PS WordPress automatically turns the combo of the numeral 8 and the close-parentheses into a smiley. It’s happened to me a couple of times.

Maybe Soulville just had the one vocal by him and stuck on the backing track of “Grit Gitter” as a throway b-side little suspecting that
this would eventually come under the beady eyes of vinyl nuts.

I’ve no idea if Cha Cha Hogan played piano but Earl Van Dyke
seems a more likely suspect.

That Argo no. for J.C.Heard’s earlier record should be 5308
- I’m not sure whre the smiley came from

Davie

The Sir-Rah single came first - issued around February ‘68 going by the
matrix number. The Soulville single’s from around 1970.

I can’t quite make out the full writer credits - is that “E. Lemon” ?

Anyway, Just Productions (Jack Ashford and Lorraine Chandler)
had dealings with another Harrisburg label, Jay Walking ( home of
The Continental Four), - they leased or sold them two singles by Ray
Gant and The Arabian Knights and another single by Eddie Parker.
Soulville ws somehow connected to Jay Walking - how exactly I’m not sure - I suspect what happened was that Soulville went through
Jack and Lorraine’s tapes heard the backing track for “Grit Gitter”
and decided to issue the backing track.

If that is “E. Lemon” in the Sir-Rah writing credits it may well be that
he’s the guy who got all the parties together as there’s a Eugene
Lemon who gets a co-writer credit on “Day By day” by the
Continental Four.

I wouldn’t take any of this as gospel - it’s just theorising from the
info. I do have.

There’s one other J.C. Heard record I know of but haven’t heard
- a single on Chess subsidiary Argo “Blues For Sale” / “For You My Love”
(Argo 530 issued in 1958.

Thanks for the info. on Cha Cha Hogan - it’s a helluva lot more than I knew about him fifteen minutes ago.

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‘Show and Tell’ singer Al Wilson dies at 68
The Monterey County Herald
Article Last Updated: 04/25/2008 01:39:12 AM PDT

FONTANA (AP) — Al Wilson, a soul singer and songwriter who had a number of 1970s hits, including “Show and Tell,” died Monday. He was 68.
Wilson died of kidney failure at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, said his son, Tony Wilson.

The elder Wilson was born June 19, 1939, in Meridian, Miss. He sang in the church choir as a boy and had his own spiritual singing quartet. His family moved to San Bernardino in 1958 and he found work as a mail carrier, office clerk and janitor.

In 1966, he was spotted by manager Marc Gordon, who introduced him to singer Johnny Rivers, who signed him to his Soul City label. Wilson’s first single, “The Snake” in 1968, was a hit and was followed by “Do What You Gotta Do.”

“Show and Tell” was released in 1973 and the next year was No. 1 on the Billboard Top 100 chart.

Wilson reached the charts with several other 1970s singles, including “La La Peace Song,” “I’ve Got a Feeling (We’ll Be Seeing Each Other Again)” and “Count the Days.”

In later years, he continued to tour clubs in Los Angeles and elsewhere.