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Cracking set of tunes there Karl. Can't believe how you can possibly be accused of being a Northern Soul dinosaur with such a "modern"/cross over selection. Love the last two Lamont Dozier offerings, as a recording artist he is vastly under rated.

Always a popular disco nostalgia number. Bit of resurgence following Peter Kay using it in Car Share a couple of years back maybe...

Just caught a bit of Diana Ross at Glasto. Unfortunately one word - embarrassing.

Whilst all records are "limited" by the number produced; nearly all the 12" singles that came out in the late 70s stated they were limited but sold in the 1,000s! These small labels are all being run by guys that appear to have a real passion for the music and the artists. Getting these sounds out to a wider audience seems to be the priority above personal profit. Nevertheless the "limiting" factor for these labels must be finance and the cashflow to maintain operations and, consequently, commitments beyond 300/500 pressings per release must have an effect on the flow of these releases. An unfortunate by product is that a resale market is created and some benefit by making a quick buck on a £10 - £15 single but if people buying multiple copies help Sean, Kitch, Colin, Mark & Des et all continue to bring more historic and lost recordings to our ears (and assist the artists and their families) then it is of small concern to me.

Historically my buying preferences have been for original artist albums. Vinyl into the 80's until CD took prominence into the 90s but now back to vinyl. Since arriving on this site I have started buying 45s, mainly from the likes of Diggin' Deep, MD, Soul Direction, Soul Junction, LRK, Soul4Real, North Broad Street etc. and being amazed at the quality of the music that has either not been issued or didn't see a large scale release before. I listen to music through internet radio, mixcloud and in Media on Soul Source. Not bothered with streams/downloads, although I have a fair amount of music on Amazon Music, Bandcamp and downloads through music I have physically purchased. I still purchase the occasional CD, mainly compilations which I view as "mixtapes" for future vinyl purchases or where the CD has more value (tracks) on CD over vinyl, the recent Laura Rain CD being a good example.

A very under rated artist. The BBC ran a very interesting documentary on Betty's life late last year. Might still be available to stream.

Oh dear. This is a tricky one. Three classic and feted artists and a song recorded at a time when instrumentation took a back seat to disco rhythm patterns. Clearly this recording is none of the selected artists' best and, some may argue, recorded after these artists best years. For me Laura Lee has always excelled with slower material where she can wring the full emotion from a song so that leaves me to select from The Dells and The Tops. The disco arrangements are fairly similar so the choice is between the better lead voice of Levi Stubbs or the excellent Dell harmonies. This is real toss of a coin stuff but, for me, The Four Tops edge it.

I think you are being a tad harsh on the Philly Devotions but agree that Little Anthony takes top honours this week. The Delfonics did a great version too;

Another one here for Edwin. Just so much punchier than the other two. Probably because it is Norman Whitfield producing.

Presume the store was offering you £90 to take the album from them! Seriously though, this issue does seem to be the reduction in number and capacity of pressing plants following vinyl's demise from the 90's onwards. Presume the start up cost must be huge and finding (experienced) labour a difficulty.

The way things seem to be going it would appear additional pressing plant facilities are desperately required. Also the smaller limited run labels are likely to get even more squeezed when the Majors start to ramp up vinyl pressings.

Very interesting. Thank you.

Nice one. Welcome to the Site Mark

Some good selections Chalky promoting some very good recent releases.

It's outside so masks not a legal requirement. Not sure I would be willing to do an outdoors fair in this country because of the weather unpredictability. My first record fair in 15 months is at Reading on Bank Holiday Monday. NB Image is pre-covid!!

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Kicking myself for not enquiring about the Linda Jones LP....😬

Two superb voices much missed

Cool Notes opened up a news item about this last month. https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/

There is an option in Paypal to refund the customer directly from their payment notification. Expand the transaction in your Paypal activity screen and it should become self evident.

Mine received this morning too. Cheers Gilly really looking forward to giving this a read.

I agree but you will find newcomers to music becoming quickly bored without a vocal hook to worm its way into their mind

Unfortunately there is a reason most of these abominable mid-70s Wigan pop favs were monsters and that is because they were catchy to an adolescent ear. In my experience if you want to put someone off play them 20 minutes back to back instrumentals!

Welcome to Soul Source Clive.

The first purchase this year is the new North Street single, but not sure that counts as its on pre-release and I'm not likely to be able to spin it for a couple of weeks yet. Also ordered the new Jesse James release on Soul Junction... but that is also a pre-release. Really looking forward to receiving the Jean Wells LP I purchased from Dave Pinches on here yesterday. A long time want.