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New Book - High on Sou!: Tell Me it's Just a Rumor Berry - Al Abrams The follow up to the 2011 Al Abrams book 'Hype & Sou!: Behind the Scenes At Motown' was published recently. Titled 'High on Sou!: Tell Me it's Just a Rumor, Berry', this time around the focus is on Al Abrams' experience, starting from his teenage years in 1959 when he was hired at Motown, to his role as Motown's Press Officer. View full article

Sales/Markt Feedback shout - Please Read! - Am asking all members who use our markt/sales forum to take some time out from their busy trading day and hit the link below , have a read and if have anything to say, pass on your thoughts/views It's a fairly important thing as your view/take could play a part in the future direction of our sales/markt feature... We have had feedback on some points, still time to add your suggestions, criticisms and such here's the link https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/463377-salesmarkt-feedback-topic-oct-2025/#comment-100246551

good luck with the auction, be great if ya can let us all know how much it went for cheers mike

just a quick may be of interest add of the sleeve notes from the lp THE STOVALL SISTERS - LP NOTES Side One HANG ON IN THERE (J. Moss) 3:30 YES TO THE LORD (Moy-Stevenson-Hunter) 2:10 SWEEPIN' THROUGH THE CITY (Traditional adaptation by the Stovalls) 3:10. THE WORLD IS IN A CHANGE (D. Geyer) 3:10 RAPTURE (B. Wright) 4:50 Side Two SPIRIT IN THE SKY (N. Greenbaum) 2:55. SO GOOD (Traditional-adaptation by the Stovalls) 2:27. THE LOVE OF GOD (L. Crume) 3:24 1 COME TO PRAISE HIM (M. Hollins) 2:58 I'M READY ΤΟ SERVE THE LORD (J. Carmichael and A. Wright) 3:41 THE STOVALL In the beginning there were Lillian and Netta and Joyce Stovall, ages 5, 7 and 2½ respectively, blend ing their voices on a great big stage as God's Little Wonders while mother Della Stovall watched and listened proudly. The beginning was the 1950s and this three-daughter edition of Mrs. Stovall's 10 children was the latest gospel group to emerge from her household. It subsequently proved to be the strongest and best of all. Lillian, Netta and Joyce continued as God's Little Wonders for as long as their childhood held out. singing in churches throughout Indianapolis, where they were born. When the Stovalls grew too big to persist as Little Wonders they inherited the mantle of the Valley Wonders from four older sisters whose careers succumbed to marriages. Valley Wonders they remained for five more years. "You have to sing gospel music out of love," says Joyce Stovall, "because you can't survive just by singing. Della managed them. She booked appearances and negotiated recording contracts for her daughters, who recorded sometimes as the Valley Wonders and sometimes as the Stovall Family faccompanied by two brothers). Nobody got rich or famous. It was all done out of love. In 1964, the family moved to Oakland, where the girls already seasoned performers finished high school and began worrying about economic survival. They continued to sing in church but the Stovall Sisters had to support themselves with weekday jobs. During this period they broadened their reper toire to include rock and roll and rhythm and blues numbers, which gained them entrance to Oak land area night clubs. "We were with Ike and Tina Turner for awhile," Lillian Stovall recalls. "I think we were the 18th set of Ikettes. We did a lot of recording sessions, too, but mostly it was club work. We were the Sisters Three when we did rock and roll, but we'd still record for the gospel label as the Valley Wonders or the Stovall Farmily." Each foray into rock and roll had its end, though, and the Stovall sisters would find themselves back in church singing the music they had grown up with. In 1968 the three girls decided to turn full-time rock and roll professionals. Their initial step in this direction was naive but characteristically direct. According to Lillian, "We put an ad in the Oakland Tribune Three black girls looking for a Cauca cian band to sing with. And we got more weird calls" Joyce picks up the thread of the story: "The only one who came over and really talked to us was Willian Truckaway. He came right in and sat on the floor like we'd been knowing him for years." Truckaway, who co-produced their Reprise debut album with Erik Jacobsen, asked them to be the background chorus for a single, "Bluegreens." He also introduced them to Jacobsen, who used them behind Norman Greenbaum on "Spirit in the Sky" and "Canned Ham." These relationships led to the Stovall Sisters' first album. The Stovall Sisters, which signals their emergence from background singers to featured artists. But it also brings them solidly back into the field of gospel music. Joyce is the predominant lead singer on the Stovall Sisters' first album, a new role for her. "I never sang lead until Erik pushed me into it," she says "None of us were lead singers. Our brothers were leaders. I played piano, stayed in the background and arranged most of the music." Lillian plays tam-bourine and Netta plays bongos and conga drums, but mostly they sing together. "We three are solidly together," says Joyce. "We've always been inseparable. It's always been that way with our whole family, all eight girls and two boys. We always seem to end up within a two-block radius of each other, within hollering distance" Insile this tight knit family circle, the even tighter triangle which is the Stovall Sisters lives con stantly within harmonizing distance, a closeness that comes from nearly two decades of performing. ELETTRE PRODUCED BY ERIK JACOBSEN AND WILLIAM TRUCKAWAY for Sweet Reliable Productions Recorded in San Francisco Engineered by Russ Gary Art Direction: Ed Thrasher MUSICIANS Bass: Doug Killmer; Drums: Bill Meeker (except on "Yes to the Lord") Drums: Norman Mayell (only ort Yes to the Lord"), Guitar: Dennis Geyer (except on "So Good"); Guitar: Russell Dashiell (only on "Yes to the Lord" and "So So Good Horns: Ron John Wilmeth, Hart McNee, David Ginsburg and Neil Kantor, Strings: Ed Bogas. Also thanks to these players: Steve Brothers, Joyce sings lead except for Netta on "The World is in a Change" and "I'm Ready" Reprise Records, a Division of Warner Bros. Records Inc., 4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank, Calif. 44 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022 Made in USA. 1971-Warner Bros. Records Inc. RS-6446

New Album - Riker Up - Charly Records - Adventures in AI Land Details of a new upcoming album release from Charly Records, A pre-order, shipping on December 12th. View full article

if you look at the first post in the topic you have posted you should see a '+add tag' link under the title tap the '+add tag' link and then tap the 'choose tag' link scroll thru the list till you see 'sold' tap the 'sold tag' and then select 'save' your post should now be tagged 'sold' does that help ?

ok will post this daily for a few days - Am asking all members who use our markt/sales forum to take some time out from their busy trading day and hit the link below , have a read and if have anything to say, pass on your thoughts/views It's a fairly important thing as your view/take could play a part in the future direction of our sales/markt feature... https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/463377-salesmarkt-feedback-topic-oct-2025/#comment-100246551

Soul Weekend Event Map Shout 17-19 Oct 2025 Our weekly soul event heads up, using our 'map views' from the Soul Source Event guide Over 100 events this week and this time we have had to use 2 map screengrabs to show them all! View full article

New Album - Soul Jamaica - Various Artists - Soul Jazz Records Soul Jamaica -Various Artists - Soul Jazz Records - Featuring Alton Ellis, Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, Sound Dimension and more! View full article

Am asking all members who use our markt/sales forum to take some time out from their busy trading day and hit the link below , have a read and if have anything to say, pass on your thoughts/views It's a fairly important thing as your view/take could play a part in the future direction of our sales/markt feature... https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/463377-salesmarkt-feedback-topic-oct-2025/#comment-100246551

Bobby Reed The Time Is Right For Love / If I Don’t Love You - Celestial Echo Celestial Echo is here with one of the all time holy grail soul double siders. When we tell you a record will never leave your bag after buying it, this is exactly the record it applies to. Originally released in 1970 and written, produced and arranged by the great Van McCoy, Washington D.C.’s Bobby Reed stepped up and delivered “The Time Is Right For Love” an incredible loved up stepper, and then “If I Don’t Love You”, a perfect compliment, another… loved up stepper. This one isn’t a fresh find, or a new discovery - Just an essential, officially licensed reissue of an incredible slice of soul. Tracklist: • A1 - The Time Is Right For Love • B1 - If I Don’t Love You Your browser does not support the audio tag. View full store item

just for info, had the below from a customer via email TALK 'Great, thanks Mike. BTW, you and/or contributor will be glad to know that one copy goes to the family of Benny Gordon.'

There's been a few concerns expressed with the sales/markt forums on here over recent times, some posted by members. some by myself and the team Some of the concerns are poor use of topic titles, not marking sold items, not answering pms, comments on sales, not understanding how the forums work, moderation comments and so on We do have long running guidelines that have evolved over time to try and assist in keeping things worthwhile and effective sales wise And every 14 days every member posting a new sales topic is shown these guidelines and asked if they accept and follow these guidelines by ticking a box if they do The Guidelines are shown in 3 places and the main one can be viewed here https://www.soul-source.co.uk/source-help/content-guidelines/soul-markt-guidelines-record-sales-forum-r57/ Due to those concerns we are making a determined effort to gather members feedback on all things Markt/Sales Forum related, so we can adapt the guidelines if felt needed, discuss the ins and outs of the current guidelines and take a good look at feedback such as suggestions etc Hence this topic and the announcement on all the markt/sales forums for a week Feedback as in questions, suggestions, criticisms and so on So if you do have any feedback then please take the time to share and post below...

yep sure, we ask for titles to reflect what they are selling where ever possible reason being that it works better when people should not have to click/visit a post to get a idea of what is on offer as you are just selling just 2 items, you could have added the titles 'Carstairs' and 'Ikettes' to your topic title That way every every person viewing the topic via the forum list, or the front page highlights. or the search and so on, would have an idea of what you are selling without having to click on the link and visit your post So 100s more would be aware of your 2 items and those who are interested would be more likely to click and view your topic that help?

'northern soul' is just that bit generic, here are, here's the guidelines again TOPIC TITLES - Give the user an idea of what's on offer. A solid title may attract more viewers and hopefully sales! sent ya a pm reference the rest thumbs up

agree, trying to get a midweek thing going for these dark nights,, but nothing really grabs either of us for this week, maybe next week...

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Event: The Regency Ballroom Review: 5 stars by Longin The Tooth - Event Date: 11 Oct 2025 This was event that had the pleasure of our company especially as it was a special birthday for a very special ladyWe arrived early and it was initially a worry as there seemed to be a lack of numbers but we didnt need to worry as the room filled up quite well after our arrival. The event went well and there was a great mix of music from the majority of the DJs, which kept us there until almost the end. The floor was up to its usual ggood standardIve atte... Tap to view the full event review