ABC Records

He's in for the last hour, so I shall try not to disappoint.

Kicking off, well, after the funeral with this one, a big old fave, ABC Records, Bobby Hutton.

And watch where you're going.

You better watch where you're going, girl It's gonna catch up with you

It's such a good tune, though.

Platters and a wash to shore on a lonely island in the sea as we move over to the four tops.

Another one of those damn fine tracks they've done on ABC Records.

It would almost drive me out of my mind.

We went up and did some promos with the record label.

And, you know, I actually met a guy who's been my friend for the past 60 years who was a promo guy for ABC Records back then.

And he and I have kept in touch all these years.

But we did these things that, you know, were definitely a big step up for me, and I was kind of awed by it.

Now, he served as his brother Phil's manager in the 60s.

He led the publicity departments of Columbia Shelter and ABC Records in the 70s, which ties back to a previous series we did on Tom Petty, who started on Shelter Records in the 1970s.

So I presume Phil Oakes' brother would have been one of his publicists.

He started off as a photographer for Columbia Records.

Shout out to our California listeners, by the way, on the podcast.

The album was released, as I said, on ABC Records.

It produced one single that charted, Carry Me, which reached the dizzy heights of 52 on Billboard.

which is not amazing, is it? But it did better than the other two singles, which didn't chart at all.