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Jackpot! Cheers Dave...

Desperately need to identify the artists and record release for a writing project; Titles 'What am I to do ' flip 'Time is a natural' Possibly Baton Rouge, Louisiana release, likely mid 60s probably 1965 -67. Girl group or at least female backing singers. Cheers in advance!

Got some 1960s unissued files (about 15) from a mastertape sent to me by a 60s NC group who played with Scotty Todd for a bit. The group never actually released anything. Most are competent soul covers rather than specific northern interest, but do feature Scotty on a number of the tracks.

Yep, this is 'the hard one', I sold one to somebody on here a year or two ago (think I bought it from here too, one of those 45s that does the rounds) so you might have some luck...

Otis Cobbs (aka Otis Leavill) - Gotta right to cry - Universal acetate, excellent condition. Destined for the Lucky release. Offers starting at £100. Cheers, Mark.

Nothing really, they were just external hyperlinks from Dave's discog. I've removed them now.

I need the Fame 45s below, originals only, PM me with condition and price please. Be sensible with the cheapies please, and regards the cheaper end, I am looking to buy from within the UK only (overseas shipping costs not really making it viable) Cheers, Mark. Courtesy of Dave Rimmers discog (Soulful Kinda Music). 6405 — Spooner And The Spoons — Hey Do You Wanna Marry Me / Wish You Didn’t Have To Go 6410 — Jimmy Hughes — You Really Know How To Hurt A Guy / Chicken Track 1002 — Terry Woodford — Gonna Make You Say Yea / Hit The Ground 1004 — Terry Woodford — It’s His Town / She Wants What She Can’t Have 1005 — The Villagers — Laugh It Off / You’re Gonna Lose That Girl 1006 — Jimmy Hughes — I Worship The Ground You Walk On / A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues 1010 — Clarence Carter — Tell Daddy / I Stayed Away Too Long - 1967 1012 — Art Freeman — A Piece Of My Heart / Everybody’s Got To Cry Sometime - 1967 1015 - Jimmy Hughes - Hi-Heel Sneakers / Time Will Bring You Back 1016 - Clarence Carter - Road Of Love / She Ain’t Gonna Do Right - 1968 1460 — Candi Staton — Heart On A String / I’m Just A Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin') - 1969 1462 — Tommy Strand — Funky Way To Treat Somebody / Instant Reaction - 1969 1464 — Johnny Steele — Better Days Are Coming / Steal Away To Nowhere - 1969 1465 — Willie Hightower — Walk A Mile In My Shoes / You Used Me Baby - 1969 1468 — George Jackson — I’m Gonna Hold On / That’s How Much You Mean To Me 1470 — Spencer Wiggins — Double Lovin’ / I’d Rather Go Blind 1474 — Willie Hightower — I Can’t Love Without You / Time Has Brought About A Change 1475 — Marcel Strong — Mumble In My Ear / What You’re Missin’, Someone’s Getting’ 1476 — Candi Staton — He Called Me Baby / What Would Become Of Me 1477 — Willie Hightower — Poor Man / Back Road Into Town 1480 — Tommy Strand — Am I Grooving’ You / I Wanna Testify 1481 — Sami Jo — Get It On / Don’t Hang No Halos On Me

Chuck Shipton of The Generation (aka Soul Generation, due to the cover up title and the Grapevine release) told me they recorded "Hold On" at Doc Johnson's home made recording studio in Wilmington 67 / 68. He had built it out of his garage: “Randy Luther (the group leader) picked “Hold On” to be recorded at Dr. Hubert Johnson’s recording studio around 1967/68. Mockingbird was the studio label. Doc Johnson was a doctor in Wilmington who had a love for music and enjoyed recording as a hobby. He had built a recording studio in a single car size garage on the back of his house at basement level. It had a small control room in it, say 5 by 10 feet, and an old 16 track reel to reel recorder. A local DJ called Jay Howard was the sound engineer and did the mixing on a 16 channel tube type mixer. We recorded the rhythm tracks for “Hold On” in two takes. The vocals were added later. “Lonely Sea” (originally done by the Ventures) was Dr. Johnson’s favourite even though it was on the “B”side. We did several takes because Doc wanted the drums to do a large symbol crash like the waves crashing. I thought it was over the top because the crash was so overpowering, but we did it the way Doc wanted because he wasn’t charging us studio time. Jay Howard was the prime time DJ on WGNI radio station and he played our record all the time. He even used “Lonely Sea” for a lead in to the news.”

Any Carnival label or acetate collectors, up for grabs....their 509 release "Searching for my baby / I'm the one that love forgot" - £40, for a piece of history! Labels are as below, vinyl plays ex. PM me if interested, Cheers, Mark

Major labels taking advantage of inexperienced young musicians? Never...as Brian Mann and Chris Cooke from Novas Nine told me for It's Better to Cry : BM: “Pain” was the second song I had ever written and took me about 30 minutes. The first local release was a deal the band made with Arthur Smith to cut 500 custom label Heritage 45s. The drummer took the acetate to Big Way’s, the number one radio station in Charlotte. Two of the DJ's, Jack Gale and Long John Silver, liked “Pain”. It was their pick hit of the week and made it to number 4 on their charts. They had contacts. We had three record contract offers. We chose ABC Paramount. The only difference between the acetate which was recorded at Arthur Smith Studio in Charlotte (recorded on a 4 track Ampex 1" tape) and the ABC version was the editing and mastering. The 4 track original was sent to ABC, who obviously got their publisher, PAMCO Music and the ABC studios in New York to master the project. They cut out three bars of the instrumental bridge and that was that. CC: We were young naive kids and missed things in the contract. Our first quarter royalties were $28,000 at 4 cents per record....do the math! But we had a minus nett of $187. They said we owed them for all promotional expenses and printing. BM: Signing was a huge mistake. They stole the song from us and gave it to ABC Dunhill's Grass Roots. The whole deal was to screw nine green behind the ears musicians from Mooresville, NC, and give it to Grass Roots, who sold 800,000 on their "Lovin' Things" album and countless millions overseas. We were fucked. At that time, ABC/Dunhill was a hot record division, and was signing acts like Grass Roots, Blood Sweat and Tears, Chicago, Cold Blood and others. “Pain” became a world wide hit for Grass Roots. Our band got shit out of the song and I was screwed out of thousands of dollars of royalities. Our original tape which was procured by ABC Paramount's publisher PAMCO Music was probably sent to Universal, when they were bought out.

That familiar 'chinking' noise in Troy Marrs' Rhythm Message was somebody whacking a strung up Coke bottle - now that's how to record on a budget! Actually though, the production on this is pretty full on overall.

In 1960s North Carolina and Va, a number of soul orientated recording artists were middle class whites or integrated bands with a black lead singer, sometimes college students (and often music students) who were used to playing large venues and frat dos.They came with their own band, the bigger the horn section the better, and 6-10 members weren't unusual. Tempests are a good example size-wise -remember that line up on their Lp cover! These beach and garage bands provided their own vocals and instrumentation in the studio, and generally didn't use other session musicians. Strings n things didn't really go down that well at that time as bands in the south east were a lot more interested by what was coming out of Memphis and Muscle Shoals than the big city sound, and the also didn't suit the budget approach of the garage band profile. By the time full orchestration was the 'soul norm' in the late sixties, several (but not all) had already moved on to contribute to the development of psychedelia and southern rock, or members had been drafted to Vietnam.

These are for sale, or will consider trade on these for Fame 45s (I'm only after the 6000 series, and 1000 series up to 1465). Pm me if interested... Cheers, Mark. The Darlings - Two time loser - Kay-Ko (White demo) 50 The Endeavors - I can't stop crying / Beware of your friends (Empire State) 150 Chuck Wells - Love knot - Goldleaf (felt tip 'B' and date on label, otherwise excellent) 275 Maurice Williams & Zodiacs - Return / My baby's gone - Seahorn 100 Wade Flemmons - Walking by the river - Universal acetate 20 Novas Nine - Pain / Why listen - ABC 30 Supremes - Your heart belongs to me - Motown vg 20 plays ok The Rivingtons - Love you always - VJ (heat damage / similar to edge DNAP, but otherwise excellent condition and plays well. ) 25 The Showmen - Wrong girl - Minit 50 worn label, but plays as excellent. Liz Lands - Don't shut me out / One mans poison - onederful 15 Garland Green - You played on a player - Revue 15 Temptations - I couldn't cry if I wanted - Gordy 15 Archie Bell & Drells - Never know what's on a woman's mind / Ain't nothing for a man in love Alston 15 O'Jays - Miracles / I cant take it - Apollo 30 their first? Fantastic early group stuff Little Johnny Taylor - Nightingale melody - Galaxy 10" acetate. £30 Un-named artist (Steve Mancha) - Need to be needed - Groovesville 10" acetate, plain typed label. £80 The Twilights "You're the one" Aqua 100 O'Jays - Miracles - Apollo 30 Henry Strogin - Love insurance - Ten Star 40 The Tikis - The sound of soul - ReCo 50 Bill Pinkney - Don't call me / I do the jerk - Fontana 20 The Gibralters - I wont be your fool any more - A&W 30 Ricky Lewis - Someone to love tonight - Mercury demo (tear on label, but vinyl ex) 20 Appreciations - Afraid of love - Jubilee 20 Billy Mack - Son of a lover - Miss Betty's 20 Willie Harper - But I couldn't - Alon 20

Jimmy Hughes - Man of action - Fame Sorted thanks

Anybody heard of these guys? Va. group / band, early seventies. Ungoogleable but a US pal remembers them.... Did a track called "Writing on the wall", possibly from Danville area or thereabouts

I can always be persuaded to part with the acetate with trades Andreas, if any nice bits on southern labels....

All a tenner each, or the lot for £40.... Liz Lands - Don't shut me out / One mans poison - onederful Garland Green - You played on a player - Revue Temptations - I couldn't cry if I wanted - Gordy Archie Bell & Drells - Never know what's on a woman's mind / Ain't nothing for a man in love Alston Two tons of Love - Bad situation etc / Brown and beautiful - Kapp promo ON HOLD

Danderliers - All the way / Walk around with your nose up - Midas £60 SOLD Fantastic doublesider, cheapest you see it. Excellent condition. PMs please Cheers, Mark

Cletus Marland - Every Now and Then - The 7" acetate, ultimately destined for Geneva / Terry release. £100 Excellent condition. Pm me if interested, Cheers Mark.

Cheap as poss please, but needs to be Ex. condition label and vinyl. Plenty around at £15, so who can beat that?!

For sale, quality North Carolina stuff: Spontanes - Where did I go wrong - UA White promo £100. SOLD Vg+ condition, couple of pops here and there but nothing serious. Very listenable copy.Pm me if interested, Cheers, Mark.

All ex condition unless stated. Pm me if interested in anything. Prices in GBP. The Darlings - Two time loser - Kay-Ko (White demo) 50 Maurice Williams & Zodiacs - Return / My baby's gone - Seahorn 80 Wade Flemmons - Walking by the river - Universal acetate 20 Novas Nine - Pain / Why listen - ABC 30 Supremes - Your heart belongs to me - Motown vg 20 plays well The Rivingtons - Love you always - VJ (heat damage / similar to edge in one area, does not affect play, and otherwise excellent condition and plays well. Bargain!) 25 The Showmen - Wrong girl - Minit 50 ringwear on label, but plays as excellent. Another bargain price

Love this, on Glades.............. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJIoyb3eETc

Picked these up a couple of months ago, variation on a theme, nice New Zealand one, and a Swedish with tasty pic cover...