie Wilson and on many Motown hits, but here is the real recognition of his talents on 24 of his own productions complete with the “War & Peace” of sleeve notes. Solid archaeology.
He was clearly a favourite of Ace/Kent with a further two volumes of Dancers together with a couple of Detroit Soul, Detroit City Grooves and Detroit Funk.Plenty to get your teeth into.
I was not familiar with any of the artists on the album and I think that I picked it up on spec reasonably cheaply with the guarantee that anything on Kent would be well worth a listen. And so it proved.
I've featured this one once before back in 2015 when I posted songs by OC Tolbert and Gil Billigsley. This time round it is the turn of the ladies
Tobi Lark - Talking 'Bout Love
Priscilla Page - I'm Pretending
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