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ARTiST.....: Sherrick
ALBUM......: Sherrick
LABEL......: Warner
GENRE......: R&B
SOURCE.....: CDDA
TRACKS.....: 09
PLAYTiME...: 36:43
SiZE.......: 50,9 MB
ENCODER....: LAME 3.97 V2
BiTRATE....: VBRkbps
SCENE DATE.: 06/03/2007
STORE DATE.: 00/00/1987
Tracklist:
01. Tell Me What It Is 03:54
02. Just Call 04:13
03. Baby, I'm For Real 04:22
04. This Must Be Love 03:22
05. Do You Baby 03:26
06. All Because Of You 04:34
07. Let's Be Lovers Tonight 04:03
08. Lady You Are 04:56
09. Send For Me 03:53
Release Notes:
gorilla ish cocaine addiction aborted Sherrick's, a native of
Sacramento, CA (circ. July 6, 1967), promising career. He
joined the Motown family by hooking up with Kagny and the
Dirty Rats, whose other members were Michael Dunlap, Jerry
Thompson, and Cliff Liles, the son of Raynoma Gordy-Singleton.
Raynoma worked a deal for them with Motown. Liles, Thompson
and Dunlap were ex members of Apollo who cut one album for
Gordy Records in 1979 before the axe fell. James Brown?the
Godfather of Soul?was rumored to produce Kagny but the deal
never got done and after one album, Kagny and the Dirty Rats
(1983), the company dropped them.
But Raynoma was smitten by their silky voice lead singer's 6'
4" handsome looks and even taller potential as a recording
artist/entertainer. What she didn't know at the time was his
thirst for cocaine and his involvement with other women;
Lynne, for one, had children by Sherrick. Acting as mentor and
occasional lover, she finagled the strong tenor gigs as
backing vocalist on Motown sessions and began cutting tracks
for a solo album.
But the project became a time bomb and the relationship stormy
as Sherrick's habit of disappearing, unnoticed at first,
became an issue. Raynoma persevered on until 1985 when Jay
Lasker fired her and killed the prospect of Sherrick's career
with Motown. Through Benny Medina (ex member of Apollo), then
working at Warner Brothers Records, she got WB interested in
the project.
Sherrick's problem grew bringing on speculation that someone
at Motown knew about the singer's illness; hence, the reason
for the cooling towards Kagny, Sherrick's solo project, and
Raynoma's dismissal, cause as long as she was around he would
be close by.
Raynoma often got frantic calls from Sherrick begging her to
bring money to destitute parts of Los Angeles to pay off
dealers who often held her car (which he took off with) as
collateral for debts. It got plug-ugly one night when he was
beaten and shot in the pelvis. She found out about Lynne
awhile back but learned even more about Sherrick's other world
at the hospital when she met Rita who had made recent plans to
marry Sherrick. Somehow, Raynoma kept the drama away from the
people she dealt with at Warner Brothers who were in the
process of drawing up a contract for the singer and their
jointly owned production company.
Sherrick attended rehab sessions while finishing up Just Call
(1987). Two singles from it charted in the United Kingdom:
"Just Call" (#30 UK) and "Let Be Lovers Tonight" (Top 75).
Sherrick set out on a promo tour across America where the
album and singles' success was minimal to pump up the
interest. But he went on cocaine finding missions in every
city on the itinerary; on one journey?in the middle of the
tour?he didn't return and missed subsequent engagements. By
now everyone knew of the "problem."
When he returned, the work on a second album began (and ended)
when he booked with thousands in advance money. The album was
never completed and Raynoma washed her hands on the
problematic singer. (Raynoma Gordy-Singleton devoted an entire
chapter to Sherrick in her riveting The Untold Story: Berry,
Me, and Motown (out-of-print.) He disappeared in 1988 and
didn't surface until 1999 apparently drug-free and working on
new material. But the comeback ended tragically, when he died
in Los Angeles, January 22, 1999 of unknown causes.