Still Diggin

Just think of all the great cheap soul records a man can buy on discogs, one of which is John Edwards 'Messing up a good thing', IMO it's also one of the best! R.I.P. John

Black Buddah 'Baby oh Baby Pork vg £200 Hard driving funky soul track with great horns, most of the soul output on this logo is tough to find, this being no exception. Plays great for the grade, with minimal suface noise.Rare one for sure. Jesse James ' If you want a love affair 20th cent promo ex+ £40 Classic 70's soul. SOLD Master Plan 'Clinton Park' Delite ex+ £40 Classic soul harmony lyrical masterpiece. Glenda Smith- Whyte 'Reach up' World ex+ £150 Gospel inspired dancer from the pen of Moses Dillard, excellent production and vocals, rare demo. Dana v Andrews 'Mr Justice Davida ex £200 Recently re-issued, heres a proper one. Valentinos 'Stay Away' Clean vg £250 Took this in a trade with three other 45's, looks like the copy that was on ebay a few years back. Probably twenty times rarer than 'Sweeter'. Lots of pen marks on both sides and lots of marks, Wrote by Bobby and Leon Ware. Plays really well for the grade with a few audible marks at the start. SOLD Full refund if not happy. Message to reserve. Cheers Andy

Hey Mark, can you remember when the coach broke down and we got back at 6.00am, I had to start work at 7.30 after cycling four miles. Got there and tried to have a kip at lunch time laying flat on the floor boards, this pesky plasterer then tied my shoelaces together while asleep, after 30 minutes got woken by the foreman to resum work only to piss straight back over!

Well if you're happy with it that's fine, AI or not, however if you listen to the Coffee version featuring Leon Bryant I would say it's all about delivery and passion of which that has in abundance, you can pitch Marvins voice however you want and I'm afraid it won't be for me.

To be honest I couldn't give a hoot if this is Marvin together with some odd AI tinkering, After all you can go on YouTube find the uploader Mastermind sounds and listen to a shed full of stuff with in the sweet ballad and group genre, all loosely based on similar existing backing tracks, with both ficticous and known artists.There is even a mash up of the Carol Dionne rarity ' I need you', scary times indeed and as someone mentioned before ' I'm glad I lived when I did'. Personally If I want to listen to ' If this would were mine ' then the first port of call would be the Sweet James Epps version.

I find these threads regarding ''Low Rider'' soul thought provoking but somewhat anoying. The first slow harmony record by a lesser known group (certainly to me at the time) that really grabed me was the Festivals 'So in love' on Gordy, that came from an old second hand store in 1979 for 25p. However at that point I was collecting all kinds of soul, however by the late 80's I was looking for more group stuff like the Festivals and single artist ballads to boot., by the end of the 90's, 50 percent of my purchases were slow soul, by the end of the 2000's 80 percent at least were slow soul. So your'e probably thinking were is all this going, point is i'm not the only one, there are numerous collectors both over here Japan and in Europe having followed a similar path just getting on with it and have done it for years, nothing new. I don't think it was untill the late 90's sombody talked about ''Low Rider'', I had no clue what they were on about, only to realize there was a parrallel scene of a knowledgeable bunch of good guys with smilar taste in California. As for 'sweet soul' term being used to ramp up prices on the net, anyone who has being looking for this stuff for any length of time pretty much knows whats rare and what isn't. It does not help when it would appear there seems to be a poor understanding of what sweet soul actually is. For the most part the lead is sung in Falsetto or counter/high tenor. Obviously group or single artist. There have been thousands of soul records listed since the bandwagon jump in ''Low rider'' in the last ten years that due not fit this cryteria, but listed as sweet soul, there are some group records that that would follow a similar lyrical portrail or concept that some would argue should fit this crytria, I dont. Records on my turntable like Longstreets on Mighty oak, Essence of life on Sir Ran Rap, Arterials on Mary and common favorits like Touch of Class 'I'll be your rainbow' Smokey Robinson 'Wev'e come to far to end it now' are SWEET SOUL and i know those guys in California dig these records. As for the Ace CD, IMO there are some nice unreleased tracks. You will notice there is a picture of the Nightchill group featured, with sleeve notes eluding to not knowing who the group were other than Dave Hamilton only knowing the lead singers first name. The group sent me the same photo over twenty years ago, however it was signed by the group. they were - Anthony Robinson, James Smith, Tyrone Marshall, Nathaniel Harriot.

So I assume one bloke has his headphones on dancing to High Frequency 'Summertime' and the bloke next to him has his headphones on dancing to Ray Pollard 'The drifter'. surely the Drifter guy is gonna like he's had a stroke! then get a few lifesize cardboard cut outs of Tommy Cooper riding a donky to make the dance floor look busy, what could go wrong?🤣🤣🤣

Great photo Chris, amazing the pictures you can take sun bathing in the dunes on new years eve!

I find it difficult to accept some of the accreditations made on discogs to certain artists, more so when the time frame between releases spans nearly a decade. Productions change dramaticaly so vocal delivery accomadates this in such a way it can sound like a different artist. IMO Bobby King on Motown and Warners does not sound like the chap on the Luna 45, however the chap on the Lunar 45 does sound like the chap on Reprise with the Stevie Wonder cover. Like I say maybe it's just a time frame thing.

I also thought it was a slightly different mix, however the point I was making is it is Bobby King singing, with no evidence of it being Rudy Love.

A good captivating soul record is often it's simplicity. often wondered if it was Al 'alonzo' Wilson as it does sound like him. But that was from down south.

Given the fact this record is the same as Bobby king on Lunar then it would be reasonable to think King Superfly is just a play on Bobby's surname to negate contractual issues. Where is the provenance this has anything to do with Rudy Love. I stand to be corrected as my time spent at school was limited.

Just dropped you a line. Andy

Great choices Kev, as expected!

Excellent thread to start, however it may have been best to limit the suggestions to American based artists, as I can see this decending into numerous biddu type productions based on carribean and islands acts that lived over here, of which there are several hundred some mentioned already, not saying their all crap but it could go on forever. Car;l Douglas mentioned above also had a different flip in the Uk with his Buddah release, in the States it was 'Marble and iron' in the uk it was 'Do you need my love to get better', off to play the flip 'Lean on me' a soulfull piece if ever there was one. Thanks for the nudge on Carl.