Black Ivory Don't Turn Around 1972 Original Today Records plays VG+ to VG++
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Black Ivory ~ Don't Turn Around 1972 Original, 1st pressing. Today Records - TLP 1005 Stereo Vinyl is VG+ to VG++. Vinyl looks VG+ to VG++ with inner-sleeve marks, faint scuffs and surface-scratches. Vinyl plays VG+ to VG++, mostly VG++: minor background-wear and faint ticks between tracks and some quiet passages and a few, other occasional ticks and clicks. Cover is VG: corner, cover and edge-wear, bends and indentations. Labels are VG++ to Mint-, mostly Mint-: minor manufacturer imperfections.
Out of print
"Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe, and Russell Patterson were Black Ivory, an exceptional and occasionally brilliant soul group from Harlem that recorded throughout the '70s and returned sporadically during the decades following. The trio developed out of the late '60s as a group called the Mellow Souls and were eventually taken under the wing of Patrick Adams. Adams had been in a group called the Sparks, but he developed his skills as a songwriter, arranger, and producer with Black Ivory.
Adams scraped together all the money he possibly could in order to have the group record their first single, "Don't Turn Around." Adams took the demo to several unimpressed labels before hitting Today Records. That label had a very different opinion and signed the group on the strength of the recording. "Don't Turn Around," written by Adams, became a Top 40 hit on the R&B chart, hitting number 38 in 1971. Black Ivory had their first taste of success. Not only that, but Today offered Adams -- still a teenager at the time -- an A&R position."...
-allmusic
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