Sunnysoul

Godz, I've long been into out of the ordinary soul vinyl thingy's ...... Have some very tasty and extremely rare and great looking Coca Cola sevens issued Down Under eg Supremes Shirelles Ray Charles Little Milton sevens etc ... some with real Northern appeal especially Little Milton's , he re-recorded the backing track to his We're Gonna Make It hit with him instead singing lyrics extolling the virtues of Coke: "Thing's Go Better With Coke ..." !!!! Thing is , the re-recorded backing is much more bouncy and up tempo than the original , so it's a Norther dancer's delight !!! Feel free to PM me if you're interested in more of this stuff , although I guess you want to buy, right ? (To be honest don't know if I want to sell...I may be interested in trading mebbee?) Cheers!

Simon, that's interesting, I took it for granted that it was her, it LOOKS like her to me , albeit youthful, and of course I've seen plenty of her pics and clips in later life over the years. Now I might have to go back and research her various bios to confirm if she sang with the Caravans ... Still, great footage whatever the case, wonder if its on vinyl ?!!!

There I was thinking that things have been a bit quiet with the rare and classic soul clips lately when I stumbled onto this ... An incredibly gritty and fantastic version of Wade In The Water from 1967 by gospel girls The Caravans featuring of all people an outrageously youthful Loleatta Holloway !!! Real soul power here folks !!! I can imagine this fitting in nicely between Sam Fletcher and Bud Harper !!! (NB Apologies to my beloved mods if I have posted the clip incorrectly ... have mercy please!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em-ywtrY65k

Ooh I like that ! If you have a spare I'll 'ave one !!!!!!!!!!!! Great record, her best dancer I reckon, even better than Spellbound !!!

Sean, that's Apollas for the uninitiated, right ........

Sorry Joan , meant to say that I've always played it off the LP which is considerably cheaper and easier to obtain than the 45 .... Cheers

Yes, but it's always been easily available off the Esquires LP on Bunky !!!

Marisa , let me tell you, as far as the the Northern scene goes , that "all singing all dancing macho blokiness having fun together" that characterises the scene has much more to do to with the very straight music hall sing along tradition in the United Kingdom or should even just be likened to just a group of blokes having a healthy pub singalong, rather than any "gay" thing ... "not that there's anything wrong with that", as Seinfeld would say ... Of course there's always been a gay element in the soul scene, as there always has been in any section or group of our society, but really at the end of the day it's always been a MINOR element . Had an interesting discussion recently with some people about the origins of the Disco scene in the US and the way that it's been documented in various music history books. The gay element in the Disco scene has always been strongly emphasised, with its origins often claimed to emanate from the bath house culture and loft parties in New York in the late 60s early 70s. But really, that gay-centric, New York-centric perspective of the origins of Disco, is not really accurate at all and has been unduly over-emphasised, if anything. The real driving and creative force behind the development of Disco in every aspect (ie music clothes culture clubs etc), was in fact black heterosexual teens . For evidence of that one only only needs to read the chapter on "Dances" in Robert Pruter's brilliant book "Chicago Soul". That and the emergence of the Soul Train program on US TV screens in 1971 proved to be crucial in the development of disco and dance music in the 70's. This slightly politically incorrect view may raise a whole new issue for debate here but your comments and posts are encouraged !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bearsy old son, shouldn't that be "IVY Joe Hunter" , the Motown writer and sometime artist ... who was a completely different guy to the black country/blues legend Ivory Joe Hunter ? Must have been a heavy weekend over there in the UK with people thinking it was New Orleans RnB legend Maurice Williams performing Classical Gas (see other thread) , not pop guitarist Mason Williams.....

A great but long forgotten double sider from this blue eyed rock n soul man ! I actually want it for Wait A Minute side which is absolutely the sound for today's dancefloors ! Must be on the rare Sunlight US 45, (not Starfire or UK issue) ! Cheers!

The best and rarest way to own this classic is to have the Australian original 45 demos only on Aussie Monument !!! And the Australian copies all play without the notorious skip in the break that is often found on the US copies. I have one for sale , it's VG+ , 120 UK GBP Anyone on here can feel free to PM me !!!

Lil Willie West "Don't be ashamed to cry" Frisco £60. P&P extra. Chqs prefered from UK buyers. Paypal overseas. cheers, derek

Would one say that George Benson is a soul singer ?

BUMP !!! Still after these ! Anyone ?

Template for 9T's girl groups, Jo ? Surely only ONE template for ALL girl groups any style, any era ... a little trio of girls called the Supremes !!! LOL

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kirsty, any chance of a soundclip of the Crusaders please ?

Tone, I'm sure Blues & Soul did a little piece on her around the time of the release of her LP in '69/'70. John Abbey seemed to be a particular fan of anything Swamp Dogg was involved with. I would imagine that you have early Blues & Soul issues from that time (I could dig mine out of storage if neeed be)?

Great to see Dave giving that Popcorn Wylie LP on ABC "Extra Sensory Perception" some exposure, utterly fantastic LP

Which makes it all the more amazing that "Call On Me" got a 45 release in Australia on the "W & G" label in 1964 !!! And then W & G also found a way to release Donald Jenkins and the Delighters "Somebody Help Me" as well !!!

With the greatest respect, what a silly comparison ! Smokey IS soul , Dusty was a folk singer who went on to have some pleasant soul influenced pop hits. There was a thread on here some time ago as to whether falsetto male singers were soulful. Let me throw some names at you: Eddie Kendricks Curtis Mayfield Russell Thomkins (Stylistics) Ron Banks ( Dramatics) Ted Mills (Blue Magic) Eddie Holman Moorer Brothers (Esquires) Eugene Record (Chi Lites) and so on and so on .... and then I recommend that anyone who considers themselves a soul fan really should read Barney Hoskin's book :"Say It One More Time For the Broken Hearted" to get an insight into how the great gospel legends influenced secular male soul vocalising , particularly falsetto singing ...

YES, without a doubt ! 1 Dells 2 Temptations 3 Impressions

OK , a little quiz here, everybody knows or should know, the Magic Touch by Bobby Fuller issued on Mustang, and then Melba Moore's unreleased version which was dug out of the vaults and catapulted into the northern soul hall of fame ... But does anyone know of another quite tasty version released as a seven by another artist on a relatively well known US label in the late 60's ?

Tone , any luck on your research on the Promises LP?

Pete, just curious, what do you do if you're emailing / corresponding with buyers in a completely different time zone , say 10 hours difference, so you email someone and say get back to me "straight away" and it's 2am in the morning in their time zone and they're fast asleep when you email them and then for very practical reasons they don't even get to sit at their computer to respond until 10am when they're at work or whatever ... and so 8 hours have passed since your email etc etc etc you know what I'm getting at ......

Well Tone, the Turner Bros and Moses Dillard definitely exist as a couple of copies of each of them have surfaced for sale on ebay in the past 12-18 months (and I'm sure they're listed in popsike.com) ... as has the Roger Hatcher ... And as for the Promises, I'm going on information contained in sleeve notes to a CD that was issued on Brunswick/BRC girl-soul groups that came out some years ago that included a Promises track and then went on to state that the company issued an LP on the girls ! OK, sleeve notes are not always 100% correct but I thought I'd try to prompt a response from people like your good self who could possibly shed some some light. It's the Odds and Ends LP that intrigues me because I have seen a Today LP label discography which has definitely allocated a release number to that LP. I have posted a topic on Soul Source a few times asking for info on this but surprisingly had no response ... sadly the northern scene with its focus on sevens is still lagging well behind, it would appear, in appreciating rare soul LP's. Previous posts on Soul Source regarding LP only tracks have only touched the surface, it really is an untapped source ... I've also asked on here before for someone to provide a full LP discography for the All Platinum/ Stang/Turbo etc family of labels but again not one response .... By the way I should also have included the Brief Encounter LP on Sound Stage 7 in the wants list ! Anyone ?!!!