J.J. Barnes - Please Let Me In

"Please Let Me In" was the first record I ever found on the Ric-Tic label, in a tiny junk shop in New Orleans. No-one in England had ever heard of this wonderful singer at the time, and the sound of it musically changed my life into discovering more and more records like it. J.J. has been my lifelong friend. He started out on several small Detroit labels before being picked up by Scepter. J.J. then 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 them.