Dave Thorley

Hi All www.topdogrecords.co.uk Some nice new tunes up this week, 'From the hard to find, Too the just palin good', all with sound files. Here are just a few of the new things to be found there......... Sargent & Malone - Love message - Half Moon £120 (one of the most indemand 12" around, stunning midtempo modern) Baatan - Woman don't want to love me - Epic £50 (Big indemand tune, oh so good and soulful)Joe Frazier - What ya gonna do when the rain starts falling - Prodigal £20 (His best yet least know, pretty 70's crossover soul)Melvin Davis - You made me ove/I'm worried - Invictus £75 (2 classic crossover sides from Detroit)Nu-Cleus - It's real love/Needing a woman - Ffull Strength £350 (Last copy of this killer indemand modern 2 sider from New Jersey)Perfect Match - The weights on you/I'll smile again - Philly Town £250 (Relativly un-known Philly 2 sider from Dot & James Bynum)Zulema - Wanna be where you are - Rca £30 (Stunning soulful evergreen modern soul/Crossover track)Ronnie Love Man Stokes - Touch you again - Philly Town (Big tune back in the day at Stafford, has stayed a very rare 12")Bobby Sheen - Something new to do - Warner Bros £80 (Much rarer issue and the best way to guarantee an original)Spade Brigade - I'm your man - Select Sound £350 (Has proved to be a hard one and so soulful) Plus many more, thanks for looking Dave & Malayka

Any chance of sound files to hear how much different it is, and no don't have the Numero CD

Let me guess, Hunt's Determinations, ah sorry no

Anyone that can help PM me with your price, Payment straight away via Paypal EDWIN JOHNSON, ENOUGH TO MAKE A MAN CRY, POST RECORDS Cheers Dave

Maybe there some mis-undersatnding. I will release the demo version, not Grey Imprint. The demo version, was done by the writers, who were not involved in Grey Imprint, they just shopped the song onto the band. The demo I have put up here was recorded a year or so before the group, so roughly 1968. So no one in the group will get anything for the release, but the writers will, as they are who I am licencing the track from. Cheers Dave

As always with these things, now that it's been done thought of a whole bunch more, maybe do another one or two later.

Cheers George for all the info, all adds to the overall story of the recording. I was told that most of the masters from the Clearhill stuff are now with a guy in N.Y. ?

The writers are black and the lyrics are very 70's black consciousness ('I remember the time when the back of the bus was reserved for us'). So a little strange that a white band recorded it, but as all say, both are great recordings.

A few years ago I tracked down the writers for Grey Imprints ' Do you get the message'. The group were a show band from Ohio, that pick up the track from the writers and recorded it on Clearhill records. Last year I met up with the two writers and they told me that they had recorded a demo for it themselves and had originally intended to release this, but after they did the deal with Grey Imprint, this was shelved. To my joy, two weeks ago I was sent the original demo recording and the guys have agreed for me to release it, early next year. They have also given me another un-released track for the flip side which is a stunning midtempo crossover track.

Hi Mark That really was where the magic of the club lay, it's diversity. Plus it was a proper venue, not s village hall somewhere

Hi Chalky Just looked again and The Memphians, should be 'South Memphis' not 'Breakdown', which did you put in the pod cast ??

If that is Tim, then someone cut his legs off, cuz he's way taller than Butch, Guy with the glasses is it a very young Bernie Golding ???

Here's a few nice things from it, but there really are so many good tracks on there, specialy on the last two discs

had a couple for sale in the last 5 years both sold quick at around £300

Nothing wrong with this seller, highly respected, sometimes a little high on prices, but always good service. Maybe what you mean is he was more than you wanted to pay.

Here's my bit to the story. I just got a few things from a guy on Ebay, one was a white test pressing of The Thornton Sisters and a blank acetate, that plays 'Got no time'. The guy was a house clearance guy on the east coast, I ask him where they came from, he said he had got 2 boxes of records out of a house he cleared. He knew nothing about who had lived there, after posting the first lot on ebay, he says he sold the rest on to someone local. In conversation with him, sounded genuinely like someone that new little about music. The Thornton Sisters, he listed wrongly for the b side and got the title completely wrong, he also had a few other acetates, but those didn't sound that interesting when he played them down the phone, but all were soul/R&B. To be honest the 'Got no time' I could hardly hear, as he was playing it off one of those kid turntables, just sounded like a thumper, so I took a chance. The acetate, is blank, no info, nothing. It's in an Audiodisc sleeve, a liitle worn and looks aged, with some scratches. can't tell you anymore. I've collected acetates for years and it looks right and I'm happy with it. Cheers Dave

As always a big thanks for your assistance with the show Jerry. I feel fine, it's the others that I think still feel a bit shabby, they all went for it, including Leon, who arrived after the Riverside.

Hi John There is a difference in the run out info long version has P-010, Quarter turn 551 (A SIDE), P-011, Quarter turn, something I can't read (B SIDE) Short version has P-010, Quarter turn Linx (A SIDE), P-011, Quarter turn Linx (B SIDE)

Hi Nick Lotsa questions there, so lets see... Gospel Funtion is a C/U, it's a very rare 45 outta the deep south. Got all the Double O's recordings think their a very talented group for such a small output. Always struggled to find people in Cleveland, it's not got the same tight music community as many other cities. Thanks for all the kind words Dave

File share for the show 1st and 2nd hours https://www.zshare.net/audio/9592675057671f17/#.Tr_E6OUorgs.facebook www.zshare.net zSHARE - Dave _ Malayka 10-11-11 pt2.mp3 www.zshare.net

Play list 13/11/11 Johnny Scott - Let me be a winner Chuck Colbert - Stay Chosen Few - I am alone Ne-Cleus - Needing a woman Brass Fever - Time is running out Grey Imprint - Do you get the message Baatan - Woman don't want to love me David Lenyard & The Brewster Crew - I want to let the world know Spec & The GH Outlaw Gang - Hell girl Johnny Johnson & The Band Wagon - The feelin is real Garden Of Eaton - Bama boogie woogie Willie White - Love at 1st sight Ray Qaules - It gonna be all over Double O's Demingo's - Color one tear black pt2 Turks - The bad brought the good The Coalitions - On the block Ricky Andrews - Chances are your dance is mine That - All I need Herman Hitson - Why not me Gospel Funtion - People come together Perfect Match - The weights on you Milt Smith - Since I got you L. C. Steels - Losin boy Michael Bell - Can't make it without you Crystal's Image - A friend Cold Blooded Express - You're the life of me Moody Scott - Lovely lady Timmy Carr - Got no time no time for you Impact - Don't let him take away your mind Sweet Pearl - You mean everything to me Jimmy Brison - It's all over girl Brother William - We are optimistic Fat Gains Orch feat Curtis Lawson - Let's stay together

Morning Dez, glad your on board, mind it was touch and go I made it, had Gav & Gilly, Steve & Sue Playfair, Ali & John and Leon & Gail round last night, madness

Thanks, so kind Mike

It was the first release of it on Portra, but they only presses about 1000, when they sold it was re-released but with info edited