Various Artists - Eccentric Soul: Consolidated Productions Vol. 1 - 2x LP Colored Vinyl

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Eccentric Soul: Consolidated Productions Vol. 1
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12" Vinyl
UPC:
825764109222

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tan vinyl version - During his 40 years spent operating in the farthest margins of L.A.’s cutthroat music business, Consolidated Productions founder Mel Alexander penned a total of 73 original songs while running one of the longest running Black-owned independent record conglomerates of the 20th century. Across those same decades, he’d track hundreds of tunes for his Ajax, Angel Town, Car-A-Mel, City Lights, Emanuel, JGEMS, Kris, Libra III, New Breed, Simco, Space, Tyshawn, Us, and Velvet labels.

Between stints spent naming this flurry of newly formed record companies, he’d also try his hand at distribution, setting up the S&M, Soul Record, and BAB outfits at addresses dotting Pico Boulevard, along Los Angeles’s Record Row. He’d log hours as an on-air personality for KORG radio, and establish a host of promotional firms with names like Retail Record Network, World Wide Enterprises, Macro Media Incorporated, Melohank and Roice Promotions, and Associated Talent Development Company. Until well into his seventies, he’d still be busy tinkering with a never-realized public works project: his Watts Blues Walk of Fame.

“The blues is about living, it’s about people, it’s about things,” Mel Alexander told the People’s Tribune in 1991. “If you’ve never lived, you’ve never had the blues.” And Mel still had quite a bit of living to do.

“For a long time we have been pondering over our economic dilemma,” Alexander wrote in a letter to his many associates in 1968. “I feel togetherness is our only way out of this pitfall.” And it would be the only way, after a fashion. Across the next decade, Mel Alexander brought on an untold number of ambitious new partners, co-founding his next label or enterprise year after year, and changing his business address just as frequently. The next big hit seemed forever just around the corner—if only he and his Consolidated Productions cohort could turn up the right slogan, the perfect logo, the correct zip code, or that committed new colleague. All Mel asked was that you believe.
A1James Foster (14), The L.A. Untouchables - The Time Has Come
A2The Del Reys (2) - Don't You Know
A3The L.A. Untouchables - Money Man
A4Spider Walker - I'm Mad
A5The Del Reys (2) - Walk Proud
A6Billy Williams (5) - So Called Friend (Oh! What A Friend)
A7Ty Karim - Lighten Up Baby
B1B.B. Carter - Cool It Baby
B2Marilyn Calloway, The 4-Silvertones - My Lover
B3The Deb Tones, The Del Reys (2) - Knock On Wood
B4The De Velles - Misery
B5Ann Stacy - Don't You Fool Me
B6B.B. Carter - Leave Me Alone
B7Marilyn Calloway, The 4-Silvertones - Shut Up
C1Jimmy Ellis (3) - (C'mon) Dance To The Drumbeat (Inst)
C2The L.A. Untouchables - Acey Deucey (Inst)
C3The Gene Russell Trio - Doin' The Snake Hips
C4The De Velles - Let's Do The Hunch
C5The Gene Russell Trio - Jet Set
C6The Dynamic Duo (11), The Penguiness - Turkey Trot
C7The Gene Russell Trio - Foggy Bottom
D1Lee Harvey (5) - Only True Love
D2Lee Harvey (5) - Need Of Love
D3Lee Jones (18) - I Got To See My Baby
D4Lee Harvey (5) - Prove It
D5Lee Harvey (5), The L.A. Untouchables - My Assurance
D6Lee Harvey (5), The L.A. Untouchables - If I'm Dreaming
D7Lee Harvey (5) - False Pride