Cleveland Robinson

An obscure Cleveland, OH, singer/writer/manufacturer/label owner who released a minimum of 15 singles and something album, collectors believe there have been some more. He debuted on Debra Information with “THEY ARE the Hands,” that was found by Ascot Information (a subsidiary of United Musician). After suggested deals with various other majors dropped through, Cleveland Robinson released 12 singles on Nosnibor Information (Nosnibor is certainly Robinson spelled backwards). Copies of his most widely used recording (among enthusiasts) “Like Is a Snare” have already been entirely on both Nosnibor and Alley Kitty Information. He documented at Schneider’s Documenting by Herman Schneider; the tiny studio was situated in downtown Cleveland. He by no means landed a nationwide distribution offer and his recordings by no means made the graphs: national, local, or regional — R&B or pop. (Carnival Information, possessed by Joe Evans, never really had a nationwide distribution offer either, but handled national chart acknowledgement on releases from the Manhattans and Lee Williams & the Cymbals so that it can be carried out.) The neighborhood R&B channels WJMO and WABQ overlooked him, a jock at WHK, the best 50,000-watt pop/rock and roll station (at that time) performed a few, but none produced the studies the station imprinted and distributed. He do the best Five Display, hosted by Don Webster (right now a Television weatherman in Cleveland), several times and performed several regional gigs, but apart from a few pr announcements and content in local documents, he hardly ever built a existence and is recognized by at the very top group of North Soul collectors, therefore named cause the word and groundswell started in the north section of Britain. Two monitors including “Like Is a Snare” are put together on Goldmine/Spirit Supply’s For Millionaires Just series, quantity two and four; a bootleg, Cream of the Crop, Vol. 10, also lists “Snare.” Up to now, non-e of his recordings are on a local compilation. While surviving in California, his information were taken which partially makes up about why collectors cannot locate copies.