Members: Small Paul

Anchored by the Flores brothers—Sandy on guitar and Tony on bass—the Soulsations took pride in their main draw, the nearly 300 pound vocalist “Small Paul” Hamilton. From the age of eight, Hamilton had been chirping with the Phoenix Boys Choir, but by 13 he’d taken to street corner crooning, saddling up with the Flores brothers just in time for their first ride with Mike Lenaburg at Audio Recorders. The 1967 session would track work by the Soulsations, Small Paul, and ex-Newlywed John “Oklahoma Zeke” Lewis, but only two of the affair’s five cuts would find wax.