Jeanie Tracy

Making New Friends C/w Trippin' On The Sounds

BROWN DOOR RECORDS the home of 70s Soul/Jazz excellence!

Despite the extravagant quality of it's product, sadly Brown Door was a short-lived label. But whilst in business Marvin Holmes's label provided the rare soul collector with a handful of pure-gems, every one crafted to the nth degree of distinction.

Before you today is the crown-jewel from that Oakland Odyssey in the standard of condition you would have expected to emerge from 1975 mailing from Daly City Bob, the man who first shipped this label to our shores.

Excruciatingly elusive, MINT and awaiting to grace any one of the 1000's of collections that don't have copy.

YOU WILL NOT FIND A FINER COPY - EVER!

Click the soundfile and taste this exquisite masterpiece of soulful dance, backed with a mighty slab of Bay Area Sister Funk.

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The winning bid was £ 1,161.00

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Don & Juan

The Heartbreaking Truth C/w Thank Goodness

Sublime Big City Beater from the team who did crafted so much "Brill Building" monuments, the EMBEE production team does it again.When the name EMBEEappears on a label you just know the grooves will spew powerful instrumentation, seemingly reserved for only "special" vocalists to ride upon.

This 45 is no exception; perhaps the least seen, most wanted and most highly valued of all EMBEE's accomplishments. Roland "Don" Trone and Claude "Juan" Johnson with their very last recording together, saving their best until last.

Click the soundfile to collide with tsunami of brass, then Righteous-Brothers-like the two vocals soar up above all instruments, and just keep climbing &climbing. Step aside all other duo's, these guys were another class!

As were EMBEE productions...

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The winning bid was £ 311.00

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Bobby Wells

Be's That Way Sometimes C/w Recipe For Love

Currently top-lady DJ, DivaDJdi's favourite Northern Soul revival spin, she must be having a countrywide effect, because I heard another DJ spin this great tune again last Saturday night.

After years of being a dormant-NS-classic this is coming back with a bang and absolutely deservedly so. A Philadelphia vibe filled 1966 dancer just ripples it way around the room spreading it's Leon Mitchell feel-good factor. The result was a packed dancefloor...

So if you fancy a little one-up-Manship (no pun intended) how about spinning this 1978 UNIQUE 10" RCA studio direct-cut acetate.

An eyebrow raiser we think, and a perfect way to make a woman jealous.

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The winning bid was £ 83.00

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Gloria & The T-aira's

I'm Satisfied C/w Running Out Of Time

Chicago's eagerness to harness the "Motown Sound" to bring a little of the Motor City's chart success west, created some of the very finest Northern Soul ever made.

This Jerry Mundo & Sunny Sawyer session totally encapsulates everything Motown; Both sides give up classic-style Northern Soul girl-group, but without Motown's commercial sprinklings; this 45 actually triumphs over Hitsville to deliver awesome real-deal Northern Soul.

Offering everything any NS collector could wish for, true-rarity, top-quality and stunning good looks!

Label connoisseurs will the appreciate this "arty" four coloured label design with Illinois mapped in red, gorgeous.

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The winning bid was £ 411.00

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Bobby & The Inkeepers

World Of Fantasy C/w A Change Is Gonna Come

So very seriously RARE!!

The Seattle born obscurity apparently got some plays during the "Stafford" era of Northern Soul but this is only the second copy we've encountered in the last 40 years. The last copy we had some years back went straight in a well respected collector/Dj's collection. So how pleased are we to crate-dig another copy into the market place.

Bobby's gritty vocal drags the depths of his soul to deliver a fine vocal performance woven into an unusual, extremely haunting arrangement incorporating a purring vocal-group, intricate guitar riffs lifted by horns serving up a riveting slab of North West Northern Soul!

So different and so RARE!

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The winning bid was £ 127.00

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Cloudburst

Speciality Item C/w Next Time

South-West Michigan vocal group rarity, offering two fine but totally contrasting sides.

Top side is a guitar and string driven dancer, smoothed by Cloudburst's slick lead vocal, supported by well-versed girl-group chorus. Choppy, changing arrangement flows effortlessly along, crafting a compelling street-level soulful dance tune.

Flip it for a truly superb down-tempo vocal-harmony stroller. Fine violin work opens the proceedings, weaving the fabric for that finely tuned lead vocal to really prove his worth with a flawless canter through the arrangement. Highlight after highlight as the recordings proceeds, the whining violin adds depth, an intricate guitar break give pause for breath, then the delicious lead vocal returns, even more expressive than before. TOP CLASS example of it's genre.

Only a handful of copies know and so very difficult to acquire.

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The winning bid was £ 240.00

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Earl Van Dyke And The Soul Brothers

That Motown Sound

Jazz keyboard genius and the driving force behind The Funk Brothers & theMOTOWN SOUND. Head of all the instrumentation on the now legendary British debut tour in 1964, his sextet ensured the Motown artists had exactly the right backing for the song. That was the inspiration to release this instrumental album, showcasing not just straight backing tracks, but this talented 34 year old's own interpretation of the sound, with his hammond organ singing a mighty tune in place of the usual vocalists. This is only the 13th. album release by EMI on this then fledgling label, presenting the Motown tour theme tune of "All For You" and a myriad of other sensational versions of Motown dance hits. This album is very hard to find, but not impossible if your not fussy about condition. If you however, demand your albums to be as pristine as possible, this offering is as close as your ever likely to witness.

FRONT COVER reveal only minimal signs of handling, NO tears, stains, laminate veins or lift, only minuscule light crease towards the spine, hard to see on the scan and insignificant.

BACK COVER. is flawless, no writing, stains or tears.

SPINE is the rarely seen TAPERED style and in near perfect state, te spine is usually crushed with the TAPERED effect lost.

VINYL is immaculate MInt -

LABELS are perfect.

ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE still intact and perfect also, see scan.

This standard of condition in a rare UK Tamla Motown albums oh so seldom comes to market, especially this one!

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The winning bid was £ 135.00

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Various Artists

An Evening With The Motown Sound

12" by 8" glossy card cover 1967 USA presentation program of the Motown Stars..

Full of black & white pics of all the significant Motown stars of the 60s. For the Motown or the memorabilia fan this is one of the finest examples of artist black & whites in a program you could ever dream of seeing.

Artists inc; All the major hit-makers + a few rarer pics include the Messengers, Barbara Randolph, Chuck Jackson, Brenda Holloway, Edwin Starr, Monitors, Underdogs, Chris Clark, Shorty Long, Tammi Terrell, R. Dean Taylor, Bobby Taylor & The Vancouver's, Elgins etc.

Fully 50 back & white artist shots inside 20 pages. The card full colour cover adds to-the-touch quality, with the inside cover sleeves are FULL COLOURalbum sleeves images 40 in total.

Just a breathtaking piece of Motown history...

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The winning bid was £ 33.00

April Stevens

Wanting You

Scanners hate reds & pinks, I can assure you this 1967 UK DEMO is a brilliant pink adorned with a large shiny silver "A" looking just far too alluring inside it's original jacket. The scan fails to capture the glorious label colouring but sitting in my hands, it is a goose-pimple inducing beauty.

Why this Los Angeles creation was relegated to a flip is a mystery but underlines an example of the Northern Soul pioneers discovering yet another unappreciated 60s masterpiece.

Simultaneously a monster tune at every Northern Soul club throughout the 70s. Now considered a true NS hall-of-fame classic, welcomed with back-drops and spins whenever revived in sets today.

Much-loved tune, that in this form is a much-admired and highly desired British trophy and condition is immaculate in every way.

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The winning bid was £ 145.00

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Moments

You Said C/w Hey Boy

Yes, the highly sought-after seldom seen press with the exceptional flipside "Hey Boy"

An explosive Brooklyn New York girl-group Northern Soul dancer, drawing influences from Motown and Phil Spector in equal amounts delivering fine Northern Soul lead by a vocal of street-level innocence. Setting this apart as a stand alone girl-dancer with irrepressible qualities.

Flip side (only on this release) ratchets the session up a notch, the pace quickens to stomping level but retains the shrill lead vocal supported but her vivacious girlfriends in the background.

Two truly super girl-group Northern Soul dancers on one disc, and in the flawless condition with both labels and vinyl spotless.

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The winning bid was £ 713.00

Kim Weston

Helpless

The finest condition copy I've encountered in memory.

Red & White glory in it's most desirable form. A DEMO of one of Motown's greatest gifts to Northern Soul in impeccable, eye-popping condition.

'nuff said...

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The winning bid was £ 259.00

E. Rodney Jones

Peace Of Mind

Rodney will exit your speakers like a rampaging herd of Rhino's!

A vocal humming with all the authority decades of radio station DJing has bestowed upon him. Like a purring "Kojak" E. Rodney glides, then attacks the indomitable Monk Higgins arrangement.

The marriage of Chicago's most-powerful voice and Monk's outrageously gutsy horns was made in Northern Soul heaven.

For years this 45 has eluded most-all NS foragers, thus sitting on the cusp of discovery by the right NS Jock...at long last a few of us have simultaneously started to spin it out..and I can tell you, up close E. Rodney Jones is a floorshaker of unparalleled proportions.

This late developer should be captured as soon as possible, it's rocketing on up; with a long, long way to go before it reach it's peak.

E. Rodney Jones DJ legend, with a vocal to melt ladies hearts, scare criminals and insist you take to the dance-floor.

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The winning bid was £ 261.00

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September Jones

I'm Coming Home C/w No More Love

Detroit, October 17 1966 a very special assemble took place.

Mike Terry licks the reed of his Baritone sax, Joe Hunter sits at the piano, Eddie Willis tunes his guitar, Richard "Pistol" Allen twirls his drum sticks, Jack Ashford is ready gently patting his tambourine.

In walk the girls, Pat Lewis, Louvain Demps Jackie Hicks (The Andantes) &September Jones. Herbie Williams & Johnny Allen are already there to add their vocal support.

It's a day at the office for some of the Pied Piper team, preparing to cut 4 songs. They could not have known that autumn day 3750 miles away across the Atlantic youngsters were at there school-desks preparing for life. That 8 years later would perhaps land them inside an English all Night-Soul-Club dancing spellbound to any these two sounds, and perhaps wondering like did, who on earth could have created such a mesmerizing style of SOUL.

The PIED PIPER team that's who!

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The winning bid was £ 359.00

Majestics

(i Love Here So Much) It Hurts Me

A record that hardly needs any introduction from me or anyone else.

Totally classic vocal-group Northern Soul that has been causing people-jams between tables and chairs for years, as the needle-drop sparks the stampede to the dance-floor.

It takes a special quality to cause that reaction over many decades and this 45 just perspires with "special"

Condition could hardly be better, two clean labels, small blemish on flipside vinyl otherwise flawless.

Move the dog, children, wife and coffee table to the side of the room. Click the soundfile and dance in the comfort...

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The winning bid was £ 383.00

Iceman

(i Wonder) What It Takes Takes C/w (my Girl She's A Fox)

This 45 has slept for too long!

Lost in a mountain of great 60s vocal-group Northern Soul 45s this disc has mostly lay undetected in the more complete NS collections. Take a listen I think like me, you'll be knocked sideways by it's power and potential for the right DJ to run with it to elevate it's profile and value..

This 45 underlines the much talked about subject of "why oh why, the same old, same old tunes..." when a little dig can unearth just the finest classic-style Northern Soul that just waiting for Mr. Right!

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The winning bid was £ 159.00