Sunnysoul

Funnily enough a lot of old timers who were on the scene in the first half of the 70's - especially the Torch - say the best live act they ever saw was the STYLISTICS.

DONNIE ELBERT - ALONG CAME PRIDE-RCA UK MINT £30 On RCA ????? Are you sure ??? Can we see a scan please ?

The Lebanon Strings ????? Must be the middle eastern version

I have to say though that I've always thought Patrice Holloway's version of Black Mother Goose on Capitol is easily far better than Sam Nesbitt's ... and costs a lot less !!!

Current Ian Wright spin LIVE EVERYDAY FOR YOUR LOVE - SIR JOHN HENRY (LONNIE) Value please?

All three are classic albums and all three are at reasonable prices. You should all be biting his hand off to get these !

Her version of Freddie Hughes' "Ooh Baby (I Love You)" is great and gritty, highly recommended in fact !

Dave, The Millionaires to which you refer to are not the same group as The Millionaires of Philips (Never For Me) and Speciality (And the Rains Came) fame (and who were all Afro-American).

I've got just the name for you: Snake Davis and the Suspicions.

Bob, The identity of Joy Lovejoy is still bugging me and I've thought long and hard about whether any other female artist from the Chess stable has a vocal similarity. I've come to the conclusion that Joy Lovejoy could be Joanne Garrett ! Quite similar vocal timbre and approach although In Orbit is a little grittier than Joanne Garrett's usual smoother vocal stylings. What do you think? And was Joanne Garrett with Chess at the time of release of In Orbit ?

This is easily as good as their first Brunswick LP, and is probably the toughest of their Brunswick LPs to come across as it was their last and the group would disintegrate not long after. I suspect Brunswick weren't too interested in them by this time in the early 70s and Brunswick were concentrating their efforts on their money spinning act the Chi Lites. This is a fantastic LP , and like Jackie Wilson's superb LP from the same time , it was essentially the work of almost-genius Jeff Perry (aka Jeffree). The LP includes the superb this "Love Is Mine" , just to name one track, in quality worth more than any 3000 pound 45 you want to name. And in time honoured Brunswick tradition the company threw in Im Gonna Miss You and Girl I Need You on the LP ! I recommend it unreservedly !

The great thing about the Stovall Sisters brilliant reworking is that it is - to my knowledge - LP only.

Don't let anyone "step on your dreams" mate

Well Pete I reckon you'd prefer to listen to the Carstairs than this stuff, eh ?

Soulful house is a misnomer, a contradiction in terms really, isn't it ? I've always found it a curious proposition (and stereotype) that, because a person may for example be black and wail like hell over a computerised 120pm beat, it is "soulful". I've had a good listen to a lot of so called soulful house over the last 20 years or so and the remarkable thing about a lot of it - the vocals , the music and the songwriting - is how cold and soul-less and tune-less it really is. Bit insulting to the likes of everyone from Garnett Mimms to Anita Baker to call this stuff "soulful", eh ? Wasn't soul music pretty much dead by some time in the mid 80's anyway ??? Please read the Betty Lavette LP thread !

Isn't it funny how these types of recordings never really got the acclaim they deserved when first released?

Looks like there's plenty of 'em around ... in one form or another.

Not on Aussie Power Exchange ... or any other Aussie label for that matter. The only soul 7" on the Aussie Power Exchange label was the Imperials "Whos Gonna Love Me".

That's right Pete , Jackie Lee "Do The Temptation Walk" on NZ Action. However much tougher than either the Belles or Jackie Lee on NZ Action is the Olympics "Secret Agents". Incidentally the NZ Action label had no connection whatsoever with the UK Action label

No, the San Francisco TKO's is a world wide recognised NZ only rarity.

Bob, didn't the Moods have a later connection to the Trammps and - as Ady mentions - a connection to the Volcanoes earlier in time ? And it is interesting to note the Len Barry / Philly connection and also the Vanguard label's connection to Philly studios output of the Barry - Madara production team. Grover Mitchell's sides on Vanguard are Philly produced too. Vanguard was essentially a folk label, interesting that they dabbled in soul /RnB for a time . Be great if some one could tie all these various connections together !

The Gwen McRae LP "Melody of Life" has long been a sought after piece by both funk and soul collectors especially on the 80's rare groove scene. There's always been a fair bit of conjecture though on originals vs boots of this LP .... that is, boots that were done in the 80s at the time of the LP's initial popularity with thick hard cardboard sleeves (and before the wholesale mass "reproduction" of virtually every rare soul and funk LP by Scorpio in the US that occurred in the 90s up to the present, using digital photo wrap around cover sleeves). John, can you enlighten us on how to tell the difference between the originals and those supposed early boots ?

Bobby Jones "Talkin Bout Jones" is another .

Jim, Post a list up of what you have and I'll price 'em for you.

That Jimmy Hughes LP on Volt from 1969 is a beauty ! Every track a winner including a cracking version of J J Barnes "Chains of Love" and a fab mid tempo finger snapper "I'm So Glad" amongst others ... Don Davis produced, this is in reality a Detroit soul LP !!!