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Psychadelic Frankie, never mind the upfront venues, this was a big crossover record in the early / mid 90s…..
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I sold a vel vets three weeks ago to a mate £300 and I bet he's pleased with Mannys price lol personally I think the real value should be around 350....450
Northern Soul in recent times is enjoying an unprecedented upsurge in popularity. Not only for the NS classic dominated venues, but it is likewise true for those “breakaway” events, that demand the more soulful rare sound. Soul Essence has championed this style for decades but an unstoppable tide of rare-soul fans with impeccable taste have supported many other events.
“Simply Soul” “Va Va Voom” “Just Soul” and more recently “A Dab Of Soul” have all played their part in delivering more quality recordings to a wider, growing audience.
This 45 encapsulates everything the “breakaway” NS climate is all about. Extreme rarity could never be in question, neither could the soulful ingredients that go to make up this very “special” tune.
Frankie “Psychodelic” Snowden swaggers through a horn propelled production, his brooding vocal delivering defiance-saturated emotion. Perfect pace for the dancers, with just enough beat to immerse yourself in what is more than “A Dab Of Soul” or “Simply Soul” not “Just Soul” but soul with more than enough “Va Va Voom” to deliver the very “Essence” of what collecting and dancing to real-rare-soul is entirely about.
Top class tune and so seldom seen for sale..
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For 33 years a Rare-Soul “impossible”
What a privilege to be able to enjoy, what is the absolute pinnacle of 80’s Rare-Soul collecting, not only offering up a legendary rare dance tune but also a massively moving soulful ballad supported by a full vocal-group backing, hidden away on the flip.
Two sides perfectly coveringboth of today’s “modern” most collectable of genres.
In the beginning only owned by British Rare Soul DJ aristocracy with those two known copies both suffering from that distasteful label address defacing. NOTE both labels are this listing are perfect!
So with no furthest comment, click the soundfile and prepare to dance! …
..wait a second or two for the flipside to glide in.. then prepare to swoon!
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The winning bid was £ 2,209.00
I do like those seldom heard record collecting phrases…
“Wow! I’ve Never Seen This Record Before!”
Especially when it’s me, muttering it under my breath, as my white blood cells hurriedly oscillate around my arteries….Well, I never have!
Never, in all my days has this 45 passed through my hands .. seriously RARE! North Carolina urban D.I.Y. Sweet Soul rippling with all those naive ingredients that charm so much, when encountering these hopeful meetings; with the end product never receiving airplay, only reaching family members and friends.
This is street -evel Sweet Soul as rare as it can possibly get, practiced and perfected on the street corners of Greenboro, N.C. and somehow today landing on my desk in the middle of England.
As so often happens with these limited singular recording the group wisely recorded a totally different genre on the flipside. If you into rare-breaks / funk etc do check out he equally unsophisticated instrumental on the flip..
The genuinely RARE, don’t you just love them…
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The winning bid was £ 342.00
Straight from the USA - the much-loved Duke Browner’s crowning Northern Soul moment.
You are witnessing a universally endorsed “HOLY GRAIL” moment.
Both sides give up the flawlessly crafted male vocal-group Detroit Northern Soul of the very rarest kind…both sides are Top Drawer NS
We have always been proud of the condition we consistently offer our Soul rarities in - this offering has you can hear, has surface marks from a 50 year lifetime inside a Detroit home. But I must admit, when coming face to face with the immensity of this disc, a few light pops along the way, do nothing to calm my racing pulse.
We’ll let the full double soundfile & the two label scans with the Columbia promo sticker on the a-side, do the rest of the talking.
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The winning bid was £ 7,520.00
The formative years of the World’s greatest ever window into Soul Music.
This rare # 7 issue from 7th. April 1969 cover some this the decades most important artists.
Marvin Gaye + Bio James Carr + Bio Van Dykes + Bio
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Astonishing condition!
Highly desirable 1969 UK release on one of the world’s most collectable labels. Dave Godin’s vehicle for soul music in the UK has over the decades become legendary. This Album showcases the incredible vocal-power of a Soul Great, covering Johnnie Taylor early years on Sam Cooke’s SAR label.
Today this rarity is rightly considered a real prize, but in this perfect condition it’s a real British trophy piece..
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The winning bid was £ 70.00
Recorded in the UK during Garnett’s Club & University tour of England in 1966. There is no USA release for this 45, this session was supported by Garnett’s tour backing band, British “MOD” group The Senate.
Listen as this furious recording captures the very essence of the MOD era, as New York Soul collides with British Psyche …and what a result!
Bob Elgin & Jerry Ragovoy’s composition lifts the roof off, as British producers Derek Lawrence & Dave Paramor (Simon Dupree fame) rachet up the session with blaring-brass and wild drumming…wisely holding back the MODS preferred instrument “The Hammond” until 1/2 way through, but when that fires up all hell breaks lose!
This is so damn powerful..just listening, leaves you breathless..
Before you today is a flawless 1967 British Green & White DEMO hugging it’s birth-sleeve.
Irresistible..
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The winning bid was £ 212.00
SUE the UK’s most sought after label - so when we turn up a release up in Mint condition - especially a Club-Classic, that is always in “used” and “loved” condition, we feel the British vinyl-perfectionist would like to claim ownership.
Not the rarest SUE but certainly one the most difficult to acquire at this level of condition - which is MINT on the eye - but forensically Mint -.
It’s plain white birth-sleeve will accompany this, one owner from new, copy to it’s final resting place..sitting snugly in a SUE run and replacing the invariably under Mint resident.
Perfectionists look no further…Twisted Wheel classic and an integral part of this most-important of British 60s labels and our history.
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Girl group collectors they don’t come any rarer, than this Northern Soul bomb on one of Northern Soul’s admired labels.
In the true style of the 60s girl-gathering this recording thumps away, overflowing with multi-vocals belting out the lyrics simultaneously. Only occasionally does the single-lead come in, then it is supported by heavenly soaring of oohing and cooing.
This is very rare “Wall Of Sound” Northern Soul - another listing that is so elusive, most will not be aware of it’s huge potential until the “listen” button is hit.
Flip is great too…if you’re drawn to the “Girl” sound, they don’t come any richer or indeed any harder to capture than this..
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The winning bid was £ 123.00
An utterly flawless UK DEMO embracing it’s birth-sleeve…
One of Brenda’s many fabulous Northern Soul dance offerings, but arguably her least heard? Recheck on this racing Northern Soul winner guided by the master-craftsman of 60s dance, Mr. Frank Wilson himself.
The perfect marriage of Brenda’s gilded vocal and Frank’s invariably bulging out of the studio productions. Loud but seamless, potent but Soulful, explosive but crystal clear…made possible when an impeccably crisp vocal is guided by intelligent enthusiasm.
These two Soul-savants, were at the time at the very top of their trade…the result …just like the record is completely immaculate.
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The perfect alternative to Stanley Mitchell’s “Get It Baby” this mid-tempo slice of Northern Soul Heaven, has slept for too long!
This addictive Chicago Northern Soul mid-tempo groove, has snooze away in obscurity , suffering from it’s own extreme rarity; With mosst all collectors and certainly the vast majority of the NS dance crowd have never heard this killer in it’s natural environment - the hot-steamy all nite session @ 2 am - dropping the needle on this jam, could have only one effect.
Check out it’s off-the-cuff atmosphere, as Fred Johnson grows into an ever increasing in power session, lifted by shrill girls, a Detroit styled piano rhythm punctuated by a persistent saxophonist. Building up to a crescendo as the sax-man tips over into “Saxie Russell” mode at the end.
FANTASTIC STUFF and the only reason it’s not ramming the floors of European Northern Soul clubs - is because hardly anyone owns a copy!
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Condition, Condition, Condition!
Nearly 50 years old - and this file-fresh Northern Soul stomper has never encountered a club-stylus. One disc in a line of Autumn and winter offerings from a file-only hoarder collection.
If you like your Northern Soul with meat n’ potatoes, uncompromising and relentless you will already be familiar with this explosive dancer.
What you maybe not be familiar with, is two flawless labels and vinyl that was most-likely unplayed until it had the almighty soundfile lifted.
Stunning…
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The winning bid was £ 338.00
This weeks RARE and very compelling Northern Soul R&B listing is something rather special we think!
In Los Angeles autumn of 1965 Wallace Petty & Willie Hooks were getting to grips with two persuasive street-level dance tunes, instantaneous dance grooves. Topside displays Willie’s controlled Bluesy-growl rides a piano arranged that is suddenly elevated into specialdom by a studio of howling horns!
This is mid-60s R&B dance, not only at it’s most convincing but also at it insanely rarest!
So what does the flip hold for us… the same pianist rattles out the intro as Mr. Hooks calms somewhat but still thumps it out his urban enthusiasm with that whiskey-worn vocal..
Two great sides - with the lead side carry massive potential for the R&B DJ seeking the ultimate rarities.
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The winning bid was £ 111.00
For lovers of Psychedelic FUNK here is a ground level beast from the streets of Norfolk, Virginia!
George Clinton influenced shaker led by Cow-bells beatinng out time, with the rhythm galvanized by a persistent Wah-Wah guitar that veers off into a couple of insane solo’s, whilst Jade members incessantly chat their mantra.
Flip it over and it gets a little crazed, as the gathering push their love of all things Funkadelic/Parliament to the very outer limits.
This 45 is very specialized stuff and very seldom comes to market..
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“I’m Gonna To Find Me Somebody” .. WOO! “I’ve Got To Find Me Somebody” .. WOO! “Gotta Find Me Somebody!”
To witness a NS gathering performing synchronised raised arms and consolidated screams of “WOO! When peering down onto the 1974 Wigan Casino throng, has to be, for those who witnessed it, the most-moving statement of music-fan-camaraderie possible, and for everyone there a defining moment of their Northern Soul lifestyle.
Considering 40 years down the road, exactly the same response can be experienced at any British club, the moment the needle is dropped on this timeless Los Angeles classic, underlines the strength of the scene.
Before you today is the rarely seen West Coast styrene STOCK copy with birth-sleeve, so very attractive…so damn historical..and so impossible not to go WOO!
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The winning bid was £ 1,023.00