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Had the LP's out today and enjoyed them so much I thought I'd share a few of the tracks with you for some New Years Eve listening. All from LP's, one 60's, the rest from the 70's and 80's Happy New Year to you all. https://www.mixcloud.com/Chalkster/always-in-the-mood-new-years-eve-soul-music/ Tyrone Davis — I Had It All The Time — (I Had It All The Time — Dakar) Popcorn Wylie — How Did I Lose You — Extrasensory Perception — ABC) John Edwards — Stop This Merry-Go-Round — (John Edwards — Aware) Exciters — Give It All — (Caviar & Chitlins — RCA) Laura Lee — I Can’t Make It Alone — (I Can’t Make It Alone — Invictus) Ted Taylor — Standing In The Wings Of A Heartache — 1976- Contempo) Chuck Jackson — Waiting In Vain — (I Wanna Give You Some Love — EMI) Randy brown — Always In The Mood — (Welcome To My Room - Parachute Test Press) Ralph Graham — Ain’t No Need — (Differently - Sussex) Tyrone Davis — I’ll Be Right Here — (Turn Back The Hands Of Time — Dakar) The Dells — Bring Back The Love Of Yesterday — (Might Mighty Dells — Chess) Originals — I’m Someone Who Cares —(Definitions — Soul) Patti Austin — That’s Enough For Me — (Havana Candy CTI) Phylis Hyman — Ain’t You had Enoiugh Love — (Living All Alone - Philadelphia Int.) Gladys Knight & The Pips — Make Yours A Happy Home — (Claudine — Buddah) Chuck Jackson — No Tricks — (I Wanna Give You Some Love — EMI) The Dells — Closer — (Might Mighty Dells — Chess) John Edwards - You’re Messing Up A Good Thing Barrett Strong — Surrender — (Stronghold — Capitol) Teddy Pendergrass — Somebody Told Me — (Same - Philadelphia Int.) Laura Lee — We’ve Come Too far To Walk Away — (I Can’t Make It Alone — Invictus) Ralph Graham — What Do I Have To Do — (Differently - Sussex) -
We Got A Sweet Thing Going On - Soul Junction Review View full article
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The youngsters/students etc lapped him up so to speak. Whether his celebrity status was having that effect or the music and his DJing skills not sure but he had the place rockin. Pretty sure any half decent DJ would have done the same though after following on from Lee Fields.
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Soul Junction has proved itself as one of the leading labels for independent Soul and Funk Music. Releasing material either extremely rare & obscure or unreleased with some current work from some of Soul Music’s upcoming and leading talent also seeing a release. 2014 alone has seen releases form the Trey-J’s (a re-release of their 70”s Tee Gem outing), unreleased 70”s soul from Elbowed Out, Richard Brooks, UK musician, producer & artist Elliot McCauley & Preston Shannon seeing out the 45 releases for the year. LP wise we had at the back end of 2013 the brilliant unreleased 70”s LP from The Coalitions “Colour Me Blue”, CD”s saw an excellent release from Anthony Toombs and a various artists compilation featuring many of Soul Junctions releases entitled “Extra Rich In Soul”. Seeing out 2014 we have another CD featuring various artists entitled “We Got A sweet Thing Going On” . The release gives a nod to the doo wop era with a compilation featuring group soul and harmonies although not all the inclusions are group efforts with the odd duet and solo outing. The CD kicks off with Frank, Sylvester and Arthur, better known as The Hopkins Brothers. The 45 on the tiny Magnetik label, it is currently one of the most Indemand 45”s on the Rare Soul Scene commanding a price of around £3000 plus with just a handful of known copies in the hands of collectors/DJ”s. Shake Sheri, the 45”s actual flip is the side stirring the feet of dancers across Europe with DJ’s such as Mark “Butch” Dobson and Andy Dyson championing it. The official top side, Kiss Of Fire, a nice sweet soul recording is also included. Milwaukee trio The Candi Bars (Celeste Campbell, David Bursey & James “JB” Young, they became a foursome for a brief period with the addition of Robert Wardell) have been an favourite on the Rare Soul Scene for sometime with “I Believe In You”, a nice crossover styled dancer. The flip, a down tempo sweet soul collector’s item You’re The One is the second track to feature on the CD. The Mansion feature with “Stop, Let Your Heart Be Your Guide” and “The Girl Next Door”. The band was prisoners at the Green Bay Reformatory at Allouez, Wisconsin. Formed by Charles Barkley who was serving 30 years for attempting to shoot the police and 10 years for evading arrest after a high-speed chase. The 30 years was quashed upon retrial and so he just had the ten to serve. The prison group attracted the attention of the Warden’s wife who got them slots on local TV. They were then allowed to perform outside the prison where they came to the attention of Al Dunlap and through him the group recorded their solitary release for the tiny label owned by Bill Gibbs. The 45 has remained extremely scarce and is a highly sought after sweet soul collectors item, a worthy inclusion to this compilation. Elbowed Out, a mixed race group out of Seattle who’s aim was to get you up and out of your seat, and then to begin to move your feat, have featured on Soul Junction with two 45”s featuring some great unreleased 70”s soul. They feature on this compilation with just one track, again unreleased, a delightful sweet soul ballad featuring the lead vocals of Denis Wilcox entitled “In The Book Of Guiness”. Clayton Hooker, Terry Forsythe and Nate & Walter Jones were studying at the Highland park High School, Michigan when they came to the attention of Mr John Maxey who happened to have a brother called Ivy Jo Hunter. Together they owned the Probe 1 Productions Recording Studio in Detroit and the youngster suitably impressed enough to be offered a session in the studio. The result was two group soul recordings that saw a release studios subsidiary label Red Line, two fine group soul recordings entitled “We’ve Come A Long Way” and “Inspiration Of My Life”. Natural Impulse have seen two releases on Soul Junction 45’s, two unreleased sides featured on the groups second 45 for the label, “We’re Gonna Make It Through” and “Make It Or Break It”. But it is the label’s second outing and the one that saw a limited 300 copy release in the 70’s on their own label that is featured here. “She Went Away” is highly sought after by collectors and indemand on the Rare and Modern Soul scenes. Another artists who recorded for Maxey and Hunter’s Probe 1 Productions is Curt Darin with “Two On A Cloud” b/w “Grown Up Fairy Tale”. The release gained national exposure via Buddah and the Detroit produced “Two On A Cloud” is simply wonderful mid pacer and is quite rightly causing a stir once again with popular plays on UK radio shows. Jesse James, the West Coat version and not Philly has treated us to some gorgeous unreleased and alternative takes of his music through Soul Junction and he features just the once here with the wonderful down tempo ballad “I Don’t Want A Divided Love”, not sure of the year and neither was Jesse but it reminds me for some reason of “Believe In Me Baby” which was released on three labels to my knowledge, Sheran, Hit and 20th Century. One of the true Rare Soul greats in my opinion. The Trey J’s as previously mentioned feature with both sides of their Tee Gem release. The Indemand dancer “I Found It All in You” and the sweet soul ballad which in part gives this compilation it’s title “We Got A Thing Going On”. Oliver Cheatham features with one side of his previously unreleased Soul Junction outing “Good Guy’s Don’t Always Win”, a fabulous ballad that quite rightly received plenty of attention the past year. The Coalitions round of the compilation with “Colour Me Blue”, the title track of the recently discovered 70’s LP that was issued via Soul Junction at the back end of 2013. A perfect example of some sweet soul harmonies to round off an excellent compilation. The CD was compiled by Dave Welding and comes with extensive liner notes with plenty of information about the artists which makes great reading whilst listening. 1. The Hopkins Bros - "Shake Cheri" 2. Candi-Bars - "You're The One" 3. The Mansion - "Stop, Let Your Heart Be Your Guide" 4. Elbowed-Out - "In The Book Of Guiness" 5. Citation - "We've Come A Long Way" 6. Natural Impulse - "She Went Away" 7. Curt Darin - "Two On A Cloud" 8. Jesse James - "I Don't Want A Divided Love" 9. The Hopkins Bros - "Kiss Of Fire" 10. They Trey J's - "We Got A Thing Going On" 11. The Mansion - "The Girl Next Door" 12. Candi-Bars - "I Believe In You" 13. Citation - "Inspiration Of My Life" 14. The Trey J's - "I Found It All In You" 15. Oliver Cheatham - "Good Guys Don't Make Good Lovers" 16. The Coalitions - "Colour Me Blue" Listen to Sample clips https://www.soul-source.co.uk/uploads/select_1417854762__sjcd5009_-_we_got_a_sweet_thing_going_on_promo.mp3 Buy direct from Soul Junction… http://www.souljunctionrecords.co.uk/buydirect.html Or from most good stockists, Soul Brother, Crazy Beat, Soulmusic.co.uk. -
Yeah it was all the unissued Motown that was found early 80's by Rod Shard via Robb K. Hope you are well mate.
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Trotters, used to run the mini bus from Chesterfield, was a couple of blokes at work with them. I don't remember any LP with these tracks on, he did do the Motown one which had On The Outside Looking In which was one of Rob's current plays at the time. I put two or three of Rob's tapes on mix cloud, great listening. You should send this one down Andy so I can digitise.
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Whether we like Craig Charles or not he seems to have quite a following. Saw him when we went to see Lee Fields in Manchester, he was the DJ and doing a pretty good job too with the youngsters in there.
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One of the best cheapie you can buy.
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The above chart mentions Judy Street on Grapevine so that would put it at '77 or 'early '78 and not '74.
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some Virtue ones as well, you could buy original 60's blanks on ebay a few years ago
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There was no implication that either were part of the Motown Sound but qualified (just ) for the show because of where they lived earlier in their lives. TB did explain.
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I've listened to much of the Detroit one today and I simply can't understand the gripes. Some cracking choices which are rarely heard on radio. His love of the music is obvious too. As for Motown, I thought there was a good representation but there is far more to Detroit Soul than Motown. Motown is pretty much covered throughout the year anyway on Radio 2, even if the listener doesn't realise it is Motown and Detroit Soul. Yes we can analyse and be critical, we could all pick a different two hours but at the end of the day it isn't aimed at us and anything like this is better than nothing. A decent couple of hours listening whilst driving.
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People have been caught out, but not for long, that is the crux of this. I doubt you would catch out the experienced dealer or a collector who knows what tell tale signs to look for. Those that this type of market is or would be aimed at by the looks of the bootleg/carver market don't seem to care anyway so why go to the trouble of trying to replicate something which is practically impossible to do. As said the inks, paper and vinyl have changed tremendously since the 60's. Methods alone are very different let alone the ingredients. And the cost involved trying to attempt something like this would far outweigh the returns. As soon as a minter appears on ebay, questions are asked, as soon as a second or third copy appears chances are whoever has been rumbled, real or not. You have to remember people watch nothing but ebay, sales lists, forum sales etc, they can spot anomalies a mile off.
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I'd sooner go into a pub or a shop and hear the soundtrack to the film than some of the dirge they often inflict upon us. I can't remember the last time I heard Suspicion in a venue?
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There is probably more to be made out of crappy boots than there is any high class forgery/counterfeit.
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You only have to see something listed twice on ebay before thers is a topic on here and questions asked. It is one of the most mistrusting markets there is and I doubt there are any records worth going to the kind of trouble and hassle you metion above. Suspicions would be raised and probably proven very quickly.
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I would have thought many ingredients in ink have changed completely, I know paint is completely different to what it was 10 years ago due to health and safety legislation never mind 30/40 years ago. I would think that anything done today to deceive would soon be rumbled no matter how good. I also think someone would have done it by now if it was profitable.
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Its a great record, one of Motown's greatest and will always be a great record. One I will never tire of.
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One of my all time favourite 'SOUL' ballads along with Dark End Of The Street and Eddie Parker's But If You must Go.
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Can't disagree, every era has its share of casualties and turkey's that succeeded despite, in retrospect being very poor or even worse. Like you say, one good thing about this scene is always someone willing to dig that little bit deeper and dig out that one, two spin wonders and give them another go. Incites extremely rare though and suffers maybe because of its obscurity, as do many records.
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Cheers Kev, nice to know who and when etc. I know Minsh was playing it early 80's. Why did it bomb btw? Tempo too slow?
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I was told Seven Souls was played at Torch and Wigan but didn't take off till getting on a decade later??
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Oh really useful box do a larger one that holds 200 45's and one for lps as well
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I've recommended the really useful box for sometime. About the same size as cardboard counterpart but obviously much stringer and waterproof. You can get them in different colours if you wish to clour code your record storage
