Anoraks Corner

Ahem...I have a M- copy of the Crown Four on Lee John for sale on my site at what some may consider a bargain price of £100.

I may have mentioned it before (or was it on RareSoulForum.com?), that there is also an original acetate of the Chapter 5's backing track of OIAM, but with Kenny Bernard singing the song! The link is that they had the same manager (or was it producer - been a while since I checked!) at the time. A right thumping version it makes too, but still not as good as MaxineB, naturally!

Yep, I heard Alexis Korner play it too...was a Sunday night radio show, and I was sat in the bath...probably still recovering from the nighter on Saturday night. I went into town the next day and ordered a copy of the LP, which duly arrived the following week.

All Abe Epstein related. Also add the Jox, Gizmo and Metro-Dome labels to that ever-evolving inter-linked bunch of Texas labels that feature the sound we love!

>>> PRESS HERE <<< Includes some luverly classics in tip top condition: Crown Four - Birth of a playboy - Lee John - £100 Embers - Crazy 'bout you baby - EEE - £150 Hesitations - Soul superman LP - Kapp - £100 Major Lance - You don't want me no more - Okeh - £225 Sons of Moses - Soul symphony - Soft - £125 ...and 400 other titles too!

...and I'll take an MP3 of the instrumental, please! Anyone help?

Fab tune. Note the writers on the flipside...yes it is Don & Juan of Mala/Big Top fame. Could the Ghetto Boys actually be Don & Juan?! Discuss

I spent 20 years in the music trade working full-time for various labels/distributors...loved every minute of it. It saddens me greatly to think back to all the great indie stores I had the pleasure to sell to once upon a time...now all gone. I'm now genuinely shocked further to learn of the demise of Pinnacle/Windsong. Sad days for the UK music industry. (Numero CDs are in all the specialist stores over her in Tokyo...in quantity...and they seem to sell through. More power to them, but 10,000 units sounds too high to me, even as a sell-in figure!)

You would have been welcome to the copy I have had for sale on my site for a while now...mind you I have £50 on it!

According to the trade advert at the time, it had sold 25,000 copies on Jerhart! Have a look for yourself...plenty of original trade adverts to view on my site here: >>> Northern Soul Adverts <<< >>> Detroit Adverts <<< Enjoy!

I've got a scan of the original Capitol acetate for this CLASSIC somewhere. Must dig it out and upload it when I've got a spare 5 mins.

Nowp, I love it too!

This is soooooooo good! Funky Sister Soul with an over the top tumbling production ideal for today's scene...as they say. Recommended.

All the yellow stockers and WD's I've ever had have been on styrene. Are there any original vinyl copies? I assume the bootleg is vinyl?

For the sake of the complete picture, the Gamble LP take is stereo with strings...now what about the Greek 45?!

Yes, 100%...yellow label with black plain typical West Coast looking font. Not thaaaaaaaat hard to find,...or it never used to be back in the day!

Evening chaps! As a big fan of this LP I've had a few go through my hands over the years! My current copy is a keeper though,as the sleeve is just so clean...no fading, tears, stickers or wear...and it also happens to be a Mono WD (MGS prefix vinyl/sleeve), which sounds great! If y'all didn't already know, a good friend of mine released this LP on CD last year on the Poker label...superb sound quality...includes the non-LP Smash 45's as well. Not a bad sleevenote either -ps No Japanese issue as far as I'm aware!

Awesome powerhouse Northern! All nighter magic!

...and not too easy to find either...even over here!

If it was the Marge Dodson, I have a spare...amongst other nice LPs: >>> LOOK HERE <<<

I reckon you were closer with your first estimate, Bob. It had a flutter of attention pre-eBay days, but failed to take off outside of the tape-swappers circuit. Used to be fairly easy to pick up out of the small-print in Discoveries/Goldmine magazines. A tough messy to appeal to the majority...imo.

BINGO! Nice one...I can hold my head up high once again! What would we do without you, Dave?!

Yep, Guy was over here recently and I took him along to a collector's night...we had a right laugh with the highlights being as follows...I'll never forget him playing 'Skiing in the snow' and punching the air in the excitement of it all, only to be soon topped by me running over to show him my latest purchase - a Japanese copy of the Chosen Few on Roulette - yep, 'Footsee', complete with pic sleeve, mind! Flynny -ps Still have a Greg Perry spare!

The backing tracks are identical...the vocal takes are different...and the backing singer's lines vary (slightly) at certain points too...especially near the end. I prefer the version on the flip to 'Hey boy'...even though that's the second release!

...and how much for a Japanese 7" copy of this one, and indeed for CLWY as well?!