PAT STALLWORTH QUESTIONS PART I PART II ORIGINAL VINYL 45 USED, GIVEN TO ME BY BILL JACOCKS WHO COMPOSED THE LYRICS, MELODY, AND HIRED MY BAND TO COME UP WITH SOME MUSIC TO BACK THE SONG.
NOWHERE WILL YOU FIND THE PERSONNEL FOR THIS RECORD, BECAUSE THAT WAS NEVER PUBLISHED: IT WAS US, A BAND CALLED MOTHER BRAINTREE AND I WAS THE BANDLEADER I DID ALL OF THE ARRANGING FOR THE BAND, AND WE HAD BEEN THE ROAD BAND WITH EDWIN STARR, WHO WAS A MOTOWN ARTIST OUR FIRST GIG WAS AT THE COPACABANA IN NYC ON JUNE 10, 1971 AT THAT TIME, THE BAND S NAME WAS CREATION BUT WE CHANGED IT TO MOTHER BRAINTREE WHEN WE WENT THROUGH BRAINTREE, MA AND THERE IS A STORY BEHIND THAT .
BILL HANDED ME TWO COPIES OF THE RECORD AFTER IT HAD BEEN PRESSED, AND I THINK THAT MY YOUNGER BROTHER GOT A HOLD OF THE OTHER ONE, SO THIS IS THE ONE THAT REMAINED IN ONE OF MY ALBUM CRATES SINCE 1974. I JUST PLAYED IT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WORKS, AND IT SOUNDS JUST LIKE IT DID IN 1974 THIS RECORD IS 49-YEARS-OLD, AND IT STILL PLAYS YOU WILL FIND PAT STALLWORTH S QUESTIONS PART I AND QUESTIONS PART II ALL OVER YOUTUBE AND AMAZON, AND I AM AMAZED THAT IT HAS MADE IT INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
IT WAS GREAT TO WORK WITH BILL AND PAT, AND BILL JACOCKS WAS THE BEST ABC NEWS ANCHOR EVER: NO ONE CAN MATCH THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE, AND HIS PRESENCE. PAT WAS ALSO WONDERFUL, AND I WAS LUCKY TO VISIT WITH HER A COUPLE OF TIMES AFTER THE RECORDING SESSION.
THE MUSICIANS WHO PLAYED ON THIS RECORD ARE:
PIERRE DeMUDD - TRUMPET
WATSON QUADIR VAUGHN - TRUMPET
RASOOL CAREY - FLUTE ALTO SAXOPHONE
ULYSSES YOUNG - BASS TROMBONE KING DUO BRAVIS, COPPER BELL
LARRY ROSS - ELECTRIC GUITAR, CLASSICAL GUITAR, PIANO, ELKA RHAPSODY 490 STRING ENSEMBLE
TRACY PRUITT - BASS
JAMES ENSLEY - DRUMS
THE HORN PLAYERS IN THE PICTURE ARE from left to right WATSON VAUGHN, PIERRE DeMUDD HE ALSO PLAYED WITH THE DAZZ BAND WHO WON THE GRAMMY FOR LET IT WHIP AND BOTH BANDS PRACTICED IN THE SAME HALL: A BOWLING ALLEY OWNED BY OUR MANAGER AMEER AKRAM ON LEE ROAD , AND ULYSSES C YOUNG WHO ALSO DID MOST OF THE BOOKING FOR THE BAND WITH OUR BOOKING AGENT JOHNNY JOHNSON IN SILVER SPRINGS, MARYLAND . ALL MEMBERS OF MOTHER BRAINTREE COULD READ MUSIC, AND NO ONE WHO COULDN T READ COULD BE IN THE BAND: THE HORN PLAYERS ARE READING SOME OF MY ARRANGEMENTS THAT WE RECORDED IN 1973 AT CLEVELAND RECORDING STUDIOS, AND KEN HAMANN WAS THE ENGINEER. WE RECORDED THIS RECORD FOR BILL JACOCKS AT AGENCY RECORDING STUDIOS, WHICH WAS LOCATED ABOVE THE AGORA ADJACENT TO THE CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS: ARNIE ROSENBERG WAS THE ENGINEER.
YOU CAN HEAR ME USING THAT WAH-WAH PEDAL WHICH WAS UBIQUITOUS BACK IN THE DAY I STARTED PLAYING VIOLIN IN ORCHESTRAS WHEN I WAS EIGHT-YEARS-OLD. I WENT TO COLLINWOOD HIGH SCHOOL WHEN I WAS 12-YEARS-OLD, AND THE CONDUCTOR OF THE ORCHESTRA MR. MORSE SELECTED ME FOR PRIVATE LESSONS WITH THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA, SO I GREW UP IN CLASSICAL MUSIC, MORPHING INTO JAZZ, R B, AND ROCK DURING THE 1960s AND 1970s. THUS, I ENDED UP ARRANGING FOR EVERY BAND THAT I PLAYED IN, ONLY BECAUSE I HAD GREAT TEACHERS: IT WASN T JUST ME, OR LUCK - SO LISTEN TO YOUR TEACHERS
IF YOU WANT AN ORIGINAL COPY OF PAT STALLWORTH S QUESTIONS PART I AND QUESTIONS PART II , THIS IS IT, STRAIGHT FROM THE HANDS OF BILL JACOCKS WHO CAME UP WITH THE SONG PHOTO 5 IS A STOCK PHOTO. ALL USED ITEMS ARE SOLD AS-IS, NO RETURNS.
