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100 Proof Aged In Soul
Somebody's Been Sleeping
100 Proof Aged In Soul
Somebody's Been Sleeping
Steve Mancha, the lead singer of 100 Proof Aged In Soul, was born Clyde Wilson in Walhall, South Carolina on Christmas Day of 1945. His family moved to Detroit in 1954. Wilson made his first 45 in '62 as half of Two Friends for Harvey Fuqua's H.P.C. label before going solo in 1965 on Don Davis' Wheelsville logo with Did My Baby Call. Just before its release, Davis changed Clyde's stage name, inspired in substantial part by Detroit songwriter Don Mancha.
"I was sitting there in (Davis') office, and he was trying to come up with some names," says Don Mancha. "He finally came up with a first name, Steve. So he said, 'Okay, I like Steve!' So we bounced a whole lot of other names around to go with Steve, and he didn't like none of those names." Then inspiration struck. "He looked at me and said, 'Wait a minute!' His eyes got big," says Don. "He said, 'What if I use your name?' I said, 'What are you talking about?' He said, 'Steve Mancha!'"Steve got hotter than Clyde ever did, scoring R&B hits on Davis' Groovesville logo with I Don't Want To Lose You in 1966 and Don't Make Me A Story Teller the next year. "He was really a good act to work with," says Don of his namesake. "The guy was cool!"
Eddie Anderson had been with The Holidays, while Joe Stubbs' pungent tenor was front and center on The Falcons' 1959 smash You're So Fine (Joe later spent mid-'60s stints with The Contours and The Originals at Motown, following his brother Levi of The Four Tops over there). They came together at Holland-Dozier-Holland's Hot Wax label in 1969, one of two logos along with Invictus that the three writer/producers had established upon leaving Motown. Don Hatcher completed the quartet.
"That was a lot of fun with that group. Steve Mancha, I thought, was one of the most creative singers and writers," says Edward Holland. "I had heard about him, and Jeffrey Bowen found him and brought him to me. And he wanted to put a group together. So that's all we were doing. We were just matching talents and matching people who wanted to be in a group together. And hopefully that they could all get along together and want to do it."
100 Proof debuted in late 1969 with the relentless Too Many Cooks (Spoil The Soup), a respectable seller but nothing like their encore Somebody's Been Sleeping. Written by producer Greg Perry, General Johnson of The Chairmen Of The Board, and Angelo Bond, its ominous lyrics were fierily delivered by Mancha over an explosive track. The record shot up to #6 R&B and #8 pop, selling a million copies and serving as the title track of their debut album, containing a longer, less effective edit of their smash.
The group posted three more hits in 1971—One Man's Leftovers (Is Another Man's Feast), Driveway, and 90 Day Freeze, the latter dispensing with Stubbs and Anderson. Everything Good Is Bad, their last chart entry in '72, was actually their second biggest seller. Though issued under their name, two mid-'70s singles on Hot Wax featured a different group altogether, the originals having long since split.
- Bill Dahl -
Various - Sweet Soul Music 24 Scorching Classics From 1970
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