RARE 1965 Northern Soul Jimi Hendrix 45 FRANK HOWARD COMMANDERS Im So Glad/Sorry

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180

JIMI HENDRIX LOT OF 2 45's...
https://jimihendrix.com/track/i-m-so-glad-frank-howard-the-commanders/

Frank Howard & The Commanders ?– I'm So Glad / I'm Sorry for You Label: Barry Records  Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single  Country: US Released: 1965 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul
Tracklist / Credits
A I'm So Glad Lead Guitar – Jimi Hendrix Lead Vocals – Frank Howard Songwriter, Bass Guitar – Billy Cox
B I'm Sorry for You Lead Guitar – Jimi Hendrix Lead Vocals – Frank Howard Songwriter, Bass Guitar – Billy Cox
Companies, etc. Distributed By – Old Town Record Corp. Manufactured By – Deb Mor Sales Corp.
Notes Recorded at Starday Studios, Nashville, Tennessee


'65 SESSION Frank 45 -1A/1A Matrix 1st Press-1st 45 /  '68 Watchtower 45 Matrix Numbers-1B/1B
Very hard to come by Jimi Hendrix/Billy Cox FIRST RECORDING ever played on! Rare Original 1965 Recording...
These are Jimi Hendrix/Billy Cox First Recordings Together, with Billy writing Both songs on both sides!  Great sought after Northern Soul record, much less a Jimi Hendrix rare record.  One of the songs is even featured on one of Jimi Hendrix official box sets, see research below after reading through the listing...
1st BILLY COX/HENDRIX original 7" 45 by FRANK HOWARD & THE COMMANDERS - 
This is a very rare 1965 northern soul release and VERY HARD TO FIND IN ANY CONDITION.  Recorded at Starday in Nashville, Tennessee around July 1965 and featuring JIMI HENDRIX on both sides!  This is the earliest & rarest appearances on record of Hendrix, then a struggling musician who had just quit working with Little Richard a month or two before.  Also features future Hendrix bassist BILLY COX playing bass on the record. (both songs are even penned by Cox).

FRANK HOWARD and the COMMANDERS vinyl 7"
Im So Glad/I'm sorry for you 45
on Barry Records, Distributed by OLD TOWN RECORDS back in the day.
Catalog # Barry 1008 
This is the ORIGINAL 1965 Recording session-1966 Release Date PRESSING  with the original AX 111 1A / AX 112 1A matrix markings on the dead wax, as seen in a few of the pictures to prove it's an original Barry Records 1960's press. 
This is a super hard to find in any condition collectors record. 
This 45 is in NM- to NM condition appearing on both sides as I hold this UNDER ANY DAYLIGHT FROM A WINDOW, however take note, *   
* for the "record collector geek description" is as follows,...
When held under a table lamp inside, I can see a slight residue on the "I'm sorry for you" side (btw, it does not effect the play, sounds great). So visually for the "I'm sorry for you" ONLY,  I would probably give it a very nice VG+ to maybe ++ visually, and once again, it does play nice, even on both sides.) Actually probably would guess it's in "never been played condition" until I recently played it. The only thing i can guess for the residue on this side is maybe something must've got on the one side sometime ago and it makes it appear to look a certain way in different light conditions. 
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Along with that, I am including for free, (Remember FREE, so please don't complain if you're not happy with the condition grade, thank you.),
 an Original 1968 Mono 1B/1B matrix pressing 45 of All along the watchtower / Burning of the midnight lamp Jimmy Hendrix Experience Reprise Records Catalog # 0767,
And placed inside a new/old stock peaches records inner sleeve.
Vinyl on this is VG to VG+ play, VG- Visual, both sides play fine with no skips on my turntable. Hopefully would do the same for you on your setup. Hey, it's a free gift anyway. Btw, both 45's come with nice plastic outer sleeves. The All along the watchtower was either pressed at the Columbia Records Terre Haute or Pittman location in 1968.

• Matrix / Runout (A side runout (stamped)): L-5424-1B 
• Matrix / Runout (B side runout (stamped)): L-5427-1B

Also, Below is some info on the Rare Jimi Hendrix/Frank Howard 45...

Check out my other listings and combine shipping, thanks for checking me out.  ............................................
https://jimihendrix.com/track/i-m-so-glad-frank-howard-the-commanders/
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The Frank Howard recordings first became linked with Hendrix via the release of the compilation cd "Old Town and Barry soul stirrers" (Cdkend111). The liner notes suggested that Jimi Hendrix would be playing on "I'm so glad":
"Another record to fall along the way was Frank Howard & The Commanders 'I'm So Glad', licensed in from a Nashville production company. Its belated success on the northern soul scene puts its resale price higher today than the fee the Commanders' guitarist would have been more than happy with then. The guitarist actually made it to the UK before the record, and with his group, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, found success of his own."
 I exchanged emails with Frank Howard during 2003 and he stated that Hendrix played rhythm guitar on both sides of the 45.
A likely time for the single's recordings to have taken place would be around July 1965. Jimi had quit Little Richard a month or two before, and appeared on the TV show "Night Train" performing "Shotgun" with Buddy & Stacey, filmed in Nashville, Tennesee. The date of the TV recordings is unknown, but on the same show Jimmy Church performs "In The Midnight Hour". The Wilson Pickett version of the song was released in late June - early July, so the TV recordings had to take place later than that, and in early August Jimi was back in NYC gigging & recording with the Isley Brothers.
Also, the Commanders appeared on the "The Beat !!!!" TV show in late 65 - early 66 performing "I'm So Glad", so the 45 had most likely been or was about to be released by early 1966.Billy Cox has said that Jimi left and returned to Nashville several times, probably for one reason or another after leaving Little Richard's band Jimi ended back in Nashville and did whatever work he could find before returning to NYC and the Isley Brothers, one of these jobs being the Frank Howard single.

............................................. Hendrix performed at the invitation of his old Army buddy and former King Kasuals band mate Billy Cox, who had written a pair of songs for Howard. The sessions were produced by the influential disc jockey Bill “Hoss” Allen, who was less than impressed with Hendrix’s guitar skills. “All Hoss wanted Jimi to do was play a simple rhythm while Johnny Jones played lead, but Hoss didn’t like what he was hearing from Jimi, so he turned his mic down and cut him in and out,” Howard remembered in Becoming Hendrix. “Hoss didn’t like it when musicians experimented on his session. He told me later that if he knew Jimi was going to be so successful, he’d let him get as wild as he wanted.” 

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