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this video on youtube has an Old Town label that says norma jenkins and is #1160 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBks6c0ojLk ...but number is actually the Sparkels doing the same song (different recording) anyway know what the deal is? thanks!

always took time to answer my questions. never made me feel silly, no matter how trivial my questions were. or lack of knowledge. wish there were more like him. not just on the soul scene - but in the world.

i made an uptempo gospel mix for a friend's website and was checking the CD of tunes i burned. can't stop repeating The Followers - "my god said it" (Roulette gospel LP featuring a young Nick Ashford and Val Simpson) check it!

my fave mirwood is early cosby "ooh honey baby."

i teach at a military institution (for mid-career officers) and DJ for fun at local cafes/pubs etc. my students come to my sets with their wives, but they don't know the music - so i make free sampler CDs for them to get a taste of soul/funk. here is a 12-song set i just burned 30 copies of for my guys (and been listening to myself): Dorothy and the Hesitations - work out a plan Willie Gresham and the Free Food Tickets - step by step Charles Brimmer - feeling is in my heart Little Archie - all i have to do Velvet Hammer - happy Mel Britt - she'll come running back Pearlean Gray - i don't want to cry Shirley and Jessie - you can't fight love Betty Moorer - speed up Thelma Jones - here comes the heartbreak De Vons - someone to treat me (way you used to) Festivals - you got the makings of a lover

...at 1:08 when she says "welcome to my lips, welcome to my arms, welcome welcome to my heart" oooooooooooohhhhh sooooooo goooooooooodddd!! pearlean gray - i don't want to cry

i get it... i just think its lame. like selling someone a car and then taking the tires off before they pick it up.

I'm sorry if this is a soul-source member, but this seems kinda lame to me. ...selling the companies sleeves separate from the record? come on bro! https://www.ebay.com/sch/theworldofcitrine/m.html?item=151243621681&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

the calla version played here is the same recording as the stateside i listed in the first post. i swear to god, however, that i have heard another calla copy that differs at seconds 38-40 (where, instead of staggering out the words "on-ly your love" - she says them at a faster clip. i am waiting to see if i can get the copy that has the different vocal phrasing and post a clip. i promise i am not crazy!

I just heard a couple of files of this song. they seem to differ in the refrain; how she paces the words "only your love" at the end each verse. this is the one i am familiar with and the other one i heard was on US Calla and seemed to differ from the other in the refrain (like at seconds 38-40 of the youtube posted one). is that true of all of the Calla ones?

does anyone know how much this goes for - i'm having trouble tracking one down...

it's funny you mention the accents. about half of the people from cincinnati do not have southern accents, and half do. during WWII, many Appalachians migrated into the city to work in the factories, and so there are enclaves that have heavy accents (Norwood, Over-the-Rhine, Northside). i don't have an accent (i hauled my ass out to California when i was 18), but when i speak to some of my sisters, they do have slight accents. and yes, Indiana is super racist. it has the highest number of KKK members in the country! and yep, it is the Queen city. the logos on the cop cars are the blue stripe with a crown (the queen city on the ohio river)

haha! love this early logo from when they concentrated on white hillbilly music... (pic) my dad said the reason King was in Cincy was because the old AM station WLW was based there. before FCC regulations, AM stations could have signals as strong as they could afford. WLW was like a zillion watts (my Dad said he could sometimes pick it up when he was stationed in Germany in the Army after the war). they had a big radio show called "Midwestern Hayride" on WLW that was a huge deal for country/hillbilly/bluegrass artists - so there was a natural synergy with King records. anyway...that's what my daddy told me!

as far as i know, it was always housed here (pic) on Brewster Ave in Evanston... (i used to walk past it on my way to school)

and another fave! "i'm ready for love" ...so good, that the Jam ripped off the bass-line...

my favorite! the 45 version is better than the LP cut, IMO, but both are good... "I promise to wait my love" 45 version LP version

Dream Timers - "invitation" (Flippin) Bill Coday "back to collect" (Crajon) [where he is mad at a girl who dumped him, and now he is going to rape her for revenge - super creepy] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ThExKYHYMs

spot on. that song has truly "got the power"! "i'm a strong hearted woman, but you so, so much man!" - sends chills!

i had a similar problem.... then a wealthy Nigerian prince offered to help me out with $100 million if i would only...

liked this one (which i found on soul-source) so much i had it made into a poster for my bedroom! hope the owner of the image doesn't mind :-) for anyone that is curious, i had it made at Costco.com. it was cheap! and they mail it to your house. and it is actually printed onto a canvas that is stretched over a wooden frame. really nice service for the price (i do NOT work for costco, btw!) https://www.costcophotocenter.com/Shop/CanvasPrints#/

i was just thinking of boots and how people try and make them look "real". have you ever noticed BB holes in boots to make them look legit? i don't know that i've ever seen one. would that be hard to do? (i always heard they ran a heated rod through a stack of records at the factory to make BB holes)

i remember Maxwell's! saw some shows there too: Antarctica, Christie Front Drive, Chisel. i never saw/heard 3M3, but i remember people talking about them in wonder! like they were from another planet.

that's too bad. used to take the PATH train over there in the 90s (i lived in brooklyn) to see hardcore bands in some dirty first street bars. saw Unwound and Clikitat Ikatowi there! good show.

thanks!

does anyone know the current value of this ?