nice

Cupid in reggae style, as Jimmy Cliff or Johnny Nash did it. Excellent song & excellent MIx

Music Is Similar To Back in My Arms Again Roz Soprano Can be Heard

This is sublime. Martha kills it

This is good. I like it a lot.

Millie! I love that she did all of it without a manager. Owned it!!

With some promotion Blinky could have been big.......but no,

Classic! 💯🔥

Fantastic!! 🔥

Extended Version

Uh- Huh! Nice one too. Thank you

Nice song & Very nice remix. I knew this song by Diana Ross & The Supremes

Sing It Florence Ballard 🗣️That Ending Needing An Extended Version

Mister G.... you are the man. Thank for turning an otherwise crap day into a great one. It's nicely done. Many thanks.

My 12 inch version of this track !

This brings me memories from long time ago ..... I had a vinyl album of Kim Weston which contained this song. She had left Motown, it was another label that I don't remember, and this was the only song in that whole album that I listened to, I liked it very much but I didn't like the others. You've done a beautiful remix! Thank you😊

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Beautiful... isn't it? Wow!! From beginning to end.... everything about this is spellbinding. Her voice... the music... simply beautiful. Fantastic remix!! Tina's version is brilliant! Although I'm a product of the 80s... legendary old school music from every genre is what I vibe with and listen to. It's in my soul. Miles Davis, Coltrane, BB King, Ray Charles, G. Benson, John Lee Hooker, Etta, Nina, Ella, Billie and Dinah Washington. Dylan, Herbie, Stevie Ray, Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Ellington, Gillespie, Basie and Chuck Berry. My favorite crooners - Frank, Dean, and Sammy (Bojangles is an all-time favorite). I can now add Michael Buble to that genre. Blend in the legendary sounds of the 60s, 70s, 80s etc... giving us an explosion of the likes of the classiest of class, most gorgeous women from every genre of music - R&B, Country, Jazz, Funk, Rock, Blues, Soul, Classical, Reggae, Folk, Bluegrass etc. Music that will forever stand the test of time! I'm talking... LEGENDARY MUSIC!!! Thank you, kind sir, for remixing some of the greatest music ever. Sorry, I tend to get a little carried away when it comes to ... all things music! 😊

Did “Here I Am Baby” get pulled?

love Brenda Holloway. Thank you. Have you heard her version of the Everly Brothers' "Walk Right Back"?

I ;like it. Well done

Such a beautiful song by Ms. Holloway. My mom loves her music and songs, such as: I'll Always Love You", "You Can Cry On My Shoulder", " When I'm Gone", "Every Little Bit Hurts", and especially, " You've Made Me So Very Happy ", to name a few. A beautiful, classy woman with a voice like an angel. Thank you for this remix. Enjoyed it tremendously. 🔥🔥🔥

Smooooth… with a beat that just flows through your body begging you to sway to the beat! Ohhhhh yeah… this hit different for me. Didn’t want it to stop! This is… WOW!!

BEAUTIFUL is right... very touching song. The lyrics and her voice are simply mesmerizing. Just "grabs" you and won't let go. Love it! 🤩

Ok... I feel you. You went all in on it! That's what I'm talking about Mister G... Come on with it... come on! Golden, golden, golden age of music. Easy listening (ALL day long)! Oh, and btw... "nert" ??? smh... 🤔😂clueless...

Ok... this is a good vibe... I'm vibing with this Carlisle version. Only familiar with Freda Payne's version. And to add even more flavor... your masterful remixing brings it on home. This is incredibly satisfying. Music from that era seduces the hell out of me. I can get lost in it for hours. Thank you, kind sir, for this 'head in the cloud' walk down memory lane. 🥰💗

Awwwwwwwwww... YEAH!! This remix is tight. THIS. IS. IT. Thank You kind sir... thank you. 🙌🏾🤜🏾🤛🏾 This is my vibe!

Brilliant as always thanks.

Amazing! I am so vibing with ALL of the remixing of this great music!! 🔥🔥🔥

Beautiful, heartfelt and very touching. The music. The lyrics. Her voice. Your remix. Absolutely beautiful song. Love it! ❤

Another GREAT remix! This is fascinating!! First time experiencing Roberta Kelly. This is definitely musicology 101 for me. Thank you sir 🙏🏾 ❤

So beautiful, made me cry. X

WOW!!! Magnificent!!! I LOVE IT! Love it! Love it! See... this is what I'm talking about Mister G... I have never even heard of this artist.. and today, April 14, 2024... I get to experience and enjoy the sweet sound of Fern Kinney! Come on now!! Come on... How can one not enjoy, explore, and become fascinated with that era of music! Thank you, kind sir. You're one of one in my book. Fern Kinney... hot damn! (excuse my language)... but I can't wait to find out more about her. I am vibing with her sound and style. 🥰💯❤‍🔥

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OMG!! This is fantastic! Don’t get no better than this! ❤❤❤ Love it!

Oh My Goodness !! You The Best ! This Song Just Moves Me 🌟⭐️🌟⭐️🌟👍🏽

From This Same Album " You're The One For Me Bobby " Wanda Was A Female " Smokey Robinson "

I am just loving ALL of this GOOD music remix!! Nostalgia at its BEST... absolute BEST!!! Although I grew up in a household listening to old school R&B, The Sound of Motown, Stax, Atlantic and more... some of these legendary artists and songs are just coming into play for me. And I am learning and enjoying it all. This is GREAT!

Ann Bogan Knew How To Rock & Soul 🗣️

DICOGRAPHY Donnie Elbert The Vibra-Harps (Member Donnie Elbert, Danny Cannon (Later to become Lenny O'Henry), Charles Hargro and Donald Simmons) Although Donnie Elbert and Danny Cannon formed the group, Danny Cannon and Donald Simmons were the basis of the group. Donnie Elbert did background vocals, as well as being the groups guitarist and arranger. He left the group in 1957 due to personnel problems) Donnie Elbert (Born 25-May-1936 In New Orleans, moved to Buffalo New York at the age of three. Died 26-January-1989 in Philadelphia , Pa Cause: Stroke) Beech 713 - Walk Beside Me / Cosy With Rosy - 1958 Deluxe 6125 - What Can I Do / Hear My Plea* - 1957 *Song Originally Titled "Somebody, Somewhere", But Record Company Changed It To "Hear My Plea". Song Covered In 1966 By Marvin L. Sims On Mellow 1002. Deluxe 6143 - Believe It Or Not / Tell Me So - 1957 Deluxe 6148 - Have I Sinned / Leona - 1957 Deluxe 6156 - Let's Do The Stroll / Wild Child - 1958 Deluxe 6161 - My Confession Of Love / Peek - A - Boo - 1958 Deluxe 6164 - I Want To Be Loved But Only By You / Someone Made You For Me - 1958 Deluxe 6168 - I Want To Be Near You / Come On Sugar - 1958 Deluxe 6175 - Just A Little Bit Of Lovin' / When You're Near Me - 1958 The Vibra-Harps (Unsure of Donnie Elbert's involvement with group, if any, at the time of these releases) Fury 1022 - The Only Love Of Mine / Be My Dancing Partner - 1959 Atco 6134 - It Must Be Magic / Nosey Neighbours - 1959 Donnie Elbert Red Top 122 - Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) / Help Me - 1960 Vee - Jay 336 - Will You Ever Be Mine / Hey Baby - 1960 Vee - Jay 353 - Half As Old / Baby Let Me Love You Tonite - 1960 Vee - Jay 370 - I've Loved You Baby / I Beg Of You - 1961 Jot 122 - Hey Baby / Will You Ever Be Mine - 1961 Jalynne 107 - Mommie's Gone / For Sentimental Reasons - 1961 Jalynne 110 - Lucille (I've Done You No Wrong) / What You're Doing To Me - 1961 Red Top 130 - Will You Ever Be Mine / Hey Baby - 1962 P & L 316 - Nobody Knows / After All I've Done For You - 1962 Parkway 844 - Baby Cakes / Set My Heart At Ease - 1962 Red Top 6502 - Sentimental Reasons / Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) - 1963 Cub 9125 - Love Stew / Don't Cry My Love - 1963 Checker 1062 - Just A Cotton Pickin' Minute / Everything To Me - 1963 Gateway 731 - Run Little Girl / Who's It Gonna Be - 1964 Gateway 748 - Lily Lou / Do Wat'cha Wanna - 1964 Gateway 757 - A Little Piece Of Leather - 1965 (One Sided Disc --- Promo Issue Only) Gateway 757 - A Little Piece Of Leather / Do Wat'cha Wanna - 1965 Gateway 761 - Your Red Wagon (You Can Push It Or Pull It) / Never Again - 1965 Atco 6550 - In Between Heartaches / Too Far Gone - 1968 Deram 7526 - Without You* / Baby Please Come Home - 1969 *A Number One Hit In Jamaica. Rare Bullet 101 - I Can't Get Over Losing You / I Got To Get Myself Together - 1970 Deluxe 133 - Have I Sinned / What Can I Do - 1971 All Platinum 2330 - Where Did Our Love Go / That's If You Love Me - 1971 All Platinum 2333 - Sweet Baby / I Can't Get Over Losing You - 1972 Avco 4587 - I Can't Help Myself / Love Is Here And Now You're Gone - 1972 All Platinum 2336 - If I Can't Have You / Will You Ever Be Mine - 1972 All Platinum 2336 - If I Can't Have You / Can't Get Over Losing You - 1972 All Platinum 2337 - A Little Piece Of Leather / Sweet Baby - 1972 All Platinum 2338 - I Can't Get Over Losing You / That's If You Love Me - 1972 Avco 4598 - Ooh Baby Baby / Tell Her For Me - 1972 (This 45 was released without approval from Donnie Elbert) Avco 4635 - I'm Fallin' In Love / ? - 1972 (While at Avco Donnie Elbert was arguing with Hugo and Luigi about the cost of finishing his album for the label, plus his choice of material for the album as it had nine Motown covers - He refused to finish the album without the extra money, so Avco sold the unfinished album to Trip to recoup their money. Donnie Elbert reluctantly went back to All Platinum) Trip 3011 - Stop In The Name Of Love / If You Were My Woman - 1972 Polydor 15048 - This Old Heart Of Mine / Be Good To Me - 1972 Jackie Milton, Morris Bailey, Donnie Elbert, Bert Keyes De-Vel Zs7 6755 - You'll Never Know / Will You Love Me Tomorrow - 1973 Donnie Elbert All Platinum 2346 - This Feeling Of Losing You / These Lonely Nights - 1973 All Platinum 2351 - Love Is Strange / Instrumental - 1974 All Platinum 2367 - What Do You Do / Will You Love Me Tomorrow - 1977 All Platinum 2374 - You Should Be Dancing / What Do You Do - 1974 A / O 1000 - You Keep Me Crying (With Your Lying) / Instrumental - 1975 (The A/O label is owned by Donnie Elbert) Up State ? Command Performance 101 - Who's It Gonna Be / Your Red Wagon (You Can Push It Or Pull It) - ? Elbert 800 - I Got To Get Myself Together / Can't Get Over Losing You - ? Gusto ? - 1980's Trip 175 - I Can't Help Myself / Can't Get Over Losing You - ? Deluxe 01 - Have I Sinned / What Can I Do - ? Collectables Col 036467 - I Want To Be Loved But Only By You / Believe It Or Not - ? Collectables Col 036477 - Come On Sugar / Peek-A-Boo -

Northern Soul legend Donnie Elbert was born May 25, 1935 in New Orleans. His family relocated to Buffalo, New York's east side three years later, and there he learned to play guitar and piano--influenced most profoundly by the Drifters' Clyde McPhatter, Elbert co-founded a doo-wop group called the Vibraharps with friend Danny Cannon in 1955, serving as its guitarist, songwriter and arranger while largely relegating himself to background vocals. After making his recorded debut on their single “Walk Beside Me," Elbert left the Vibraharps in 1957 amidst creative differences and turned to a solo career, recording a demo session that earned him a contract with the King label's Deluxe imprint; his Deluxe debut “What Can I Do?" cracked the R&B Top 20 but the follow-up “Believe It or Not" went nowhere. Arguably Elbert's finest early single was his third Deluxe effort, 1957's haunting “Have I Sinned?"--an exemplary showcase for his powerful falsetto, the record was a huge regional hit, especially in Pittsburgh, where legendary DJ Porky Chedwick played it relentlessly. Despite playing New York City's Apollo Theater and touring the so-called "chitlin' circuit" of African-American-owned and operated nightclubs, Elbert's career faltered--he released no fewer than five singles on Deluxe in 1958 (“Let's Do the Stroll," “My Confession of Love," “I Want to Be Loved But Only by You," “I Want to Be Near You" and “Just a Little Bit of Lovin'"), none of which made any commercial impact. Relations with Deluxe grew even more strained as Elbert consistently battled with producers over the direction of his career, and after completing his first full-length, The Sensational Donnie Elbert Sings, he finally left the label in 1959, landing with fledgling indie Red Top long enough to cut 1960's “Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)." From there he signed with Vee-Jay, notching another regional smash with “Will You Ever Be Mine?," which reportedly sold upwards of 250,000 copies in the Philadelphia area but failed to take off nationwide. After two more Vee-Jay efforts--“Half as Old" and 1961's “I've Loved You, Baby"--Elbert hopscotched from label to label including Jalynne (“Mommie's Gone"), P&L (1962's “Nobody Knows"), Parkway (“Baby Cakes"), Cub (1963's “Love Stew") and Checker (“Just a Cotton-Pickin' Minute"), rarely staying for more than one record before moving along yet again. The emergence of the Motown Sound deeply impressed Elbert and he began modeling his music in its image--while a crack crew of backing vocalists and session players (the famed Funk Brothers) were required to create authentic Motown records, Elbert played all the instruments on his recordings himself, creating note-perfect evocations of the sweeping, shimmering Motor City soul sound. Exhibit A: 1965's Gateway label release “A Little Piece of Leather"--though it failed to chart in the U.S., the record was a massive hit in Britain and remains a perennial favorite on the U.K.'s Northern Soul club scene. Elbert was so skillful at approximating the Motown Sound that owner Berry Gordy Jr. extended a contract--however, according to legend, the label's Artist Development department head Harvey Fuqua let slip that Motown had no interest in supporting his career and wished to sign him only to eliminate the competitive threat he posed. So in the wake of one last Gateway single, “Your Red Wagon (You Can Push It or Pull It)," Elbert returned to the road; perhaps his career would have been rejeuvenated had he recorded his composition “Baby Walk Right In," but instead he gave the song to fellow Buffalo singer Darrell Banks, who promptly sped up the tempo, retitled it “Open the Door to Your Heart" and cut it in Detroit. Not only was the end result a Top 40 pop hit and one of the finest soul records ever made, but to add insult to injury, Elbert wasn't even credited as its composer, a legal mess that took years to sort out and still ended with Banks receiving 50% of all royalties. By this point England no doubt seemed a relative safe haven, so Elbert relocated there sometime in 1966; two years later he resumed his recording career with “In Between Heartaches," a one-off for Atco, followed in 1969 by the Deram release “Without You," which so expertly mined the vogue for rocksteady rhythms that the single went on to top the Jamaican charts. Elbert returned stateside in 1970, generating his first U.S. chart hit in over a decade with the Rare Bullet label release “I Can't Get Over Losing You," which reached the number 26 spot on the R&B charts. A year later he resurfaced on the All-Platinum label with “Where Did Our Love Go," a cover of the Supremes classic which he actually recorded two years earlier while still in England--the single hit number two on the R&B charts and number 15 on pop playlists, and its follow-up “Sweet Baby" climbed to 30 R&B in early 1972. For All-Platinum Elbert also re-recorded a number of his vintage compositions, among them “A Little Piece of Leather," before signing with Avco-Embassy, where he entered the studio with the hitmaking production team of Hugo & Luigi. However, while at Avco Elbert balked at the label's insistence that he record material associated with Motown, and despite the success of his cover of the Four Tops' “I Can't Help Myself," which hit number 14 on the R&B charts, the label eventually shelved the troubled project, selling the completed tracks to the Trip label, which cobbled together the 1972 LP Stop! In the Name of Love. After his dismissal from Avco, Elbert reluctantly returned to All-Platinum, resurfacing in 1973 with “This Feeling of Losing You"; the follow-up was another cover, this time a 1974 reading of the Mickey & Sylvia classic “Love Is Strange." He left All-Platinum in the wake of another songwriting controversy, claiming authorship of labelmates Shirley & Co.'s R&B chart-topper “Shame, Shame, Shame," which was instead credited to label owner Sylvia Robinson--unlike his claim against Banks, the squabble was not resolved in Elbert's favor, and although Robinson remains the sole writer credited, “Shame, Shame, Shame"'s arrangement does seem like his handiwork. For 1975's “You Keep Me Crying (With Your Lying)," Elbert finally formed his own label, the short-lived A/O--a subsequent release, “I Got to Get Myself Together," appeared on an imprint bearing his surname, and was among his final recordings. During the mid-1980s he finally retired from performing, signing on as director of A&R for Polygram's Canadian division; on January 31, 1989, Elbert suffered a massive stroke and died at the age of just 53. Reply

DICOGRAPHY Donnie Elbert The Vibra-Harps (Member Donnie Elbert, Danny Cannon (Later to become Lenny O'Henry), Charles Hargro and Donald Simmons) Although Donnie Elbert and Danny Cannon formed the group, Danny Cannon and Donald Simmons were the basis of the group. Donnie Elbert did background vocals, as well as being the groups guitarist and arranger. He left the group in 1957 due to personnel problems) Donnie Elbert (Born 25-May-1936 In New Orleans, moved to Buffalo New York at the age of three. Died 26-January-1989 in Philadelphia , Pa Cause: Stroke) Beech 713 - Walk Beside Me / Cosy With Rosy - 1958 Deluxe 6125 - What Can I Do / Hear My Plea* - 1957 *Song Originally Titled "Somebody, Somewhere", But Record Company Changed It To "Hear My Plea". Song Covered In 1966 By Marvin L. Sims On Mellow 1002. Deluxe 6143 - Believe It Or Not / Tell Me So - 1957 Deluxe 6148 - Have I Sinned / Leona - 1957 Deluxe 6156 - Let's Do The Stroll / Wild Child - 1958 Deluxe 6161 - My Confession Of Love / Peek - A - Boo - 1958 Deluxe 6164 - I Want To Be Loved But Only By You / Someone Made You For Me - 1958 Deluxe 6168 - I Want To Be Near You / Come On Sugar - 1958 Deluxe 6175 - Just A Little Bit Of Lovin' / When You're Near Me - 1958 The Vibra-Harps (Unsure of Donnie Elbert's involvement with group, if any, at the time of these releases) Fury 1022 - The Only Love Of Mine / Be My Dancing Partner - 1959 Atco 6134 - It Must Be Magic / Nosey Neighbours - 1959 Donnie Elbert Red Top 122 - Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) / Help Me - 1960 Vee - Jay 336 - Will You Ever Be Mine / Hey Baby - 1960 Vee - Jay 353 - Half As Old / Baby Let Me Love You Tonite - 1960 Vee - Jay 370 - I've Loved You Baby / I Beg Of You - 1961 Jot 122 - Hey Baby / Will You Ever Be Mine - 1961 Jalynne 107 - Mommie's Gone / For Sentimental Reasons - 1961 Jalynne 110 - Lucille (I've Done You No Wrong) / What You're Doing To Me - 1961 Red Top 130 - Will You Ever Be Mine / Hey Baby - 1962 P & L 316 - Nobody Knows / After All I've Done For You - 1962 Parkway 844 - Baby Cakes / Set My Heart At Ease - 1962 Red Top 6502 - Sentimental Reasons / Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) - 1963 Cub 9125 - Love Stew / Don't Cry My Love - 1963 Checker 1062 - Just A Cotton Pickin' Minute / Everything To Me - 1963 Gateway 731 - Run Little Girl / Who's It Gonna Be - 1964 Gateway 748 - Lily Lou / Do Wat'cha Wanna - 1964 Gateway 757 - A Little Piece Of Leather - 1965 (One Sided Disc --- Promo Issue Only) Gateway 757 - A Little Piece Of Leather / Do Wat'cha Wanna - 1965 Gateway 761 - Your Red Wagon (You Can Push It Or Pull It) / Never Again - 1965 Atco 6550 - In Between Heartaches / Too Far Gone - 1968 Deram 7526 - Without You* / Baby Please Come Home - 1969 *A Number One Hit In Jamaica. Rare Bullet 101 - I Can't Get Over Losing You / I Got To Get Myself Together - 1970 Deluxe 133 - Have I Sinned / What Can I Do - 1971 All Platinum 2330 - Where Did Our Love Go / That's If You Love Me - 1971 All Platinum 2333 - Sweet Baby / I Can't Get Over Losing You - 1972 Avco 4587 - I Can't Help Myself / Love Is Here And Now You're Gone - 1972 All Platinum 2336 - If I Can't Have You / Will You Ever Be Mine - 1972 All Platinum 2336 - If I Can't Have You / Can't Get Over Losing You - 1972 All Platinum 2337 - A Little Piece Of Leather / Sweet Baby - 1972 All Platinum 2338 - I Can't Get Over Losing You / That's If You Love Me - 1972 Avco 4598 - Ooh Baby Baby / Tell Her For Me - 1972 (This 45 was released without approval from Donnie Elbert) Avco 4635 - I'm Fallin' In Love / ? - 1972 (While at Avco Donnie Elbert was arguing with Hugo and Luigi about the cost of finishing his album for the label, plus his choice of material for the album as it had nine Motown covers - He refused to finish the album without the extra money, so Avco sold the unfinished album to Trip to recoup their money. Donnie Elbert reluctantly went back to All Platinum) Trip 3011 - Stop In The Name Of Love / If You Were My Woman - 1972 Polydor 15048 - This Old Heart Of Mine / Be Good To Me - 1972 Jackie Milton, Morris Bailey, Donnie Elbert, Bert Keyes De-Vel Zs7 6755 - You'll Never Know / Will You Love Me Tomorrow - 1973 Donnie Elbert All Platinum 2346 - This Feeling Of Losing You / These Lonely Nights - 1973 All Platinum 2351 - Love Is Strange / Instrumental - 1974 All Platinum 2367 - What Do You Do / Will You Love Me Tomorrow - 1977 All Platinum 2374 - You Should Be Dancing / What Do You Do - 1974 A / O 1000 - You Keep Me Crying (With Your Lying) / Instrumental - 1975 (The A/O label is owned by Donnie Elbert) Up State ? Command Performance 101 - Who's It Gonna Be / Your Red Wagon (You Can Push It Or Pull It) - ? Elbert 800 - I Got To Get Myself Together / Can't Get Over Losing You - ? Gusto ? - 1980's Trip 175 - I Can't Help Myself / Can't Get Over Losing You - ? Deluxe 01 - Have I Sinned / What Can I Do - ? Collectables Col 036467 - I Want To Be Loved But Only By You / Believe It Or Not - ? Collectables Col 036477 - Come On Sugar / Peek-A-Boo -

Northern Soul legend Donnie Elbert was born May 25, 1935 in New Orleans. His family relocated to Buffalo, New York's east side three years later, and there he learned to play guitar and piano--influenced most profoundly by the Drifters' Clyde McPhatter, Elbert co-founded a doo-wop group called the Vibraharps with friend Danny Cannon in 1955, serving as its guitarist, songwriter and arranger while largely relegating himself to background vocals. After making his recorded debut on their single “Walk Beside Me," Elbert left the Vibraharps in 1957 amidst creative differences and turned to a solo career, recording a demo session that earned him a contract with the King label's Deluxe imprint; his Deluxe debut “What Can I Do?" cracked the R&B Top 20 but the follow-up “Believe It or Not" went nowhere. Arguably Elbert's finest early single was his third Deluxe effort, 1957's haunting “Have I Sinned?"--an exemplary showcase for his powerful falsetto, the record was a huge regional hit, especially in Pittsburgh, where legendary DJ Porky Chedwick played it relentlessly. Despite playing New York City's Apollo Theater and touring the so-called "chitlin' circuit" of African-American-owned and operated nightclubs, Elbert's career faltered--he released no fewer than five singles on Deluxe in 1958 (“Let's Do the Stroll," “My Confession of Love," “I Want to Be Loved But Only by You," “I Want to Be Near You" and “Just a Little Bit of Lovin'"), none of which made any commercial impact. Relations with Deluxe grew even more strained as Elbert consistently battled with producers over the direction of his career, and after completing his first full-length, The Sensational Donnie Elbert Sings, he finally left the label in 1959, landing with fledgling indie Red Top long enough to cut 1960's “Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)." From there he signed with Vee-Jay, notching another regional smash with “Will You Ever Be Mine?," which reportedly sold upwards of 250,000 copies in the Philadelphia area but failed to take off nationwide. After two more Vee-Jay efforts--“Half as Old" and 1961's “I've Loved You, Baby"--Elbert hopscotched from label to label including Jalynne (“Mommie's Gone"), P&L (1962's “Nobody Knows"), Parkway (“Baby Cakes"), Cub (1963's “Love Stew") and Checker (“Just a Cotton-Pickin' Minute"), rarely staying for more than one record before moving along yet again. The emergence of the Motown Sound deeply impressed Elbert and he began modeling his music in its image--while a crack crew of backing vocalists and session players (the famed Funk Brothers) were required to create authentic Motown records, Elbert played all the instruments on his recordings himself, creating note-perfect evocations of the sweeping, shimmering Motor City soul sound. Exhibit A: 1965's Gateway label release “A Little Piece of Leather"--though it failed to chart in the U.S., the record was a massive hit in Britain and remains a perennial favorite on the U.K.'s Northern Soul club scene. Elbert was so skillful at approximating the Motown Sound that owner Berry Gordy Jr. extended a contract--however, according to legend, the label's Artist Development department head Harvey Fuqua let slip that Motown had no interest in supporting his career and wished to sign him only to eliminate the competitive threat he posed. So in the wake of one last Gateway single, “Your Red Wagon (You Can Push It or Pull It)," Elbert returned to the road; perhaps his career would have been rejeuvenated had he recorded his composition “Baby Walk Right In," but instead he gave the song to fellow Buffalo singer Darrell Banks, who promptly sped up the tempo, retitled it “Open the Door to Your Heart" and cut it in Detroit. Not only was the end result a Top 40 pop hit and one of the finest soul records ever made, but to add insult to injury, Elbert wasn't even credited as its composer, a legal mess that took years to sort out and still ended with Banks receiving 50% of all royalties. By this point England no doubt seemed a relative safe haven, so Elbert relocated there sometime in 1966; two years later he resumed his recording career with “In Between Heartaches," a one-off for Atco, followed in 1969 by the Deram release “Without You," which so expertly mined the vogue for rocksteady rhythms that the single went on to top the Jamaican charts. Elbert returned stateside in 1970, generating his first U.S. chart hit in over a decade with the Rare Bullet label release “I Can't Get Over Losing You," which reached the number 26 spot on the R&B charts. A year later he resurfaced on the All-Platinum label with “Where Did Our Love Go," a cover of the Supremes classic which he actually recorded two years earlier while still in England--the single hit number two on the R&B charts and number 15 on pop playlists, and its follow-up “Sweet Baby" climbed to 30 R&B in early 1972. For All-Platinum Elbert also re-recorded a number of his vintage compositions, among them “A Little Piece of Leather," before signing with Avco-Embassy, where he entered the studio with the hitmaking production team of Hugo & Luigi. However, while at Avco Elbert balked at the label's insistence that he record material associated with Motown, and despite the success of his cover of the Four Tops' “I Can't Help Myself," which hit number 14 on the R&B charts, the label eventually shelved the troubled project, selling the completed tracks to the Trip label, which cobbled together the 1972 LP Stop! In the Name of Love. After his dismissal from Avco, Elbert reluctantly returned to All-Platinum, resurfacing in 1973 with “This Feeling of Losing You"; the follow-up was another cover, this time a 1974 reading of the Mickey & Sylvia classic “Love Is Strange." He left All-Platinum in the wake of another songwriting controversy, claiming authorship of labelmates Shirley & Co.'s R&B chart-topper “Shame, Shame, Shame," which was instead credited to label owner Sylvia Robinson--unlike his claim against Banks, the squabble was not resolved in Elbert's favor, and although Robinson remains the sole writer credited, “Shame, Shame, Shame"'s arrangement does seem like his handiwork. For 1975's “You Keep Me Crying (With Your Lying)," Elbert finally formed his own label, the short-lived A/O--a subsequent release, “I Got to Get Myself Together," appeared on an imprint bearing his surname, and was among his final recordings. During the mid-1980s he finally retired from performing, signing on as director of A&R for Polygram's Canadian division; on January 31, 1989, Elbert suffered a massive stroke and died at the age of just 53.

Although by far not one of his best, a rare track by Donnie Elbert ...

Ohhhhh.... This is good. This remix is soooo good! 🔥🔥🔥

YES!!! This remix is Perfect (with a capital P)!! Wow! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Smiling and swaying through the entire song!

Ohhh Wow!!! The magnificent, beautiful and talented Ms. Barbara McNair. She was absolutely stunning! This is AMAZING! ❤

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OK.... before anyone gets crazy about the photo being of Marvin with Diana Ross, understand that Mister G has a vision issue. Cut him some slack and enjoy this great remix.