Alan Walls

I bought mine off Pete Crampton when he sold up, maybe '84? KB and Andrea Henry for £15 each, and a tidy little Detroit number by The Masqueraders called 'How', for £8... Them were't days... also on the sales tape, off the top of my head, was The Gentlemen Four on Wand, Isonics - Sugar, Imperial C's, Royal Robbins - Something About You...it was where I first heard and got the notion to buy and play Roy Hamilton - Panic Is On and Celeste Hardie - You're Gone...

So you got it - good for you! Safe to say it was me who sold it to you but I had the one and only copy for years up here. Not that we regarded it as being particularly rare, it's just that by the time I sold it, it's time had been and gone. I played it for a year or so at the Glenrothes YM niters & soul nights up here, and at Leicester Oddfellows, mid 80's, then retired it from regular play. I sold it on the strength of it once being popular among the handful of friends, family members and people I bribed to dance! So is it genuinely rare or is the price driven by demand? I'm quite stunned at Chalkie's £2.5k!

What, really? Man oh man...

60's & 70's NORTHERN & CROSSOVER - NEW TITLES, FINEST O’ TACKLE YouTube clips are not my records, the one’s I’m selling are pictured. Clips are included in case you don’t know a record, or have forgotten how good it is! ***SOLD*** Brothers of Love - My Heart's In Trouble - Intrepid vg++ £30 bought this off Pete Lawson for buttons at Allanton, just couldn’t get a reaction playing it out then but it’s a changed scene these days. Big production on this late 60’s groover, courtesy of Jesse James and Mike Terry, no less! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvNmb0wjcuQ *** SOLD *** Don Gardner - My Baby Likes To Boogaloo - Tru Glu Town vg++ £40 WHOOOAAAGH! Don’s ol’ lady parties all the time but he just wants to stay at home getting’ jiggy. Big voiced dancefloor mayhem ensues. On the rarer - and prettier – multi coloured label https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9ExwUlUGH4 Jimmy Graham - Love Can't Be Modernized / We Shall Overcome - Revue ex £35 big love for the genius that is James Conwell on the FB Rare Soul pages these last few weeks, here he is again under another of his pseudonyms. A reworking of The New Group dancer on Gemini, with a powerful, no-holds-barred civil rights dancer on the flip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0NcS4F8mPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeIeZlHnAQE Kenny Ballard & Fabulous Soul Brothers - I'm Losing You / Your Letter - Roulette demo vg++ £50 fabulous name, fabulous tune! Rattling 60’s northern, long and wrongly overlooked. Fine, downhome ballad on the flip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj6j6N50zss Randy Jackson - How Can I Be Sure - Epic ex £45 rare issue with 'Love Song For Kids' on flip, gorgeous 70’s shuffling groover. And yes, it’s that Randy Jackson! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_kX8a8l7f0 Ray Algere - In My Corner / You're Drivin Me Crazy Tou Sea demo ex £60 ex straight outta N’orlins! Solid 60’s dancer of good repute, and a typically quirky New Orleans piano workout on flip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAsj_MQcuUY Ronnie Miller - Listen To The Music / I Owe You Love - Jar Val vg++ £35 mid 70’s, mid tempo crossover thang I rescued form the unloved box after seeing it go for £50 a few weeks back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBoIyko6WtM *** SOLD *** The Shirelles - Look Away - Scepter vg++ £30 think I bought this blind after a Pat Brady review in Echoes, an odd one indeed. ‘Good odd’, I might add – great strings and melody, kind of mournful sounding and a million miles away from the pop bubblegum they were known for. Intriguingly, John Manship refers to this as being "a Shrine recording"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-xHERE6yOo The Herbs - Put A Hurtin On My Heart / There Must Be An Answer - Smoke looks vg+ plays ex £40 gorgeous, smooth late 60's crossover on one side, gritty funky edged shouter on the flip. Double value for yer dosh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDr7FIkK7rw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-8gpGincf4 The Mandells - How To Love A Woman - Trans World Sound ex £30 yet another overlooked soul pack staple from back in the day. Sweet, swinging mid tempo dancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQKRtmswLDk The Whispers - Where Have You Been / People In A Hurry - Roker £20 looks vg+ plays ++/ex what about these Whispers boys? They were around forever, seldom spectacular but consistent as hell: you knew you were getting loved up, good vibes California Soul . Like so… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWyeYxqYIc0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WzCI5XoBrg The Whispers - Flying High - Soul Clock ex £50 and there's more! Pure class, soaring group harmonies, as smooth as silk with bags of dance floor charm. Gonna stick my neck out here and say I am absolutely, positively certain I heard Butch played this, once upon a time. Just the once, mid 80’s, around the time he started playing Delegates of Soul. It was in a dark room in the north of England. I have no evidence and no one else heard it. And I had been up 2 nights… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNUat6_IcWc Tyrone The Wonder Boy - If You Don't Need Me / Good Company - 4 Brothers looks vg++ plays ex £45 two sturdy, no nonsense, gritty Chicago chugging mid tempo teeth gnashers. And that description alone that should have ya queuing up to buy it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOHEZFo4EBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAyAO-zIrkQ Usual jive applies: • PM your interest, but please add a comment that the PM’s on the way • P&P is £8 for Special Delivery on Orders over £50; £3 for orders under, via 1st Class Signed For. You can opt out of Special Delivery at your own risk, ie if a record is lost or knackered in the post, you’ll only get £50 compensation • PayPal only, and as a gift. Add 4% to the total (inc P&P) if paying as a business transaction • Wanna haggle on price? GTF, they’re cheap enough! Go ahead, does no harm to ask… • Honest Al’s money back guarantee on safe return of a purchase where you disagree with my grading Ok, dats’ dat. Happy hunting and a jolly good weekend to y’all! Cheers, Alan

Fugitives on hold

60’S & 70’S NORTHERN, GOOD ‘N PROPER – NAE PISH! *** ALL IN EX CONDITION UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED *** YouTube clips are not my records, what I’m selling are pictured. Clips are included in case you don’t know a record or have forgotten how good it is! ***ON HOLD*** The Fugitives - Good Lovin If You Can Get It - Sandman £75 joyous uptempo 60’s swinger – listen and buy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1byUssMJ-k Bobby Foster - If You Really Need A Friend - Sound Plus £40 really cool, understated early 70’s dancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I3BW-o3c_I ***SOLD*** Charles Perry – How Can I / Move On Love - Mutt & Jeff £75 cracking double sider of mid tempo goodness, rarer and much nicer looking than the Magnum release! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UZn1dZawJo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTu3c_h0bxM The Danderliers – All The Way / Walk On With Your Nose Up £65 gonna have another pop at selling this, two Stafford-era sounds that are rated by them wot know about such fings. Give ‘em a listen… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OeQj219mOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwFnrdsJ2Ts Felice Taylor - I Can Feel Your Love - Kent demo £50 old skool 6T’s Northern banger, on the very first Kent-Modern compilation as I recall, trivia fans! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p74WSsx8Aa0 Four Wonders - Just Looking For My Love - Solid Foundation demo £65 classy, soulful early 70 midtempo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA9_UA_9Z-M ***SOLD*** George & Teddy and The Condors – So I Cry - Phillips £30 stomperoonie, and in a pic sleeve! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuvuswAihaI *** SOLD*** George Byrd - I’m Available / You Better Tell her So - Tangerine £70 Oh Lordy! Cashmeres on HEM aside, if The Good Lord made a better double sider of pure, honest-to-goodness 60’s Northern Soul then he must have kept it for Himself. Proper Northern, known and loved since the Mecca but a million miles away from being just another, tired out oldie… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5AvoUqTh1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLciVGILnrY ***SOLD*** Joe Hinton - Got You On My Mind - Backbeat £40 you gotta love this catchy, soulful dancer and another from the Stafford Tape Swappers Soul Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNgIAi0bv0 Joe Moore - I Ain’t / I’ve Got My Sweet Baby - Verve £75 as Mr Manship says in his comments on the YouTube clips “a ridiculously RARE STOCK copy offering up two potent TRU-GLO-TOWN Northern Soul thumpers on one 45” Well, who am I to argue? Except he’s charging £125… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s7Mc85NWTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoANzcRi1T0 ***SOLD*** The Soul Shakers - I’m Getting Weaker / It’s Love - Loma demo VG++ £150 closing up with another brilliant double sider. You know where you stand with Len Jewell, he does exactly what it says on the tin – quality soul music so perfect for the Northern scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsso4tq4lhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvTjB32Gr5c Usual jive applies: • PM your interest, but please add a comment that the PM’s on the way • P&P is £8 for Special Delivery on Orders over £50; £3 for orders under, via 1st Class Signed For. You can opt out of Special Delivery at your own risk, ie if a record is lost or knackered in the post, but you’ll only get £50 compensation • PayPal only, and as a gift. Add 4% to the total (inc P&P) if paying as a business transaction • Wanna haggle on price? GTF, they’re cheap enough! Go ahead, does no harm to ask… • Honest Al’s money back guarantee on safe return of a purchase where you disagree with my grading Ok, dats’ dat. Happy hunting and a jolly good weekend to y’all! Cheers, Alan

Cheers Pete

PM sent...

Luckey Davis & Eruptions gone

Inverts sold

60’s & 70’s; NORTHERN & CROSSOVER; TEETH GNASHING BANGERS, FINGER SNAPPING FLOATERS – THEY’RE ALL HERE! I’m experimenting with adding YouTube links. The records in the links are not mine - the one’s I’m selling are pictured below – but it might help acquaint you with records you don’t know or have forgotten how good they are! As usual, all in Ex condition unless otherwise stated. Fill yer boots!  The Blues Busters - Love Is The Answer / Speak Your Mind - Minit demo £90 what a stonkingly good double sider of uplifting, feel good Northern/Crossover/Funky vibes, and a tough find at that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN5M3aWFcoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo5p8TbwcGw Bobby Womack - Find Me Somebody / How Does It Feel - Atlantic demo £60 Another two fine sides, and another tough find. I don’t like the thought of selling Bobby Womack records, it feels like an act of betrayal. But I am selling up so…  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRiQ89D_Ess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Vu8gIBTc8 The Caesars - (La La) I Love You / You Better Get Yourself Together - Lanie £50 Not quite in the same league as ‘Girl I Miss You’ but a damn fine group midtempo with a killer slowie on the flip (which is in vg++ condition, with a few wee surface scratches) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyH518YQvHQ ***SOLD***The Dells - Your Song - 20th Century UK £40 don’t need a sound file for this, surely? Classic modern dancer enjoying a new life Diane Cunningham - Certain Kind of Lover - Fontana £55 splendid late 60’s Chicago smooth crossover goodie, with a wee nod to ‘Love Uprising’ about it, I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOM7btQKKGI The Ebonys - Don’t Knock Me / Can’t Get Enough - Soul Clock £25 kinda gritty, kinda funky, kinda right for today’s forward thinkers maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NMaH8zAfzU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPrdorr-FIg ***SOLD*** The Eruptions - Price of Love / Whispers Getting Louder - VAL £80 oh aye! ‘Price’ is a druggy garage-soul beast that just overwhelms the Marshall & Chi Lites original, a right 4am banger. ‘Whispers’ is less intimidating, a take on the JW classic that’s interestingly different while respecting the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N2mbCyAmCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkbSvvRPmM *** SOLD *** The Inverts - Look Out Love - Tower £40 vg+ a bargain price that’s dictated by the appearance - damaged label, with vinyl scuffs and surface scatches that suggests it’s had a hard life, but it plays much much better than it looks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBOKJrR5BbQ Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr - Your Love Keeps Drawing Me Closer / You Can’t Blame Me £40 what will it take to sell this? Always gets lots of likes and thumbs up’s but no bugger buys it. Lovely mid tempo dancer with a sweet soul gem on the flip that get’s as much attention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pemDu2VeO0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L6a6YO2JVo ***SOLD*** Luckey Davis - It’s Not Where You Start (It’s Where You Finish) - Highland £50 late Wigan? Clifton Hall? Quality modern soul that sounds as good today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5yKOpL2pIE ***SOLD*** Mill Evans - Why Why Why - King demo £125 maybe the clip will jog people‘s memories of this Gary Rushbrooke gem, there’s many a collection out there sorely lacking! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgM8KTyrl0 The New Group - Love Can’t Be Modernized / There’s That Mountain - Gemini £275 a sane man would lose his shit trying to tally up how many versions of this group and these songs (and derivatives of them) were around. The Exits, The Tripps, James Conwell; TTM is a slowed down take on Richard Temple ‘The Beating Rhythm…Richard Temple is James Conwell, who was in The Exits, who are The New Group…it’s LA so our hero Len Jewell is in the mix…it goes on and on. I even have a version of LCBM by someone on Revue AAAAGH!!! Anyhoo, I digress: this is just superb music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLbRj5o7_z8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CseibN59vNw The Opportunity Please Knock Chorus - All This Talk About Freedom - Ramsel £50 this oddball civil right banger is another that gets lots of ‘likes’ but not to the point of someone actually buying it. Sort that out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBmmj_NFP1k The Universals - Without Friends / New Lease On Life - Modern demo £75 the best of both worlds here: a belting northern goodie on one side, classy mid tempo on’tother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zqz4taYfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws13HGM3S1A ***SOLD*** Towanda Barnes - If I’m Guilty - Groovy £60 cheapest price on the interweb for this rip roaring banger! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKkMgo3kDNs Willie Darrington - Never Should Have Walked Away - RAV £250 wee bit of early 80’s modern to wind up with, and a bona fide original. Pure class! ****************************** Usual jive applies: • PM your interest, but please add a comment that the PM’s on the way • P&P is £8 for Special Delivery on Orders over £50; £3 for orders under, via 1st Class Signed For. You can opt out of Special Delivery at your own risk, ie if a record is lost or knackered in the post, but you’ll only get £50 compensation • PayPal only, and as a gift. Add 4% to the total (inc P&P) if paying as a business transaction • Wanna haggle on price? GTF, they’re cheap enough! Go ahead, does no harm to ask… • Honest Al’s money back guarantee on safe return of a purchase where you disagree with my grading Ok, dats’ dat. Happy hunting and a jolly good weekend to y’all! Cheers, Alan.

PM enroute...

Versatile Gents be gone

Shirley Karol has joined her baby and gone away (ie, sold)!

You certainly can, m'friend! PM on the way

Linda Jones, El Anthony & Andre Scott all sold Versatile Gents on hold

Mornin' all. I'm not one for mixing up the genres in my lists but they're all present and correct here - 60's Northern, Funky Grooves, Crossover & 70's Dancers. Let's just fire 'em up and see what the hell happens.. All at least ex condition unless otherwise stated. *** SOLD **** Andre Scott, with Otis, Jessie & Shotgun - Cry In The Arms Of Another Love - Sunflower £55 as if the sublime, soulful dancer wasn't enough, that's one hell of a name for a group... Bobbie Brown - I Gotta Have You - Jacklyn £100 shares the same, ballsy, fistpumping 60's mid/uptempo backing as label-mates The Lovemasters 'Pushing and Pulling', but this is the much tougher find Centre Stage - Someday, Someway / Hey Lady - Dispo £45 2 cracking sides of mid tempo 70's grooving *** SOLD *** El Anthony - We've Been In Love Too Long - La Cindy £200 aye, it's El Anthony. Always in demand, be fast or yo'last! Eula Cooper - Beggars Can't Be Choosy - Note £75 was thrilled to find this when digging through the collection yesterday, I feared it was long gone. This much loved, Sam Dees penned mid tempo that almost stomps along 60's style, while being a smooth 70's production. Lovely! Friends - No You No Me - Up £35 Yet another I first heard on that John Manship 60's Newies tape back in '81 I often refer to, and another from that tape that still seems to be under the radar. ***SOLD*** Linda Jones & Whatnauts - I'm So Glad I Found You - Stang £45 God, do I feel daft! Not only did I not know I had this until yesterday, I didn't know it existed! An amazing cover of The O'Jays Northern classic, really belts along but it's Linda's legendary impassioned vocals that seals the deal. Just magic! The Majorettes - Too Hot To Hold - Mercury demo £40 yep, it's the Major Lance favourite (hence the group's name) but this is no mere cover version, it's a compete reworking; funked-up early 70's style. Got legs, this one! Marsha & The Delwands - No Hope No Faith - Zudan £70 a much sprightlier song than the miserable title suggests! Early-mid 60's, obscure-label Northern from the Stafford tape swappers circuit. Condition dictates price here - it has scuffs and surface scratches that makes it look like a vg but which don't affect play, it sounds like an ex Royal Premiers - I Can Make It If I Try - MBS £75 and speaking of Stafford's tape swappers! Don't know if it ever got A List plays, but it did the tape rounds and enjoyed a good repute, turning up as it did about the same time as The Ascots release on MBS *** SOLD *** Shirley Karol - My Baby's Gone Away - Dakar demo £40 nearly half price for this quality early 70's mid tempo Sugar Pie Desanto - My Illusion - Soul Clock £60 a similar groove to Shirley Karol and getting attention Tommy Ray Tucker - Cry Cry Cry - Challenge demo £160 my old Little Ritchie c/u, as featured in Mark Windle's book Rhythm Message. Rip roaring, brassy 60's stomper that kinda reminded me of Just Another Heartache. Comes with authentic 1980's cover up residue in run out groove, at no extra charge! ***SOLD*** The Versatile Gents - You've Blown My Mind - Linco £65 rated track among the 'funky edged' fraternity. Git down, hoooooaah! Ok, dat's dat. Usual jive applies: • Pm your interest, but please add a comment letting me now there’s a pm on the way • P&P is £8 for Special Delivery on order over £50, under is £3 for 1st Class Signed For • PayPal only, as a gift or add 4% to the total if paying as a business transaction • Wanna haggle on price? GTF, they’re cheap enough! Ok, have a go, does no harm to ask, but don't be daft about it ;-) Cheers y’all, Alan

Holy feckin cow, after all these years I never knew all this, always assumed the issues appeared in the usual sequence of events. Everyday a school day! The word "remake" was used earlier: is the pink issue a different recording?

What it says on the tin: proper old skool sound but titles with taste! All ex unless otherwise stated Bobby Bell - Don’t Come Back To Me / Drop Me A Line - RCA demo £80 two top quality sides of tough, knees-up Northern The Entertainers - Love In My Heart / My Pad - Symbol vg++ £90 big, brass-driven 4/4 dancer, flp is a mid tempo reworking of On Broadway with loads of Mod appeal ***ON HOLD*** The Herbs - Never Never (Will I Fall In Love) / Question - Smoke £80 another cracking double sider, each with that irresistible fast, string-laden group vibe as the Exsaveyons Jimmy Norman - Family Tree - Mercury demo £150 started many a set with this no-nonsense, fist pumping, teeth gnashing stomperoonie. A Messhead’s call to arms! Pat Thompson & Archie Powell - Darling Darling - Mir A Don £95 maybe doesn’t get the love it’s more illustrious label mates enjoy but it’s still a treasure! Prices have been all over the shop for this over the last 12 months, from £200+ but - dare I say it – not this low. Usual jive applies: • Pm your interest, but please add a comment letting me now there’s a pm on the way • P&P is £8 for Special Delivery on order over £50, under is £3 for 1st Class Signed For • PayPal only, as a gift or add 4% to the total if paying as a business transaction • Wanna haggle on price? Bugger off, they’re cheap enough! ;-) Cheers y’all

Hell yeah! A wee list 60’s Northern bangers with just the right dose of R&B hot sauce. And I’m talkin’ proper bangers here - full steam ahead! All ex condition unless otherwise stated… Jimmy Dobbins - Little Miss Perfect - Crash £45 aptly named label for this belting, crash- bang- walloper. A no nonsense belter! Bobby Harris - Ain’t That Love - Turntable £30 looks like a shagged out vg+ with scuffs and surface marks, but plays nearer ex. Pretty sure a George Sharp spin up in the Soul Attic at Top of The World; real good, uptempo, swingin’ dancer. ‘Lonely Intruder’ on the flip sees Bobby deliver a fine, Sam Cooke-style deep ballad. Don Gardner - My Baby Likes To Boogaloo - Tru Glo Town £115 The Don’s feelin’ mean: his ol’ lady ‘s out partying all the time and he’s well pissed off with it. He let’s rip, and 2 mins 59 seconds later she know the score! Jimmy Burns - Powerful Love - Tip Top £115 cooling things down a wee bit, Jimmy’s swinging along in this fine, mid/uptempo handclapper. A wee spin of mine at Allanton in ye olde days, but don’t let that – or the wonkily pressed label (NAP) – put you off. Flip is another, easy on the ear Sam Cooke-a-like King Ernest - I Feel Alright - Barry demo £55 right, back to the bangers. Ernie’s one of those raucous, R&B shouters who always manage to sound really irritated, even when they’re singing about how good they feel! He calms down a bit on the flip, ‘Hold It Baby’ having that strolling, good time vibe about like the Jimmy Burn side. I’ve listed this a couple of times, get loads of ‘likes’ and nice comments but it’s still here… Koko Taylor - Fire - Checker £35 wooooah Lordy, somebody call the po-lice! Koko has the wildest, rowdiest, downright scariest sounding voice; you wouldn’t want to be coming home to her with a torn paypacket on a Friday night! Think of a female Jimmy Robbins whose been up for 5 nights on crystal meth and you’re getting the picture! But seriously, I’m not doing this pounding brassy thumper justice, it’s got buckets of all niter appeal. Tell there’s still some hardy folks out and about who still have the fire in their bellies and haven’t been pussified by weedy, feeble-assed featherweight pish like Papa Bear and all that foppery (topical joke – see Rare Soul Talk page on Facebook) Usual jive applies: Pm your interest, but please add a comment letting me now there’s a pm on the wa · P&P is £8 for Special Delivery on order over £50, under is £3 for 1st Class Signed For · PayPal only, as a gift or add 4% to the total if paying as a business transaction · Wanna haggle on price? Let’s hear ya, but don’t be daft And beware - I've been listening to seriously mean music! Cheers y’all!

The kind of topic that's always gonna generate highly objective interpretations. For my money, 'Blue Eyed Soul' was made by white boys and girls who had the ability to sing and who loved soul/R&B, so it was natural to them to make the music they loved. They made soul music. That's a million miles away from the various strains of white pop music that got played on the scene simply because of it being fast, danceable and us being off our heads on proper good gear. 'Northern', but not 'Northern Soul! Righteous Brothers, Dusty Springfield, Magnificent Men etc knew exactly what they were doing, it wasn't soul by accident. Same with the southern boys m'good man Mark Windle covered in his books. The likes of The Seeds were bugger all to do with soul and not intended to be.

Tony now sold, that's them all now. Thanks guys!

Whispers and Bob Relf gone, Tony T pending payment...

Flairs have flown!