Neil Rushton

UK EXPANSION 7" MINT/BRAND NEW SIGNED BY SHARON AT CLEETHORPES WEEKENDER (SHE WAS PAID FOR THE SIGNINGS). GET OUT OF MY LIFE / MAYBE YOU'LL BE BACK SHARON McHAHAN £10 PER RECORD PLUS DELIVERY £2 FIRST RECORD, ADD 50P FOR EVERY SUBSEQUENT RECORD. PLEASE PM TO ORDER. THANKS

DONNY HATHAWAY ALWAYS THE SAME / DON'T TURN AWAY GO-AHEAD (TICK 15) FIRST EVER VINYL RELEASE - NOW ON SEVEN INCH SINGLE, RECORDED IN 1968 AND STUCK IN ATLANTIC'S TAPE VAULTS UNTIL RELEASED ON A DONNY HATHAWAY CD COMPILATION LAST YEAR. PROPER POUNDING HARDCORE "RARE AND UNDERPLAYED" STYLE NORTHERN FROM DONNY. HARDLY THE MOST LIKELY ARTIST FOR THIS GEM OF A TRACK, BUT THERE YOU GO. £10 PLUS £2 DELIVERY. TO MAKE PAYPAL PAYMENT PLEASE SEND TO - neilrushton2@btinternet.com

When the vocal got released nationally - very shortly after Selecta got vocal copies to replace the instrumental copies - they must have filtered some of the instrumental copies in with the vocal copies as there were a few around in the Midlands. Max Millward remembered getting an instrumental in his vocal stock. Dave Williams interview about it is in "Northern Soul Stories" along wit Dave Godin review of the vocal from Blues & Soul 66 "In a similair bag to Chubby Checker's "At The Discotheque", it is a really groovy item that every discotheque should expose, and it on of those uptempo items that seems to have more and more to say each time you hear it" .

All copies from Stroud...a lot of it is old Global stock and the Joey DeLorenzo will be the legit Joe Boy single.

Funnily enough, was in at The Crown today. It's best experienced when Birmingham City are at home! . Our Soulvation nights @ Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham are busy. Full house last Friday. Tony Reynolds was guest DJ,and he has a great pedigree (The Outrigger etc) in bringing Soul to Birmingham. And don't forge that before he was at The Chateau Impney and The Catacombs, Carl Dene was playing "Rhythm'n'Soul" at Le Metro in Brum. and he is due to appear at Hare & Hounds Soulvation night soon. Plus, there were the great days of both Graham Warr and Steve Glover having record stalls in the Oasis Market.

Maybe from the LP at The Catacombs, but I don't think it was known until it was booted.

Ian Are you sure Susanne DePasse was not horrified by the original plan to release it on a 12" picture disc with photos of Northern Soul DJ's?!!! I can still remember the late phone call from you and Simon, coming up with the plan and I went back to bed shaking my head. I think it was going to be Northern Soul medley to begin with (?), and you came up with the concept of making it a Motown Medley. Can you imagine how awful a NS medley would have been? I can also remember you calling me from LA after you had seen Susanne. Then of course Simon got more backers for the records than there were shares...I think he must have seen the film "The Producers". He well and truly ripped us of on it.

Here's something standing up for the man. In the late 1970's in London I met Randy Wood to discuss a licence deal for the Mirwood catalogue. He was adamant that Simon paid him for use of Mirwood, and was very happy with Simon. Randy thought it was creative of Simon to come up with "My Sugar Baby" credited incorrectly and illegally to Sherlie Matthews. Randy - "How many did it sell" Me - "500" Randy - "Who gives shit, he must have lost money recording it".

Just acetate I believe.

Simon could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and often did. One great example were the re-issues on Columbia Special Products. CBS supplied them on 100% legit basis and I imported them into the UK. The first lot came from the "Baby Boy", .Simon "send me money" Soussan, who was getting them from CBS on the West Coast. He was charging me a fortune and, as always, would not listen to reason and offer them at a price that made sense. I was so fed up with him that I arranged a visit by Les McCutcheon and myself to CBS in New York when we were over there, and met up with the very amiable Al Shulman at Columbia Special Products who was a bit shocked by two young English white guys asking if he could supply a total of 50,000 old Soul records on CSP. His first reaction was "no way" and "talk to CBS in London". He got interested when we explained CBS London were not willing to do anything, but said it was not feasible to produce the singles in the USA and export over to us. However, all changed when we produced the singles supplied by Simon. Al rang up his West Coast contemporaries and got very upset that they were selling to the UK, albeit via Simon, when he was closer geographically to Britain. Anyway, the end result was that he agreed to supply us and the first order to jet into Birmingham Airport was 48,000 singles. I found some old paperwork the other day and there is an invoice dated 23/5/78. from what I think must have been a follow up order for 5,000 each of Lynne Randell and Shane Martin. And I believe the total orders for The Poppies added up to around 20,,000. Al supplied them much cheaper than Simon would consider, and so Simon lost out on a lot of money by being greedy. Just to reinforce how Simon never got it that he would have made proper money by being above board, years later Les McCutcheon was at the Midem music trade festival and ran into Al Shulman who remembered him from the the Columbia Special Products orders and so was very happy to deal with him again and ended up licencing him the UK rights to the Brunswick label, which CBS represented at the time, and Les had a number one hit at Christmas with Jackie Wilson "Reet Petite" and ended up selling something like 1.4 million Jackie Wilson singles. It is not impossible that Simon could have ended up being involved in that deal, but his "no way" scuppered that possibility.

One weird things is that Lou Courtney "Me & You (Doin' The Boogaloo) was booted off the album and everyone thought that Riverside/Popside missed a trick there by not seeing it as single. Thing is they did, Robert Bateman sold me his 7" acetate of it complete with planned catalogue number.

It was a long time ago. I thoght he said Greenhouse but if I got that wrong it was as you say some kind of out building. I was really happy to get the record!

Once I got my first job I got a bank account. First cheque I ever wrote out was to Soul Bowl which I sent off but being more than a litlle bit wet behind the ears did not realise you had to sign it!!! Another time, and by now the cheques I sent to Kings Lynn were signed, I remember being desperate for a copy of Joe Hicks Don't It Make You Feel Funky and John said he had a copy with a crack on it stored in a greenhouse in his garden. He sent me the single for nothing and the crack was not that bad at all. .

Mr Fingers Can You Feel It (Trax Records lookalike label,legit re-issue via Demon/distrIbuted by Above Board) "THE COMPLETE CAN YOU FEEL IT" 4 TRACK 12" 4 MIXES OF CAN YOU FEEL IT A SIDE 1 - THE ORIGINAL INSTRUMENTAL 2 - ROBERT OWENS MIX B SIDE 3 -MARTIN LUTHER KING MIX 4 - CHUCK D.MIX UK issue which is now out of print. Only 12" containing all 4 mixes on one 12". THE GENIUS OF LARRY HEARD. CAN YOU FEEL IT IS A RECORD THAT CHANGED MY LIFE AND THAT OF MANY OTHERS TOO. £1O PLUS £3 POSTAGE AND PACKING TO ORDER PM ME GOT 5 COPIES ONLY. NOW OUT OF PRINT.

Got loads of stuff from Bob including the first copy in the UK of The Inspirations "No One Else Can Take Your Place", the first copies of Marvin Holmes "You Better Keep Her", quantity of Celeste Hardie "You're Gone" and 100's of Don Thomas "Come On Train" and many I copy only of various originals. Oh and quantity of the Johnny Baker 45's too. Went to visit him in Daly City in between seeing Soussan in LA.

NEW ON UK EXPANSION, AND NOW WITH THE CORRECT TRACKS ON BOTH SIDES AFTER THE MISPRESS MIX UP. EXPANSION 7" (EX7003) TIMELESS LEGEND - I WAS BORN TO LOVE YOU /(BABY) DON'T DO THIS TO ME ISSUE (DINKED) - £10 INCLUDES DELIVERY DEMO (SOLID CENTRE) - £15 INCLUDES DELIVERY ONLY 50 DEMOS MADE PLEASE MAKE PAYPAL PAYMENTS TO - sales@soulvation.biz Thanks, Neil

I went to that All-Dayer in Hanley when he didn't turn up.

Supplied by Bob Cattanneo.

PRESTATYN SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE SINGLE SOLID CENTRE, ONLY 100 MANUFACTURED. SIGNED BY MITCH RYDER 6/3/15 AT PRESTATYN - SEE LABEL SCAN. OUTTA SIGHT (OSV 130) MITCH RYDER and the DETROIT WHEELS BREAKOUT / YOU GET YOUR KICKS £10 PLUS £2 POSTAGE AND PACKING. PAYPAL TO - neilrushton2@btinternet.com

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SIGNED BY MITCH RYDER ON FRIDAY MARCH 6 AT PRESTATYN WEEKENDER. SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION - ONLY 100 COPIES MADE WITH SOLID CENTRE COMMEMORATING MITCH RYDER APPEARANCE AT PRESTATYN. REGULAR NON PRESTATYN COPIES ARE DINKED TO LOOK LIKE USA IMPORTS. MOST OF THE 100 WERE SOLD AT PRESTATYN OVER THE WEEKEND, THESE ARE THE ONES LEFTOVER. BREAKOUT / YOU GET YOUR KICKS (OUTTA SIGHT OSV-130) MINT AUTOGRAPHED ON YOU GET YOUR KICKS LABEL. SEE ATTACHMENT. BEING SOLD WITH MITCH'S BLESSING, HE WAS PAID FOR THE SIGNINGS. PLEASE SEND PAYPAL TO - sales@soulvation.biz Thanks, Neil

SWEET BABY AL GARDNER FRENCH GOOGA-MOOGA PICTURE SLEEVE NICE CLEAN COPY £80 PLUS POSTAGE. PLEASE PM TO RESERVE.

At Westward Ho! Weekender and an old friend has passed over some records to sell. He has not played any of them since the 1970's. All clean copies. I LOVE YOU BABY - EDDIE PARKER (FRENCH GOOGA-MOOGA PIC SLEEVE) £20 I'M GONNA BUILD CALIFORNIA FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD - PHILIP MITCHELL (UK JAY BOY DEMO) £50 SOS (HEART IN DISTRESS) - CHRISTINE COOPER (USA PARKWAY) £15 SWEET DARLING /HELP YOURSELF - BILLY BUTLER (USA BRUNSWICK) £15 EVERYBODY'S GOIN' TO THE LIVE IN - BOB BRADY & THE CONCHORDS (UK BELL 1025) £15 THERE WAS A TIME - GENE CHANDLER/ I'M GONNA MISS YOU - THE ARTISTICS (UK BRUNSWICK) £25

I love it....

Got my copy today. Brillaint!