Sebastian

Do you have that list of 10000+ tunes that are better than "Ain't No Mountain High Enough". I would really, really like to see it (and hear them).

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Don't know if this is of much help as these pictures are so small, but here are scans of an original copy:

Yes, that's correct. But as Soulmac wrote, it is also available on UK 7" and 12". Here's the 7":

The UK Island 45 being credited to Phillip James is a good tip. The BRA discography is a mess though, and higher release number doesn't necesarily have to mean that it's a later release in this particular case. But I agree with you and will most likely keep the SOUL label release. Here's an updated BRA discography: BRA 001 - Lloyd & Glen - Minnie Skirts & Go Go Boots / A Good Man BRA 201 - Phillip James - Wide Awake In A Dream / ? BRA 502 - Blues Busters with Byron Lee - How Sweet It Is / I Had A Dream Last Night BRA 503 - Blues Busters - Wide Awake In A Dream / My Girl BRA 503 - Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - Your No Good / Behold BRA 506 - Blue Busters - Can't Believe You're Gone / Soon You'll Be Gone BRA 602 - Blues Busters - Happy Man / My Girl BRA 602 - Blues Busters - Wide Awake In A Dream / Wings Of A Dove BRA 901 - Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - the record / Hang On Sloopy BRA 904 - L. Perkins - Sandra / No Love No Money BRA 1101 - Witches And The Warlock - Behind Locked Doors (vocal) / (instrumental) BRA 2011 - Ken Boothe - I Don't Want To See You Cry / ? BRA 201? - Blues Busters - I Won't Let You Go / Love Me Forever

Released on RIM. Manship has got a M- copy on his site for £100. I sold mine for £50 a couple of years ago. Didn't exactly fly out of here at that price either. Can't imagine that there is too much demand for it. Quite a rare record though.

From earlier I have "Wide Awake In A Dream" on the Soul label credited to Phillip James (The Blues Busters), but I recently picked up a copy on the BRA label (#602) credited to The Blues Busters. I know that it also exists credited to Phillip James on BRA (#201), but I don't personally have that one. I'm trying to decide on which copy to sell and which to keep, so does anyone know which was the first issue for this tune? It's also strange that there is another Blues Busters 45 issued as BRA 602 as well, "Happy Man" b/w "My Girl".

That's not correct, they are definitely different recordings. Compare the drum intro on "Funky Eight Corners" and "Ton Of Dynamite", they are different. The guitar part during the "chorus" is also different, it's slightly disharmonic on "Funky Eight Corners" but that's not the case on "Ton Of Dynamite". The same goes for the drums on the chorus - straight on "TOD" and syncopated on "FEC".

This is a much harder 45 than the £30 guide book price suggests. Indeed, it usuall sells for around that price, but it's still pretty unknown and copies (especially in decent condition) are hard to locate. As DelTee mentioned, it was issued on both Cab and Camille (both labels had the same owner), but the Camille copies has got poor/muffled sound quality so go for a Cab copy if you're buying!

Are you sure that you're not thinking about their OTHER superb 45 on Hep Me entitled "Give Me Your Love"? Some of you seems to be mixing up "Running Back To You" with "Give Me Your Love". "Running Back To You" has hardly ever come up for sale during the past 2-3 years and there have been less than a handful of copies on eBay in that time.

It's a gritty gospel track, and judging from other posts on this forum, that might not be everyone's cup of tea (or suitable for "northern soul" plays), but it's got some amazingly gritty lead vocals and I personally would gladly pay a fiver for it just to have that guy scream at me in my living room.

Fred Bridges - Baby Don't You Weep - Versatile - £271 Pat & the Blenders - (all i need is your) Good, Good Lovin c/w Just Because - Fast Eddie - £539 Hunter and his Games - How You Get Higher vocal & instru - Stacey - £94 Little Joe Roman - When You're Lonesome - Tuff promo - £761 Sound Masters - Lonely Lonely - Julet - £359 Joyce Taylor - What Can I Do c/w Mean Mis-Treater - Wal-ly - £229 Don Heart - Lovers Hideaway - Tuba - £106 Al Hughes - Take It Or Leave It - Scope - £393 Billy Nichols - Shake A Leg c/w You Can't Fool This Fool - Sue promo - £50 Las Vegas Connection - Running Back To You c/w Can't Nobody Love Me Like You Do - Hep'me - £386 Honey Bees - Let's Get Back Together c/w Never In A Million Years - Garrison promo - £784 Chuck Jackson - Hand It Over - Pye International DEMO - £142 Helen Shapiro - Stop (and you will become aware) - Columbia Demo - £215 Moses Smith - Keep On Striving c/w Come On, Let Me Love You - Cotillion promo - £187 Jimmy Armstrong - I Won't Believe It Til I See It - Jet Set promo - £470

I'm sad to hear about Ganche's problems, but Brian is in my experience an extremely honest dealer. I have ordered from him probably 30 times over the past couple of years and the records have always arrived within a week (he's in the US, I'm in Sweden). A very accurate record grader as well.

"Cool" is a Major Bill Smith "special"... He released it at least 25 times as a "filler b-side" on his labels (Charay, Soft, LeCam etc.) when he didn't want to fork out more money on his artists. The same tune was also issued numerous times as "Patsy" and "Alpine Winter". "Kiss And Run" is written by Bobby Skel (Bobby Skelton). There are also versions recorded by Bruce Channel on Soft, J. Frank Wilson on Josie and by Bobby Skel himself on Soft. I haven't heard the Soul Of Georgia version, but it wouldn't surprise me if they all utilise the same backing track (another MBS "special"...). Any chance of a sound clip of the 45 on Black Sheep? More info about Bobby Skel here: https://www.geocities.com/spikeopath/bobbyskel.htm Nowadays Bobby Skel runs the Rinky-Tinks Sandwich Shop & Ice Cream Parlor in Granbury, Texas. Check it out: https://www.rinkytinks.com/

"My Love (Is So Strong)" is supposed to have been included on an LP called "The Answer" but I haven't ever seen a copy of it. There's another (early 80s) LP by her on Flaming Arrow though which is quite easy to find. To confuse things further, there is also a spoken word LP on Flaming Arrow by the "other" Angela Davis.

Only about 5-6 hours left on these auctions now. Thanks for looking!

I've put together two MP3-mixes featuring tracks from my current auctions for those of you who don't have the time to dig through all of the eBay listings. And even for those of you who aren't interested in buying anything it should make for about 45 and 35 minutes (respectively) of nice listening. SOUL / FUNK / R&B MIX [listen here] JANICE CHRISTIAN - Just A Bad Thing - SWAN GLORIA FOWLER - Will You Be My Guy - C.J. SYL JOHNSON - Try Me - TWILIGHT BARBARA LYNN - Until I'm Free - TRIBE LLOYD DELPRATT - Warm Love - SUMMUS MIRACLES - If You Can Want - TAMLA MOTOWN ROY HEAD - I Want Some Action - MERCURY SOMEONES - Big Time Operator - SONET ROOT AND JENNY JACKSON - Please Come Home - BEACON MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS - Show Me The Way - TAMLA MOTOWN BOBBI LYNN - Earthquake - STATESIDE LOU JOHNSON - Magic Potion (instrumental) - BIGTOP FURYS - Never More - MACK IV BARBARA LYNN - You Left The Water Running - TRIBE SOLOMON BURKE - Keep Looking - ATLANTIC MIGHTY SAM - Georgia Pines - AMY SLAM CREEPERS - Sweet Ruth - BILL BABY-FACE WILLETTE - Behind The 8 Ball - CHESS SAM BAKER - I Can't Turn Her Loose - SOUND STAGE 7 FURYS - Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart - MACK IV GITTE HAENNING - Seems Just Like Old Times - COLUMBIA PAT SIMON - You Make It Moven - VOGUE TOMMY REYNOLDS AND THE T-BONES - The Beat Goes On - LIBERTY MONGO SANTAMARIA BAND - Watermelon Man - RIVERSIDE ROY HEAD - I Miss You Baby - MERCURY DIANE LEWIS - I Thank You Kindly - WAND LOU JOHNSON - (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me - BIGTOP GARY EDWARDS & THE EMBERS - Yesterday's Hero - LESLEY MARGO TREADWELL - Three's A Crowd - LENOX CAROLE QUINN - Good Boy Gone Bad - MGM OLE HOYER AND HIS ORLON-GROUP - Chunk Bossa Nova - ORLON FREAKBEAT / MOD / PSYCH MIX [listen here] SOMEONES - Big Time Operator - SONET PAT SIMON - You Make It Moven - VOGUE CHASERS - Hey Little Girl - DECCA STREAPLERS - You Be My Baby - COLUMBIA JOE E. CARTER'S GROUP - I'm Gonna Change The World - ECCO TELSTARS - Tell Me Why - TEENER LIONS - I Want You - TRIOLA SLAM CREEPERS - Land Of Love - BILL SOMEONES - Hush - SONET KINKS - Gotta Get The First Plane Home - PYE YARDBIRDS - Shapes Of Things - COLUMBIA TAGES - Tell Me You're Mine - PLATINA NASHMEN - Carol - INTERDISC VANGUARDS - Tonight, Tonight - TRIOLA PAT SIMON - Hold Tight - VOGUE KINKS - Milk Cow Blues - PYE GARY EDWARDS & THE EMBERS - Hitch Hike - LESLEY KEITH & KAY - Stumbling Stone - DOT SLAM CREEPERS - Sweet Ruth - BILL GITTE HAENNING - Seems Just Like Old Times - COLUMBIA YARDBIRDS - You're A Better Man Than I - COLUMBIA TWICE AS MUCH - Crystal Ball - IMMEDIATE OLE HOYER AND HIS ORLON-GROUP - Chunk Bossa Nova - ORLON

Have you cleaned the vinyl after it went horrible looking? It might help, I don't know.

His early effort "She's Alright" (issued on the TRANS WORLD and FINER ARTS labels) is superb, and his frantic version of "Shout Bamalama" is another winner.

Hello! I've listed a bunch of 45s on eBay. There are label scans and soundclips to all 45s. Check them out at: https://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfrppZ75QQfsooZ...QsassZpushkings ___SOUL / FUNK / R&B 45s______________________________________ BABY FACE WILLETTE on Chess BARBARA LYNN on Tribe BOBBI LYNN on Stateside ("Earthquake") CAROLE QUINN on MGM DIANE LEWIS on Wand FURYS on Mack IV GARY EDWARDS on Lesley GLORIA FOWLER on CJ ("Will You Be My Guy") JANICE CHRISTIAN on Swan ("Just A Bad Thing") LLOYD DELPRATT on Summus LOU JOHNSON on Big Top Sweden ("Magic Potion") MARCELS on Colpix Sweden (red vinyl!) MARGO TREADWELL on Lenox MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS on Tamla Motown Sweden MARVELETTES on Tamla Motown Holland MIGHTY SAM on Amy ("Georgia Pines") MONGO SANTAMARIA on Riverside ("Watermelon Man") ROOT & JENNY JACKSON on Beacon ROY HEAD on Mercury SAM BAKER on Sound Stage 7 MIRACLES on Tamla Motown Holland ("If You Can Want") SOLOMON BURKE on Atlantic Sweden ("Keep Looking") SUPREMES on Stateside SYL JOHNSON on Twilight TOMMY REYNOLDS on Liberty Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

One theory is that radio DJs didn't want to or wasn't allowed to play let's say 15 records from the same label during an hour, but if they were on different labels - i.e. VIP/Tamla/Soul/Miracle/Motown/Gordy or Duke/Pecock or Chess/Cadet/Checker - it wouldn't be as obvious by just reading a playlist that the records came from the same sources.

Bob & Earl - Everybody Jerk - Warner Bros promo - £64 Ben Brown - Ask The Lonely c/w Sidewinder - Polydor - £95 Roy Roberts - Got To Have Your Love - Ninandy - £209 Tiaras - Right On c/w Lost Girl - New Sound By Revere Music - £163 Ceveland Davis & the Soundmasters - A Man Is Much Like A Baby - Cyntha - £137 Little Dooley and the Fabulous Tears - She's So Fine c/w I Love You - B&J - £149 George Blackwell - Can't Lose My Head - Smoke DEMO - £798 Ernie Wheelwright - In Your Arms - Gaye - £995 Master Four - Love Has Taken Wings c/w Where Have You Been - Tay-ster - £1511 Matt Brown - Thank You Baby c/w Sweet Thing - Jarval - £535 Village Choir - Sweet Hot Lips c/w Along The Beach - N.Y.C Street Sound - £385 James Bell & the Highlighters Band - Amazing Love c/w Poppin' Popcorn - Rojam - £332 Brenda Holloway - Together 'Til The End Of Time c/w Sad Song - Tamla Motown DEMO - £207 Percy Milem - Call On Me c/w Crying Baby, Baby - Stateside Demo - £144 Ben E. King & various - Saturday Night At the Apollo - Atlantic LP autographed - £53

Only about 4-5 hours left on these auctions now. Thanks for looking! :-)

It wasn't issued in the US (at least no copy has ever turned up). Only came out in the UK on JayBoy, and it seems to go for £75-£100+ at the moment.