Connie Austin / Charles Spurling Ball Of Fire / You've Got Love On Top Of Love - Kent City 084 northern soul but most collectors really needed

but most collectors really needed the 7”

Baby’ was a good seller when issued on Kent Harris’ Romark label in the late 60s – judging by the

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it is conceivable that it is a forerunner of ‘So Tied Up’ which featured on his Atlantic LP at this time

Already a great ballad cut by him in the 60s

Connie Austin / Charles Spurling Ball Of Fire / You've Got Love On Top Of Love - Kent City 084 northern soul but most collectors really neededCo writer Charles Spurling sang and wrote at King in the late 60s, providing songs for James Brown, Hank Ballard, Junior McCants and Peggy & Artie among others. Ball Of Fire is an exceptional song, first recorded by Connie Austin as a smouldering mid tempo number on which she pours her heart out. It would be updated a year later by Marva Whitney who took it at a faster funkier pace. Charles Spurling remembers Connie as a good looking, fast living girl