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Darrel Banks - It's Not Fair To Me (26​/​12​/​67 Atlantic NY Sessions)

by Cannonball Records

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It's Not Fair To Me (Restored Acetate Version) 02:14
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It's Not Fair To Me (2020 Version) 02:17
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It's Not Fair To Me (Instrumental) 02:17
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Darrell Banks' Atlantic Boxing Day 1967 sessions were thought of being lost forever, not even the historical archive of Atlantic Studios kept records of it.
This song was recorded the same day and at the same Studios of Aretha Franklin sessions in New York and for some reasons the masters went lost for decades.

Although we are beyond 40 releases across the 3 labels, here we are at the milestone of #30 on our main outfit Cannonball Records. We just wanted to celebrate it with a special one.
The cooperation between our label and Detroit's finest Peoples Records dates back to our #004 Big Lee Dowell, the slow ballad on acetate that later became the record many of you know as "What I Done Wrong. We have been doing projects together ever since.

Now it's the case of this beautiful previously unissued recording that was part of a session Mr. Banks did on Boxing Day in 1967 at the legendary Atlantic Studios in New York. In particular two of the songs recorded on that day went lost for decades.
Here we present you one of them, trying to give it the deserved justice. No one knows how the acetate made it there, but it was found and physically restored by Brad in Detroit, and it being such an important find for the world of Soul we eventually managed to track down and inform Darrell's' sister Lois, who rounded up what remains of the family and gave us the green light to go ahead with the project.

We are testing the beta version of this new little software that does wonders when it comes to isolating vocals and, given the bouncy nature of the original song, we just thought a humble groovy alternate version would be just perfect for the flipside, so we did it.
Being the man a treasured icon of the Northern Soul scene there's plenty of bibliography out there that tells you about this incredible Artist, who was moody and quick tempered although an overall mighty entertainer, so there's no point in resuming here once again his life and career background.

We are all going through difficult times and many of the historical racial issues that dominated the world in the times of Darrell Banks are not yet solved.
In these sad sad times for the human race we are just proud to release a previously unissued song from yet another black man shot to death by a cop in the streets of Detroit on a spring day of 1970.

Black Lives Matter. Always have and always will.

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released July 1, 2020

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