Cops 'N' Robbers - Cops 'N' Robbers (White Trash Soul R&B Series No.1)

The Cops 'N' Robbers (named after the Bo Diddley song obviously) issued just three singles in the mid-’60s lifetime, as well as a French-only EP. The name was meant to be written as: Cops n Robbers, with a little n, but when Henri their drummer bought the stickers to stick the name on his kick drum, the shop only had big Ns left, so that’s why everyone puts Cops 'N' Robbers .

Their chief claim to fame is recording and writing the original version of "You’ll Never Do It Baby" the infamous and nasty R&B raver that was covered by The Pretty Things on their second LP. "Oh My Love" was recorded by The Artwoods and it was as well another Cops 'n' Robbers original. 

Here's gathered all their A's & B's. 

The Ideals - Mo-Gorilla (White Trash Soul R&B Series No.2)

Here's another one I made for the iconic Ideals from Chicago Illinois. 

Let's make clear something right from the start: The Ideals on Checker/Chess wasn't them. 

The Ideals, who had been around since 1952, when they were barely in their teens (all but Spraggins attended Crane High School). At their inception, they were lead Frank Cowan, tenors Leonard Mitchell and Wes Spraggins, baritone Robert Tharp, and bass Clifford Clayborn, though he was soon replaced by Sam Steward while Reggie Jackson supplanted Cowan.

Fred Pettis came in as lead singer around 1956 and left a couple of years later. Future soul star Major Lance briefly floated through also. Jackson returned from the military to rejoin Mitchell, Tharp, and Steward. The Ideals made their 1961 vinyl debut on Richard Stamz's Paso label with "Together b/w What's The Matter With You Sam" and encored with "Magic b/w Teens". By the time they made it back into a recording studio in 1963, they'd acquired a new lead singer Eddie Williams.

Howard Pitman, a former member of The Five Chances (they recorded for Chance and Blue Lake in the mid-'50s), started his own Concord label and came up with "The Gorilla" along with lead singer Williams and Jerry Murray. With dj Herb Kent behind it, "The Gorilla" sold well enough locally that Pitman handed it to Bill Erman's Cortland label. With the Donald Jenkins-penned ballad "Don Juan" on the flip, "The Gorilla" made a lot of Chi-Town noise. None of their Cortland followups, notably a remake of Henry Lumpkin's "Mojo Hanna" and the fake live sequel "Mo Gorilla", went anywhere.

The Ideals moved to the St. Lawrence label in 1965 for the R&B sizzler "Go Get A Wig". They were down to just Jackson, Mitchell, and Stewart when they ventured in a Windy City soul direction for "I Got Lucky (When I Found You)" and then "You Lost And I Won", the latter on St. Lawrence's Satellite imprint. Meanwhile, Tharp joined with Murray to form the duo Tom and Jerry-O, posting a 1965 hit with their "Boo-Ga-Loo" for ABC-Paramount. The Ideals would finally dent the R&B charts with "Kissin'", their second soul-soaked outing on Satellite, in early 1966. A smoother remake of "Go Go Gorilla" closed out their Satellite stay, and a 1967 outing for Boo-Ga-Loo, "The Mighty Lover", completed The Ideals' recording career. 

*Information on The Ideals story taken from Street Corner Symphonies compilation, thanks!

Of course the whole cover idea was shamelessly nicked from Norton's amazing 45 reissue from 2011 but I wasn't able to locate a cool picture of them. Whatever. 

The Olympics - Good Lovin': The Olympics on Loma (WTS Soul No.1)

Hey there! 

Hope everyone's doing fine since the last time.

So, since I never really stopped doing compilations for my own pleasure I decided to upload them after I was kinda forced by you people by seeing my stories and posts on Instagram. I mean, why not right?!

Let's start with The Olympics' quick stint on legendary LOMA label and their three singles. As far as I know, there's no compilation around including all of them sides. [Some co-produced by Mighty Hannibal!]

Cheers!