On Sun, 11 May 2025 1:09:28 +0000, Dean wrote:

On Saturday, I popped into a used record shop. Among my purchases were
these two low-budget comps:

"The Early Ray Charles" (Nouveau/Design, 1967) https://www.discogs.com/master/698795-Ray-Charles-The-Early-Ray-Charles

Don't know this particular one, but there are like a dozen comps that
have Ray's pre-Atlantic stuff like this one does.

"Esther Phillips: The Early Years" (Yorkshir, year unknown) https://www.discogs.com/release/5681764-Esther-Phillips-The-Early-Years

The Yorkshir album is a bootleg that was put out by the late Sal
Passantino. There's a second volume of that. Sal is the one who first
hired me at Relic, he was the manager when I started there in November
1974. There are a few other Yorkshir albums aside from the 2 Little
Esthers.

The albums contain some of her 50s stuff on Savoy, Federal, and Decca.

Here is the Yorkshir albums that are in Discogs database.

https://www.discogs.com/label/255369-Yorkshir

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