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Just as a matter of interest: which ones are fetching "stupid money"? I've just checked around ten at random on discogs and all are only around a fiver...

Every LP that Soul 4 Real puts out is essential, but this is the best one yet ; just played it through three times in a row. Even if I have nearly all these cuts already, it's great to hear them in such a setting. Alex Subinas has great taste and doesn't simply go for the obvious cuts. Betty Swann's magnificent "It's time to say goodbye" is an inspired choice, just about the only track I know that has male and female backing singers alternating and I'm delighted that Doris Troy's exquisite "He Don't belong to me" is on here, the first time ever on an LP. No album in 2024 will be better than this.

And also, as far back as 1966, there was a specific dance created called "Function at The Junction" - that Shorty Long had a hit with. That is more or less the same as line dancing, so it is hardly a new thing in black culture, although clearly it is a radical and unwelcome departure for "Northern soul".

In her own interview Elsie states that she left the business circa 1966/1967.....about a decade before many of the songs above were recorded....

You're right, absolutely no way this makes any sense. In so many different ways. For a start, as said above, you can't record backing vocals to a song - "Shining Star" - that wasn't even written at the time. No technology in the world can make that a reality. Yes, of course, if it was just "oohs" and "aahs" but not if one is singing actual words. (Plus the fact that the backing vocals on that record are clearly performed by men. As indeed are all the sixties' Manhattans records I know.) Elsie Baker sounds a smart, likable and very switched on woman based on an interview I listened to but she also seems to be claiming in that interview that either- it isn't quite clear exactly what the claim is - The Debonaires recorded "Baby Love" before the Supremes or sang the backing vocals on it. That actually makes more logical sense than the Manhattans' story but I still suspect would be news to most people.

Arrived yesterday. Very good stuff. Recommended.

And, I should add, on the b-side of her rather awful "Sexyonic" 12 inch from 1989.

This is another slightly different version of a track called " Boy what you gonna do" on her "Fever all through the night" LP. Although the single came first I prefer the LP take......

Agreed, very good stuff. I have played the releases by The Legendary Beyons, Slickaphonic and Milton Davis a great deal over last year or so.....

Well they are, both on "Call on me /That's the Way Love is "...

Well done by Ace/Kent on putting this - Calvin's first ever LP - out, It's all unpretentious , slightly dated to be fair, stuff but I'm certainly enjoying it.

Roger Harris went onto even bigger things : he became a member of The Manhattans.

All the lyrics to this brilliant record are superb, but too many to print here. Just a sample, though: " She goes to bed every night With her fists balled up tight And then out of the bed Hollering, "Come on Maskman, I'm ready to fight!" That's what she said That's what she trying to start And then she run to the kitchen and get the water hot She missed me with the water but she caught me with the pot She picked a can of biscuits and I gave the dog a bite He been barking at the moon and acting stupid all night"

Cheers, I will

Hello, still looking for these if anyone can help.....thanks..

"Just watched part 1, didn't expect to hear " The Carstairs, It really Hurts Me Girl ".. ......and I certainly didn't expect to hear Ann Peebles' "Part Time Love"........

Backbeat Records in Edinburgh. A shop so crammed you can't enter. You have to tell the owner what you're after and he will carry the respective boxes outside for you to look through. Went there with my 13y old lad who'd just started to show interest in collecting rocksteady and reggae 45s using his pocket money. Told the owner what we're after. He said he doesn't even bother to show us the rocksteady/reggae boxes. That we would be after the rarities for cheap anyway. I said I'm here with my son who wants to buy some cheap 45s. He said he doesn't believe us and basically told us to f*ck off. I went to this shop last year and agree it is a ridiculous set-up. The owner wasn't rude to me but did take a very long time getting his three boxes of soul LPs out onto the pavement. Basically, though, apart from one purchase, it was all very unexciting stuff. Another shop I won't be going back to...

Aah, yes, Royce Records, I remember it - fairly - well, although one bad experience in a record shop makes me shun them, and he simply didn't deserve to be in business towards the end. Beanos records in Croydon was dire, too. I recall asking if I could play a record I was thinking of buying as I wasn't sure what it sounded like and the bloke behind the counter refused , even though they had the means to do so, and had a go at me for coming into his shop in first place. Never visited them again, either..

This is another tremendous LP from Soul4real, well done Alex, Tats and everyone else involved, very much looking forward to this. I'm 99.9% sure, too, this is the first time anywhere in the world that the brilliant "I need you baby" by Arthur A has featured on an LP.

"Wait Til I Get Over" is a Jones solo album as opposed to a Durand Jones & Indications LP. And I'm not impressed with it either, highly disappointing. Such a shame from such a good singer. Hope the group remain can together....

Ditto on all points above.....well done Steve, it's an excellent book, I'm learning a lot...

Good luck with these Nick, I hope they do very well for you...

Without doubt, yes.

Thanks, just checked but none of these are there.....

Johnnie Taylor - Real love (has to be LP, I have the CD) Little Milton - I'm a gambler (has to be LP, I have the CD) Joe Hinton - Funny (on U.K. Vocalion, I have the U.S. Back Beat version) PM me please if anyone can help