Deloise Berry

No Other Girl C/w Crying Won't Help You Now

For those of you who seek the very first and ultimately rarest release of their Northern Soul rarities take a long look at this 1967 small-town Florida release. The tiny hamlet of Palatka gave birth to this finely distilled slab of sunny-state-soul. Topside is a pumping brass driven, soften by the most-innocent of soul-sister vocals that glides it’s way through this belting Northern Soul dancer with consummate ease. Raw, raucous but totally captivating. Flip it over and WOW! a soulful stroller complete with vocal backing group and again showcase that Delicious Deloise pleading vocal…how can you resist!

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Jimmy Mack

My World Is On Fire C/w Go On

How blinkered were we Northern Soul recruits back in the 70s? I first heard this Giant of Detroit stompers played by Kev Roberts at a jam-packed Notts Palias all-dayer circa 1974 ? It just totally blew me and most everyone the building off their feet - relentless, potent, swirling slab of Motor City dance music that incited dancefloor mayhem. So how come it took me and many others, fully decades to appreciate the flipside? What were we all doing? Today “Go On” sounds even better than the experience of my lost-Palmer-virginity to “My World Was Set On Fire”. “Go On” today, is perfect, an overlooked Motor City masterpiece that will surely and very soon, have it’s day in the sun.

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Cautions

No Other Way C/w Poor Loser

SHRINE TIME - there is we all know nothing more alluring than this label and it’s thoroughbred catalog of rarities. So when a 45 year old example comes to market in PERFECT like new condition with a label that appears to have never see the light of day - it could drive a serious NS collector to sell, trade, pawn, beg, steal or borrow to be able to claim ownership. I’m hold this vision of perfection now - let me tell you the hair on my neck are reaching skyward.

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The winning bid was £ 693.00

Solomon Burke

Rock N' Soul

1964 UK mono press - in just astonishing condition. Totally flawless vinyl, sits snugly inside the original poly-lined inner sleeve enveloped by a near perfect “clarifoiled” laminated sleeve. Just impossible to acquire in this condition - just holding it is a work-of-art experience. Listening to it, is an encounter with Soul-Greatness.

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The winning bid was £ 79.00

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Johnny Caswell

You Don't Love Me Anymore C/w I. O. U.

Wigan Casino anthem in absolutely STONE-MINT, apart from a tiny”tick” on the label (see scan) - this actual 45 was the producers file copy which we doubt was ever played before this listing. Does collecting the Northern Soul classics get any more tempting than owning a timeless NS 45 year old - looking like a new born! Fabulous!

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The winning bid was £ 355.00

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James Fountain

Seven Day Lover

The average wage of the British youngster in that hot-summer of 1976 was around £30 a week! Maybe the heat of that memorable year affected one young Cleethoropes Dj’s brain, as he paid almost 7 weeks wages after tax for James Fountain on Peachtree. At the time a ridiculous amount to spend on a 45. But imagine being in your early 20’s and hearing this Georgia masterpiece for the first time in the Rare-Soul-Cauldron that was Blackpool Mecca. How much kudos did he get when the recording-breaking transfer was completed from West Coast to the North Sea- well actually truckload for fully 1 week - then it was re-issued on UK Cream; for all to have and to hold for the rest of your life for a mere £1.00. Did he get over that crushing blow? years did heal the self inflicted wounds of vinyl-ego and today he still loves this record just as much as he did back then…and there’s just something about the highly elusive ORIGINAL that makes you want to dig-deep!

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The winning bid was £ 336.00

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Sandra Philips

World Without Sunshine

This is the rarest format you can own this Henry “Juggy” Murray & George Kerr created Northern Soul dancer - this is the vinyl press with the different text and two black bars across the label. Initially written for the MOTOWNgroup under the banner of Jobette music. Never used by Motown, but oh what a job Miss Fatback does on it - potent projectile vocal rides high on an equally powerful production. Absorb the rare label scan - wanna own all theNS classics as DEMO’s in the rarest clothes - this is one you gotta have.

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The winning bid was £ 152.00

Major Burkes

You're Gonna Need Me C/w I'm In Love

Let’s talk RARE! Let’s talk totally off the DJ radar. Let’s talk Quality. Lets talk solid Northern Soul. Let’s talk POTENTIAL! Now let’s stop talking and listen to what this incredibly obscure 45 has to offer. Let’s talk … how impressive it that?

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The winning bid was £ 222.00

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Chances

A Better Day Is Coming C/w People Wake Up Before It's Too Late

Oh so beautifully primitive, so simple but so very effective. This is vocal-group excellence at it’s most soulful. Easy-strolling backing track is simplicity itself, gentle drum rolls, occasional cymbal smash, understated but highly effective guitar work all fuse, giving the perfectly pitched vocals the forefront to craft some of the finest harmony you could ever wish to experience. THIS IS CLASS! absolutely my style of Northern Soul - if you check out the flipside you be met by a suicidal slab of Deep Soul served calculatingly cold, this BANG the [pace picks up into upbeat Northern Soul to suddenly drop like a stone to Deep Soul again… weird but captivating. Two great sides - one very rare disc.

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The winning bid was £ 200.00

Maximilian

The Snake

Sway just sway…some instrumental just have “it” - don’t they? The simmering intro ignites the imagination, the atmosphere builds, then the sultry saxophone blurts a statement, the bass picks up the rhythm, then the pianist wakes up! Building a “Titty-shaker” of the highest order! What am I saying “Titty-shaker”? this 1960 Big Top recording was a MOD anthem long before that descriptive term flooded the internet. Forget “Tits”… this is much more alluring.

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The winning bid was £ 57.00

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Pete Terrace

Shotgun Boogaloo C/w Do The Boogaloo

Hey you! “Have Some Boo-Ga-Loo” not only do BOTH sides offer killer 60s Latin/Boogaloo dancers - with this obscure 1968 French press, you get a bonus picture sleeve that just screams “MOD” and also has an equally impressive flipside that never saw issue in the UK. Both tunes so very usable in today’s scene where the Latin flavored 60s dance is “Le son du moment” Note: Pete Terrace’s USA 45s are just impossible to find no matter what title…

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Masterpiece

Love Affair C/w We're Gonna Make It

1974 Detroit vocal group soul that offers the collector two killer side of fluid harmony, emotion fused with brass. The result on the topside is fabulous female lead vocal, held high by a oohing male vocal group backing. Easy flowing dancer that will please the floor with it’s slick delivery. Flip it for a fine soulful stroller with equally fine attributes but at a slower pace.

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The winning bid was £ 251.00

Johnny Maestro And The Crests

I'm Stepping Out Of The Picture

Considered by many as the most-impressive example of the Big City Northern Soul production ever pressed to vinyl - click the soundfile and think of a finer one if you can? More likely, you’ll be listening again and again and agreeing everything else in the genre pales by comparison, to this tidal-wave of Northern Soul.

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The winning bid was £ 499.00

American Poets

She Blew A Good Thing

Written and produced by the prolific Henry “Juggy” Murray, New York’s premier 60s Soul producer and founder of the iconic American SUE Records. Before you today is a truly immaculate copy the the 1966 press that sported a rename in Britain as there was an already established “Poets” on Decca. That never prevented, this oh so slick vocal-group mid-tempo becoming a Twisted Wheel anthem and ultimately a timeless Northern Soul classic. Looks very tempting doesn’t it?

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The winning bid was £ 81.00

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lots of collectors would chew their arm off for an opportunity to get that chances record for 200 pounds. but they aren't the type of collectors that look at manship auctions.

lots of collectors would chew their arm off for an opportunity to get that chances record for 200 pounds. but they aren't the type of collectors that look at manship auctions.

I think there were some M- copies of this in Finch's mess which was tapped into when he was critically ill (and died soon after). I've definitely seen nice copies sell in that $300-$400 ballpark. I only paid $100-ish for a good playing VG/VG+ copy on eBay. Maybe you're thinking of the Five Chances record "Stranger I Love You" which is significantly rarer (in decent shape).

I think there were some M- copies of this in Finch's mess which was tapped into when he was critically ill (and died soon after). I've definitely seen nice copies sell in that $300-$400 ballpark. I only paid $100-ish for a good playing VG/VG+ copy on eBay. Maybe you're thinking of the Five Chances record "Stranger I Love You" which is significantly rarer (in decent shape).

I'm talking about this record, the other one would have blown up on manship for big money as it's a well known northern record. i also got this one for about $100, scott cheesebrew had some stock at the time and I got it off him. younger funk / sweet soul collectors want this for the "people wake up" side.