Thursday, December 23, 2021

The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 23


Yesterday I featured Timmy Willis' last outing on wax, any today, by coincidence, it would appear that this single was Maurice Williams' last record.

Maurice Williams had started his recording career in 1957 as part of the group The Gladiolas (renamed from The Royal Charms as other groups were also using that name) they scored a sizeable R&B hit record straight away with Little Darlin' (Maurice wrote it and, yes, it is that Little Darling). The group morphed into Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, and through the 60s Maurice released singles with The Zodiacs and also as a solo artist.

It seems we can't escape a Covid Whirlpool at the moment. Incidentally, in 1967 Maurice released a single on the Deesu label, one side of which was Don't Be Half Safe. Could be used as a call to arms for the booster drive, at least to the double shotted. As for those that haven't partaken at all yet, well isn't it about time you did?!

Maurice Williams – Whirlpool 1970

2 comments:

John said...

Link appears to go to Timmy Willis?

Darcy said...

Link finally updated. Thanks for pointing this out and sorry it took so long John.