Gilly

Thanks for the great response you guys,glad im not the only sad twat around but like you fellows I do love my music,heres a few more Silhouettes when they sing "and maybe someday shell try to return" am I right in thinking the backing singers sing "booooo"? back later got to go for my tea (Nicola said)

Four Gents.Ive Been Trying when the guy sings "so sincerely your gonna love me " or One Gold Piece whe he sings "happiness happiness" and for now S Coleman Age of the wolf at the end she sings "girls keep your distance" on the up,i just love songs that finnish on up notes

Are there parts in songs that make you shiver, it maybe a sax break a word phrasing,or even laughing.I will start with one of mine.Check out Nelson Sanders Im Lonley Rambler (its here on refosoul ) there is an organ comes in trying to sound like chellos it makes me shiver every time I hear it whats yours ?

Remember collecting a yellow London mint demo sold to me at £60 not bad at the time,sadley on the way back I got a £40 speeding fine

Thanks for putting that up Dave,a song to be shared for all soul music lovers

Check out his tv footage when he sings "good times" but for some reason it was never put out,how bizzar

NO ONE TO LOVE no not that one,it is a sweet Motown thing I have on tape and always thought is there a vocal to this,i even wrote some lyrics out for my self,took me many years to discover its the backing to an LP track by Tommy Good of the same title.Brill. Already mentioned but if some one was to ask me to name an instrumental that is typical of the Detroit sound I would answer Never in a million years it just oozes with Detroit

I used to play this in my limited dj career and always put it on tapes,so when Butch started playing Mr Lucky as j boone ithought how close the two records sounded

Me and Tats found one for 30 cents in a garage in Detroit

There is quite a few on Canadian labels.REO SPARTON, QUALITY.Some of the harder ones like Stienways on Sparton or Ben Aitken (satisfied) on Canadian Warner Bros as apposed to Loma (makes sense Loma were owned by WB )There is a lot of Detroit releases on Quality and if I remember correctly Reo housed a lot of Motown.

POODLES STEP BY STEP Goes a bit quite at the end but still ends "wollop

I think if you use Motown as an example just imagine what was taken into the Monday morning evaluation meeting,so many good products from each of the writers/producers and not all of them are gonna be voted as a potential hit,some have to fall by the wayside (remain in the can).I often think when I hear a previously unreleased song what the hell beat that on the day.I guess when it comes to the small companys money will be drained for them to take it a stage further.Great topic thou

Meant to put the R Sherry up last night you bang on with that TRICKY

Unless its been mentioned Perfections on Single B Please don't go other side of So lonely

Arthur Willis and the Soulful Dynamics The Hurting Is Over Mars-La Tours one of the best endings ever and what a record

So sad,just loved his productions and I remember Ady you telling me what a wonderful person he was

Taz and Toney just down the road from yourself my good friend

I used to play both of these tunes in the limited DJing that I did neither were seen as big or big money items that wasn't the point its what came out of the speakers that mattered,its a different story now of course

It will all come out in the wash,it always does

For me it wouldn't just be the loss of the records its so hard to think which one of my fantastic friends would do this to me and Lisa,this is our house, why ?

You may well be right Pete,used to know Alan quite well one time,he was a very nice guy.

Only decent thing that I remember was the Ambassadors, Too Much Of A Good Thing or can someone correct me on that.

Yes Flynny old boy I to love this drummer he can be herd on many Harthon tracks,have been trying to find out who it is for some time,ive asked Earl Young but he hasn't replied on that as yet.Glad you like it too,respect

Keb,having read your post Nicola and I are not that surprised,when this storm hit and the world found out about it I said two things about yourself if you were amongst this utter carnage you would if anyone come out of this ok under the circumstances,knowing you for a long time I knew that you would be helping others rather than yourself.Many years ago you gave me Buddy Smith that took some taking on board,it all seems small time in comparison to what you've been doing this last month or so.You are an inspiration to the human race Keb (wouldn't mind betting you will be the Mayor soon) your still welcome to have a bath round ours as always.We hope your post finds itself in a national news paper.You and your wife are top men(you know what I mean) Gilly and Nicola

That's a very good point Paul