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So sorry to hear this. A true gent was Paul and a proper soul man. Our thoughts go out to family and friends. Steve & Roz.

Wow, looks like another essential buy.

Thank you guys....appreciated.

The Precisions might have been Rod, but Stemmons Express was recorded in Dallas, using the same backing track which Sam Coplin had got from George McGregor.

Thanks you Dave. Certainly took long enough,

Her live shows were fantastic. She was like a human dynamo. RIP.

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Yeah, but would you hear it at a northern night now? Possibly I guess as there is such diversity.

FFS - that is a soul / R&B record, not a northern record. Would be surprised if you heard it in a NS club.

Oh All that happened was I was chatting with Leroy and we went through all of the singles on Gamingo. When we got to AB, Leroy said that he was the Curtom office cleaner and he wanted to make a record. That was it really as there was little time and we had other ground to cover. Leroy is appearing at the International Soul Festival in Blackpool and hopefully someone can get him to confirm / get further details while he is here.

Please share what?

Interesting stuff Sutty, It was Hutson himself that said that Arnold was the office cleaner, who wanted to make a record. He's back in the UK soon, so we could get more info then.

He was the Curtom office cleaner.

Totally bizarre. The first 80% of the article is about an oldies night that he obviously enjoyed himself at…..and it's a fair enough article as reviews go. And then, BOOM car crash, he suddenly goes into a manic rant at the end. It's almost like someone either bent his ear or phoned him up and told him bout these nazis, Top DJs throwing rattles out of prams, rich collectors, horrible cover ups etc. Anyway there is only one person who uses the term "nazis" to describe people into rare soul as far as I am aware. It is an over used and casually mis-used term, and is more than mildly offensive when you consider what the real nazis did. Disappointing, Frank should stick to his fishing etc. if this is the extent of his contribution these days. The good news is I don't think more than a handful of people into Northern or rare soul actually still buy B&S.

Looks great!

Part 1 New Soul Herb Middleton feat Roz King - Keep loving me Shaun Escoffrey - Gave me love (Evergreen) Fairest Hill - Lets come together Trish Standley - Hang on (No one else) Kiki Kyte - Disco chick Marlin Page - This groove Tracy Hamlin - Just talk to me (Boogie back mix) Kindred the Family Soul- Legacy of love (Legacy of love) Daniel Anthony - It's all good (Jazz Funk remix) featuring M Fasol (All God, not me) Sympli Whitney - The best (CW mix) Edgewood Agents featuring Leroy Burgess - Tonight we're gonna (Edgewood Agents) Tetsuyu Nagahama - Faire l'amour (T Groove single mix) 79 Robert Glasper Experiment - Day to day (Art Science) The British Collective - Love me tonight (Volume 1: The renaissance begins) Anthony David - Ride on (The powerful now) Ashanti Munir - Love overboard (Lady Munir) Eliott McCauley - Chasing butterflies Soulful House Typheni & The Distant People - Thought I knew (Distant People original mix) Cafe432 - Spirit free (Original mix) Larry A & Jamie Aditya - Get down with it (Michele Chiavarini mix) Sheldon Goode - You Back to the soul Trusoul Davis - What about me Jerome JC Collins - Brand new day (Second life) Paulette Purvis - Let's play the game Part 2 Oldies A Way of Life - Tripping on your love Keni Burke - Let somebody love you Richard Rogers - Can't stop loving you Terry Ronald - WHat the child needs

Does it? The record was unknown at the time. John was going to the States every few weeks at this time and picking up new things every day. At the time he was using buses etc. and records were plentiful. There is only so much you can fit in a holdall! Tracking down writers, producers, engineers etc. was all part of the hunt. He was importing soul music, not rare soul music (obviously some of the imports turned out to be rare), so Sussex and people connected with it would have been a perfectly logical stop to make. Pick up a few interesting things and move on to the next place.

Why? That assumes it was actually put out, rather than pressed and withdrawn before the promo men got their hands on it.

Yes remember him telling a few of us that at Cleethorpes one year. He left the engineer and went on the bus to Philly, thinking that if he needed to he could always go back and get the rest. But I think (I cannot remember this bit as the red wine had kicked in by then) when he did the copies had gone. The label going "bust" is the mystery bit, it might just be that the engineer wasn't paid, or it might be that it was re-financed, since Sussex kept going long after this 45.

A 70s pressing of an older track, designed I assume to cash in on the popularity of Gladys.

Latest show here. Part 1 New soul Kindred the Family Soul - Never know (Legacy of love) Ashanti Munir - Everyday every night (12th Note remix) (Lady Munir) H D featuring Laura Jackson - Nothing but love Sir Piers featuring Monica Bingham - American in Chelsea C H O Y C E - Definition (The transition) Kejam - When it rains Soulutions - I got to party Shaun Escoffrey - Ain't no time (Evergreen) Anthony David - Never again featuring Reesa Renee (The powerful now) Caretta Bell - Love shine (Ephphatta) T K Soul - Caught up in doing wrong (The legacy) Soulful House Dawn Tillman - Teardrops (Eric Kupper mix) Natasha Watts - Live your life (Part 2) (Daryl & Oli D mix) Darian Crouse & DJB - It's all about U (Doug's Club joint) Jaheim - Never (Maurice Joshua unreleased remix) Druw & Perez feat Elisha Leverne - The Modernists (The Modernists) Back to the soul Mike Bailey - Missing you (76) Eddie Levert - Say it ain't so (Do I make you go ooh) Part 2 - Oldies (70s / 80s) Larry Wu - Let me show you Patterson Twins - Gonna find a true love Claude Smith - Carry on BJB - I gotta make you believe in me Stevens & Foster - I want to be love Family of Eve - I want to be loved by you Ty Karim - Lighten up baby Betty Swann - When the game is played on you Trumains - Ripe for the pickin 2nd Resurrection - You done let daylight catch you Carolyn Hudson - Foot loose and fancy free Northern 3 Jackie Ross - Keep your chin up The Four Larks - Grooving at the go-go Carol & Gerri - On you heartache looks good Bill Brandon - Tag tag

This week: Hour 1 - new soul / soulful house. Hour 2 - 70s / 80s modern soul classics Latest show here Playlist Part 1 New soul Tony Sullivan - O what a woman Soulutions - Don't judge a book by it's cover Bowdene - I'm so in love with you Marc Staggers - Let me be the one (Nigel Lowis remix) Al Lindsey - Give up (Love you more) Cheryl Woods - Next level (Courageous) Ashleigh Smith - Best friends (Sunkissed) Preston Glass - Change in the weather (The stuff that matters) Jesse Saunders featuring Dani Ivory - Shout Soulful House Hanlei & The Journeymen - Feeling myself Mark Francis feat Sly Red - Come see me Earl Tutu, Mike City & John Khan - Everybody needs somebody Vick Lavender - Love constantly Back to the soul Devier featuring Freeze - The way I feel (Being in love) Tiffany Wilson - In between (See Sharp) Part 2 Oldies Rivage - Strung out on your love Mark IV - If you can't tell me something good about my baby Ice - Reality Chuck Stephens - Paying for your love Danny Williams - All those lies Lil Major Williams - You're so sweet you're so fine Randolph Brown & Co - It ain't like it used to be Mel & Tim - Forever & a day Connie Laverne - Can't live without you Thomas East - Follow the rainbow Al Alonzo Wilson - Love you girl Perfections - Can this be real Virgil Henry - You ain't saying nothing new Northern 3 Intrigues - I'm gonna love you Betty Boo - Spellbound Patti Austin - Didn't say a word Leroy Hutson - Never know what you can do

I am guessing on the 300, but quite a few early 80s small town numbers were pressed in that type of quantity. David Sea "Night after night" was one with 300 pressed, nearly all of which came into Britain at the time. As to Zeal, still sounds good to these old ears.