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Cry Love / Express Your Love - The Sweet & Innocent - GOLD WAX

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A double whammy that'll knock you out the park!

The OG 1970's issue of Cry Love last sold for $750 on Discogs and bids for an easy $500 on eBay. An elusive Reissue pressed in the early 2000's sells for up to $200!

The OG Express Your Love sells for an easy $200!

The utter voices of this Duo Girl Group will make your heart break and drop to the floor!

Go for the Gold!

Now for the first time on wax, you can have your cake and eat it too! Two bad ass rolas ingeniously selected and packed into one 45 and at a dime sack price!


A product of North Memphis’ segregated Dixie Homes housing complex, The Sweet & Innocent arrived during the Soulsville U.S.A. renaissance in the early ’70s. While Al Bell was busy across town turning Stax into a national Black powerhouse, Ron and Sari Bledsoe’s short-lived Active imprint operated out of a storefront on Chelsea Avenue, using nearby Manassas High as a talent pool. Rubye James and Linda Royston—Sweet & Innocent—joined a roster that included The Epics, First Company, and The Memphis Mustangs, groups all lost to the tide of time. The Sweet & Innocent’s are a rare blend of atmospheric blues, post-Beehive girl group harmony, and Jacksons-inspired kid soul. “Spin it one time for me,” Ron Bledsoe penned on promo copies of their January 1972 burner “Cry Love.” Let’s spin it again.

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