Billy Clark

Too Bad - Too Sad C/w You'll Never It Alone

Relentless, meaty, punchy, angry NORTHERN SOUL!

Why this 45 has not risen up to the top of the value leagues is something of a mystery. It has always been RARE and very hard platter to secure. It carries that Buddy Lamp, Eddie Parker type of defiance that the serious Northern Soul dancer just gorge themselves on.

If the mighty a-side is not enough to satisfy your hunger - the Deep Soul flipside will have you flopped out in the chair..

To finish this explosive session... "Just a wafer-thin mint" - Mr. Greosote?

NORTHERN SOUL - THE MEANING OF LIFE!

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The winning bid was £ 233.00

Matt Lucas

Baby You Better Go-go

In the last 15 years or more, out of all the serious Detroit Northern Soul trophy 45s we have auctioned this "Rarest Of The Rare" we have had less than Gwen Owens, Eddie Parker or any other premiership Motor City 7" that springs to mind.

It is one 45 that sits right at the core of the city's greatest Northern Soul classics, and one that so very, very few can boast of ever owning.

An uncompromising Richard Popcorn Wylie composition that sets off like a train, serving the dancer with a ferocious aorta challenge, underlining whatPROPER Northern Soul is all about.

A totally vibrant, pulse-racing good-time dance-floor experience of theRAREST kind.

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The winning bid was £ 1,489.00

Don Gardner

Is This Really Love C/w Tighten Up Your Love Bone

How times & tastes on the Northern Soul scene twist, turn and revert back and forth.

Jimmy Vanleer, the man who created "Cheatin' Kind " for Don, again puts together two sessions with the man with the mighty vocal and comes up with two beauties.

First side is regarded as a soulful Northern Soul crossover of the finest pedigree, a flowing vibe intro glides towards Mr. Gardner's effortlessly booming vocal, gradually swells to bursting-point, anticipation has him pleading "is this really love" with Jimmy Vanleers stroke of genius leaving the girl-chorus until the very end - which leaves you instantly reaching for the arm to drop the needle yet again - AWESOME stuff.

So what about the utterly contrasting flip - "Love Bone" enjoyed very brief turntable club action back in the early 70s but got buried in a flood of Motownesque classic style discoveries, discarded and forgotten.

Today we have no hesitation to shout - it's time is right NOW! A thumpin' Chicago dancer that is absolutely on the money for the preferred "jagged edge" style of R&B Northern Soul fusion that ignites the dance-floors of today.

Take a listen to two magnificent examples of a Chicago collaboration that crafted some of the scenes most-wanted. You will be very impressed indeed..

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The winning bid was £ 295.00

Janie Grant

My Heart, Your Heart

One of the "four" great girl Northern Soul classics so rarely seen a flawlessSTOCK copy.

A Wigan Casino & Cleethorpers Pier anthem that would look so nice sitting next to that Vickie Baines your so determined to win.

Click the sound-file to be rocketed back to the halcyon days of the mid-70s when Northern Soul was the only thing you did on a weekend.

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The winning bid was

£ 168.00

Jay Walkers Featuring Mickey Holiday

Can't Live Without You

This is the incredibly RARE 1965 first label before its Swan 4266 release, that was a monster Northern Soul spin in the mid-70s, even gaining a 1976UK release on the back of the huge demand for the SWAN single.

This local Red Bank, New Jersey creation it is another 45 for those seeking the seriously rare Northern Soul classics on their very FIRST labels.

Featuring the raucous lead vocal of Micheal Holiday who attacks Ray Dahrouge's uplifting composition. An attention seeking piano intro, sets the tone for the brass section to gatecrash the relentless hand-clapping production. Oohing & aahing group members add a rich base for Mickey Holiday's lead to weave it's path.

As you can hear the highlight of this stunningly pure Northern Soul production is the soaring vocal-group assistance and a couple of awesome instrumental breaks, that make this rarity, just a killer slab of Northern.

In its rarest possible and original format!

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The winning bid was £ 209.00

Sapphires

Gotta Have Your Love

Find a better copy if you can - and we belive you won't. This 1965 British legend is absolutely flawless!

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The winning bid was £ 247.00

Four Perfections

I'm Not Strong Enough C/w I'll Hold On

Some records you just have to say NOTHING!

The scan the sound-clip do it all for you.

Condition of the NS ANTHEM is just sublime - another capture from the USAthat has yet to meet a Northern Soul turntable. You can be the first to show the masterpiece the needle..

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The winning bid was

£ 461.00

Bobby Mc Clure

You Got Me Baby C/w Peak Of Love

Total eye-candy to the old school British Soul vinyl hunter. A flawless and gorgeous 1966 Pye distributed CHESS WHITE DEMO! always exciting to encounter, especially if it is a classic All-Nite Soul Club anthem.

A Twisted Wheel spin that saw yet another flipside rise from obscurity to dance-floor favourite during the 60s. You could not own it in finer condition or in a rarer more desirable format.

Click the soundfile to experience proper-stomping full-on Northern Soul that has stood the test of time. Then await the originally overlooked A-side, you're about to hear something that would certainly be appreciated by today's slower Brogue n' talcom-powder pedestrian.

Two great contrasting sides - in it's most-alluring form.

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The winning bid was

£ 83.00

Windy City

Hey It's Over C/w If By Chance

One of those major label release you always see as a PROMO with the "good side" missing!

1974 Chicago creation, underlining just how wonderful 70s soul was before Disco gatecrashed the scene. Willie Henderson's detailed production gives up a jazzy string & flute production arranged by the soulcraftsman that is James Mack.

Lead singer of this this debut single, of the 7 man band, projects a positive mood has he tells his former-lady "It's Over" even though his vocal carries angst and regret, as he fails satisfy her demands. The man picks himself up, to deliver defiance words "I'm Here to ensure I ain't ever coming back" - awesome.

The original a-side showcases harmony male-vocal group skills of he highest level. This 45 is a superior SOUL experience which ever side you play.

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The winning bid was £ 152.00

Solomon Burke

Greatest Hits

Continuing our series of one a week rarely seen and highly collectible soul album is this immaculate 1962 "plum" London UK press.

The 60s "Pop Art" laminated cover lists all his greats up to 1962 - in an eye-catching array of colour.

Cover itself is utterly immaculate, free of writing, stains, tears or any distracting creases or laminate veins. Just the lightest of wrinkle top right-hand corner (check the scan) you won't detect it, it is that light.

Vinyl and labels are likewise flawless, played but NO surface marks whatsoever!!

Astonsihing condition, on-the-money for the album collector who demands perfection.

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The winning bid was £ 57.00

James Brown

Mr. Dynamite - 1966 British Tour Program

Printed a year earlier than the coveted SOUL TOGETHER Sam & Dave, Joe Tex, Clarence Carter & Arthur Conley tour program, Hastings Print crafted this for the 1966 James Brown tour.

Genuine 1966 UK tour program, presented by BBC radio "Housewife's Choice" Keith Fordyce. Opening the show is Mike Cotton Sound with Lucas, followed by 2 girl 2 men group The Marionettes, followed by Doris Troy - then Keith Fordyce introduces Mr. Dynamite and J.B. takes the stage!

Back cover full page advert for J.B's latest album Pye International npl 28074 "I GOT YOU (I FEEL GOOD)". Inside carries bio's and pics of all artists and DJprofile part with full black & white artist pics.

A Beyond RARE - piece of British Soul history is stunning condition.

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The winning bid was £ 19.00

Gerri Granger

Ain't It Funny

Without question Gerri's rarest, least seen 45.

"Joy Byers" aka Bob Johnston is the name that once again pops up on the credits, with his writing & production skills fitting snugly around Miss Granger's upbeat vocal style.

Strong down and dirty horns propel and support her weaving voice that just penetrates everything around. With another revered New Yorker Bert Keyes arranging this 1963 session that delivers Popcorn/Northern Soul of the most refreshing kind.

This copy remains in the condition as it left the pressing plant in. It's perfect, and it's so perfectly RARE!

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The winning bid was

£ 97.00

Earl Van Dyke

Soul Stomp C/w Hot N' Tot

A MOD ANTHEM !

A few months before the king of the Motown keyboard Earl wowed the British youth with his "All For You" intro theme tune during the 1965 UK tour and the legendary "Ready Steady Go" appearance. EMI released this crazed hammond Jazz-Fusion trip, that made the perfect bridge between the fading Modern Jazz All-Nite scene to the then burgeoning R&B Soul all-nite movement.

48 years on this 45 is still considered a jewel of it's genre, this copy before you today is most-likely the finest copy we have ever handled. It took quite some time to find any sign of play, a minuscule sleeve contact blemish on the flipside vinyl, is the only indication that's it's ever been out of it's jacket.

You will not ever find a finer copy - it's took John Manship Records over 40 years to find this one!

An historical 1964 British rarity in astonishing condition.

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The winning bid was £ 100.00

Jerry Tiffe

Hey Whatcha' Doin'

On word of mouth from those who closely follow the under-the-radar Northern Soul rarities this 1970 Scepter session has gained an enviable reputation and it's value is on the climb...

Take a listen to the huge Big City orchestral production and Jerry's attack on the brass & string backing, so typical of the full-on Scepter creation. Buffalonian Jerry Meyers who did some notable work in the late sixities with Joe Jeffrey for Scepter/Wand again provides the listener with an uplifting production in which "Tiffe's" potent vocal soars to great heights held there by a bank of strings and horns. Lovers of the Big City Sound this is a special one...with a strong, strong production and a very tough 45 to secure.

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The winning bid was

£ 63.00

Eric Lomax

Seven The Loser

Funky Philly!

After it's rise to acceptance at the radical Cleethorpes all-nighters in the mid-70s this 45 is a dancefloor destroyer that's heard for too little these days.

Billy Jackson and his SASSY production gang again deliver great Northern Soul this time packing a little Pzazz into the session for a truly off-the-wall but infectious dancer. That we hear, is making the play-lists of some of the Top-DJs who source the "different" and under-played whilst picking out a revival spin.

Much-more interesting though, as if we needed to point it out, this is theVERY RARE RED STOCK copy - outnumbering the elusive PROMO by more than 50 to 1 and that is no exaggeration.

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The winning bid was £ 124.00

Edited April 18, 201213 yr by JOE TORQUAY

NICE PRICE FOR THE JAYWALKERS - IVE BEEN PLAYING THIS RECENTLY ON SWAN BRILLIANT DANCER

I was surprised to see how much the Windy City 45 went for - if anyone wants a copy I have an EX+ one at £65 + postage