August 2012 Sales List (Soul/funk/disco/jazz/reggae)

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SOUL/DISCO/FUNK/CROSSOVER etc 45s

Seattle Pure Dynomite - I wonder love - One World / EX / £500 (Very very rare and very very good modern soul out of Seattle. Original and not the recent lookalike re-issue.)

Rawl [Raw] Soul Express - The way we live - Cat / EX / £450 (Rare groove classic! Rare and indemand sound. Cut out hole through label.)

Lemuria - Hunk of heaven - Heaven / EX / £400 (Ultra rare 45 original of this classic rare groove/modern soul track.)

Sweet Mixture - House of fun and love - Bazar / EX / £350 (Fantastic crossover/modern sound out of Chicago. So rare!! Labels has filt pen writing, vinyl plays clean but as a few very light marks. Sold for over $1K on eBay recently.)

Tammaraw - I don't want to lose you - On A Star / EX / £250 (Great modern soul dancer and a previous cover up. Blue label copy.)

Robert Ruffin and Romance - Cruise - Rolyn / EX / £200 (So good!! Such a lovely modern soul floater sound.)

Harold McNair - The Hipster - Rca / EX / £150 (Superb copy of this classic UK jazz 45, comes in company sleeve.)

Manzel - Space funk - Fraternity / EX / £100 (Superb copy with company sleeve of this great disco/modern instrumental.)

Buddy Ace - It's all for you / I'll love you (If you let me) - Tear Drop / EX / £100 (Very rare late release by him and oh so good. Modern soul dancer backed with a stepper.)

Geater - Breath taking girl - House of Orange / EX / £85 (Early modern soul scene spin. B-side has filt pen X on label.)

Freedom - Can't you see / Sunshine - Freedom / EX / £80 (Rarer blue label copy of this indemand modern soul double sider.)

Back Lash - This ole heart- Walking Tall / EX / £75 (Rare Chicago modern soul dancer.)

Big Dave & the Hot City Band - She gives me what I want when I need it - Glitter Funk / EX / £75 (Great Pittsburgh modern soul)

Mr. Morse and His New Alphaband - S.O.S. I'm in love - EMI / EX / £75 (Italy original of this superb modern/disco sound. Comes in EMI company sleeve.)

Intrigues - Fly now - pay later - Janus / EX / £75 (White demo of this great crossover soul dancer.)

Gerald Wayne - Now I can see - Starr / EX / £60 (Personal fave! Such a great modern soul dancer with a two step feel.)

Nate Calhoun - Funktown - Glades / EX / £45 (Superb modern soul dance obscurity borrowing heavily from Boz Scagg's Lowdown. Rare TK release.)

Mac Davis - I'm just in love - Columbia / EX / £45 (Blue eyed modern soul dancer

with a philly feel.)

McKinley Sandifer - You're a winner baby - Cotton / EX / £50 (Superb crossover soul.)

Clarence Littlejohn and the Ultimate Set Band - You're what's happening baby - N and C / EX / £50 (Wonderful group soul slowie.)

Ronn Matlock - You got the best of me - Cotillion / EX / £45 (Superb modern soul dancer and one of the strongest cuts off his album. Label tear on flipside.)

Tommy Keith - Loving you comes easy - Vibration / EX / £40 (Obscure release on the New Jersey label. Superb modern soul dancer. Flip has a couple of tiny x written on label with ballpoint pen.)

Leon Thomas - Love each other - Flying Dutchman / EX / £40 (White demo of this Mixed Feelings type sound.)

Buddy Miles - I'm just a kiss away - Columbia / VG- / £35 (Modern soul classic. Vinyl is covered with marks, plays a light crackles but still quite ok with no hiss or anything like that. Fine for DJing. Cut out hole)

Pulse - Don't stop the magic / She's hot - Silver Cloud / EX / £35 (Rare issue of this I think Philly sweet soul ballad.)

Pulse - Stop your lyin' - Silver Cloud / EX / £8 (White demo.)

Everybody - The Deep - Gas / EX / £30 (Disco backed with midtempo soul. Rare Philly indie.)

C.T. & the Record Band - With you - Kalieba / EX / £30 (Rare modern soul out of Seattle.)

Ike Noble - We got to hold on to ourselves - Smoke / EX / £30 (Crossover soul with a disco hi hat beat, nice one!!)

Vernon Steve Weakley - Lowdown woman - Omega / EX / £30 (Obscure midtempo soul featuring some great guitars and flute.)

Vernon Steve Weakley - Is it love or is it lust - V.S.W. Productions / EX / £25 (Great slow soul)

Impossibles - Hot pepper / C'mon baby - Philips / VG+/VG+ / £30 (Two thai funk cuts recorded in Sweden. Album is rare, this is rarer. Pic sleeve repaired with scotch tape.)

Cloud - Blame it on the sun - Chapman / EX / £30 (Feel good modern soul, complete with pic sleeve.)

Gary Bartz - Music is my sanctuary - Capitol / EX / £25 (Classic fusion soul dancer. Demo copy.)

Jerry Hilton and the Gentle Rain - Complete opposites - Sonic / EX / £25 (Good version of the Chuck Corby track.)

David Gage - Leave me a leg to stand on / Second chance - One-Way / EX / £25 (Midtempo dancer backed with a good real soul slowie)

Nate Adams - Why is it taking so long - Atlantic / EX / £25 (Soul plodder with both crossover and deep soul interest. Red white demo.)

Contagious - Music freak - Berl / VG+ / £20 (Driving disco, the semi instrumental flip is the side to go for. Some flame like marks on vinyl not affecting play.)

Projections - Groovin' to the music we play - BL&J / EX / £20 (Funky disco workout.)

James Brown - People wake up and live - Polydor / VG+ / £20 (Classic modern soul dancer. A couple of pieces of paper molded in to the vinyl thus the lower grading, not affecting play.)

Arnita Ware & Joe Mack - Choosing - Count / EX / £15 (Personal fave, great great mellow groove/2 stepper out of Detroit.)

Gail Eason - Love's gonna find you - A&M / EX / £15 (Modern soul dancer that has been comped on a Togetherness compilation. Great copy in company sleeve.)

Cleveland Martin & the Soul Sets - I don't want to slip away - Single B / EX / £15 (Beautiful midtempo soul.)

Gadgets - Wanting to hold you again / Request for love - Black Hole / EX / £15 (Beautiful soul slowie backed with modern.)

Debbie Taylor - Never gonna let him know / Let's prove them wrong - GWP / EX / £15 (Two beautiful midtempo soul sides.)

Roy Gaines - Make it easy - Bell / VG / £10 (Great 2 step, rare issue copy. Vinyl has plenty of marks, plays ok but not perfect. Label has bb hole.)

Lady Love - Wrap your arms around me - Chimneyville / EX / £10 (TK distributed disco.)

Ray Pettis - Together forever - Dee Dee / EX / £12 (Crossover soul, coral green copy.)

Charles Earland - Intergalactic love song - Mercury / EX / £10 (Superb copy of this timeless spacy classic. Comes in company sleeve.)

Carl Graves - Brown skin love - A&M / VG+ / £10 (45 issue only release, all time fave two step sound)

Sterling Silver - Sunshine (When I got you) - Columbia / VG / £10 (Midtempo modern soul dancer in the vein of MJ Wade's "I'm gonna ball baby". Rare major label release only found on stock copies. Vinyl has lots of marks, plays ok but far from perfect. OK for DJing.)

Freddie Waters - I'm gonna walk right out of your life - October / VG+ / £8 (Two step with a dramatic feel, sooooo good!!)

Cherish - For you - DT / EX / £8 (1979 Detroit modern soul.)

Freddie James - Music takes me higher / She's a lady - Dreyfus / VG+/VG+ / £8 (Driving disco backed with boogie. German press with pic sleeve, vinyl has some superficial marks not affecting play. Cover some light general wear + promo stamp.)

Denise Keeble - Giving up - B.F.W. / EX / £8 (Good soul slowie backed with gritty midtempo)

Hosanna - Hipit - Calla / EX / £6 (Classic NY proto disco.)

SOUL/FUNK ALBUMS

Head West - s/t - Vogue / EX/VG+ / £50 (French psych/funk. Cover just shy of EX because slightly dirty back and small writing on back. Clean vinyl.)

Can - Ege Bamyasi - UA / VG+EX / £40 (Germany original, Kraut/funk/rock.)

Geater Davis - Sweet woman's love - House of Orange / EX/EX / £40 (Rootsy soul in "My love is so strong for you". As new copy!)

Soul Generation - Beyond body & soul - Ebony Sounds / EX/NM / £35 (As new copy still in shrink. Great album!)

Otis Clay - The only way is up - Blues R&B / EX/EX / £30 ("They only way is up" + "Special kind of love".)

Weldon Irvine - Cosmic vortex - Rca / EX/VG+ / £25 ("Walk that walk; Talk that talk". Cover just shy of EX, has very light H2O marks on upper corners.)

Love - Reel to real - RSO / EX/EX / £15 (Rock album which to me holds the best version of "Be thankful for what you got". Tiny cut out.)

Freddie James - s/t - Black Sun / EX/EX / £15 (Canadian album incl the boogie dancer "Dance to the beat". Tiny writhing on label, barely noticable.)

Wood Brass & Steel - s/t - Turbo / EX/EX / £15 (Classic album, "Funkanova", "Welcome to the party", "Always there" etc. As new copy)

Ecstacy, Passion & Pain - s/t - Roulette / EX/EX / £15 (Classic soul/disco album with "I'll do anything for you", "Born to lose you" etc)

Aretha Franklin - Runnin' out of fools - Columbia / VG/NM / £10 (Early album with Aretha doing standards and covers of current hits. Superb version of "I can't wait until I see my baby's face". Cover as new, vinyl has plenty of light marks and plays with light crackles in places. Never owerpowering the music and no sharp pops. Mono copy.)

REGGAE ALBUMS

Cimarons - On the rock - Vulcan / EX/EX / £40 (UK original in nice shape. No insert)

Interns - Detour - Burning Rockers / VG+/EX / £40 (1979 UK original, later reissued as Yahoo by Viceroys)

Ethiopians - Slave call - Third World / EX/EX / £35 (UK original)

Deb Players - 20th Century DEBwise - DEB Music / EX/VG+ / £35 (UK Dub! Vinyl is clean, cover has slight ring wear, small writing and distributor sticker on back.)

Joe Gibbs & the Professionals - State of emergency - Joe Gibbs / VG/VG+ / £30 (Jamaica original in good shape, vinyl probably same condition as new. Plays well.)

Hortense Ellis - Jamaica's first lady of songs - Third World / EX/EX / £30 (UK original in clean shape)

Revelation - Variation on a theme - Burning Vibration / VG+/VG+ / £30 (UK dub album. Black vinyl copy.)

Ken Boothe - Black, gold & Green - Trojan / EX/EX / £20 (UK orange label. Neat price sticker on cover.)

Slim Smith - Memorial -Trojan / EX/VG+ / £20 (UK Trojan light blue label. Compilation of records earlier songs, Rock Steady etc, released on 45. Cover just shy of EX because of smaller lamination issue.)

JAZZ ALBUMS (+ one 45)

Georges Arvanitas - Soul Jazz - Columbia / VG/EX / OFFERS (Holy grail type Euro jazz! France original in nice shape, strictly graded not to disappoint a buyer. Cover has neat "I" and "II" written on back by the track listing so lower part of EX grading. Vinyl has some light marks, plays well. Hard to price with mintish copies selling for £1000-2000 and more or less destroyed selling at £150-300. Taking offers over £300.)

Zbigniew Namyslowski - Lola - Decca / EX/EX / £200 (Beautiful UK original, with the beautiful title track.)

Sahib Shihab - Seeds - Vogue / EX/EX / £200 (Beautiful German first press original!)

Johnny Griffith - The Geneva connection - Geneva / EX/VG+ / £150 (Killer feel good jazz dancer in "O.D." Cover has some water damage.)

Harold McNair - The Hipster - Rca / EX / £150 (Superb copy of this classic UK jazz 45, comes in company sleeve.)

Johnny Griffin - Lady heavy bottom's waltz - Vogue / VG+/EX / £125 (German original first place with beautiful gatefold cover. Vinyl just shy of EX with a few light superficial marks not affecting play.)

Charlie Rouse - Yeah! - Epic / VG/VG / £100 (Strict grading here, both cover and vinyl just shy of VG+. Vinyl plays ok just a few light marks. Cover has stain on back and some light general wear.)

Harold Vick - Don't look back - Strata-East / EX/EX / £90 (Beautiful copy of this indemander.)

Lloyd McNeill - Asha - Asha / EX/VG+ / £80 (Black/white cover second press of this

spiritual jazz master piece. "St Margarets church" etc. Cover has some staining mainly on back.)

Ronnie Mathews - Doin' the thang - Prestige / EX/EX / £70 (Yellow/black mono first press. With Freddie Hubbard, "Ichi ban", "The orient", "The thang" etc.)

Jerome Richardson - Going to the movies - UA / EX/EX / £70 ("No problem" killer jazz dance classic! Stereo original.)

Vince Andrews - Love oh love - Gerard / VG+/VG / £60 (Classy vocal jazz cuts in "The one who need you")

Prince Lasha Ensemble - Insight - CBS / EX/EX / £45 (Superb UK only jazz album.)

Nathan Davis - Peace treaty - SFP / EX/EX / £40 (Spain 1980's second press, not the more recent reissue. Tiny tear on back from removed sticker.)

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les stances a Sophie - Nessa / EX/EX / £40 (As new US copy of this classic.)

Jimmy Woods - Conflict - Contemporary / EX/EX / £40 (1963 black label deep groove stereo original. With Elvin Jones features some great modal moments.)

Jack Wilson - Ramblin' - Vault / EX/EX / £30 (Great West Coast set with superb covers of "Stolen moments", "Impressions" and "Ramblin'". With Roy Ayers.)

Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Band - Latin kaleidoscope - MPS / EX/EX / £30 ("Un graso areia" classic jazz dance. Red label German second press.)

Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band - Now hear our meanin' - Columbia / EX/EX / £25 (US Stereo copy of this great jazz set. Demo stamp on back.)

Les Hooper - Hoopla - Churchill / EX/EX / £25 ("Lady of the night" beautiful fusion jazz. Cover has tiny tiny tear on back + a gold promo stamp.)

Art Blakey Jazz Messengers - 3 blind mice - UA / VG/EX / £15 (Cover in beautiful shape but vinyl has light scattered marks. Plays ok but not perfect. Stereo copy.)

Ahmad Jamal - Outertimeinnerspace - Abc Impulse / EX/EX / £15 (Indemand spiritual jazz album. Red/black 1972 first press.)