Home Of The Blues

July 1967 Edition 11

A window into 1967 Soul & MOD scene in England.

Garnet Mimms was appearing live at The Saville Theatre, London backed by the iconic MOD band THE SENATE full 2 page Bio & review.

Bio on Mable John, Pic & bio’s of Jimmy Holiday, Clyde McPhatter, Brenda Holloway, The Chiffons.

Eye-catching full page ads inc: SOUL CITY shop + a 8 soul album gallery advert from EMI Records.

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The winning bid was £ 24.00

Tammi Terrell

Come On And See Me

Exquisite condition - is the only thing we need to tell you about this 1966 Motown delight.

Tammi and the label scan will do the rest..

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The winning bid was £ 339.00

Joe Matthews

Ain't Nothng You Can Do C/w (you Better) Check Yourself

It’s that man Clay McMurray again, here to deliver us from mediocrity by transforming yet another Detroit session into perfect Northern Soul.

Hugely popular with the NS dancers during the peak of Cleethorpes Pier & Wigan Casino during the 70s but even in those hedonistic days this disc was a very elusive acquisition. Only spun by the country’s top jocks of the time and only a resident in the most prestigious collections.

Over the decades this record come to market only on very rare occasions. And with the flipside starting to pick up plays recently. This is not a moment to miss.

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The winning bid was £ 1,491.00

Sharon Mcmann

Got To Find Anoter Guy C/w Hello Stranger '66

aka Sharon McMahon

Typically under-stated Ollie McLaughlin horns are the perfect platform for Ms. McMahon to sway her sexy ways through her own exquisite lyrics.

Her downcast moody delivery perfectly punctuated by a considerate trumpeter who goes completely with the mood. Crafting a masterful-piece of girl-sorrow Northern Soul stroller that is saturated wit the streets of DETROIT.

This copy is as near perfect as you could ever wish to see.

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The winning bid was £ 300.00

Garnet Mimms

Looking For You

Seeking the timeless Northern Soul classics - Seeking perfection?

Look no further!

For over four decades the popularity of this Twisted Wheel son, has grown and grown rising from British & USA failure to become an anthem!

This copy is as perfect as you could ever hope to encounter - a file copy tat has never been introduced to a Northern Soul stylus. When you see it, you like us will be undecided whether to drop a needle on it or hug, kiss and file it again!

Perfection is priceless…

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The winning bid was £ 159.00

Betty Wright

Open The Door To Your Heart

Speak to any Wigan Casino regular who was the best act they witnessed at Wigan Casino, most without hesitsation will say the veracious Betty Wright and her band. She ripped the roof of the place. Like Major Lance at the Torch - the act was far bigger than the club, the time and her material of that era. She was immense, with her stage presence on the night a memory no one present will ever forget.

Today before you is a 1976 session, with Ms. Wright’s boundless energy injected into a Northern Soul classic, which she revolutionizes into a Sister-Stomper.

ONLY ISSUED AS A 45 IN ITALY - in an eye-catching Picture sleeve. So no struggling with low-volume LP tracks - get Betty where she belongs - loud, upfront and full in your face.

Instant Sister-Northern Soul at it’s most-potent.

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The winning bid was £ 84.00

Chuck Jackson

Teardrops Keep Falling On My Heart

Berry Gordy’s Motown machine spread it’s insatiable thirst for talent far and wide. As it started to sign the country’s best vocalists to the label in the late 60s.

Chuck Jackson was one of the first captures, and what a snaring this was. Chuck booming vocal decorated with Motown’s orchestral genius made for some of the label’s most-powerful music.

Check out the selected sound-file from this 1970 album, we’ve chosen the tracks that failed to achieve 45 release and we think you’ll be more than moved. Jaw-dropping Northern Soul just begging for an inspirational DJ.

Before you is an utterly pristine and stupidly rare WHITE PROMO copy! Perfect cover, labels and vinyl!

Just to underline Motown’s slick corporate promotional machine not only did they trawl for the finest talent - they also plugged into anything that was “hip” at the time; with “Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid” the top movie of the time, why not do a twist with the movie’s theme tune and christen the lp “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Heart”.

After saying all that Chuck was a comparative flop for the label, and this his last album of 3 for Motown was a sales failure too.

Sometimes genius, salesmanship and presentation are just not enough..

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The winning bid was £ 77.00

Carol Anderson

Sad Girl C/w I'll Get Off At The Next Stop

For an utterly biased opinion on this lady & this her finest recording, just ask me!

..as I just fall to pieces when hear this under-recorded Detroit Diva sing. “Sad Girl” drips with those feminine qualities that makes a grown-up “Soul Boy” melt by far my favourite recording by this great lady, and the flipside is so nearly as good.

Owning this as the unique in-house 10” UK RCA studio acetate, we think is really the ultimate acquisition for this killer song!

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The winning bid was £ 58.00

Jimmy Mcfarland

Lonely Lover

One for the collectors who seek Northern Soul classics., in their rarest most desirable outfits. Checkout this colourful seldom seen STOCK copy of Steve Benson and Wayne Martin’s reworking of the Marvin Gaye Motown unissued session.

Simultaneously, a monster play at Cleethorpes and Wigan Casino at the height of the scene, remaining a dancefloor-darling ever since.But a record that does not suffer from over-exposure, the occasional airing is just enough to keep this sounds popularity simmering away.

Being outnumbered perhaps 100 to 1 by the WHITE DEMO - this stock copy looks just-gorgeous doesn’t it…

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The winning bid was £ 300.00

Moments

Pray For Me

Listen to 60’s sweet soul at it’s smoothest.

The Moments first recorded before embarking on a sparkling career with Sylvia Robinson & the All Platinum label they cut this 1965 Washington D.C. serving sweet soul!

This record started life as a Baltimore Howard University project with 4 dorm pals forming the HOG label Fonce & Larry Mizell, with the now “lauded” Freddie Perren & Uni-business brain Toby Jackson, ironically as a Detroiter Toby manage to seal a distribution deal through Wheelsville.

All efforts for radio play, wider distribution proved fruitless and this record fell into obscurity. The rare stock copy, managed cult-status with the Northern Soul scene. And this single sided promo received similar appreciation with the harmony vocal-group scholars.

This “Four Pigs” creation is in immaculate, flawless condition

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The winning bid was £ 58.00

Carl Douglas

Serving The Sentence Of Life

If you could take a time machine and make a quick visitation into the British club scene of 1972. It was buzzing from the influx of USA soul discoveries courtesy of the Bradford market vinyl-avalanche and some amazing 60s British release discoveries that were hitting the turntables of Va Va’s, The Catacombs, Blackpool Mecca, Leeds Central etc.

Lynne Randell on CBS, Jimmy Thomas on Parlophone, Fathers Angels on MGM all sparked market stall & junk shop mania as hoards of “soulies” trawled the vinyl-remnants of previously discarded 45s. I remember that period, the buzz was at it loudest, you couldn’t wait for the next Saturday night to hear what was new.

I do remember quite vividly this tune entering my life with a wallop! At The Catacombs; the stroll from the door past the shady bare brick alcoves with 50 count record boxes offering vinyl-treasures to who ever had the inclination to look.. but most headed straight to the end of the narrow walk through toward the ever increasing volume of Northern Soul.

SMACK! Those blaring horns of “Serving The Sentence Of Life” hit me…I was hooked for life..imagine my eagerness on Monday lunch time scouring A. T, Brown’s, Ainleys, the junk shop & the market stalls of Leicester after hearing it was an ENGLISH release.

I can confess now, 41 years on - I have never ever found a copy of this 45 whilst “junkin”..and even if I had that “Time Machine” I very much doubt I’d find a copy either.

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The winning bid was £ 236.00

Unknown Artist

Young Girl (mellow-feznecky) C/w Mother's Love

Help wanted: with this gathering who smooth out the Jimmy Jones & Jerry Murray’s composition - Mellow-Fezneckey -. .

Uncredited Chicago acetate giving up two fabulous “Impressions” inspired Northern Soul dancers with no information on the label, so we’ll credit it as “unknown”. But the sound this disc emits isn’t “unknown” it is instant Northern Soul of the most-infectious kind..

Much more rounded take of the Dukays version - no rough or raw edges to interrupt the flow, but still beautiful in it’s primitiveness. Guitar and horns intro is met with a soaring harmony buzz. Then a raw and emotional falsetto takes over the lead and this winner twists, turns and bumps it’s way into one very tight-tune!

Flip it over and your treated to a different flip than the Jerry-O 106 Dukays release. With mystery group taking a slsnt of Curtis Mayfield’s “Never Too Much Love” onto a different level. Strong horns, tight coolly delivered harmony and again that falsetto steals the show with a lengthy instrumental break adding depth and grit to an oh so smooth session!

Two killer tunes, we await any other extra information of this group and their recordings.

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The winning bid was £ 150.00

Anthony White

Yes You Need Love C/w I'm So Much In Love With You

The hideously rare STOCK copy offering the TWO good sides.Lifted from highly prized P.I.R International album “Could It Be Magic”.

Surprisingly the Crowned Princesses of the Philadelphia Sound were not involved in this lush production. Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff leave it to Sherman Marshall and team to raise the already lofty bar of the Philly Sound.

The dance side just screams “Soul Essence” as an easy piano is swept aside by a zinging harp, a bank of strings and a purring vocal group. Anthony White’s vocal glides through this luxurious production on a wave of assistance. Just so-darn good..i think I’m in love!

Flip it over the ballad side, more “Soul Essence” material that begs for an outing in that temples chill-out room, but just as it lulls you into a warm shawl of soul contentment, the production lifts a pace into a Soulful stepper of pure excellence.

Too much!

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The winning bid was £ 75.00

Dinah Washington

Soulville

A lure of the Red & White DEMO strikes again.

Here’s one for the British collector who’s hit that frustrating brick a wall of owning the obvious NS Brit releases and awaiting something unusual to come to market.

This raucous Titus Turner R&B hipshaker, is detonated by one of the last century’s great Jazz-Sisters. Dinah takes on a Ray Charles persona and rips her way through this big band brass production with sax breaks to knock you dead.

Dinah in Big Mamma style just tears the off off the place..

Killer R&B in it’s very rarest and most-desirable clothes..

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The winning bid was £ 49.00

Home Of The Blues July 1967 Edition 11

A window into 1967 Soul & MOD scene in England.

Garnet Mimms was appearing live at The Saville Theatre, London backed by the iconic MOD band THE SENATE

full 2 page Bio & review.

Bio on Mable John, Pic & bio’s of Jimmy Holiday, Clyde McPhatter, Brenda Holloway, The Chiffons.

Eye-catching full page ads inc: SOUL CITY shop + a 8 soul album gallery advert from EMI Records.

RE: Garnet Mimms was appearing live at The Saville Theatre, London backed by the iconic MOD band THE SENATE full 2 page Bio & review.

........... I was at that show, it was held on Sunday May 7th, 1967 (Jimi Hendrix topped the bill but we walked out half way thru his performance).

Would love to know what the reviewer said about the show (Garnett was great BTW).

Edited February 20, 201312 yr by Roburt

strewth tammi terrell.......it a tough uk one tho

Someone got a bargain Sharon McMann at less than half-price....

Someone got a bargain Sharon McMann at less than half-price....

copy went on ebay for about the same a couple of weeks ago..so maybe thats the bench mark......rare 45 though

The recent Sharon McM on ebay ended at $587 but didn't sell as the reserve was higher

Roburt, how was the Garnet / Senate show back in 67?? Their recordings together are so great can imagine it would have been pretty special

Roburt, how was the Garnet / Senate show back in 67?? Their recordings together are so great can imagine it would have been pretty special

The live LP they made together didn't really capture the atmosphere of their live shows (or even the true sound of the songs they played). Together, they made great music. The Senate were massive fans of US soul singers and backed many of them on UK tours. I got the LP back when it was first released but have always been a bit disappointed in what it contains ......... but that's 'by the by'.

I saw Garnett a few times back then live (1966/67). He toured at least twice (probably 3 times) and we caught him on the Saville Theatre show plus on club dates.

My old Dony mate, Tom Sleight, even went to see him twice in 2 days (at the Nite Owl on Sat 23rd Sept 67 & at the Mojo on Sunday 24th Sept). Garnett had noticed him down front at the Nite Owl & pointed him out to the Mojo audience as being back to see him again so soon afterwards (it had been the 2nd last Mojo allniter ever on the Saturday night & I just coudln't miss that event, so only got to see Garnett on the Sunday show).

I was one of the 'in crowd' at the Mojo (knowing Pete Stringfellow's brother Geoff well), so got to visit the dressing room before the show to chat with Garnett. He was a really nice guy but had no real idea about the UK soul scene or who his fans were or even how we got to know his tracks so well.

ANYWAY, live he was great. "Looking For You" was just a 'throw-away' B side back then so he didn't perform it in his live show. He did however do great versions of "Its Been Such A Long Way Home" & "I'll Take Good Care Of You" + others I can't be sure of now (the LP isn't to hand to check what he sang).

It was still very special back then to get to see one of our 'top idols' perform live and I'm just glad I got to witness him (in his prime) a couple of times.

Edited February 25, 201312 yr by Roburt