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Honestly Pete, the Latin track is just that a Latin track which doesn't really go anywhere and is not close enough to some of the more soulful brown eyed stuff to be played out at an NS venue. Computer says........no. The Creshendals is quite nice although a bit early for my my personal taste. However in comparing it to the Latin track its streets ahead. Andy

Ok, so I’ve been digging through the boxes weeding out all the filler copies I’ve had before getting better copies for the collection. So I thought I’d throw the first batch up here as a “soul pack” and see if they tickle anyone’s fancy. All of these will be between VG- to Ex- condition and taking into consideration the condition stated there will be some surface noise but no skips or jumps as far as I can tell. There will be some writing on some labels but no rips or tears. Obviously, the better the condition the better the playing quality. A quick price check and if they were minters it would be around £250, but these 12 are on offer at £50 plus estimate UK postage about £5 as they’d be parcel post. Paypal as gift or F&F Sound files are mostly on Youtube, so have a listen. Here’s the list of 45’s… Big Guys – Hang my head and cry – WB WLP VG (the sound quality is much better than this looks – great xover tune) Little Helen – More and More / Richest Girl – Soultown VG- smwol Darrow Flether – My Young Misery – Groovy VG Maskman & Agents – The world is a cafeteria – Mask VG stk on label (Ignore title this is good mid tempo NS) Derek Martin – you better go – Roulette WLP Ex- Theola Kilgore – Its gonna be alright – Mercury VG+ Carol Barnett – Unrest in the nation – Unity VG+ (obscure funky xover) ET White & Great Potential Band –Loosen up – Great Potential VG- smwol (bit of an Archie Bell “tighten up” groove) Barbara Mason – Aint got nobody – Arctic VG wol Alice Swoboda – I think its time – Note Ex- ( First issue before Roulette) Sidney Joe Quails – Where the lilies grow – Dakar Ex- Eric & Vikings – Vibrations / Get off the streets – Soulhawk VG- (nice group xover harmony)

I forgot....like Bitchdj PM me your address and I'll pop you a couple of bits in the post

Some good advice so far Newbie. If you're looking for portable players there are some around but the sound quality is not that great. I think Vestax used to be a popular one, but the most popular was the Sound Burger but they are no longer made, so difficult to pick up. Some great static decks can be had for around 100 or so. As for collecting the advice you have got so far is good. Look on here for sales as there are many bargins. Check Popsike for price checking and ask any questions on here, everyone will help. Dig into YouTube, as there are tons of soul tunes to listen to, but most of all collect what you like and don't listen to the Charlie's who tell you "this is the next big thing". There are tons of five quid records which are great. Start there and work up is what I'd say. Andy

Record grading: M is mint unplayed (very rarely used) Ex is excellent record, showing small signs of use and wear VG is very good where there will be signs of wear and tear and maybe some surface marks. The record may play with some surface noise, but there will be NO skips, jumps or deep scratches. + / - will refine the grade further. All records have a full refund guarantee. Paypal preferred as gift or F&F. Post is £1.50 First UK, £2.50 Recorded or £7.5 Special Delivery. Overseas at cost - dependant on post type. Group Soul Fabulistics – Absence – Scorpion M- £30 These Gents – Yesterday Standing by – Soulvation Army Ex £15 Slightly different mix to WW if I remember ?? The Cheaters – How much – Jolo Ex+ £75 Nice latin harmony – flip is nice uptempo Realistics – Please baby please / Too shy – Delite £10 Nice slowie with NS midtempo flip The Jades – Aint it funny what love can do – Capital Green DJ Ex+ Crossover / Modern Lyn Wyatt & Sunrise – you’re only as young / never let me go - Love Ex+ £50 Very obscure - Same label as Tal Armstrong – modern tune with nice mid tempo/ballad flip Bo Cooper - Don’t call it love - Bell Ex+ £25 Violinaires – I’m not worried - Jewel WLP Ex+ £75 Nice white promo of this current in demand tune Reggie S – Do you still love me – Q City M- £5 Jesus Alvarez – Please stay don’t go – Vibration M £10 Powerful People – Little girl say yes – Epic M- £15 Cheaper Northern Bits The Carltons – Ooh Baby – Argo VG- £10 Plays far better than it looks The Kittens – How Long / I just got to get over you – Chess M- £15 Very slight storage warp NAP. Flip side just right for today – northern meets sister funk ! Delfonics – Loving him – Philly Groove Ex £5 Eddie Powers – Gypsy Woman – Sims M- £5 Herman Griffin – Mr Heartbreak – Double L Ex+ £10 The Spectrums – Our meeting place – Mercury Ex+ £10 Ronnie & Manhattans – Come on back – Enjoy M- £20 Soul Superiors Band & Soul Sisters – Amateur Lover / darling I love you – Barvis WDJ £10 Claudine Clark – Telephone game – Chancellor M- £10 The Chandliers – Stop Dragging my heart around – Loadstone Ex+ £10 The Boss Man – You’re taking too long – Gamble WDJ Ex+ £5 The Jive Five – I’m a happy man – UA M- £5

far more difficult to get than most people think on 45.

Few to start 10.07 Love cant be denied - John Butterworth - Sabteca - Never been a soul record 13.09 How long - Kittens - Chess 18.26 I refuse to give up - Clarance reid - Wand 20.45 Oh my love - Determinations - Space 26.20 Give my love a try - Ray lewis - Fairmount

Here we go with a few bits - most can be found on Youtube Record grading: M is mint unplayed (very rarely used) Ex is excellent record, showing small signs of use and wear VG is very good where there will be signs of wear and tear and maybe some surface marks. The record may play with some surface noise, but there will be NO skips, jumps or deep scratches. + / - will refine the grade further. All records have a full refund guarantee. Paypal preferred as gift or F&F. Post is £1.50 First UK, £2.50 Recorded or £7.5 Special Delivery. Overseas at cost - dependant on post type. Group / Harmony Chappels – No friends at all - Double Check Ex+ £80 low rider sweet tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8l1EQKTans&list=RDn8l1EQKTans#t=65 Wallace Bros – I need someone – Jewel VG++ wol £10 plays above grade Sweet and Innocent – Express your love – Active M £10 Unplayed copy Xover / Modern Rhinestones – Party Music – 20th Cent DJ M- £40 Tim Brown listed this at £100 a few weeks back Jim Spencer & Son Rize – The blues are out to get me – Armada Ex £60 The Gas Light – I’m only a man – Grand Junction M- £20 Douglas & Lonero – Baby take my hand – Columbia Ex £100 Only available on issue copies – very rare and relatively unknown The Walkers – Love sweet love – MOD International Ex+ £30 Same as Soul Bros Inc Richard Parker – Lets TCB – BRC Ex+ £20 Shuffling xover – only on issue copies Billy McGregor – Its my turn now – Mellotone Ex+ £35 Gold label copy The Trends – You sure know how to hurt a guy – ABC WDJ Ex+ £30 Small x on label The Embers – Its aint necessary / aint no big thing – Bell DJ Ex+ £30 Willie Hatcher – have a heart girl / Quality – Cotillion WDJ M- £30 Powerful People – Little girl say yes – Epic M- £20 Unplayed Loleatta Holoway – I know where your coming from – Aware WDJ M £5 Unplayed copy The Newcomers – That’s when you know / Do yourself a favour – Mercury M £15 Unplayed copy Robinhood – Don’t be afraid of love / Let’s live and let live – Capitol M- £ 40 Nice double-sider ex Dean Anderson spin from memory - on dealers at £100 Northern Kenny Rossi – Don’t lose this love – REO M- £35 Rare Canadian leased from Arctic – sticker mark on flip Al Thomas – I had a good thing – Virtue M- £15 Unplayed copy Jordan Bros – Aint no big thing – ID Ex £50 Local label before ARV Denise Chandler – Yes I’m ready / You’ve hurt me – Lock M £20 Unplayed copy The Diplomats – There’s still a tomorrow – Wand Ex £20 Bell Boys – I don’t want to lose your love – Jamar Ex- £175 Classic with nice clean labels Herman Griffin – Mr Heartbreak – Double L Ex+ £10 Superiors – What would I do – Verve Ex £20 Nice oldie

Appreciate if anyone has a copy ? Please PM condition, price etc Thanks in advance A

Had lots off eBay from Japan and sold to Japan as well. Never a problem.

I have a Val Shively catalogue from 74 with most of the 45's in the $1 - $2 dollar range with the exception of the rarer Doo Wop stuff. Some top "northern" stuff in there for those prices as well

From memory the first issues are a deep red Lanor label, whereas the reissue is more of a "pinky" coloured label. Moorer used to have a load of the reissues at around the price Mark quoted. Originals......maybe £50/60 last time I saw one....nice tune though. Think Huriah Boynton did the same track on Lanor as well. Probably cheaper option ?? A

Let me say straight away that I do not know Simon, have never spoke to him or even seen him for that matter, but a quick story..... Many years ago I was after a copy of his book of rare 45's, after seeing Chris Anderton's copy. I eventually traced what I thought would be a nice new copy from a music book dealer down in south west England (from memory ?). Anyway, I rang the shop number and a guy answered the phone very pleasantly. When I asked for a copy of the book his attitude changed totally. He asked if I knew Simon - I said "no". He then asked did I know anyone who did - I said "probably yes". He then demanded their names and contact details, and by this time he was going fooking mental. Apprently he had ordered 50 copies of the book and sent the money - but guess what....no books arrived . I declined to pass on any names of who I thought may know the whereabouts of Soussan as I wasnt sure who were his main UK contacts. This sent him totally into space and after a mouthful of abuse at me he slammed the phone down Never did get that book

Ive got the Dream Merchants on Jenges, and I have the Indelgents on Jenges, which I think also has a version of "SYBMH" on one side - not sure if its the same though ??? They were the same group. The flip "Give up" was covered at one time - up tempo dancer.

Collectorsfrenzy also A

Think about it girl did get a 45 release I think.....but very rare.

And we think we are vinyl nerds https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31874121

On a general point, some of the records being auctioned nowadays are a) not rare and b) pants. As for the Dushons. I have to be honest I forgotten all about it and having played on JM's I now realise why.

Dont know if this has been posted before but found this on the t'interweb sometime back so thought I'd post up..... Willie Clarke on the Rise of Deep City Records Willie Clarke and Henry Stone In 1975, Willie Clarke won a Grammy for his work on Betty Wright's "Where Is The Love". It's one of many hits he wrote in the '70s for the biggest independent record company in the world, Henry Stone's TK Productions, out of Hialeah. But Clarke's recording career began in the 1960s, when he and a college buddy named Johnny Pearsall started a label called Deep City, based out of Johnny's Records in Liberty City. Their goal was to be bigger than Motown. Clarke and Pearsall met at Florida A&M University where they both played in the school's nationally renowned Marching 100 band. Its aggressive rhythms would greatly influence their sound. Pearsall was from the Tallahassee area and Clarke from Miami. The two became fast friends. "Me and Johnny Pearsall were in college and everything was a challenge ... All the different courses. I'd never heard of geometry, algebra, never thought I'd have to learn all that. Never thought I'd cross the burning sands and be in a Greek fraternity. But music came easy. "We had an idea that we could be bigger than Motown. We were possessed by creativity. Creativity was an adventure to us, and our number-one thing was to create music, our own stuff, just to marvel at it. I said 'I can write songs. I write lyrics all day long. Let's put out our own music.'" So soon enough, they both moved to Miami. Clarke became a middle-school art teacher, and Pearsall set up Johnny's Record Shop in the heart of Liberty City. It became their label's headquarters. "The thing with Deep City was we were mostly, like, neophytes. We were in the beginning. It was all uncharted territory, like the deepest South anyone could be. That's why we named it Deep City." They quickly learned that all the talent, musical ability, and wax recordings in the world were not enough to make it in the music business. "Miami was the end of the world. There was no respect. The further you went in the South, the less attention you gonna get. For two black men in the record industry who wanted to be like Columbia and Atlantic? Nobody paid attention or took us serious." But the two set to work recording and releasing records in limited runs of as few as 300 discs. "If you look at the old records you don't see anything really on the label. You don't even see my name as producer. At the start, we were just puttin' music on wax. On vinyl." The pair knew they wanted to do more, and that they had to get their paperwork in order to be a major independent. However the intricacies of the music business were a mystery to them. "Johnny Pearsall majored in business education, so he knew all about making a paper trail. We knew it was a business and we were orientated to get out paperwork in place. But whenever we tried get answers on how to do it, we would get the runaround," says Clarke. "Back then, if you called any of the publishing companies, they laughed at you. "Black men, especially in the South, we were blocked out of that knowledge, that connection." "I remember asking Henry Stone, before TK, when he was a distributor. I went to get some info from him because I knew he would know everything, and they sent me downtown to the courthouse to get a music publishing license. "Now here I am goin' all the way downtown, finding parking, going to floor to floor, looking for an application for music publishing and they were lookin' at me like I was crazy."I went back to Henry and said, 'Hey, man, what the hell,' and they laughed at me. Henry and the group just laughed. They were able to pull that over as a result of I was just trying to get started in the business. I lost out. But by Johnny being the paperwork man, we slowly but surely knew we gotta get our publishing registered." The dynamic duo forged ahead, making recordings at studios like saxophone player Bobby Dukoff's place in South Miami, with singers like Helene Smith, and nightclub musicians playing the sessions. They'd press the vinyl and get their sounds out locally, and sometimes throughout the state. "Johnny and I both loved the it, and being able to say ,' Hey, we made this,' really motivated us. We had all that music with Little Beaver, Them Two, James Knight and the Butlers, and a whole lot of other people." Their music was just as good, if not better than Motown's, more street, less sheen, but they suffered from lack of distribution and promotional spending power. Their label never broke state lines. In the end, though, it was a disagreement over women that heralded the label's dissolution. Willie Clarke discovered a young girl by the name of Betty Wright singing in the doorway to Johnny's Record Shop. In her vocal ability, he saw the promise of mainstream success. Meanwhile, Pearsall wanted his wife Helene Smith to be the star of the label. So Johnny took Helene Smith one way, and Willie Clarke took Betty Wright, Clarence Reid, and Willie "Little Beaver" Hale to Henry Stone's Tone Distribution and Alston label in Hialeah, where they all joined forces and recorded "Cleanup Woman."

Simple piece of advice from me. Just buy what you like. Dont follow the sheep and have to buy the next "big thing" just because x, y and z say its good. SS is a good source of information and collectors here are always willing to help.

I've only heard the opening few seconds of this tune, but is it an updated version of Little Jimmy Shaw and the Starletts on Selma ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjpNMcgHrhk

Steer clear of the Sonny and Phyllis version - very "poppy". The copy I had years ago was a Green label from memory but sold that. I still have the white with purple or pink (depending on how you look) lettering. They are not boots, but Major Bill was renowned for keeping his catalogue on the market, I guess just like the Arctic label in the sense of first or second press, but all legit.

I use the Mail Lite Gold E/2 padded envelopes. Just the right size to fit the 45 cardboard stiffeners. I got a box of 100 off ebay delivered next day for £10.50

Used to go regularly to the KGB. We'd do the warm up first, pop out for some fish and chips and then back in for the nighter. The train from Chesterfield always had around 20 on their way to to Sheff. DJ and nice guy Nev Wherry used to DJ at "Inky Social" in Chesterfield mid week and he'd arrange to pick us up at the station and drive us back up to the venue. To be even sadder, I still have my KGB membership card

Bloody hell John has it been 20 years I've got all the Pitches tapes in a box somehwere, I'll have to dig them out. I always regard Pitches as one of the best soul nights I ever attended and it was sad to see it go. Two memories stand out for me, the music was always different and pushed the boundaries, and Hampsey still had hair Andy