The Vanguards ( soul ),Ebony Rhythm Band ( funk & backing band of The Vanguards & others ) Mighty Indiana Travelers ( gospel ).One of the best soul albums & wonderful cd 2 ( funk ) & 4 ( gospel ).Lamp Records - It Glowed Like The Sun: The Story Of Naptown's Motown 1969-1972

 
 https://www.discogs.com/artist/1843647-The-Vanguards-2

 James Davis (Lead Vocals), Paul Ervin, Ray Wheeler, William Gude, Dickey Pierson and Wilbur Winston 

Various ‎– Lamp Records - It Glowed Like The Sun: The Story Of Naptown's Motown 1969-1972 

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ln4I2FrJOooDXTgEPnRHeiCmACqzrhY7k

 

Label:

Now-Again Records ‎– NA 5180, Now-Again Records ‎– NA 5180-CD

Series:

Now-Again Reserve –

Format:

2 × CD, Compilation CD, Album CD, Album

Country:

US

Released:

09 Aug 2019

Genre:

Rock, Funk / Soul

Style:

Soul, Gospel, Funk

Tracklist

1-1	–Words Of Wisdom - Truth Revue	You Made Me Everything	3:34
1-2	–P.H.D.'s	It Swells My Desire	2:34
1-3	–Tony Black (6) & Revolution Compared To What	Huh	3:48
1-4	–Montiques*	Fool Am I	2:44
1-5	–Pearls*	Can I Call You Baby	3:21
1-6	–Embers (12)	I'm Only Human	4:11
1-7	–Moonlighters*	Just Like She Said She Would	2:50
1-8	–Words Of Wisdom - Truth Revue	Do You Understand Me Now	3:17
1-9	–Pearls*	Shooting High	2:57
1-10	–Montiques*	Take Another Look	2:28
1-11	–Moonlighters*	More Than I Can Stand	2:53
1-12	–P.H.D.'s	The Way It Used To Be	3:02
1-13	–Indys*	Another Weekend	2:57
1-14	–Indys*	Come See About Her	2:43
1-15	–Funder Cooper	I've Got To Get Around	2:46
1-16	–Funder Cooper	I Didn't Know (Don't Shoot Me)	3:03
1-17	–Embers (12)	I'm Only Human (Instrumental)	4:01
2-1	–Ebony Rhythm Band	Intro	0:39
2-2	–Fabulous Souls	Take Me	2:44
2-3	–Moonlighters*	Right On Brother	2:28
2-4	–Moonlighters*	Lonely Baby	2:38
2-5	–Ebony Rhythm Band	Interlude	0:36
2-6	–Ebony Rhythm Band	Drugs Ain't Cool	2:44
2-7	–Squidd (2)	Mystic Confusion	3:09
2-8	–Squidd (2)	High On The Hill	3:40
2-9	–Ebony Rhythm Band	Soul Heart Transplant	2:54
2-10	–Amnesty	Everybody Who Wants To Be Free	5:28
2-11	–Diplomatics	Hum-Bug	5:05
2-12	–Revolution Compared To What	Go To Work	3:35
2-13	–Ebony Rhythm Band	Outro	1:09
3-1	–Vanguards*	Somebody Please	4:25
3-2	–Vanguards*	Woman Come Home	2:56
3-3	–Vanguards*	It's Too Late For Love	3:25
3-4	–Vanguards*	Girl Go Away (It's Wrong To Love Two)	3:05
3-5	–Vanguards*	The Ground That You're Walking On (Is Mighty Shakey)	3:08
3-6	–Vanguards*	Before You Take Another Step Girl	3:10
3-7	–Vanguards*	Man Without Knowledge	2:55
3-8	–Vanguards*	The Thought Of Losing Your Love	2:45
3-9	–Vanguards*	I Can't Use You Girl	1:55
3-10	–Vanguards*	Falling Out Of Love	3:37
3-11	–Vanguards*	Gott'a Have Love	2:08
3-12	–Vanguards*	Good Times Bad Times (Stereo)	2:03
3-13	–Vanguards*	Good Times Bad Times (Mono)	2:05
3-14	–Vanguards*	You're Breaking My Heart	3:19
3-15	–Vanguards*	All The Women I've Wanted	3:15
3-16	–Vanguards*	Blue Star Rising	4:15
4-1	–Mighty Indiana Travelers	Anywhere In Glory	2:41
4-2	–Mighty Indiana Travelers	Then They Will Know	2:31
4-3	–Mighty Indiana Travelers	I'll Be Satisfied	2:39
4-4	–Mighty Indiana Travelers	See The Lord	3:21
4-5	–Mighty Indiana Travelers	Rock Me Jesus	2:29
4-6	–Mighty Indiana Travelers	Did You Stop To Pray	2:53
4-7	–Mighty Indiana Travelers	Jesus Is With Me	3:15
4-8	–Mighty Indiana Travelers	Let's Go Home	3:03
4-9	–Mighty Indiana Travelers	Since My Soul's Been Saved	2:36
4-10	–Mighty Indiana Travelers	I Found A New Home	2:54

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – Traffic Entertainment Group
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Now-Again Records
• Copyright (c) – Now-Again Records

Credits

• Art Direction – Errol F. Richardson
• Liner Notes – Eothen Alapatt, Jason Yoder, Jeff Kollath, Kyle Long
• Producer [Compilation] – Eothen Alapatt
• Producer [Original Sessions] – Herb Miller
• Restoration, Remastered By – Jason Bitner

Notes

The collected soul, funk, gospel and rock releases from the Indianapolis based record label.

Packaged in a 4-panel card sleeve. 

 

 

 https://www.heavyweightfunk45s.com/2017/05/28/the-ebony-rhythm-band/

 

 

Although Funk, Inc. was probably the most famous band of Indianapolis' thriving late 1960s-early 1970s funk scene, there were many lesser-known outfits who were also musically compelling but recorded only a single or two before fading away into obscurity. The Ebony Rhythm Band was one such group. Its members comprised the personnel of what was essentially the house band for LAMP (Layden And Miller Productions), a small label set up by entrepreneur Herb Miller. This businessman got his start as a record store owner and music distributor and, after becoming partners with boxing promoter Howard Layden, began signing local artists to recording contracts. Due to their instrumental chops, the Ebony Rhythm Band backed many of these performers during studio sessions.

The aggregation's origins can be traced to the time when drummer Matthew Watson, originally in blues guitarist Harvey Cook's band, joined forces with guitarist Robert "Master Boobie" Townsend and organist John "Ricky" Jackson in soul singer Baby Leon's backing group sometime around 1967. Bassist Lester Johnson came into the fold the following year, and it was through his contacts that they became associated with LAMP Records. Initially, the rhythm section played as part of the rehearsal band for a group already signed to the label, the Vanguards. Johnson and Watson's contributions were so well received that all four musicians earned an audition with Miller, who was sufficiently impressed to make them his label's "Wrecking Crew," so to speak. After settling upon the name Ebony Rhythm Band, they not only provided accompaniment for the Vanguards, but also for other LAMP acts such as the Montiques and the Pearls. "It's Too Late for Love," "Fool Am I," and "Can I Call You Baby" are all presumably hitherto unissued backing tracks for songs by these aforementioned vocal groups.

Although The Ebony Rhythm Band lacked a real vocalist, this did not prevent them from recording a significant amount of material (mostly instrumentals) in 1969 and 1970 under their own direction. The songs that the Band chose to record differed markedly from the solid, though traditional, R&B that they recorded for LAMP's vocal groups. "We were into R&B, but we were into it in a different sense," Lester offers. "We thought it was too confined. We listened to R&B stuff, but we were equally as into rock. We were fascinated by (wah-)wahs, distortion, that sort of thing."

"We was scorned. In that era, everybody else in the black community was wearing three-piece suits, processes and Afro wigs, and that shit. We was the first guys to wear bell-bottoms. The first guys to wear big hats. We were off into a whole other thing.We wanted more of a rock thing, and that's what we did. When we played these R&B gigs behind these stand-up vocal groups that wore costumes and danced routines, we used to laugh at them. We thought they were corny."

 

The Ebony Rhythm Band's lone 45 "Drugs Ain't Cool" b/w "Soul Heart Transplant" offers a tantalizing taste of what a full-length album by the group might have sounded like as both numbers put their collective influences on display. Believe it or not, the A-side was the winner in a contest held by the mayor of Indianapolis for the best anti-drug song, which netted the musicians $800 as well as the opportunity to perform in front of a municipal building in the city's downtown area. In what would have been a major disappointment to Nancy Reagan and the whole "Just Say No" crowd, the band apparently displayed a bit of hypocrisy by performing the song (influenced by the Spencer Davis Group's "I'm a Man") while stoned on marijuana.

 

The members of the Ebony Rhythm Band continued performing live as the backing group for the Vanguards and the Pearls prior to heading to the West Coast in 1970 as part of the King James Version and then metamorphosing into the Ebony Rhythm Funk Campaign later in the decade.