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What am I doing in L-O-S......... wishing I was out there in baggy dad! They must be paying top dollar 4 U so you'd better get off S/S and crack on. Catch up soon, Lee

Russ, I don't know anything about the Shiptown label (honest) but if you're on your scooter down Lee on Solent way this avvy pop in the Coastie Rescue Station and I'll sort us a brew and we can talk shop. Best, Lee

Brian, as ever the font of all knowledge, Cheers, Lee

I am interested in who the Group were and where the Nite Beat label hailed from, although I understand it to be a Philly label from 1970? I know the 45 went on nationally with Cotillion, but all I have seen are issue copies, does it exist in promo form with both sides "Pretty as a picture" and "To make you love me"? Cheers, Lee

I can't believe that a 33 like this isn't being snapped up at what is a great price. A full house of fantastic tracks... Highly recommended.

It cheered me up seeing Alan's name in light's. Going back some years he always tipped me off about great tracks others would ignore, so much so I am still looking for some of them now. I was aware of his Casino outing's but never heard anyone else mention his deeds, clearly underrated, shame as Alan knows his stuff.

Looking for a mint minus copy with original centre. Please PM Show Stoppers - Shake Your Mini / Heartbreaker - Beacon (UK) Did it come out on US Showtime or Party Time? Cheers, Lee

I hadn't even thought about it, but now you mention it I feel another crusade coming on! Best, Lee

You'll notice my recent 33's sales didn't include my copy of this, you'd have to be mad to let it go once you've got it!!!! Any demo copies out there? Mine's a mint black issue. Just a reminder of how good it looks, superb cover! Lee

Hi, some excellent Northern tunes for sale: Couple of sound files added Let me know if you want me to add another? PM me or e-mail benray@sky.com Cheers, Lee **************************************************** Embers - It ain't necessary - Bell 664 Dj M- £25 Otis Leavill - Baby / Can't stop loving you - Brunswick 55337 Dj M- sol £100 Erma Franklin - Whispers / I get the sweetest feeling - Brunswick 55430 M- £80 Sam & Bill - Trying to get back to my baby - Decca 32200 M- £25 (Soooooperb!) 01 Trying to get back to my baby.mp3 Edwin Starr - Running back and forth - Gordy 7097 Dh M- £22 Lou Roberts & Marks - You fooled me - MGM 13347 YDj M- 2xol £35 Darlene Love - Too late to say you're sorry - Reprise 0534 M- £80 (Issue) Fantastic Four - Can't stop looking for my baby - Ric-Tic 121 Ex £80 SOLD Richard Brown - Sweet & kind - Steeltown 686 M- £30 01 Sweet and kind.mp3 Vala-quons - Window shopping on girls avenue - Tangerine 951 Wdj Ex £40 • Conservative grading. • UK Postage: £1.00 for 1st Class £2.00 for 1st class recorded (insured £39) £5.40 for special delivery (full insurance) Add 25p per additional 45 • Overseas rates on request. • Sent on receipt of payment, well wrapped and labeled. • Cash, cheque, bank transfers and paypal (fees on me) accepted.

Cover graded first & vinyl second, Always conservative and satisfaction guaranteed. St = Stereo, Mo = Mono. See Below! Payment: Cheque / PO / Cash / Paypal (No Fees) / Bank Transfer (EU) Postage Rates: 1st Class Standard Delivery £3 UK, £4 EU, £6 Rest of the World Insurance: Optional Packing: Well wrapped and clearly labelled. Look carefully, some hard to find goodies here..... PM me, Lee Archie Bell & Drells - Tighten up - Atlantic 8181 (St) Ex/Ex £30 (Includes "A thousand wonders", "When you left heartaches began", two tracks that would be massive collectors items if issued on US 45) Archie Bell & Drells - Tighten up - Atlantic 8181 (St) M/M £10 (Identical new pressing) Archie Bell & Drells - I can't stop dancing - Atlantic 8204 (St) Ex/Ex £15 Incredibles - Heart & Soul - Audio Arts 7000 (St) M-/M- £25 (I remember peeling the polythene of this, like new, great tracks including "There's nothing else to say") Artistics - I'm gonna miss you - Brunswick 54123 (Mo) Vg+/Vg+ £12 (Label has sticker mark on either side, vinyl shows use but plays through. All the goodies on here including "Girl, I need you" and "I'll always love you") Barbara Acklin - Seven days of night - Brunswick 754148 (St) Ex/Vg++ £20 (Yellow Dj copy, good mixture of Northern and x-over) Artistics - What happened - Brunswick 754153 (St) Ex/M- £25 LaVern Baker - Let me belong to you - Brunswick 754160 (St) Ex/M- £25 (With the anthem, "I'm the one to do it") Jackie Wilson - Nobody but you - Brunswick 754212 (St) Vg+/M- £20 (Includes "It only happens when I look at you", which you won't find on US 45) Esquires - Get on up and get away - Bunky 300 (St) Ex/M- £20 (Full of goodies, includes "Get on up" and the supreme x-over winner "My sweet baby") Dobie Gray - Sings for "In Crowders" - Charger 2002 M-/M- £25 (The cover is adorned with a 60's circus act, which does not reflect the quality of Dobie's floor fillers including "In crowd" and "See you at the go-go") O.C. Smith - At home - Columbia 9908 (St) Ex/M- £20 On Hold (Talk about emotional songs "Colour him father") Tyrone Davis - Turn back the hands of time - Dakar 9027 (St) Ex/M- £25 (Massive vault of hits, including my fave "I'll be right there") Tyrone Davis - Turn back - Dakar 9027 (St) M-/M- £12 (Identical new pressing) Whispers - Shhhh - Dore 338 (St) Ex/M- £45 (Top drawer tracks, "The Dip", "Dr. Love" "You got a man on your hands" and the x-over monster "You can't fight what's right") Maxine Brown - Out of sight - Epic 26395 Wdj (Mo) M-/M- £85 (Renowned for the supreme "Don't leave me baby" and RARE) Various Artists - Okeh - Epic 37323 (St) Ex/M- £20 (Gatefold, double album, includes great hits from Okeh artists, the Major, Billy Butler, Opals, Vibrations and Walter Jackson. Great stuff all on 2 discs) Contours - Do you love me - Gordy 901 (St) M-/M- £20 (This is not the rarer 1st issue) Martha & Vandellas - Watchout! - Gordy 920 (Mo) Ex/Ex £12 Temptations - With a lot of soul - Gordy 922 (Mo) Ex/M- £15 (Includes a cover of the Van Dykes, "Save my love for a rainy day") Edwin Starr - Soul Master - Gordy 931 Wdj (St) M/M- £30 (Full of the Ric-Tic stuff, apt title for a genuine Hero) Edwin Starr - 25 Miles - Gordy 940 (St) Ex/Ex £25 (Another classic album, includes: "He who picks a rose", "24 hours" and 25 Miles") Shades of Blue - Happiness is here - Impact 101 (St) M-/M- £35 (Includes the awesome "A way to love you", imagine the Volumes chucking it out on Impact...Wow!) Hesitations - Soul superman - Kapp 3525 Wdj (St) M-/M- £85 On Hold (The top end of their work on one single album, all the masterpieces from the Pied Piper stable right the way through, on a white demo too!!!) Freda Payne - How do you say I don't love you anymore - MGM 4370 (St) M-/M- £30 (Immaculate condition, longest album title in the world, Freda covers O.C. Smith's "On easy street", or was it hers in the first place?) Spyder Turner - Stand by me - MGM 4450 (St) Ex/Ex £22 On Hold (Put together at the Tera Shirma Studios in Detroit, includes the brilliant "I can't wait until I see my baby's face", "I'm alive with a lovin' feeling" the anthem "I can't take it anymore" and more) Supremes - More hits - Motown 627 (St) Vg++/Ex £15 (Full of goodies) Supremes - Sing Holland, Dozier, Holland - Motown 650 (St) M-/M- £15 Four Tops - Soul spin - Motown 695 (St) Vg++/Ex £5 Barbara McNair - The real Barbara McNair - Motown 680 (St) Ex/M- £75 (Silky smooth femme outings, includes,"Forget you ever met me baby", "It happens every time" and "If you can want" and then some) Supremes & Temptations - On Broadway - Motown 699 (St) Vg++/Vg++ £5 Four Tops - Changing times - Motown 721 (St) M-/Ex £5 Four Tops - Greatest hits, Vol 2 - Motown 740 (St) Ex/Ex £10 Platters - Going back to Detroit - Musicor 3125 (St) Ex/Ex £25 (Great version of "Why do you wanna make me blue", the title track has the same backing as Johnnie Mae Matthews "Lonely you'll be") Walter Jackson - It's all over - Okeh 12107 (Mo) Ex/Ex £30 Major Lance - Greatest hits - Okeh 12110 (Mo) Ex/Vg++ £30 Vibrations - Vibrations - Okeh 12114 (Mo) Vg++/Ex £25 Little Richard - The explosive - Okeh 12117 (Mo) Ex/M- £40 (Rare mono copy, with a belly full of "I don't want to discuss it") Walter Jackson - Speak her name - Okeh 14120 (St) Ex/Ex £25 Ella Fitzgerald - Ella - Reprise 6354 Wdj (St) M-/M- £20 (Worth it just for the cover of the Temptations "Get ready", also covers of other great Motown and Soul hits) Fantastic Four - Best of - Soul 717 (St) Ex/M- £40 (4444 cover, loaded with great tracks, plus the anthem "Can't stop looking for my baby") Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - United - Tamla 277 (St) Ex/Vg++ £20 (You can't knock any of the duets Marvin formed, some classic tunes here) Ohio Players - 16 Greatest Hits - TRIP 16-23 (St) Vg++/M- £100 (Highly sought after yet hardly ever seen, here it is with "Love slips through my fingers". Last copy I saw for sale was on Roger Banks list years ago, selling for well over a ton. Cornelius Brothers & Sister... - Too late to turn back now - United Artists 593 (St) M-/M- £10 Chris Bartley - The sweetest thing this side of heaven - Vando 60000 (St) M-/M- £20 (Full of Van McCoy goodies) Baby Washington - With you in mind - Veep 16528 (St) Ex/M- £35 (Sold a couple of these before, well appreciated by connoisseurs) Jackie Edwards - Put your tears away - Veep 16533 (St) M-/E £20 (Only his UK Island LP includes "I feel so bad", but on the evidence of this outing he has other great tracks, particularly the title track and "Come back girl")

Simply AWESOME... ... ... UK Original, Mint Minus, name on label, £400 See below... PM me or e-mail benray@sky.com Cheers, Lee ************************************** 01 I feel so bad.mp3 - Conservative grading. - UK Postage: £1.00 for 1st Class £2.00 for 1st class recorded (insured £39) £5.40 for special delivery (full insurance) - Overseas rates on request. - Sent on receipt of payment, well wrapped and labeled. - Cash, cheque (Prefered option), bank transfers and paypal (4% fees to buyer) accepted.

Cheers Roger. There doesn't seem to be anything odd about either label, both appear genuine. I can't believe that these high end / rare Kapp recordings I mentioned suffered from being pressed. I have an Issue and a Demo copy of the Hestitations - Soul Superman album, but both have different prefixes to the album number KS 3525 indicating stereo, K 3525 indicating mono. Perhaps this was not a method used on 45's as no KS appear on any 45. Maybe there is something in the black and pink A's to suggest that's how Kapp defined mono / stereo recordings? Brunswick did it with yellow and blue labels. Lee

Chalky, that's very helpful, been doing some digging since the post, manship's guide makes reference to what you've said, had a look at some Kapp demos; Rubin, Exits, Patti & Emblems and the pink A is on all of them, only exception is September Jones & Hesitations where the A is replaced with a black star. The Exits currently on Ebay is a black A copy (jpg from ebay attached) yet it's getting some serious attention! Not forgetting what a great track it is of course.

Got to say, neither side lived up to the expectation of the label set by the Heartbreakers!!! Lee

Can anyone shed any light on what the significance of the Kapp demo's having a Red or Black A, could it be mono / stereo? Cheers, Lee

I am looking for a US radio station survey put out by WHRV near Ann Arbor, Michigan for my collection. If you have one or more and would consider selling I would like to hear from you. PM or e-mail benray@sky.com Or a copy as a last resort!!! Thanks, Lee

Hopefully I'll brighten someone's day with a new buy, 3 great tunes, scans & audio attached See below... PM me or e-mail benray@sky.com Cheers, Lee ************************************** Blenders - Tale of sadness - DJO 1007 Ex+ £200 01 Tale of adness.mp3 Peter Hamilton - Hey girl - Jamie 1338 Wdj M- £250 (Backed with the popular instrumental version by The Peter Hamilton Movement) 01 Hey girl.mp3 Darlene Love - Too late to say you're sorry - Reprise 0534 M- £100 (Cracking Issue, glorious in red) 01 Too late to say you're sorry.mp3 Syl Johnson - Do you know what love is - Special Agent 200 Ex £300 ON HOLD (Has some minor visual marks, DNAP, SP1, Plays M-, reluctant sale) 01 Do you know what love is.mp3 Conservative grading. UK Postage: £1.00 for 1st Class £2.00 for 1st class recorded (insured £39) £5.40 for special delivery (full insurance) Add 25p per additional 45 Overseas rates on request. Sent on receipt of payment, well wrapped and labeled. Cash, cheque (Prefered option), bank transfers and paypal (4% fees to buyer) accepted.

Pm'd you, Lee

I've had a handful of 60's USA radio station survey charts for some time. These charts were drawn up as a result of weekly record sales in particular areas. 2 are particular interest because of specific entries, whilst the others give a clear picture of how well many Soul records actually did against the more commercially vaible pop hits of the day. The 2 that cause me most interest as far as I can work out come from the Michigan area although an internet search shows one radio stations registered in San Antonio, Texas, but the adverts on the back refer to Ann Arbor, Michigan. The other crops up in post on the Soulful Detroit website. The first WOIA dated 4 November 1967 has an entry at No33 - Nabay- Believe it or not. WOW! How amazing that a 45 of such rarity created enough sales to hit the charts in a relatively high position, yet remains so hard to find. On the same chart at No5, Robert Knight - Everlasting love, plenty of them about as are the Flaming Embers - Hey mama, at No4. Incidentally the Who are No1. Of course the survey is local to Detriot home of the Impact label came from. The second WSID which I work out to be Jan 1965(?) as the Temps reached No1 with My Girl, has an entry at No43, Leroy Taylor - Taking my time - SHRINE. Not bad for a Washington DC label. On this particular chart it is all Soul, which may have aided Leroy to such a lofty position. I wonder how welcome this was to Berry Gordy in the Motor City? Does anybody else have these particular survey charts or anything different that indicate a higher position being reached by either artist? Lee

Can anyone give me some idea? Cheers, Lee

Must admit I spin "How can you tell me", ten times more than I play the classic KFC side. I'm no Dj and it's only in my front room, but I hope that's some indication of how good it is.

Hi, hard to find Chicago winner up for grabs, Great tune, scan and audio attached See below... PM me or e-mail benray@sky.com Cheers, Lee ************************************** Blenders - Tale of sadness - DJO 1007 Ex+ £250 01 Tale of adness.mp3 - Conservative grading. - UK Postage: £1.00 for 1st Class £2.00 for 1st class recorded (insured £39) £5.40 for special delivery (full insurance) Add 25p per additional 45 - Overseas rates on request. - Sent on receipt of payment, well wrapped and labeled. - Cash, cheque, bank transfers and paypal (gift it if you can or fees on me) accepted. - Conservative grading. - UK Postage: £1.00 for 1st Class £2.00 for 1st class recorded (insured £39) £5.40 for special delivery (full insurance) Add 25p per additional 45 - Overseas rates on request. - Sent on receipt of payment, well wrapped and labeled. - Cash, cheque, bank transfers and paypal (gift it if you can or fees on me) accepted.

What a shocker, just happened to see the post this morning and couldn't bring myself to reply until now. One of those situations where you haven't physically met someone but you know them like a brother. Alan was one of my main contacts for many years and although we lost touch a bit when I was overseas with the Army but it didn't take us long to to catch up when i got back. Whenever he'd call (sometimes for a couple of hours at a time), sometime a couple of times in the same day the 45 in question would always lead us onto loads of other soulful snippets and much banter about, work, families and inevitably Man City / Pompey fixtures. He was truly a man steeped in an underpinning knowledge of this soul of ours and always picked up on the obscure 45's with potential. We did make arrangements to meet at Albrighton some years back but sadly he couldn't get there, similarly we'd hoped to get together at Fratton Park but again it didn't happen, so it was always a case of waiting to put a face to the name, which was somewhat satisfied when I found a piccy of him on a website for which he was reviewing his spins, maybe an early link to "There's that beat"? I'll miss him that's for sure, true to his word, open, honest and an affable bloke who made me appreciate the depth of friendship that this soul scene creates. My heart goes out to Judi, Danny, Jo, close family and friends at this sad time. Rest peacefully Mate, Lee

Hi, a cracking selection of 45's up for grabs, All great tunes, See below... PM me or e-mail benray@sky.com Cheers, Lee ********************************** Archie Bell & Drells - A thousand wonders - Atlantic 332 (Spain) Ex £100 HOLD Embers - It ain't necessary - Bell 664 Dj M- £30 Dean Parrish - Tell her - Boom 60012 M- £25 Erma Franklin - Whispers / I get the sweetest feeling - Brunswick 55430 M- £75 (As good as new) Marlena Shaw - California Soul - Cadet 5656 Dj M- £60 Johnny Williams - My baby's so good - Chess 1976 dh M- £50 Shirley Karol - My baby's gone away - Dakar 606 Wdj M- £40 HOLD (Slick crossover) Clydene Jackson - Honest to Pete - Dat Richfield Kat 1003 M- £75 Edwin Starr - Running back and forth - Gordy 7097 M- £25 Holland Dozier - New breed kinda woman - Invictus 1254 M- £35 Lainey Allen - I can't take it - J.W.J. 22917 Ex £50 (Same Detroit label as the Lyrics) Lou Roberts & Marks - You fooled me - MGM 13347 Dj M- 2xol (Orig) £35 Fantastic Four - Can't stop looking for my baby - Ric-Tic 121 Ex (A shade off M-, not many around in better condition) Danny Woods - I want to thank you - Smash 2159 dh Ex £35 Vala-quons - Window shopping on girl's avenue - Tangerine 951 Wdj Ex £40 Visitors - Never the less / Anytime is the right time - Tangerine 1010 Wdj M- £75 Ballads - I can't see your love - Wee 714 M- £70 Emanuel Lasky - Lucky to be loved / Our world - Wild Deuce 1003 Ex stkrmol £50 Conservative grading. UK Postage: £1.00 for 1st Class £2.00 for 1st class recorded (insured £39) £5.40 for special delivery (full insurance) Add 25p per additional 45 Overseas rates on request. Sent on receipt of payment, well wrapped and labeled. Cash, cheque, bank transfers and paypal (gift it if you can or fees on me) accepted.