I've been collecting Disco & Funk for 25 years now but this track was before my time. Just discovered it last year and I'm really hooked.
I've been searching the net for more info on this guy ( Udell Anderson ) but only came up with 2 tracks. (Girls, Girls , Girls 1974 as being the other track)
Just wondering if any of you has more info on this great singer....
Check out the track
UDELL
ReplyDeleteUdell T. Anderson from Texas tried his luck at the end of the sixties in England (as a member of the Gladiators, a solo act and also as a session singer with Dusty Springfield and Madeline Bell) and then came to the Netherlands in 1970 to take part in the recording of the musical, "Hair". After that, he formed his own groups Stone Delight and Udell's People. Stone Delight featured Frank Nodelijk (o, p, ex-Nature, to Promotion), Rein Schipper (b, to Lobster and Mouth & MacNeal), Jaap de Wit (g, ex-Bismarck, to Lobster and Carlsberg) and Willem Voorhaar (dr, ex-Punky's Dilemma, to Lobster and Alexander Curly). Udell's People was founded in 1975 in Amsterdam and consisted of Ed Simpson Baikie (b), Lindsay Scott (vi, perc), Tom Bachman (dr, to Robinson Cruiser), Cor Kalkman (p, ex-Dagmar) and Martin van Wijk (g, ex-Lemming, to Kelly White). On his LP, Udell was accompanied by the Rainbow Train; his People also accompanied Daniel Sahuleka.
1969 Love ain't love/Funky walk CBS 4212
Keep on loving me/Thank you darling CBS 4459
Don't go away/Thank you darling CBS 4645
1977 The promise of love/Children's world CBS 5095
Fifty ways to leave your lover/My life CNR 144591
1978 LP This is magic CNR 651022
I had the great pleasure of working with Udell in the Amsterdam bands Stone Delight and Udell's People. We also played often and recorded in Brussels at the Morgan Studios for RKM records. We played venues on the U.S. armed forces bases and a two month run in Greece in 1975. I'm the bass player on this track....
ReplyDeleteI met Udell in visiting Amsterdam several times. He was the friend of a friend. If we had e-mails and mobiles in those days we would no doubt hae kept in touch. He gave me a signed copy of 50 Ways to leave Your Lover just before it was released and I have a photo Xmas card from him. He realy was a very nice genuine guy and a gentle soul.I was shocked to learn he had died so young.
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