Neil Rushton

Had queries about the Eric & Vikings on Kool Kat...yes they are all the original issues, I am sorting out old stock and found some, same applies to Frankie & Jonny and Frank Beverly & The Butlers, only got few Crossfire left which is why cheap.

I was surprised on the Tuff City "The Northern Souljers Meet Hi-Rhythm" LP to read that tracks released on Detroit labels by Appreciations, Master Keys, Persians, Buddy Lamp, Lee Rogers, Fabulous Peps and Al Gardner were recorded in Memphis between 1965 and 1968 and not in Detroit ...the album is the one with the Don Bryant demos of "A Place in My Heart", "Weak & Broken Hearted" and "Talkin' About That Girl Of Mine". In a similair vein when interviewing George McGregor for The Joe Boy Precisions album he recounted how he took Timmy Willis to Muscle Shoals to get the sound he wanted on "Mr Soul Satisfaction". By the way has anyone for got sale a copy of The Fabulous Peps album Tuff City put out? They only have CD available on web site and I want the vinyl? .

TRYING TO BACK TO YOU GIRL - JACKEY BEAVERS (JAY BOY) £20 GOTTA GET CLOSER TO MY LOVE - SHOWSTOPPERS B/W INSTR TO FOUR PERFECTIONS I'M NOT STRONG ENOUGH - (INFERNO DEMO) £20 THE BOTTLE - GIL SCOTT-HERON/BRIAN JACKSON (INFERNO 12") £10 I'LL HOLD YOU - FRANKIE & JOHNNY (INFERNO) £10 IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANTED - FRANK BEVERLY & THE BUTLERS (INFERNO) £10 GONE WITH THE WIND (IS MY LOVE) - RITA & TIARAS (JOE BOY PIC BAG) £15 DEEPER THAN THAT - THE PRELUDES (HARTHON 2ND ISSUE) £10 MY OH MY - BILLY FLOYD - (ARCTIC 2ND ISSUE) £10 TAKE ME BACK - CROSSFIRE (VIRTUE) £20 LET'S SPEND SOME TIME TOGETHER - LARRY HOUSTON (HFMP 2ND ISSUE) £10 PUT THAT WOMAN DOWN - JOHN LEACH (DESTINY) £10 IN LOVE - Introducing TONY GALLA (JOE BOY SWAN WDJ REPLICA ONE SIDER) £10 MAKING MY DAYDREAM REAL - FRANCES NERO (CHARLY PIC BAG) £15 BE'S THAT WAY SOMETIMES - BOBBY WELLS (GRAPEVINE DEMO) £20 HOW TO MAKE A SAD MAN GLAD - CAPREEZ (GRAPEVINE DEMO) £10 REAL HUMDINGER - JJ BARNES (RIC-TIC) £10 PLEASE LET ME IN - JJ BARNES (RIC-TIC) £10 SAY IT - JJ BARNES (RIC-TIC) £10 THE WAY YOU BEEN ACTING LATELY - AL KENT (RIC-TIC) £15 OOH! PRETTY LADY - AL KENT ORCHESTRA (RIC-TIC) £10 DON'T FIGHT IT(brilliant!)/(GET MY HAT) NOTHING CAN STOP ME - MAJOR LANCE (SOUL SERIES) £10 BABY YOU'VE GOT IT (alternative vocal to SLOW FIZZ) - THE SAPPHIRES (SOUL SERIES) £10 THAT'S WHAT LOVE IS - THE HESITATIONS (SOUL SERIES) £15 PLAYGIRL'S LOVE - THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS (WINDY CITY, IN COMPANY SLEEVE) £10 YOU'VE GOT TO LOVE YOUR BABY - THE MILLIONAIRES (CASTLE 2ND ISSUE) £10 WAKE UP TO THE SUNSHINE GIRL - JOEY DELORENZO (MI-VAL 2ND ISSUE LABELS WRONG WAY ROUND) £10 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - JEAN SCHERRIE & LYNDA (FORMERLY OF THE SUPREMES TOGETHER WITH THE ORIGINALS) (MOTOR CITY) £10 SWINGIN' CAMELS - DETROIT ROAD APPLES (ABC) £10 I CAN FEEL THE ICE MELTING - THE PARLIAMENTS (REVILOT) £10 GRAPEVINE WILL LIE SOMETIMES - ROSHELL ANDERSON (SUNBURST) £10 I REALLY LOVE YOU - JIMMY BURNS (TRENTHAM TOP DOG STAFFORD SINGLE) £10 BECAUSE OF YOU - JACKIE WILSON/LET ME COME BACK - WALTER JACKSON (TRENTHAM FINALE ALL-NIGHTER SINGLE) £10 JANICE (DON'T BE SO BLIND TO LOVE) - SKIP MAHONEY (SOULVATION ANNIVERSARY SINGLE) £10 NO ONE TO LOVE - PAT LEWIS/I NEED MY BABY - JACKEY BEAVERS/I MISS MY BABY (UNRELEASED VERSION) - THE IN-CROWD EP RELEASED TO TIE IN WITH HARDBACK VERSION OF THE BOOK THE IN-CROWD (BEE COOL LIMITED EDITION) £10 GET OUT (AND LET ME CRY) - HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES (PHIL L.A) £10 HURTING - ERIC & THE VIKINGS/MY BABY AIN'T NO PLAYTHING - WILLIE JONES/IN THE POCKET - DETROIT STRINGS (KOOL KAT) £10 ALL THE ABOVE ARE MINT/NEVER BEEN PLAYED POSTAGE AND PACKING £2 IST SINGLE, ADD 50P FOR ADDITIONAL SINGLES. PAY PAL - sales@soulvation.biz PAYING BY CHEQUE/CASH - PM ME.

We releaed on Inferno: Gotta Get Closer To my Love - The Showstoppers Good record. Rick Cooper found a white label on US Party Time so it was planned USA release for the 60's, but we were the first to put it out. Being flip side to "Ain't Nothing But A Houseparty" on the Inferno release it sold well too, around 6,000.

Contemporary.. Give Me Joy (try the 7" edit) - Marc Evans (UK Defected) Justifiable - Studio Apartment featuring Kenny Bobien (USA King Street) Black Man - Gianluca Pighi Featuring Robert Owens (Italian Conya) Classics Day By Day (Chez'm'Trent Remix) - Andrew Pearce (UK Network) I Never Knew - 280 West Featuring Diamiond Temple (backing vocals by Ray, Goodman and Brown) (USA 280 West) Soul Music - Notenshun featuring Sandy Mill (UK Chillifunk)

Fed up of playing this from the album - has anyone got a 45 they will sell please? Thanks, Neil www.soulvation.biz

We did Girls From Uncle as a tongue in cheek tailor made for Joe Boy. New song sung by Midlands singer Jacqie Williams over "The Spy" instrumental and then the vocal and instrumental mixed down to make the new track.I gave it first spin at Ritz All-Nighter and Guy Hennigan ran over to ask what it was. We had permission from the owner of Swan catalogue to sample the instrumental and paid royalties etc.

Hi Flanny, Is Dream Team stll available? Neil

All below are £10 each or any 3 for £25, postage and packing included.All mint/unplayed. Pay Pal - sales@soulvation.biz If paying cheque or cash please pm me CRAZY WORLD - KENNY THOMAS (suSU 12") Am sorting out records and found some of these, once they have gone that's it.was only ever a limited edition pressing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are all singles given away at our Trentham Gardens all-nighters. Having a massive sort out and found some of each, didn't know there were any Jimmy Burns left....and the remastering means it sounds a lot better than my copy on Erica. I REALLY LOVE YOU - JIMMY BURNS/MR BLUE - CODY BLACK ( to commemorate Top Dog Stafford Top Of The World revival all-nighter) WHAT HAPPENED TO YESTERDAY - MR SOUL/I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING - DAISY HICKS ( Trentham second anniversary) BECAUSE OF YOU - JACKIE WILSON/LET ME COME BACK - WALTER JACKSON (licenced in from Brunwick to tie in with the last ever All-Nighter @ Trentham ) AND FINALLY A REAL NICE EP - THIS WAS MANUFACTURED IN VERY LIMITED QUANTITIES BY BEE COOL PUBLISHING TO BE GIVEN AWAY WITH THE INTITIAL HARDBACK SALES OF THEIR BOOK "THE IN CROWD". BEAUTIFUL EXPENSIVE FEELING COLOUR SLEEVE WITH FANTASTIC PHOTOGRAPH ON COVER OF RANDY COZENS RECORD COLLECTION TAKEN IN 1967.NOTE THE DIFFERENT MIX/TAKE OF ROSE BATTISTE. SIDE 1 SPREADIN' HONEY - WATTS 103RD STREET BAND/I NEED MY BABY - JACKEY BEAVERS SIDE 2 NO ONE TO LOVE - PAT LEWIS/ I MISS MY BABY (DIFFERENT TAKE FROM ONE USED FOR THE REVILOT RELEASE!) - ROSE BATISTE. AGAIN HAVE FOUND THESE WHILE HAVING A CLEAR OUT, ONCE THEY ARE GONE THEY ARE GONE, WONT BE ABLE TO GET ANYMORE. Everyhing £10 each or any 3 for £25. I will pay postage.

I had 400 WDJ promos.Whether I had them all or not I don't know but was told none had gone out to radio stations. I got through more than 400 of the pink issues. And date wise - first remember hearing it an our Dudley Zoo All-Dayer which I think was around October 1974, that was when it started to get played, became an immediate monster. .

I never imported any of the reds but I don't think they were boots, I think Selecta imported them from NUVJ some time after the pink label copies had all gone.

I used to get the pink originals of "Come On Train" from Bob Cattaneo in Daly City but I didn't have the first copy in UK, unlike other of Bob's finds like "You Better Keep Her" - Marvin Holmes which I took 50 copies on Bob's reccomendation, sold or gave Colin Curtis one after he went mad for it after I played it at a Burntwood Baths all-dayer, and I then went on to import hundreds more following plays from Colin. Other 45's I had first from Bob included "No One Else Can Take Your Place" - The Inspirations (just the one copy unfortunately) and "You're Gone" - Celeste Hardie.. Years later I licenced in "Come On Train" to release on Inferno.The collapse of the Northern scene meant even though we had rights for a seven inch single we shelved it, but did include it as b side to our 12" on Gloria Jones "Tainted Love". That sold about 20,000 copies so format must be the biggest seller of "Come On Train". I rang up the NUVJ office in LA and they were so happy they had been paid the advance that when I asked if they had any originals they came back and said yes but "unfortunately they are only radio promos which were never sent out" and they sent me 400 WDJ's for free! I am pretty certain I had the first WDJ copy years before that when Dave Yates at DJM was sent a WDJ when DJM issued it in UK and he passsed the demo on to me. I was well pleased but then broke it one Saturday night while pissed getting ready for The Ritz the next day so it was odd to years later get another 400 copies. Happy days.

Well Lou said Rita Graham was Rita from Rita & The Tiaras and she has confirmed ..and he says Linda Jones was one of the Tiaras.

Have been asked for ages I have any Frank Beverly in old Inferno stock. found a box tucked in between the Phil Coulter's!! These are black vinyl and not in pic bags.

First Taste Of Hurt/,Funky Funky Twist - Willie Tee (Gatur green label) - £170 Take Me Back - Crossfire (Virtue) - £20 Deeper Than That - The Preludes (Harthon re-issue) £10 Watch Out Mr Lonely - Shirley Vaughn (Double R) - £15 If That's What You Wanted - Frank Beverly And The Butlers (Inferno mint/unplayed) £20 I'll Hold You - Frankie & Johnny (Inferno mint/unplayed) £15 Gotta Get Closer To My Love (never released in USA) - The Showstoppers/I'm Not Strong Enough (instrumental to Four Perfections) - (Inferno Demo) -£20 Why'd You Put It To Me Baby - Short People (Inferno mint unplayed) £10 You Don't Mean Me No Good - Jelly Beans/Your Autumn Of Tomorrow - The Crow (Inferno demo) £20 Don't Fight It - Wilson Pickett (UK Black Atlantic AT.4052. Fromt 1965 mint/unplayed) £10 Stop (Don't Give Up Your Loving) - The Two Fellows (Fred & Skeets) (Mutt) £10 Stranger In My Arms - Lynne Randell (Columbia Special Products) £10 Baby, I'm Here Just To Love You - Stagemasters (Slide) £10 I Really Love You - Jimmy Burns/Mr Blue - Cody Black (Trentham Stafford Top Of The World Revival All-Nighter single mint/unplayed) What Happened To Yesterday - Mr Soul (Trentham All-Nighter single mint/unplayed) Trying To Get Back To You - Jackey Beavers (Jay Boy mint/unplayed) £20 Get Out - Harold Mevlin & The Blue Notes (Phil LA 2nd issue mint/unplayed) £10 You've Got To Love Your Baby - The Millionaires (Castle legit 2nd issue mint/unplayed) £10 Waiting 'Round The Corner - Mike & The Modifiers (US Motor City mint/unplayed) £10 In Love - Tony Galla (Joe Boy promotion copy, one sided Swan lookalike mint/unplayed)£10 Hurting - Eric & Vikings c/w - My Baby Ain't No Plaything -Willie Jones/In The Pocket - Detroit Strings (Kool Kat mint unplayed) £10 Janice - Skip Mahoney (Soulvation anniversary single) £10 Because Of You - Jackie Wilson/Let Me Come Back - Walter Jackson (Soulvation Trentham Finale All-Nighter single mint/unplayed) £10 The Bottle - Gil Scott Herson/Brian Jackson - (Inferno 12 mint/unplayed) £10 I will pay postage. Pay Pal - sales@soulvation.biz If paying by cheque or cash PM me.

The Joe Boy release of the extended version is on CD only, not Joe Boy seven. Glenn from Joe Boy cut me a promo carver on it when the label had rights to Dore and it is massive at Soulvation, it makes the Dore original seem too short! Glenn was recently contacted out of the blue by Lou Barretto who was after info on "Gone With The Wind Is My Love" and was completely unaware that the record had a following in the UK.He has identified Rita as Rita Graham who recorded for Tangerine? He is also adamant that one of The Tiaras is Linda Jones, as in THE Linda Jones. As she was tied up with New Jersey scene don't know how she would have featured on a LA recording session but that's what he says. And believe it or not he says he could not remember "Blowing My Mind To Pieces" by Bob Relf which Lou wrote and I always thought produced. Glenn had to send him an MP3 . As it's just about the best record ever it's a bit like Picasso forgetting he liked to do a bit of drawing!

Don't know if anyone will remember, but we gave away 50 copies of this (probably demos) and 50 Jeff Perry sevens at a Manchester Ritz All-Dayer when they were forthcoming brand new UK releases. I was working for Black Echoes at the time and knew the press promo people at the various labels and persuaded them to give us the records as freebies to first 100 through the doors. Happy days!

I interviewed George Clinton at United Sound in Detroit 20 years ago for The Face and he almost fell of his chair when I mentioned "You Won't Say Nothing" - he says Tamala was just a play on Tamla and the singer was his wife.

Respect is due.

Sorry Pete, brain not working this morning, meant to PM you with bids. Neil .

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Song is also flip to "Lost & Found" _ Kenny Carlton on Blue Rock

Just noticed a guy mentioned "Somebody Somewhere Needs You" - Ike and Tina Turner on UK Warner Brothers single Warners were pressed and distributed by Pye at the time and have got a copy of the EP containg "Somebody Somewhee Needs You" on UK Pye (not Warners) test pressing, with info typed on, ie not a white label, which is tasty, Did have a London demo of "Open The Door"/"Our Love" - Darrell Banks with the titles and artist TYPEWRITTEN ON - very much regret selling that.

I've got one and would sell for serious offer. Neil

Dave Welding had one in his sales box for £100 at Soulvation on Saturday.