Neil Rushton

That was my sense of humour....

Tape box came with no names on it. My partner's girflfriend was named Denise - hence Denise And The Devotions.

No, the UK label ordered the parts from the USA and somehow got sent an instrumental. The daft buggers then pressed it up and sent it out.

It was 500 copies. They ordered the vocal which had not been released by then. When they turned up they were by mistake the instrumental version so Selecta Disc returned them. Dave Williams was working at Seleca Disc at the time and talks about it in "Northern Soul Stories". Not sure if it was Polydor. Am pretty certain the label sent out some of the instrumental when they issued the vocal soon after, as I kept hearing about copies in the West Midlands at the time,, but that might be just be people making it up. Same thing happened to Selecta Disc a few years later when CBS in New York sent them instrumental by mistake of Billy Butler "Right Track" but they kept them!

Hi Dave, No, have never been to Philadelpia in my life. Did it all by the phone. Still got the correspondence from Irving. We asked for photos on every licence we did (got great one of Fantastic Puzzles) but nothing from Irving. Weird thing is until I read this I never thought about Joe Tarsia being the engineer, but I did meet him in his pomp and had long conversation with him. That was on same trip to New York I met up with Hal Davis who took me out for meal because of interview I did on 21st Century (Tailgate) for Black Echoes, he talked about his 60's recordings/prouductiions with Marc Gordon in LA but as the Frank Wilson copy had not turned up, I did not know he Hal produced "Do I Love You" - the Eddie Foster copies did not say so!!. He MIGHT have said one. Funnyily enough on same trip I met Tom DePerrio, and as we all knew he supplied "Do I Love You" on Soul to Soussan.

I seem to remember the Weinroth family having some kind of paper manufacturing business? Still have the correspondence from Irving Weinroth when dealt with for the Inferno singles. Irving could not find the tape for the instrumental of "I'm Not Strong Enough" and instead sent a tape of a horrible track "The Funky Donkey". Ed Balbier who owned Global; and the Cream label had a go at us and said we had no rights to release The Four Perfections and The Showstoppers. Mr Weinroth sent him the most incredible blistering cease and desist telegram telling him we did have the rights and the Cream deal had expired. We released The Showstoppers "Gotta Get Closer To My Love" for the first time which everyone tells me must be hard to obtain now,, but as it was on flip to "Ain't Nothing But A Houseparty" which sold 7,000, not exactly hard to find I would have thought!

OFFERS INVITED. MINT COPY. STILL IN SHRINK WRAPPING. USA 1979 PHILLY CITY 12" "Loveman" RONNIE STOKES TOUCH YOU AGAIN C/W LONELY BOY imported a clutch of these from the label as new release. they have all long gone so I thought - just found this copy while sorting through 12" stock.

Can someone please advise me what is value these days of UK TAMLA MOTOWN LP STML 11083 THE ARTISTRY OF BRENDA HOLLOWAY Thanks, Nel

Just read this. Very sad news. He was very good company. I spent some time with him years ago ago and he was commenting on the Northern scene and for some reason that escapes me about Simon Soussan's book. . Henry said that he threw away 100's of acetates from Motown. A lot of them were of unreleased tracks. He said that Motown fed him stuff all the time because as well as being their distributor for Florida he "took a chance" and also supplied other States/areas which he was not supposed to ship into. As a result he sold a lot of Motown records and said he was sent acetates all the time. |

NICE CLEAN COPY. THIS WAS THE FIRST (LOCAL NEW ORLEANS) LABEL RELEASE BEFORE IT GOT PICKED UP BY GARRISON. HARD ON ABS HUMPHREY STOMP / CAN YOU FORGIVE EARL HARRISON (ABS 107) £150 IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE E-MAIL ME ON - neil rushton2@btinternet.com ALSO ON BRASILIAN ODEON WITH DEMO STICKER ON LABEL I'M SO GLAD I FOUND YOU - THE O'JAYS £50

Soul On The Rocks - The Isley Brothers

Starpoint Radio have confirmed today they will be broadcasting the Soulvation/Heart Of England Soul Club Easter Sunday Mini All-Nighter live from Midnight until 4am. www.soulvation.biz

OUTTASIGHT DEMOS. ONLY 25 EACH OF THESE RELEASED. YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR INTEREST LIES/SAME - DANA VALERY HUNG UP ON YOUR LOVE / I NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER - THE MONTCLAIRS TON OF DYNAMITE - FRANKIE "Love Man" CROCKER/ FUNKY (8) CORNERS - WILLIE and THE MIGHTY MAGNIFICENTS LOVE FACTORY - ELOISE LAWS/ SLICED TOMATOES - JUST BROTHERS LIMITED EDITION SOLID CENTRE. £15 EACH. ADD POSTAGE AND PACKING £2 IST DISC, EXTRA £1 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL DISC. PLEASE MAKE PAYPAL PAYMENTS TO - neilrushton2@btinternet.com

STRANGE CHANGE - GORGEOUS GEORGE (LOVE INTERNATIONAL) HOMARK 0002 £175 PM ME IF INTERESTED OR E-MAIL - neilrushton2@btinternet.com

Found what I reckon are the last 3 of these. Mint'sealed. The ultimate Willie Tee compilation. £15 each including delivery. SIDE A YOUR LOVE AND MY LOVE TOGETHER TEASIN' 'YOU WALKING UP A ONE WAY STREET THANK YOU JOHN I WANT SOMEBODY (TO SHOW ME THE WAY BACK HOME) YOU BETTER SAY YES PLEASE DON'T GO MY HEART REMEMBERS SIDE B TEASING YOU AGAIN YOU GONNA PAY SOME DUES FOOLISH GIRL I PEEPED YOUR HOLE CARD AIN'T THAT TIME BABY I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN SWIVEL YOUR HIPS 2002 RELEASE ON NIGHT TRAIN INTERNATIONAL/TUFF CITY RECORDS NOW DELETED PLEASE PM TO RESERVE. THANKS, NEIL

I went through a lot of Drew records with the guy who owns the label 2 years ago near Detroit. No Drew sleeves. But as he sold me a "Sugar Ain't Sweet" some years before I was more interested in another copy than some sleeves.

The often overlooked release on Inferno from the Irving Weinroth connection is "Got To Get Closer To My Love" by The Showstoppers which we put out as the b side to "Ain't Nothing But A Houseparty"...it was first worldwide released of GTGCTML and Rick Cooper and Francis Tee were the ones who tipped of us and I think supplied a tape or disc to dub from. Sold over 6,000, which isn't bad for such an obscure record, with sales being down to "Ain't Nothing But A Houseparty". Neil

It seems a bit crazy saying in September get this now for Christmas...BUT We always have a Christmas rush on books, and we only have limited left (not enough for the usual Christmas demand for sure) of HYPE & SOUL - AL ABRAMS (TEMPLE STREET) WITH LIMITED EDITION RE-RELEASE HITSVILLE USA GREETINGS TO TAMLA MOTOWN APPRECIATION SOCIETY SINGLE RATED BY THE LIKES OF JOHN MANSHIP AS THE BEST MOTOWN BOOK EVER PUBLISHED, THIS IS A LOOK AT BERRY GORDY'S SOUL EMPIRE N THE SIXTIES THROUGH THE EYES OF AL ABRAMS,MOTOWN'S LEGENDARY EX DIRECTOR OF PUBLICITY.CONTAINS SOME NCREDIBLE INSIGHTS, LOADS OF NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS, AND WONDERFUL GRAPHICS CREATED BY GLENN GUNTON. WE PUBLISHED THIS AS A LABOUR OF LOVE, AND IT HAS SOLD TO TO MOTOWN FANS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND HAS DONE PRETTY GOOD SO WE ARE NOW DOWN TO THE LAST FEW. PRICE FOR BOOK/RECORD/DELIVERY IS £29.99 PLEASE MAKE PAYMENTS VIA PAYPAL TO - sales@soulvation.biz

What a shame. What a talent. Funnily enough was only playing his production on the Continental Four version of "Heaven Must Have Sent You" the other day. My favourite record he made was LTD "Back In Love Again". RIP to one of the Philly greats.

TWO VERY NICE INDEED BRITISH SINGLES. SHE BLEW A GOOD THING - THE AMERICAN POETS (UK LONDON-AMERICAN ISSUE) £150 EVIL ONE - EVIL ONE - THE SAPPHIRES (UK HMV) £175 PLEASE PM IF INTERESTED. THANKS, NEIL

TWO LOVELY CLEAN COPIES JUST SAY GOODBYE - ESTHER PHILLIPS (UK ATLANTIC DEMO) £200 A LITTLE MORE LOVE - KIM WESTON (UK STATESIDE DEMO) £150 PLEASE PM IF INTERESTED. THANKS ,NEIL

NOW SOLD.. ONE OF THE BEST RECORDS EVER MADE! KEEP ON TALKING / TAKE A GOOD LOOK JAMES BARNETT (FAME FM-9819) RED LABEL ISSUE LOOKS ROUGH BUT PLAYS FINE. KOT LABEL HAS SOME WHITE DOTS AT 2 O CLOCK, 4 O CLOCK, 6 AND 8 O CLOCK BUT ALL VERY SMALL/ MINUTE. DISC HAS SOME SCUF MARKS BUT PLAYS FINE. TAGD SIDE LABEL FINE BUT DISC SCRUFFIER. £150. PLEASE PM ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. THANKS, NEIL

NOW SOLD THANKS Lovely clean copy - label and vinyl. 1969 Parlophone releae 18-4-69 Parlophone R 5773 - Green and White demo - still in company sleeve THIS BEAUTIFUL NIGHT - JIMMY THOMAS £225 -PLEASE PM ME IF INTERESTED. ONE COPY ONLY. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also have one copy - mint/unplayed - of the 1975 remake (which he did PA to at the very first Mancheser Ritz All-Dayer) THIS BEAUTIFUL NIGHT - JIMMY THOMAS UK 20th Century Records not for sale promotional copy/demo 1975 release 27/6/75 £30 - PLEASE PM ME IF INTERESTED. ONE COPY ONLY. MINT/NEVER BEEN NEAR A STYLUS!!. All The Best, Neil

No, MCPS looks after the publishing (song rights) only. They are not set up to distribute royalties for the use of the master reording. That is the obligation of the record label that releases the master. So a SONG COULD be designated copyright control by MCPS, but that does not mean whoever owns the recording master (which may or may not be the artist) which contains the song, will not have been paid an advance against master royalties, or future royalties when that advance is recouped by the label against sales.

LAST FEW OF THESE. TEASIN' YOU - WILLIE TEE (USA NIGHT TRAIN/TUFF CITY) THE DEFINITIVE VINYL COMPILATION OF MR TURBITON. ALL HIS DANCERS. LP'A ARE MINT/STILL SEALED £15 EACH NCLUDES DELIVERY. SIDE A YOUR LOVE AND MY LOVE TOGETHER TEASIN; YOU WALKING UP A ONE WAY STREET THANK YOU JOHN I WANT SOMEBODY (TO SHOW ME THE WAY BACK HOME) YOU BETTER SAY YES PLEASE DON'T GO MY HEART REMEMBERS SIDE B TEASING YOU AGAIN YOU GONNA PAY SOME DUES FOOLISH GIRL I PEEPED YOUR HOLE CARD AIN;T THAT TRUE BABY I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN SWIVEL YOUR HIPS ONLY A FEW LEFT SO PLEASE PM ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. THANKS, NEIL