Wanda Robinson meets Black Ivory
Marv emailed asking if we knew of an old record that used Black Ivory's 'Don't Turn Around' as the music behind some spoken word lyrics, so here's some info on Wanda Robinson's recordings on the Perception label (the parent label to Black Ivory's first home 'Today Records').
It wasn't uncommon for artists on Today and Perception Records to cover each others tunes. Label-mates J.J. Barnes, The Eight Minutes, Debbie Taylor & Lucky Peterson all covered Black Ivory tunes.
Wanda Robinson was a 'jazz-poet' who released 2 LPs on Perception Records. The first, 1971's 'Black Ivory' included the tracks 'Instant Replay' (which used the instrumental version of Black Ivory's 'I Keep Asking You Questions' as the music bed for one of her poems), and 'The Final Hour' (which used another Black Ivory track 'Don't Turn Around').
There was one single released from Wanda's 'Black Ivory' LP - the aforementioned 'The Final Hour' (b/w 'John Harvey's Blues'):
The album was also released on 8-track, and was reissued on CD in 2005 by Breathless Records.
In 1973, Wanda Released her second and last LP on the Perception label, 'Me And A Friend', but this time she didn't make use of any Black Ivory instrumentals. This album was also reissued by Breathless in 2005 on CD.
Both of these albums were released on a single CD by Sanctuary Records in 2000 as Wanda Robinson 'The Soul-Jazz Poetry of Wanda Robinson - The Perception Sessions' :
For a great piece with more info on Wanda, including what she's up to now, check out this July 2006 article in Washington City Paper.