Sebastian

There are "broken" drum patterns all over the place, especially during the verses. That is the definition funk. If there's a broken drum pattern, it becomes funky. Play it next to Frank Wilson and then next to any random uptempo late 60s James Brown record and I can assure you that you'll find more resemblence to the latter.

E-mail me at fonzeus@telia.com if you're interested in anything. Prices includes postage. PayPal payments only, please. You can click on the underlined titles to hear sound-clips. Danderliers - All The Way / Walk On With Your Nose Up - MIDAS - EX+ - £50 (two in-demand sides, one uptempo and the other mid-tempo) Black River Circus - Love's Gonna Carry Me (Home) / A Ritual Melody - MRC - EX+ - £30 (a very obscure disc, uptempo beach-ish dancer on one side sharing the same verse lyrics as "Would You Believe" by The Tempests, and a frantic stomping instrumental on the flip, lots of grinding organ playing in both tunes, truly recommended if you're into that kind of stuff) Ella Fitzgerald - Get Ready - REPRISE - EX+ - £20 (the IMO best and very in-demand version of this classic tune) Marva Whitney - Saving My Love For My Baby - FEDERAL - EX (wol) - £10 (storming dancer b/w fabulous deep soul) Mary Wells - He's A Lover - 20TH CENTURY FOX - EX (sol) - £15 (mid-tempo perfection, same tune as Tutti Hill on Arock and just as fantastic) Betty Lavette - You'll Wake Up Wiser / Heart Of Gold - ATCO - EX (sol) - £15 (two great sides - one mellow mid-tempo and the other slightly funky) Shirley Wahls - Because I Love You - CALLA - EX (wol) - £15 (blasting uptempo dancer with screaming vocals, can't recommend this enough) Four Sonics - It Takes Two - SPORT - EX+ (sol)- £10 (classic detroit dancer) Feathers - Tryin' To Get To You - TEAM - EX+ - £10 (stomp! stomp! stomp! blasting wigan spin) Dean Parrish - Tell Her - BOOM (wol)- EX - £10 (classic uptempo dancer) Thanks for looking!

Mine's the swirly design as well. Just different pressing plants is my bet ( ). What a great track that is! And the flip is a nice ballad too.

If you're into pounding hard edged brutal r&b, that Ricky Allen 45 is about as good as it gets. A total stormer with great organ grinding in the background. Fantastic stuff and at a bargain price. Someone pick this up. The Lee Dorsey & Betty Harris duet is also fantastic and pure New Orleans heaven.

Are the two Monzas 45s on the Moon label by the same group?

I haven't DJed at a "pure" northern night in ages, but if I would do today, the following 60s dancers would all be included in my set: James Spencer - In-Law Trouble - TAURUS Ike Lovely - I Want It All - CAPITOL Jimmy Ellis - Puttin It On Your Mind - SALEM Watson And The Sherlocks - Standing On The Corner - SOULVILLE Lee Harris - I'm Gonna Get Your Thing (Get You) - FORTE Fabulous Dimensions - I Can't Take It, Baby - SAPPHIRE Danny White - Natural Soul Brother - SSS INTERNATIONAL Masters Of Soul - Sad Face - OVIDE Debonaires - Stop, Let's Be United - GALAXY Little Sherman & Mod Swingers - The Price Of Love - SAGPORT I love them all equally! :-) For those of you who want to hear any of the above tunes, just click on the titles for RealAudio clips.

E-mail me at fonzeus@telia.com if you're interested in anything. Prices includes postage. PayPal payments only, please. You can click on titles marked in blue to hear sound-clips (NOT taken from the records that are up for grabs, though). Posse - Evil - JANUS - EX- (wear on label) - SOLD (in-demand top dancer, some clicks on the intro, plays great otherwise) Idle Few - People That's Why - BLUE BOOK - VG+ (wear on label) - SOLD (classic dancer, rare original stamped issue copy, some scratches, but plays nice) Betty Lavette - You'll Wake Up Wiser / Heart Of Gold - ATCO - EX (sol) - £20 (two great sides - one mellow mid-tempo and the other slightly funky) Judy Clay - You Busted My Mind - SCEPTER demo - EX - SOLD (storming classic dancer) Sam Cooke - Sugar Dumpling - RCA - EX - SOLD (nice chunky vinyl copy of this in-demand dancer) Big Amos - Move With You Baby / He Won't Bite Me Twice - HI demo - EX+ - SOLD (two thumping r&b dancers, £75 from Manship) Charms - If You Got The Notion - EMBLEM - EX- (wol) - £15 (stomping dancer, great tune, looks kinda bad but plays perfect) Bobby Cutchins - I Did It Again - LASSO - M- (sl.warp NAP) - £10 (classic superb 70s dancer) Ron Moody And The Centaurs - The New Breed - COLUMBIA - EX - SOLD (obscure uptempo version of the Jimmy Holiday stormer) Thanks for looking!

Here are a bunch of records that I have for sale. E-mail me at fonzeus@telia.com if you're interested in anything. Prices includes postage except for the £5-discs. PayPal payments only, please. You can click on titles marked in blue to hear sound-clips (NOT taken from the records that are up for grabs, though). 45s Sam Cooke - Sugar Dumpling - RCA - EX - £30 (nice chunky vinyl copy of this in-demand dancer) Flirtations - Change My Darkness Into Light - JOSIE - EX - £30 (both the fantastic top side and the flip "Natural Born Lover" are great underplayed dancers) Shirley Wahls - Because I Love You - CALLA - EX (wol) - £20 (blasting uptempo dancer with screaming vocals.) Marva Whitney - Saving My Love For My Baby - FEDERAL - EX (wol) - £15 (storming dancer b/w fabulous deep soul) Robert John - If You Don't Want My Love - COLUMBIA w/d - EX+ - £15 (double-sided demo of this nice mid-tempo tune) Bill Deal & The Rhondels - Are You Ready For This - HERITAGE - EX - £10 (fantastic dancer, if you don't know it check it out) Occasions - There's no you - BIG JIM - EX - £10 (nice uptempo dancer, old stafford spin) Joe Simon - Long Hot Summer - SOUND STAGE 7 - EX - £5 (if you don't know this, definitely check it out. pounding old-school northern dancer. great value for money! the flip doesn't play well) Darlene Love - Lord If You're A Woman - PHIL SPECTOR INT. (UK) - EX+ - £10 Barbara Mercer - Hey!! - GOLDEN WORLD - EX (xol) - £5 Lou Rawls - You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches - CAPITOL - EX+ - £5 Tammi Terrell - This Old Heart Of Mine - MOTOWN - EX - £5 Mark Valentino - Walking Alone - SWAN - EX - £5 LP Wilson Pickett - It's Too Late - DOUBLE L - EX - £30 (the original release for the fabulous US LP-only "Baby Don't Weep". the rest of the album is brilliant as well. nice mono copy in great shape) That's it for now. Thanks for looking!

I think her "Ain't It Funny" on Bigtop is great.

"Just Tell Him Jane Said Hello" I suppose. Released on Bigtop 3150 with "What's Wrong With Me" on the flip. Was also issued on UK London (HLX 9759).

Yes. ;-) But seriously, just run the tip of your nail against the edge of the label (closest to the grooves), if you can feel an edge under which you could insert your nail (not that you NEED to do it) then it's styrene. If there's nothing to "grab hold of" then it's vinyl. By the way Mr. Trout, your copy of Philip James is on styrene.

It is styrene if you can peel off the label from the 45 or if the label is painted onto the record (as on Amy, Mala, Bell, Togo 45s etc.). It is vinyl if the label is moulded into the vinyl and you CAN'T peel it off.

Sounds like Johnny Colon on Cotique to me. It's a fantastic tune if so. Love this kind of stuff and couldn't care less whether you could "dance northern" to it or not.

That's a fantastic tune! Extremely fast and very funky.

I have no idea... but I'll definitely be playing his "Shhhhhhh (For A Little While)" the next time I DJ at a northern venue. Fantastic tune with James shouting short phrases all over it and what sounds like him kicking the shit out of the Hammond B3 organ... A manic stomper.

5 tunes I would champion if I DJed at northern venues more than once a year: Jimmy Ellis - Puttin' It On Your Mind - SALEM Fabulous Dimensions - I Can't Take It, Baby - SAPPHIRE Little Sherman & The Mod Swingers - Price Of Love - SAGPORT and ABC Shirley Wahls - Because I Love You - CALLA Danny White - Natural Soul Brother - SSS Most of them still with decent price tags as well.

GONE NOW

Was just reminded of the fact that I have a spare copy of David Flynn's and Ady Croasdell's old Dexter Manley cover-up: Boston Hitesmen - Can't Let It Ride - MTA w/d Nice atmospheric mid-tempo tune. The vinyl looks a bit scratchy, but plays fine except for a couple of clicks on the intro. No major stuff really, but click HERE to listen to an MP3 recorded directly from the 45. £45 including postage. PayPal payments only, please. Let me know if you're interested (fonzeus@telia.com). Thanks for looking!

... and if anyone needs a double sided white demo of this, let me know.

"My Hang Up Is You" was issued as a 45 in the US as GSF 6891 with "It's A New Day" on the flip. "I'm Your Pimp" however was never oficially issued on a US GSF 45. The short/long version 45s that are around of "IYP" are all bootlegs.

The 45 coming up for sale is very rare these days. I was just feeling a bit grumpy earlier today and I'm sorry if I came across like a brat, it was not my intention.

A record can't "get" rare unless you destroy a whole bunch of copies and I doubt that is what have happened. "Hard to find", "very few people willing to sell their copy", "in-demand" etc. is probably more fitting descriptions. But it hasn't become rarer. Now, 200 or so copies of a record in circulation should probably be considered rare by most standards anyway, so I guess I'm just waffling on about nothing here...

IMESHO = In My Ever So Humble Opinion (I suppose...!?) SITC = Soul In The City PMSL = Pissing MySelf Laughing

"I Believe In Miracles" is one of my all-time fave tunes. Just brilliant. There are usually a couple of copies for sale every month on eBay. The original LP is considerably harder to get ahold of and with a price to reflect that. There are quite convincing bootlegs of the LP available on eBay most of the time though if you just want to hear it.

IMO = In My Opinion IMHO = In My Humble Opinion IMVFHO = In My Very Fuckin' Humble Opinion