John Reed

104 - Sugar Lumps -I've Got A Brand On My Baby/I Can't Fight It

Tony, as Kev has previously said a great set of tracks and its a shame the 12month time window between the two releases I've recently reacquainting myself with William Bells - The Soul Of A Bell and was thinking what an absolute gem his version of Do Right Woman-Do Right Man a classic Penn/Moman composition of which this was one of many. So looking forward to both.

Garlland Jeffreys, Don Byron & Eddie M. Theres another reggae version my Winston Francis

Get them all as they're all slightly different in some way or form. The R/W and the B/W demos have the same label layout but with different colour lines and text. The black issue and demo have different fonts and text layouts. The joy's of different pressing plants I suppose. As people have said, a great piece of soul.

Listening to the show it, looks like in 2011 I'm going to be shelling out quite a bit on previously un-released stuff (as I did this year) in addition to the old rusty dusty's and new new-releases. If anyone wants to take pity on me and send them to me for free, it'll be greatly appreciated.

Tangerine Sleeves IMO look quite sexy....

They must have had faith in The Pusher as well as it came out on LOVE as well, although it seems to have a catalogue number of GM 162-5 (&162-4) whereas the plumb Bumpshop release has GM 162-1 (& 162-2), so the LOVE copy may have come last? I'm assuming that the white Bumpshop release of Keep On Walking/Hour Of Our Need came out between the two and is GM 162-3 & 162-4?

I've Been Loving You Too Long is one of the greatest pieces of soul ever made, a true genius.

Rhino are bringing out a 4 CD box set of Percy Sledge's Atlantic recordings which include some unreleased stuff. https://www.rhino.com...#whatsInside-cd

A nice bit of South African soul there

I don't think people should care if they want to list a record on here, cheaper than someone has already recently posted. The sale value of a record depends on many things including how much the seller paid for it and the minimum they'd let it go for or if its a firesale and the seller needs the cash. If you walk down the road and see a shop selling a toaster you're interested in for £100 and the shop a couple of doors down is selling the same on for £90 would you go back to the first shop and buy it there as you saw it first? The seller of the cheaper toaster wins. It's an open market (and an open forum), as long as you don't bad mouth the other seller, saying its chaper that then his/hers, post it up.

I got hit with a customs charge last year and have no issues with paying that. What narks me is the handling fee, which I think is daylight robbery. After speaking to someone at Parcelforce at the time, they explained to me that they pay the import duty to HM Customs and that the admin charge is their fee to you for doing it on your behalf and holding it for you rather than it be stored in a customs facility somewhere near Birmingham, which the general public can't go to anyway.

The guy (t***g) won Tony Troutman One Way Love on Swagger last month, lucky bugger or maybe I shouldnt have been to stingy with my bidding

Eddie Hubbard takes the credit on this one.... We were discussing Willie Hobbs on EMS (I think) a few years ago and Eddie highlighted this, which until then was unknown to me also. It's been in refosoul since then... It also got a South African release on Monument

Its not really a box set, but rather a double CD. In 93, MCA brought out "The Essential Etta James" which was a collection of 44 tracks. The first CD focussed on her Argo stuff with the next on her Cadet/Chess releases. Also on the CD is an unreleased version of "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man". Also is a fabulous version of "I Never Meant To Love Him" recorded in Philadelphia in 1973 which I think is worth the purchase of the CD alone. IMO another fine CD collection.

Oh Russ, there is....... There's a track in the box set called "I'll Be There" which IMO is a Muscle Shoals classic. Paul Mooney mentioned it in the sweet & Deep thread and he/Garry Cape unearthed it, in some masters but never had the rights to give it greater exposure. If they've knocked it down to $60, 6 CD's, seven hours and one of the most complete sources for Picket, its gotta be a no brainer buy

A slight variant to the Paul Vann, Dave posted earlier.... The issue of Bill Brantley, the other side of Grandaddy Chuck Armstrong More Paul Vann

Ella Washington's last single on SS7 I think this is the issue of Willie Hobbs How Could My Baby Know. It looks like this and Mr Lovemaker were both demo'd seperately as single sided demo's

Apart from the mis-credited Sam Dees song Its So Wonderful, there are (I think) 3 reworkings in the set, which i believe are SoundTown recordings (quite electronic), but dont know if they were previously released. Shelbra Deane reprises I'll Be the Other Woman, which I quite like... J Blackfoot & Shelbra Deane covering Williams Bells Lovin' On Borrowed Time There is another J Blackfoot reworking, but i cant remember what that is as I didn't think it was very good, so I never burned it to mp3, so have to get it out of storage to find out.

They are, and I spent the last couple of Xmas' there with family and friends which was quite fun. They went through similar issues about 10 years ago with many of their sites closing. They've only got 3 sites left now and I think these have been redeveloped to try and attract future clientele. Butlins is owned by the Bourne Leisure group who also owns Warner hotels and the Haven holiday parks.

Its been a regular on ebay for the last couple of years and generally went for less than $100. I actually wondered why it was up for auction in the first place, surely its too common to be auctioned even on behalf of someone or am i missing something about this copy?

Should be easy to get hold of, though you may have to get the issue as I think the demo single sided

I must admit it does nothing for me and IMO is one of the many "a bit soulful" dance related disco tunes that came out in the mid 70's

I liked this when I saw this on Jools Holland. Personally, I rate quite a lot of stuff he's done in his various colaberations

Is this now being played to make the price shoot up? Always thought you could get this to £50-60 at max £100 tops? Even the ones sold on ebay this year never reached $100.