I needed to find All My Loving by Prince Buster for a compilation and I remembered taping it when I owned a copy, so it meant a few hours in the garage trying to find it amongst literally hundreds of tapes. Anyway I did find it but I also found a tape just labelled as 'cover ups' so I thought I'd post a few up here to see if they ever became popular or uncovered or whatever. Some are good, some are crap.

This is the first one.

2nd

3rd

4th - now this one is so familiar that I think I must actually have it or have had it, I may be wrong but someones bound to know what this is...I'm gonna kick myself

5th - this is the one that Gash was trying to identify the other day but his version sounded like it was recorded from outside a venue. I can guarantee that this is an LP track, definitely.

6th - this is listed as being Soul Fry but I think they meant Soul Fay?

7th

8th

9th - this is hilarious - someone has speeded it up but so fast that the backing singers sound like chipmunks

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Last one - this is the 'other' Temptones cover up - thanks to Greg for the recording

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Blendells "You Need Love" Dontee.

9th - this is hilarious - someone has speeded it up but so fast that the backing singers sound like chipmunks 

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The Inmates "This Is The Day" on Kopit

Utterly hideous tune. The kind of stuff that makes it embarrasing to mention to anyone that you are in any way connected with the northern soul scene.

The Soul Fay one is Ronnie West "Lil Woman" on Goins. An old Kitch spin? Maybe one of the only ones apart from the Blendells to make much of an impression.

I know for a fact that Billy Arnell and Redcoats Revue are Ken Burrell's as they are off a tape he did. Cack though.

The Soul Fay one is Ronnie West "Lil Woman" on Goins. An old Kitch spin? Maybe one of the only ones apart from the Blendells to make much of an impression.

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You wait til you hear the male version of Surrounded By A Ray Of Sunshine

9th - this is hilarious - someone has speeded it up but so fast that the backing singers sound like chipmunks 

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This is on the last Dome CD giveaway. Butch used to play this at the 100club.

I like this alot

The Bobby Adams one sounds like the work of a professional singer. The rest are decidedly average. They remind me of the days when people covered up records 'cos there was something sub-standard about them and a c/u was the only way to drum up any mystique around or interest in them.

I know the first track, but not by title, I think I might even have heard it a few days ago. Now all I need to do is to play it to the person who played it to me. Some Carolinas thing I think.

The Bobby Adams one sounds like the work of a professional singer.

The penny just dropped.

Bobby Adams is:

James Gadson - Got To Find My Baby - CREAM

On issue copies only I think.

£8 from Manship. I guess he's got a bunch of them.

Good tune IMO.

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The Bobby Adams one sounds like the work of a professional singer. The rest are decidedly average. They remind me of the days when people covered up records 'cos there was something sub-standard about them and a c/u was the only way to drum up any mystique around or interest in them.

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I do agree with you. As you can see, I only posted about 11 tracks out of 26 or so, so you can imagine what the rest were like...

I don't think it is. That's more of a crossover tune, while this one is definitively sixties in origin... The vocalist on the Bobby Adams sounds a lot like Little Milton to me. Knowing my detective skills it'll probably be unmasked as David Essex or suchlike.

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I don't think it is. That's more of a crossover tune, while this one is definitively sixties in origin...

Bloody hell you're right.

Sorry for the confusion.

4th - lee greenwood affair - dot 45

4th - lee greenwood affair - dot 45

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Thanks for putting me out of my misery with that one - but now you've told me who it is, I don't think I have had it after all!

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Pete...I think this is actually is the Redcoats Revue...another Carolina tune

Pete...I think this is actually is the Redcoats Revue...another Carolina tune

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Really? I thought it had to be a cover up name...redcoats

Oh well theres another one solved then!

Redcoats Revue is certainly something along those lines, and it is a Carolina tune. I know there's a Redmond Revue on Raven, same label as Lost Souls - this might be it?? Probably worth checking out.

Great post Pete fond of this detective work lark

5th - this is the one that Gash was trying to identify the other day but his version sounded like it was recorded from outside a venue.  I can guarantee that this is an LP track, definitely.

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well Pete if you can guarantee its an lp track

who the f*** is it then?

the gasher..

one site member has the original Gary Specer 45

the gasher

im waiting.........

1st one is The Regents - Whatcha Gonna Do on MAD

well Pete if you can guarantee its an lp track

who the f*** is it then?

the gasher..

one site member has the original Gary Specer 45

the gasher

im waiting.........

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Reason I'm saying it's an lp track mate is because

a) it's low volume and thats not the recording and

it's in stereo

how many stereo 60's singles do you know to??

track 10 ...solved

this is a classic..

A certain BIG NAMER DJ

was sold this on an acetate buy some dodgy geezer

dont know what he paid for it but they obviously did him up like a kipper

It was not marked as far as Im aware which makes me very curious

years ago when I first got the tape I let Ted Massey hear it to see if he had any Idea ??

straight away he laughed and told me it was

Jay and the Techniques..off the album Strawberry Shortcake..£10 max

Which it is..

I even bought the LP to be sure..

some bad people out there taking advantage of these big spenders..

the gasher

Reason I'm saying it's an lp track mate is because

a) it's low volume and thats not the recording and

it's in stereo

how many stereo 60's singles do you know to??

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yeah Pete maybe mate.

Im just unsure as a member has the 45 in

his collection but wont tell me who it is.

acetate perhaps??

the gasher

track 10 ...solved

this is a classic..

A certain BIG NAMER DJ

was sold this on an acetate buy some dodgy geezer

dont know what he paid for it but they obviously did him up like a kipper

It was not marked as far as Im aware which makes me very curious

years ago when I first got the tape I let  Ted Massey hear it  to see if he had any Idea ??

straight away he laughed    and told me it was

Jay and the Techniques..off the album Strawberry Shortcake..£10 max

Which it is..

I even bought the LP to be sure..

some bad people out there taking advantage of these big spenders..

the gasher

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Stanley Evans - Unissued Phil La of Soul.

There's a female version too....can't remember off the top of my head who it is

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Walter B & Untouchables - I Can't Stop Loving You - Apollo 9

Stanley Evans - Unissued Phil La of Soul.

There's a female version too....can't remember off the top of my head who it is 

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Barbara Lynn I think

Stanley Evans - Unissued Phil La of Soul.

There's a female version too....can't remember off the top of my head who it is 

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Barbara Lynn I think 

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on Jamie......it's all coming back now

Chalky: do you know what the Bobby Adams is? I think I can remember Dean Anderson covering up a Little Milton 45 on Checker in the mid 80s. I'm not saying this is it, but this singer is right in the same "Bobby Bland impersonator" vein as Little Milton, Geater Davis, Merle Spears etc.

Chalky: do you know what the Bobby Adams is? I think I can remember Dean Anderson covering up a Little Milton 45 on Checker in the mid 80s. I'm not saying this is it, but this singer is right in the same "Bobby Bland impersonator" vein as Little Milton, Geater Davis, Merle Spears etc.

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Not listened but reading Seb said it was James Gadson - Got To Find My Baby - CREAM.

Will have a good listen later.

Not listened but reading Seb said it was James Gadson - Got To Find My Baby - CREAM.

I was wrong.

I needed to find All My Loving by Prince Buster for a compilation and I remembered taping it when I owned a copy, so it meant a few hours in the garage trying to find it amongst literally hundreds of tapes.  Anyway I did find it but I also found a tape just labelled as 'cover ups' so I thought I'd post a few up here to see if they ever became popular or uncovered or whatever.  Some are good, some are crap.

This is the first one.

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This is Saus's old C/UP it is the Reagents...............cant remember label at mo, but will post up later...................I like this in a NSouly kinda way & have been listening to it a lot lately & wondering why it remained so obscure.

Russ

This is Saus's old C/UP it is the Reagents...............cant remember label at mo, but will post up later...................I like this in a NSouly kinda way & have been listening to it a lot lately & wondering why it remained so obscure.

Russ

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It's on MAD ... see post #31