Joe McDade
This obscure West Coast 45 appears to have been the only record ever cut
by the equally well-hidden Mr McDade – but it is a real goodie. He
has an engaging light baritone voice, with just the right touch of harshness
when required, a good sense of timing, with that Otis Redding influence made
quite clear. 
Tears
on my pillow isn’t the Little Anthony
classic but a finely structured gospel chorded ballad, featuring some neat
piano and a full horn section courtesy of veteran producer/arranger Miles
Grayson. I could listen to discs like this all day. I guess this came out
around 66/67 as the flip is a version of Otis’ “Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
(sad song)”. A nice little irony this as of course when Jim Stewart
and Estelle Axton started up their record company in Memphis, Satellite was
the name they chose, until a clash with another concern forced them to change
it to Stax. And now here’s Joe on yet another Satellite covering Stax’s
key hitmaker.