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wow! awesome list....above and beyond the call of duty!

good list! i got another ural thomas (can you dig it/i'm a whole new thing) for five dollars - both sides funky-uptempo-awesome. also, i agree that bettye swann (closed for the season) is great AND the flip is a great ballad as well (don't touch me). here is a vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPF6FfHLN78

i can't say whether i like it or not yet - as it hasn't arrived in the post. just added it to my purchase with a dealer because it sounded interesting. but it was only 9 USD, so no big risk! thanks!

just picked up a single by jean carter and the centerpieces "no good jim/ and none" (Star 104). i can't seem to find any info on it. anyone familiar with it?

agree. "public enemy" was basically chuck d. all the others were baggage (usually anti-semitic baggage like prof griff). 'cold lampin with flavor' was the only flava flav contribution i can remember: "go to the poconos, to my hideaway, with a pack of franks and big bag of frito-lays!" outstanding! ... and "license to ill" was like the soundtrack to my high school years!

for reals. watch this clip and then think about recent hip hop. sad! ("i ain't no joke") best part might be flava flav having an epileptic seizure in the background.

perhaps i'm a bit jaded on hip hop. i remember seeing Schoolly D when i was in high school (with DJ Code Money!) on the 'smoke some kill' tour. and it just never got that good again! damn! now i wish i still had that lp!

dude.... this pic! crazy. i am sick of being up to my neck in hip hop clowns in oversized clothes telling me i don't know about 'old school' black music because i don't listen to Jay z! i had a white kid that looked exactly like this idiot come up to me while i was DJ-ing an offered to clue me in to the magic of scratching (with the copy of 'goose pimples' by shirly j scott that was playing) because "that is where the money is, yo". seriously - if you do not live in certain neighborhoods in SF, NYC, LA, or Chicago you can walk 100 miles and not meet anyone who has heard of brenda holloway. it sucks! ps - i agree that "paid in full" is pretty sweet (even that era of hip hop is lost on almost all americans - if you watch the movie "old school" with will farrell they have snoop dogg doing a concert and he covers a song from paid in full and i got blank stares from the peeps i was with when i explained that snoop dogg is too much of a vacuous ass to ever have written those rhymes), but "follow the leader" is the apex of rhyming.

i have a copy of 'opportunity' by the jewels that actually plays 'make it with the magilla' by little eva (tie in with the magilla gorilla cartoon)!

ps - i just noticed he is throwing a GANG SIGN in the picture ...... aaawwwwwww my eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just looked at that guy's picture and it made me want to poke my eyes out!! just one more thing that makes me embarrassed to be an american! you all in england have no idea how little the vast majority of americans appreciate/understand/cherish the legacy of black american music from the 50s-70s. EVERYTHING today has to be centered around 'hip hop'. this is bad enough - except hip hop PEAKED as a musical genre in 1985 and was DEAD by 1990!!! everything since then is garbage (the yardstick - and the only hip hop lp worth owning IMO - is "follow the leader" by eric b and rakim). you brits should feel proud that your society seems to (for whatever reason) have a way better understanding of music in general and soul/R&B/funk in particular and lucky that you have tons of killer events to go to on a regular basis! jealous!

question.... i just got the superlatives. i think "lonely in a crowd" is pleasant enough - but the flip ("i don't know how (to say i love you) don't walk away") is AMAZING. am i the only one who thinks it totally outshines the A-side?

ha ha. keep 'em coming folks! i went on a bit of a record spree over the holidays - so am waiting until my wife releases more funds for me to waste. but when she does i am searching for these gems! thanks again!

thanks to you all! i am printing off these lists and will get busy searching these out (i only own about 20% of the stuff on your lists). i looked at my recent purchases and have found five that i got for under 10 (USD) that i cherish: Jimmy Norman - i don't love you no more Joan Moody - music to my ears Carol Slade - i wanna know right now Bunny and Cindy - sure didn't take long Jackie Wilson - i still love you

ok, i am relatively new to soul. i see people buying and selling stuff for 100s (maybe thousands) of pounds, but i am still discovering new, great stuff for only about 10 bucks. i feel like (at least hope) there is still plenty out there at the "low end" before i have to spend big dollars. so.... if your entire soul 45 collection burned up in a fire (god forbid), and you had 50 pounds to restart it, what are the 5 best singles could you buy for that?

dang! i just checked refosoul and found both clips (i should have checked there first). well.... does anyone know about price then? is the string version much harder to come by?

i just picked up a copy of "don't destroy me" by carol jones on mutt. someone told me that there is an alternate release of the same song, except with a lush string arrangement in the place of the horns. is that true? and does anyone know what that release is? (same label, etc) thanks!

you all are looking at buyers and sellers - and some magical mechanism in between them which determines the price of a good, but are having trouble nailing it down. that is why adam smith called it the 'invisible hand'! the real interesting thing (IMO) is the notion of arbitrage. i grew up in the midwest (cincinnati) and used to be able to buy records super cheap - even though many of the store owners KNEW the records were considered rare and collectable somewhere (like New York, or Tokyo, or the north of England), there was no market for it in cincinnati. you could buy stuff (like i would buy old country on king records - delmore brothers, york brothers, etc) and resell it when you traveled. now, with the internet, 99% of those deals are gone, because the midwestern record store-owner knows he can deal with a global market (sell directly to collectors in Tokyo, etc). the interesting thing about you guys (big NS collectors) is that you, as individuals or a small group, can actually alter the market by influencing what DJs play or what folks consider hot. very interesting! i have a friend who is an economist, who would love to study this!

"stay together young lovers" by brenda and the tabulations. my wife says that, when i sing it, it sounds like an irish folk song!

am spinning tonight (the first). since people will be knackered i thought i would spin some soothing stuff: vareeations - 'the loving season' brenda and the tabs - 'stay together young lovers' betty harris - 'nearer to you' barbara english 'i got a date' chantels 'the plea' honey cone 'better to have loved and lost' tiffanys 'i just want to be your girl' francettes 'know him well'

Mischino got me with a bad bootleg of a Teardrops single on saxony. took me about 5 months and endless emails to even get the damn thing!

also.... just looked up your "Just Soul" webpage. looks awesome! if i lived in the UK i would be there with bells on!

thanks! i really like it - and other stuff like that: candy& the kisses, stylettes, 3 degrees (on swan), etc. off the top of your head, do you know of other philly girl stuff that is similar? (and not worth a million dollars!) best leo

i just picked up betty rene and the thrillettes "your kinda love" (Lawn #246). did they (she) record anything else? or any info on this record? thanks!

awesome! thanks for everyone's input. now i'll have some reading to do over the holidays!