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Thanks, guys!!

Does anyone have these records? Can anyone tell me what each side sounds like or, better yet, point me to sound files? Instant 3266: The Samfords, Ben's Creek / 40 Room Shack Instant 3272: Norman John, Valley of Love / Let Her Feel It in Your Kiss Instant 3274: Nettie Marsh, No Tears Have I / String Of Lies Instant 3275: The Big Wolfe, The Place (New Orleans) / A Good Foundation Instant 3278: Traci, The Loser / Little Evil (Michael Robinson, you have this, don't you?) Instant 3288: The Tunics, Sandman / Moonlight Lover Instant 3320: Skip Easterling, Walking on Edges / Odeo Odeo Odeo Thanks, Matt

Friends, colleagues, soul aficionados, vinyl geeks, music freaks, "Downtown Soulville" listeners: Pardon the intrusion, but it's time for that annual ritual when I come to you, faux-fur Alpine hat in hand, to beg you for money for the radio station that I have been privileged to call home since 1994. WFMU is a unique, mind-bogglingly great listener-supported station programmed by volunteers like me. Every March, for two weeks, we ask our listeners to give something back. It's a symbiotic relationship: We offer you terrific programming all year round; you pay whatever you can afford (and it's tax-deductible, of course!) to keep that happening. Running a radio station is expensive, and we don't have commercials or corporate sponsorship of any kind. We rely on your kindness to cover our operating costs. Our goal this year is $1.2 million. To make matters more urgent, we haven't met our goal the past two years. This year we really need to. And we make it more than worth your while to help us. This year, in addition to lots of cool prize giveaways during my show, I'm offering a CD I've put together called RARE AND COLLECTIBLE FINE WINE: 27 SOULFUL ULTRA-OBSCURITIES FROM THE CELLARS.* I must have been crazy to record this one...I'm basically giving away the keys to the Cadillac here: It's all one-off 45s from my collection, things that have never come close to being reissued, un-Googleable records no other collector owns, the ones that barely exist outside my living room. (There are "rare" and "expensive" records in the world; some fetch thousands of dollars on eBay. These aren't them! These are the ones that no one would ever even know to bid on! And they're insanely good!) All you have to do is pledge $75 or more and it's yours. Has a song you've heard me play on the radio made you Google the steps to the boogaloo, take your 6-year-old for a twirl around the kitchen, or just smile? Your pledge makes that possible. Are you a record collector in Poland who's heard me play something obscure via our live stream or our archives or my podcast and subsequently decided that you simply must add that 45 to your collection? Please donate whatever you can spare--I know times are tough; they're tough for us too!--and I'll do my best to ensure that you add dozens more records to your wants list in the coming year! As of this June, I will have playing soul 45s on WFMU for 17 years! If you can afford it, why not give the station a hundred bucks a year as thanks? Don't worry: I appreciate a $15 contribution just as much. Oh, here's a tangible result of your past contributions (and something that's reliant on your future contributions): the award-winning Ichiban stream, which I'm proud to be a part of! HTTP://WFMUICHIBAN.BLOGSPOT.COM Thank you for all past and future pledges. Apologies if you've received this more than once. Your "Hoarders"-worthy 45-obsessed soul fanatic, Mr. Fine Wine SEE MUCH MORE INFO AT WWW.WFMU.ORG PLEDGE ONLINE ANYTIME AT HTTPS://WWW.WFMU.ORG/MARATHON/PLEDGE.PHP or call 800-989-9368 My Marathon shows: Friday, March 4 (TONIGHT), with cohost Michael Shelley Friday, March 11, with cohost Bronwyn 7 to 8 p.m. U.S. Eastern time (I'll also be cohosting Michael Shelley's show Saturday, March 12, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) ----- *Track listing (I'm not so naive as to think none of you have any of these, but nothing comes up on Google searches): 1. Jimmy Toliver - South (T and T) 2. Alvin Howard - Work Baby (Jetstream) 3. Rolls Royce & the Wheels - Ahh Phooey (Ara) 4. Mad Lads - Quit-Shucking (Melic) 5. Alan Knight - The Girl With the Wavy Hair (Bamboo) 6. Kasey Joe - Which One's Gonna Give Me Love (Delpris) 7. Prince Charles - Sick (Jetstream) 8. Mad Lads - Eli the Ice Man (Melic) 9. Fabulous Royal Flames - Doggin' the Duck (London House) 10.Jay Cee & the Incredibles - The Cricket (Class) 11.Jimmy Hayes - The Goose (Commerce) 12.Jimmy Hayes - As a City Sleeps (Commerce) 13.Goodtime Charlie - Let Me Love You (Break Out) 14.Ceaser L. Jenkins - Do Your Own Thing (Tru-Lite) 15.Chris Taylor - Basketball (Big Thunder) 16.Curtis King - Good Times (Ronze) 17.Tornados - Sittin' in the Park (Kerston) 18.Genghis Kyle - Can You Dig It? (Timbre) 19.The Fourth Level - Deep South (U-Larc) 20.Goodtime Charlie - Tough Competition (Break Out) 21.Gerldets - Mini Skirts Time (Pt. 1) (New Frontiers) 22.Danny Small - Minnie (Make It) 23.Deacon Lee & the Prophets - Bad (Revue) 24.Chuck Simmons - Yellow Pages (F.B.W.) 25.Jimmy Toliver - Come Shine (T and T) 26.Willie Smith - My Soul Baby (Royal) 27.Funky Munk - Don't Blame Me (Triple O)

While most of the time as an American I'm indescribably jealous of all of you for being a part of this amazing scene, when it comes to matters like this, I don't envy you at all! Since I started collecting and DJ'ing in the States I have never felt constrained to limit myself to a certain kind of black sound; I have always mixed up more R&Bish and funkier records with the straight sixties soul....It's only at the real Anglophile nights around these parts that there's a bias toward strict northern, as you might imagine, though that's been changing the past few years.... On a related note, it may interest you to know that the formerly strictly funk folks I know around here who came to the music through hip-hop are now swooning over northern records!

Then there's this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McMillan (see "Personal info") Same dude.

Prices in U.S. dollars. Shipping from U.S. is $7. Paypal only. NOTE: I can't mail until one week from today. Grading: M–, VG++, VG+, VG 1. NANCY AMES, No Words for Love/In My Dreams (MoDo) M– 200 2. MARVIN L. SIMS, Talk About Soul/Old Man Time (Revue) M– (bb hole) 25 3. CAROL JONES, Don't Destroy Me/Problem Child (Mutt) VG++ no-strings version 30 4. CAROL JONES, Don't Destroy Me/Problem Child (Mutt) VG+ (some label staining) strings version 30 5. PAT STALLINGS, Everybody Knows/It's Alright (Paramount gray label) VG++ 60 6. EDDIE BO, Every Dog Got His Day/Tell It Like It Is (Ric) VG (plenty of ball-point pen on label) 25 7. LITTLE WILLIE JOHN, My Love-Is/Loving Care (King) VG++ 50 or strong VG 25 GREAT!! 8. THE EMERSONS, Loneliness/Down in the Valley (U.A. promo) VG+ $50 KILLER DOOWOP R&B DANCE SIDES! 9. THE WEBS, I Want You Back/We Belong Together (Verve) VG++ 20 10. ROBERT & JOHNNY, Brown, Pretty Brown Eyes/A Perfect Wife (Sue promo) VG+ 75 11. DANNY STATON, A True, True Love/Troubles on My Mind (Felsted) M– (w/VG pic sleeve) 100 GREAT! THE POOR MAN'S MIKE PEDICIN!! 12. BOBBY HEBB, Evil Women/Judy (Crystal Ball ) M– 100 13. MAGICTONES, Happy Days/Trying Real Hard (Westbound light blue) M– 40 14. RAY CHARLES, You're Just About to Lose Your Clown (ABC-Par) VG++ 30 15. THOMAS EAST, Follow the Rainbow/inst. (True Soul) VG++ (label staining) 100 16. RENAISSANCE OF RHYTHM, There Is No Time (RMP) M– 275 17. CALVAES, Anna Macora/OSCAR BOYD, So Bad (Chess) VG++ 50

Just started up such a night in New York City this past weekend, "Slow Soul." (We describe it as "sweet soul, deep soul, ballads with balls.") We'll be doing it the first Sunday of every month starting in March.

...on Blue Jay. Anyone have a nice copy for sale?

oh, thought a gouster was someone who dressed in a certain style.

Yeah, ferns, fezneckys, gousters....

Another feznecky record!!! I've got a record of theirs on Vantage that I really like, credited to Baby Neal and the Smart Bros.

i'll play it soon!

I looked for it for years before finding it on ebay! And then I lost the auction and had to pry it from the winner! Only other copy I know of belongs to Brad Hales in Detroit.

Could it be the Tears, "Tears Move and Groove"/"1808 East Broad"? It's light blue. A-side is vocal soul; B is a Meters-soundalike funk instrumental.

Anyone have one to sell? It's for a friend.

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Great record! Just played it on the radio a couple weeks ago: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38569

Anyone notice the strong similarity between the bridge in "Forget" and that in Rose Battiste's "Hit and Run"?

"Pusher" is a version of "You Fool, You Fool" by the Prophet and His Disciples on Pressco. Discussion here:

Have long loved 108 and 113...119 is a grower...120 is insanely good funk... I'm missing a few numbers: 101, 106 and 107 (i think), 121, 126-128. Anyone know if these are any good?

"Brown, Pretty Brown Eyes"/"A Perfect Wife" What an awesome record. Great organ part and killer vocals...instantly sticks in your head.... This is a clean, strong VG WHITE PROMO copy on U.S. Sue, my DJ copy for the past few years till I "minted up" recently. It plays loud and clear and beautiful through a bit of surface noise. There is slight ballpoint pen writing on "A Perfect Wife" side. (I use a M, VG, G scale with pluses and minuses; no E grades.) Here's a sound clip (NOT FROM MY SALE COPY!): $75 U.S. Paypal only. Email to reserve: finewine@wfmu.org

Young Guitar Red, Red Hot Red (Formal) vinyl is M-; label fading $75 U.S. plus shipping paypal only excellent blues guitar dancer! hear a rougher copy here: email to reserve: finewine@wfmu.org

I've got a nice clean M- copy. What you spending?

Prices in U.S. dollars. Paypal only. Grading: M, VG, G with pluses and minuses. FREE SHIPPING if you pay me as a gift. 1. Carol Jones, Don't Destroy Me (Mutt) STRINGS VERSION VG++ 30 2. Carol Jones, Don't Destroy Me (Mutt) NO-STRINGS VERSION M- 40 3. Lavern Baker, Hey Memphis/Voodoo Voodoo (Atlantic white promo) vinyl is VG++; labels have significant staining/damage but are still in one piece 55 4. Young Guitar Red, Red Hot Red (Formal) vinyl is M-; label fading 80 *****EMAIL TO RESERVE: finewine@wfmu.org*****