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You've put the decimal point a digit too far to the right on the Jannie Williams cheers
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A quid for Tempts TMG - result for someone Natural Four a good price That Gladys Knight acetate is fantastic imho x
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I think it's pretty obvious why the Jannie Williams sold for ten times its usual price!
aka JEANETTE WILLIAMS - much better known to the Northern Soul scene as the lady who gave us endless joy with her later Back Beat recordings.
On this Johnny Copeland project she provides us with a Down-Right-Filthy-slab of “Popcorn / R&B” which New York’s “Mr. Fine Wine” has been championing for quite some time, within his renown for “flawless taste” DJ sets.
Seductress Ms Williams serves up a deliciously sultry mid-pace groove. Enticing in the extreme, as label owner Charlie Booth decorates the vocal with an equally impressive horn arrangement, with a particularly suggestive sax break that seals the session as irresistible.
This is Dirty-Soul at it’s most-convincing, it’s a multiple needle-dropper as proven today, I’ve already spun it 4 times..and I’m not done yet.
PS. Deep Soul fans with love her version of Johnny Copeland’s hit on the other side.. boy this lady just oozes with Soul…. don’t she.
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Quite why Berry Gordy would think that another version of his biggest hit would sell, is perhaps a question the great man may have asked at the time - because this 1961 release became one of the very rarest “Motown Pinks” on the back of near zero sales.
But do not miss this Rare Soul Icon rev-up an insane rendition of Motown’s first hit record. Barret Strong’s version seems tame by comparison. Listen to the wild piano intro, you will think the vocal will never start, then “The Popcorn” snaps into action, wow this is explosive stuff.
Earl; Van Dyke picks up all the plaudits for his keyboard work, but just listen to Popcorn smash those ivory’s. He never got recognition for his magical piano skills nor in fact for his powerful vocal.
Besides this being an outrageous recording and validated as stupidly rare; we doubt you could ever locate a finer example the vinyl condition is “blinding” labels have the appropriate PROMO adornments (see scans)
RARE and not a record you’ll ever forget after hearing it…interesting this is so far under-the-radar at this moment in time Wikipedia does not list it in it’s many, many cover versions… even though it is clearly the most-powerful by a very long way.
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We rely so much on our computer input of the last 15 years, it is not humanly possible to remember all it holds. But more importantly it gives a clear overview of what titles are genuinely elusive. Especially when it comes to TMG’s and all it’s many variations. Solid centers, 4 prong die-cut center’s, Promo’s, with the “Sold in U.K. text ” or without. RCA presses or EMI .. there is so much to document it is impossible for the (my) brain top recall accurately.
But what it has become very useful for is to inform is which PROMO’s seem to be rarer than others. Why in 15 years you’d sell 4 or 5 of one and never ever see a copy of a number sitting right next to it.
I was surprised to see we have only had one Promo copy of #727 in 15 years. In fact THE WWW WORLD has only offered up a mere 4 promo’s in a similar length of time. This copy is flawless in every respect, and we are assuming that the 1000’s of TMG collectors the vast majority will not have filed this yet.
Without technology at our fingertips, this # like so many higher numbers of the series would have gone on set-sale and left the building with 24 hours.
For whatever reason it is certainly one annoyingly scarce 700 series demo..and this copy in MINT -
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To be absolutely certain you haven’t purchased the notoriously accurate “counterfeit” from the front pages of 70s sales mail-outs. You have to look for the Capitol “daisy” moniker in the deadwax. Just like Jerry Cook & Alexander Patton on Capitol this too was convincingly faked.
BUT NOT WITH THIS VARIATION
This is the rarely seen - machine stamped - 45 67023 - P1 with the “triangle surrounded “IAM” stamp.
No confusion whatsoever with this press - it’s the rarest release you can own of this timeless Northern Soul classic played at all the early 70s Brit-Clubs..
But do take time to check out the totally passed over flipside - utterly yummy girl group mid-tempo featuring the compelling highly-keyed girl-group answering chorus, delish!
If you’re gonna own this NS classic, this is the “ultimately distinguished” way to do it..
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No UK or USA single for this silky harmony version of the Gene Chandler Northern Soul classic “Nothing Can Stop Me”
The Spanish choice of flipside on this 1968 “We’re A Winner” release was fortunately a fabulous decision. That gave the serious Northern Soul collector another happy-quirk of the vinyl world to hunt down.
Click the soundfile and release this great song that was imprisoned on the 1968 ABC 635 album elsewhere in the world.
Easy to carry, booming loud and clear recording and an essential alternative to the “Duke’s” classic and with the pace lifted by Johnny Pate from a NS stoller to a full on Northern Soul dance experience.
Curtis Mayfield is in top-class-form and Mr. Pate’s rich blend of horns & strings in the production is blinding. I personally have no hesitation in labeling this as THE BEST version, by some distance.
But then again I’m saturated in “Impressions-Bias”
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