When Berry Gordy found out about his musicians moonlighting, he fined then each $1000. That’s why Edwin Starr’s LP " Soul Master" and "The Fantastic Four Greatest Hits" LP was reissued on Berry Gordy’s," Soul" and "Gordy" labels. What happened was that Berry Gordy was tired of his session musicians moonlighting over at Ed Wingate’s labels, he bought out all of the labels ( Ric-Tic, Golden World, and Impact) including all of their masters tape recordings. When he finally got though, the secretary answered the phone and said, "Motown Records may help you". Edwin had no idea that he was part of the Motown label until he tried to telephoned the Ric-Tic offices. When he arrived there, one of the Temps welcomed him into the Motown family. One day on his return back to the U.S., Edwin flew into New York for an appearance at the Apollo Theater with The Temptations. Click here to listen to a Soul-Patrol.Net Radio WORLD PREMIRE of EDWIN STARR’S NEW CD CALLED ‘ALL THE WAY LIVEįeaturing 2001 LIVE PERFORMANCES of: 25 Miles, S.O.S., War, My Girl, Let’s Stay Together, Contact, Happy Radio, Agent 00 Soul and more!.Over the next two years, being in popular demand, Edwin continued to tour overseas in Europe. He wrote and produced the hit single " Oh How Happy" for the group Shades Of Blue in 1966, on the Impact label. Edwin was also a gifted songwriter as well. So he went to recruit a fake group to tour as The Holidays since Edwin, Steve, and J.J were to busy having solo careers of their own. Ed Wingate released the song as The Holidays, because he didn’t want it to clash with Edwin Starr’s song " Stop Her On Sight" since he was the lead singer on both hit songs. Barnes who had a classic hit entitled "Real Humdinger " in 1966, "Come On Back" and " Now That I Got You Back" both in 1967, and Steve Mancha who also had hits as well with " Don’t Make Me A Storyteller" and " I Don’t Wanna Lose You" in 1966-67, with the Motown session singers The Andantes as the group The Holidays on a 1966 soul classic entitled " I’ll Love You Forever". Other classic hits would follow such as, " Back Street", " Headline News" " Harlem" a B side classic, and the foot stomping classic " Stop Her On Sight (S.O.S.)". It was written because of the OO7craze during the early part of the 60’s. Edwin’s first hit for the label was Agent Double-O Soul in 1965. Ed Wingate also started Golden World in 1964 and Impact. Years later Edwin left the Bill Doggett combo and signed with record honcho Ed Wingate on his new Detroit label Ric-Tic. That’s when Edwin recruited the name Starr to be his last name, and taking his middle name Edwin for his first name. Bill Doggett’s manager, Don Briggs said to the lad out of theblue before his first show with the combo, that one day he was going to be a star. Returning to the US, he was recruited into the Bill Doggett combo for the next few years. In 1960, he went into the Armed forces where he entertained troops around Europe, where he was stationed at. ![]() Born, Charles Hatcher on Jan 21, 1942, in Nashville, Tenn, he moved from Nashville as a child to Cleveland where as a teen stated his own vocal group the Future Tones. Edwin Starr / Agent Double-O Soul, himself. I would like to pay tribute to another underrated artist of the Motown / Detroit soul era.
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