John Reed

A few people have said that some records mentioned have been played in Northern rooms and this is where I think arguments start, as one mans Northern can be another mans crossover and vise versa. A lot of peoples perception comes from what type of venue they heard the record first. For me crossover is about mid-temp records from the late 60's - early 70's (maybe 67-73, like Johnny Moore's Blue Rock, Jadan and Brunswick stuff). The Northern dance scene has embraced many different records at different periods of its evolution and so does the term crossover as more 'old style' modern records now seem to be put in this classification which differs from my understanding of what crossover is. Its horses for courses I suppose. I do like reading these types of threads as it does highlight records people either don't know or haven't listened to for ages.

My take on this is the greatest crossover records of all time for around a tenner...... Tyrone Davis - You Keep Me Holding On - DakarArtistics - Glad I Met You - BrunswickBetty Everett - I'm Falling In Love - Uni LPBobby Bland - Where Baby Went - ABC DunhillBobby McClure - Was It Something I Said - Hi

Also came out on Canadian SSS International, which was distributed by Quality

Acording to this web site https://www.paulevans.com/discogra.htm 187 - Paul Evans - I'm Giving Up My Baby / Down At The Bluebird

Yep, typed this one wrong as its release 106

I wonder what the chances are, that they're Sunny & The Sunliners releases????

7602 Black Cloud Express Flea Market (Disco Version)/Flea Market (Edited Version) 7611 Big John Hamilton Free Me/I've Got To get Myself Somebody 1279 Crescendo Songs/Ain't That The Truth (strange number, but the same label design)

1061 - Sunny And The Sunliners - Carinito/Sin Ti

One more from me as I've just found someone on ebay selling a US issue on Spring 135 - Ray Godfrey - Candy Clown / (Ooh Baby) I Want To Be Your Only Love Which is the same as the UK Mercury release

109 - The Boys In The Band featuring Herman Griffin - Money Music/Five Fat Fast Funky Fingers 110 - Lou Jackson - I can’t believe you said you loved me / Peace To You Brother 112 - Vernon Brown - I'm A Lover / Of Your Life (this is on the double sided demo, don't know if it got issued though, same as the UK Mojo release) 118 - Joe Simon - Georgia Blue / All My Hard Times - Just how good is Georgia Blue, a fantastic tune 121 - Leroy Randolph - Good To The Last Drop/Tender Trap 122 - Internationals - Dry Bones In The Valley/He's Coming Back 125 - Bobby Newsome - Jody, Come Back and Get Your Shoes/Post Office 129 - The Internationals - Lead Me On / I Ride Alone 132 - Act One - Friends Or Lovers / I Never Had A Love Like Yours 140 - Act One - Goodbye Love / Tom The Peeper 148 - Street people - I Wanna Get Over / Baby,You Got It All 152 - Act One - Party Hardy People / Do You Feel It 162 - Daltry Martin - Stay With Me / Everybody Dance 174 - Fatback Band - Soul Finger (Gonna Put On You)/NYCNYUSA 177 - Fatback - Master Booty/Zodiac Man 188 - Fatback - I'm Fired Up/Boogie Freak 191 - Fatback - Freak The Freak The Funk (Rock)/Wild Dreams 195 - Fatback - (Do The) Boogie Woogie/Hesitation 3004 - Joneses - Baby (There’s Nothing I Can Do) / Love Contest 3034 - Millie Jackson - I Feel Like Walking In The Rain / Why Me 3040 - Millie Jackson - Sister In The System / Hard Times

Another one that was also included in the Kent CD Southern Soul Showcase: Cryin' In The Streets was: 151 - Gable Reed - I'm Your Man/Who's Been Warming My Oven Theres further Miranet releases such as: 200 - Big John Hamilton - Lift Me Up/Just Seeing You Again which are on Minaret with a different design and what looks to be a few years later than the other releases? Theres also no mention anything about Shelby Singleton or SSI which the other label variants have. Dave, Do you want these also? Maybe Big John Hamilton is the link between the SSI related releases and the later design?

Another one 142 - Genie Brooks - Helping Hand/ ??

Heres a couple 130 - Genie Brooks - Fine Time/Juanita 137 - Candy Staton And Billy Walker - The Judgement/XYZ 141 - Johnny Dynamite - The Night The Angels Cried/Everybody's Clown 147 - Willie Cobbs - I Love Only You/Don't Worry About Me 157 - Willie Gable - Row, Row, Row/Eternally

He was such a great artist. His Motown LP Havin A House Party was a great set released in the middle of the disco dark years. This is another great track from the LP and I think was his last Motown single release.

I would have thought either Ady, Tony or Dean would be the best people to ask as they've been through those vaults and released a few CD's of Westbound stuff for Ace. I also don't think either side of this supposedly released singe were on any of them as unreleased tracks

Dave, try this number 0800 358 6552

Maybe Floyd Smith was being generous with sharing the writing credits on these as it seems to be a theme on all versions? I thought Apache was owned by Floyd Smith? If thats the case I can understand the James Phelps version. He'd already written some hits for Tyrone Davis, Jackie Wilson, Betty Everette as well as other work at Brunswick, so he was a bit of a local writing tallent. As John Edward's Weis output was Chicago based, there could have been an expectation that a Floyd Smith song would do the business on the major label and was this the same view of the other artists and labels? But this may be just my hypothasis and i've ended up talking a load of trash......

The re-press is pinkier as the original is a deeper red. The original also has a bigger and bolder font. You can see the differences here: https://www.popsike.c...0601099173.html I wouldnt be surprised if they've all been repressed recently (last 10-15 years) looking at the Lanor website as I'm not convinced they'd have that much dead stock about after so many years, but that could be just my jaded view on life. https://www.lanorrecords.com/

My copy's just popped through the door and oh the wait was worth it. Apart from the unreleased stuff already mentioned they're all great, well Jolene not so much. (Then again, I didn't like James Carr's unreleased version of Ring of Fire either, both the original country versions IMO were better, but I do like Stand By Your Man). When I saw the tracklisting included a version of Trouble, Hearaches and Sadness, I wondered how it would stand up as its one of my favourite Ann Peebles/Hi releases, but its compares really well. Another one that hit me straight away was Are You Just Building Me Up, smoother that her other Fame recordings, but just as good. A great swing your pants record.....

Like you guys, I've bought mine from Roger Stewart as well. As you've both said he's reasonably priced and delivers a good service. Soon as I paid, got a mail saying its in the post. Just waiting for the postie to pop it through the letter box. So far for me, this is the CD release of the year.

For some reason the LP's never clicked with me, I think I should take some time to re-digest it.

I Wish It Was Me You Loved is IMO fantastic. Just As Long As Were In Love and When You're Alone are for me the only highlights of the Sweet As Funk Can Be LP I also like their version of Its Not Unusual Who can't have a soft spot for either the 7" or LP versions of I Touched A Dream.

With Rick Hall at the helm her Chess recordings are some of the most expressive recordings of the late 60's