Howard Tate hopped labels during the late '60s and early '70s, skipping from Verve to Lloyd Price's Turntable to Atlantic and never releasing more than one LP for any of them. His lone Atlantic LP, a self-titled release from 1972, was the least consistent of the three; despite a few highlights that made it worth hearing for fans, the album was plagued by substandard songs that sapped Tate and his crack band. The person most at fault was, surprisingly, producer Jerry Ragovoy, who had...   [ read more ]

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Even after Get It While You Can, his fine 1967 LP for Verve, failed to capture a commercial audience or a substantial fan base, Howard Tate continued to work the nightclub circuit to large audiences. One of his biggest fans was fellow R&B veteran Lloyd Price, who owned a New York club named Turntables where Tate often appeared. The club was actually an adjunct of Price's Turntable record label, which formed in 1968 and signed Tate as one of its first artists. {^Howard Tate's R...   [ read more ]

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