The Round Robin Monopoly: Little People

From the 1974 LP "Alpha" released on the Stax subsidiary Truth.
The Round Robin Monopoly consisted of:
Robin Lloyd: Piano, Organ and Vocals
Larry Greene: Guitar and Vocals
Ray Brown: Bass and Vocals
Ollie Lamey Shaft: Drums
Arnold Barry: Saxophone and Vocals
Leonard Sorvillo: Trumpet and Vocals
Rex White: Trombone, Funny Bone and Vocals
Jimmie Lee (Congalu) Thompson: Congas

Executive producer: Randy Stewart
Producers: Randy Stewart and Willie Hall

Little is known about this band. But I do recognize some of the musicians. Willie Hall:
"Willie 'Too Big' Hall began his career as a drummer in 1965, while still in high school. He played with the Bar-Kays band and later joined Stax Records where he performed with Steve Cropper and Donald Dunn on Booker T. and the MG's records Universal Language and Hip Hug-Her.
As part of the Stax-Volt Recording Section Team from 1968-77, Hall accompanied and/or produced such artists as The Emotions, Little Milton, Carla and Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor, The Staple Singers, Albert King and Isaac Hayes. Hall produced Hayes' last Stax album and later did percussion on Hayes popular Shaft album and Hayes' Oscar - winning score for the hit film.
Hall has toured the world and recorded with a variety of artists, including Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Bonnie Raitt, Earl Scruggs, Charlie Daniels and Buffy Saint Marie, Charlie Daniels Band, Todd Rundgren and Roger McGuinn, among others.
Hall is currently a member of The Bo-Keys, a band of highly respected Memphis musicians, including Isaac Hayes's wah-wah guitarist Charles "Skip" Pitts. He is the father of rapper Gangsta Pat. "
(soruce: http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/profiles/willie-hall/)

Jimmie Lee Thompson played on many of Isaac Hayes' records.

Randy Stewart produced many fine artists on Stax, including Rufus Thomas, Inez Foxx, and Isaac Hayes.

The guy behind this blog http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/round-robin-the-vulture/ has done some excellent digging:
"Round Robin was a Los Angeles-based singer who got his start in the early 60's with the regional hit 'Do the Slauson', and was for a time (thanks to a lot of exposure on the Lloyd Thaxton TV show*) something of a West Coast, dance-craze Chubby Checker. In fact, so popular was 'The Slauson' that he devoted sides of his first three 45s to the 'Slauson' (a street in LA) songs, 'Slauson Shuffle Time', 'Slauson Party' and 'Do the Slauson'*.
He recorded more than a dozen 45s between 1963 and 1975, running the gamut from R&B/twist party, through soul, garage and funk."

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[sultryist]

Great information on Willie Hall. He is my cousin and such a talented man/musician.

[missfunkyflyy]

@sultryist Glad to hear it. Send him my regards, please.

[missfunkyflyy]

@sultryist He is a wonderful musician. Please send a hello and "thanks for the music" from me.

[doeboyjtz]

the lead singer Robin Lloyd is my girlfriends dad, and he is alive and kickin' too.lol

[missfunkyflyy]

@doeboyjtz That's good news! Does he still sing and write music?

[LungsMcPherson]

Note: Bassist Ray Brown is alive and well and not the famous jazz player.

Rex White

[missfunkyflyy]

@LungsMcPherson Thank you, I have changed the video description.

[missfunkyflyy]

@CDFONK I hope so because it cost so much I'm gonna have to eat "havregrynsgröt" (porridge) for a month! :D

[CDFONK]

fonkay...100/100****this LP is worth every kr my friend...