What Do You Think I Am C/w How About You

May we again sing from the rooftops about this Los Angeles genius. Leonard Jewell Smith was to Northern Soul what Alexander Fleming was to anti-biotics.

Click the soundfile and await two note-perfect Northern Soul dancers of the highest calibre. Then that's exactly what we have grown to expect from Leonard Jewell Smith - Northern Soul perfection to this man was all in a days work.

This copy is totally immaculate in every respect.

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The winning bid was £ 1,415.00

World Column

So Is The Sun

If you had to choose just one record to open a film with, or play to a non-believer or maybe a Northern Soul rookie to demonstrate the reaction a Northern Soul tune can spark. Try this Tsunami of Chicago attitude; at full volume to full hall of NS dancers, this tune causes eruptions!

A record on a huge revival trail, on the back of "Soul Boy" the movie and mounting turntable action.

So this, a mint - virgin to England copy still married to it's original company sleeve is a fine example of our music but also underlines the importance of sleeve & label art whilst collecting the rare-stuff!

Gorgeous, isn't it just!

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The winning bid was £ 109.00

Tal Armstrong

Let It Go (it's Never Been This Good Before)

Without question Talmadge Armstrong's rarest 45!

Our first copy for over 15 years for this California rarity!

Quirky intro soon dissolves into a smooth piano driven soulful floater. Tal never fails to impress with his expressive voice this time prompted by skillful keyboard work. Jerky, up down arrangement takes on silky texture with the inspired addition of a distanced haunting girl-group chorus.

Rarely if ever seen for sale.

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The winning bid was £ 128.00

Neil Sedaka

Too Late

Black RCA collectors here is - a tough one!

Neil Sedaka!! surely not!!

This is the "Tra La La" man in a totally different mood - forget who's singing and you'll be treated to a New York Latino Northern Soul shaker that seamlessly fits into today's dance floor requirements.

Go on, throw away all your prejudices and take an open listen. It could be Hector Riviera himself rattling out the backing track and guiding thos shrill girls. And where did Neil's squeaking boy-like vocal disappear to?

I love it - but then I've never been bothered who the artist is, more important Al Nevins, Donnie Kirshner & Ronnie Grossman lyrics are able to steer a terminal Teener towards much greater things.

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£ 67.00

Lloyd Williams

In Love With You

On it's rare 1970 UK Bamboo 41 release this is a very highly sought-after 45.NOTE that release is soften-slightly by an additional string section.

Before you today is the meatier original, rawer Jamaican release that gets right under your skin. Primitive but punchy backing track is lifted by an echoing male vocal group, then drawing from Jackie Edward's style productions, an ear-piercing girl group joins the session.

From "the Streets" of Kingston, this mid-pace crossover delight just drips with SOUL. A piano rhythm keeps the shuffling pace, going harmony vocals from both the gents & the ladies and they just nail it. Jamaican SOUL at it's very best that could have just as easily been created @ Muscle Shoals.

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The winning bid was £ 181.00

Jimmy Lloyd

Call On Me

For those British Soul foragers here's an undocumented and stupidly RAREEnglish "Jamaican" take on the Bobby Bland classic!

It never ceases to amaze, just how many great 60s 45s sneaked out without being noticed until decades later.

If you're a UK Soul rarity completest - I betcha you got tis one missing. Incredibly rare and in "as new" condition - the highly coveted and rarely seen genuine MINT grade.

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The winning bid was £ 62.00

Jackson Sisters

I Believe In Miracles

Perhaps the most vibrant 70s pre-disco girl vocal 45 ever made.

It's an electric dance floor detonator!

As a "perfect" 1973 UK DEMO it is one seriously tough acquisition.

Condition, condition, condition!

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The winning bid was £ 54.00

Two Plus Two

Look Around C/w I'm Sure

You are viewing one of the rarest and finest double hitting slabs of Detroit Northern Soul ever created.

VELGO is of course a Detroit Trophy label - but we have had in our lifetime of dealing soul dealt with over 10 copies of the Gwen Owens single, compared to this ONE lone copy of this total killer.

Click the double-sound file and experience RAREST OF THE RARENORTHERN SOUL at it's most-awesome! Only Eddie Parker's - I'm Gone - has moved me as much this rebellious Motor City masterpiece does.

Vinyl has some light surface marks but as you can hear on the compelling soundfile if plays loud clean and true. I personally know of the existence of only 5 copies of this 45, all of which are safely housed in the world's very finest Soul collections. Of the 4 in the UK I am also lead to believe this copy is perhaps the finest conditioned example.

REAL DEAL PROPER NORTHERN SOUL BOTH SIDES!

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£ 4,666.00

Albert Washington And The Kings

I'm The Man C/w These Arms Of Mine

Currently causing jams on the NS dance floors all over the UK, this is an R&B romp with few equals. But how many of the DJ's championing this torrent of soul play it from a 1968 UK press.

Let alone - a flawless DEMO

The ultimate way to own this dancers favourite.

Go on show off a little...

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The winning bid was

£ 178.00

Major Lance

The Rhythm Of Major Lance

This great man's only 60s British LP release, that surprisingly was NOTISSUED in the USA.

1965 British press has a totally unique track listing, utilizing a mixture of his pre-1965 recordings. The Major of course rose from obscurity to become theKING of the British Soul scene, which hit it's peak in Dec. 9th. 1972 @ Stoke on Trent when his live "Torch" performance is still considered the greatest event ever, on the Northern Soul scene.

In 1965 he was to the Brit an relative unknown and this album sold NOTHING! To find it in this sublime condition is a goose-pimple inducing moment. Vinyl and label are flawless, still retains the original lined inner sleeve. The only tiny small flaw is on the back cover, bottom middle of the flip-back seam has a tiny sticker removal tear - NOT a split. Insignificant as the rest is gleaming eye-popping.

A Sensational copy! A Historical album of the rarest kind! Front cover says it all. The track listing includes non-45 killer Curtis Mayfield creations like 1. Gotta Right To Cry 2. It's All Right...plus classics like "Rhythm" "The Monkey Time" etc etc.

Is there a more desirable "Old School" British release Soul album...we think not!

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The winning bid was £ 202.00

Herb Ward

Strange Change

A team of Philadelphia boys get together to create a yet another Northern Soul anthem.

Jimmy Bishop, Johnny Stiles & Luther Randolph craft a potent mid-tempo that would rattle the pillars of Cleethorpes Pier every Saturday night in the mid-70s. A Philly powerhouse - that sounds even better today than it did back then.

This RARE 1965 PROMO is immaculate, in fact perfect expect for a light surface brush on the flipside vinyl.

Which reminds me - do not overlooked the Kenny Gamble composition on the flipside - a mighty blend of Herb and an uncredited male vocal group.

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The winning bid was £ 361.00

John Bowie

A Fool I Would Be C/w I Never Felt So Lonely

For those of you always looking outside of the Rare-Soul-Box. Here's a very seldom seen beauty that could effortlessly rise into the upper price brackets, with a minimum of exposure.

Obscurity is the only thing preventing this sublime mid-tempo from entering the sets of cross-ver orientated DJs. With the Soul Essence, Great Yarmouth pilgrimage only weeks away, we think this would turn a few heads on a wet Saturday afternoon connoisseurs set.

A strong Chin-scratchers choice in their quest for the overlooked and rare, as both sides delivered the goods.

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£ 84.00

Eddie Foster

I Never Knew

THIS IS NORTHERN SOUL

That the growing army of discerning NS Collectors will thoroughly appreciate.

This example of a Bay Area timeless classic is flawless! Two gleaming labels and vinyl that only reveals a sleeve contact blemish in strong light.

So very, very hard to acquire in this astonishing state.

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The winning bid was £ 561.00

Rhythm & Soul

Rhythm & Soul # 2 - May 1st 1966

Dear friend & swinger this seriously rare fanzine from May 1966 is the 2nd in Dave Godin's series of documenting soul in 1966. Covers an in-depth story &great photo of the "Go Now" Bessie Banks includes Larry Banks exposure Sam & Bill pic. Dee Warwick pic & Bio. UK SUE advert.

• all the usual 1966 "records received" reviews.
  

Sam & Dave picture and review, plus of course the usual high quality content of Dave Godin views and comment.

Rare in the extreme our first copy this century.

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The winning bid was £ 15.00

Dorsey Burnette

Jimmy Brown

Continuing our weekly British Tamla Motown rarity listing, this exceptionally rare piece, will draw attention from the Red & White TMG devotee.

EMI in the autumn of 1965 had a moment of naive madness releasing two consecutive "non-Soul" 45s TMG 553 & TMG 534 neither sold a bean. EMIwere to never again repeat this disastrous marketing faux pas. But they did create two of the toughest TMG500 series 45s to secure.

This Red & White has two flaw-free label - vinyl has only the very lightest of surface blemishes - plays perfectly and looks so alluring in it's orange wavy-top jacket!

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£ 87.00

lloyd williams if thats the price on a third ja issue what price on a orig black n silver

Jimmy Lloyd 'undocumented'? Practically everyone who collects British has had this for 25 years, one on ebay last week for £3.

I think undocumented means no price guide listing..Record collector...etc.

lloyd williams if thats the price on a third ja issue what price on a orig black n silver

Exactly Tim.

If this is the 3rd issue & the black & silver copy is the 1st I take it the copy with Lord Tanamo on the flip is the 2nd press.

Wonder what a Bamboo UK copy might be worth now with the better IMO string arrangement?

dont get me going on the strings (over dubbed ?) cunnie :-) uk must be the rarest format. Still got plenty of mileage left in this imo