Colouredman

Offers invited: Ben Zine. Village of years. Parkway WD. M- Free Special Delivery Postage.

FOR SALE: Spinners. Workin my way back to you. Atlantic M- £20 (small WOL) £20 Rose Marie McCoy. Teardrops and heartaches. North Broad Street. M £15 Postage: £3 Signed For. £7 Special Delivery.

FOR SALE: Gary Carl & The Orchids. Baby stay and make me happy. Phillips. M-£100M Postage: Signed For: £3

Angelenos. Down in East LA. M- £100. Postage: Signed For £3.

The biggest problem now, which affects everything from whats played, to whether a venue is busy or not, or actually any good or worth attending is the fact that as a scene we’ve basically self destructed. From having a scene which was a defined genre, with an approximate consensus on what constituted a Northern record (by and large), now we have so many scenes within one scene that it raises the question of whether ‘Northern’ is still a genre any more. We seem unable to stop reinventing what it is, in an effort to keep coming up with ‘new’. So now when you go to a venue, you could be listening to some semi Doo Wopp record made in 1961, or an R&B record made in 62, or something made and recorded last week! There is no reliable, identifiable consensus on what Northern is anymore. In the past if someone told me a record I ddnt know was great Northern, it probably was. Now if someone tells me something is great Northern, I find myself asking privately...”yes, but what kind of Northern?” When I was a teenager in the 70’s I could pretty accurately tell someone that a lot of Northern was similar to Motown, or at the very least 4 beats to the bar, with a black sound, strong backbeat etc. But what would I tell em Northern is now??? Most people within 5 years of my age (65) grew up with Motown, it was in the charts and played everywhere. So that sound was in our heads, so sliding into Northern with a very similar sound, was easy and perhaps even inevitable. But theres generations since who dont have that Motown/60’s soul sound in their heads or historic musical experience, and so they dont necesarily have the benchmarks to assess Northern as it used to be. My impression is that there is a community of punters who dont really know much about music; 60’s with a beat doesnt make it Northern, black with no beat doesnt make it Northern either, nor does you liking it and enjoy dancing to it. Equally having a collection and wanting to dj does not in itself equal a dj! As a scene its probably lost its way, add to that venue overkill, and the age of a lot of us, its probably past its ‘sell by’ as a scene. But that said, the finest examples of the best Rare Soul music a person could ever hear, still exist, and will forever, regardless of their being a ‘scene’ or not.

FOR SALE: Mary Wells. Me without you. Stateside Demo. M- £150 Carol Jones. Dont destroy me. Mutt M- £120 Gary Carl & The Orchids. Baby stay and make me happy. Phillips. Ex. £100 EG Taylor & The Sounds of Soul. You made me mad. Val M- £40 Postage: FREE for orders over £100.

Yeah no problem, totally understand. Its not goin anywhere,its in my collection. I meant to reply back in Oct when i first saw your post but totally forgot, then something today reminded me lol. Cant remember who I had this off, but it must have been a trade with a dj coz there are vague signs of cover up on the run out; only noticed them today when assessing condition. Must hve been Keb or Guy I guess. Tim

My demo is £100. Condition is: Visually looks vg+ to Ex. Audio is pretty much flawless NM/M at either low or high volume, other than the run in which has a bit of audible fuzziness/ low level crackle. Ive always been a very fussy collector and the condition has been good enough for me to keep it, if that helps. Tim

Hi, I know Im very late with this, but did you get fixed up? I have an orange demo. Tim

Hi, I have the rare White Demo of this, in NM condition. £150. Thanks Tim

For Sale: Garland Green. Jealous kind of fella. Uni. LP. Looks VG+ but plays pretty much flawlessly. £65. Kenny Long. Its better to love and lost. Brite-Lite 12 inch. Absolutely MINT visually and audio, but dished (NAP). £80. Postage: Special Delivery £7. Signed For £3.

The Dolls. The reason why. Toy. Ex £100Postage: Special Delivery £7. Signed For £

FOR SALE: The Delicates. Stop shoving me around. Soultown NM £120. Gary Carl & The Orchids. Baby stay and make me happy. Phillips. NM £100. The Styles. Baby yre alive. Modern Demo NM £70 Postage: Special Delivery £7. Signed For £

FOR SALE: Paulette & The Cupids. He’ll wait on me. Prism WD NM £75 Bull & The El Capalaras. Girl of my heart / No sign of sadness. Bell Demo. NM £85 Fabulettes. Screamin & shoutin. Sound Stage 7. EX £75. Gene Chandler. Im just a fool for you. UK Stateside Demo. Ex. £75 Chubby Checker. Everythings wrong. UK Cameo Parkway. EX £20 Gino Washington. Like my baby Inst. Do Re De. NM £50. EX £80 Postage: Special Delivery £7. Signed For £3.

FOR SALE: The New Group. Theres that mountain. Gemini WD (Double sided). NM £150 Mary Wells. Me without you. Stateside Demo. NM £150 Carol Jones. Dont destroy me. Mutt. NM £120 The Dolls. The reason why. Toy. Ex £100 Geridine Jones. Love-in. Herb Art. WD Ex £100 Postage: Special Delivery £7. Signed For £3.

PMd you. Tim

For Sale: NF Porter. Keep on keepin on. Lizard. M- £30 Postage: Signed For £3

FOR SALE. Carol Jones. Dont destroy me / Problem child. Mutt. (27320) NM £120. Postage: £7 Special Delivery. £3 Signed For.

FOR SALE: Jason Knight. Our love is getting stronger. Pye vg+ £30 (SOLD) Free Signed For Postage.

FOR SALE: All UK releases. Ikettes. Fine fine fine. Stateside E.P. Ex/M- £100 Shakers. One wonderful moment. Probe Demo. M £60 (Pristine, looks and sounds new)(SOLD) Chubby Checker. Everythings wrong. Cameo Parkway. Ex £25 Rosebuds. Say you’ll be mine. / World Column. So is the sun. U.K. Tower. M £25 Bobby Paris. I walked away. / Bobby Sheen. Sweet sweet love. U.K. Capitol. M £25 Doris Troy. Face up to the truth. / Billy Preston. The girls got it. UK Capitol. M £25 Smoky & The Blades. Jerk baby jerk. (Hard to find)Route Demo Ex £30 Viola Wills. I got love. President. M- £50 Gene Chandler. I’m just a fool for you. Stateside Demo. Ex. £70 Fantastic Johnny C. Dont depend on me. Island demo. Ex £50 New beats. Crying my heart out. U.K. Hickory. M- £40 Jodi Mathis. Dont you care anymore. Capitol Demo. M- £25 Chuck Jones. Boo on you. Pye Disco Demand Demo. M- £25 Fuzz. Im so glad. Pye Disco Demand Demo. M- £25 Little Johnny Blair. Mommas gone. Pye Disco Demand Demo. Vg £15 Sharonettes. Papa ooh mow mow. Black Magic Demo. Ex £15 Stanley Woodruff. What took you so long. Grapevine Demo. M- £20 Sharonettes. Going to a go go. Black Magic Demo. M- £20 Milestones. The Joker. Black Magic Demo. Ex £15 Paul Humphrey. Cochise. ABC Demo. M- £15 Sons of Moses. Soul Symphony. MCA Demo. M £15 Postage: Special Delivery £7. Signed For: £3.

Ive got a Mint / Mint - copy on UK Liberty if thats any good to you. Tim

FOR SALE: Fabulettes. Screamin and shoutin. Sound Stage Seven Ex/M- £75 The Debs. Goodbye boy. Mercury Demo. M- £20 Dawn. Love is a magic word. United Artists WD. £20 Boots Randolph. Take a letter Maria. Monument WD. M- £20 N.F Porter. Keep on keeping on. Lizard. M- £30 Postage: Special Delivery £7. Signed For £3.

Not sure why Nabays details are still a mystery for some, I thought everyone knew by now that I met and interviewed Nabay and his Mum over 30 years ago in 1991; it’s been well documented. I also later over in Calif, met and interviewed his brother, a drummer. Yes he is Lebanese not Moroccan. I also met Al Bushamie and interviewed him too. The leads came from Bob Babbitt who I spoke to on the phone in 1990 while he was living in Nashville. Bob gave me Al’s details and it followed from there, with Al then giving me Nabays contact details.

I’ve never seen one, but that’s not to say it doesn’t exist. My instinct would be that if it did exist, either in collector or dj circles, somebody would have shouted up about it by now; it’s at least 45 years since first discovered/played!

FOR SALE: Four Tops. I got a feeling. Tamla Motown. Dutch Ex. £20 (SOLD) Postage: Signed For: £3. Special Delivery: £7.