Sebastian

Here are label scans for the tunes in the mix:

Lots of other people have been playing it during the past 40 years. It's a stone cold funk classic and probably the best known tune that Willie & The Mighty Magnificents ever recorded. Would be nice if someone got seriously behind their "Take My Love" instead. Now that's a really good tune that's just begging for plays.

Totally understand! I prefer Serato myself, but I guess it's pretty much the same idea as FinalScratch.

It was issued in 1970 according to the Record Collector 2010 guide. Most other discographies has it down as a 1969 release though, so I don't know for sure.

Here's one from Popsike:

Every now and then I put together a mix of sounds I like a lot and play at Function, a club night which I organize once per month together with my friends Helena, Jonte and Joppe in my hometown of Malmo, Sweden. Below you will find my ninth and latest mix. You can download the NEW mix on the following link: https://www.shingalin...Mix20091103.mp3 SEBASTIAN'S FUNCTION MIX - NOVEMBER 2009 Pride Passion & Pain - Feel So Good - ASSOCIATED (unissued acetate) Jessie James - Move On Out Of My Way - TRU-SOUL Shirlean Williams & The Tempo's Band - This Is A Song - ELVITRUE Tommy McLain - Knock Knock Who's There - AMERICAN PLA-BOY Public Company - Got To Touch Your Face - RCA Bobby Dobyne And The Barefacts - Soulful Sound Of Music - CROWN LTD. L.J. Reynolds - Intruder - MAINSTREAM Billy (The Kid) Emerson - Every Woman I Know - CHIRRUP Edward Hamilton And The Fifes - Call Me - JAMECO Dusty Wilson - Can't Do Without You - BRONSE Charles Allen Music - We Got Love - EJA Lew Jiggs Kirton - Hold On To What You Got - VERDITH Fantastic Soul Inventions - Bim Sala Bim - ARIS ITALY Master Force - Don't Fight The Feeling - RAIN FOREST Wil Collins & Willpower - Anything I Can Do - BAREBACK China Burton - You Don't Care (About Our Love) - LOGO UK Bobby Thurston - Very Last Drop - EPIC UK Antwans - Ain't No Love - SNAWTNA Ike Strong - I Owe My Life To You - BAMA Shirley Lawson - One More Chance - BACKBEAT Duke And Leonard - Just Do The Best You Can - STOMP TOWN Tyrone Davis - What If A Man - ABC Sounds Of The City - Stuff And Thangs - SOUNDS OF THE CITY Joey Irving - What's The Use - VINCENT Varetta Dillard - That's Why I Cry - RCA Steve Alaimo - Happy Pappy - IMPERIAL Steve Parks - Still Thinking Of You - REYNOLDS I hope you hear something you'll like. My 8 previous Function mixes can still be downloaded from my homepage: https://www.shingaling.com Check out Function's homepage and MySpace/Facebook pages for info on upcoming club dates, pictures, more MP3-mixes from my fellow resident DJs etc. at: https://www.clubfunction.com https://www.myspace.com/clubfunction https://www.facebook....?gid=8900627393 Thanks for listening. :-)

Black text on blue background is the second issue (and it mis-credits the title as "You're Number One"). Original white demo has got black text on white background. Original issue has got dark-blue text on light-blue background.

The following were members of The Commands: Sam Peoples Jack Martinez Dan Henderson Emanuel Gracey

Starting price was $99.99 for the Tony Daniels acetate.

That's very likely. I wasn't claiming that I was right about Ivorys/Ivories, just wanted to put the thought out there.

For the full story on boots vs. originals, check this out: /forums/topic/63310-sunstruck-pages-heartaches-and-pain/page__p__660190entry660190

So... what was the correct name for the group? Ivorys or Ivories? Which record company got the group name wrong? Ivorys on DESPENZA and Ivories on WAND. Perhaps that's the reason why the Wand issue is so scarce? They mis-spelled the band name, destroyed most of the copies and didn't bother to press up a new batch? Just a theory.

I just had a look... and damn what an unnecessarily gigantic book that is! A great and informative read/look ofcourse, but the size and weight of it is ridiculous. Anyway... there's actually a different photo of the Dream Team in there. Here it is: Not relevant to this thread, but from the same book, here you have The Deadbeats of "No Second Chance" fame:

Will dig out the beach music book and scan the Dream Team picture and post it up if I remember it. This is apparently James Edward Gregory:

I don't know the names of the group members but: "I'm Not Satisfied" is written by James Edward Gregory. "There He Is" is written by James Edward Gregory and Myrtle Elliott. I guess that James last name was where the label name GREGORY came from. Both sides on this 45 are published by NIMBIG MUSIC which these days is owned by Howard R. Biggs. He is the son of Noah Biggs who started the SHIPTOWN and HOW BIG labels. More info about Shiptown/How Big etc.can be found here: https://www.shiptownmusic.com/ Here is a tiny picture of The Dream Team (from the site above):

Yes. Loads of new soul/house/(any genre really) indie releases only gets released as MP3s. Or preferably as high quality WAV or FLAC.

If you don't want to see the buy-it-now items, just click "Auctions only" at the top of the search page. I just did a search for "northern soul" in the records catagory on ebay.co.uk and then clicked "Auctions only"... and lo and behold, 7000 items out of 10000 disappeared!

It was pressed several times at the time of release because it sold well locally. That's also most likely the reason why Wand picked it up for distribution, but I guess it was a case of "too little too late" and it didn't take off nationally. According to Manship: DESPENZA BLOCK LOGO: £600 DESPENZA SCRIPT LOGO: £750 WAND: £2000 He doesn't mention the third Despenza label variation though.

Just 3-4 hours left on these auctions now. Thanks for looking! :-)

The mis-pressed copies where "How Can One Man Live" plays "Hung Up On Your Love" were made in the early or mid 1990s. They are definitely not from the 70s. I'm on about the ones that looks like this:

It's a 70s euro disco classic, isn't it? Clip on YouTube of Su Kramer: Here's Camouflage's version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQmAGhRalM

It wasn't issued as a 45 as far as I know. Can be found on this LP though: https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260455645508 https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310153992799 https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180401956735

There's now about 2 days left on these auctions.