Star Time #39: Don't Mess With My Lovemaker

When is a bowling ball more than just a bowling ball? When it's made by Brunswick, the company that also brought you some of the highest-quality toilets of the 20th century. Brunswick also, improbably, had a record label that consistently released some great R&B and soul singles in their time. The second half of this episode features some of the best sides Brunswick put out in the '60s and '70s, from Jackie Wilson to the Chi-Lites. Before that, though, we have a strict beef-stew diet, mixed sports metaphors, Sly's little sister, and food-related labor strife in the greater NYC area. This show strikes hard and often with charm to spare, so don't split before you hear it. (Bowling pun quota reached, suckers.)

Artist	Song	Year	Label
Set 1
Maxine Brown	One In a Million	1966	Wand
Donald Height	Rags to Riches	1966	Shout
Johnny Thunder & Ruby Winters	Make Love to Me	1967	Diamond
Obie Plenty	Beef Stew	1967	Verve
Bongi & Judy	Let's Get Together	1967	Buddah
Pat Hunt	Super Cool (You're Just Super Fool)	1968	Early Bird
Third Guitar	Baby Don't Cry	1968	Rojac
Madeline Bell	Picture Me Gone	1967	Philips
Set 2
Mel & Tim	Backfield in Motion	1969	Bamboo
Candi Staton	I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool)	1969	Fame
Mickey & the Soul Generation	Iron Leg	1969	Maxwell
The Temptations	Cloud Nine	1969	Gordy
Frankie Newsome	Don't Mess With My Lovemaker	1970	Savern
LaBelle	Too Many Days	1971	Warner Bros.
Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band	Big City Funk	1971	Sussex
Little Sister	Somebody's Watching You	1970	Stone Flower
The Vibrations	Ain't No Greens in Harlem	1972	Mandala
Set 3
Jackie Wilson	My Best Friend's Girl	1964	Brunswick
Linda Hopkins	All In My Mind	1960	Brunswick
The Four Pennies	You're a Gas With Your Trash	1966	Brunswick
The Artistics	Nothing But Heartaches (Keep Haunting Me)	1967	Brunswick
Sugarpie DeSanto	Do the Whoopie	1967	Brunswick
The Cooperettes	Shing-A-Ling	1967	Brunswick
Young Holt Unlimited	Give It Up	1968	Brunswick
The Soul Brothers (Tony & Bill)	She Put a Hurting on Me	1968	Brunswick
Erma Franklin	You've Been Cancelled	1969	Brunswick
Set 4/Outro
Gas & The Funk Factory	Everybody Get Some (Love)	1970	Brunswick
The Lost Generation	This Is the Lost Generation	1972	Brunswick
Barbara Acklin	I Call It Trouble	1973	Brunswick
Bohannon	The Pimp Walk	1973	Brunswick
September	Caution	1975	Brunswick
Step By Step	I Always Wanted to Be In the Band	1975	Brunswick
The Chi-Lites	Oh Girl	1972	Brunswick