Jon Bartel

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: [m942928]. Bartel and company then signed to Jimmy Curtiss' newly formed Perception label and he made his debut with 1971's cleverly-titled [r2990822]. 1969 found Curtiss and Perception having arranged a distribution deal with Capitol, which saw the release of [m421455] with the same line up