Kings Of Soul

Is Your Love For Me

Prepare to be blown away!

Just click the sound-file and ask yourself can your collection or indeed you live without this record at your fingertips..

The soundfile says it all - it’s rarity reputation is unquestionable..

The chance to own records of this calibre come so infrequently you just gotta act when they do.

Awesome isn’t it…

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The winning bid was £ 2,864.00

The Loveseed

Loveseed

This uplifting feel-good dancer is a current Cover-up for both Soul Sam & Mike H. a stupidly RARE disc and so very, very good.

One of only a few know copies, the other one sitting in a New York DJ collection - so all copies reside in illustrious homes. Take a listen to see why three world-renowned DJ’s have coveted this tune.

It is an instant dancefloor pleaser, so darn obscure it was until very recently and unknown 45 - from I suspect Indianapolis - but the label credits are so vague I could well be wrong.

Dog-Rare, perfectly produced Northern Soul you can see why the DJ’s wanted to keep it a secret.

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The winning bid was £ 814.00

Magnificent 7

She's Called A Woman C/w Since You've Been Gone So Long

For a moment let’s consider the extreme talents of Little Archie Himmons as his contribution to Northern Soul was quite considerable. First coming to the attention of the Twisted Wheel crew with one of his Dial sessions and only UK release on Atlantic “I Need You”. His other Dial session is currently very sought after, and his 45s for the 603 Eighth Avenue, Huntington,Va. Cabel label as the Parliaments are NS trophies to dream about. The Parliament on Symbol is now so rare it hurts..

His three Magnificent 7 45s are just something else again, Lemco issued his take on Marvin Gaye’s classic “Stubborn Kind Of Fellow” The Dial release for me the finest value for money 45 on the market “Never Will I Make My Baby Cry” backed with “Ooh Baby” offers real-deal harmony soul & Northern of the very highest calibre.

This Lexington, Kentucky published disc, encapsulates everything this virtual Soul unknown stood for - the topside is relentless-rattling slab of Northern vocal-group Soul a potent dancer in the classic style of how NS used to be…

Flipping it over your greeted by precisely distilled traumatic SOUL that will pierce your heart - listen and weep…then consider how much talent was actually require to break through to be a soul star in the 60s?

Two sides to die for.. this copy is pristine and the rarely seen SILVER stock copy.

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The winning bid was £ 211.00

Montereys

It Hurts Me So

A great way to start the New Year - currently being spun by a few lucky NS Dj’s.. is this Californian future monster.

Every time I’ve spun this elusive disc, I’ve had hoard of collectors doing a Meerkat impressions to get the details. Instantly igniting smouldering dance-floor and pricking the vinyl-lust within the avid collector. This blue-eyed masterpiece certainly has the power to attract attention..

That is why DJ’s like Chris Morgan and myself are solidly behind it..and today I’m rather pleased to be able to offer a pristine copy for any other DJ who would like huge curiosity outside the DJ booth.. and frantic scurrying on the “floor”

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The winning bid was £ 386.00

Main Change

Sunshine Is Her Way

This Richard Searling’s MONSTER Wigan Casino cover-up came straight from a Connecticut collection - a 50s record collector, who as far as I can tell, never played it but once.

Complete with the original lyric sheet and personnel listing. This 45 just screams MINT as close to perfect as you could ever wish to see 42 years after it’s release.

If Casino Classics in the finest possible condition stir your vinyl passions, this 45 is for you. Immediately after with lifted the storming sound-file , we encased it is a poly sleeve, so it will arrive with you PERFECT!

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The winning bid was £ 461.00

Eddie Holland

Jamie

Condition freaks - you will not, as long as you live, witness a finer copy of this original 1961 USA album! Still retaining original shrink wrap, cover is perfect, as are the original first press “White & Red” logo labels, vinyl is an astonishing perfect, also.

Without doubt my favourite Motown vocalist - he recorded far too few songs - check out the taster soundfile to witness his totally awesome and unique vocal. Legend has it, if it wasn’t for Eddie’s reluctance to sing on stage he would have become a huge star…Or was it Berry Gordy’s virtuosity that steered Marvin Gaye into teen-idol status and Eddie Holland to lyricist supremo.

Listen, you like me will feel Motown deprived us far too early, of a truly great soul vocal. But you can capture this Motor-City-Magician forever with this album, in the type of condition vinyl-dreams are made of.

Added bonus this LP includes the non-45 “Got To Have Your Love” killer NS dancer…

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The winning bid was £ 207.00

Rusty Bryant

Fire Eater

When one of the world greatest saxophonist teams up with Johnny “Hammond” Smith and his persuasive B-3 organ something good is gonna happen.

Check this infectious Jazzy funk dance-groove out, it’ll take you all the way to Jazz danceland with the punchy hammond prompting a saxophone display of infinite skill it a stand-out dancer tat have you hooked way before the end..

Wow! how I love this…

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The winning bid was £ 84.00

Carpets

I Just Can't Win

We’ve just sung the praises of Little Archie Himmon - and now the beaverish Chicagoan Johnny Cameron pops up like he always seems to when handling rare Chicago 45s. In a new feature the website is about to offer you’ll be able to search by producer,arranger, writer, date or town. Then you’ll be able to see just how much Johnny Cameron did in providing us with rare Northern Soul, this man was prolific.

Not only prolific but always precise in everything he arranged & produced never skimping on the instruments, vocal backing to carefully construct some of the finest Northern Soul 45s ever made.

Before today is one of Johnny’s best and rarest, you may well know and perhaps own the Mandells version on Money Town - get a load of this explosive take on the song, Northern Soul vocal-group gelignite is about to hit you..

This copy has some light surface marks - but plays as you can hear - clear and true… RARE IN THE EXTREME!

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The winning bid was £ 465.00

Brenda Holloway

When I'm Gone C/w I've Been Good To You

When Mary Wells was lured by the bright lights of 20th. Century Fox her release of “When I’m Gone” complete with scheduled picture sleeve was shelved never to emerge again. The song was handed over to the Los Angeles songbird Brenda Holloway - for which she achieved a sizable USA R&B hit with her sultry rendition.

You are viewing the elusive 1965 UK non-hit in fine clean condition. These early TMG’s are becoming hard to find..

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The winning bid was £ 110.00

Collectors Soul

Collectors Soul - Issue 1

Rare 1969 SOUL fanzine the FIRST of a short lived British SOUL magazine from Gloucester edited by A. R. Berry - I know of 9 issues there could have been more. This is bedroom Soul journalism at it’s most enthusiastic. Touching on the Twisted Wheel effect. With an introduction quoting all the most-wanted rare and deleted UK releases - every one a “Wheel Classic”.

articles include: Temptations, Showstoppers, MOTOWN - looking Back, Alvin Cash & The Registers, Discotheque News - Current big tunes of 1969. and so much more including a list of UK Company re-issues to meet the demand created by the All-Night clubs etc.

Incredibly rare - D.I.Y. 20 page stapled work of love…with quotes like “The main side of Darrell Banks new disc “Just Because Your

That says it all…..

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The winning bid was £ 45.00

Jaybirds

The Right Kind C/w Somebody Help Me

With the imminent closure of one of Britain’s iconic soul clubs it seems right to list a UK SUE 45.

This one brings huge memories for me flooding back, as I cut my teeth on the rare-soul Nottingham’s BRIT Club offered up at the turn of the 60s decade. Not a word was spoken by the DJ’s just a steady rolling off of mid-blowing tunes. Al Kent - The Way You’ve Been Acting Lately, Jackie Edwards - I Feel So Bad, Jimmy McCracklin - The Walk, Spinners - She’s Gonna Love Me At Sundown, Len Barry - Somewhere - were all tunes I took home with me in my head to tide me over until the next Saturday.. eventually I owned all of them except one that eluded me for years and years.

The Jay Birds take on the Spencer Davis classic with those exhilarating girls with chirping in over the horn driven instrumental i could not acquire. Even in those days SUE 45s were frustratingly elusive.

“Somebody” of course was a monster Twisted Wheel tune, as well as Brit spin. But how about the otherside - “THE RIGHT KIND” is proper NORTHERN SOUL and in those days I never heard it played. Blaring Horns, down and dirty saxophone, Ramsey Lewis style piano work, Mike Terry-esque sax..and those lusty girls just do it for me..a real stompin’ instrumental!

THE WHEEL IS CLOSING but this double-delight must live on - THE RIGHT KIND as a long overdue revival - and “SOMEBODY HELP ME” to ignite the memories of my a Soul Boys formative years ..

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The winning bid was £ 159.00

Christine Cooper

Heartaches Away My Boy

A timeless Northern Soul Anthem! and perhaps the finest example of MOTOWN being OUT-MOTOWNED!

Whilst Motown hogged the charts with all their array of female-chart-busters many tried to emulate, equal and sometimes surpass the Motown Sound. This SUPER K - Richie Cordell & Sal Trimachi session was enriched by the presence of Bert “Super Hits” DeCoteaux proving the right combination for the trio to craft and better that sound.

Oh course when Ian Levine first played it at the Blackpool Mecca it was an instant success rocketing to the country’s most-wanted disc. Today that demand hasn’t wavered one iota, 40 years on it still signals a stampede for floor space..

After all it is flawless girl vocal Northern Soul at it’s very best..

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The winning bid was £ 461.00

P. P. Arnold

Everything's Gonna Be Alright

A quirk of fate, when the Rolling Stones toured the USA with Ike & Tina Turner’s review Andrew Loog Oldham was urged by Mick Jagger to sign this talented “Ikette” to the Immediate label and boy are we glad he did.

Andrew Loog Oldham took charge of her debut session himself, writing, arranging and producing P.P.’s this UK single that received little or no air play; failing miserably - until those Northern Soul junk-shops ferrets dug a copy out for it to rise up as a NS dance-floor monster at the beginning of the 70’s.

Before you today is a disc that comfortably easily sits in the top five greatest UK productions to be accepted by the Northern Soul scene.

I’ve junked and ferreting for vinyl all y life - and am not afraid to admit I’ve never found this record out in the “wild” - ridiculously rare as the STOCK copy. A-side vinyl is immaculate - the insignificant flipside has a light scuff.

COLLECTING BRITISH SOUL at it’s most challenging.

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The winning bid was £ 512.00

Kenny Smith

Lord, What's Happening To Your People

For those of you seeking the NORTHERN SOUL CLASSICS in the finest possible condition, in their rarest form - this listing will certainly have already caught your eye.

Colin Curtis was always a DJ to push the boundaries and when the needle was dropped on this incomparable tune at The Blackpool Mecca, the Northern Soul frontier opened up… decidedly different in every respect to rise from those first daring plays to become a Top Mecca tune, a Cleethorpes Pier Anthem and Manchester Ritz regular and within 18 months a real-deal NS classic!

From those early days all the DJ’s lucky enough to own a copy, played it from the White PROMO press. When the rare and colourful STOCK copy eventually broke surface it caused much-talk, envy and frantic-foraging to try and own one.

So seldom seen for the sale in this form and the ultimate way to own it …this copy is “like new”

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The winning bid was £ 311.00

wow did i just see a kings of soul sell for twice as much as its worth..................and p p arnold.....strewth

Edited January 2, 201312 yr by dave pinch

wow did i just see a kings of soul sell for twice as much as its worth

It wasn't a minter either.

The Jaybirds has different label designs. I assume that the one with arranger/producer details is an earlier issue? The one on the left , same as in the auction, is mine which I bought on ebay a couple of years ago for about £30.

Edited January 2, 201312 yr by autumnstoned

The Jaybirds has different label designs. I assume that the one with arranger/producer details is an earlier issue?

i think the one on the left is the first issue

i think the one on the left is the first issue

Hi

Thanks for the info. I remember Pete Smith was trying to identify a vocal version of the flip The Right Kind. Wonder if he ever had any success?

I wonder if The Carpets is the one that sold on ebay recently?

If so it only went for about £20 quid more, only JM made money there.

Sold a KOS for less than half of that recently!

Who are these people?

I wonder who came second!?

I`d let my own go for 2.5k!

Chris

Hi

Thanks for the info. I remember Pete Smith was trying to identify a vocal version of the flip The Right Kind. Wonder if he ever had any success?

No, I didn't find out. One of the few mysteries that Soul Source members never managed to solve.