David and the Giants Superlove + Rolling In Sleep Crazy Horse 1307 Northern Soul

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Up for sale is a very scarce, original issue early single (7 inch, 45 RPM vinyl) by a deep South band whose early music was very popular on the Northern Soul scene in England.  The band for this recording may have included a child actor from a classic 1950s TV situation comedy!

Artist:   David and the Giants

Record Label:  Crazy Horse

Record Number:  1307

Release Year:  1969 (according to the website of Discogs)

Produced by Roger Hawkins and Jimmy R. Johnson

One Side (45-71195):  Rolling In My Sleep (Paul Davis) [Mataco Music Company, BMI - 3:27]

     Wax matrix marks:  "45-71195-F1*" (etched) and "1" (stamped) and small sunburst design (stamped)

Other Side (45-71197):  Superlove (David Huff) [Fame Publishing Company, BMI - 2:17]

     Wax matrix marks: "45-71197-F1*" (etched) and "2" (stamped) and small sunburst design (stamped)

The band "David and the Giants" was active from the 1960s to the 1990s, but there are two distinct intervals within this time frame.  Early on, the group - which had formed in Laurel, Mississippi in 1964, recorded secular rock songs and achieved regional success in the Southeast United States.  They issued six different singles.  In some of these, they were augmented by the Muscle Shoals (Alabama) Horns.  In the early 1970s, they were regularly performing with such artists as Styx, Chuck Berry, and Cheech and Chong.   By 1977, all the band members had become born-again Christians.  They continued to perform issuing about 17 LPs of Christian rock.

The record I am selling belongs to the bands first (secular) period.  Moreover, it might be the first recording that featured a new band member, Keith Thibodeaux, on drums.  He joined "David and the Giants" in 1969.  Under the name "Richard Keith", he had starred as "Little Ricky" in the TV sitcom I Love Lucy.  (He was something of a prodigy on drums having appeared professionally with the Horace Heidt Band at the age of 3.  His aced his audition for Lucille Ball by doing a drum solo!)  Thibodeaux developed drug issues and, after becoming a born again Christian, withdrew from the band in 1974.  He returned to "David and the Giants" in 1977 after being instrumental in the religious conversion of the rest of the band.

The song Superlove on the record I am selling has some great drum solos.  The band members are not credited on the label but the date of the record would be consistent with the first Keith Thibodeaux era with "David and the Giants".

See above for complete description of condition and for photos.  Sold as is.

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