Colouredman

In no particular chronological order, and a mixture of excellent, and the good bad and ugly from Wigan; all were big though, and some beyond huge! Some are just plain funny. Little Joe Romans (Still super rare) Night Owl (Nothing was bigger than this mid 70’s at the Casino!) Danny Monday (Likewise this) Wakefield Sun Trypt on love General Assembly Sensitive mind Detroit Landapples Ollie Jackson Day my heart stood still. The Jewells Construction Lamont Cranston Band Colouredman Gary Lewis My hearts symphony (I kid you not!) Baja Marimba band Along comes Mary Paul Peek Im movin uptown EJ Chandler Jackie Forrest Show me how to love Lindy Stevens Pennygold Decca Johnny Vanelli Lou Roberts (All) Deadbeats No second chance (Probably more speculation about this as a cover up than any other RS record ever.... rumoured to be the rock group ‘Whitesnake’ at some point!) Seeds Pushin too hard (horrible horrible record but huge for Russ) Trade Martin She put the hurt Cherry People And suddenly The Poppies Pain in my heart

For sale: Laura Lee To win your heart UK Tamla Motown. Super rareity with promo info sleeve heralding new release. Mint minus £200. Oscar Perry I got what you need Peritone (The rarer and better looking Orange and green one) Absolutely Mint; (Unlike most!)£135 Willie Brown Get out and get it Tri It Mint minus £75.

All white demos and all great condition; Mint minus audio and Ex to Mint minus visually. George Smith I’ve had it Turntable WD £150 San Remo strings Hungry for love Ric tic WD £25 Ronnie Walker you’ve got to try harder Event WD £20 Harold Andrews since I talk to my baby HLS WD £40 Sandy Wynns How can something be so wrong Canterbury WD £30 Sadly Mistaken Golden Earrings Challenge WD £50 Kenny Carter I’ve gotta find her RCA WD £75 Chris Clark Whisper you love me boy Motown WD £30 The Socialites Yre losing yre touch W.Bros WD £50 The Lavettes No matter what you do to me Phillips WD £30 The Soul City I shot for the moon Mercury WD £60 Patty Livingston I’ve got my baby Dimension WD £30 Art Robbins I can’t stand to see you cry Vando WD £30 The Contributors of Soul You can’t help but fall in love Venture WD £25 Marie Knight Come Tomorrow Okeh WD £40 Jimmy Wisner Choppin around Atlantic WD £25 Lee Andrews and the Hearts Quiet as it’s kept RCA WD £40 The Poets The Hustler Veep WD £75 Mia Morrell I have a mind of my own ABC WD £75 Susaye Greene That’s the way my love is Tru Glo Town WD £50 Joe Bataan Under the streetlamp Uptite WD £75 Wendy Rene Bar B Q WD £150 Geridine Jones Love in /Spoil me Herb Art WD £100 Pic and Bill Don’t put me down Smash WD £40 The Kavettes I’m not sorry for you Okeh WD £100 Rozetta Johnson Chained and bound Clintone WD £50 Eartha Kitt Anyway you want it Musicor WD £75

Hi Martin; sorry mate only just seen this. It went to general notifications instead of PM. Payment would be by Pay Pal. My PP is: colouredman@hotmail.com Send as ‘gift’ /‘friends and family and include about £3 if u want Recorded Delivery or £6 if u want Special Delivery. Thanks Tim

All UK Demos and all Mint/Mint Minus, some even unplayed. Jackie Lee Oh my Darling Jay Boy demo £50 Dean Courtney I’ll always need you RCA demo £30 Steve Karmen Breakaway UA demo £40 Beverley Ann You got your mind on other things RCA demo £30 Dean Parrish I’m on my Way (Very Rare UK demo) UK America £70 Brenda Lee Jones Yre the love of my life (As above) UK America £35 Sons of Moses Soul Symphony MCA demo £20 Leon Haywood Baby Reconsider Fantasy UK demo (Very Rare) £50 Jelly Beans You don’t mean me no good Right On Demo £30 Sheila Anthony Livin in love Route Demo £40 Harold Melvin Get out Route demo £40 Al De Lory Right On Capitol demo £20 Fantastic Johnny C Don’t depend on me Island demo (Super Rare demo on UK) £50 Earl Jackson Soul Self Satisfaction ABC Demo (Mega Rare Demo) £60 (looks ex plays m-)

Marvelettes: Finders Keepers / Kim Weston: Do like I do: TMG 1000 DEMO. Mint minus: £100. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: I care about Detroit: Standard Groove 13090 (1 sided). Looks VG to VG+ but apart from a crackle or two on run in, plays Mint minus. £75. Eddie Holland: Im on the outside lookin in: Motown WD: looks vg but plays mint minus: Black cross on left of label. £100. The Four Tops: Loving you is sweeter than ever: Motown WD double sided: Mint minus. £20 Kim Weston: Lookin for the right guy: Tamla WD: Blank on flip side: Ex. £25 Fantastic Four: Cant stop lookin for my baby: Ric Tic: Looks Vg, plays Mint minus: £100. Jimmy Soul Clark: Sweet Darling: Soul Hawk: Looks vg, plays Ex. £40. Edwin Starr: Girls are getting prettier: UK Polydor: Looks unplayed; absolutely pristine / Mint! £40. Lillian Dupree: Hide & Seek: D Town: Mint minus: £100 Darrow Fletcher: What have i got now: Mint minus: £150. Eddie Hill: Nothing sweeter: M-S: Mint minus: £150.

Minnie Jones: Shadow of a memory: Sugar: Lovely condition: Mint minus, label and vinyl: £950. Vinyl copy, not the usual West Coast poor-wearing styrene.

For Sale: Minnie Jones Shadow of a memory Sugar Beautiful Mint minus label and vinyl. £1000.

For Sale: Northern Compilation LPs; most only played once: Rare Soul Uncovered: Charly,Mint minus sleeve and vinyl. (Ballads, Little Richie, Montclairs, Gwen Davies etc) £20 Rare Soul Uncovered Vol. 2 Charly, Mint minus vinyl and sleeve. (Sam Fletcher, Maurice Williams etc) £20. Rare Soul Uncovered Vol. 3 CharlyMint minus vinyl and sleeve (Sidney Barnes, Wade Flemons, Stormy, Lee Bates etc) £20 £55 for the set of 3. Capitol Soul Casino: Capitol. Mint minus sleeve and vinyl. (HB Barnum, JD Martin, Bobby Paris, Thelma Houston etc) £20.

For Sale: Minnie Jones: Shadow of a memory: Sugar. Looks Ex to Mint minus; plays Mint minus. Lovely label; Beautiful copy and on vinyl too not styrene. £1000.

For Sale: Enchantments: I’m in love with your daughter: Faro. Lovely mint minus, label and vinyl. £600. Beautiful Orange and white stock copy; rarely seen. Even a demo (far more common), went for $1000 just 4 months ago in January.

OFFERS: Fuller Bros. Times a wasting Soul Clock. Rare DEMO. Great condition: Looks Ex. Plays Mint to Mint minus.

I’ll tell you the story about Bobbie Smith and how it came to be played. Back in the early 80’s I had boxes of junk records at my Mums. George Romanis (R.I.P), used to get oddball stuff off me and asked if he could come and have a look thru what I had. I actually used to refer to It as my ‘Shit Box’ coz to me everything in it was rubbish; rejects and totally none Northern. Bear in mind this was late Wigan / Early Stafford time, when the sound was about to change (to slower etc) but hadn’t quite done so. So to me, at that time Bobbie Smith bore no resemblance to Northern as we knew it hitherto. To me it sounded too early, not smooth, no instrumentation or breaks or high points, just a morose ‘going nowhere’ oddity. It was something I’d bought blind from Goldmine or Discoveries magazine hoping it would be as good as the Volumes on same label, but sadly, for me it wasn’t. I still think the same now. Sorry to upset people here but when you consider the credentials... Duke Browner etc it’s poor (Think Volumes, Magnetics, Lollipops, Duke himself etc), it’s a very poor record. Sounds like that we’re always my problem with Stafford; too many mediocre plodding mid tempo records with poor lyrics or no melody or obvious hook, too early, too slow etc, and way too morose. How many feel good happy records did Stafford throw up? Not many. Anyway I digress; that’s another story. So this one summer Sunday George came to my Mums. I pointed him in the direction of the ‘Shit Boxes’ describing them exactly so, and left him to it while I disappeared for a couple of hours to play a game in a Squash League. I returned to find (to my amazement) that George had managed to ‘find’ quite a pile of stuff, including the Bobbie Smith. I couldn’t believe it; I couldn’t believe that someone actually wanted to buy my junk records! By the way, every record in that box was automatically a quid! Incidentally out of the same box he also pulled Jimmy Seals Yesterday of our love’ so that’s where that one started out too. George then went on to sell it to either Gary or Guy I think, but it started life as a reject in my ‘Shit Box’!!! Lol.

=For Sale: Soul Shakers. I’m hip to you girl. Loma (Mint minus) Brilliant mid tempo West Coast northern, which will have its day. Len Jewell production; and one of the best. £75.

I think I can add something to this which may be of interest. Way back in the late 70’s and thru to the 80’s and 90’s I was tracking people like crazy; artists, producers, songwriters etc. I was writing letters and making phone calls like a mad man! I have about 15 files full of letters from those years from many big name label credits; Charlie Calello, Sandy Linzer, Joe Hunter, Sammy Lowe, Jet Loring, Chuck Holiday, Sam Ward, Miles Grayson, Paula Durante, Billy Arnell, Laura Greene, Cody Black, Johnny Northern, Mickey Lane, Kenard Gardner, Herschel Dwellingham, etc etc; hundreds of em. Anyway top of my hit list was Mike Terry. Everyone was trying to find him. I remember many conversations with the likes of Gilly about his likely whereabouts. But no one could find him. Sammy Lowe was a great contact for me coz he had been in the music business so long, (right back to Big Band era etc), much like Joe Hunter who also later led me to many Detroit people such as Billy Kennedy etc. Anyway one day out of the blue in 1989 I get a letter from Sammy with the contact details for people I’d been asking about. I opened the letter and nearly fell off my chair! Coz bang smack in the middle of these other names sat Mikes, with a note from Sammy that he knew Mike well, not least coz he lived around the corner from him right there in Teaneck New Jersey! We’d all been looking in the wrong place! Anyway I then immediately wrote to Mike who sent me back a card with a little note about some of the Motown songs he’d played on. Mike said he’d played on about 90% of Motown hits. On a subsequent trip I visited Mike and his wife on the 10th of April 1990 at their home in New Jersey, and interviewed him. I have 2 x C90 tapes of the interview, which I’ll publish one day when time allows. Mike was a lovely guy, and his wife too. I of course asked Mike the obvious question about whether he had any records, acetates etc. He said not, which was a huge disappointment given that he’d played on so much. Mikes explanation of this was that coz he was a session musician, he turned up at the studio, did his bit and left, being pretty much unconcerned about ending up with the physical vinyl disc; he said there was just too much material to follow up on, as we know only too well. The funny thing was, the only record he had, was an LP by the Atlanta Disco Band which he’d played on, which of course I had less than zero interest in! I seem to recall him saying that he’d been living in Atlanta; maybe that’s another reason why no one had found him. He was an absolute legend and I’m proud to say I think I was the first person from our scene to ever talk to him, meet him or interview him. Sometimes even now I can’t believe I met him, but I have the photos as evidence. For any doubters check out my attached photos complete with the Baritone Sax which became so much an integral part of the sounds we love. The proof that this meeting took place a long time ago is that me (and Mike) still actually had hair lol.

Artus Satterfield Don’t lie (slower version of Charles Holiday) London House Mint- £250 Kenny Carter I’ve gotta get myself together RCA. Beautiful Black issue. Mint - £200 Sheila Anthony Livin in love Buttercup issue. Mint -£130 Lillian Dupree Hide and seek D Town Mint - £125 Syng McGowan Loneliness is a pleasure Hope Mint - £100 Linda Jones I just can’t live my life W.Bros UK Mint- £100 Paramonts Come go with me Ole Mint - £140 Jerri Jackson I can almost believe Parallax Ex £100 Pat Clayton Someone else’s turn Silver Tip Mint - £100 United Four She’s puttin you on Harthon (Proper red Original) VG++ £75 Phil Terrell I’ll erase you Carnival Mint - £75 (Both sides superb mid tempo) 100% Pure Poison You keep coming back UK EMI demo (Rare demo; with company promotional insert) Mint - £150

Just for info; it came out also on a much rarer label called ‘Franette’

Eddie Holman at Lowton many many years ago. He was absolutely outstanding. Lowton was packed every time it was on, but sometimes with quite a lot of handbag dancers, who obviously didn’t have a clue who he was and consequently didn’t bother turning up to hear him perform. It was half empty as I recall, compared to ‘normal’ nights. Shame coz he was fantastic vocally and probably (for overall vocal range) one of the best soul vocalists ever; not to mention his pedigree as a part of the whole Philly Harthon thing. He was awesome.

Yre welcome; it was fun to do; I hope it made a few ppl laugh😂

Lol, cheers😂😂😂

Great poem mate, it’s clear you’re a wordsmith.......But I think there’s some things I’d have to disagree with. Your poem here, is mighty fine......As an alternative view though, here is mine...... No disrespect to you at all my friend......But the oldies newies thing will persist to the end What can you say about the oldies firm......Antiquated, dinosoars, like Keegans curly perm! There’s never been a time when someone didn’t say.....“Play oldies mate, not The Ascots, ‘Another Day”. They’ll winge wen the dj plays something new.......But I bet they did the same When they first heard ‘Do I love you’! Now the same people dance to it all night long.......And talk about the memories which come with the song They won’t ever listen to anything ‘new’ ......And leave the dancefloor if they ever have to How you ever gonna hear the next ‘Out on the floor’......If wen the dj tries it, yre already through the door?? Today’s ‘newbie’ is tomorrow’s ‘overplayed’.......And when it is, you’ll wish you’d stayed Every ‘oldie’ starts as something new.......But your poem doesn’t say whether that occurred to you. Am I to assume from your poem about oldies.....That you still crawl over cobbled streets to buy your Hovis????? Did you cry when they took your horse and cart......Then moaned about Ford Escorts like a sad old fart? To some, a newie is such a big deal.....But if we don’t move on, we’re stuck at The Wheel! A good dj has to take a risk.....While YOU wanna still buy ‘Soul Fox’ from ‘Selectadisc’!!!! ‘Im gone’ first played to an empty Wigan floor......Coz the ‘Love you baby’ crowd had headed out the door! Now it’s top of everyone’s list .....And if the dj won’t play it,The dancers are pissed! Some dancers only want the likes of Bob and Earl .....But if they’d had their way, We wouldn’t have ‘Tough Girl’ If an oldies fan is all you’ve ever been.....Wouldn’t you be missing out on Lady in Green’?? Not every oldie’s good And every newie bad.....Coz you gotta be kiddin if ‘Paper Tiger’ is the best we’ve ever had?????? They moaned about Keb and they moaned about Guy, and about Billy Floyd: ‘My oh my’ I hear what yre saying bout ‘educate’......But the scene can’t stand still while the ‘Spencers’ crew we await!!! A progressive dj has to take a chance .......He can’t be concerned coz you may not dance Some cried ‘newie’ when they heard the Montclairs.....They complained to FBI: Internal Affairs! They said the same bout ‘Sittin in my class’.......“I prefer Mitch Ryder mate, so on Ronnie I’ll pass” I’m sure we all love ‘Girl across the street’....But not hearing it for a night, wont make your life incomplete. Don’t be afraid to open your ears....A song you don’t know, neednt be the worst of your fears. If youre scared to listen to anything but ‘Condition Red’.....You may as well not bother getting out of bed. If djs had never kept up with the pace.....We’d still be wearing ‘Tonics’ n dancing to ‘Rat Race! Every ‘oldie’ starts as something new.....Even the Tymes and Superiors ‘What would I do’ Every dj has to make key decisions.....To play Exus Trek, Mello Souls, or maybe the Precision’s. In that decision you have to trust, but I do understand for you Mel Britt is a must! It’s easy to stand there havin a pop.....In your ‘Prince of Wales check’ and your striped ‘Tank Top’ If you think it’s easy, then don’t just sit.....Get up there and wow em with the Funky Sisters ‘Do it to it’!! I bet you hate Lewis; as in Herman.......But I’m sure you love your brogues,and your check Ben Sherman. I hope you’ve understood what I’ve been sayin......Don’t get upset coz a new tune is playin. Open your ears and give them a chance......You may hear something good which will make you dance. But if you want to stay stuck in oldies apathy......Let’s bring back ‘Crossroads’ Flares, n Black and white TV!!!!!!! I do understand you love the top 500 hits....Bet u also hate ‘Breaking Bad’ but love the ‘Banana Splits’??? Don’t be offended coz I’ve taken the P_ss....I’m only trying to ensure a great new tune you don’t miss. I’m sure yre a real nice guy and such, even if you won’t dance when the dj is Butch! Next time yre out in your Bowling Shirt, and your Mrs is wearing her twirly flared skirt. Spare a thought for the poor Dee jay.....Who’s trying to play a ‘newie’ like Jimmie Raye!!!!!!!! While YOU stand there in yer ‘Pork Pie Hat’....Saying... “listen lad, we don’t want none of that”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s simple: It’s called Supply and Demand! It’s the oldest transaction equation known to man isn’t it; no surprise there. A couple of things maybe worth mentioning here: 1. For the ‘inflated price’ commentators........Does anyone here ever complain when they sell that (now) rare record they bought in the 70’s (for 70’s prices!) for today’s market or (inflated)value? Do they agree to settle for a much lesser amount than market value so as not to be ‘greedy’???No they dont; they take the cash, pocket it, and are thankful they were around to buy records when they were cheaper and more available. 2. An average semi in most areas of the country, other than London was no more than £3000 to £10,000 in early to mid 70’s; is it now??? 3. If you think record prices are inflated, do lots of research and planning, take many 1000’s of dollars and go try find em yourself. I’ll bet you your current mortgage you’ll come back with money and almost no credible records. 4. Oh and when you’re on that trip, think of the most bog standard cheapie northern record (rescue me, ric tic issues etc etc) and try find one. Go into oldies shop after oldies shop or record shows and try n find one. When you come back with your tail between your legs and no records to show off to your mates, believe me, you’ll have a whole different perspective on rarity and prices. 5. Dealers can only get what the market will pay. Don’t people understand that yet, after all these years? 6. A dealer only got the price wrong if he DIDNT sell it!!! If he did sell it, like it or not, that’s the price it can potentially fetch, and therefore he’s not greedy; he’s just a good businessman. How many major record dealers in UK went out of business in last 20 years coz the market wouldn’t put up with their ‘greedy’ ‘high’ prices?? None!! 7. Quite simply; the prices are rocketing coz more people want the records than there are copies around. Even now in 2018, there are people still chasing Epitome of Sound, Glories, Frank Beverley, Moses Smith etc etc. These records are not turning up regularly in quantity anymore, so why would prices not be high? They’re great records, and (relatively) harder to find in USA now, so why wouldn’t prices be high? 8. Also trends change and move. In the mid 70’s the only record anyone wanted on Groove City was Sister Lee, which explains why you could buy the Professionals for £15! No one was bothered about it; it probably wasn’t much less rare than it is now but there was NO DEMAND!! That’s the name of the game.

For Sale: Sheila Anthony: Livin in love Buttercup issue £150. Darrow Fletcher: What have I got now. Jacklyn M- £200 Bob Brady & Concords Goodbye Baby Chariot (Red)Looks Ex to M- but plays M- £150 Fabulous Capris: He won’t love you Cepro. £100 Mary Wells Can’t you see yre losing me UK Atlantic yellow & Black Demo (autographed on B side) M- £160 Chicago Indemander: Paramonts Come Go With Me Ole: lovely mint minus condition; hardly ever played. £150 Joe Bataan: Under the Street Lamp (his rare version of Exits): Fania, Rare double sided WD Ex. £100. The Cheers Take me to paradise Okeh WD: M- (Vinyl too, not styrene)£100 Drifters you got to pay your dues US Atlantic (rare stock copy) M- £100 Jimmy Soul Clark Sweet Darling US Soulhawk Vg to Vg+ £75 Jimmy Soul Clark Sweet Darling UK White label demo (Burn label) with instrumental on flip. £75 M- James Fountain Seven day lover UK Cream white label test press / demo £75 M- Wendy Rene Bar B Q Stax WD M- £150 Linda Jones I just can’t live my life UK Warner Bros M- £100 Leon Haywood Baby Reconsider M - UK Fantasy demo M- £50 Harold Melvin Get out M - UK Route demo M- £50 Lenis Guess Just ask me M - UK Route demo M- £40 Jelly Beans You don’t mean me no good M- UK Right On Demo £75 The Crow Your Autumn of tomorrow UK M - Right On Demo £50 Eddie Spencer If this is love UK Power Exchange M- £50 Jackie Lee Oh my Darling UK Jay Boy demo Ex / M- £ 50 Dean Parrish I’m on my way British UK American demo M- £75 Brenda Lee Jones Yre the love of my life British UK American demo M- £45 Fantastic Johnny C Don’t depend on me M- UK Island (Rare demo) £50 Soul Source - a soul music affair Powered by Invision Community

For Sale: All Mint minus. United Four: She’s puttin you on Harthon (Proper red original with Harthon down the right side of label not top). Looks Ex but plays Mint minus. £100. Decisions: I can’t forget about you Sussex Demo £40 Ethics: Look at me now: Vent £40. Denise Keeble Before it falls apart Pelican £50. Don Ray Sampson Baby come back: E Records £75

OFFERS: Enchantments: I’m in love with your daughter: Faro. (Issue!) Beautiful looking and Rare orange and white stock copy of this current in demand oldie. Mint minus label and vinyl. Looks so much better than the boring blue demo.