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Darrell Banks

Open The Door To Your Heart C/w Our Love (is In The Pocket)

The BRITISH SOUL COLLECTORS HOLY GRAIL!

and this copy is Mint -

You will not find a finer copy - than this pulse-racing offering.

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The winning bid was £ 1,013.00

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Jewel Akens

My First Lonely Night

As clean as the day it was made - so those of you who seek out those really elusive STOCK copy Northern Soul classic will be struck by the sheer beauty of this 1965 Los Angeles creation.

Just gorgeous isn't it, but I find the sound-file even more enticing.

Infectious in the extreme..

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The winning bid was £ 252.00

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Buddy Lamp

Save Your Love

Rare 1965 single sided PROMO copy...Hey, it's 2012 and this 45 wasUNPLAYED until we lifted the sound-file, for this elusive disc I find that quite astonishing.

Don Bryant who also provided Wheelsville with "Cracked Up Over You"Â, this equally vibrant composition by the Memphis-Man is turned into a snarling slab of Motor City Northern Soul! A juggernaut propelled by Buddy's uncompromising vocal.

Click the sound-file and stand up, out of respect for a proper real deal recording that just demands you dance.

Perfectionists - this rarity is PERFECT!

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The winning bid was £ 258.00

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Home Of The Blues No. 1

Home Of The Blues Edition May 1966

You are viewing, arguably the rarest most important Soul-Magazine ever to go to print. This was the very FIRST edition of Home Of The Blues, the fanzine that sparked off the iconic BLUES & SOUL magazine that served &informed British Soul enthusiast for over 40 years.

Utterly rare in the extreme, selling very few copies on launch, but snowball into the most-important read for the British black-music fan. Later in in October 1967 evolving in the first release of Blues & Soul # 1.

This rest is history, with this edition being the springboard for everything that came after it, which was the unfolding of the greatest Soul magazine series ever.

This groundbreaking issue inc: The Vibrations, Don Covey, Irma Thomas, Shakey Jake, Arthur Alexander, Dee Dee Warwick and interestingly a man whom one Soul-Xenophobic categorized as "pop"Â ...none other than the great Memphis Man Charlie Rich.

• new release 45 tips include Sharpees - Tired Of Being Lonely - on Stateside, Poppies - Lullaby Of Love - Columbia etc.
  

Alluring primitive & positively priceless...

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The winning bid was £ 260.00

Edited August 29, 201212 yr by JOE TORQUAY

Originals

Good Night Irene C/w Need Your Loving (want You Back)

Clarence Paul takes Leadbelly's signature last song, and does it MOTOWNstyle. Huddie Ledbetter's blues classic is totally transformed into a Northern Soul dance tune, full of the same magic the lyrics evoke, but woven into an explosive Detroit dance track.

A former "Mr. M's"Â at Wigan Casino spin, that has emerged over the decades as the ideal Motown turntable choice to avoid Motown-Monotony, as this is so different...

So check this GREEN & WHITE vision of beauty out!

Condition could only be finer if you took the Vinyl-Junkie-Dream-Time Machine to EMI offices circa 1966.

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The winning bid was £ 93.00

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Chanters

What Are You Doin'

Only the second copy I've touched in my life - and the thrill is just a goose-pimple inducing as it was the first time I encountered this torrent of vocal-group Northern Soul.

This is NORTHERN SOUL AT IT'S VERY RAREST and certainly it's most powerful.

A New Yorker that has been on every top-collectors wish-list and still hardly anyone can boast of a copy.

If the rarest of the rare excites you like it does me - do not pass by, remember this is only the 2nd copy I've had in my lifetime of obsessive vinyl foraging.

Click the soundfile, this is guaranteed to blow you away!

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The winning bid was £ 1,514.00

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Sonny Herman

What About Me Vocal / Instrumental

Get ready for lift off...

You're about to encounter high-octane full throttle Northern Soul..

The sound file, the label scan, the flawless condition just says much more than I ever could..

Gymnastic inducing PROPER REAL DEAL NORTHERN SOUL go for gold!

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The winning bid was £ 367.00

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Howard Tate

You're Looking Good C/w Half A Man

A 1966 New York / Philadelphia collaboration that ignited a long and fruitful collaboration of one of the greatest writer/producers and certainly one of the most recognizable soul vocalists of the last century.

The Jerry Ragovoy & Howard Tate affair crafted so many stand-out soul tunes. Ironically this the first of that adventure is the finest Northern Soul offering. With the powerful Beat Ballad flipside enjoying another lease of life on Verve 10464.

The only way to acquire this Jimmy Bishop & Jerry Ragovoy stomper is this the seldom seen Utopia release in fine, fine condition.

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The winning bid was £ 322.00

Otis Clay

Three Is A Crowd

If "Tweeting"Â was around in 1965 Otis Clay may have "tweeted"Â

"I'm off to the studio, not sure I'm looking forward to it, that man Monk Higgins demands every once of soul is dragged from his pupil, was hoping for an easy day, something tells me it ain't gonna be that way"Â

Monk Higgins and collaborators with Otis Hayes, Andre Williams & Harold Burrage craft Mr. Clay's first One-derful 45, and it's a belter and as rare as hell.

Click and experience Monk Higgins in a ferocious mood, with the opening Little Sonny style mouthorgan - bolstered by Monk's signature horns with 23 year old Otis sounding like a well-seasoned Soul man as he attacks the lyrics.

The result is a strutting, stomping bad-attitude outing of pure undiluted Northern Soul. Rare and utterly exhausting!

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The winning bid was £ 109.00

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Garnett Mimms

Looking For You C/w I'll Take Good Care Of You

Released just before his highly successful UK tour in 1967, United Artists decided to head this release with the Deep Soul ballad side, as the British love of the Soul ballad reached it's peak. Percy Sledge being the perfect example of the young Brits warming to the slower side of soul.

But it wasn't long before those curious b-side listeners would stumble upon one of the finest Northern Soul creations of the era. Since that day, Garnet Mimms - Looking For You - has been a constant crowd-pleaser for near five decades, that instantly recognizable power-house intro has signaled a herding to the dancefloor.

This copy is in superb clean condition two perfect labels, original company sleeve and vinyl which only reveals the love, respect and care that been bestowed upon it over the years. A few very light insignificant handling blemishes. Plays PERFECT!

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The winning bid was £ 156.00

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Cautions

No Other Way C/w Poor Loser

SHRINE -TIME!

Check out that label of this UNPLAYED copy, we've graded the vinyl Mint- because there is the merest evidence of sleeve contact (this will come to the lucky winner inside it's original birth sleeve) but remains a virgin to the stylus.

The "ELECTRIC BLUE"Â label with the iconic "RED"Â flame is brilliant to te eye, avoiding all "ultra violet"Â rays for almost 50 years.

You will not encounter a finer copy, perhaps ever!

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The winning bid was £ 913.00

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Mixed Emotions

Gold Of My Life C/w Can You Feel The Funk

very rare authentic 1975 press Richmond, California press with no arranger credit.

Fabulous pre-disco street level vocal group soulful dance on the topside, flip it over to be pulverized by a relentless 70s funker.

Much confusion surrounds this 45, as the California based label owner has re-issued it. Before you is the REAL-DEAL 1975 release.

For those of you @ home, check the deadwax. This press has a 2 turn deadwax is 16.41mm wide. Large letters scratched matrix read EC 5709 A . Put the E into the 6 o'clock and upside down BA within a circle sitting just before the in the 12 o'clock position is opposite. and of course no arranger credit on the label.

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The winning bid was £ 182.00

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Bobby Foster

True Love C/w Soothe Me Baby

If your passion is the seriously rare check out this Memphis 45.

The instantly recognized falsetto of Bobby Foster serves up two soul recordings from different poles.

Top side is a frantic Bluff City shaker, featuring signature Memphis Horns pushing a Marvin Gaye "Wonderful One"Â style Northern Soul hitter.

Flip it and the real value of the disc emerges as Bobby bears his soul and displays all his vocal-prowess with a wrist-slashing Deep Soul performance that will leave the lovers of someone else's despair breathless.

Deep Soul seldom gets any more emotional or rarer than this!

Vinyl has some light surface marks and a little h2o wear on the flipside label, but our data reveals this is our very first copy...in? ....perhaps ever.

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The winning bid was £ 50.00

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Major Lance

Delilah

When historical Northern Soul 45s appear in my stock in perfect condition there is only one option for sale...

This is an auction item because it's The Major's very first Okeh 45. It never enjoyed USA sales or a British release. After this debut the Major carved out an unparalleled career of Soul-dance recordings that elevated him the Demi-God status within both the British Northern Soul & Belgium Popcorn scenes.

Not withstanding this offering is in the finest condition you will ever witness.

Perfect labels, sleeve and vinyl that was perhaps unplayed until today, it's an archive piece and a lasting testament to Northern Soul's greatest contributor.

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The winning bid was £ 167.00

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Contours

Do You Love Me (now That I Can Dance)

Incredibly elusive 1963 UK mono press on "Motown Series"Â Oriole 40043.

Includes all the group's USA hits + some of their rarest non-hit recordings like 1. Funny 2. Whole Lotta Woman 3. The Stretch.

VINYL only reveals the lights of insignificant surface marks and plays beautiful. FRONT COVER laminate is all intact and flaw free, no writing or stains just a light crease bottom left (see scan) and light minuscule corner bump. BACK COVER is also free of any writing, stains or flaws. BOTHLABELS are perfect.

This cover so cool, it is a tee shirt candidate and a lasting testament to 60's pop-art.

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The winning bid was £ 259.00

£167 for Delilah?

Is someone handing out free crack and drambuie shandys out where the bidders come from?

good price on the mixed emotions. if anyone wants to trade the rarer cole label release for a '75 press mixed emotions hit me up, i still don't have it