The Tempest

Got back from the Blackpool Weekender on sunday afternoon to be told by my wife that my 20 month old son had somehow got hold of Brenda from my album shelf , emptied the vinyl onto the floor and bounced on her for a few minutes before my wife intervened , much to her horror !!!!! Brenda still in ex condition , no damage done , why could'nt he of picked any of the cheap ones ? !!! Son now on adoption / foster carer list , please personal message for his full description , oh well !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some of my favourite " clappage " over the years !!

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Hi Mate , There are still loads of " classics " around at decent prices , so draw a list up of you're faves and work through it steadily , Unless you have a few spare grand in the bank , want to pay extortionate prices to any dealer that'll serve you and fancy a spot at any upcoming soul night !!!!

Thanks pete , Top drawer all the way fella ,

21 st birthday present , cost my three mates a fiver each at the time , sold it for £250 at it's peak in 2005 / 2006 and picked up the album for $ 1.00 !!!! Can't bloody stand it now !!

The guys scored just one album LIVIN HIGH OFF THE GOODNESS OF YOUR LOVE under the powerhouse sound production of Holland-Dozier-Holland trio. Released in 1971 on Invictus label "Trapped in a love" is a collector item on the rare soul scene and can be easily spinned both on northern & modern soul dancefloors .

Great record , and agreed very underplayed , you have good taste mate

Heard the Bobby Smith track - A New Day Dawning - and loved it , what price / rarity ??

Great vocal group and sooooo underated , you can see why this man chose them as his all time favourites ......

The Los Angeles-based Exits made only four singles -- three on Gemini and one on Kapp Records (really three, their debut came out twice) -- but two of them, "Under the Streetlamp" and "Another Sundown in Watts," feature some of the '60s finest soul group harmony. Their sound married late-'50s doo wop with mid-'60s soul and the material was a teary-compound of aspiration and hope and despair and hopelessness. They recorded their first song and biggest hit nameless and the producer came up with their name as James Conwell (lead), Godey Colbert, Esko Wallace, Louis Hendricks, and Charles Colbert were leaving the studio under the gleaming exit sign over the door. A new name was in order as they had recorded "Love Can't Be Modernized" b/w "There's That Mountain" in early 1967 as the Trips for Soundsville Records. Some of the members had prior and post musical experience. Conwell (the Vice Roys, the Minortones, and Smoked Sugar), G. Colbert (the Pharoahs, the Cufflinks, the Visitors, and Esko Wallace (the Visitors). Conwell was the Exits' x-factor, a magnificent lead singer with a voice more melodic, soaring, and harmonious instrument that could jerk tears from a mummy. They made noise in pockets across America with their first release, "Under the Street Lamp" b/w "You Got to Have Money" on Gemini Records (August 1967). It was their most successful record, success being a relative term, as it got aired on many soul stations and was well-received where played. True to its astrological traits, impatient, flighty Gemini didn't work the record long enough, and before 1967 ended released a second recording, "I Don't Want to Hear It." It didn't take off, so ever-changing Gemini reissued "Under the Street Lamp" in early 1968. Not in it for the long haul, Gemini Records went out of business; Jimmy Conwell had also recorded as a solo act for the label, but those 45s withered as well. They went with Kapp Records for one glorious single in 1969, entitled "Another Sundown in Watts" fronted by "I'm So Glad," and therein lies the problem: the B-Side should have been the A-Side. Except for an album credited to Conwell released in 1977, Let It All Out, nothing else by this marvelous group ever surfaced. And while Conwell's album, which has been re-released on CD by United Kingdom's AM Tracks Records, contains some Exits' tracks, it's not definitive as Conwell's most successful solo, "Cigarettes Ashes," is missing.

Never heard it played out in years , any takers ????????????

Because I was playing it before bathing my 19 month old , left him alone for two secs in the living room and he wandered in with the cover minus the vinyl , which I quickly put away , bloody kids !!!!

I had about 500 cd's at one time that basically took up a lot of space !!! Sold the lot and ploughed the cash back into my album collection , get rid everybody !!!!!!!

Killer opening lines , and oh so true nearly fifty years on !!!!!

Current price please

Current realistic price ?

Bought a copy early eighties at Glenrothes Ymca allnighter from Pat Brady , laid it flat on the bottom of my bag and after several hours dancing slumped my entire weight on it as a pillow !!! , they don't half snap well those Columbia demo's !!!!!!

Yep , deffo live version played out of this one