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Donny Hathaway And June Conquest ‎– I Thank You / Just Another Reason Curtom ‎– CR 1971 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, US, 1972 Info Just a quick one. The great Donny Hathaway in two duets with the less well known June Conquest on this 1972 single. (How someone can remain obscure with a name as brilliant as June Conquest is beyond me.) Curtis Mayfield wrote the excellent A side and released this on his Curtom record label. I could be wrong, but I think the track was actually cut and first released as Hathaway's first single a few years earlier ('69?), but credited to just "Donny & June." Curtom presumably reissued it a couple years later to take advantage of the success he was finding with his first singles and LP on ATCO. Honestly, my 45 here sounds pretty awful. I'm pretty sure I was given it for free by someone who had it sitting in her basement for the previous 20 years. I loved it and I Thank You once saw regular play when I had a chance to DJ a soul set in a p...

With Chicago Teachers Union members across the city who are both missing their students pretty bad right about now and still trying to keep up the struggle, I thought this single might be appropriate... Baby Huey & The Babysitters 'Mighty' 'Mighty' Children (Unite Yourself This Hour) Curtom ‎– CR 1939 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, US, 1969 For a few short years in the late 60s, James T. Ramey transformed himself into Baby Huey, a 300+ lb force of nature in the Chicago music scene. After a handful of singles on smaller labels and a wild reputation for their live performances, Baby Huey & The Babysitters were picked up by Curtis Mayfield's Curtom record label. Curtis himself produced three band's last couple of 45s as well as Baby Huey's only LP, "The Baby Huey Story - The Living Legend," which was released by Curtom posthumously after the 25 year old Huey died in 1970. One of those two Curtom singles included the Babysit...