FORGIVE ME-DARRELL BANKS (VOLT 1969)

credits: all pictures by soulfuldetroit.com

one of the last recordings the late darrell (eu)banks would record before his untimely death in 1970 at the hands of an off-duty detroit police officer. "forgive me" was taken from banks' last album 1969's "here to stay" produced by don davis (hit producer for johnnie taylor) and released on the stax records sister label volt. recently soulfuldetroit.com set up a fund to purchase a grave marking for banks whose detroit cemetary plot went unmarked since his passing. fans and supporters gave graciously and enough money was raised for the marker. had banks lived only heaven knows how high his career would've soared,but since fate intervened that cold motor city winter day,one could only imagine.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• detroit
• soul
• northern
• stax
• volt
• darrell
• banks

[MrMaxxmo]

Did you make this video? If you did it's a great job my friend....

[soln4suhreborn]

@MrMaxxmo Sorry for the late response and yes I put this video together.

Thanks for the compliment,it's greatly appreciated-Many thanks to you!!

[franz909]

Never heard this one b4 , sounds like a brother ,brother man ... like I like it , raw and a lot of soul .

Whether he reached the "STATUS " of Otis I think is irrelevant , the man obviously left behind some great music .

[soln4suhreborn]

No disrespect to the man's music. I'm a serious D.B. fan. When I said "status" I meant as far as the number of recordings. There's several artists with small catalogs who made top quality music,D.B. (obviously),Lee Charles,Vernon Garrett,Jesse Anderson,Harold Burrage,and so on. I strongly agree that Darrell Banks left some incredible music for us to enjoy.

[MOONSTALK9]

YEA!!! THIS IS THE REAL THING!!!

[soln4suhreborn]

....AND YOU KNOW IT!!

[Delltaqueen]

@CalypieAndroid Thanks for this info. When I saw the name and heard a previous song I thought, "Should this be Darrell Eubanks?" I remember him from when I was a youngster. I'm thinking it was Rochester, NY. I didn't know that he had records. WOW!!

[troyboy7962]

Beautiful song.

[MrBillyj2]

this vidio is very well put 2-gether, job well done.. darrell was a dam good man and a dam good singer, i had the pleasure of meeting him ,and playing with him a time or time, kinda miss all the fun....

[MrBillyj2]

this vidio is very well put 2-gether, job well done..

[OldGoldSoul]

DARRELL BANKS DIED IN 1970 R.I.P.

[CalypieAndroid]

what a voice!!! Long Live Darrell Eubanks Aka Darrell Banks.

[darcythegael]

How good is this!!!??? Amazing stuff!! When you listen to what passes for soul today it makes me weep and then you listen to DB and your soul just sings!!! Keep on singing and posting!