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Take your pick Gloria Alleyne (Gloria Lynne) Josie 767 - When I Say My Prayers / Uncloudy Day - 1954 Gloria Lynne (born Gloria Alleyne on 23-November-1931 in New York City) Ember 1002 - Cool Daddy / Affection - 1956 Seeco 6037 - Little Boy Blues / Way Beyond The Hills - 1959 Everest 19303 - June Night / Perdido - 1959 Everest 19308 - But Not For Me / Just In Time - 1959 Everest 19326 - Be My Love / My Prayer For You - 1960 Everest 19337 - Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe / My Reverie - 1960 Everest 19343 - June Night / Perdido - 1960 Everest 19346 - Am I Blue / Little Girl Blue - 1960 Everest 19347 - They Didn't Believe Me / Without A Song - 1960 Everest 19367 - Gypsy Boy / Recommended To Love - 1960 Everest 19373 - Condemned Without Trial / Dreamy - 1960 Everest 19390 - The Jazz In You / Love, I've Found You - 1960 Everest 19409 - He Needs Me / The Lamp Is Low - 1961 Everest 19418 - Impossible / This Little Boy Of Mine - 1961 Everest 19428 - You Don't Have To Be A Tower Of Strength / I Will Follow Him - 1961 *an "answer" record to the 1961 release "Tower Of Strength" by Gene McDaniels on Liberty 55371. Seeco 6077 - Is There Someone For Me / I'm Not Afraid Anymore - 1961 Everest 19431 - And This Is My Beloved / I'm Glad There Is You - 1962 Everest 20008 - I Know Love / It Just Happened To Me - 1962 Everest 2023 - I'll Buy You A Star / Record Company Blues - 1963 Everest 2030 - Humming Blues / Stormy Monday Blues - 1963 Everest 2036 - I Wish You Love / Through A Long And Sleepless Night - 1964 Everest 2042 - I Should Care / Indian Love Call - 1964 Fontana 1890 - Be Anything (But Be Mine)* / Soul Serenade - 1964 (Some Copies Issued with picture sleeve) *also recorded in 1964 by Connie Francis on MGM 13237. Everest 2044 - Don't Take Your Love From Me / You Don't Know What Love Is - 1964 Everest 2047 - Serenade In Blue / Without A Song - 1964 Everest 2051 - On Christmas Day / Wouldn't It Be Loverly - 1964 Everest 2055 - Fly Me To The Moon / The Night Has A Thousand Eyes - 1965 Everest 2058 - Out Of This World / Squeeze Me - 1965 Everest 2059 - Lonely Street / Try A Little Tenderness - 1965 Everest 2061 - Folks Who Live On The Hill / That's A Joy - 1965 Everest 2062 - My Devotion / I'm Glad There Is You - 1965 Fontana 1507 - The Touch Of Your Lips / Intimate Moments - 1965 Fontana 1511 - Watermelon Man / All Alone - 1965 Fontana 1523 - Whisperers / I Understand - 1965 Hi Fi 5103 - I Wish You Love / A Long Long Story - 1966 Fontana 1538 - Sometimes It Be's That Way / Speaking Of Happiness - 1966 Fontana 1554 - Strangers In The Night / Candy Man - 1966 Fontana 1560 - Money Machine / I Got What You Want - 1966 Fontana 1567 - Love Is / It's Not The Truth - 1967 Fontana 1594 - Foolish Dreamer / I Can't Stand It - 1967 Fontana Fd-1 - Watermelon Man / All Alone - 1968 Fontana 1617 - Down Here On The Ground / I've Never Been Loved Before - 1968 Fontana 1627 - The Guy Who Lived Up There / Hold Back The Dawn - 1968 Fontana 1639 - I've Got To Be Someone / Problem Child - 1969 Fontana 1660 - Darlin' / No Easy Way Down - 1969 Fontana 1674 - Hold It / Untouched By Human Love - 1969 Fontana 1966 - Be Anything (But Be Mine) / Soul Serenade - ? Canyon 36 - If You Don't Get It Yourself / Love's Finally Found Me - 1970 Roker 504 - Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong / ? - 1970 Mercury 73267 - Never My Love / Summer Knows - 1972 Mercury 73294 - Just Let Me Be Me / Kickin' Life - 1972 Impulse 31003 - Out Of This World / Thank You, Early Bird - 1976 Collectables Col 038527 - I Wish You Love / Try A Little Tenderness - ? Collectables Col 038537 - I Should Care / Tower Of Strength - ?

Effin awesome!!! Pity about the price.

Even after food poisoning? Here's hoping you're well again and that you make it down to th'Hideaway.

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Hi Kev, Good to see you back up and running.

Well done Pete. That's very useful. Thanks. But you watch, you'll get some that will add extras on for their time, certain other overheads, petrol to Post Office and back for example, etc, etc, based on the fact that they are 'running a business'. Which, within limits, is understandable. The cost of p&p when selling by collectors is kept low because, well that's just the way we are. But 'dealers' see it differently. I know you buy and sell just like a dealer but you still think like a collector. I only wish everybody else did too. I'm currently arguing about p&p from the States at nearly $13. Yes, 13 effin Dollars.

Nice one. Never even seen an import of it before. Now I've seen both in one. Actually, I meant a UK Demo of the Instrumental. Get out of that one

Ha! I always wondered about that. Good info. Thanks.

I don't get it??? Why advertise it to the World there's a UK issue, until you've got one . . . . or is that it, you've got one and are now advancing it's value? You little tinker AJ

What About The Music - Billy Harner plus I'm sure, hundreds of others.

And that's big on the Funk scene you say? All's I can say is that Funk sure has changed from what I understood it to be. And you're correct, it is quite messy and as you also say, difficult to get your feet around. Now I've seen you dance in Oslo but couldn't imagine you dancing to this one. So why the £3000 price tag? Is it some kind of 'requirement' to have in your DJ box? No offence intended here so please don't take any. Just curious.

Now THIS has been a great thread to follow. Well done Missy!!!

I like Mik's view on instrumentals here and I now think I understand how it is that we are agreeing to disagree. My perspective comes more from an R&B standpoint, like Mik's I think, rather than a Soul / Northern Soul standpoint. He is 'in tune' with what most of you were trying to say when he said, "don't think the traditional Northern Soul song structure & beat is the best format for them to work. They nearly always sound like a vocal's missing to me." I wish I had said that 'cos he's mostly correct, although there are some instrumentals that transcend the need for vocals / lyrics in my opinion, and a few others too, when they mention some of the wonderful instrumentals quoted earlier in this thread. So, thanks Mik for clearing that matter up but I guess somebody will disagree and we'll probably start the whole thing all over again. I hope not. But it has been a good discussion so, well done that person who started this topic off in the first place. I think you should finish off this thread with some final words of your own on the matter. Have a brilliant Easter everybody. I fly back home to the UK tomorrow for a whole week with family, friends, good sounds (instrumental and vocal ), proper food, and decent beer at an affordable price . . . . . can't wait.

'WHAT?' .............a touch hard of hearing are we? No? It's an expression of surprise. 'Why would it be so painful to play a set of instrumentals?'................the pain is that I feel deep inside, the wasted opportunity to lay a quality soul vocal over a searing 4/4 northern back beat. So, you NEVER play instrumentals at all??? So, what gives with all this purastistical rubbish about Soul music deriving it's direction and 'meaning' from the lyrics?................if thats the question you'll NEVER understand the answer. I could have written that question in a better way but I was finishing my third pint of N¸gne IPA at 7.5%ABV at the time. Of course Soul music is a lot about the lyrics but it's also just as much about a feeling, which can still be derived from an instrumental. You neglected to include in my quote the bit where I continued to state, "we dance to the rhythm, NOT the lyrics!!!" Tell me that's not true??? Like I said, we must agree to disagree otherwise we will be here all day. And I STILL think it's a good idea!!!

You stated, amongst other things, "As for instrumentals having soul, your having a giraffe arnt ya mate, I'm not saying that instrumentals arnt good dance records in some cases, but the vocal is what adds the real soul & I doubt any sane person could argue with that." So you agree then that instrumentals have Soul, it's just that the vocals add 'real' Soul. Is that not what you just said? Now I've never argued that it's not the vocals that adds 'real' Soul to an instrumental but instrumentals can have Soul, which is why we all rave over the likes of Exus Trek, etc. Some records almost ooze Soul, or R&B, whatever. Cast your mind back to the last time you said to yourself, oh my God, just listen to the lyrics/vocals on that record, I just gotta get up and dance. Chances were it was always the rhythm that got you going first, then as you listened more closely to the record and grew fonder of the record the 'real' Soul of the record kicked in via the vocals/lyrics, or the 'real' Soul. Well, on dance records anyhow, which is what Northern Soul is mostly about, dance records, right? But with Soul of course. That goes without saying. Or does it? Look at periods in the history of Wigan Casino. But that's best forgotten about eh. Obviously, there is a LOT more to Northern Soul records than just it's ability to make you hurl yourself toward the dancefloor so that you can dance your little socks off and everybody has their own opinions on what makes a good Northern Soul record, but we won't go into that here. Anyhow, I think this discussion needs closure, so I suggest that we just agree to disagree. I love instrumentals and could listen to a few hours worth no problem. It would seem that I'm in the minority of perhaps 2 or 3 so will concede that it probably wouldn't work . . . but it's still a good idea. I'm off quick before the next hail of opposing comments. Been nice winding you all up.

Hello Missy, Got the first one already. Don't know the Tomko. Not as good as Big Noise though is it, bit messy. Seeya Friday night, as I'll be with Mace when we come to pick you up for the 'DUDLEY-DOO'.

???? Nah, you're WRONG. See my last posting.

WHAT? Why would it be so painful to play a set of instrumentals? If you think about it, ALL recordings start with an instrumental. Most often it's the rhythm that catches you're attention first before the lyrics and it's the rhythm that 'drives' the record along, especially Northern Soul, not very often the lyrics. So, what gives with all this purastistical rubbish about Soul music deriving it's direction and 'meaning' from the lyrics? Get real, we dance to the rhythm, NOT the lyrics!!! But then again, I've had THREE N¸gne IPA's and that's enough to stun an elephant.

So that's a NO for you then?

True, but I happen to think it could work. But of course I am biased, I love instrumentals, as well as my R&B / Soul / Northern / Popcorn VOCALS. On top of that, I'm posting from my favourite Pub in Stavanger, Norway, where I'm bored out of my skull and I've had a couple of N¸gne IPA's, a really strong Real Ale in a bottle from a Micro Brewery in Grimstad over toward Oslo. Not long to go now. I'm back home for Easter on Thursday and I've got some nice venues and friends to meet lined up for at least Friday and Saturday night. Can't wait!!!

What is it with you lot, can you not read? And stop going on and on about there not being enough instrumentals to fill 8 hours!!! And how it would drive you crazy not to hear a human voice on a slab of vinyl for more than an hour or so. Jazz fans do it all the time don't they? And there's a load of so-called Jazz fans out there amongst us R&B / Soul / Northern / Modern fans; at least that's what I keep hearing? Anyhow, I asked earlier, "has it ever been done" from say 8 or 9pm to 1 or 2am? That's about 5 hours? Well, has it? Surely, there are enough quality R&B / Soul / Northern Soul / Mod instrumentals to fill 5 hours very adequately? Don't ya'll think???

Bloody hell Mark, how do you keep all that info in your head? Surely, you must have it all written down somewhere? Also, I've gone all stiff at the prospect of you posting some soundbytes to back up your 'report'. That last one sounds tasty. "It May Be Tears Of Joy", etc. Any chance of a soundbyte for that one at least?

Honestly? Not my cup of tea I'm afraid. Sounds a bit cabaret'ish, if you know what I mean. Still, it wouldn't do if we all liked the same things, eh? Good idea though. The quiz approach I mean. Makes people listen, harder!!!

The more I think about it and the more I listen to these instrumentals the more I think it's not that bad an idea. Perhaps not an Allnighter but certainly 8 til 2. Has it ever been done before?

Anita Harris? Jean DuShon?