Wilmer Alexander Jr. And The Dukes, A Soul Aphrodisiac

The band originated in 1957 in Geneva, New York, formed by Wilmer Alexander Jr. The band played most of the black clubs that shocked many of the people that came to see them play. Alexander was the only black member of the band all the other members were white. They were primarily a short lived cover band doing songs by The Steve Miller Band to the Rolling Stones. The band was saxophone based much like Junior Walker And The All-Stars. Some of their songs sounded a lot like the All-Stars. One of their most popular covers was Lee Dorsey's "Get Out Of My Life Woman". The bands first single was "Give Me One More Chance" where it was popular in New York and eastern Pennsylvania, nationally the single only peaked at #78 in Cash Box and #80 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Their second single titled "Heavy Time" failed to make the charts. However the B side a Rolling Stones cover "I'm Free" did get airplay in Syracuse & Rodchester made their top 30 hit list. The band did have one LP titled (Wilmer And The Dukes) on Aphrodisiac 6001 released in 1969. The LP consisted of ten songs including Give Me One More Chance, Get Out Of My Life Woman, Get It, and Living In The U.S.A.  The song on the record is St. James Infirmary, I have always liked this song by other artists like Joanah Jones, this was the first time that I got to hear it done by The Dukes I was very impressed well done. (By the way this LP is out on CD it can be downloaded off Legal Sounds for 90 cents)

Here is a discography and some of the prices there records are bringing.
Aphrodisiac 6001 LP Wilmer And The Dukes.........$30.00 to $50.00
Aphrodisiac 260 Give Me One More Chane / Get It...$27.00 promo
(stock copies of above single sell for under $10.00)
Aphrodisiac 262 Living In The U.S.A. / Count On Me...$10.00