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Billy Martin

Origin Harlem, New York, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦
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Martin was born and raised in Harlem, NY and came up to Montreal in 1960 to begin his professional career. The trumpeter was the leader of one of the hottest black bands in the city throughout the 60s, who made over a dozen records for London Records, in addition to several more for Trans-World and Onion Records (in the USA). Like most R&B acts, they would tour up and down the Eastern Seaboard. They often performed as a quintet, sometimes with backing female vocalists and musicians that included: Thomas Chapman (guitar), John Scott (sax), Rickey Day (vocals – previously of The Drifters), Joe Johnson (Hammond), and Quebec-born white drummer Gilles Béland. By the end of the 1960s, their sound, like that of many other long-running R&B groups, evolved towards a harder funk style. This was evident on their late 1960s albums Strawberry Soul and Doin’ Their Thing, and in particular, I Turn You On, released only in 1974 although perhaps recorded earlier than that. It’s unclear when Billy Martin’s music career ended.

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  • Little Dutch Mill

    #1 Side 1 02:39

  • Come On

    #2 Side 1 02:09

  • This Love Of Mine

    #3 Side 1 03:10

  • Mashed Potatoe Time

    #4 Side 1 02:25

  • No Good

    #5 Side 1 02:20

  • Get Up

    #1 Side 2 02:07

  • I'm Gonna Sit In

    #2 Side 2 02:05

  • Someone to Watch Over Me

    #3 Side 2 02:49

  • I'm So Glad

    #4 Side 2 02:12

  • I Like Those Mashed Potatoes

    #5 Side 2 01:57

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