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Ultra Exposure
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Group
Members: Tommy Owens • Jimmy Graham •
John Mortimor • Melvin "Junior"
Davidson • Terry Harris • Willie Wilkes
• Elain Daniels • Holley Story •
Jessie Partridge • Mike Wilson • Melvin
Payne BIO. This was the spin off group of the House Rockers after Big Jay Bush was killed. (information please) AKA: Another Exposure |
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| Union Hall | |||||||||
| 3rd and Bank Street, Dayton. That's what it was. A union meeting hall. But on a Saturday night, an enterprising young man could rent it out, hire one of the local bands, pack it with teenagers, and make himself a grip. It was never a nice place, but it was dark inside, so it was a good place to hook up with some DFA's. | |||||||||
Vanguards
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Gang: Members: ?•?•?
•? Based in and around the classic west Dayton area, around Roosevelt HS. This gang had some vague political agendas, but although associated, I was not affiliated, so I don't know what they were. They chose black as their colors. (Information please) |
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Velvet Crush
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Group Members. Chris Thompson -
Drums • Gary Garwood - Keys • Dave Garwood
- Bass/Vocals • Dave Biggs - Guitar/Voca •
Dave Schmaus - Guitar Bio. This band formed in December of 2000 for one reason. To enjoy what they love to do, play music and for people to have a wonderful time dancing. No plans for original material at the moment. The group is content to be a cover band. Dave and Gary Garwood formally members of Blue September. Chris Thompson played drums for Stranger. Dave Biggs lead vocalist for Cornerstone. David Schmaus played with varies bands in the late 80's (information please) more>>> http://www.myvelvetcrush.com/ |
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| Dorothy Wade | |||||||||
Vocalist. The
best young female vocalist I have ever heard. She was
too young to do the 70's music trip, but she migrated
to LA in the '80's and did some session work, and
even a video for the Dayton Homies.
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| Wampler's Ball Room | |||||||||
| One of Dayton's out of the way venues, often rented out by the Shriners for some of their lodge parties. Many of Dayton's local bands competed for these gigs. The names Tillman McGwyer and Lonnie Thrasher come to mind, as they were among the lead Shriners that would book the bands. You aint partied until you party with these old boys... and their women.. | |||||||||
| W D A O | |||||||||
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The soul of Dayton in the 70's The
only FM stereo radio station in the area. Kept us going 24 hours
a day, providing music, community awareness, and promoting events
of entertainment. DJs: Big Ray Meadows • Long John Silver • John "Turk" Logan • Michael Ecton • Lankford "The Man" Stephens • Ricky Smith • Brother Stanley Henry (Gospel) |
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| Wendell's Bootery | |||||||||
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Vendor.
3rd and Main, Dayton. Biography: After Flagg Brothers platform shoes fell from grace, this was the place to go if you wanted your feet to look good. They had all the Italian animal skin cuts, in virtually every pastel color, to match your plumage. I bought a pair of brown suede knickers boots one time. Pops was hot as hell when he found out I paid $80. for those shoes. ($80. was eighty dollars back in 1970) (information please) |
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| Cisco Weathers | |||||||||
| Keyboards. Considered by some to be one of the best keyboard players there was. Unfortunately he was shot and killed in 2000, in West Dayton. (information please) | |||||||||
Floyd Weatherspoon
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Vocals. One of the founding
members of the 4 Korners also traveled to LA with the group Platypus. Today he is
there performing with a new R&B
group Dayton group TOUCH. Floyd also has
done several free lance commercials for WDAO and WROU and recently
sang the national anthem for over 5,000 fans at a Dayton Dragons
baseball game in 2002.. Getting back to the Four Corners though
Arthur "Sonny" Stokes and Floyd co-wrote a song that did appear on
the album BEN for the gloved one way back in '72 called "What
Goes Around Comes Around" by the way for those who don't
know - the gloved one is Michael Jackson. (information please) |
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| Dallas Webster | |||||||||
Vocals/Guitar. One of the founding
members of the group Record Player. His AXE was the fiddle, but
his true talent was as a vocalist.
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Lamar Webster
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Bass/Vocals. Biography/Descriptions: Played with the Soul Experience (Mike Hinton, Teddy Dunn, John Fedrick, George Clarke) before they became Topaze in 1973. From 1975 to 1983 leader of the bands Cypress and Record Player. Cypress opened up for Brick along with Topaze at Roth HS back in 1976. Since relocating to LA in 1983, has played bass with Alan Foster's Redemption, King Cotton's band, Niki Crawford, Lara Janine, 2nd Nature (Dana Meyers), Heidi & That Band (Larry Houston), and his own project CTT (Cross-Town Traffic.) Still active currently with the CTT band. (information please) Active. |
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Promoter/Booking Agent. Worked out of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Worked along with Tom Qualls to book some of Dayton's most popular and successful groups on the NEC College Campus tours, and Military bases during the late 70's and early '80s . Groups such as TNT Powerhouse, Satori, and Roger & The Human Body all took many of their bookings from Sly's organization. (information please) |
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Promoter. Once the wife of WDAO DJ, Long John Silver, she stepped up into the music game, and became a major source of entertainment, and economy. She was the one that promoted most of those "Battle Of The Bands" at the Palladium.
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Vocalist. One of the fine singers that held up the background vocals for the Nomads (Lakeside) Eventually went off to college and returned to Dayton to mentor and teach music in the public school system. Best Song: God Bless Whoever Sent You" - The Originals
Vocals:
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Vocals:
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Drummer. This
was the drummer that taught the rest of the drummers
in Dayton, how to play behind singers. He maintained
a flawless pocket, while accenting every step of the
singing group's choreography. (Kevin Hurt copped this
style, but was better at it because of his superior
upper body strength) Terry left the band at some
point before they hit it big, and supposedly moved to
Jamaica. He was also a talented commercial artist. (slang:
He could draw his ass off.) |
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| Dale Wilson | |||||||||
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Vocalist. Once
the warm up MC for the Nomads, before taking his
place as lead first tenor of the Image, and then Pure
Pleasure. Best Song: We Are Neighbors" - The
Chi-Lites (deceased) |
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Drummer. How about a list of
groups that benefited from the funky beats: The Blue Velvets and the
Golden Horns The Capri's and Caprice Show Band and Review The
Sight's and Sounds The Bad Bunch (original Drummer) The Ohio
Persuasions Jay Bush and the House Rockers The Ohio Exchange and
Another Exposure Ultra Exposure The Mighty Faith Ambassadors
(gospel recording group) Out of Dayton, and presently living in
Houston Texas.
Trumpet. In the late
sixties, after early training in jazz, trumpeter Roderick (Rod)
Wilson began playing R&B with "Big Waist (Jerry Hawes) and the
Bandits". The group included saxophonist Michael Allamby, bassist
Tyrone Crum (later of Faze-O), and John and Steve Harden. In the
early seventies, he played with the "Ohio Syndicate", and later,
the "Dayton Originals", which included Jessie Partridge on guitar.
Currently, Roderick is performing gospel jazz with his group
"Roderick Wilson and Sun Star". He has a CD released called SHOPA
(show-pay), Expressions in Gospel Jazz, which was produced by Dean
Hummons, formerly of the groups SUN and DAYTON. SHOPA is receiving
exposure around the country.
The soul of Dayton in the 60's. Before
we discovered FM, there was only AM radio. Music was generally intergrated
back then, and we had to get a little Elvis with our Supremes, but
Black Music was coming into it's own, and topping the charts, so
white radio played what they had to play.
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Vocals: Mark
Woods' sister. She starred with the Young Underground
(Lakeside) after the break-up of the Nomads.
Vocals:
Guitar.
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About 70 miles north of Dayton, in Lima, Ohio, Carol and Carl Johnson had a little night spot that pulled players from all over the tri-state area (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana). She rallied some of Dayton's best acts into the club over the years, (Lakeside, The Bad Bunch, The Image, Satori, The Different Shades of Brown) and they would pack it out, even in knee deep snow storms. If you've never partied at the Club Utopia, you probably were not a true player.
Group
Members: Tommy Henderson • Quinn Moorman
• Ronnie Ditto • Phillip Buxton • Kenny Renfrow
• Frank Renfrow • James Greathouse •
Tim Dozier
A.K.A.
Roger & The Vails • Roger and The Human Body |
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