John Manship Auction Results 25 - 6 - 2014

[JOE TORQUAY]

Patti & The Emblems It's The Little Things C/w Easy Come, Easy Go

This 1966 New York session encapsulates everything the Northern Soul wanted in a girl-group sound. Artie Resnick & Paul “Na Na Hey Hey” Leka composition is given the Jimmy “The Wiz” treatment providing perfect dancefloor Fayre.

The Northern Soul scene has always embraced the use of vibes, the intro to this jewels is driven by them then Mr. Wisner bring in a dirty but discreet saxophone, joined by horns as Patti’s vocal is pushed higher and higher by The Emblem’s chorus. and in true Wisner style a jaw-dropping sax solo of huge presence. (sounds like Artie “I’ll Always Love You” Kaplin blowing the reed to death………what an impact!

This is Girl-Group Northern Soul at it’s most compelling!

So flip it over and you get something just as good… go on spoil yourself.. with a slab of the Girl-Sound guided by New York’s finest..

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The winning bid was £ 311.00

 

Little Willie John Look What You Done To Me

Dirty, filthy R&B shaker..relentless and utterly infectious!

But this is more than just a wildly insane dancer, supported by a chain-gang of male-harmony vocals; it also boasts a breathtaking sax break that tops-off this totally unstoppable juggernaut, ready and waiting to destroy all in it’s way.. JUST LOVE IT.

No it’s not just all of those things..

It is also a 1957 King “Bio” promo copy, with the label dedicated to introducing Little Willie John’s story to the DJ’s. These King / Federal “Bio” promo’s are just so interesting often documenting detail not available anywhere else..

Check out the riveting label scan carefully because we know the soundfile will have already blow your socks off!

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The winning bid was £ 405.00

 

Marvelettes Reachin' For Something I Can't Have C/w Destination Anywhere

Pristine 1968 British promo of a timeless classic - a timeless classic for The Brits but NOT in the USA because it never got issued there.

Crazy after all these years I’ve never even thought that this (one of the group’s finest offerings) never receiving a USA 45 press in 1968 never crossed my mind, and not many other collectors either it would seem.

The flipside “Destination Anywhere” which has featured on several UK TV adverts over the years was the lead side in USA and being backed with “What’s Easy For Two Is Hard For One”. So why British EMI lead with “Reachin’” is something of a mystery unless the British Clubs were featuring it off the highly sought-after “Sophisticated Soul” album.

Either way this 1968 UK DEMO is no easy 45 to locate, this copy is flawless and it is one of the few indeed, UK 45 releases that never saw the light of day is the USA.

If anyone can tell me why this 45 was UK and not USA I’d be very interested to know…as here in Blighty it is A MOTOWN CLASSIC!

This example being it’s most desirable form..

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The winning bid was £ 270.00

 

Lee Andrews & The Hearts I've Had It C/w Little Bird

This week’s listing for those of you in hot pursuit of impeccable Northern Soul classics.. This Philly PROMO, as you can see has not a blemish to spoil your hunt for vinyl and label exactness.

This 45 holds a special place in the heart of so many NS old-timers. Personally I remember exactly when I first heard it played - i was a young lad at the Whitchurch All Dayer circa 1972 the piano intro just blew me and everybody attending … totally away.

Later in life the names of the men involved in this recording would become synonymous with Northern Soul quality - Thom Bell, Billy Jackson, John Madara & David White now considered studio-icons; little wonder both sides of this Philly “simple-is-genius” offering have stood the test of time.

Top-Drawer Northern Soul - in top-drawer condition.

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The winning bid was £ 211.00

 

Tyn Tymes Baby I Love You C/w Bootleg

Raucous, defiant attack on Howard Tate’s Jerry Ragovoy collaboration and boy to they rip it up good.

A nine-man assembly exhibit just how white boys “Can jump” as the insanely rare PICTURE SLEEVE promotes “The SOUL SOUND of The Tyn Tymes” you just can’t argue with that smug-statement these guys have absolutely got “it”

Not only the “balls” to take on Howard Tate but on the flipside they have the arrogance to cover Booker T. Jones & The Memphis Group with a wild fuzz guitar padded , hammond driven version of “Bootleg” littered with honkin’ horn and intensity.

Two great sides from a group who must have ripped the guts out of their dance hall. Potent, passionate and rippling with SOUL!

But the real reason for auction for this rarity, is for those of you who want completeness!

…with the picture sleeve this 45 is an impossible coupling!

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The winning bid was £ 122.00

 

Magnificents There Can Be A Better Way C/w Don't Take Your Love

I Just Been Whisked Off To The Paradise That Was - Cleethorpes Pier…the rarity is just as gloriously uplifting today as it was back then.

Jack Ashford “Beef’s Up” the Smith Brothers - Soul Dimension recording with a remix providing totally perfect vocal-group Northern Soul. Adding depth wherever he could to the backing and shortening it by 8 seconds Mr. Ashford in my opinion reproduces a real gem, losing not a drop of his studio prowess as he moves from Detroit to Los Angeles.

The Smith Brothers mix which reputedly only left the pressing plant as samples and the run ending up “Skipped” is extremely rare. But the “Magnificents” is still one very tough 45 to acquire and with it’s noticeably better mix, personally I prefer this take on what is a great song…

But I would say that wouldn’t as it was me who championed it in my North Sea sets. Love it, every note as much as I did when I was a jumped-up snotty know-it-all NS DJ in 1977.

PS the beautiful ballad flipside is confusingly available as “The Perfections” on Drumhead; Jack sure knew how to maximize his extreme studio talents. And this disc to his huge and massively sought after Northern Soul output…

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The winning bid was £ 747.00

 

Willie Mitchell Driving Beat 7" 33rpm Mini Lp

includes “The Champion”

John Vincent was the man who turned this album only track into an all time “Northern Soul Hall Of Famer” 40 years further down the line, the record that Blitzed Sheffield’s Samantha’s All Nighter is still today, an the stylus makes assures the dance-floor avalanche…

Has there ever been a more danceable instrumental to ever grace the Northern Soul - it is full-throttle rumbling NS at it’s most potent.

Before to today is the seldom seen 7” 33rpm min 6 track, complete not only with the so often missing card picture sleeve but also offers he owner total completeness with the attached tiny brown “window” envelope with 3 full colour jukebox tags - of the album front cover.

Top Drawer classic in it’s complete form with a 4 decade pedigree only surpassed by Mr. John Vincent himself..

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The winning bid was £ 170.00

 

Bobby Bland Call On Me / That's The Way Love Is

If you’re a thoughtful album collector, this listing will have raised your pulse.

Released the same year as Roger Eagle chartered new waters with his R&B Northern Soul all night sessions at the Twisted Wheel - 1963.

So 51 years down the line the lust simmers away as strong as ever to own this artifacts from our past that we all missed the first time round, with the exception of Roger of course.

This copy is in file copy condition showing little or no sign of human activity.

The flip-back sleeve is laminated on BOTH sides of the cover. Both labels are perfect, sitting snugly inside the original Poly-lined inner sleeve. The all important vinyl is of course flawless also.

Discoveries like this do take me back to when I was 10 years of age… merrily singing along to “The Beach Boys - Sloop John B.” blithely ignorant of the powers of the great Bobby Bland…

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The winning bid was £ 110.00

 

Brief Encounter Human C/w Total Satisfaction

The big build up does not disappoint..but has John Richberg ever not delighted us. Nashville supremo of the studio yet againcarefully constructs a contagious session.

Jazzy horns, a bank of strings, harmony vocal chorus, Gospel inspired girls cradle a beseeching lead vocal - this records has all those things carefully woven in to a luxurious soulful stepper of the very highest calibre..

Opulent 70s soul with not one note out of place…breathtaking!

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The winning bid was £ 137.00

 

Jimmy Smith The Cat

A MOD Anthem in it’s rarely seen form - a perfect British 1964 press!

Jimmy the Prince of the Organ guided by the great Lalo Schifrin for a theme from the MGM Movie “Joy House” starring the darling of the 60’s screen, Jane Fonda.

Compares nothing to this Darling of The MOD scene - this is Hammond-Heaven 50 years old a looking more attractive than Ms. Fonda in her heyday. Finding 50 years old’s without a blemish is no easy task - even the serial “Speed Dater” would have difficulty locating anything as unblemished as this 1/2 century date.

On it’s USA 1964 release this 45 flies out the building - as the original 1964 UK press I must admit we were rather reluctant to even list it…

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The winning bid was £ 54.00

 

Ray Pollard It's A Sad Thing C/w All The Things You Are

Absolutely pristine copy - flawless

It is not too often you can say a 60s English release as a stock copy is infinitely rarer than the promo.

Jimmy Thomas on Parlophone, Nancy Ames on Columbia, Barbara Mills on Hickory… Now add this one to the list with the highly-coveted Red & White DEMO out numbering on our files 3 to 1. Being conservative the DEMO is at least twice as common as the rarely seen Black stocker and this baby is absolutely impeccable in every way.

So give an East Coast Soul Crooner a British written song - and see how it’s transformed into magnificent Big City Northern Soul. What a booming-delicacy of our sound this is..

In this condition and this form it is not to missed..

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The winning bid was £ 161.00

 

Richard (popcorn) Wylie Rosemary, Whast Happended Vocal / Inst

Oh the minefield of Northern Soul collecting - so many bootlegs, counterfeits and a few who are economical with the truth whilst describing a record. Can be a costly and upsetting experience.

There is of course the “counterfeit” white promo copy of this Northern Soul anthem, that has bamboozled many collectors over the decades. So thank heavens for this incredibly RARE West Coast Promo in it’s full multi-colour glory!

Decidedly rarer, convincingly more gorgeous; dispelling all doubt from the mind about it’s authenticity.

Another listing for those of you collecting the Top-Drawer classics in their rarest and more attractive formats… this is one you very rarely see and it looks fabulous doesn’t it..

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The winning bid was £ 222.00

 

Lovers Without A Doubt C/w One Way To Love

Real Deal full-bore vocal group Northern Soul - A California Monster that has eluded most all of us for decades. RARE and utterly fantastic.

I do remember back in the late 80s finding a single copy of this elusive beauty, in an out of the way garage that the sadly missed Mark Edmund of Berkeley fame sent me to. He forgot to tell me the old couple with the 45 hoard, bred birds as a hobby and I was definitely gonna get bitten to death by mites, fleas and invisible creatures who’d made their home snugly perched between vinyl and sleeve ready to strike…

A stinking hot Stockton garage in July is not the ideal place to be foraging around for 10 hours…the next day I was scratching like a cockerel covered in red bumps and envisioning “Yellow Fever” “Ebola” “Typhus” would soon overcome me…

but in true record-addict style I pulled my find of the day out of my hand-luggage and marveled at the glorious bright yellow emblazoned with that Universal City red text and logo..

I felt perfectly content and happy with my days challenge - sliding my prize from it’s sleeve - a little stowaway flea sat there gazing back at me..”take me to England..”

Every insect bite, all the dust up my nose, the squawking Parakeets and scorching heat - every second was worth it, just to have this baby sitting in my Motel room at the end of the day..

This copy is Flea-free and utterly flawless!

Click the soundfile to get bitten…

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The winning bid was £ 950.00

 

Founders Don't Don't Leave Me

For those of you seeking the Northern Soul sleepers hidden away within the murky vinyl-swamps of rare soul, check out this New York haunter from The Edwards Brothers.

This is a family affair with both sides produced by Roy Edwards and written by the “boys” Franklin Edwards, Leroy Edwards & C. Edwards arranged by the notable Phil Medley long term colleague of the great Bert Berns (Russsell)

Check this flipside out it carries an irresistible unique quality of creeping up on you, as the lead vocal demands your attention as the insistent male vocal group go from chorus assistance to a full blow call and and answer response.

We guarantee this of-the-wall overlooked treasure you will be playing more than once… infectious does not remotely describe it’s quality!

Also check out their also rare release on Triode and their off-shoot offering on Music World. These boys serve up eerie, moody Rare Northern at it’s most-memorable

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The winning bid was £ 158.00

 

Irma Thomas Take A Look

The Soul Queen of New Orleans!

With her finest album in astonishing condition.

Irma, without question one of the top five Soul Girls of all time, never fails to stamp her own brand of emotion on a song. Commanding, assertive but subtle and soothing too; so much so from the 10 stunning tracks we felt we needed sound-file 6 of them to showcase this grand lady’s versatility.

Whether it be thumpin’ Northern Soul ” What Are You Trying To Do” or the big building Beat Ballad “It’s Starting To Get To Me Now” Irma is truly majestic.

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The winning bid was £ 114.00

[Guest Aaron Darcy]

I don't know Manship gets the crazy prices on his auction ' i had two copies of Willie Mitchell .....Driving Beat  Ep's in the cardboard sleeve in mint - condition sold for £50 pounds each' JM got £170' there's real idiots out .