Roy Roberts Experience – You Move Me Pt.1 / You Move Me Pt. 2 45 (Soul City) 7″ Vinyl

First reissue in over 50 years of this monster dance track.

Roy Roberts was born in Livingston, Tennessee, in 1942, and spent his formative years as a farmhand listening to blues and saving up for his first guitar. He was inspired to become a professional musician after after seeing Northern Soul legend Jerry Butler performing and before long, he began backing up major artists who came through town such as Solomon Burke, Eddie Floyd, Stevie Wonder, Dee Clark and Otis Redding – a formidable CV!

He cut his first record, a tribute to Otis Redding, in 1968 which found a release on the local Bo Ro label before being picked up by Nina Simon for Ninandy Records, co-owned by her and her husband Andy Stroud. The flip side, “Got Have Your Love”, overlooked at the time, was adopted by the Northern Soul scene and remains a much-loved dancer. Roberts followed this success with a string of singles that carried him well into the 1970s including the sublime rarity “I Know What To Do To Satisfy You” released on producer Curtiss Moore’s Tina label. But, waiting in the wings, was his ultimate funk/soul classic “You Move Me” recorded in 1971 for Lelan Rogers’ Nashville based House Of The Fox. Rogers (brother of country star Kenny Rogers) also controlled the Silver Fox label and unleashed a tonne of funk by the likes of Maceo And All The Kings Men, Gloria Taylor, Brightlights, the Soul Lifters and our choice-cut by the Roy Roberts Experience, currently in-demand and tearing up the dance floors.- Charly Records