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If you mean the black guy, he was American and he certainly went to the 100 Club at least once 'cos I talked to him and remember him saying how old fashioned all this 60s soul music sounded to him!

A final bump as there's one last new item - Darrow Fletcher

Bump as there's a new item

A last-minute rarity now on the list plus a few price cuts. NEW ITEM - Jackie Edwards - I Feel so Bad. UK Island. EX. £300. US New item - Darrow Fletcher - What Have I Got Now - Jacklyn - EX £70 Roy Roberts Got to have all your love. Bo-Ro. VG. A bit crackly and has label wear but otherwise fine. £60 SOLD Bobby Miller Whoa (she's all mine). Yellow Constellation. VG £40 Roy Brown. Baby it's love. Gert. VG. Worn appearance but plays very well. Label ring wear. £40 Jackie Lee Temptation Walk/Shotgun and the duck. Mirwood W/D (with red 'A'). EX £30 Jackie Day Before it's too late. Modern. EX £20 Royal Five. Say it to my face. Tyler. VG (bit crackly but plays fine otherwise and yes it's an original) £50 UK Isley Bros Take some time out for love. Tamla Motown red/white demo. N/C EX £20 SOLD Velvettes Needle in a hatstack. Tamla Motown. EX £20 Stevie Wonder Hey harmonica man. Stateside. EX £20 Frank Wilson Do I love you Tamla Motown (this is the 'RCA' 80s issue) EX - £20 Robert Parker Barefootin'/Let's go baby - Island. EX £20 Impressions Woman's got soul - HMV red/white demo. M £40 Brenda Holloway When I'm gone Tamla Motown. EX £60 Dean Parrish Tell her Stateside EX £30 Miracles Shop around London EX £20 Marvelettes I'll keep holding on Tamla Motown EX - £60 Etta James and Sugar Pie Desanto Do I make myself clear. Chess. EX £30 RB Greaves Take a letter Maria Red Atlantic tri-centre. EX £20 Tommy Neal Going to a happening. Vocalion. EX £20 SOLD P&P free in the UK although you'll have to pay if you want insurance or parcel tracking etc. Cheques, cash or PayPal all fine

You would need a fairly strictly defined DJ policy if you wanted a purely 'Black American Soul Music only' night, surely. And even then - what is soul? You could argue that Motown is Black pop music for instance, and not strictly speaking Soul Music. In my experience if you are purely concerned with hearing Black American music pre-70s and nothing else, you would be much better off going to an R'n'B event. Mmmm?

James Carr, OV Wright and Garnet Mimms were all far more soulful male singers than JB to me. I assume this nickname appeared after the release of the film The Godfather when Brown had a habit of giving himself increasingly ludicrous nicknames...like: Soul Brother Number One, Sex Machine, Mr. Dynamite, The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, The King of Funk, Minister of The New New Super Heavy Funk, Mr. Please Please Please Please Her and The Godfather of Soul.

It was also speeded-up somewhat to suit the dance floor. Tempests wasn't 'previously unreleased' BTW, just available on an LP only.

I recall that it was a term that used to annoy quite a few folk (Morecambe attendees rather than the more avant-garde Stafford I suspect). 'Newies! What the f*** does that mean?' or 'You can't dance to half of them' were the usual criticisms.

'You think I'm just an ignorant old coloured woman!' https://www.sparehed.com/2008/05/16/hunting-for-old-records/

Where would you start? Mid-60s Motown to represent the rise in popularity in soul in the UK? The first big import tune representing the start of the rare soul scene? First tune played at Wigan? I would think 'Out on the Floor' or 'That Beating Rhythm' would be the best intro record since they both sum up the scene to a T.

Have been told that there is a jump-blues band performing at the Jamhouse in Queen Street that night as part of the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival. Here's the website link: https://www.edinburghjazzfestival.co.uk/

Get them to cancel it until Basics on the 15th! (Davie, no charge for this promotional work BTW ) There is a jazz bar in Chambers Street but that's as near as you'll get to anything resembling RnB that Friday I'm afraid.

Mention should also be made in this thread of Scott Joplin whose 'ragtime' music was probably the first example of a black musician's work crossing over to a mass white audience (and getting ripped off royally into the bargain).

Surely it'll have to be 'Washed Ashore' by the Platters???

Ahemmmm

A rockabilly Shorty Long and an RnB Shorty Long... Cue lengthy argument about the differences (or lack of) between Rock n roll, RnB, Rockabilly and Blues!

Anything by Bobby 'blue-screen' Bland...

Slightly off topic...I've had three visually immaculate copies of this over the last 20-odd years and they all 'hiss' badly. Am i just unlucky or are they all like this?

Having just listened to it two minutes ago, I've decided it's 'Who you gonna love' by The Accents. Mind you, before that it was 'Look Away' by Garnet Mimms which has a sublime latin-style horn section. What'll it be in the next five minutes? (If my boss catches me with headphones on, the sack probably)

Yup - and if it wasn't for the rare soul/northern soul crowd's obsession with the 'real deal', do you think there would be any kind of scene at all in 2009? Or that there would be this website and this forum to discuss the matter? Rare original vinyl is the fuel that drives it all on...

Must be a strong contender for the top: "Tell her to keep that love, man, if that what she call it she gonna mess around and make you an alcoholic - sorry about that!"

Didn't members of the Motown Funk Brothers work on certain Chess sessions - much to the anger of Berry Gordy?

But, Davie - what if they've got a degree from: https://www.musiceverything.com/djskills_crash.html

By coincidence, I paid £150 for a mint white demo about six months ago - it wasn't yours though, Pete! Its rarity didn't make me think twice about paying that amount.

He recorded material at American Sound Studios in Memphis with Chips Moman (who was associated with Stax) but at Stax itself??