I hadn’t seen the whole comment at the time I thanked you for it.
Wow! The Belafonte stuff is good for my files, but your MacDonald/Salter intelligence is amazing. I never knew they’d intended “Where is the Love” for the 5th Dimension, but now that you tell me I can hear them doing it in my head and it’s obvious.

“…Love” launched Ralph and his company, Antisia Music (named for son Anthony and daughter Tonisia or Tunisia), on a rocket trajectory to repute and glory only to crash and burn some years later due to…see my email to you, Jason.

That’s a cool present to get, an album you played on back in your session days. I like your boy’s style.

Ralph MacDonald and Bill Salter’s “Where is the Love” was originally written with the Filth Dimension in mind, but failed to connect with them to place the song.
However, Roberta Flack cut a version for her duet LP “Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway” (1972), while the single release of Ralph and his partners are also the songwriters for the 1971 “Where Is The Love,” became a number #1 international hit, reportedly selling sold over ten million copies, won a Grammy (or two) back then. So, not long after you workled with them Al.

Regarding Sam Russell and Irv Hunt, I haven’t been able to find a link between them and Little Richard.. they may have hooked up with Little Richard for demos or something that didn’t pan out as he was inbetween deals at the time. Little Richard hooked up with Warner-Reprise by 1970 and they took him to Muscle Shoals to record his debut on Reprise in 1970.

Russell and Hunt did record with Jackie DeShannon in 1969, but that’s about all I can tell you for what they did that year.

J.