Terri Goodnight on Manships

[Harrythedog]

Terri Goodnight - They Didnt Know- Phelectron

At last a proper real deal rare record and top quality northern. Dont hear this played too often. Dont know if the price reached will truly reflect the rarity of this record. Top Top Northern, one of the best.

[The Tempest]

Only ever seen one copy for sale - Darren’s site - and that sold for over £3k then ! Who knows where it will go ! 

[Ben Owen]

If two people want it, you never know! 

[Woodbutcher]

Rarity over quality for sure , bloody awful vocal , one can easily see why it's scarce as I doubt it sold more than a handful of copies on release ... 

[Jessie Pinkman]

2 hours ago, Woodbutcher said:

Rarity over quality for sure , bloody awful vocal , one can easily see why it's scarce as I doubt it sold more than a handful of copies on release ... 

On his site John mentions Terri's unique vocal style makes this tune so very special.

I'll bet there's a few acts on this weekends "Britain's Got Talent" with a similar unique vocal style. 

[Woodbutcher]

5 minutes ago, Jessie Pinkman said:

On his site John mentions Terri's unique vocal style makes this tune so very special.

I'll bet there's a few acts on this weekends "Britain's Got Talent" with a similar unique vocal style. 

Sits alongside Margaret Little as a tune I'd never give house room to , even if I won a Euromillions jackpot ... 

[Garswood]

Terrible vocals, worse than George lemons and there bad

[Solidsoul]

If people like and enjoy those records where's the harm in that! 

I wouldn't buy it, but I do think the Margaret Little has a great backing track and is good to dance too

Edited yesterday at 10:35 by Solidsoul

[Jessie Pinkman]

1 hour ago, Solidsoul said:

If people like and enjoy those records where's the harm in that! 

I wouldn't buy it, but I do think the Margaret Little has a great backing track and is good to dance too

I don't think a couple of comments on here will affect anybody's enjoyment of a record that they love. It certainly wont affect any of the bidders for the copy on John's auction..

Edited yesterday at 11:49 by Jessie Pinkman

[Woodbutcher]

It would appear to have disappeared , nothing now listed for next week or any Latest Additions now.

[Modularman]

21 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said:

It would appear to have disappeared , nothing now listed for next week or any Latest Additions now.

I think they take them down temporarily while the current auction is ending

[Woodbutcher]

7 minutes ago, Modularman said:

I think they take them down temporarily while the current auction is ending

Never seen that before , I regularly rummage around the following offerings while waiting for the current auction to finish , and they've not yet returned to showing anything.

Edited yesterday at 18:37 by Woodbutcher

[Lionelonthevinyl]

The thing I love is the quirkiness of rare soul!!! The chat with your pals saying, I think that's rubbish!! Well, I love it!!! No ones wrong. Just a matter of preference. No one else can understand it and where would we start to explain.....as for "Terri"....it's certainly not a big production sound!!!...I like it, but there's loads out of tune, with bad  backing .....gotta love it!!!.....thank you....Rob

Edited yesterday at 19:14 by Lionelonthevinyl

[Robbk]

On 18/02/2025 at 12:32, Woodbutcher said:

Rarity over quality for sure , bloody awful vocal , one can easily see why it's scarce as I doubt it sold more than a handful of copies on release ... 

It probably didn't sell even a handful.  I never saw it in any shop in 1965 or 1966.  I'd guess it had no commercial sales.  I found mine along with the Jackie Day in a Goodwill thrift store in South Central L.A.   We didn't stock it at any of the 3 Dolphin's of Hollywood stores. Neither did  Flash, Sam's, Crain's, Pat's, Lonny Cook's record shop, or any of the other LA stores, Chicago or SF Bay Area stores have it.  It was the only copy of that record I've ever seen or heard of.  While, it seems that a couple other copies of Jackie Day have turned up since.  I don't remember seeing it at the local distributors in L.A.  I frequented Record Merch. once a week.  That was the main outlet for local Indie Soul labels.  It never got there.  The fact that even the Jackie Day release didn't get stocked in local shops tells me that Phelectron didn't know the first thing about how to market local Soul records, and had no connections with distributors, record shops, local DJs, or anyone else in the record business who could get their records heard, or even seen by the public and known to exist.  I'm sure that Jackie Day was pissed that her record couldn't even get known to exist in public awareness.  Even if she didn't get her full residuals from record sales and Juke Box use from The Bihari's Modern Records, at least she was able to earn a living with personal club appearances, because her Modern cuts got some airplay on local Soul stations. 

Terri Goodnight, on the other hand, probably had no singing career, at all, as I never saw a venue appearance advert poster, her record in a shop, never met anyone who had heard of her, never heard of anyone else finding another copy of her record, and she didn't sing well enough to pass a tryout to get a nightclub gig.

[Jessie Pinkman]

21 hours ago, Lionelonthevinyl said:

The thing I love is the quirkiness of rare soul!!! The chat with your pals saying, I think that's rubbish!! Well, I love it!!! No ones wrong. Just a matter of preference. No one else can understand it and where would we start to explain.....as for "Terri"....it's certainly not a big production sound!!!...I like it, but there's loads out of tune, with bad  backing .....gotta love it!!!.....thank you....Rob

For me the production of a record isn't a problem, whether they're the big productions of the MGM's to the low budgets of Modo Records. I think the basic requirement of a soul record is that the vocalist can sing in tune. I'm not talking about Luther Vandross or Aretha Franklin level, just a decent vocal performance will do. Take The Changing Scene "When the city sleeps" for example, the main vocalist kills that song for me, I can't listen to the whole of the record without stopping it.

Edited 3 hours ago by Jessie Pinkman