Chalky

brilliant.....soulful personally don't think it's either. If this is soul I'm on the wrong scene

Don't think I paid much more for it when I bought it.

I presume they just moved office. There was periods of inactivety with Calla and also changed publishers a few times.

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Jerry Fuller was producer at Columbia and produced O.C. Smith on several 45's.....didn't produce Easy Street though. As for Freda Payne, personally think it's a pretty poor effort and far too poppy.

around the £150 mark....give or take a few quid.

I've watched the bidding many a time and if logged in you can clearly see who the bidders are.

they're not in retirement Ken, just having a rest maybe when a hear a dancer I can appreciated they might come back out again Have a good un mate, off to the Orwell now.

IMO some of the stuff the "oldies" crowd as you name them accept are catchier and more instant (instantly forgettable as well as quickly gets boring) than some of the more soulful newies.

your right it could have been worse

your being nostalgic...terrible IMO, sorry Ken

It's on Nation goes for around £1500. Butch first played mid 80's cover up as Magic Tones - A Lovers Plea. Sure there is a sound file in Sounds. If not I'll sort one out later. Mick H got a copy few others too. Used to hear it pretty often not so long ago.....not so much lately.

collectors item 100 pressed...probably not had time to burn anymore yet

I see (or read) opinions expressed on here but don't really see anyone telling others what to do, listen to or wear just who has there heads up there arse

forgot to mention it was LP It is on an Ace cd too The heart of Southern Soul Volume 3.

Don't think so

well I can't think what it is so basically no

Flip the Stu Gardner...Expressin My Love. One I've been spinning.

Think there was only something like 90 copies pressed Ady will probably confirm or Johnny One Trout

this looks very familiar, certainly last two lines but can't think what....and it's bugging me

quick surf and found this.... The Admirations consisted of brothers Kenneth, Bruce and Ralp Childs and two unknown members remembered only as Myles and Smith. Lead singer Kenneth Childs sang in a mournful tenor similar to the Five Stairsteps' Clarence Burke Jr., but not nearly as exciting. Ex-Players Tommie Johnson and Herbert Butler managed the North Side Chicago natives, who debuted with "My Admiration for You" b/w "Heaven in Your Arms" on Paree Records in 1966. Neither Paree nor the Admirations reaped any benefits from the association, so the group sauntered to Peaches Records for one release, "You Left Me"; it received a modicum of airplay locally, better than previous releases, but not enough to keep Peaches afloat. Label-jumping once more, this time to George Leaner's One-der-ful Records, they enjoyed their most popular record, "Wait Until I Get to Know You," which surpassed "You Left Me." Released late in 1967, it got the fellows some better gigs around town, but never broke regionally. A final One-der-ful release issued in 1968, "Don't Leave Me" b/w "All for You," stiffed. It all ended when One-der-ful folded later in 1968; some of their artists signed with George Leaner's brother Ernie's Toddlin' Town Records, but the Admirations, needing more stability, drifted from the business without even as much as eyeballing a royalty check.

I would say the Aspirations. The flip I Want To Be Free is as good if not better. The Smith is Walter Smith who left to form Walter & The Admerations (Man Oh Man on La Cindy).

Still pretty rare even if it is on a major label.