Popular Post Bo Diddley Posted May 17, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 17, 2017 (edited) JM Auction results for future reference. Cheers. Frankie Alexander No Seat Dancing A personally dedicated copy of this translucent Memphis mover.. delicately superb mix of horns, girls and skilled synth, which Frankie’s pleading vocal style suits completely. Two Tennessee Soul greats join hands in the studio, to craft an 80’s delight.. ex-Bar-Kay and Otis Redding air crash survivor pulls in the rhythms and horns whilst neighbor from Nashville calls upon his vast studio experience to arrange this impressive Rare Soul Dancer. Currently in the play-box of a few A-list DJ’s Pat Bleasdale, Soul Sam etc doing the business in particular. Apart from the unique “personal dedication” on the label the was obviously played by “Girlfriend” Doris, the vinyl surface is visual vg+ plays as you can hear, crisp clean & true… Rare disc, currently owned by a few privileged NS jocks… Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 402.00 Luther Ingram If It's All The Same To You Baby / Exus Trek No words from me could ever elevate this work of genius any higher that it already sits… No vignettes of memories of how I was mesmerized not only by the whirlwind of strings, zipping in and out of a dynamic Detroit production, or by the footwork of “Brillo” a man who completely nailed the Northern Soul art of dance…before my eyes. You’re heard it all before… and even though you’ve heard the record many times before … I defy anyone not to want to hear it again… and again..and again..!! THIS IS NORTHERN SOUL at it’s outrageous best! Condition of this”Vinyl Promo Jewel” is impeccable - just a few very mild hairlines blemishes, plays MINT! Labels are flaw-free … No need for stories… Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 656.00 Ralph Johnson Have Your Fun Vocal / Instrumental Crazy About Crossover? Check out this premier-division Soulful cruiser. A truly fabulous Chicago floater version of the magnificent old-school stomper of The Topics version on “Dream” a NS Holy Grail. Johnson utilizing the lyrics but transforming it from a wild frantic NS storm, into the most sublime of heartfelt “I Told You So” reminders a man has ever sung to his wayward partner.. This is a record that creeps up on you, starting as “Oh This Is Really Nice” and by the last note..you’re ready to shout out “WOW what as tune!” Classy strings, gentle precise bongos and considerate horns lay a raft for Ralph Johnson to state his case; that she had been advised, and now he’s dismissive of her gamble, that she seems to have lost… The age-old moral of “The Grass Isn’t Greener On The Other Side” is again underlined by beautiful poetry, woven into a brilliantly understated arrangement, allowing all the artist’s mixed-emotions from smugness and hurt to flood out of this stand-out production.. Crazy about Crossover? This is Northern Soul Crossover at it’s most exquisite!! This copy is FLAWLESS! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 410.00 Helen Shapiro He Knows How To Love Me / Shop Around A flawless copy of Helen’s hardest to acquire Columbia Northern Soul recordings. Helen, the British answer to Timi Yuro, with their very own Italian signorina the owner of an equally distinctive voice. Two vocal heavyweights of the Big Production genre. Ironically Helen was often the topic of conversation at Beck Recording studios in Kettering during the early seventies, when a steady stream of Northern Soul youngsters would take their cassettes tapes, borrowed 45s, LP’s the affable chain smoking Derek Tompkins to have an acetate cut, a 7” copy to play in your DJ set. No Soul Police in those naive years, OVO standards as distant, as Orwell’s 1984. It was an eduction, as Derek would demostrate how an acetate cut was made, and explained to me, how his cutting machine would not be able to cut my buddy Wilkie’s Ty Karim - You really made it good to me - onto an Arctic promo disc with a blank b-side, I brought along with me.. “Stupid boy” He was also the engineer for many Helen Shapiro sessions, and would tell us stories with love in his eyes, how he considered her the greatest Brit-girl singer of them all. Reflecting upon, if it wasn’t for her gentle personality, non-pushy persona she would have risen to lasting international stardom. Such a nice guy Derek, I often wondered if his shop would be there the next week, as he casually lit one cigarette after another, even after he had demonstrated the explosive power of the acetate “wool” the cutting process curled up into an innocent looking ball of black fluff… visions of an Ealing Comedy sketch of total devastation would run through my mind as I headed back to Melton Mowbray.. Today, I wholeheartedly agree with Derek, Ms Shapiro’s consummate vocal should have elevated her to worldwide stardom, but she has, and always will hold a very special place in the hearts of the Northern Soul community… Both sides of this elusive disc, reveal as much explosive material as Derek Tompkins’s ash tray filled, acetate debris littering that fabled office in Kettering.. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 233.00 Tommy Navarro I Cried My Life Away Top Tune - Tip Top Condition! So close to a Manship-Mint two X’s on label…vinyl with a perfect mirror finish.. Latino Northern Soul with dangerous qualities of addiction, that have held the need for ownership amongst the DJ’s and the NS collectors it seems for forever, without bursting through its perceived price barrier… But in the last few years, the dearth in availability of a really spectacularly clean copy, leaves us anticipating an upward spike in value…is this about to soar? A big Northern Soul want that has over the decades has been a title…that has had very few owners willing to take to market… One click of the soundfile reveals exactly why, another reminder of the impeccable state of the vinyl and we expect a bit of a rumble to claim this slice of Northern Soul perfection… as we have no expectations of another squeaky clean copy popping up any time soon.. Conition, Contition, Condition…. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 395.00 Buck And The Sixteenth Movement Fool, Fool / Trust Me This Night (1st Mix) Beyond Rare Sweet Soul, before Raymond Buckner broke through on the “Playboy” label, he promo’d with “Trust Me This Night” backing it up with “Fool, Fool” a delicious Soulful Stepper of the very highest calibre, heavly inspired by fellow Chicagoan group “The Impressions” As quality Sweet Soul, Low-Rider, the Chill-out tune, features stronger in DJ set it is becoming one of the most collectable genre in the spectrum of “Rare-Soul”.. and it’s a worldwide thing, everybody is chasing these real top-drawer recordings… Raymond Buckner from this demo session went to a contract with Playboy, to re-record “Trust Me This Night” and to choose a different flipside entirely for the Playboy release.. Leaving this single the only way to own “Fool,. Fool” and indeed the first mix of “Trust Me This Night”. Two highly polished Soulful Steppers and dead-right for today, no matter what corner the Soul globe you operate in. Love BOTH sides.. top-drawer vocal group indie Soul from Chicago.. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 406.00 Bobby Bland A Touch Of The Blues Utterly flawless vinyl - perhaps unplayed since birth.. label perfection suggests that with no spindle trails to be found. Front cover it like NEW not a laminate vein, wrinkle or hairline to be seen! Back cover is flawless, although there is the tiniest of bumps of the very middle of the opening only visible from the back. This is British Soul album collecting at it’s most satisfying!! Especially when you browse the salivating track listing; Shoes, Getting Used To The Blues, One Horse Town, Set Me Free etc. etc. Rare in the extreme, in this condition.. mission impossible! Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 91.00 Brenda Holloway Tell Me Your Story For Motown Madness this week we have California Angel Brenda Holloway with a unique 10” Jobette acetate delivering Northern Soul! Motown’s two Roberts again craft Motown with a difference with a horn crammed mid-tempo giving Brenda an early chance showcase her impressive vocal range as brass resounds all around her. After the unusual intro, it snaps straight in Motown with Brenda’s word closely monitored by a shrill girl gathering. The combination of Brenda’s reassuringly flawless vocal, supported by the imperative Motown girl-congregation fires the Motown-Sound as good as we’ve selfishly come to expect.. but the ingredient of “The Roberts” Staunton & Walker, like they did with The Hit Pack “Never Say No To Your Baby” …added in an anti-Motown edge to the session with brass riffs hinting and attitude and defiance.. Maybe they wanted Brenda to perform with a little more “sugar” because the committee rejected it for release completely, whilst years later becomes a Northern Soul beast of a tune… Here is the March 127th 1965 ORIGINAL 10” acetate we “reject” and “recoat” written on the label by the powers in the office of Motown… Killer Northern Soul has always slipped by decision makers no matter what the label.. The chance to own “unique” .. do not pass by Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 182.00 Wombat I'm Gettin' On Life ORIGINAL and it’s a Manship Mint!! first press, so darn hard to acquire especially in this unsurpassable condition. Let’s pop back to my personal experience of “Wombat” as a Northern Soul 45 that entered my life like a Juggernaut loaded with house bricks crashing into my granny’s front room one school holiday morning whilst “Housewife’s Choice” was merrily playing Perry Como “Magic Moments” Back to 1972 and the Catacombs, were have a quick oldies spot of 15 minutes playing just a single minute of each song, without pause and with no DJ introduction…that low ceiling shuddered, the condensation dripped like an Asian shower and the place went MAD!! Bobby Hebb’s – Love, Love, Love followed by Frankie Valli – You’re Ready Now then Rufus Lumley I’m Standing … 15 solid oldies ratcheted the place up into fever pitch… I have no idea who the DJ was but he had the place kickin’ …he then pulled off a stroke of genius.. just as we were expecting Johnny Wyatt’s _ This Thing Called Love .. without warning a totally new sound with a rattling drum intro, a thrumming Bass guitar rhythm broke the steaming atmosphere.. a strange echoing vocal pierced the air.. then magnificent change of pace and wailing horns joined in.. then back to that intro, more horns.. the guy next to me shouted “What The Fuck is this?? Not a single dancer stopped dancing.. THIS WAS NORTHERN SOUL!! At it’s most electric I’ve never witnessed that inventive way to introduce a new tune and keep the club adrenaline pumping, he followed it with Ben Aiken - Sat-is-fied … Some Northern Soul “Magic Moments” just stick with you forever, the very best of times, the very best of DJing techniques lifted that string of records into a state euphoria I never witnessed since…. Smart DJing… here’s a smart immaculate previously unplayed 100% authentic original.. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 225.00 Little Hank Mister Bang Bang Man The Rare almost mythical 1966 STOCK copy of a Twisted Wheel favourite, that over the years has been the subject of some very inaccurate conversation.. It was alleged at one stage, that the STOCK copy is so impossibly rare because it was hurriedly withdrawn, to champion the launch the new UK Monument label. Unfortunately that theory is over 3 years out of date..as it took that long for Monument UK to be born. The other theory was “Mister Bang Bang Man” was too risque for the British public.. but it was only 3 years later when Lulu gyrated to “Boom Bang A Bang” was representing the “prude” British in the Eurovision. More likely as Decca, who were notorious for deleting 45’s after a very small window of no sales, that it simply got missed by everyone before the “Wheel” DJ’s turned it into the country’s most-wanted club-tune. Leaving everyone exasperated that Decca had deleted such an in-demand tune…so quickly.. Whatever the reason, it became over the years, a legendary British Northern Soul dance classic to find.. So very much more challenging to acquire than the DEMO and a beautiful vista fir the Old-School.. This example is a fine clean play perfect copy, a few mild surface blemishes a strong Ex + vinyl & labels Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 162.00 Jimmy Ricks Oh What A Feeling The man with the “Liver-quivering” boom, serves up “Beat Ballad Heaven” and then some.. If you can avert your eyes from that exquisite label design for just a second or two; click the soundfile to be taken over by the warmest, coolest vocal to ever grace a Northern Soul turntable. The former major component for The Ravens vocal group, flexes his muscular singing prowess on a typically “Titus Turner” slow drag oozing a richness that very few other recordings can give. Listen, submerge yourself into a unique style that will have you captivated.. so much in fact I could not resist recording the flipside, as Jimmy deconstructs a Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein’s standard, giving it another aspect and us another listen to an incomparable artist… Two killer tunes… on one utterly irresistible label…pressed into that durable New York vinyl. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 311.00 Bell Boys I Don't Want To Lose You / Woman In Love A truly spanking copy of a Northern Soul timeless classic that has so much more to offer than memories…you only have to flip it over to witness a record that left Keb Darge crowing “all you dicks have been playing the wrong side for years”. We of course could never tell the man he was right but “Woman In Love” opens the doors for an inspired drop, as that side is the gatherings own creation, as producer Paul Sferro pull no punches and takes no prisoners on the Northern Soul batteringram. First, travel back to the halcyon days of Wigan Casino, Cleethorpes Pier, Yate etc and hear the Bell Boys rework the Jackie Wilson song, and inject even more stamina into it… forging an instant Northern Soul success story as the guys inject even more vitality into an already great song. Then that time to digest what we all missed whilst lapping up the “obvious” danceflloor prowess of the A-side.. as Keb quite rightly pointed out to me as he slapped my ear after I inquire on it’s purchase, if he was playing “oldies”? “Stupid Boy” …”“all you dicks have been playing the wrong side..ffs” that snarling Scottish gruff accent deterred me from making a reply… A listing for those seeking perfection whilst gathering Northern Soul’s anthems… But also a fabulous capture for those of you who are finding real-deal Northern Soul “underplayed” gems hard to come by.. This 45 ticks every single box… including clipping your friends ear when they ask stupid questions about it.. Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 336.00 Edited May 17, 2017 by bo diddley 4
Dobber Posted May 17, 2017 Posted May 17, 2017 no grabbers on there,all stuff that hangs around on ebay and sales lists
Guest Gogs Posted May 18, 2017 Posted May 18, 2017 i was thinking that some of the records were a bit cheap for a JM's auction. I thought that Wombat, Navarro and the Bell Boys might have made £500, going by how JM's auctions usually go. for a change i could have probably predicted these prices.
Bo Diddley Posted May 19, 2017 Author Posted May 19, 2017 Agreed, the last time Wombat was on John's auction I think it made LOT'S more. Also, you may well see Luther at a set sale price for that amount. A nice copy of the Bell Boys (apparently) signed by the group sold on eBay last week for much less I'll be interested to see how the Yum Yum's and Timi finish.
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