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Barbara Lee


Cleveland, 1965

Ed Wright, one half of the Smashville/W&H production team, moved from Cleveland to Los Angeles in late 1966 to take a job as general manager of Minit records and to help relocate the O'Jays out there. Jerry Baxter, drummer/writer/arranger came with him, probably as part of the O'Jays band.

Ed and Jerry also brought some old recordings they had recorded in Cleveland (likely at Boddie) and the two set up a short iived - two releases - label, Edco. The second Edco 45 was by Barbara Lee. We don't know who Barbara Lee might have been. There is nothing in the newspapers under that name. One clus could be in the songwriting credits. The A side is credited to Wright and Hanson, but the B side is credited to Wright and Shirley Ann Grady. There was a Shirley Ann Grady was mentioned as singing in a couple public events, she would have been about 19 years old in 1965, a former student at Central HS. She may have been Barbara, although based on the last name, she may have been Marsha Gee. Barbara and Marsha don't sound like the same singers even if their recordings were done around the same time. 

That's all we know since the principals Wright, Hanson, and Baxter are all deceased.

Discography:
My, My Sweet Love / Show Me Some Love - Edco 102, 1966