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RIP Chuck Barsdale! :-(… we're lovers of a musical genre on wich, sadly, practically all our heroes from the great soul period (60's and 70's) are now aged around 80 or 90 years old... Here's a big uptempo from one of the 2 albums Norman Harris produced for them (later covered by The Trammps on their 1979 album "The Whole World's Dancing"). Curiously, in my case I have been a big fan of Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes and The Dells (one of the albums I never have stopped to hear is "The Dells Vs. The Dramatics" since the late 70's to today!!)… and much later I noticed Gamble & Huff were been reaching for sign The Dells firsty for their Neptune label and later for PIR and the first Blue Notes hits they wrote were really conceived for The Dells and thinking in Marvin Junior exceptional baritone! (In fact they finally signed The Dells in 1991 for their 40th anniversary album "I Salute You" on PIR / Zoo label that I purchased but deceived me for the sound so "inorganic", not the voices, the instrumental part, except some tune don't remember the title produced by Bunny Sigler)

Sad news to hear about Chuck Barksdale. Great Soul Man! My favourites by the Dells are "Thinking About You" "Run For Cover" "Make Sure"

great a side, b side of this new 45 is equally excellent

The NORTHERN scene was invented to play THERE IS. RIP chuck 🎶

this one available now on Cannonball, great vocal performance and sax breaks

Yes, it was an incredible night, i remember almost having to pinch myself to make sure it was really happening as one of the real Soul super groups had everyone in the crowd totally captivated by their masterful performance. The day after I had the pleasure of meeting Chuck, what a lovely man and one who really appreciated the support and love that were shown to them at Trentham Gardens. God bless big man, RIP

I got my copy from a French dealer on Discogs and it was O.K. https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=1524265&ev=mb

new 45 record this is one for lovers of the more modern, jazz funky disco stuff - only 200 pressed so will be rare "Only 200 copies Hand Numbered, and Cover Art Hand made by parisian artist Didier Clain ! !" which is reason enough to get it 🙂 sadly no video or sound file available to post here, get on over to Bandcamp to listen to it

Hi JoeSoap, 'Keep that Fire Burning' is a nice record but NOT I think by the late Lou Johnson of whom we are speaking today. Lou Johnson R.I.P.

the blue screen print label is legit, the blue label vinyl press is a repro - according to my copy of "Manship USA 7th edition" if any of that makes any sense I have the yellow one

pure class unsatisfied my favourite oldie of all time R I P lou

The soundtrack to my youth on these London/Big Top sides, a top artist and wonderful singer. RIP Lou

For some of us of a certain vintage, who began their journey on the scene at a certain time, "Unsatisfied" will always bring back truly wonderful memories. To this day I can't help but smile whenever I hear it played. Many, many thanks Mr. Johnson. R.I.P.

Dena Barnes cheap? funeral record ofc but wasnt that much more expensive once?

paid a tenner for it, maybe memories of the Fleetwood gig (which was amazing) is driving the price god knows, especially suprising given its been re-issued recently

madness

For at least over 15 years for a mint copy! I think about £150 is a fair price today!

Hey count me in I would buy one

some great tunes there !!

I stopped buying O'Jays albums after "Heartbreaker". Despite the fact the track "Trouble" sounds good I miss the big band sound and the special mixture of rock, soul and gospel we can appreciate on "Ship Ahoy" and "Survival" classic PIR albums. The samples I have hear by this last album do not convinced me, I admit the sound is more "organic", with real instruments, I appreciate the social concerned lyrics, but is not enough for a symphonic - big band soul funk lover as I am… Perhaps when I can hear some tracks more times and the entire length of every one...

thanks for posting this one, what a voice

as Mike has announced on News, the new O'Jays LP for me today, amazing how they still make something so good would love to see the Start Stoppin' track on a 45 🙂

how good is that? crackin' track