Kris Holmes

worth a watch. Timberlake part owns Stax now right? Did I read that somewhere?

The problem is that some people are kind of disconnected regarding rarity of records. Of course if you bought Chocolate Syrup on Brown Dog or whatever a while back & it's the only copy you've ever seen & you don't leave your house that much these days, then of course you're gonna think its rare (maybe you're computer illiterate to a certain extent too & refuse to research things before trying your luck on soul source) who knows. I've also seen sites where having to pay to play doesn't fix this at all. People pay for their advertising & still just list overpriced horseshit. It's not about changing the site, it's kinda more about changing the people or changing a mindset (or dealing with mental illness/delusion) & that's pretty tough to do remotely through the internet.

same dude, he was the owner of the label.

not uncommon on a lot of late70s/early80s presses.

good to hear. for all the complaints about paypal, as a buyer they make it pretty easy to get your money back, in this case you would have been covered, just file a chargeback & got it all back. bank transfers etc are a thing of the past nowadays (i remember sending cash away for 45s back in the day, so risky).

that Santana version sounds close to the worst thing they've ever recorded. never heard it before but now i wish i could unhear it :-( (disclaimer....i don't do the 80s) hehehehe

yeah i have a heap on New Zealand Invictus

Some of the slower things I picked up last month, chilled out listening, enjoy. https://www.mixcloud.com/Kris_Holmes/kris-holmes-slow-low-45s-mix-august-2014/

United in Nashville do the 4 prong centre 45s, that's where the Sir Scorcher one pictured above was pressed. They only just started offering it as a pressing option a couple of years ago.

amazing

this Corey Glover track doesn't really do it for me. but if you like his voice & haven't done so already, then you should check out DeRobert & the Half Truths, a new soul band where I think the singer sounds a lot like Corey Glover.

got this too, never play it, think i might pluck it off the shelf.......

I recorded this mix back in early May for the Funky16Corners Pledge Drive. Today it went public & it includes a few musings on Bob which I typed up only a few hours after learning of his passing. Ironically it was intended as a Sweet Soul Primer & I had actually messaged Bob while I was recording it joking about how he would be proud of me for finally playing the "correct" sides of these 45s. Posthumously I dedicate it to him. Enjoy the music. https://funky16corners.com/?p=4842

Last night I played a set of sweet & group soul 45s that I hope Bob would have liked. It was helpful to be at a party with other people around, a good vibe, to be able to almost meditate behind the decks & send these tunes out through the ether as people who had never heard most of them before nodded heads to the grooves. I needed that. Life can seem all too short at times. Gene Chandler — Good Times (Constellation) The Intentions — Blowing With The Wind (Tiki) The New Day — Wait A Minute (On Top) The Artistics — I’m Gonna Miss You (Brunswick) Major Lance — Sweeter As The Days Go By (Dakar) Denise LaSalle — Trapped By A Thing Called Love (Janus) Chuck Bernard — Can’t Get You Off My Mind (New Breed) The Devotions — Devil’s Gotten Into My Baby (Tri Sound) The Precisions — You’ll Soon Be Gone (Drew) The Artistics — Walking Tall (Brunswick) Five Stairsteps & Cubie — Don’t Change Your Love (Curtom) The Jives — Love (Tear Drop) Total Eclipes - Love Like Yours (Right On) Main Ingredient — Everybody Plays The Fool (RCA) The Vanguards — Somebody Please (Whiz) Deon Jackson — Ooh Baby (Carla) Darrow Fletcher — Changing By The Minute (Uni) Brothers of Soul — Hurry Don’t Linger (Boo)

We would often take the piss in private out of you English Northern guys, it was kind of an ongoing running joke, no offense, mostly affectionate to you all, so many things I'm gonna miss. Like "corroborating" fake records in order to get them included in those "Discography Books" (shhhhh don't tell no one), changing my soul source user name just to post some misinformation in order to wind him up & then deleting it after he got all worked up & then figured out it was only me teasing him. He always said he was gonna kick my ass for playing the wrong (northern/funky) sides of my 45s. He contributed a bunch of stuff to Greenville & Beyond. He would send me boxes of 45s, especially New Orleans stuff (which he'd bought by accident) just because he knew I'd appreciate them. The time the mailman started just delivering every 45 package to him, so if anyone in his neighborhood got mailed a record, the mailman just assumed without looking that it was a like-package to go to Bob's along with all the others. He would then have to re-deliver other people's records to them. Sometimes he wouldn't read the address, would open the 45 & go "i don't remember ordering this, did i buy this?", go back & check the mailer only to find he'd opened someone elses parcel. Hahahahaha. If only I'd known that the trivial conversation about a rare Cadet 45 we had last week was the last thing I was gonna ever say to him, I would have said something more meaningful, but you just never know. That we won't be hanging out when I'm in Chicago next really makes me sad. Last night I DJd a sweet & group soul 45 set in his honor, sent those tracks out to him. It's now 24 hours since I heard the news. I miss him. To illustrate the wicked sense of humor, here is a list that Bob did for our NZ Soul All Dayer Zine last year. It's perfect & shows how confusing the English Northern Soul thing can be for us foreigners hehehehehehe. Top 5 northern soul song descriptors that confuse Americans, as translated by an American: 1. corker great song to have anal sex to; break out the amyl nitrate 2. cracker song is super white and singer probably hates black people; avoid 3. stomper dance to this song like snoopy in a charlie brown special 4. floater great song to listen to while on ketamine or pcp 5. beat ballad great song to let you and your friends catch someone off guard and assault them. variation: "beat ballard" -- kill a tiny defenseless bird while this song plays We also spent about an hour debating the historical use of amyl-nitrate, the movie Cruisin' & Al Pacino because of this LOL Typical, wild random sidetracks into other non-record shit. We also weren't sure whether to include the Amyl Nitrate & Anal Sex references, he did think it might be a little too offensive. Wicked sense of humor. I'll miss that.

I still can't believe it. One of my best record friends. Were just talking last week. Numb.

those pictures look like slim pickings, hope you got the needles in the haystack (if there were any)

yeah, i have a few still in the envelopes & all, coincidentally enough, the Sam Cooke "Twistin' The Night Away" one with "Sugar Dumpling" was the first one I could locate here after seeing this thread The RCA ones are called "Featured Artist Promotional Pre-Packs"....

How the hell have I not seen this before??!! Killer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77XKUsVWIo&feature=share

The alternate "LP" version of Sugar Dumpling is definitely from the 7" 33rpm Twistin' The Night Away album pack. Very different from the 45.

cracks me up that some albums you can get entirely on 33rpm small hole 7"s as an alternate format, multiple 7"s all packed together, one track per side, pretty cute.

5637 - The New Zealand Trading Co. - Could Be / You — 1969 needed for a write up thanks in advance........

Here's my contribution to this thing, enjoy, fun. https://www.mixcloud.com/Kris_Holmes/kris-holmes-minus-twelve-45s-at-33-mix-may-2014/

Leroy Jones definitely one of the "cross artist" names. There was a whole website on Hit which connected a lot of the dots, really interesting, interviews with artists etc. A kind of interesting thing is that a lot of the Hit 45s are actually really early examples of stereo 45s.

yeah, so good.