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What Happened
Nobody can say with confidence who James Fountain was. No agreed birth date, no verified name, and no entry in the deepest soul reference anybody has built. What survives is four sides of vinyl and one filmed performance. Peachtree issued P-127 from Atlanta in 1970 with Malnutrition as the plug side, so the sixth greatest record on the Top 500 is a flipside. William Bell produced it, a Stax man who had already reached number 8 in Britain with Private Number. Ian Levine brought the record over and it belonged to Blackpool Mecca rather than Wigan. Ian Dewhirst says Wigan booked Levine because Levine owned a copy. In 1998 Levine found Fountain in America and filmed him singing it back.
Three Facts
- Originals show 45166 and 45167 in the runout, not 4566.
- 64 originals logged on Discogs against 628 people wanting one.
- Cream reissued it in Britain in March 1976.
The Credits
| Label | Peachtree |
|---|---|
| Catalogue | P-127 |
| Year | 1970 |
| Writer | Not stated in sources |
| Producer | William Bell |
| Other side | A-side is Malnutrition. The featured song is the flip. |
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