Wee - Trying To Tell You How I Feel / We Could Get Together

Soul Direction has released two beautifully crafted tracks from the group that gave us the incredible "Try Me". This young and talented group recorded the tracks in 1976 but they failed to gain contemporary release. Both tracks are deliciously mid-tempo, with electric piano and subtle bassline tracks on which the group's vocal talents are given space to add layers of soaring harmonies, reminiscent of Stan Ivory's "Come Live With Me" and Rudy Love's "Housewife Blues"

Both tracks “We Could Get It Together” & “Trying To Tell You How I Feel” were found on a master tape of unreleased tracks that only came to light on a 2008 Numero LP. They were slightly re-mixed for the album, “We Could Get It Together” more so, but here are the original tracks directly from the master tape.

The group hailed from Columbus Ohio and were active from around 1974 to 1978 consisting of the following members: Benji Harris, Bimbo Brown, Norman Whiteside, Spanky Jones, Vick Martin. Wee mastermind Norman Whiteside's career was to be derailed by a three-decade stretch in prison before being released on parole in 2016. Owl Recording Studios was the brainchild of Youngstown Ohio’s Tom Murphy. Tom moved to Columbus Ohio after high school and began assembling equipment in 1972 with partners Don Kyre and Mike Wheeler who had played in a Columbus band called The Ebb Tides. In September of 1972, Mike Wheeler was playing guitar with Osiris, and Tom brought his recording equipment to their gig (at Mr. Brown’s Descent near Ohio State University) and recorded them. That introduced Tom to Osiris members Sterling Smith, Dan Lawson, and Dave Hessler, who would later become partners/ stockholders in Owl. Tom Murphy’s passion for recording evolved into what is now Track Record, a very successful studio in North Hollywood, California. Robin Jenney went on to engineer a number of platinum selling R & B records for the likes or Roger Troutman and The Zapp Band.

Take a listen to both tracks....