Dear alb10n,
The track you are looking for is indeed named "Two Hour Nightrider".
It appeared together with "The First Time I Saw Your Face" on the 1972
LP "Right On! Soul Hits" (label: Stereo Gold Award records; catalog
number: Stereo Gold Award MER-360). This LP was a compilation
containing cover versions of various soul records, among them Roberta
Flack's song, though I have not been able to find out whether the
"First Time..." version featured on "Right On! Soul Hits" is Flack's
original recording or a cover version. But it seems possible that the
latter is the case, judging from the few information I discovered.
"Two Hour Nightrider" is some kind of a remarkable exception on that
LP: It's not a cover version, but rather a composition of the record's
producer and Stereo Gold Award label owner, Leo Muller, played by his
contract musicians.
The LP has never been released as a CD. But you can see its original
cover by following this link:
http://www.vinylvulture.co.uk/pages/images/records/righton-soulhits.jpg
(Source: Listed below)
Read more about the "Right On! Soul Hits" LP here (scroll down the page a bit):
http://www.vinylvulture.co.uk/pages/mullerb.htm
(Source: Listed below)
If you are interested in learning more about
producer/composer/label-owner Leo Muller and his collected oeuvre,
please follow this link:
http://www.vinylvulture.co.uk/pages/mullera.htm
(Source: Listed below)
The source for the three links above is the website dedicated to the
Stereo Gold Award label, "It's Muller Time", which is part of the
"Labels of Love" site:
http://www.vinylvulture.co.uk/pages/labels.htm
Just in case you want to purchase a copy of this rare LP: I found it
to be available from Superfly Records. It's included in their list of
Soul/Funk-LPs, for 12.00 Euro (please understand that I couldn't get a
confirmation of availability):
http://www.superflyrecords.com/images/liste_superfly.txt
Website: http://www.superflyrecords.com/
E-Mail: contact@superflyrecords.com
Additional source used for research:
Hyp Records: Funk
http://www.hipwax.com/music/patch/funk.html
Search terms used:
"First time ever i saw your face" lp soul
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"hour night rider"
://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=%22hour+night+rider%22&btnG=Google+Suche
"right on soul hits"
://www.google.de/search?q=%22right+on+soul+hits%22&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&filter=0
"right on soul hits"
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?avkw=fogg&cat=web&cs=utf-8&q=%22right+on+soul+hits%22&_sb_lang=pref
Hope this answers your question!
Best regards,
Scriptor |