JOE TORQUAY Posted April 4, 2012 Posted April 4, 2012 DEBONAIRS Please Come Back Baby C/w Untrue Baby RARE Texas vocal-group excellence. Top-drawer male vocal group harmony woven into a primitive brass propelled production that compliments the rasping lead vocal and the squawking girl group back-up. In the true tradition of pure Northern Soul there is not a commercial note in the whole session. Attitude driven lead, unhinged ladies softened by a masterly male bass vocal adding an occasional but impressive word or two. Flip it for a sublime group-harmony soulful ballad. Truly fabulous in it's primitiveness, RARE in the extreme and this copy is in impeccable flaw free Condition. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 555.00 Bobby Thurston Sweetest Slice Of The Pie Is this 1978 Washington, D. C. indie just the very greatest 70s dance SOULalbum ever made? A click of the soundfile will unleash "Just Ask Me" + "Treat Me The Same Way" - Soul-Boy-Life does not get any better than these tracks booming at'cha; that's only two of the 9 wonderful tracks this album holds. For an independent production the quality of work is truly miraculous crafting to the nth degree. Ticking every box of the Rare-Soul-Fans taste-wish-list. Whilst you're enjoying the recording, please note this copy still retains most-all of it's original shrink wrap, even sports the little plastic pocket on the back cover. It's a beautiful example of yes - IMHO the finest indie 70s Soul LPeven produced. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 257.00 Four Sights Love Is A Hurting Game - That I Can't Win C/w The Dreamer The Temptations could well have been te inspiration behind this Miles Grayson 1967 Los Angeles rarity. As the lead "Ruffinesque" voice leads the way on the rasping vocal-group Northern Soul rarity. Seldom seen for sale after it's initial discovery circa 1977, other than that handful I know of no other time this 45 have been unearthed in this near perfect condition. Validated in it's extreme rarity, it's quality underlined by a flipside nearly every note as good. This Jerry Flannagan project resisted opportunity for a smooth vocal group experience, to serve up a racking, grinding dancer of the purest kind. So far this 45 has only enjoyed brief flirtations with late Wigan Casino &Stafford's Top Of The World. Today a revival spin or two, and the current underground demand could explode into something far, far bigger. In 2012 rare vocal group records of this quality in this sublime condition are worth more than their weight in gold! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 443.00 Bobby Taylor And The Vancouvers Does Your Mama Know About Me C/w Fading Away Previously called Four Niggers & A Chink, Bobby wisely renamed his group for this impressive Motown Debut. This 1968 release is certainly one of the most elusive British TMG 600 series 45s as a stock copy! As a DEMO it is ridiculously tough to capture. Late 70s video fans will remember the hilarious Cheech & Gongs - Up In Smoke - has the haphazard couple made a mess from everything they attempted. So it's hard to believe that 10 years earlier Tommy Gong was co-writing this most-beautiful of Motown songs as The Vancouver's aid Bobby Taylor with their Temptations inspired recordings. Both sides are top-drawer male vocal-group harmony statements, with "Does Your Mama.." achieving cult-status years after it's failed UK launch. This example the condition could hardly be finer - listen to the double sound file of precise Motown soul. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 120.00
JOE TORQUAY Posted April 4, 2012 Author Posted April 4, 2012 Gwen Owens I Lost A Good Thing C/w I'll Be Crying Just the word VELGO sends chills through the NS vinyl-addicts veins. Oh to own all THREE releases and join the very exclusive VELGO OWNERSclub to which only a handful of collectors on the planet, can fill in the application form. Before you today,is not only a VELGO but also a very rare variation. Check out the scan, this is an incredibly rare Columbia Plant ZTSC pressing. Click the soundfile, you will be wondering why this slab of devastating Detroit has lived in the shadows of "Just Say You're Wanted (and Needed)" for this too, is killer Northern Soul in it's own right. Heart-stopping vocal, soaring girl group backing and instrumental breaks that not only rival but over-take Gwen's other iconic 45. If that wasn't enough the flipside "I'll Be Crying" drops a pace but also delivers BIG. Soothing girl-group chorus dominates the recording until Gwen stretches her young-girl vocal chords riding the bongo rhythm, escalates the session into one of the finest girl-vocal experiences I've heard in quite some time. So why has such a breath-taking Double-Detroit-Delight lived in the shadows of...? I wonder.. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 214.00 Al Gardner Sweet Baby C/w I Can't Stand It The "Love You Baby" guitar opens proceedings, tantalizing piano stroking crashes head-on into Al's snarling vocal. Boy is this man on a mission to proclaim the qualities of his lady, and he's gonna be heard. As the choir of ascending girls hang like Angels over angry guitar work and perfectly aimed horns, Mr. Gardner's rasping impacts to establish control. It is productions like this that underline the much-argued fact that Motown came a poor second to many Motor City street-level productions. Especially when the B-side gives up a ballad that Motown would never have wanted to release - this is killer proper-Soul in every respect - Jack Ashford and team, you were Soul-geniuses personified. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 505.00 Jimmy Burns Give Her Love C/w Powerful Love From the man who created all those wonderful vocal-group excellence from The Daylighters. Comes another brilliant Chicago Northern Soul offering as Charles Colbert guides Northern Soul icon through two totally contrasting sides. Top side is a precise mid-tempo, persistent guitar riffs and a brass section that gives Jimmy's expressive vocal the respect it deserves. Punchy with drowning the atmosphere J.B. gently builds. Flip side it's a totally different story, whining hammond, screaming horns, wild blues guitar, an uncredited vocal group enters the mix and the sessions intensifies in a Chicago whirlwind session.! Totally immaculate and highly-elusive WHITE DEMO giving up two Windy City Wonderfuls... Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 110.00 Derak Martin Daddy Rollin' Stone C/w Don't Put Me Down Like This Astonishing!! 48 years old and in the same condition as the day it made made! You British Soul 45 collectors who demand perfection - this it it. We can detect no sign whatsoever of a spindle ever entering the center hole - so this 45 appears to be totally unplayed! Sound-file has been lifted from previous copy - this 1964 born VIRGIN will remain pristine! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 117.00
JOE TORQUAY Posted April 4, 2012 Author Posted April 4, 2012 Connie Clark My Sugar Baby Vocal & Instrumental Condition, condition, condition. Two totally "as new" labels - vinyl has never encountered a Northern SoulDJ or the rigors of the circuits insistent club-turntables. It's a virgin copy of Frank Wilson NS Anthem and it plays like one. For those who seek the "As Good As It Gets" Northern Soul classics, this copy is exactly that! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 739.00 Brand New Thousand Years Undiluted class! Gentle piano intro melts into a bank of strings, then as you expect and equally controlled vocal snuggles into that irresistible rhythm. Interchanging lead vocals take turns to tantalize! More than cool ....just adore, adore, adore it!! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 379.00 Felony Theft When You Have Love C/w Run For Cover Take a listen to this decidedly refreshing and different, stupidly RARE 1972 Northern Soul crossover dancer! Carrying the type of arrangement and vocal that would turn heads and lift any DJ set into the realms of greatness. A connoisseurs 45 piece of huge feelgood quality, buoyant harmony vocals bob around on a wave of intricate jazzy backing; then the lead vocal breaks surface, and boy what an effect that has, oh so very soulful aided by her teammates polishing the session with perfect delivery of the chorus. This is AWESOME and just stupidly obscure, potential in the right hands is blatant! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 534.00 Blues And Soul No. 35 June 5 1970 A cornerstone moment in Northern Soul is fully documented within the pages of this embryonic period of the iconic fortnightly. Beside Dave Godin's "This N' That" column, with a "priceless" 3/4 page advert for Soul City - of the iconic Shop front! But the real reason for this edition being so very special to the "Soul" connoisseur is the double page entitled "DOING OUR OWN THING" an in depth interview with the INVITATIONS with fully five black n' white group pics, reviews of their British tour including Live at High Wycombe Town Hall. Historical, thought provoking reading.. at the very cusp of the Northern Soul explosion. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 33.00
JOE TORQUAY Posted April 4, 2012 Author Posted April 4, 2012 Showmen Our Love Will Grow C/w You're Everything Other than a minuscule 4 in biro on the flipside label, this 1965 Swan PROMO4219 - 0 -1 mix is stunningly PERFECT! Norman Johnson writing talents and outrageously distinctive vocal make this disc a double-sider of huge repute. When Richie Rome arranges and the prolific Richie Barrett produces a gifted artist, like General Johnson only one outcome it possible. Click the sound-file to witness, what was possible when truly gifted producer, arrangers, musicians, singers are in one room together. Both sides give up classic-style vocal-group 60s Philly Northern Soul at it's best. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 93.00 Edward Hamilton And The Fifes I'm Gonna Love You C/w Call Me Stalkers of the WHITE DEMO feast you're eyes of this mightily elusive Northern Soul beauty - sooooo very seldom seen as a WHITE PROMO copy. Not only in these clothes, is the Melvin Davis double-delight rare, it also offers the owner, not one but two different La Beat takes to the both the Mary Jane 6707 & the Carrie 009 45s. Take time to absorb two glorious Detroit vocal group dancers. Yes, La Beat of Detroit sent two different masters to this New York label for release. So even if you own Carrie or the Mary Jane you still need this version. Or if you like so many NS scholars, appreciate and seek the ultimate rare White Promo Northern Soul classics - then you really need it. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 109.00 Don Fardon It's Been Nice Lovin' You C/w I Won't Be Long You Brit-Soul-Vinyl explorers have ransacked every junk shop, market stall &sales box for what seems an eternity; in search of that elusive item you've yet to take-prisoner. Few if any of you will have this 1967 big production Northern Soul beater as a CBS DEMO. Take a listen to this man from Coventry do his version of highly rated CALVIN GRAYSON - H. B. Barnum session Guided by the imperial Miki Dallon, the session crafts another infinitely rare British 45 for the "Soul" collector to chase. Flip it over and Miki flexes his writing and producing talents making a song that is almost as good, as the California counterpart on the "A". RARE in the extreme - condition is flawless! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 41.00
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