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I have the purple label version of this. I dont think it's 60s, but I've never heard any other version to compare it to. Unfortunately, mine doesnt look minty like the one pictured in this thread.

Is this actually listed by Manship with a 4 figure price somewhere? There are plenty of records on his "rarest of the rare" page that are not 4 figure records.

I don't think I'm someone you can decsribe as "mixed up" when it comes to recognizing a northern soul sound, so let's agree to disagree on this particular record.

Now I would have said it most certainly wasn't Northern. If someone was to ask me, "What's northern soul?", I would never play a record like that to him as an example. Even when you consider the sub-categories of the genre: mock motown, pop stompers, beat ballads, mid-tempo floaters, beach music, messy-hollow-recorded-in-a-closet-amateur-teenage-combo-adrenalin-fests, even r&b this is just so far removed from any of those types of sounds as to be completely unrecognizable to me as "northern". I don't consider myself an "oldies" fan, and I'm very open-minded when it comes to new discoveries/sounds, but if you were to put this record next to any example of the above sub-categories of northern, I dont think this record would hold up well at all.

Yes, that's the record I had. I thought it was crap. I just played the sound file on Manship's site. I still think it's a bad record.

Is this on a yellow label? I had this in my sales box for years and finally sold it for $20.

Actually, Gene, that was you and me, not Geoff. Remember we ate breakfast with him at a diner and then sat in the back seat of his Cadillac while he sang his songs. I still have his business card "Fred and Sons Plumbing". Your scooter friend had a very cool early 1960's Lincoln with suicide doors that he was selling. And I remember him trying to think of Freddie's name. He said "some guy who recorded at Motown" was a regular customer of his. Butler something. And we went through the list... Billy? Jerry? Freddie? Yep, that's him...

Kae Williams Sr owned the Junior label in Philadelphia and is responsible for the Silhouettes, Sensations, and Yvonne Baker.

There's a scan and sound file of "Thank you girl" on my website: Solid Hit Soul

I think Dave would be surprised to learn that he wasnt living in New Jersey anymore (about 20 minutes from me). He's actually DJing with Mr Fine Wine tonight at Botanica in New York City.

Yes indeed.

I thought I was the one who provided the contact info for Mel Britt to Tim Ashibende, and you got it from him. And was Adi the same guy who filmed Robert Banks in NJ? I felt very fortunate to be able to sit in on that little session.

I sold this in the mid 90s to Soul Sam. I thought it was unknown at the time, but after the deal, Butch told me he had one. Not sure who he sold it to. Interesting that this is getting mentioned within a few posts of the New Sounds LP on Turbo, as it's the exact same band and singers.

Must learn to lurk more invisbly... What about Leon Peterson on Skylark "Now you're on your own". The copy I found in 1992 made its way into Roger Banks' hands and I heard it everytime I was in the UK. Personally, I thought it was horrible (which is why I got rid of it), but I think it was a pretty big sound for Roger. I'm sure he had it covered up as something or other.

I think the common name between the two would be "Smith". Hardly convincing evidence, particularly when you realize that Len Jewel Smith and Huey Piano Smith have completely different first and middle names. Unless of course you mean that Smith is a common name, which it most certainly is, even in this culturally diverse country we live in. I bet there are even one or two in the Chicago phone book.

It's about 8 blocks west of O'Donahues. No Northern Soul music to be heard there...yet.

yes, reissue is styrene

What exactly is the difference between the original and the bootleg of Gwen & Ray? If I'm not mistaken, they're practically identical. I believe I have an original, but only because it looked identical to another collector's copy which he also believed to be an original. But I saw a copy for sale in the UK in a dealer's bootleg box and it looked identical also, so still none the wiser about it.

Just had to share this with everyone... This bar just opened in the town I live in.

This all sounds pretty dubious to me.

Bob Shannon the US DJ?

Originals are on a red label

Had a chat with Johnny Northern last night. He doesn't think JR Bailey ever used the name Chuck Wood. He thought he only went under variations of his own name - Jimmy Bailey, JR Bailey, Ralph Bailey.

One of his songwriting partners, Johnny Northern, is usually hanging out with his friends at 50th and Broadway in NY when I'm on my way home from work every night. Next time I see him, I'll ask him. He has a pretty good memory for things like this.