James Lately What you’re doing / Instrumental MD Recs

Here you have the first release of the previously unissued version of the Johnnie Mae Mathews flip to ‘Two Sided Thing’ sung by James Lately. This was uncovered in the Pioneer vaults being digitised as part of the MD Pioneer project.

Interestingly we have also uncovered the original recording of  ‘Two Sided Thing’ which was also recorded at Pioneer Studios.

Not much is know about James Lately, he died at a tragically young age reportedly at the hands of his girlfriend at the time