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1. Color Me Blue
2. I Can’t Forget About You
3. Really Do Love You
4. Do I Love Her
5. We’re In Love
6. I Love You
7. Somebody
8. You Ain’t Got My Love
9. Sweet Virginia
10. The Pimps & The Hustlers
11. You Look Like An Angel
12. Stop Playing Around
13. Do You Love Me
14. That Girl
15. Come Round Here (And Let Me Love You)
Side One
1. Color Me Blue
2. I Can’t Forget About You
3. Really Do Love You
4. Do I Love Her
5. We’re In Love
6. I Love You
7. Somebody
Side Two
8. You Ain’t Got My Love – (Previously Unreleased)
9. Sweet Virginia – (Previously Unreleased)
10. The Pimps & The Hustlers – (Previously Unreleased)
11. You Look Like An Angel
12. Stop Playing Around
13. Do You Love Me
14. That Girl
15. Come Round Here (And Let Me Love You)
| Weight | 501.00 g |
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| Title | Color Me Blue – The York & Sussex Sessions |
| Artist | Decisions, The |
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After months of hard work on both sides, Soul Direction can finally release what has been a true labour of love. Ensuring the licensing/publishing are pulled together is a long process, but finally we are here.
15 stunning group soul tracks (including 3 previously unreleased tracks never before issued in any form).
The relationship with the Decisions and Soul Direction Records continues with our first venture into the world of the 12″ album.
However, this is something special for us. Over 2021 to 2023, we have covered the journey of theAtlanta group from the early recordings as the Decisions, making their way in the music world with some almost lost unreleased recordings, to their later metamorphosis to Unitv in the earlv 70s. From group harmony soul to sweet soul, and yet seamlessly either side of their time at Clarence Avant’s Sussex label in Hollywood CA.
Side one primarily concentrates on the releases from their own label “York Records” in 1969 but added to that some of the lost recordings mastered and released on our label between 2021 and 2023.
Side two begins with 3 previously unreleased tracks “You Ain’t Got My Love”, which was recorded in New York around 1967 under the guidance of Titus Turner who arranged and produced the track along with ‘Sweet Virginia’. The third previously unreleased track “Pimps & The Hustlers” is the final track from the almost lost “York recordings” master tape.
Along with these are some of the recordings the group cut with Clarence Avant’s label Sussex.
The group formed at S.H. Archer High School and graduated in 1965.
Thev were one of Billboard’s hottest male singing groups to look out for in and around the Georgia area but were gaining success further afield.
After two releases for the local self-owned “York” label in 1969, they then signed for “Sussex” records in the early 1970’s for the Los Angeles based label, under the leadership of Clarence Avant and cut three more 45s.
While with Sussex Records they continued with their unique Atlanta sound that shocked the recording industry and had some success with releases that included “I Cant Forget About You’ & Stop Playing Around”. – Soul Direction
