Satisfaction Unlimited

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地区: United States of America 美国

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The Satisfactions from Washington, D.C. (tenor lead Sam Gilbert, 2nd tenor James "Junior" Isom, baritone Ronald Boyd and bass James Mitchell), had these two modest flings with national fame - a cover of the 1960 Dinah Washington hit This Bitter Earth - # 36 R&B and # 96 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in July 1970 as Lionel 3201 b/w the standard Ol' Man River, and the Oct 1970 # 21 R&B/# 94 Hot 100 One Light Two Lights as Lionel 3205 b/w Turn Back The Tears.

After starting out as The Marvels sometime in 1954, they had managed to cut one record in late 1957 for Laurie Records - I Shed So Many Tears b/w So Young, So Sweet (Laurie 3016) - which went nowhere in early 1958. Three years later in 1961 they resurfaced on record as The Senators at John Dickerson's Washington D.C.-based shoe-string operation Winn Records (the “studio” was in his basement) where they cut a cover of For Sentimental Reasons b/w Come Back (Winn 1916 released in Sept 1961) and Wedding Bells b/w I Shouldn’t Care (Winn 1917 released in April 1962). Not surprisingly, they too went nowhere. Another stretch of 4 years passed before they tried again, this time as The Satisfactions, and finally with a label with some clout (the Smash subsidiary of Mercury). But alas, not even their influence could coax a hit out of these 3: Give Me Your Love b/w Stop Following Me as Smash 2059 in 1966, and in 1967, Take It Or Leave It b/w You Got To Share as Smash 2098 and Keep On Tryin' b/w Use Me as Smash 2131.

They then had to wait another 3 years before getting a chance at Lionel Records, a label just launched by Jimmy Webb and Dallas Smith with a distribution arrangement with MGM. There, in addition to the above-mentioned nationally-charting sides, they also cut the unsuccessful God, I'm Losing My Baby b/w O-o-h La La as Lionel 3214, released in Feb 1971. Apart from Lionel's main artists, The Five Man Electrical Band (which had started out in Canada's capitol Ottawa as The Staccatos), they were the most successful in the label's short life-span which closed down in 1971, with a couple of their artists (including The Five Man Electrical Band) being switched to the MGM subsidiary Lion.

As for The Satisfactions, after a complete changeover and yet another name change, this time to Satisfaction Unlimited (lead tenor Lorenzo Hines, second tenor James Isom, baritone Earl Jones and bass Fletcher Lee) they turned up at Detroit’s Hot Wax Records, launched in 1968 by Edward Holland, Jr., Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland following their departure from Motown, where they released the 1972 single Bright City Lights b/w Why Do You Keep On Asking Those Foolish Questions? (Hot Wax 7209) as well as their first and only album “Think Of The Children”.

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