Bo Diddley Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 Not had a natter about JM auction results for a while. Thought I'd kick it off. Seemed to stop after the sad passing of Joe Torquay. I liked the idea of recording the results for future searches and reference. Anyhow, if Mike or the Mods feel it's inappropriate, please delete. Holly St. James That's Not Love A perfect copy of the biggest Northern Soul dance floor filler for the last 40 years. A New York teenage girl who unknowingly crafted an all-time classic, that would endure fully 4 decades of turntable tantalizing, triggering a worldwide search to find a copy, which proved decidedly daunting for all vinyl-hunters, no matter which century you were digging through. Today in 2017 to have an opportunity to acquire a flawless copy in a birth-sleeve is a RARE event, not only is it an elusive 45, but made even rarer by the fact few collectors or DJ’s are willing to part with explosive dancefloor crammers. Even though it now seems an age since I first heard it at Cleethorpes Pier, that potently unique kettle-drum-roll intro still has the presence of power to trigger a cocktail of goose-bumps, spine-tingling and neck-hair erecting involuntary emotions.. The mixed of naive young girl vocals gliding on a wave of a full orchestra is one of the most-inspiring moments of Northern Soul.. but if you’re a serious collector of the NS classics; the mirror-like sight of the vinyl as it slides from it’s birth-sleeve as you eagerly open your registered packet, will probably inspire you at your front door, even more than the cauldron of emotion fired every Saturday at Cleethorpes Pier or Wigan Casino as the intro rumbles in. “As good as condition gets” whilst hunting down the timeless classics! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 2,513.00 Jack Montgomery Don't Turn Your Back On Me / Never In A Million Years Today’s question is: “If Northern Soul ever existed” Let’s consider for a moment, that there was never ever a British Northern Soul scene, it never existed and the whole Soul Dance scene was based on the major company new releases… Shudder the thought, and give praise… so we don’t have to ponder the unthinkable, of what would have become to masterclass Soul Music or indeed the legacy of singers like Marvin Tyrone Jones (Jack Montgomery) who’s richly crooned vocal has pleased millions of ears over the decades, whilst selling virtually zero in their homeland, solely because of the Northern Soul scene Before you today is the very reason the Northern Soul scene is so vibrant and every year springs from strength to strength whilst records of this calibre are being played by DJ’s fortunate enough to own a copy. This is Detroit 60’s Soul at it utmost classiest, a recording nobody has ever grown tired of hearing and showcasing everything that sets the Northern Soul scene apart…shunning commercial Soul from the very genesis of All-Night-Clubs. Scouring the world for undiscovered monumental Soul treasures that originally passed for the last 50 years.. and today this recording is still causing dancefloor congestion wherever it is played, like all truly remarkable 45s, Jack Montgomery is held so very dear in the hearts all Rare Soul fans… What if their was no Northern Soul Scene, ever! To lose voices of this power of presence like Jack Montgomery would be have been more than a crime.. when your breath returns flip it over for a Detroit conceived Fred Bridges instrumental that is also jamming up a quick way to the dancefloor… How would these geniuses of Soul Music have been remembered Jack Montgomery, Don Mancha, Fred Bridges, Bobby Eaton, Richard Knight etc etc if it wasn’t for Northern Soul… let us wonder..? Listen to this masterpiece, even though it does reveal light surface marks to the eye, to the ear this virgin to the Northern Soul circuit plays crystal clear… Both labels are flawless.. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 612.00 Isley Brothers Why When Love Is Gone / Take Me In Your Arms (rock Me A Little While) The greatest Northern Soul double offering the “Brothers” released in the UK and ironically sold the least. Most missed the April 1968 surrounded on both sides with Radio spins and hits from Stevie Wonder & The Supremes. This Isley Brothers double trailer Northern Soul juggernaut was passed over, in fear of Tamla Motown airwave domination in the spring of ‘68. Didn’t take long though for the Soul Club DJ’s to latch onto both sides as being spectacular dancefloor ingiters. Today it still matters not a jot which side you drop the stylus on, the result is always the same, Northern Soul Motown mayhem, with Ivy Jo Hunter steering the “Why When Love Is Gone” and the trusty trio of Holland-Dozier-Holland at the helm of “Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) already a monster Twisted Wheel anthem for Kim Weston. Here is this double serving of Motown dance at it’s best in it’s most-wanted form. A 19th. Of April 1968 green & white DEMO in fine clean condition, no flaws on the vinyl or those two coveted labels. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 144.00 Kim Weston Your Mother Called On Me Today Only occasionally do I hear a record that demands you drop everything your doing and give an artist you complete and utter attention. This unique acetate already had my pulse quickening, the stepping “unknown” always does…with no artist credit on the label I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.. WOW I wasn’t disappoint as Kim’s isolated vocal sends tingles down my back as Motown’s Angel demonstrates why many consider her effortless pitching as Motown’s most-accomplish Sister vocalist. Not a single note is played on the intro to distract from her exquisite execution of the lyrics, discouraging this young girl from dating her son… You can feel her teenage pain on ever word as she utters, so delicately delivers.. The is a Motown balladeer right at the top of her game, and at this very Motown a better Motown Deep Soul ballad does not spring to mind, as I’m cloaked in a Soulful excellence… Got play it again, again and again..Ms Weston has me completely enthralled..by her voice, her backing singers serve up unmistakably Motown harmony choruses, whilst a considerate keyboard avoids intruding on those heavenly voices.. MOTOWN Real Soul at is most inspiring.. Perhaps, far too Soulful for release by Motown as vinyl, Before you today is an authentic Jobette acetate and the ONLY way to own this session in it’s original form…. Motown SOUL!! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 63.00 Soul Injection Stay Off The Moon / Girl Full Of Charm Very Rare small Northern California release, a creation saturated in superior-silky vocals as Arthur Smith seamlessly kneads together delicious harmonies over a Hammond prompted rhythm. Soaring doo-wahs coat the session, as they answer the rich lead-voice asking, in such a typically California way “Get Off The Moon”. Punctuated with some highly-inventive breaks resulting in Northern Soul Crossover at it’s sumptuous best and of course it’s rarest. Our first copy since October 2003, that copy caused more than a ripple, as several DJ’s left their contacts details for when the next copy turned up.. We always knew it would be a seriously rare 45, you only have to flip it over to hear “Low-Rider Heaven” as the rap intro prepares you for an icy-falsetto cutting the air as his teammates soften his searing edge.. Sweet Soul don’t get no better, Crossover side speaks for itself, classy in the extreme perfect for today’s thirst for top-drawer mid-tempo NS strollers.. But the Sweet Soul side is completely OFF-THE-SCALE in both rarity and quality.. “Dreamers” Do no pass by or be so ludicrous as to leave your phone number for when we get another copy… Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 813.00 Larry Williams & Johnny Watson A Quitter Never Wins / Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Continuing our British release, timeless classic listings in standout condition. This week again teleports me back to my enthusiastic days of embarrassing ignorance whilst relentlessly digging for Soul 45’s around Leicester. Circa Autumn 1969 I’d just heard of a new record shop opened on the Narborough Road, discouragingly named “Elvis Presley Fan Club”. I couldn’t get there quick enough…for a new dig. It was a fair distance from my Aylestone Road training workshop, but I ran there in my lunch break anyway. I’d spent the morning painting steam heating pipes grey and listening to Radio One’s insistence on playing the Archies - Sugar, Sugar - on the hour every hour, made doubly worse by a choir of “testicles fully attached” 16 year old Leicester apprentice gas fitter divvies singing the “Sugar, Sugar” chorus at the tops of their voices… Oh to get out in the fresh air at lunchtime, nice day for a run. I got to Narborough Road completely out of breath, only to find the vinyl-cache was at the other end of quite a lengthy road. By the time I got there I only had 15 minutes to look at what seemed to me at the time a mountain of 45s. He must have had at least 1000 records… I’d never seen so many before. First box I found nowt, same with the second box and I was getting frustrated with seeing black RCA’s of “The King”. I had to find something - I’d be quizzed by my piss-taking apprentice mates upon my return. Then staring at me was this Columbia label with the text “SOUL SUPPLY”. Sounds interesting! The title “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” evoked visions of a Sam & Dave style winner and the artists’ names kinda sound familiar..so I took a chance. Got back to the college, had the piss taken out of me the rest of the day for running so far for one record, and I couldn’t even tell “The Divvies” anything about it… let alone how it went, as one smart-arse asked “How’s it go Manny? Sing it to us!” In retaliation I said it’s got to be “Soul” it says so on the label “Soul Supply” and it will sound perfect because it also states on the label it’s an “Okeh” recording… I did think, “What a strange way to spell O.K.” Just when you’re sure you’re a teenage record expert, something new to learn popped up daily. 47 years later it still happens today and every day.. the never ending quest to find an antidote to recordings like “Sugar Sugar” “Lily The Pink” “Boom Bang A Bang” in 1969 and we’re still relentlessly diggin’ today in the fight against banal music .. PS When I got home and played it I thought WOW! I love that! “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” played it 10 times in a row like I always did, in my bedroom partly to learn the words, and partly to annoy my Dad… Then I flipped it over…within seconds that pounding dance intro, and those elastic vocals rebounding off each other…the “Northern Soul barbed hooks sank in…” I was never to wiggle free from a life of Soul vinyl ” A Winner Never Quits - A Quitter Never Wins” How true… Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 82.00 James Lately Love Friends & Money / Tears Are Falling From My Eyes It matters not which side you drop the stylus on this Detroit “Killer” what matters is this is one of Northern Soul’s most-wanted and opportunities to own a copy are so seldom, you cannot afford to miss the beyond-rare window of opportunity when it presents itself.. Neighborhood Detroit don’t get no more emotionasly moving than this.. more later.. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 1,575.00 Joe Quarterman & Free Soul Joe Quarterman & Free Soul BEYOND RARE! 1973 BRITISH press - yes BRITISH press Anyone reading this who has spent the last 45 years digging through vinyl in the UK was like me beginnng to think NO album can be this rare, and questioning whether this New York Funker was actually issue on these shores, like the # 4 45 press remain totally unobtainable. This is NO reissue, this is the 1973 real-deal release that sold NOTHING! Machine stamped matrix and vinyl that that flows from one track to another, skillfully showcasing Joe Quarterman’s extreme musical talents, seamlessly covering “Black Oppression” “Dance Funk” and “Soul” Check out the soundfile lifted from this exceptional album and gaze most probably up the cover & labels of the mythical 1973 BRITISH press… in flawless condition. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 89.00 Willie Mcdougall Don't Turn Away / I Can't Wait I’ve always be a sucker for that Bobby Blue Bland, Little Milton style snarling purr.. Check out Willie’s equally bludgeoning vocal on an uncompromising thumpin’ slab of elusive Northern Soul, a growling horn-drenched floorshaker that has never been bootlegged or re-issued. A real-hunk of a tune that has nowhere near received the turntable time it so obviously deserves (rarity, depriving the masses, can be the only possible reason) this knockout tune has not risen up into affordable stratosphere. Killer Northern Soul but do expect some stiff opposition from the Deep Soul aficionados as the Deep Soul side sits right along side some of the greats, with Fred Tanner flexes the same muscular approach to Soul as he did when guiding that lauded duo Sam and Bill through their magnificent Decca recordings. TWO single-mind highly motivated recordings, two different Soul genres but both every note as good as one another….. tunes!!!! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 246.00 Skull Snaps My Hang Up Is You / It's A New Day RARE 1973 UK press is the just as rare British GSF sleeve.. what a vinyl-vista of real beauty that makes. Top side was a strong Northern Soul 70’s play, that now is on the comeback trail just as availability has evaporated..and don’t it sound so damn good today.. George Kerr trickery and the cultured experience of The Diplomats deliver, what is “unique” style Northern Soul that takes you off the “same old-same old” tedium and sits you right in the middle of NS Oldies euphoria.. But it’s the flipside “It’s A New Day” that triggering just as much demand, as Funky Soul is flavour of the time no matter what venue you attend.. Two very wanted tunes, together in it’s rarest shirt & jacket.. looking gorgeous and sounding totally terrific… Condition is a smidgen off Mint minus through out.. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 222.00 S. O. U. L. Soul Part 1 & 2 Infuriatingly RARE Funker by one of the East Coast innovators of the sound. A Jazzy-Funker with a huge cult following and a deserved reputation for being and “impossible” to find disc, offer a vocal a-side with a solid message, and an instrumental flip that has been deconstructed and reworked into a fabulous “Flute” driven dancer. No wonder this addictive double offering has sat high on the wish-lists of all into the Jazzier side of Funk for what seems decades, and at last we have the pleasure of opening the window of DJ opportunity for those who have yearn ownership for so long.. a 45 that surfaces so seldom it is not a disc the serious collectors should pause over, we do not expect any “Shall I or shall I not..” deliberation…certainly not after it’s addictive power enters your brain.. LOVE IT!! both sides… Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 186.00 Copyright © John Manship Records. Privacy Policy 2
Soul16 Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 Jeez, I feel quite aroused after reading through all those flowery descriptions 1
Chris L Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 7 minutes ago, linda4me said: Holly St James wow £2500
Guest Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 Lots of others dealers do auctions as well! Why give one dealer free advertisment, and not the rest!
Popular Post Peter99 Posted May 10, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 10, 2017 2 minutes ago, solidsoul said: Lots of others dealers do auctions as well! Why give one dealer free advertisment, and not the rest! You can always start another thread mate. 6
Premium Stuff Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 (edited) 5 minutes ago, solidsoul said: Lots of others dealers do auctions as well! Why give one dealer free advertisment, and not the rest! I'm interested in all of them too However, John's auctions are open and transparent and the details are plainly there to see for a few days after (and on facebook for longer) Not all auctions are the same and often the finishing prices, bid increments etc. aren't accessible - especially where "blind bidding" is used without any "proxy bidding" facility - so you pay your maximum bid, regardless of what the next-lowest bidder offered Edited May 10, 2017 by Premium Stuff 2
Frankie Crocker Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 John's auction blurb makes for interesting reading and the prices achieved warrant discussion. Some of the prices are staggering - Holly St James @ £2,500 virtually doubling what it went for recently. Jack Montgomery, again realising a sum greatly in excess of the Price Guide valuation, and rightly so. John's auctions are the best around in many, many ways...keep the discussion flowing. 1
Frankie Crocker Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 16 minutes ago, solidsoul said: Lots of others dealers do auctions as well! Why give one dealer free advertisment, and not the rest! Some dealers' auctions are not worth checking out, let alone bidding on. Not mentioning any names but you can work it out... Some of the best auctions around are US sellers on eBay, (despite the flaws of eBay). John's records are as good as they come in 2017 - no other seller can match the condition of his wares, the range of records, after-sales service etc. The sales-pitches are poetry to these ears and well worth publishing - maybe a new book next Christmas? 1
Peter99 Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 22 minutes ago, FRANKIE CROCKER said: Some dealers' auctions are not worth checking out, let alone bidding on. Not mentioning any names but you can work it out... Some of the best auctions around are US sellers on eBay, (despite the flaws of eBay). John's records are as good as they come in 2017 - no other seller can match the condition of his wares, the range of records, after-sales service etc. The sales-pitches are poetry to these ears and well worth publishing - maybe a new book next Christmas? Yep, I agree. Always enjoyed Joe's weekly catch up. Other great sellers obviously but Johnny's auctions are always interesting. And as you say always great condition and quality service. 2
Bruv Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 I do like John's advertising spill for his record's coming up on Auction, he certainly knows his stuff. He is a very good salesman or it's his genuine love of the music...... 1
Peter99 Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 1 minute ago, Bruv said: He is a very good salesman or it's his genuine love of the music...... It's both. And he's always decent to deal with. 2
Bruv Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 1 minute ago, Peter99 said: It's both. And he's always decent to deal with. He certainly is Pete, I have had a few sounds of him in the past, that's the set price stuff not in the auction's!
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