The Soul of the Net's
Darrell Banks Discography
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Open the door to your heart / Our love (is in the pocket) - Revilot
201 * 1966
Somebody (somewhere) needs you / Baby what'cha got for me - Revilot
203 * 1966
Here come the tears / I've got that feelin' - Atco 6471 *1967
Angel baby (don't you ever leave me) / Look into the eyes of a fool
- Atco 6484 * 1967
I wanna go home / The love of my woman - Cotillion 44006 * 1968
Just because your love is gone / I'm the one who loves you - Volt
4014 * 1969
Beautiful feeling / No one blinder (than a man who won't see) - Volt
4026 * 1969
LP's
Darrell Banks Is Here - Atco
33-216 * 1967 - Here come the tears / I've got that feelin' / I'm
gonna hang my head and cry / Look into the eyes of a fool / Our love (is
in the pocket) / Open the door to your heart / Angel baby (don't you ever
leave me) / Somebody (somewhere needs you) / Baby what'cha got (for me)
/ You better go
Here To Stay - Volt 6002 * 1969 - Just
because your love is gone / Forgive me / Only the strong survive / Don't
know what to do / When a man loves a woman / We'll get over / Beautiful
feeling / I could never hate her / Never alone / No one blinder (than a
man who won't see) / My love is reserved
Just seven singles and two LP's made Darrell Banks a revered figure
among Northern and deep soul fans alike. Open the door to your heart of
course was his claim to fame on the mainstream of soul music - a #2 R&B
hit. But his first four Revilot and Atco singles, contained in his Atco
LP, were all (A or B sides) - Northern Soul timeless gems: Our love
is in the pocket, Somebody somewhere needs you, I've got that feelin' and
Angel baby (don't you ever leave me). The Volt stuff on the other
hand contains some of the deepest soul ever recorded, a winning combination
of Detroit and Memphis styles, supervised by Don Davis. Forgive me,
Just because your love is gone, Don't know what to do, Beautiful feeling,
I could never hate her - what an album. It is now available on the
amazing Don Davis Presents the Sound of Detroit
CD . Read about it on the reviews page.
Tragically Darrell Banks was shot to death in 1970. As with Sam Cooke
and Otis, there's that big question of what would he have done had he lived,
and what wonderful music we were robbed of.
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