Amsterdam Russ

Unlike Billboard who have made their archive available to the public, NME and Melody Maker want to turn a profit from theirs. This might be of some limited use... https://www.rocksbackpages.com/library.html

Not quite - look to Berry Gordy first. It was he who had the tiff with the Jobettes!

Chris Calloway/Something else... easy beat, smooth rocker loaded with teen commercialism. Sounds rather different to how it would be described today - that's if anyone could agree on the terms and genres that could be used!

That's why I specifically mentioned that tiffs were used by those "who require higher resolution images in a non-compressed format"!

Still used extensively by photographers and many others who require higher resolution images in a non-compressed format.

Following on from Virgil Henry on Colossus, you can't go wrong with this marvellous mid-tempo cheapie from the Festivals! Brilliant!

Looking for a good, clean copy of this excellent double-sided cheapie Over you/Every day by Aaron Neville on Minit. Ex condition both sides including labels, please. Let me know by PM! Bet you thought it was going to be Hercules!

Yes, saw that one. Thanks for pointing it out. Picked one up from here and saved myself a couple of quid. Now sorted (2nd time lucky!)

Here's another one... Claude Francois does Franki Valli/Timebox, only the song here is called "Reste"... https://youtu.be/uXNjR4dJ0MA

Now you come to mention it, I remember the thread. In fact, I'm certain that's what started me off looking for some of these tracks on 45s. Thanks!

Dunno, but apparently the lyrics were written by Christie herself. You could always ask her... www.christielaume.com

Another one I have a copy of - mentioned it in my list earlier. Not bad - except for where the singer screeches like a fire alarm! Aha - found it on YouTube....

Nothing worse than getting someone's name wrong in print. I hope the copy proofer had their wrists slapped good and hard!

Thought I'd got myself a copy of this, but someone sent me "You're gonna miss me" instead!!! So, still looking for a copy of "Every now and then". Thanks

Got a copy of that one not too long ago. Easy enough to find as well. Quite a few duplicates on that from the earlier list, so shouldn't take too long to flick through online. I can imagine a lot of these tunes working really well at a 60s/freakbeat nights. Nancy Holloway is another artist worth looking out for - soulful 60s vocals in a French style.

Well, courtesy of YouTube and that excellent website Ready Steady Girls, I've listened to all the tracks in the first list. Of that lot, I liked just eight! Two of note: * Charlotte Leslie - Les Filles c'est fait pour is a take on The Capitols We got a thing that's in the groove * Petula Clark - Donne-moi des fleurs is her own song Gotta tell the world but with French lyrics. The title translates as "Give me the flowers", so I guess that the French version has different words all together rather than being a translation from the English. I was hoping for more stuff along the lines of the clip above and below. On to the second list... https://youtu.be/MNUNcdVxYSU

There's going to be a lot of crap in that lot (I know, I've found some of it already), so what I'll do is go through the list bit by bit and listen to a few seconds on YouTube or iTunes where possible. That way I can sort out the dross from the interesting. Any that I really like I'll then look to find on 45. I appreciate the offer though. Thanks a lot.

Thanks, Pete. That'll keep me busy on YouTube for a while.

Were they compiled on a CD release or did they come from various sources? I'd certainly like to know what else is out there.

Was having a discussion about French language soul songs on Saturday at the Amsterdam Soul Club. A couple of us 'over here' have taken a bit of an interest in them recently. It seems to have been common practice in France to record popular American releases, make the backing track sound very like the original, but for the actual song to be completely different. For example, I have versions of... Monkey Time The Snake Rescue Me Same old song Beggin' Gimme some lovin' Comin' home baby ...and not one of them is a French language cover version. However, just to confuse things, labels and picture sleeves often give the original American song title in brackets. Funnily, I played the French 'version' of 'Comin' home baby' at a night not so long ago and it went down a treat with everybody except one young skinhead who came up to the decks and insisted that I was playing Mel Torme at the wrong speed!

You should drop into the 'Member's Shouts and Intro's' forum and do exactly that - introduce yourself I'm sure people here would love to know more about you and to hear some of your experiences of being a musician working with the likes of Jimmy Delphs - that's if you wanted to share! One thing you cannot share: mp3s. And I'm sure a moderator will come along shortly and remove the file you've added. No matter, Soundcloud is one means of sharing files here: https://soundcloud.com Best wishes, Russell

I picked up a Jimmy Delphs LP on acetate a couple of years back. It was cut in the mid 60s, so I was really rather excited to get it. Imagine my disappointment when playing it for the first time and listening to a (I'm guessing, white) cocktail lounge pianist doing an album of easy listening jazz standards!!

Sven, I have a YouTube channel made up of soundfiles/vids of 45s and get a lot of pleasure out of it. It's been running for almost exactly two years, in which time I've had over 130,000 views. In that time, I've never yet had any trouble from YouTube about copyright issues. Yes, a number of tracks have been identified by YouTube as belonging to others (nearly always the previously mentioned Orchard Group), but it hasn't resulted in any of my videos being removed. Instead, some of them have ads at the beginning and I presume that the company claiming rights ownership receive a small amount of money each time the ad is shown. I suggest you give it a try - upload one or two vids and see what reaction you get.

For me it has to be The Neville Brothers - Shepherd's Bush Empire, 1995. A band of outstandingly brilliant musicians and fronted by the one and only Aaron Neville - superb!

"Here's one to sort the men from the boys" is how Keb Darge often introduced at the 100 Club!