Sebastian

The Sonics version of "Have Love Will Travel" is LP-only as far as a 60s releases goes, but it was issued on a 7" on Norton Records in the mid-90's which can be had for $10 or less if you search around a bit. Their version is by far the best one of this particular tune in my opinion.

And how right he was. Their self titled "silver album" is superb pretty much from beginning to end ("Camellia", "Alone Too Long", "Sara Smile" etc.). And the enitre A-side on their Atlantic LP "Abandoned Luncheonette" is about as good as blue eyed soul gets ("She's Gone", "When The Morning Comes", "Had I Known You Better Then" etc.). Their later RCA stuff is also superb. All taken into consideration, and despite their huge record sales, they're still probably one of the most underrated artists around. "Camellia" might very well be one of the best tunes ever recorded in my opinion.

Found it!

Great tune, as is most of their stuff. This was issued as a 45 on Etiquette. The flipside to "Shot Down" I think. I have a copy here somewhere.

I'm glad you like it! It's an absolute monster tune in my opinion.

Wasn't it "All This Love That I'm Giving" that was in one of those packs? A far superior tune to "Melody Of Life" in any case and well worth £1 of anyones money. By the way, what happened to the rest of the packs that you were going to list?

No, he's probably on about the Popcorn scene in Belgium... you're in for a treat trying to get to grips with that one... Check this out: https://www.popcornoldies.be/

I chanced and ordered a copy. Could be crap, could be great, but it's a subject that I never ever thought anyone would be intersted in making a documentary about so I thought it was worth a try. I'll report back when it arrives.

The US issue has got the same flipside as the UK copies:

Has anyone of you seen this DVD? https://www.leroyburgess.com/lbblog/2006/03...d_released.html Good? Bad? Worth picking up? Looks interesting.

About 6-7 hours left on these auctions now. Thanks for looking!

As I've mentioned elsewhere, this only applies to the "media" listings on ebay.co.uk, NOT on ebay.com where the fees are the "ususal". It's still a piss take though, I agree. And thanks for the heads up!

Damn how I love Georgie Fame's version of "Eso Beso" from the "Rhythm & Blues At The Flamingo" LP. Pity it's not on a 45 (or is it? ).

You're Gonna Miss Me - billy jones & solat - poker 16487 refosoul Here's the Billy Jones 45 I have. Unfortunately seems to be extremely hard to find. Matrix numbers can be supplied on demand...

Any chance of hearing the flipside?

I've sold three copies on eBay during the past six months at prices ranging from $100-$225.

Isn't the "I'll Keep Holding On"-guy the Billy Jones who was active in The Netherlands? Recorded as Billy Jones as well as Billy Jones & Solat. I have a very nice mid 70s 45 by him in a picture sleeve called "You're Gonna Miss Me", issued on the Poker label.

Nort much soul so far for me today... except for the latest thesoulscellar.com podcast... I've been busy digging in Ronnie James Dio's 50s and 60s recordings and I'm finding some pretty amazing stuff. Garage rock, tuff Link Wray-ish instrumentals, early rock'n'roll, The Who soundalikes and covers, Rod Stewart and Faces covers... I'm perplexed... how could he later make such a GIGANTIC wrong turn?

I'm glad you like it! Have probably played this tune some 20 times during the past 12 hours. What a piece of pop perfection. So much stuff going on in that wall of sound! Love it!!!

Was just sorting through some 45s here and suddenly came across a 45 which I've had in the "junk" pile for slightly too long. So put it on the turntable and... well it isn't exactly soul but it's in my opinion an absolutely SUBLIME piece of Mann/Weil penned brill building pop. I don't really know who to share this with but I just HAD TO play this to someone! This is an early (1965) 45 by Ronnie James Dio, yes, the same guy who later joined Black Sabbath and had his own band. But don't let that scare you...

Just wanted to make clear that I didn't say that it's rock'n'roll because it's a bad tune, as seems to be the case with a lot of people (ie: if it's early sounding and good then it's r&b, if it's early sounding and bad then it's r&r). I love rock'n'roll.

That's rock'n'roll with an absolutely awful vocal.

OK. Thanks anyway. Anyone else perhaps? I like his other Coral 45 (especially the uptempo side) and have wanted to hear "Soulville" for quite some time but can't spend £25 buying it "blind" unfortunately.

Any chance of a soundclip for "Soulville"?

It's way up there somewhere in the top for me to. Nice eclectic body of work... from Nazz, to his solo stuff, to producing/engineering parts of The Band's "Stage Fright", to producing Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" album, to Utopia... you name it, he probably did it. Most of it brilliantly as well.