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Just Brothers - Sliced Tomatoes......The only thing it has ever been fit for, is talking over, which it invariably is on TV!

I love the Barbara McNair - I Know Better and especially this version where someone has done a fantastic job of splicing Barbara's version with Gladys Knight's and The Marvelettes versions.

"If all the world were mine, I wouldn't give nothing to you. Cos' you've been wasting my time and I didn't mean nothing to you". Carl Douglas - Serving a sentence of life.

Sounds the same to me, although I've grown to like The Fantastic Four version better!

Gail Eason - I can see the hurt .......5 times in a row ! I never tire of it

I was led to believe the first two are original and the last two were boots. I had a copy of the third (image) one and paid £1 for it from a box full of them. I sold it to someone telling them it was a boot and they were convinced I was wrong. I bought the second (image) one and it is identical to the one you have shown and believe it to be an original, It has a different font. Never seen it on a Canterbury boot with plain straight writing. The Tempos Countdown was on a burgundy coloured Canterbury boot. Kev

The slow version of "Togetherness" and a slow version of the Tempos - Countdown

Gonna be adding that to my favourites!

Is there a vinyl format for this mix? Standing in the Darkness_The Ethics.mp3

Joe Quarterman is an excellent track!

Jimmy Mack is a great choice, along with Love is here and now you're gone/There's no stopping us now. I thought it was 6/8d then they went up to 7/6d. I know when they were 7/6d (1970 ish) it was the same money for a week's school dinners and I used to buy a single with my dinner money and cadge my dinner from the 1st years at the chippy. I got so well known by the woman in the shop that she used to let me behind the counter so I could just go through all the old stax/motown and put them away to stop anyone else getting them. Of course you could still order some of them before they became deleted.

Darrell Banks - Open/Our love...........without a doubt my first choice! Terri Bryant - Geni/When I'm in your arms Supremes - Love is like an itching/He's all I got Bobby Sheen - I may not be what you want/Something new to do Del Larks - Job Opening Parts 1 & 2

I must have tried every option of "I'll follow you" available on the net and after listening to your sound file half a dozen times I'm desperate to know what it is as well. It's really grown on me. i would say it's early 60's white female, but can't even put a guess on who it is. Good luck

Amazing! Maybe because he was a welll known artist and it was RCA he was promoted more. It did cross my mind that maybe every record had a juke box insert, but if that was the case then we would have seen a lot more turning up. I'll never forget hearing it for the first time at Wigan, covered up as Johnny Caswell

Taken from the two volumes of cd's The Torch Vols 1 & 2 1. Just Like The Weather - Chance, Nolan 2. I've Got Something - Sam & Kitty 3. Sliced Tomatoes - Just Brothers 4. Sweet Darlin' - Clarke, Jimmy 'Soul' 5. Our Love - Barnes, J.J. 6. Honey Bee - Johnson, Johnny 7. I Can't Get Away - Garrett, Bobby 8. I Still Love You - Superlatives 9. Crackin' Up Over You - Hamilton, Roy 10. Love You Baby - Parker, Eddie 11. Personally - Paris, Bobby 12. One In A Million - Brown, Maxine 13. Thumb A Ride - Wright, Earl 14. I'm Standing - Lumley, Rufus 15. I Feel An Urge - Armstead, Jo 16. I Don't Want To Cry - Gray, Pearlean & The Passengers 17. Exus Trek - Ingram, Luther 18. Keep On Keepin' On - Porter, N.F. 19. I'm So Glad - Johnson, Herb 20. Quick Change Artist - Soul Twins 21. One Wonderful Moment - Shakers 22. Hit And Run - Shakers 23. Soul Self Satisfaction - Jackson, Earl 24. That's Alright - Crook, Ed 25. Compared To What - Mr. Flood's Party 26. Blowing Up My Mind - Exciters 27. Please Let Me In - Barnes, J.J. 28. I Love You Baby - Scott, Cindy 29. Queen Of The Go Go - Garvin, Rex 30. Angel Baby - Banks, Darrell 1. Just Ask Me - Guess, Lenis 2. Surprise Party - Vibratin' Vibrations 3. What Kind Of Lady - Sharp, Dee Dee 4. Free For All - Mitchell, Prince Phillip 5. It Ain't Necessary - Galore, Mamie 6. I Got The Fever - Prophets 7. Breakaway - Valentines 8. Suzy's Serenade - Wilson, Bob 9. Inky Dinky Wang Dang Doo - Dramatics 10. What Would I Do - Superiors 11. Unsatisfied - Johnson, Lou 12. Running For My Life - Shelton, Roscoe 13. What Would I Do - Tymes 14. Case Of Love - Sequins 15. Love Game A Z - Royal Jokers 16. Too Much - Conwell, Jimmy 17. They Say - Ovations 18. If It's All The Same To You Babe - Ingram, Luther 19. Music - White, Jeanette 20. Bingo - Dynamics 21. Frantic Escape - Innocent Bystanders 22. Don't Be Sore At Me - Parliaments 23. Prove Yourself A Lady - Bounty, James 24. Number One - Exciters 25. I Love The Life I Live I Live The Life I Love - Michaels, Tony

Pete S has/had a juke box, so I suppose he will have had the rarest 45's ever loaded onto a juke box! Kev

I bought this on ebay some years back and was pleasantly surprised to find the juke box insert fall out when I took the record out. It immediately conjured up a diner in Detroit where the single could have been blasting out. I would imagine that most juke boxes in Detroit would have been bursting at the seams with Motown and maybe other local labels like Revilot, Ric Tic etc. Perhaps Pat Lewis was a bit of a hit in 1966 so automatically found its way on to local juke boxes. Anyway, Pat Lewis isn't that rare, but does anyone have a juke box insert for a really rare track

I've been meaning to mention this for years, but every time I play Joe Hicks - Don't it make you feel funky, I keep hearing Johnny "Guitar" Watson singing the backing vocals, plus the guitar riff that runs through the song sounds like his kind of thing. I believe Johnny Watson went to live in LA when he was a kid but can't find any links between the two of them. Does anyone hear what I hear, or know of any links between them or the producer. Kev

Thanks for that, should have looked on you tube first I suppose. Thought I was going mad

Was playing Pat Lewis - Can't shake it loose on Golden World, and can't get it out of my head that the Supremes covered this track. I'm sure I had it on an old cassette, but can't find it anywhere. I'm starting to doubt it even existed now. Anyone know if they did it?

Les Spaine was the dj at The Timepiece and they did all nighters, but solid funk. There were a few scousers who did the rounds at various northern venues, but there weren't any venues in Liverpool other than maybe Skem Formby or Southport/Ormskirk, which really are on the periphery of Liverpool.

I used to dj in Birkenhead in the mid 70's and played the same stuff that was being played at the Ritz along with a mix of funk such as Brass Construction, Brother to Brother etc. But if I so much as put a northern record of any description on it would clear the floor. Funny really, northern soul never took off in the clubs in Liverpool or Wirral and yet it was so close geographically to Blackpool and Wigan. Has anyone ever been able to explain that. Kev

I saw it and can't remember seeing Lynne Randell - "That's what love is made of" the Smokey Robinson track on the list, but I have a copy on Oz CBS

The Marvellettes - Reachin' for something I can't have followed closely by Kim Weston - Helpless ...This was the first import motown record I ever owned and played it to death

Me too! plus Blues. Sorry to hear about Whistler. We should meet up again Kev