Professor Eddy

I wanted to recreate the days of petticoats, diners and jukeboxes (1955-1969). Enjoy the music my parents grew up with in their teenage years and I listened to when I was a little kid! 😊 In the early 1960s Dee Dee Sharp was a teenage star and sang a duet with Chubby Checker, Slow Twisting . In 1968 she recorded What Kind Of Lady for Gamble Records, owned by producer Kenny Gamble whom she had married a year earlier. He became very successful in the 1970s when he created the sophisticated Philly soul sound, together with Leon Huff. The track by Dusty Springfield was produced by Kenny Gamble too and the 1965 single by The Three Degrees was an early Leon Huff production, almost a decade before the ladies worked with him again and became popular worldwide. Marv Johnson’s Come To Me was the first record issued by Tamla Records, the precursor to famous label Motown. Despite his early success in the United States, Johnson ultimately enjoyed more popularity overseas than in his native countr...

Unsplash This exclusive cloudcast refers to the so called 'beach music' of the late fifties, sixties and early seventies. This type of uplifting soul dominated the jukeboxes at the beaches of both Carolinas in the US. It has some similarities with (more Motown based) northern soul in the UK. Beach music goes back to the doo wop of the fifties and has some rock ‘n’ roll traces as well. It vanished in the mid-seventies when disco music, played at large discotheques, became the most popular kind of dance music and wiped out (to quote the Surfaris) beach music at small venues. Around the same time AM pop, which was best played on transistor radios,  disappeared to be replaced by FM radio pop.  'Calypso King' The Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) originally released Only A Fool in 1969. The song was written by Shelly Coburn and Norman Bergen and first recorded as the flipside of Open Up Your Heart by Arthur Prysock in 1965. Slinger Francisco's name was mistakenly list...

It’s time to make a soul twist. One of the standout tracks is the one by Dee Dee Sharp, ‘What kind of lady’. The echoes in the song really make me shiver! In the early 1960s Dee Dee Sharp (born Dionne LaRue) was a teenage star and sang a duet with Chubby Checker, ‘Slow twisting’. In 1968 Dee Dee recorded 'What kind of lady' for Gamble Records, owned by producer Kenny Gamble whom she had married a year earlier. ‘What kind of lady’ was one of the early Gamble & Huff productions. The song was arranged by Bobby Martin and Tom Bell in some kind of Motown style. The four of them became very successful in the 1970s and created the sophisticated ‘Philly sound’ (Stylistics, O’Jays, Three Degrees, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and many more). When Dee Dee Sharp-Gamble and husband Kenny had marital problems, he wrote ‘You’ll never find a love like mine’ which became a hit for Lou Rawls in 1976. Kenny and Dee Dee officially divorced in 1980. Del Shannon and FrankieValli (from ...