Rickey Calloway

Most widely known among funk enthusiasts for the cult basic “Tell Me,” singer Rickey Calloway was created in Jacksonville, Florida in January 8, 1953; regarding for an interview in the wintertime 2005 problem of Polish Poetics mag, as a teenager he worked regional nightclubs imitating Adam Brown, eventually exhausting of executing Brown’s tracks and opting to begin with writing his very own instead. “Inform Me” heralded the 17-year-old Calloway’s maiden voyage into songwriting — documented with regional funk clothing the Split Mirrow, the solitary appeared around the Jayville label in 1970, generating significant airplay in north Florida and southeast Georgia but failing woefully to register nationally. He following recorded “OBTAIN IT Best” for the California label Bel-Air, but a agreement was never authorized and the vocalist were left with the grasp tapes; Calloway ultimately relocated to Miami, and in 1974 his administration landed “OBTAIN IT Best” with Style Wooten’s Memphis-based Comara label. This record as well proceeded to go nowhere, and in 1976 a burned-out Calloway retired from the street, marrying the next 12 months — in 1979, he resumed his documenting career long plenty of for one last solitary, the Super launch “Payin’ My Dues,” before resuming his civilian existence. After decades taken off the music business, Calloway found that initial copies of “Inform Me” were right now trading for huge sums around the supplementary marketplace — after recovering the initial grasp tapes, he reissued the track like a Kay-Dee label 12″, additionally resuming his carrying out career at night clubs through the entire Jacksonville area.