Uk Northern Soul Re-issues (originally posted in 1997)

UK Northern Soul reissues Re-release Labels by Pete smith First on Soul Source in 1997

UK Northern Soul reissues 45 RE-RELEASES Black Magic, Casino Classics, Charley, Contempo, Contempo-raries, Cream, Destiny, Grapevine, Inferno, Kent, Spark

Vinyl UK 45s re-released list, originally this was going to be a full (work in progress ) list of EVERY UK 45 with a northern connection released , which would have been.........Well amazing, but as the guy who made it Pete Smith, is in process of writing a book on the very subject, it wouldn't be right to publish it online as his hard work could be copied by anyone and anywhere , make sense ?? Course it does.

Heres a listing of the various Northern 45 re-releases, sorted by label.

BLACK MAGIC

Contoversial mid-70's label run by Selectadisc of Nottingham, purveyors of top quality legal and illegal pressings throughout the 70's. Black Magic arrived at a time when Northern Soul was just about to explode, and it broke into the charts via it's Sharonettes releases, which, although tailor-mades, were accepted by the scene in the same way that it accepted The Tamangoes and Morris Chestnut. Of course, if you were to spin these at a soul event today there would probably be a riot but in 1975 the Black Magic was derigeur. Although responsible for issuing one or two goodies such as Jimmy Soul Clark and Dobie Gray, the majority of the labels' product were Simon Soussan produced no-hopers and by 1976, Black Magic had disappeared from whence it came.

The label was, er, black, with a white 'cityscape' design. Demos had 'demo copy not for sale' printed in silver.

BLACK MAGIC BM 101 BOB RELF Blowing my mind to pieces/Same (by Paula Roussell)

BLACK MAGIC 102 SHARONETTES Papa ooh mow mow/instrumental

BLACK MAGIC 103 FATHERS ANGELS Bok to Bach/Disco trucking

BLACK MAGIC 104 SHARONETTES Going to a go go/instrumental

BLACK MAGIC 105 LORRAINE CHANDLER Love you baby/What can I do

BLACK MAGIC 106 SOUL FOX ORCHESTRA Thumb a ride/Ain't no soul

BLACK MAGIC 107 DOBIE GRAY Out on the floor/Be a man

BLACK MAGIC 108 CHANTELLES Run away/instrumental

BLACK MAGIC 109 CREATION I get the fever/Promised land (by Cheyanne)

BLACK MAGIC 110 CHANTELLES Sugar dumpling/Sugar Dumpling (by Gary Jackson)

BLACK MAGIC 111 BUTCH BAKER The joker/Jucie Brucie

BLACK MAGIC 112 CHERRY PEOPLE And suddenly/Imagination

BLACK MAGIC 113 SHARONETTES Broken hearted melody/instrumental

BLACK MAGIC 114 FUNKEES Abraka/Ole

BLACK MAGIC 115 JIMMY SOUL CLARK Sweet darlin'/instrumental

BLACK MAGIC 116 JILL BABY LOVE My way or hit the highway/instrumental

CASINO CLASSICS

The trades description people should have been bought in to investigate this label. Classics? Don't make me laugh. This label was a joke, and Russ Winstanley's constant spinning of it's releases at the Casino almost certainly contributed to falling attendances. No complaints about the first three releases, but after those it was downhill all the way, the nadir coming with the unspeakable 'Wigan Joker' which was by Russ himself and some session men. Don't get me wrong, in the peak Wigan days Russ's spot was always a great start to the night, but looking back on things now perhaps he would have done things differently. When you've got a record label at your disposal and you can put out basically whatever you want, surely you can find better material than the Joe 90 Theme (which wasn't even the original!)

There are various coloured vinyl releases of the Casino Classics singles and a few 12" promos, but who cares? Let's just try to forget about this permanent stain on Northern Soul's character shall we?

CASINO CLASSICS CC 1 FLIRTATIONS Little darlin'/I'll do anything (by Lenny Gamble)

CASINO CLASSICS 2 LORRAINE SILVER Lost summer love/I'll know that you'll be there

CASINO CLASSICS 3 GERRI GRANGER I go to pieces/Panic (by Reparata)/Shake a tail feather(by J & B Purify)

CASINO CLASSICS 4 FAMILY AFFAIR Love hustle/You baby (by Jackie Trent)/Send her away(by Jackie Trent)

CASINO CLASSICS 5 RON GRAINER ORCHESTRA Joe Ninety Theme/A touch of velvet a sting of brass

CASINO CLASSICS 6 ALNIGHT BAND The Wigan Joker/Six by six

CASINO CLASSICS 7 DIANA FOSTER I'm gonna share it with you/Time out (by Autumn)

CASINO CLASSICS 8 NICKY WILSON Stone soul loving/Cry like a child

CASINO CLASSICS 9 J.J. BARNES How long/I can't seem to hold you (by Alnight band)

CASINO CLASSICS 10

CASINO CLASSICS 11 TOMMY HUNT Loving on the losing side/Love is getting stronger (by Jason Knight)

CASINO CLASSICS 12 PLAYTHINGS Surrounded by a ray of sunshine/Love feeling (by Val McKenna)

CHARLY

Much respected reissue label which has been in business since around 1974. You'll find several Northern items in their back catalogue, but not many on singles.

Alvin Robinson's Down Home Girl originally appeared here on Red Bird and was a 60's club favourite. Sid Barnes was a big early 70's favourite.

Charly also issued an interesting series of soul EP's, complete with picture sleeves, featuring the likes of Bettys' Lavette, Everett and Harris, Jimmy Hughes, Lee Dorsey etc. None of these are particularly sought after but all feature established 60's classics.

The label was unique in it's design; one side is orange with details of both A and B sides, while the B side is a full size characature drawing with no information whatsoever.

CHARLY CYS 1002 ALVIN ROBINSON Down home girl/Let the good times roll

CHARLY 1007 SIDNEY BARNES I hurt on the other side/Good lovin' (by The Robins)

CHARLY CDT 102 BETTY HARRIS Ride your pony/Nearer to you/Trouble with my lover

CHARLY 103 JIMMY HUGHES Neighbour neighbour/A shot of rhythm & blues/Try me

CHARLY 104 BETTY EVERETT You're no good/Getting mighty crowded/It's in his kiss

CONTEMPO C 20 JOHNNY WILLIAMS Just a little misunderstanding/Your love controls my mind

CONTEMPO CS 2003 ARMADA ORCHESTRA Do me right/Won't you consider

CONTEMPO CS 2013 MELVIN BLISS Reward/Synthetic substitution

CONTEMPO CS 2024 ARMADA ORCHESTRA It's the same old song/To Chigago with love

CONTEMPO CS 2036 MONTCLAIRS Hung up on your love/I need you more than ever

CONTEMPO CS 2048 J.J. BARNES Sweet Sherry/Chains of love

CONTEMPO CS 2051 ARMADA ORCHESTRA Cochise/Sunrise on the armada

CONTEMPO CS 2060 ERNIE BUSH Breakaway/instrumental

CONTEMPO CS 2061 RITA DACOSTA Don't bring me down/No no no

CONTEMPO CS 2062 BARBARA JEAN ENGLISH I'm livin' a lie/Key in the mail box

CONTEMPO CS 2063 J.J. BARNES Baby please come back home/Cloudy days

CONTEMPO CS 2076 THIRD TIME AROUND Soon everything is going to be alright/instrumental

CONTEMPO CS 2079 TAMIKO JONES I'm spellbound/TJ's magic

CONTEMPO CS 2080 JUGGY JONES Inside America/Part 2

CONTEMPO CS 2082 BOOGIE MAN ORCHESTRA Lady lady lady/Vocal version

CONTEMPO CS 2123 J.J. BARNES How long/I'm the one who loves you

CONTEMPO RARIES 9001 JIMMY CONWELL Cigarette ashes/Second hand happiness

CONTEMPO RARIES 9008 INCREDIBLES There is nothing else to say/Another dirty deal

CONTEMPO RARIES 9009 AARON NEVILLE Why worry/Tell it like it is

CONTEMPO RARIES 9010 ROBERT PARKER I caught you in a lie/Barefootin'

CONTEMPO RARIES 9015 MAJOR LANCE The right track/Ain't no soul

CONTEMPO RARiES 9017 JACKIE LEE The duck/Part 2

CONTEMPO RARIES 9019 BETTYE SWANN Make me yours/I will not cry

CONTEMPO RARIES 9023 OLYMPICS Baby do the philly dog/Secret agents

CONTEMPO RARIES 9026 TAMY LYNN I'm gonna run away from you/The boy next door

CONTEMPO RARIES 9027 BELLES Don't pretend/Words con't explain

CONTEMPO RARIES 9029 AD LIBS Johnny my boy/The boy from New York city

CONTEMPO RARIES 9030 CAPITOLS Cool jerk/Ain't that terrible

CONTEMPO RARIES 9031 DEON JACKSON Love makes the world go round/I can't go on

CONTEMPO RARIES 9035 JACKIE LEE The shotgun and the duck/Do the temptation walk

CONTEMPO RARIES 9039 MIRETTES He's alright with me/Your kind ain't no good

CONTEMPO RARIES 9040 RICHARD TEMPLE That beatin' rhythm/Could it be

CONTEMPO RARIES 9041 JIMMY THOMAS Where there's a will/Just tryin' to please you

CREAM

An out-and-out Northern Soul label owned by Global Records of Manchester. It ran for two years (1976-77) and was most notable for the release of James Fountain's Seven Day Lover, a very controversial record back then. It had the distinction of being the most expensive Northern Soul record ever when a dealer/collector bought it for £150 on it's original Peachtree label. A month later, it was out on Cream for 50p. This happened a lot in the 70's!

Eddie Carlton and The Jaywalkers came from the US Swan label (as did two singles released a couple of years previously by Global, The Spy by Guys From Uncle and Never Too Young by The Modern Redcaps, both issued on a lookalike UK Swan label). Note the previously unreleased instrumental version of Sheila Ferguson's Heartbroken Memories on the flip of The Jaywalkers single. I don't think the vocal had yet been discovered at that time

The Johnny Jones single was issued simultaneously by both Cream and Brunswick, with Cream being forced to withdraw their version as Brunswick were the true copyright holders.

Finally, The Four Perfections classic I'm Not Strong Enough featured a previously unreleased instrumental version on it's B side.

CREAM CRM 5001 EDDIE CARLTON It will be done/instrumental

CREAM 5002 JAMES FOUNTAIN Seven day lover/Maluntrition

CREAM 5003 JAYWALKERS Can't live without you/Heart broken memories inst.

CREAM 5004 JOHNNY JONES & KING CASUALS Purple haze/Horsing around

CREAM 5005 SHOWSTOPPERS Ain't nothing but a house party/What can a man do

CREAM 5006 FOUR PERFECTIONS I'm not strong enough/instrumental

DESTINY

Nottingham-based independent label with a Jeckyll and Hyde nature. When it was good, it was brilliant, but when it released recordings of well known Northern sounds performed by anonymous session musicians, well, then it was as bad as Casino Classics.

If you ignore the Miss Dee Dees, the Chico Revills and the John Drevars (it wasn't even John Drevar on the record!), then you're left with a handful of the best sounds from the late 70's, most notably the magnificent Rita & The Tiaras - Gone With The Wind Is My Love, The Delites storming Lover (also released simultaneously on Grapevine) and Tamala Lewis' wonderful Detroit floorshaker You Won't Say Nothing.

The label was pale blue, with demos being red and white. Many issues were demos with issue labels pasted on top! The man behind the label was Goldmine/Soul Supply's Kev Roberts, who may well have been the vocalist on a few of these releases going by the sound of them!

DESTINY DS 1001 DOBIE GRAY Out on the floor/Be a man

DESTINY 1002 RITA & THE TIARAS Gone with the wind (is my love)/Wild times

DESTINY 1004 JAMES COIT Black Power/Philadrine

DESTINY 1005 CREATION I get the fever/Cheyanne

DESTINY 1006 MISS DEE DEE On a magic carpet ride/At the disco

DESTINY 1007 DESTINY ORCHESTRA Spring rain/Sugar dumpling (by The Chantelles)

DESTINY 1008 CONNIE LAVERNE A house for sale/Run away (by The Chantelles)

DESTINY 1009 GENERAL ASSEMBLY Sensitive mind/Lovin' time

DESTINY 1010 TAMALA LEWIS You won't say nothing/If you can stand me

DESTINY 1011 JOHN LEACH Put that woman down/Love don't turn your back on me

DESTINY 1013 CAROL KAY Stop and you'll become aware/Messin' me around

DESTINY 1015 CHICO REVILL This beautiful day/You're reading down (by Little Helen)

DESTINY 1017 JOHN DREVARS The closer she gets/The snapper (by Montons)

DESTINY 1022 DE-LITES Lover/Do the Zombie

DESTINY 1026 E.J.CHANDLER I can't stand to lose you/Believe in me

This info on Grapevine is also on UK Northern with more info and details see soul links for address

GRAPEVINE GRP 100 RICHARD `POPCORN' WYLIE Rosemary what happened/instrumental

GRAPEVINE 101 SOUL TWINS Quick change artist/Give the man a chance

GRAPEVINE 102 STANLEY WOODRUFF What took you so long/Now is forever

GRAPEVINE 103 MILTON WRIGHT I belong to you/The gallop

GRAPEVINE 104 FLAMING EMERALDS Have some everybody/instrumental

GRAPEVINE 105 KEANYA COLLINS Barnabus Collins-Love bandit/I call you daddy

GRAPEVINE 106 JUDY STREET What/You turn me on

GRAPEVINE 107 LOVELITES Get it off my conscience/Oh what a day

GRAPEVINE 108 RONNIE LOVE Let's make love/Nothing to it

GRAPEVINE 109 SMITH BROTHERS There can be better way/Pay back's a drag

GRAPEVINE 110 HAPPY CATS These boots are made for walkin'/Destroy that boy

GRAPEVINE 111 RAY GODFREY Come and get these memories/I'm the other half of you

GRAPEVINE 112 DEL CAPRIS Hey little way out girl/Beggars can't be choosy (By Eula Cooper)

GRAPEVINE 113 CAPREEZ How to make a sad man glad/It's good to be home again

GRAPEVINE 114 ELLINGTONS I'm not destined to become a loser/You've got love your baby (Millionaires)

GRAPEVINE 115 TONY MIDDLETON Paris blues/Out of this world

GRAPEVINE 116 SAM WILLIAMS Love slipped through my fingers/You don't mean it (by Towanda Barnes)

GRAPEVINE 117 JAMES BYNUM Time passes by/Love you

GRAPEVINE 118 JIMMY BURNS I really love you/I love you girl

GRAPEVINE 119 EDDIE PARKER Love you baby/instrumental

GRAPEVINE 120 LARRY CLINTON She's wanted in three states/If I knew

GRAPEVINE 121 CODY MICHAELS 7 days - 52 weeks a year/Don't look back (by Virtue Orchestra)

GRAPEVINE 122 TAMANGOES I really love you/You've been gone son long (withdrawn)

GRAPEVINE 123 FLAME `N' KING Ho happy day/Ain't nobody jivin'

GRAPEVINE 124 BOBBY WELLS Be's that way sometimes/Recipe for love

GRAPEVINE 125 BETTY BO Say it isn't so/instrumental

GRAPEVINE 126 THRILLS Show the world where it's at /What can go wrong

GRAPEVINE 127 DE-LITES Lover/Teel me why

GRAPEVINE 128 MORRIS CHESTNUT Too darn soulful/You don't love me any more

GRAPEVINE 129 PRECISIONS Such misery/A lover's plea

GRAPEVINE 130 SEVENTH WONDER Captain of my ship/Pharaoh

GRAPEVINE 131 SOUL GENERATION Hold on/The lonely sea

GRAPEVINE 132 SAM & KITTY I've got something good/Love is the greatest

GRAPEVINE 133 CAROL ANDERSON Sad girl/I'll get off at the next stop

GRAPEVINE 134 EDWARD HAMILTON & ARABIANS Baby dont you weep/I'm gonna love you

GRAPEVINE 135 LAURA GREENE Can't help loving that man/It's a good day for a parade

GRAPEVINE 136 AL WILLIAMS I am nothing/Brand new love

GRAPEVINE 137 RONNIE & ROBYN As long as you love me/Sidra's theme (unissued)

GRAPEVINE 138 LESTER TIPTON This won't change/How (by The Masqueraders)

GRAPEVINE 139 BILLY HAMBRIC She said goodbye/I found true love

GRAPEVINE 140 BLACK NASTY Cut you motor off/Keep on stepping

GRAPEVINE 141 DENA BARNES If you ever walk out of my life/Who am I

GRAPEVINE 142 AGENTS Trouble/The love I hold

GRAPEVINE 143 NABAY Believe it or not/instrumental

GRAPEVINE 144 NEW WANDERERS This man in love/Adam and Eve

GRAPEVINE 145 DUKE BROWNER Crying over you/instrumental

GRAPEVINE 146 ANTHONY RAYE Give me one more chance/Hold on to what you got

GRAPEVINE RED 1 BRIMSTONE INGRAM What happened to the songs/instrumental

GRAPEVINE RED 3 LEO'S SUNSHIPP Give me the sunshine/I'm back for more

INFERNO

Walsall based independent owned by Neil Rushton. Inferno started up in 1978 in fine style with a big in-demander from The Ad Libs. Ral Donner was also popular at the time (why?) as was Phil Coulter and the classic Frankie & Johnny, but the rest of the releases were oldies plus a couple of tailor mades. By this time, every man and his dog had already got a copy of Tainted Love and nobody wanted the likes of The Jelly Beans and The Crow first time round on the Right On label in 1975. In the end, Inferno seems to have been catering to what used to be known as "divs", and it isn't really held in very high esteem by collectors. However, if you scratch under the surface you'll find some of the greatest records ever made/played; Little Ritchie, Sandy Wynns and Ann Sexton spring to mind.

The label was green with a logo featuring an erupting thermometer! Early issues were in picture sleeves and on coloured vinyl. Later releases were on a white label with the same logo. The label ran for around two years and also released a compilation album featuring some of it's singles entitled Out On The Floor Tonight.

INFERNO HEAT 1 AD LIBS New York in the dark/The boy from New York City

INFERNO 2 JOHNNY BRAGG They're talking about me/Is it true

INFERNO 3 RAL DONNER Don't let it slip away/Wait a minute now

INFERNO 4 FRANK BEVERLY If that's what you wanted/Love (your pain goes deep)

INFERNO 5 PHIL COULTER ORCHESTRA A good thing going/Runaway bunion

INFERNO 6 GLORIA JONES Tainted love/The touch of Venus (by Sandy Wynns)

INFERNO 7 J.J. BARNES Competition ain't nothing/Instrumental

INFERNO 8 FRANKIE & JOHNNY I'll hold you/(I'm) never gonna leave you

INFERNO 9 FATHERS ANGELS Bok to Bach/Don't knock it

INFERNO 10 NEWBEATS Run baby run/Crying my heart out/Too sweet to be forgotten

INFERNO 11 FOUR PERFECTIONS I'm not strong enough/Instrumental

INFERNO 12 SHOWSTOPPERS Ain't nothing but a houseparty/Gotta get closer to my love

INFERNO 13 CROW Your autumn of tomorrow/Uncle funk

INFERNO 14 JELLYBEANS You don't mean me no good/Come back (by Fantastic Puzzles)

INFERNO 15 JUST BROTHERS Sliced tomatoes/Love factory (by Eloise Laws)

INFERNO 16 CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD Give me just a little more time/Everything's Tuesday/You've got me...

INFERNO 17 FREDA PAYNE Band of gold/Version 2

INFERNO 18 FURYS I'm satisfied with you/Instrumental

INFERNO 20 ANN SEXTON You've been gone too long/Just another heartache (by Little Ritchie)

INFERNO 21 VALENTINES Breakaway/unknown

INFERNO 22 GIL SCOTT-HERON The bottle/The bottle (version 2)

INFERNO 25 GLORIA JONES Come go with me/Finders keepers/Heart beat part 1 & 2

INFERNO 26 MR FLOODS PARTY Compared to waht/Unbreakable toy

INFERNO 27 DON THOMAS Come on train/instrumental

KENT

It could be said that the early Kent compilation 'Floorshakers', was singlehandedly responsible for reawakening the interest in Northern Soul in the early 80's. People who had left the scene in disgust at around the time of the Mod revival and Casino Classics could now step back and take a long hard look at what was going on, and re-evaluate the music. I know I did.

The Kent singles listing has been surprisingly difficult to compile as unlike many of the great 60's labels, Kent doesn't seem to have been 'discographied' anywhere. There are some excellent tracks hidden away on the Kent singles including the must-have's from The Ivorys and Jack Montgomery.

Kent 104 was withdrawn after it was discovered that the artist was not Candy & The Kisses but Val Simpson. However, there are a lot of copies about.

The label was red, white and black. The earlier 500 series was yellow and black. If my memory is correct, there are demos of all the Kent singles in the form of issues with 'demonstration copy - not for sale' on the label. Demos of the 500 series have a large A on the label.

KENT TOWN 501 MARY LOVE You turn my bitter into sweet/This couldn't be me (by The Sweethearts)

KENT 502 HUEY PIANO SMITH Don't you just know it/Lay my burden down (by Mary Love)/Baby without you (by Danny Monday)

KENT 102 JACK MONTGOMERY Dearly beloved/That's no way to treat a girl (by Marie Knight)

KENT 103 IVORYS Please stay/Work song (by Tommy Hunt)

KENT 104 CANDY & THE KISSES Mr. Creator/Hand it over (by Chuck Jackson) (Wfthdrawn)

KENT 105 LITTLE CARL CARLTON Competition ain't nothin'/???????????

KENT 106 JOHNNY CASWELL You don't love me anymore/You've been leading me on (by Steinways)

SPARK 1005 A VAL MCKENNA I'll be satisfied/House for sale

SPARK 1022 A GENE LATTER Sign on the dotted line/I love you

SPARK 1023 A VAL McKENNA It's all in my imagination/Sweet sweet lovin'

SPARK 1034 A SKATALITES Cos you're the one I love

SPARK 1 036 A JIMMY THOMAS No trouble

SPARK 1038 A VAL McKENNA Love feeling/It's all in my imagination

SPARK 1040 A JIMMY THOMAS You don't have to say goodbye

SPARK 1054 A SUSAN MAUGHAN I'm gonna get that guy

SPARK 1072 A HONEYEND Heartbreaker

SPARK1149 A LINDA & the FUNKY BOYS Climbing the steps of love