Kris Holmes

I'll bid early with my max bid just so my life isn't rulled by sitting around the computer waiting for ebay auctions to finish & I don't want to have to pay a snipe service. Ebay usually has a bigger selection of stock than local soul dealers & the cheap stuff there is way cheaper than what the local dealers price things at. Why wouldn't you use ebay?

If you don't know this LP from 1973, it could be the best complete LP she ever made. Great stuff. It's the only Dionne Warwick LP I keep.

Vinyl is pretty durable, takes more to cue burn them, but scratches show up easier. Styrene, sounds great when it's new, cue burns really easy, doesn't seem to show the effect of scratches as easy, but I hate the distortion that happens on an overplayed styrene 45, actually even ones that look clean will distort, really annoys me. I call it even.

We were just talking about how great "It's A Shame" is the other day on another soul board. I love that song, almost perfect. I really like their Motown stuff but apart from a couple of Atlantic tracks, their 70s output doesn't really do it for me. I appreciate it, but not enough to keep any of it in my collection for long.

Yes, that is a blinder, amazing 45.

All recent "new" releases, the Sharon Jones, Funky Music Machine & Hank Mullens are top notch, not worth anything though because you can buy them brand new for a few $ each. As stated the Collins is a boot. Daptone Records are really running it at the moment (have been for a few years) it is amazing, and kind of cool in a way, that there is still a soul fan who hasn't been turned onto it yet!! I can't reccomend that label enough, great 45s, cheap, order as many as you can, you won't be disappointed, I'm really serious. Sharon Jones has a great live show too, not to be missed. Ever-Soul is a subsidiary of Daptone. You'd probably really like Charles Bradley's stuff on Dunham from them too.

Last year I pulled Vikki Styles on Odex out of a box of country & polka 45s for $3 at a local store. Some of the other highlights from the last couple of years for less than $5 each have been The Intentions on Tiki, both Little Bucks on Seven B, Nature's Time on CEM, The Sinceres on Pzazz & a bunch more I'm blanking on right now.

It's just a fairly standard US budget reissue label as far as I know. No real value that I know of, I see them everywhere for a pittance. Never buy them.

cool, thanks.

awesome

If so, how can I tell?

You name at least 3 of them in your post, Marvin, James & Sam have pretty much all those bases covered? With Marvin you'd hold him back for not doing an album of covers with a big band? With James would you hold him back on his duets with Lyn Collins & Marva Whitney vs Jackie with Lavern Baker & Linda Hopkins? Sam because he never had any duets with others that took off (although that one with him & Lou Rawls is pretty sweet). Even Otis because he never made a album with a big band? I mean I love Jackie as much as anyone else, but to put him infront of all these other singers just doesn't add up? Also the fact that Otis & Sam were taken out of the equation well before Jackie makes their accomplishments really impressive IMO. I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on this. Very interesting discussion though.

Millie Jackson is a great reccomendation that totally slipped my mind. Shirley Brown only has a couple of good ones, I was talking with a friend the other day in agreeance about how that LP is underwhelming IMO, apart from the title track & a couple others

Jackie's too inconsistent with all those schmaltzy clunkers scattered throughout. Great voice but the patchiness doesn't make him the greatest for me. Someone like James Brown or Otis Redding really captures the total package for me. Don't get me wrong, Jackie is great when he's on, tough to beat even, but if you listen to some of those 50s & 60s LPs & a bunch of those 45s it's tough to get through both sides without some gratuitous track skipping. Someone like Sam Cooke also suffered a bit with those early RCA sides. But I realise I'm kinda straying off the point of the argument. I'd like to add James carr to the list of great singers too (small 60s output compared to others, but all winners).

In Auckland New Zealand we have the infrequent "Soul Deep" & "Do The 45" nights that cover soul, funk & R&B.

aka "the Seven B curse"

I recently found "3 Days, 1 Hour, 30 Minutes" on a tape. What a great song that I seem to have totally missed in the past. It's my current favourite because it is fresh to me (& great anyways).

Yeah, I saw the clip on the Numero Blog, it sounds great. Some people just like to complain I guess. I'm sure you guys will be great. Looks like it will be an amazing concert, I wish I could be there.

I've been on other forums where a similar "toughening up" if you like has been enforced & it ended up really as being the moderators & their "special friends" being allowed to say what they wanted & then everyone else who posted up any sort of dissension quickly got it deleted or even banned when they tried to call the moderators out on it. Just something to look out for. It has to be the same standards for everybody or else it doesn't work.

Issue, there is info on the bootleg copies in the "Sharp End Of Vinyl" sub-forum above too in case you haven't seen it. One of my fave 45s.

Around 60-70 pounds.

As for the Darondo EP. It is 12" vinyl only. Definitely worth it for the 4 unreleased tracks.

If you like Dorando you might want to grab some of the early Al Green stuff. If you like Doris Duke check out Sharon Jones If you like Baby Huey get some mid era Curtis Mayfield If you like David Ruffin get more Temptations stuff If you like Ann Sexton check out Ann Peebles, Candi Staton Eli Paperboy Reed....... um........... For Marlena Shaw you could try Etta James etc etc Some others worth copping at the moment: Lee Moses Marie Queenie Lyons Syl Johnson on Twinight Check out some of the reissues in the Eccentric Soul series by the Numero Group label. As for slow stuff, you can't miss with people like James Carr & William Bell.. There is a newish Kent CD that covers the Deep Soul genre reasonably well. Newer artists like Alice Russell & the Daptone Records roster are doing great things too. Of course you probably have the greats on lock: Otis, Sam, Marvin, Solomon, Aretha, Gladys Knight etc (although I can't imagine calling Mavis Staples not bad as she is definitely one of the greatest female soul singers of all time & easily on a par with Aretha, Etta & Gladys) If you want a great soul-tinged blues album my favorite is Magic Sam's "West Side Soul" on Delmark (the tape has not left my car for years & I also have it on CD & LP....) so coming at it from the blues (as I did) he is a great link. Hope this helps.

My girlfriend was sold one of those TKO's 45s quoted as being original by someone at the recent National Australian Soul Weekender (not cheap either) & was very bitter when she got home & I had to break it to her that it was a recent release. It should have been a quarter of the price she paid.

Seems like a totally unneccessary negative feedback. I wish buyers would be more forgiving about postal delays over the xmas period. Another case where ebay's new feedback system is a pain & a case where as a seller I am getting really frustrated with the whole ebay hassle.