Alvin Cash and the Registers

 

Listen/Download Alvin Cash and the Registers – No Deposit No Return

Greetings all

The new week is here, so I thought I’d dust off some of that good Chicago (via St Louis) instrumental soul to get you greased up and ready to roll.

Alvin Cash (nee Weeks) and the Crawlers/Registers had a string of hits for the Chicago labels Mar-V-Lus and Toddlin’ Town between 1965 and 1968.

Cash and his brothers – basically a dance act – emigrated to Chitown from St Louis and hit the charts early in 1965 with ‘Twin Time’.

Backed by the Registers, originally a St Louis band called the Nightlighters, Cash basically worked the same side of the “vocal” street as Jerry-O, i.e. he was more of an emcee/toaster/proto-rapper than a singer proper, spicing up several groovy instrumentals with largely spoken interjections.

The track I bring you today is – as my pockets often are – Cash-less, featuring the Registers, along with a bottle of pop, getting down.

The tune – ‘No Deposit No Return’ is credited to Joseph Delponto and Larry Nestor. I can’t find anything about Delponto, but Nestor was a Chicago-area keyboardist who had spent some time in the Buckinghams, and wrote and arranged for other Chicago artists like the Sharpees and Syl Johnson.

‘No Deposit No Return’, which opens with the sound of a bottle being uncapped (natch…) opens up into a grooving soul instro led by some soupy (Wurlitzer??) electric piano and saxophone, with enough punch for the dance floor.

Though this song didn’t chart, its flipside ‘Philly Freeze’ grazed the R&B Top 10 and the Pop Top 50 in 1966.

It is a head-nodder indeed, and I hope you dig it.

See you on Wednesday

Keep the faith

Larry

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