Sunnysoul

Is that dealer a Soul Source member ?

Alan, not sure what you mean by "who else cares" but there are a lot of very serious LP collectors of soul and funk out there and they care a hell of a lot !!! The Ramp LP is particularly problematical as I believe it has been issued in (unauthorised) "replica" form by Scorpio Records out of Detroit (so I understand) who have been flooding the market world wide now for years with replicas of rare soul and funk LP's. The replicas have fold over scanned sleeves (not paster on slicks) , usually omit the inner printed sleeves of the original and the vinyl is usually lightweight and the label shiny & moulded (not paper stick on). Then a few years back I had an ebay seller send me a "copy" of the Ramp LP with an ABC Demo white & grey scanned label on the vinyl but the fold over cover was thinnish and white and shiny and scanned too. That gave it away. It was good though, very good ! The real hard to spot LP reissues are where the copiers have used hard brown board covers for the sleeves such as the Lee Fields , and some of the RCA soul LP's from around the late 70's early 80's like Breakwater ... Some of the replicas from Scorpio are of classic Motown LP's such as Edwin Starr's Soul Master and 25 Miles LP's amongst many others and it's interesting that Sony/Motown and the other major companies concerned apparently don't seem to have pursued legal action. I guess as with northern 45 bootlegging they just couldn't care less about a little illegal vinyl in this day and age as against the huge problem of illegal net downloads. Maybe Paul (Mooney) or Sebastian on here could enlighten us a bit more on this whole situation and whether it is in fact Scorpio or some other company that are producing these replicas and how or why they are getting away with it, assuming of course that no legal licenses have been granted ?

That's right, Ton of Dynamite and Funky Eight use the exact same backing track, one is not a lift off or different version of the other . But you're right Godz, All Platinum fiddled about with the speed of the backing track on Dynamite !!!

Well Steve, if no one wants 'em , someone please fix me up with a copy of the Gloria Barnes LP on Maple ? And Helene Smith on Deep City LP ? and countless others ....

And of course the jury remains out as to whether "Think About It Girl" was "legitimately" issued as a seven, despite the 45 scan that has appeared in a previous thread !!!

Paul, I reckon you're blessed with what you do for a living ! Now, let's get that Bert Decoteaux thread happening again ... got me thinking because I was looking at that youtube jobbie of the making of Tony Drake's Let's Play House, Bert was involved in that record and the visuals of the people in the studio had me thinking the guy at the piano had to be Bert ?

Whose Little Girl Are You : Danny Williams ? Mr Williams was ... ahem ... coloured ... was he not ?

Yes, I think it was Tony Cummings mentioned it in Black Music back in the 70's. No surprise that Anka couldn't remember those tunes, Can't Help Loving You never charted in the States and by 1966 or '67 Anka and all the other teen idols of the late 50's were stone motherless cold in the States in terms of chart placings . Still Paul Anka would have been a very very wealthy man purely on the songwriting credits and success of "My Way" !!!

Would be good to see him perform them live although his fee to do a Northern gig now in the UK would no doubt be huge !!!

The Alex Brown LP was CHEAP ! Far Far rarer than the 45 !!!!!!

Does anyone know if Paul Anka was ever aware of the popularity on the scene of "I Can't Help Loving You" and "When We Get There" ?

James, with the greatest respect , you are taking yourself - and what you think you are doing (being at the cutting edge of new discoveries on the soul scene) - far too seriously ... All you needed to do was humour the previous DJ and have a little word in his ear at the end of his set .. and then gone on and played your acetate and announce over the microphone to the punters that the original acetate was now being played . If you just laugh off what are ultimately trifling annoying little incidents like this and just get on with it then you'll go a long way on this scene but if you go off like you have and start doing things like removing other people's records from the decks, you will quickly be put in the same basket as a certain Mr Levine (rightly or wrongly).

I like a bit of digression

I want to know what Pete Smith thinks .

Is that why the Stack of Hits LP fetches much more than the Midsong issue of the LP ? Can you please clarify the differences between the two LPs ?

Paul, meant for the thread to be on Dionne's 6T's Scepter output , but yes, there are plenty of 7T's dancers from Dionne with dancefloor appeal !!!

WOW !!! Would love to see that !

Several million African Americans did ...

Is the same Earl Connelly of "Please Make Up Your Mind" northern biggie ?

Glad you like it Pete ! I have it on an Australian Scepter EP !!!!!!!

Thanks Stuart, any chance of a You Tube type jobbie for the benefit of us - the public ?

Lucky devil !

What a voice, what an artist , what a legend, what a performer, what a body of work ... what a shame he has hardly ventured outside the USA !

Is it now generally accepted that there is NO film footage whatsoever in existence of any of these 3 legendary soul venues ?