Roy Arlington - Everybody Makes A Mistake Sometimes Safice-337 '61

This Eddie Floyd penned great ballad has also been released by Otis Redding (Volt '66) and Mitty Collier (Chess '67).
All these versions are great and it's hard to choose which one is the best. I played all 3 before posting and I can't decide even though I'm an Otis man. They all got something special.

I'll post all 3 versions for you to make up your mind yourself. Let me know your findings.

I'm wondering: Are there more deep soul versions out there ????

3 Versions of Everybody Makes A Mistake Sometimes

Little Johnnie Taylor - Please Come Home For Christmas(Galaxy)

A bluesy deep soul ballad. From the above CD "The Galaxy Years"

Hope she'll be home soon, cause you can feel the hurt...........

ReActivated song link Little Johnnie Taylor

Louis Windzak with The Glenn Weisz Orchestra - Free Me

Here's an other great performance by

Louis Windzak (The Suriname Otis Redding)

They could have invited him when the new Otis dvd was presented a few months ago in the US. Maybe something for the future.

I was promised a synchronized copy by Glenn Weisz. Until then we have to do with this copy.





A great Band with some of the finest Suriname Musicians. They have an end of the year Party/Concert every year.

The Falling Stones - Come Back To Your Lover

The Falling Stones aka The Talk Of The Town where hot from the mid 60's until the early 70's.
They where known in the whole of the Caribbean and gave many concerts abroad. They started as a backup band but when one of the singers from "the Dynamics Stars" suddenly past away they decided to go on and changed there name.
The first members where Glenn Pocorni, Ernie Anches, Henry Cumberbatch, Benny Gelenbracht, Guillaume Braceli and Paul MacNack.
Later when they started to make some waves they where joined by many other great Suriname talents.

Among them was Louis Windzak "The Suriname Otis Redding". Todays song is a composition by him and Glenn Pocorni.
The album with this song was recorded during one of their tours to Trinidad. Al songs where recorded during one session.

Falling Stones Hang Me High(other Own Composition) Soundclip With Slide Show

Most members that where part of The Falling Stones (some 20) are still active today. In 2005 they had a reunion concert in The Netherlands.

Get it here: The Suriname Otis Redding & The Fallingstones

Oscar Harris & The Twinkle Stars - Try A Little Love (Blue Elephant LP 899.002)

Oscar Harris to many is the most successful singer from Suriname. He left for The Netherlands in the mid 60's and started a group called "The Twinkel Stars".The group consisted of Suriname musicians who left their country mostly for study purposes.
In 1968 they where joined by Billy Jones who had been stationed in Germany for the US army and decided not to return back home.

Before leaving his native country Oscar had local hits that where never recorded but put on tape at a local radio station. There's information that some of these recordings are now owned by a Suriname collector in Holland.
His first 45 was a hit called "T O P" in 1969 with the Twinkle Stars.
Todays song was his second hit and made it in many countries in Europe, South Africa, Indonesia, The Caribbean & South America. Oscar never made it in the US this song was released there but it failed.

More Oscar Harris Songs LISTEN

Oscar Harris at the right front and Billy Jones at the center of one of there album covers.

Oscar left the group in 1973 for a successful solo career. Jones stayed with the group and released 2 great albums (both collectors albums) with them before leaving in 1980, he passed away 2 years later.
Oscar is still performing and doing well.

Download > Try A Little Love Oscar Harris & The Twinkle Stars

I'll be doing a post on Billy Jones in the near future. He's got some great covers and originals on his 2 albums. Billy also co-wrote some songs with Oscar Harris.

Oscar Harris Discography & Charts

William Bell - You Don't Miss Your Water

Ripped From The Soul Of Stax (download here)

Jimmy Taylor - My Woman(Pompeii 6674a)

I don't know much about this Soul Singer and the Label this song was released on. Except it was an Atlantic sub, and distributed by Atco. There where 10 albums released and some 39 singles

Pompeii Album Discography

This songs is a deep ballad and it's sung very intense.
Don't you just love the guitars.

Get the song here: MY WOMAN

Otis Redding-Fa FaFa Fa Fa (The Legacy Of ) 2007 DVD

Clip from new DVD taken from Amazon