JOE TORQUAY Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 Step By Step I Always Wanted To Be In The Band 10 killer tracks from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin from an 11 member Soul band, that incredibly never received full American distribution from Brunswick and astonishingly not one of these great tracks ever pressed as a 45 or 12” in the USA (can this be true ?) Utterly astounding, as you’re about to hear SOUL GROUP DYNAMITE from our short selection of tracks, ranging from fabulous non-Disco influenced Soulful dance tracks to punchy Funk-spiced dancers. All benefiting from a potent horn arrangement and skillful male vocal harmonizing. So without further delay - click the very impressive sound sample and be in wonder why Brunswick never issued any of the tracks as 45s.. If you are especially a rare 45 collector this Brewtown party can be found of Wisconsin’s most sought after label Cuca with an impressive 7” “Give It Away (do It Again) c/w Eloise but just like this album - so darn hard to find! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 253.00 Timeless Legend (baby) Don't Do This To Me C/w Where There's Love There's A Way Just as I thought I was out of superlatives - the needle drops of this Rare Soul awakening - propping my weary head up, pricking up my ears like a dead-of-night guard dog. WOW! There you go a three letter ejaculation for a record that has changed my day! With a simplistic piano tinkle (you then know, not a commercial disco note is gonna be played). Enter the purring vocal chorus, then the lead voice steps up - the gate to Rare Soul Nirvana opens! Notes reaching heights that only despair can trigger, this session drips with regret, as remorse triggers the change and his buddies smooth the way with precise sweet harmony. Actually, I’m outta superlatives that do this 45 justice - click the soundfile and see how it makes you feel to come into contact with the insanely RARE and the ridiculously brilliant.. PS the flipside will delight the harmony ballad fans but I envisage a mad scramble for ownership the the Top Rare Soul jocks… that may be too strong to counter. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 782.00 Curtis, The Brothers You Make Everything Better Crazy About Crossover? I am .. really crazy..or should I say stupid because I’ve never really listened to this song in the past. Boy is this my type-of-tune..a very classy jazzy, choppy dance enticement that has me currently hooked. Check out those buoyant vocals slicing through searing strings, banging bongo raps to deliver a lush-Latin flavoured Northern Soul Crossover masterpiece! It’s relentlessness is contagious, as the sandpapered lead never drops his enthusiasm, even for a second. I must be crazy.. not to have this in my DJ box .. it’s awesome.. make a note to yourself. Manship next time you must pay attention in the face of brilliance. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 323.00 Big Mama Thornton Wade In The Water The undisputed Queen Of The Blues! Here is her most-wanted Northern Soul / MOD 45 which has been a best seller for us and all other dealers for fully 3 decades now - list it and it’s gone. We have just located a MINT unplayed (until the sound file was lifted). This is this weeks listing for the Vinyl OCD afflicted perfectionists, who accept nothing less than perfection, still sitting in it’s near 50 year old birth-sleeve. If we list it on the site - it will leave here in a flash… This listing gives everyone a 3 week window to consider, whether perfection is worth the extra pennies.. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 233.00 Sam Dees Soul Sister C/w Easier Said Than Done Almost without exception on the rare occasions this 45 turns up - it is the double sided PROMO offering you only the excruciatingly Deep ballad A-side. So very pleasing today, to be able to offer up this seldom seen STOCK copy with the mighty currently-breaking “SOUL SISTER” dancer on the flip. Gritty gravel-coated blending of Southern Soul with FUNK. The result being a forceful NS dancerfloor persuader, that is currently very firmly on the way up. For the DJ the time is now to claim ownership. For the old-school Soul Collector the time has always been now - as every recording Sam Dees has ever made are fundamental building blocks towards an enviable record collection. Take time to listen to the flipside which encapsulates EVERYTHING about what made this man one of the greatest exponents of Soul Music to ever pick up a microphone or indeed a pen… PS Condition is perfect btw. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 211.00 Shorty Long Out To Get You C/w It's A Crying Shame One of the very hard to snare Red & White’s! Offering not one but two killer Northern Soul dance offerings.. Even as the USA release this William Mickey Stevenson project is very hard to find on the original Soul 35005, as this 1965 TMG 512 stock release is also a mighty challenge to secure, as this non-hit sold virtually nothing upon release. Before you today is the rarest and most desirable of all it’s formats. So today before you are two lovely clean labels, original company sleeve. AS-side vinyl would receive a Mint - grade but for a light isolated scuff NOT affecting play (as you will hear as you click on the impressive soundfile) Two great sides - one essential TMG to own.. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 123.00 Freddie Houston If I Had Known C/w Only The Lonely One Strap yourself in!! Freddie’s booming vocal has the power to traumatize your soul. The former Herb Ward cover up has proved over the years to be Freddie’s most difficult 45 to find. Typical Big City full orchestra backing supported an astonishing vocal, that smashes through like a rampaging wounded-beast. An incomparable voice - totally out there on it’s own, in terms of power, delivery and presence. This man coveys emotion, you just cannot ignore.. Flip it over, the pace drops but that mighty vocal doesn’t.. Wanna add a record to your collection that offers up the very pinnacle of that “Lost Art” of the Big City sound.. THIS IS IT! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 378.00 Hayes Cotton Black Wings Have My Angel C/w I'll Be Waiting This guy has a unique way of delivering SOUL that leaves you aching for more…raw and untamed power totally captivating! But perhaps not as captivating as its certified “Rarest Of The Rare” status. All dealers and collectors can without fail tell you when and where they secured a rare dream-record. Like fisherman can tell you of their most-prized-fish catches in great detail. The one and ONLY time I’ve ever found this trophy in the wild, was way back in the 80s when my regular visits to Rip Lays California shop/warehouse eventually led to me finish looking at his immense stock in Corncord, California. Having a few days left before my fight home and sleeping on Rip’s settee. He suggested after dinner I should check out the tin-shed in his backyard, as the temperature had fallen below the 90s. Next day crack of dawn, like a ferret I was in that still steaming hot shed ripping into sealed boxes of 45s.. Choking dust, searing heat but I kept up the pace as a box of Diamond’s had just thrown me Kurt Harris, Joan Baker later a Celeste Hardie or two and tons of mid-range 70s grooves. Then my prize of the trip, a gleaming yellow beacon half way down an 100 count, lay Hayes Cotton staring back at me.. Damn pleasing day, as I sat at Rip’s kitchen table and to my disappointment after 12 hours craft. The Hayes Cotton, Kurt Harris & the next 5 records in my great find I inspected were warped… I said ..”Shit Rip my best finds are sodding warped…” Rip bemusingly replied “Of Course They Are Warped..it’s gets over 90 degrees in that yard and like an oven in that shed…I won’t go in there… Spiders the size of mice” From totally rippled to light storage, Rip was right every 45 had some form of buckling This offering I can unequivocally tell you, must be the finest example on Planet Earth - totally flat and totally flawless.. after that not so euphoric trip down “Memory Lane” we’ll let Hayes Cotton do the rest of the selling…. Click and unleash a Northern Soul BEAST with very few equals… Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 1,800.00 International G.t.o.'s I Love My Baby C/w It's Been Raining In My Heart I first encountered this juggernaut in a pre-Wigan Casino era in the wilds of Lincolnshire circa 1971 ?. When informed a young Soul Sam was playing Northern Soul in Lincolnshire; a Morris Minor Van full of unkept Pork-Pie-ville teenagers made the long excursion of 25 miles. How exciting trading one dull market town for another on a Friday night.. but for us super-hip young-souls it was at the time, perhaps our longest trip ever… One new recruit inquired after 6 miles “Why the Fcuk are we traveling so very far for a night out?” the answer was.. “Soul Sam is the DJ and he has the International G.T.O’s” “new recruit” from the back of the van… “Fcuk!! I Don’t Wanna Catch it..!” Like a scene from Elaine Constantine’s excellent “Northern Soul” movie, if you didn’t understand Northern Soul, you could well be heard making unwittingly funny remarks that near 45 years later, will still be remembered as the highlight of the evening… THIS IS NORTHERN SOUL from the inauguration of the scene spreading into the sticks.. tunes like this made teenager take epic journey’s into the unknown…and to just think only 18 months later we stood in amazement in the Highland Room, at Blackpool Mecca.. This copy of memories is immaculate! just a brief hairline brush detected after a lengthy inspection, otherwise Mint. PS do not overlook the hauntingly gorgeous flipside. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 305.00 Irma Thomas Time Is On My Side + 3 Girl defiance at it’s most impressive!! A record that the Rolling Stones recorded as an album track, but impressed so much, it achievea a 45 release in the USA. No offense Mr. Jagger but you didn’t think that Irma’s on-her-knees performance was never ever gonna be improved on..? “Time Is On My Side” stands today as Irma’s most-memorable recording as she injects sister-audacity into every word. But this is no “one cu”t EP the other three tracks deliver all the aspects that New Orleans Soul has to offer. Even with no front-cover picture of the “Soul Queen Of New Orleans”, there is something completely irresistible about the sleek laminated 60s British EP jacket.. especially with cover, front and back, both labels and the two playing surfaces in neat, clean condition flawless condition! Irresistible… Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 135.00 Mints I've Got Style Vocal / Instrumental This attention grabbing and insanely rare Northern Soul on a most-beautifully designed label; Has been a huge tune for over a for World renowned DJ Michael Robinson at Manhattan’s “Dig Deeper” club - a Soul-Speak-Easy where the tunes have to rumble and shake to make a turntable appearence. Else where in the world, it’s extreme rarity has prevented it becoming wider known. This classic styled stomper starts with some angry drum-skin wraps colliding with blaring trumpet blows. Then the lead vocal group takes hold and belts out real-deal Northern Soul! A choking lead vocal goes all out to deliver substance & emotion, as his teammates back him with muscular “Daa Darrhh’s” choruses and those trumpets continue to punctuate the song with evermore adventurous note combinations. This is from the streets of I’m not sure where, but it’s damn impressively noncommercial and richer for its defiant atmosphere.. like all the great stompers over the decades, no attempt has been made to refine or polish in any way, just raw, off-the-cuff and oh so powerful. Jimmy Raye’s “Philly Do Around The World” would be a close comparable, all guts and blast, as a true Northern Soul stomper should be. Rarity? Well it is our FIRST COPY in memory and condition of the vinyl and both labels is glorious! Bigger NS Potential is staring right at you… Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 289.00 Willie Amos Hunt Would You Believe C/w My Baby Wants To Dance The real beauty of the rare British Soul release 45 does not come more eye-catching than this listing. The real beauty of the rare British Soul release 45 does not come more eye-catching than this listing. Complete with its birth-sleeve and sporting two flawless labels certainly one Britains most-gorgeous. But there is so much more this 1967 British impossible than it’s striking good looks, it is after all a 7 second shorter but SUPERIOR MIX to it’s USA counterpart on Streamside. From the very first note you know it’s gonna different as the UK copy drops the guitar intro goes straight into booming vocal from the first note. William Hunt steadily builds the atmosphere assisted by a simplistic piano rhythm, blaring horns, low-blow Sax and a gang of shrill girls ramping up the background. By any standard this Bobby Hebb composition is Northern Soul Big City Sound at it’s blistering best! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 85.00 Levon And The Hawks He Don't Love You Issued twice in the USA and not easy to find, on the ATCO release on either number… issued once in the UK and so darn difficult to find, especially in this 50 year state of perfectness. MINT - in every way. Click the sound-file and unleash a most unusual slab of mid-paced Northern Soul. A foot-stomping stroller decorated by a relentless and decidedly jazzy piano, ever present blaring horns, full on echo-chamber harmony chorus support an extremely confident vocal, just telling the lady exactly how it is. “He’ll Break Your Heart” So very positive - so damn infectious - one for the very discerning UK collector…condition can only be described as “mirror-like” Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 150.00 Earl Gains You Belong To Me C/w Don't Take My Kindness For A Weakness The legendary rare “510 XX” mix; Promo miss-press that plays “YOU BELONG TO ME” instead of the credited “I Have Loved And I Have Lived” Prepare yourself for a relentlessly surging stomper; a thumping, snarling slab of the real stuff! Acrobat inducing runaway truck of a tune; who’s reputation has built up over the years, as the frustration of playing the relatively common release that plays correctly, became entirely annoying. I just love these quirky pressing plant cock-ups, that provide the collector and DJ with worthwhile challenges to pursue for ownership. We know this “title” appears on his highly elusive HBR album, but this being it’s only form as a 7”, with the Deluxe 125 release being a slowed down and totally inferior dreary mix. Only way to own this floor destroyer at it’s much-prize single is to find this “NS folklore” miss-press and boy, is that an expedition into hair-pulling irritation… Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 278.00
JOE TORQUAY Posted October 22, 2014 Author Posted October 22, 2014 big mama thornton / wade in the water has gone up a bit, i thought it was less than a ton these days, joe.
Kjw Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 big mama thornton / wade in the water has gone up a bit, i thought it was less than a ton these days, joe. You're right - it is 1
pow wow mik Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 He used to list it at £15 for years, and it was always on the lists. 1
Soulboyrecords Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 You're right - it is https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Big-Mama-Thornton-Blues-45-Arhoolie-45-520-Wade-In-The-Water-Ball-And-Chain-/261559003306?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3ce621a8aa Thought that was a lot @ 50 quid 1
JOE TORQUAY Posted October 23, 2014 Author Posted October 23, 2014 mind you don't see many about anymore, don't think i've seen more than 5 for sale this year, come to think about it there never was a lot about, but i don't see every list out there, joe.
Mot Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 The Big Mama Thornton is nearly £200 over priced!!! £30 to £50 tops!!!! I can't believe people all willing to pay these sort of prices for a common record, did have plays about 10 years ago or so..........surely its not that indemand these days.
Pete S Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 The Big Mama Thornton is nearly £200 over priced!!! £30 to £50 tops!!!! I can't believe people all willing to pay these sort of prices for a common record, did have plays about 10 years ago or so..........surely its not that indemand these days. Totally agree with you. £50 tops.
mid tempo Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Wow...got that step by step lp off barnsleys tues market albeit 81/82 ish for 10 pence. Plus loads of other good stuff. Happy days....gaz. 1
soulfulmick Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 I'll give you 50p for Gaz that's a good profit for you Wow...got that step by step lp off barnsleys tues market albeit 81/82 ish for 10 pence. Plus loads of other good stuff. Happy days....gaz. 1
Russoul1 Posted October 24, 2014 Posted October 24, 2014 thought the shorty long demo was cheap not a easy one plus its a cracking tune on both sides, managed to get a us copy on soul which again isn't easy to find
Guest Aaron Darcy Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 (edited) big mama thornton / wade in the water has gone up a bit, i thought it was less than a ton these days, joe. its never £223 pounds £50 imo Edited October 25, 2014 by Aaron Darcy
Guest Aaron Darcy Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Big-Mama-Thornton-Blues-45-Arhoolie-45-520-Wade-In-The-Water-Ball-And-Chain-/261559003306?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3ce621a8aa Thought that was a lot @ 50 quid Thats more like the price £50 not very good tune imo
Guest Aaron Darcy Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 Totally agree with you. £50 tops. I have the same opinion as you Mr Smith even £50 quid is too much
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