Sebastian

Those "Complete Motown Singles" CD box-sets which includes the a-sides and b-sides of ALL singles on the related labels plus differing local/national mixes and which will run up to 1972 or 1973 are quite OK with me as far as Motown releasing stuff. Sure, there's unissued stuff in the vaults, but it would be nice to just have everything that WAS released available in some format. This goes a long way in my opinion. By the way, these boxes can now be ordered from https://www.amazon.co.uk at absolute bargain prices, all of them are worth picking up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_st/202-54...p;x=14&y=13

There's lots of great stuff on those labels! There are some 125+ releases on Charay alone! The Pic & Bill 45s (15 or so of them) are all good soul and worth to track down, there are some nice Cresa Watson releases, there are some fine Willie Hobbs 45s on Soft. Plenty of good garage rock releases as well. Le Cam is probably most famous for being the original label for two gigantic pop hits, Bruce Channel's "Hey! Baby" and J. Frank Wilson's lovely "Last Kiss". Major Bill recorded and released anything he could make money off it seems, and the discographies for these labels are completely messed up, Major often re-used the same catalogue number to issue "new" 45s by the same artist but with a different flipside. There are for example 6 different Pic & Bill 45s released as Charay 60!!! The Major Bill Smith related labels probably warrants a thread of their own. But in the meantime, here's an incomplete Charay discography: https://www.capitolsoulclub.homestead.com/Charaylisting.html

Great stuff, Simon! I can clearly imagine Ian trying to convince Geno that he really DID record that tune... Kind of miss Ian at times, lots of energy!

Yellow Sunshine - yellow sunshine - gamble 14402 refosoul

Found a copy of Yellow Sunshine's "Yellow Sunshine" on GAMBLE today here in my hometown. Had forgotten how much i like that track. A slightly strange rock/funk hybrid and I'm sure not everyones cup of tea... But some fantastic bongo breaks in there!

It's an absolute dynamite tune to play really loud at a club, I did it this past friday and 400 people went nuts! I'm a sucker for that "gospel funk" sound (and soulful, gritty gospel in general) and always keep my eyes and ears open for this stuff, listening to gospel internet radio shows etc. As to where I found the Swan Silvertones 45... think I bought it from Craig Moerer for $10 or $12, listed for the "other" side.

Don't Take You Love From Me - perfections - drumhead 14400 refosoul The other side of that Perfections 45 on Drumhead is great.

I've Gotta Get There - bluesbusters - capitol 14399 refosoul I think this is very nice and at a decent price:Blues Busters/I've Gotta Get There-Capitol dj EX 20

And oh yeah, I got that Maurice Rodgers 45 recently from Lars Bulnheim who is being discussed in another current thread on this forum. I've never had any problems when buying records from him. Was very lucky to win this 45 off him on eBay as it's the only vinyl copy of this record I've ever seen, all others have been styrene.

Thanks for the comments everyone! Glad you like them. A very obscure record, but still quite unknown so shouldn't be too hard to pick up for about £40-£50 if you find a copy. The one that went for £20-ish on eBay was cheap. A batch of copies did turn up a while back and were sold for $75-$100, they seem to have dried up now though. LeCam was a part of Major Bill Smith's stable of labels which also included Soft and Charay.

A Chance At Love - universal minds - charles 14388 refosoul ...and that's the last one!

Who Could Be Lovin' You - al wilson - soul city 14387 refosoul

Hot Foxy Woman - christian plicque - le cam 14386 refosoul

I'm Someone Who Cares - originals - soul 14385 refosoul

Same Old Sweet Lovin' - devotions - tri-sound 14384 refosoul

Coming In Out Of The Rain - maurice rodgers - double shot 14383 refosoul

If You Believe Your God Is Dead (Try Mine) - swan silvertones - hob is gospel 14382 refosoul

Shake A Leg - billy nichols - sue 14381 refosoul

Take My Love - willie & the mighty magnificents - all platinum 14380 refosoul

I Don't Love You Anymore - maurice long - cyclone 14379 refosoul

Was transfering vinyl to my computer so decided to post up some of the tunes here. Will upload 10 tracks below, most of them with a crossover/funk type of vibe. Hope you like some of them.

OK... it reappeared for a brief moment and now it's gone again... does anyone know anything?

I've put together an MP3-mix 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 minutes of nice listening. SOUL / FUNK / R&B MIX [listen here] Maurice McCormick - Reeall Deeall - ATOMIC ART Las Vegas Connection - Running Back To You - HEP' ME Chaka Khan - I Know You, I Live You - WARNER BROS. A Tint Of Darkness - Answer Me - DARKNESS Razzy - I Hate Hate - Mgm Jerry Weaver - I'm In Love - S.O.B. Ethics - I Want My Baby Back - VENT Vernon Garrett - You Blew My Mind - KAPP Frankie Newsom - My Lucky Day - SAGPORT Norma And The Heartaches - Hot Pants - MARMADUKE Chris Kenner - Get On This Train - UPTOWN Count Yates - Chimpanzee - REGIS Soul Toranodoes - Go For Yourself - MAGIC CITY Lenis Guess - Super Woman - POLYDOR Tyrone Barkley - Man Of Value - MIDSONG Gwen McCrae - The Melody Of Life - CAT Maurice McCormick - 15 Minutes - ATOMIC ART Leon Thomas - Thank You Baby - DON Rare Essence - Disco Fever - MAJOR Cherry Pie - Love Is Loneliness - CHERRY PIE Vernon Garrett - We People In The Ghetto - KAPP Larry Williams & Johnny Watson - A Quitter Never Wins - OKEH Bad Habits - I Don't Want To Discuss It - PAULA Eddie Purrell - The Spoiler VOLT Clarence Jackson - Party Time (instrumental) - VALTONE Las Vegas Connection - Can't Nobody Love Me Like You Do - HEP' ME Jerry Weaver - Love Sick Child - S.O.B.

If you haven't, flip that over for a fantastic self-written tune called "I've Been Hurt By Love".

Seriously hypnotic tune and gets in your head very easily. Sounds like a bunch of people having a party who suddenly decided to go out in the garage and cut a disco record live to 2-track. I love it! Here it is together with its original heavy metal-looking sleeve: