Dave and all,
Thanks for the suggestions. These are all good leads. I am not convinced
100% about Martha Reeves and the Miracles, but I am going to try and
find some other photos to see if I can find a match. I thought that the
women might be Quiet Elegance
(http://www.discogs.com/Quiet-Elegance-The-Complete-Quiet-Elegance-On-Hi-Records/release/2046576),
but they don't quite look like them.
I am pretty sure that the rock band is not Steel Mill or another
incarnation of the E Street band. None of the other guys look like Steve
Van Zandt or Robbin Thompson, etc. Although the bass player looks like
Springsteen in two of the three shots, her certainly does not with his
head turned in one of the shots (mums834-b002-f05-i055)
Additional suggestions are welcome.
Jeremy Smith
Digital Projects Manager in Scholarly Communication
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Amherst MA 01003
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On 7/2/2015 12:00 AM, ARSCLIST automatic digest system wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: Help identifying minor rock and soul acts from the 1970s
> From:
> David Lewis <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:
> 7/1/2015 10:32 PM
>
>
> My thoughts, and I do not swear to absolute accuracy, but these are my
> impressions:
>
> Frames 1-2: Martha and the Vandellas. The wigs are big, and the lineup of
> the Vandellas changed often. But the woman on the left looks like Martha
> Reeves.
>
> Frames 3-4: I concur with Matt that this is Chubby Checker, if albeit in a
> less than Chubby phase.
>
> Frames 5-8: Smokey Robinson and his first post-"Miracles" group. The
> Miracles broke up earlier in 1972 and these are new backing singers. Their
> outfits are kind of spartan,
> but I suspect that's because they're just starting out.
>
> Frames 9-11: No idea. If it is Springsteen, then it might not be Steel
> Mill, as they broke up at the beginning of 1971. He did have a group called
> "The Bruce Springsteen Band"
> briefly between Steel Mill and the E Street Band. If so, I wonder what they
> were doing playing an oldies concert in Springfield, MA.
>
> Frame 12: The Coasters. That's Will "Dub" Jones second from left and Carl
> Gardner on the right end, so I'm pretty sure about this one.
>
> Frames 13-15: These are really vexing. At first I thought this The Teddy
> Bears, as the girl really looks like Carol Connors, but her beauty mark is
> not in the right place (Carol
> used to have two; now she has none.) Also, Carol has spilled a lot of ink
> on her life and career and never, ever mentioned a project like this, in
> which her two sidekicks would
> have needed replacing -- one was Phil Spector. And while she was once a
> brunette, I don't think she ever wore her hair this way. So, no idea still,
> but whomever she is in Frame
> 13 she sure seems like she doesn't want her picture taken just then.
>
> David N. Lewis
> Hamilton, OH
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