Little Royal & The Swingmasters has been played on NTS shows including Launette's Hour , with Switch Blade first played on 23 February 2014.

Little Royal and The Swingmasters was an American soul and R&B group and artist of the 1960-70's. Little Royal was half-brother of James Brown.

Notable people who have performed with Little Royal include Teddy Pendergrass and Bobby Parker.

The title track of his album "Jealous", reached #15 on the Billboard R&B Chart on August 5, 1972. His song, Razor Blade was sampled by 16 artists, including Ice-T, Lord Finesse and J Dilla

Little Royal died at the age of 82 on September 29,…