J.J. Barnes - Sweet Sherry

Detroit legend J.J. Barnes sings his Blackpool Mecca and Wigan Casino anthem, "Sweet Sherry". This was first recorded in 1967 and then we recut it in 1990 for Motorcity Records. This footage was filmed in 2001 at the Togetherness Weekend in Fleetwood. J.J. started out on several small Detroit labels before being picked up by Scepter. Then J.J. got his career into full swing, by the mid Sixties, when he and Edwin Starr both started out on the same label, Ric-Tic Records in Detroit. I first met J.J. Barnes in 1971 when my first business venture with my Father, was to put him on at Blackpool Mecca. I had written an article about him when I was fifteen for Collectors Soul Magazine called "J.J. Barnes The Uncrowned King Of Soul". Eighteen years later he signed to Motorcity and recorded about twenty five songs, this being one of the stand out ones, our re-cut of the legendary Detroit classic, and released on the CD, "The Very Best Of J.J. Barnes".