Bobby Purify: Selected Discography

JIMMY TIG AND THE ROUNDERS

Spar 770   Foolish Lover / Small Town Girl

Jora 1001  Small Town Girl / Come Home

 

BEN AND SPENCE

 

Bell 650         Woman Hang Your Head In Shame / You’re The One For Me (1966)

Atlantic 2460  Ooh Poo Pah Do / I Do (1967)

Atlantic 2509  Get It Over / I Can’t Stop  (1968)

 

JAMES & BOBBY PURIFY (Mark 2)

James Purify (born in Pensacola, Florida, May 12 1944)

Ben Moore (born in Atlanta, Georgia, August 7, 1941)

 

            US Casablanca UK

 

12/1974  812

    CBX520               Do Your Thing / Why Love

    CAN119               Gonna Give Her All The Love I’ve Got / You Talk Too Much

04/1975  827            You And Me Together Forever / A Man Can’t Be A Man Without A Woman

     1975  830            Gonna Give Her All The Love I Got / Why Love                                                                                                                     

 

1975     7011

   CAL2025               YOU & ME TOGETHER FOREVER (LP)

                              Includes all above single tracks.

                              A Papa Don & Tommy Cogbill Production.

                              Arrangers: Harrison Calloway, Shane Keister, Gary Paxton.

                              Recorded at Pete’s Place, Nashville, Tennessee.

         

             US  Mercury UK

 

1975  73767

   6167.324              I’m Your Puppet [A UK HIT]/  Lay Me Down Easy 

1976  73806   

   6167.380              Morning Glory / Turning Back The Pages

1977  73884             I Ain’t Got To Love Nobody Else / What’s Better Than Love

          73891   

   6167.500              Get Closer / What’s Better Than Love  (as Ben Moore?)

 

1977    1134

   9100.028             JAMES & BOBBY PURIFY / PURIFY BROS. (LP)

                             Includes all above single tracks.

                             One track, “Everything Must Change”, by Ben Moore only.

                             “Get Closer” by Ben Moore & Sherry Kramer.

                             Produced by Don Schroeder for Papa Don Productions.

                             Arranged by Bergen White.

                             Recorded at Creative Workshop, American Studio, Pete’s Place and

     U.S. Recording Studio, all in Nashville, and Advision
     and Phonogram Studio, London, UK.

                                            

BEN MOORE

 US  Mercury

1977  73919            Fire’s Burning / Slow Dancing   

 

US  Roadshow

1978   BXL1-3443    SLOW DANCIN’   (LP)

                 

UK DJM

1979  DJS10882      Slippin’ Away / Love Music

 

 

1979  DJF20552       PURIFIED (LP)  (reissue of US Roadshow LP)

                              Papa Don Productions by David Chapman and Bill Utley.

                              Arranger: Bergen White

      Recorded at Sound Lab, American Studio, Woodland Studio and Creative Workshop,

      all in Nashville, and three tracks at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.

 

US CBS Priority

1982  JU37724         PURIFIED (LP)  (gospel recordings, not same as above)

 

US Columbia

P18687                    PURIFIED (LP)  (reissue of US Priority LP)

 

US AIR (Atlanta International Records)

1984  10084         ROLL, RIVER, ROLL (LP)