Depths Of Love

Ain't You Got Time No More C/w I Just Can't Find A Love

Rare girl group 45 offering two fabulously sexy tunes.

The side we’ve led with is the flip - an upbeat dance tune with a pleading lead supported by a constant shrill harmony backing from her backing Sisters. The quavering lead begs to hear the words she wants to hear, but she realizes he “Ain’t Got Time No More” for her love. Weaving painfully soulful lyrics into a dance tune is no easy feat, but producer Geno Whitaker does it in fine street-level style, oozing with primitive genius.

Flip it over for the Sweet Soul offering of the week. A sexy, sexy soul-stepper on which the girls take their act to another level. The hurting lead vocal again expresses herself to a level of emotion that will have you transfixed for her next line of her pain, accentuated by those backing girls, so slick, so smooth without a primitive note in the whole session - this the sweeter side is CLASS!

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Eddie Daye & The 4 Bars

Guess Who Loves You C/w What Am I Gonna Do

SHRINE TIME!

Another stand-out Carl Kidd & Harry Bass collaboration with one of Washington’s D.C. premier vocal groups, who actually answered a newspaper advert Shrine placed to audition local talent. This their only Shrine release but failed to register sales but all was not lost at failure inspired Eddie reactivate his 1962 enterprise the DAYCO label in 1967.

Today this like most all other SHRINE 45s release #112 is considered an highly prized platter offering not one but two fine Northern Soul sides.

The all important label is flaw-free, both sides of the vinyl are clean, play beautifully and only reveal insignificant light surface marks in strong light.

Label is Ex+ vinyl visually is Excellent plays Ex+

SHRINE! who can resist it…

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The winning bid was £ 2,214.00

Hoagy Lands

The Next In Line

Like the day it was made!

If your purpose in life is to amass the Northern Soul classics in their rarest form THE PROMO and in the finest possible condition, do not pass by; a neater copy may never appear on the market again.

For me this 45 has two highly desirable features.

1. 
   Eye-watering memories of cutting my dancing-teeth inside Nottingham’s, Brit club circa 1970, as the mid-tempo groove was more forgiving of my limited understanding of rhythm and movement.
   
2. 
   Not just me, but doesn’t everyone adore an over 40 in perfect condition…I know I do..
   

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Luckey Davis

It's Not Where You Start (it's Where You Finish)

Luckey Jamal Davis again treats us to vibrant 70s dance Northern Soul.

White Demo collectors you are looking at one very-seldom-seen example of this most desirable genre.

The first press YELLOW label release is RARE, the second press ORANGE label is elusive having disappeared from sales lists completely.

but the WHITE DEMO is a near impossible capture. Act accordingly..

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The winning bid was £ 159.00

Northern Noise Number 1

Number 1 October 1979

Rare 32 page “Special Tribute” to Six Years of Wigan Casino.

The iconic dance-floor imagine front cover and a full RCA Grapevine discography listing the #135, 136, 137, 138, that were to remain unissued.

Inside features tons of pictures of Russ, Richard and crew. Min-bio’s of the DJ’s. Adverts from the movers and shakers on the Northern Soul scene during 1979.

A Special 1979 2 Roger St. Pierre MOD REVIVAL article with great scooter pics.

Richard Searling on the road with Edwin Starr 2 page article including Richard’s TOP 25 tunes of the day (lots of imaginative cover-up names)

not just the very limited distribution of this tidy booklet has left it becoming a major “Wigan Casino” collectable, but also the captivating information that lies within makes this an essential reference point.

Go to my FACEBOOK page for a closer look inside and a full list of Richard’s cover-ups!

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Uptown Syndicate

Uptown C/w You're A Woman

A double edged soul rarity offering a stand-out horn propelled FUNK, on one side and a diabetes inducing Sweet Soul harmony ballad for the flip.

Oddly born in the soul music and vinyl desert of Oklahoma City, this ground level production speaks volumes for the street-level talent secreted away in some of the most unexpected places. A session that could just as easily have been crafted in Compton, Watts or The South side of Chicago as it oozes that primitive angst only a ghetto recordings transmit.

Top side is a horn and keyboard mix of dance funk, featuring some highly skilled trumpet and horn work of the standard you associate with teams like Brass Construction, Fat Back Band or individuals like Eddie Henderson, Freddie Hubbard etc. this really is a compelling and highly accomplished session.

Flip it over for pleading ballad of regret, with a sorrow filled lead drifting through a sauntering horn and lazy hammond; the sharp chorus harmony is lifted to greatness when a chilly falsetto gatecrashes proceedings..

Two sides proving, Oklahoma or Compton if you got real SOUL it matters not where your roots are..

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Various Artists

R&b Chartmakers Vol. 4

The very last Tamla Motown Stateside Chartmakers EP in the series of 4. Containing the one of two Stateside outings for Eddie Holland and his penultimate recording before he stopped releasing 45’s to concentrate on writing and producing.

Eddie Holland’s - Just Ain’t enough Love - is a superb example of Motown Northern Soul underlining the loss to us when he put down his mike.

This 1964 British EP is unique to these shores, with the series in the end designed by EMI to introduce the less obvious acts and recordings to the British public.

This copy is in fine flawless Excellent + condition throughout, hard to acquire as clean as this copy is.

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The winning bid was £ 85.00

The Flamingos

The Boogaloo Party

Recently I’ve spent many hours reading 60s Soul Fanzine’s & magazines and it’s not until you do, that the under 60 Soul collector realizes how important the all-night clubs of the 60s in molding the future that was to become Northern Soul.

To have this 45 in 1966 was the ultimate prize, almost simultaneously released and deleted only the hippest and top DJ’s could boast ownership. The huge demand created from club plays, had people traveling far & wide to The Twisted Wheel, Mojo, Nite Owl, Beechcomber etc.

Philips UK quickly caught on and re-issued it on numerous occasion through the next two decades. Notably on Philips BF1786 in 1969 which sparked a Boogaloo revival, I can remember King Edward VII school dance with Joyce Bond - Do The Teasy and “Boogaloo Party” sending 15 & 16 year old into raptures.

Good night that was, I thought I’d scored with the most gorgeous girl in the school… but no, there was Keith Coggles wrapped in his Parka posing on his Vespa ready and waiting outside to whisk her off into the sunset.

So I turned vinyl that never disappoints.. note this is the THREE prong so rarely seen ORIGINAL 1966 press!

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Escorts

All We Need Is Another Chance

George Kerr & Bert Keyes takes their skills to Rahway State Prison, New Jersey to record this 1973 vocal-group experience!

For seekers of rare decidedly superior soul, will delight in this precisely crafted creation. Producers by George Ker & Bert Keyes guide an incarcerated 9 man harmony gathering through some of the finest soul-group vocal-performances ever recorded.

Listen as the duo lets them lose on the O’Jays masterpieces like “Look Over Your Shoulder” “I’m So Glad I Found You” “I’ll Be Sweeter Tomorrow” down-right sublime sweet-soul of the highest calibre.

For the O C D about condition this 40 year old is STILL SEALED!

Soundfiles were lifted from an previously excellent copy!

Condition or Sweet Soul does not get any better than this.

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The winning bid was £ 99.00

Topics

Hey Girl (where Are You Going?) C/w If Love Comes Knockin'

CHADWICK RECORDS part of the legendary CARNIVAL Records of 350 Chadwick Avenue, Newark, New Jersey. A company who built a huge East Coast reputation for quality Soul music recordings and a penchant for the vocal-group sound.

This 45 was an off-shoot of the label aptly christened Chadwick but sadly only ever releasing two 45s the other by The Metrics is an equally enthralling Northern Soul dancer. This the second release though, is the jewel of the whole company. Rare in the extreme and offering not one but two examples of ultra-sophisticated harmony Northern Soul.

“Hey Girl” has for decades been a favourite with collectors and the occasionally DJ turntable outing is always met with ripples of applause. But at the moment for me the overlooked flipside is every note, if not better than the well known “A”.

“Love Comes Knockin’” is now coming through in DJ sets, more powerful,upbeat & instant Northern Soul session but puzzlingly passed by until recently.

TWO KILLER TUNES on one very elusive disc! and this offering could not be in better condition. A collection file copy with little or no signs of human contact.

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Kenny Gamble & The Romeos

Ain't It Baby

A special listing just in case over the years you’d forgotten what proper-real-deal Northern Soul sounds like!

Click the soundfile to unleashed a Tsunami of thumping 60s dance soul from the Crowned Prince of The Philadelphia Sound! A collaboration of Jimmy Bishop & Kenny Gamble ignites a studio-stamina that you can’t help but want to dance to.

A typical “Dynodynamics” production running on high-energy-horns, soaring vocal-group ooohs and arrrhs a then chanting girl-group (The Honey Bees) assist the under-recorded rasping growl of the man himself. The production builds and builds up to a head-spinning crescendo, surely inducing fearless dack-drop antics..spins & handclaps.

THIS IS NORTHERN SOUL - PROPER NORTHERN SOUL!!

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Memphis Nomads

Don't Pass Your Judgement C/w I Wanna Be (lover & Your Honey)

In the 7 years partnership with Atlantic Records this is the ONLY Stax release NOT to be distributed by Atlantic.

It seems most all big labels have oddities, strange releases that never seemed to have received the usual company promotional effort and today remain the rarest 45s those labels ever made.

So let’s discuss Stax 243 a special 1968 press distributed by “The Memphis & Shelby County Chapter Of The March Of Dimes” a charity raising money for good causes. So presumably Stax pressed this rarity for charity only purposes.

What ever the reason in 1968 a real-rarity was born - check out the potent sound file offering Memphis Northern Soul complete with Booker T. style hammond intro, that suddenly exploding to collide with a defiant vocal “Outsiders” style dancer driven to the outer-limits with a punchy instrumental break, adding quality to this relentless stomper.

Flip it over, and strangely charity is overlooked when the “Nomads” do a version of the Manhattans classic “I Wanna Be” and fail to credit writer William Lovett, giving all the honors to the A-side writers Ernest W. Hall & Charles F. Weaver.

A massive hole in all but the most-complete Stax collections and yet to make it’s Northern soul turntable table! RARE, odd? but darn good..

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Tony Washington

Summer's Gone

If you want to spend a refreshing evening listening to some of the greatest mid-tempo records ever made - visit and join the Facebook page that goes under the very apt name of “BEAT BALLAD HEAVEN”.

Some of the postings on there underline the impeccable taste of it’s members.

This obscurity is one of literally 100s that have at last been given a long overdue chance of some recognition that otherwise may not have happened. That is where I first heard this obscure Tony Washington recording, with it’s swirling hammond setting the scene for a moody male vocal to croon his way into your heart.

Popcorn production cradles his “haunting-cowboy” stye vocal that you find becomes infectious. A record who’s primitive approach is actually it’s charm, charmed enough for you to take a serious look at BEAT BALLAD HEAVEN and the 1000’s of other mesmerizing goodie it gives up at the click of a mouse?

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Various Artists

The Sue Story Volume 2

The Rare 1965 UK SUE compilation and the rarest in the series of 3.

Beside the inspired track listing, I’m personally drawn to the iconic cover with Guy Stevens again in sultry pose with his beloved 45s. The driving force behind the UK Sue label, who met a tragic end to his life in 1981 @ the tender age of 38.

But this LP sleeve and it’s music will surely live on forever!

Labels & vinyl are flawless. Front cover has a few light laminate creases (see scan) back cover is totally clean.

Tough album to acquire especially in this condition!

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The winning bid was £ 58.00

Wow I sold an identical Kenny Gamble for £100 cheaper on here about 4 weeks ago.

And who in their right mind would pay more than £25 for a copy of Boogaloo Party?

Strange world of northern soul...

topics ( issue ) fetched a good price , nice record

£31 for the first issue of Northern Noise - I remember taking out a subscription for twelve issues, I only ever received three in total, although I understand that it did stretch to four issues.

I must dig them out sometime...

Wow I sold an identical Kenny Gamble for £100 cheaper on here about 4 weeks ago.

And who in their right mind would pay more than £25 for a copy of Boogaloo Party?

Strange world of northern soul...

not strange world of northern soul ,Pete very very strange world of northern soul ,loads of idiots out there don't know whats rare and not rare

Eddie Daye & The 4 Bars

Guess Who Loves You C/w What Am I Gonna Do

SHRINE TIME!

Another stand-out Carl Kidd & Harry Bass collaboration with one of Washington’s D.C. premier vocal groups, who actually answered a newspaper advert Shrine placed to audition local talent. This their only Shrine release but failed to register sales but all was not lost at failure inspired Eddie reactivate his 1962 enterprise the DAYCO label in 1967.

Today this like most all other SHRINE 45s release #112 is considered an highly prized platter offering not one but two fine Northern Soul sides.

The all important label is flaw-free, both sides of the vinyl are clean, play beautifully and only reveal insignificant light surface marks in strong light.

Label is Ex+ vinyl visually is Excellent plays Ex+

SHRINE! who can resist it…

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The winning bid was £ 2,214.00

And I only wanted £1500

Hoagy Lands £249? think I paid a tenner for my demo copy, quite a few years ago mind you.

Hoagy Lands £249? think I paid a tenner for my demo copy, quite a few years ago mind you.

should be £150 tops

£31 for the first issue of Northern Noise - I remember taking out a subscription for twelve issues, I only ever received three in total, although I understand that it did stretch to four issues.

I must dig them out sometime...

Jees, Northern Noise - this must go down as the worst fanzine of all time......I only bothered with Issue 1 think they were dishing em out at the Casino one night with 12" copies of "Love Hustle" at £1.50 a pop - maybe that was another night - they all blur into one....

Edited March 2, 201312 yr by Steve G