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Bobby Sheen Doctor Love - Sweet Sweet Love

EMI soon realized in the mid-60s SOUL was the new Rock & Roll for the British teenagers. So they imprinted the new slogan “DISCOTHEQUE SERIES” to their Capitol label and “SOUL SUPPLY” to Liberty & Stateside etc.

Along with Alexander Patton this 1966 Los Angeles session soon became “Twisted Wheel, Mojo, Scene etc.” anthems. Which today still sparks frantic dancefloor response when aired.

But for me and many others today - it’s the preciously overlooked “underdog” flipside that carries the value. “Sweet Sweet Love” is a masterpiece way ahead of it’s 1966 birth date. A fluid Gebe Page arrangement weaves Jerry Rioplle & Nick de Caro lyrics into a sheer listening and dancing delight as Al “Right On” De Lory beefs up the production.

It’s just top qusality 60s SOUL with an iconic a-side tat has shok British Soul Clubs for nearly five decades.

Condition is superb throughout.

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The winning bid was £ 122.00

 

Superlatives I Still Love You C/w We're So Lonely

An exquisite copy of this “Torch” anthem - impeccable condition throughout, again a Northern Soul classic that seems to have avoided the DJ circuit.

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The winning bid was £ 121.00

 

Art Freeman Slipping Around C/w Can't Get Out Out Of My Mind

What a lovely, lovely copy of this timeless “Twisted Wheel” classic.

Besides a few minuscule brief very faint sleeve contact blemishes this 45 is as good as it gets.

This maybe Muscle Shoals recording at it’s most-vibrant, with Dan Penn & Linden “Spooner” Oldham driving the proceedings and Rick Hall with his foot-on-the-gas keeping those renowned Muscle Shoals musicians pumping up the rythm - but it was missed by everyone in 1966 upon UK release as Art Freeman at the time was a unknown to British shores, and sold virtually nothing.

Today this stands as one of the very hardest UK Atlantic’s to acquire and one of the longest standing “Twisted Wheel” spins that still rams the floors today.

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The winning bid was £ 310.00

 

Ty Karim Lightin' Up C//w Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight

The undisputed Queen of Rare Soul!

Need that statement validating?

Click the soundfile and prepare to be moved by one of the greatest female vocal this planet has ever spawned - soulful bliss awaits.

Condition freaks this copy is as-fine-as-it-gets

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The winning bid was £ 680.00

 

Winfield Parker I Love You Just The Same C/w My Love

The highly-elusive BLUE label version that rocked Cleethorpes Pier in the mid-70s.

Relentless, persistent, raucous old-school Northern Soul. Besides the always impressive Winfield Parker vocal we are treated to a backing arrangement mix incorporating a dramatic mix a swirling hammond, squawking Sax, barbaric brass all rise up and send this stomper through the roof.

THIS IS NORTHERN SOUL at it’s most intimidating!

The flip is worth a listen but is not in the same league, as this full-blooded Beast of a lead side!

Listen and be prepared to have your hair blown back, and your feet taken from under you, do not settle for the YELLOW label version, it is anemic by comparison…

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The winning bid was £ 256.00

Delores Hall Good Lovin' Man C/w W-o-m-a-n

Any WHITE DEMO aficionado reading this will be nodding his head when we say - “here is a USA WHITE PROMO you just never see” it is after all like our recent listing of “Cody Black - Going Going Gone - white demo” it is totally inexplicably RARE!

Stomping, foot-to-the-floor high-octane Northern Soul dragster from the office of two of Los Angeles most-respected manufacturers of our sound, the gifts of Fred Smith and James Carmichael again spew out another perfect example vibe-ridden Northern Soul.

As a WHITE DEMO this is a prize… but check out this lady’s mighty vocal supported by squealing girls and the production rams up the fever-pitch. Flip it over and Fred & James draw from the Stax sound - no easy thing to do, but they capture the essence of Memphis completely with a Funky, Funky down n’ dirty stroller.

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The winning bid was £ 53.00

 

Hard Road Featuring C. C. Neal Dedicated To You C/w If You Really Love Me

Hollywood, California rarity featuring “Soul Craft’s” C. C. Neal on a Patrinella Staton styled funk flavoured Crossover Northern Soul dancer.

Lovers of the carefully crafted early 70s grooves will adore the production decorated with purring female choruses and a leisurely guitar riff softly plugging away in the background.

Seemingly effortless but oh-so effective! Potential in the right hands for European or Soul Essence Weekender greatness is blatant, late night Great Yarmouth shuffling would be so irresistible and the comparisons with the P.S. Sepia monster are unavoidable…Listen, absorb and enjoy this classy creation.

Vinyl has a few innocuous light surface marks - flipside label has a small area of “browning. AS you can hear it plays loud, clean & true!

Flip it over for a primitive funk groove featuring relentless wah-wah guitar and shrill vocal backing embellishing C. C.’s nicotine coated tonsils..

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The winning bid was £ 131.00

 

Guitar Ray Patty Cake Shake C/w New True Love

Crescent City writer and guitarist Raymond Washington again forges a fabulous piece of New Orleans dance-soul.

On one of the city’s iconic labels, Guitar Ray pumps out potent 60’s Northern Soul bristling with all the characteristics you expect from this hive-of-soul-activity. Powerful throughout as it demands you to dance!

But more importantly I’ve personally only experienced a handful of copies of this 45 and all have been used and abused. It is today, very pleasing indeed to handled a near perfect PROMO. From a city that long been striped of it’s vinyl wealth.

Plenty of potential for the DJ here, for a bigger ticket and strong dancefloor reaction that has previously been denied by poor condition and rarity.

Deep Soul fans, you will love the flipside.. a pleading performance dripping with desperation aided by equally despairing horn section.

Label voyeurs, you will also find it totally irresistible.

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The winning bid was £ 88.00

 

Mary Wells Mary Wells - Ep

What makes a British 45 Rare?

You’d think this 1965 EMI tribute to Mary Wells’ contribution to Motown would have sold by the bucketful, but nothing could be further from the truth. Mary had left Motown for fresh pastures with 20th Century Fox - could that be the reason this EP received poor sales? Or was it perhaps because the four tracks on the EP: 1. My Guy 2. Oh Little Boy, 3. What’s Easy For Two 4. You Lost The Sweetest Boy All sold well on the Stateside release a couple of years earlier? Whatever the reason (as serious British Tamla collectors will confirm), this 4-track EP is one annoyingly elusive piece to secure. Vinyl inspection reveals only a few brief light surface marks - not affecting fidelity. Labels are flawless, front cover has 3 light laminate veins top right hand corner (see scan), back cover is completely free of imperfections.

If you collect Tamla Motown EP’s this is most-likely missing from the run… don’t ask me why?

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The winning bid was £ 51.00

 

Passion The Spell Is Gone

Brooklyn Soul - as Sweet as You Like It - and as Rare As You’d Dare Hope for..

Melting harmonies dissolve into a heavenly cloud of SOUL, the atmosphere lifted when an icy-cold falsetto pierces the air. Cradled in a blanket of beautifully timed and perfectly supported vocal-backing, listen to the amazing high-pitched delivery taking hold.

..this 80s indie from the streets of Brooklyn, New York is as perfect a ballad as you could ever wish to tune in to. Not a hint of any commercial influences, only convincing lyrics welded by a gathering seeking complete tranquility.

80s Sweet don’t come any better than this - most elusive 45.

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The winning bid was £ 155.00

Passion The Spell Is Gone

Brooklyn Soul - as Sweet as You Like It - and as Rare As You’d Dare Hope for..

Melting harmonies dissolve into a heavenly cloud of SOUL, the atmosphere lifted when an icy-cold falsetto pierces the air. Cradled in a blanket of beautifully timed and perfectly supported vocal-backing, listen to the amazing high-pitched delivery taking hold.

..this 80s indie from the streets of Brooklyn, New York is as perfect a ballad as you could ever wish to tune in to. Not a hint of any commercial influences, only convincing lyrics welded by a gathering seeking complete tranquility.

80s Sweet don’t come any better than this - most elusive 45.

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The winning bid was £ 155.00

 

Sonny Fishback Heart Breaking Man C/w Won't Take Back These

NOTE this is the highly coveted BMI CAMEO Publishing & KODEL MUSIC version which means it’s the rarely witnessed full-on production - the upbeat saturated with horns & girls superior mix that demands you dance. Right from the first drum-smack Robert Banks brings in the horns ready to match up to Sonny Fishback’s gnarled vocal that just tears into his own lyrics. Then comes the Robert Banks directed horn break, before Sonny smashes back into the fray to escalate this stomper even higher.

PROPER ALL-NITER NORTHERN SOUL and there’s more….

Flip it over for excruciating DEEP SOUL as an unrepentant Mr. Fishback tells his girl he ain’t gonna take all the hurt she has showered upon him… PROPER SOUL-ESSENCE LOUNGE flesh-tearing DEEP SOUL!

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The winning bid was £ 305.00

 

Groovettes Think It Over Baby C/w Ain't A Thing You Can Do About It

Another highly esteemed Northern soul trophy rescued from its entombing in the 70s - lifted from storage and in the type of condition you’d have found it in 1966. A flawless previously unplayed PROMO copy of this highly effective, totally haunting Billy Jackson project, constructed during his self imposed migration from Philadelphia to Los Angeles.

Billy gets right down to basics, grinding out a real-nitty-gritty girl-group mid-tempo winner with a pleading lead,and impressive prompting sax intrusions. Alluringly primitive, with a naivety that screams everything that is Northern Soul, then the saxophone elevates the session again with a solo burst of pure excellence.

Truly wonderful stuff from a real talent of the studio, who takes the girls on a frantic trip on the flipside! A crazed hipshaker again epitomizing the mid-60s girl-group sound.

Condition is blinding, played once and unblemished.

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The winning bid was £ 746.00

 

Blues & Soul # 8 May 1968

One of the rarest of all the 60’s Blues and Soul edition and the first time we’ve been able to offer a copy!

And what an edition this is, with articles and pics of some highly rated street level artists.

Bio’s and artist shots on Harold Burrage, Jimmy Lewis, Arretha Franklin, Delphonics, Robert Knight & Jackie Ross.

Dave Godin two page column

Record company adverts inc: Soul City, Tamla Motown, Stateside, Coxsone, Island etc.

Plus 45 & LP reviews and the Charts UK & USA..

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The winning bid was £ 104.00

 

Paul Anka When We Get There

Simply the biggest dancefloor favourite of Northern Soul oldies nights in the UK at the moment.

Before we get in bigotry about “white” guys singing Northern Soul and maligning the song or the artist because they’ve had a pop hit or three. It’s time to pay homage to the much-versatile Paul Anka who gave us one of the greatest Northern soul offering ever, courtesy of “I Can’t Help Loving You” but that was produced by some of New York biggest contributors to the Northern Soul Scene (Garry Sherman, Artie Schroeck, Jet Loring & the great Charlie Calello)

This is a different animal, more middle-of-the-road, but arranged & produced by another provider of many NS classics, Don Costa, who injects that magical something that transforms an ordinary “pop” tune into an Northern Soul dancer.

So let’s give Mr. Anka the respect such a talent deserve - full 4 contributions to the Northern Soul scene, not forgetting his call up to MUSCLE SHOALS and his work with Rick Hall and staff who obviously thought he had “soul” when they paired him with Odia Coates.

The man has a great voice that he can adapt to most-any form of music. It’s the people in the studio who transformed his “white” disposition into something the NS Scene can embrace…

This is ready to be embraced - because BLACK RCA that’s exactly what they your made for - to love or not love whatever your taste may be. But nobody can question this iconic artist’s prowess…

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The winning bid was £ 213.00

 

Willie Mae ( Big Mama ) Thornton Tom Cat C/w Monkey In The Barn

This week’s R&B offering we think is rather special - not only because of it’s “perfect” condition.

Of course this George Allen composition on Nathaniel McCoy’s is considered the “Ultimate” British SUE 345 record to own, it is that-RARE! But as the original 1965 USA Los Angeles press it is also a mean secretive creature. One of three consecutive singles Willie Mae released during 1965 to 66.

So click the soundfile to be buffeted by Willie Mae indomitable vocal and witness a lady strut her stuff like nobody else could. “Greatest Blues singer ever” producer Nate McCoy.

This 45 is the very finest copy ever to be offered over the internet - most likely unplayed before the soundfile was lifted - both labels are as new!

We do not think anyone will ever locate a more perfect copy! 

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The winning bid was £ 387.00

Blimey, he won't be having buns for tea tonight. 

 

Groovettes has plummeted in price since those heady days when some numpty paid £1500 for a copy. Eh Rod?   

There was a Groovettes on eBay recently at the end of Jan - went for £550.

 

Didn't Pat Brady auction one a while back also?

 

Cheers

 

Richard

Sonny Fishback a REAL bargain this time me thinks!

Groovettes a good price for the buyer but then again I have never seen that many up for sale than during the last couple of months..

Sonny Fishback a REAL bargain this time me thinks!

Groovettes a good price for the buyer but then again I have never seen that many up for sale than during the last couple of months..

Wouldn't part with my Sonny Fishback for that price

Bloody awful record to my ears, so I wouldn't buy it at a tenner. 

There was a Groovettes on eBay recently at the end of Jan - went for £550.

 

Didn't Pat Brady auction one a while back also?

 

Cheers

 

Richard

 

Wasn't that a VG one Richard.?

Wasn't that a VG one Richard.?

The eBay one was a decent enough VG+ copy Kev. It's still there if you search completed items.

Cheers

Richard

The eBay one was a decent enough VG+ copy Kev. It's still there if you search completed items.

Cheers

Richard

 

Kev

 

This is the one that sold recently as described above:

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-NORTHERN-SOUL-GROOVETTES-THINK-IT-OVER-BABY-RENESS-RECORDS-/161204268128?pt=UK_Records&hash=item258885ec60

 

This one is on there now:

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-NORTHERN-SOUL-GROOVETTES-THINK-IT-OVER-BABY-RENESS-RECORDS-/111270069218?pt=UK_Records&hash=item19e83683e2

 

Cheers

 

Richard

I know that we all expect JM to get somewhat exaggerated prices on his auctions, but i'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the £213 he got for "Paul Anka" Surely this must be treble it's value in the real world. (not that i'm complaining if i need some cash i can sell mine quoting this) lol

Edited February 7, 201411 yr by Gogs