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Musician of R&B/Soul, Jazz and Rock
Raised in Pennsylvania, Bartel was bitten by the rock and roll bug while a kid. By the mid-1960s he was playing keyboards and fronting Johnny Bartel And The Soul Masters. 1968 found Bartel and company living in Southern California where they released a highly collectable single for the small Solid Smoke label: I Waited Too Long. Bartel and company then signed to Jimmy Curtiss' newly formed Perception label and he made his debut with 1968's cleverly-titled Bartel. 1969 found Curtiss and Perception having arranged a distribution deal with Capitol, which saw the release of The Jon Bartel Thing with the same line up
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Bartel | Jon Bartel | 1971 | Album |