Sunnysoul

Regardless of all the rhetoric concerning the value and price, it's a great record but it is completely and utterly inspired by Earth Wind and Fire. And of course no one would dare play an Earth Wind and Fire hit at a rare soul gig, would they ?

"Cross-eyed" is the first word that comes to mind

Aaron, 'Love" on Side 2 of course is the track for northern collectors, but I'm curious to know what is the track on Side 1 ? And can you do sound clips of both sides ?

Good to see you on here Adey, Please email me your list : soulaustralia@hotmail.com Can't let that Pete Fowler fella get all the rare vinyl that you're gonna send Down Under !!!

Not strictly true about there being no US demo. Alexander Patten was issued in the US in 1966 on one of a series of white label Capitol promotional 12" distributed only to US radio stations containing various artists from various musical genres. These 12" promos are very rare and collectible in their own right and their sound quality is far superior to the standard 7" releases. Others in this series of Capitol promotional LPs featured such tracks as Bobby Paris "I Walked Away" and Patrice Holloway's "Stolen Hours" and HB Barnum's "Heartbreaker" and the Checkmates "Kissin Her and Crying" etc ... Also interesting in light of the long held perception amongst soul fans over the years that the major labels like RCA and MGM etc never knew or really cared to promote their soul/RnB output throughout the 60's and 70's. These LPs are if nothing else evidence that Capitol was at least testing the waters with radio stations on soul and RnB tracks that were being released by the label ...

Well said Jim, The Beautiful Day LP is one of the great soul LPs from the early 70's, from start to finish, and was very much the brilliant work of Jeff Perry (AKA Jeffree) of Love Dont Come No Stronger and Mr Fixit fame, who at that time was an aspiring songwriter trying to make it. The LP has other dancers that are even better then the wonderful 'Because of You', notably "This Love Is Mine", and some beautiful soul ballads including the title track, which a certain Brack Obama could I'm sure use as a theme tune ....

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Have a copy of the Universal Love on a 12" ... nice EX+ condition ... harder than the 7" actually and the 12" sounds better when played out.

Priceless !!! What Soul Music is all about really. One of the greatest LPs of all time !!!

What's it worth ?

Here's the Hesitations website , the group are still going strong. https://www.thehesitations.com/ Surely they must be absolutely Number One on every promoter's list to tour as a live act ?!

Said it before in a big, long and very controversial thread about 6 months ago ... To sweep away all the existing deadwood (ie the old the boring the cynical the narrow minded etc) in one fell swoop.... need one massive weekly all nighter in a big modern venue (ie a real nightclub) in a major city.... 1,500 capacity every week, lots of young new faces and the dedicated older crowd .... only the 4 or 5 best DJs on the scene with a couple of fresh young whippersnappers playing two or three hour sets each of totally across the board stuff (oldies newies rnb modern latin funky soul) ... Simple really ! Boom !!!! Another rare soul legend is born !!!

Ronnie McNeir "Sagittarius Lady"

Wasn't the McKinley Travis issued on Soul Town as well ?

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Baz, still think The O'Jays on Saru is the best version of this tune, certainly for the dancefloor .... but they're all good versions ! The Elements and Bobby Dukes are the others . Any other versions ?

Sound clip of Rufus Hunter please ...

Hope this interest in the jazz side of soul will mean more people playing James Mason's "Sweet Power Your Embrace" ... and very tough to get on a Chiaroscuro 7"

real soul , Chalky , real soul ....

Very true Tony, it was just my way of expressing my constant amusement at the blinkered perspective that the rare soul scene often takes as regards the numbers bandied about of certain pieces . But while we're on the mythology of the Frank Wilson 45, the thing that has always bugged me about the alleged story behind it is why did Motown have to destroy most or all of the copies ?!!?!! It's not as if the record was going to be a threat to national security or reveal state secrets !!! And to my knowledge Motown never did this (actively destroy all copies) on any other record. If they didn't want the Frank Wilson record issued or promoted or to have it succeed for reasons such as : not wanting to have Frank score a hit and then seek success as an artist, well they just had to have a word to their pluggers and promotions men and just tell them to drop it from the lists ! Like they did with some other Motown records. They didn't have to go round up all the copies and melt them down or smash them or obliterate them out of existence !!!! It just doesn't make sense ! So can someone actually justify , logically , why they supposedly chose to destroy all copies ????

Why the surprise ? Just as there are surely more than two real Frank Wilson's out there !

Get the LP instead !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheaper and many more great tracks to listen to ... And then play the LP out so you can deliberately pi-- off the "I couldn't be arsed to carry LPs" brigade !

And one of the greatest soul compilation LPs ever ! Off the top of my head, I believe UK journalist Norman Jopling wrote the liner notes on the LP, an interesting figure on the UK music scene in the 60s, and name-checked by mod-soul legend Pete Meaden on the back of the Jimmy James & the Vagabonds LP "New Religion" LP.

Anyone playing her "Cross My Heart" 45 on Metromedia ? Should be an absolute monster !

Just did some net searching and discovered that Gilbert Moorer sadly passed only last month, another sad loss for one of soul's most under rated groups, but Betty Moorer is still with us .