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 Wednesday 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 Wednesday 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 Wednesday 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 Wednesday 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 21 hours ago by Jessie Pinkman

[Jimmy Mack]

strong backing just needed a stronger vocal and it reminds me of Bye Bye Baby -Mary Wells 

[Mal C]

Reminds me of the early 9ts, when I had it on a tape, I was hooked into that walkman!  love it for that, and of course its dog rare and all that, but lets face it, she isnt Mary Wells...

[Happy Feet]

22 minutes ago, Mal C said:

Reminds me of the early 9ts, when I had it on a tape, I was hooked into that walkman!  love it for that, and of course its dog rare and all that, but lets face it, she isnt Mary Wells...

More Louise Lewis , Wee Oo I'll Let It Be You Babe , good gear , right time , full floor , nuff said .

[Marc Forrest]

Heres a funny bit of trivia with that record: When I had Gary Spencer over here to deejay at our allnighters in Berlin late eighties, this alongside Jr. McCants, Deon Jackson, Idols etc was one of his main spins. I fell in love with it upon first hearing. So Gary knowing how much I loved it offered it to me first refusal when he was selling up a couple of years later, maybe 94 ? Still remember paying 300 GBP for it, a VG+ copy, telling myself "thats crazy, you cant tell that anyone" ...how times and PRICES have changed  ! However, a few years later I had to move it on (to Timmy Boy Brown) and thought I would never ever get it back. Fast forward a couple of years, maybe ten, and a US contact of mine  phones me "you wouldnt believe what I just found on top of a pile of records on the basement stairways of a LA second hand shop!" ...that baby was (and still is) mint-  ... did cost me a wee bit more than my first copy though LOL ! So there I was a few months or maybe even years later with that record in my box sitting next Carl Willingham (RIP) in a Leipzig coffee shop one morning after the two of us had deejayed there together, and guess what: He had bought my old copy back then from Tim Brown and there we were, the two of us with the same ultra rare record sitting next to each other in a Leipzig coffee shop thousand miles away from where that record was published some 40 odd years later ! I mean, what were the chances... ? 

For the record: I am that crazy that I also successfully hunted down her other Phelectron 45 "The Victory Song"..and I even love that one

[Dobber]

6 minutes ago, Marc Forrest said:

Heres a funny bit of trivia with that record: When I had Gary Spencer over here to deejay at our allnighters in Berlin late eighties, this alongside Jr. McCants, Deon Jackson, Idols etc was one of his main spins. I fell in love with it upon first hearing. So Gary knowing how much I loved it offered it to me first refusal when he was selling up a couple of years later, maybe 94 ? Still remember paying 300 GBP for it, a VG+ copy, telling myself "thats crazy, you cant tell that anyone" ...how times and PRICES have changed  ! However, a few years later I had to move it on (to Timmy Boy Brown) and thought I would never ever get it back. Fast forward a couple of years, maybe ten, and a US contact of mine  phones me "you wouldnt believe what I just found on top of a pile of records on the basement stairways of a LA second hand shop!" ...that baby was (and still is) mint-  ... did cost me a wee bit more than my first copy though LOL ! So there I was a few months or maybe even years later with that record in my box sitting next Carl Willingham (RIP) in a Leipzig coffee shop one morning after the two of us had deejayed there together, and guess what: He had bought my old copy back then from Tim Brown and there we were, the two of us with the same ultra rare record sitting next to each other in a Leipzig coffee shop thousand miles away from where that record was published some 40 odd years later ! I mean, what were the chances... ? 

For the record: I am that crazy that I also successfully hunted down her other Phelectron 45 "The Victory Song"..and I even love that one

Great story Marc

As for this tune and many others,no dont doubt they are gonna be getting the AI treatment and re released on some label

[Robbk]

8 hours ago, Marc Forrest said:

Heres a funny bit of trivia with that record: When I had Gary Spencer over here to deejay at our allnighters in Berlin late eighties, this alongside Jr. McCants, Deon Jackson, Idols etc was one of his main spins. I fell in love with it upon first hearing. So Gary knowing how much I loved it offered it to me first refusal when he was selling up a couple of years later, maybe 94 ? Still remember paying 300 GBP for it, a VG+ copy, telling myself "thats crazy, you cant tell that anyone" ...how times and PRICES have changed  ! However, a few years later I had to move it on (to Timmy Boy Brown) and thought I would never ever get it back. Fast forward a couple of years, maybe ten, and a US contact of mine  phones me (1)"you wouldnt believe what I just found on top of a pile of records on the basement stairways of a LA second hand shop!" ...that baby was (and still is) mint-  ... did cost me a wee bit more than my first copy though LOL ! So there I was a few months or maybe even years later with that record in my box sitting next Carl Willingham (RIP) in a Leipzig coffee shop one morning after the two of us had deejayed there together, and guess what: He had bought my old copy back then from Tim Brown and there we were, the two of us with the same ultra rare record sitting next to each other (2) in a Leipzig coffee shop thousand miles away from where that record was published some 40 odd years later ! I mean, what were the chances... ? 

For the record: (3) I am that crazy that I also successfully hunted down her other Phelectron 45 "The Victory Song"..and I even love that one

(1) I didn't know that even a 2nd copy was found after mine.  How many of them are known now?  How many Jackie Day Phelectrons are known?

(2) Leipzig is a helluva lot farther from L.A. than 1,000 miles!  Maybe it is 1,000 miles from Lancashire?  What do you mean by the record being published 40 years later than 1990, or 1965?

(3) I didn't know there was a 2nd Terri Goodnight Phelectron record!  Can someone post scans and sound files (at least snippets) of it?  Did Jackie Day have more Phelectron releases?  Did Phelectron issue rercords sung by any other asrtists?  Was this record obtained from the producer (Ken Easton), or from Johnny Cochran?

I found "The Victory Song" on YouTube.  Terri's singing is not very good, but the instrumental is awful, noisy and tinny.  They really didn't know what they were doing.  I also never saw that one, or heard anything about it.  I'd bet that it never got to a record shop.

Edited 7 hours ago by Robbk

[Dave Pinch]

Truly awful record.. worse than Margaret little and that’s saying summat

[Robbk]

18 minutes ago, Dave Pinch said:

Truly awful record.. worse than Margaret little and that’s saying summat

I can tell that Terri was an accomplished singer, who had a trained voice.  She had an operatic style, like Liz Lands.  She had attended basically "all White schools" and so, had a standard TV American accent (like Barbra McNair).  And like Barbra, she didn't change to The Southern US African-American dialect just to sing Soul-style songs.  So, her singing style was not a good one to sing Soul "Stompers" like "They Don't Know".  Her style not what Soul music fans are expecting or what they think is good, because it sounds "weird" and not like what they heard and came to love.  She sang in an award-winning Gospel choir, and her Gospel singing was quite good.  She can carry as tune very well, and really has a nice singing voice.  She just used the wrong style for the songs Easton (or Cochran) picked for her.

Cochran was quite a sharp character (in the first tier of US Lawyers).  You'd think he would have realised that those songs were wrong for her style, and had an accomplished Soul singer demo the songs for her so she could mimic the proper style.  If American singers who don't know two foreign words can sing entire songs in a language they don't know, just by mimicking the sounds phonetically (Motown did that a lot), Terri could have mimicked a Soul singing style with no problems.

[Wheelsville1]

49 minutes ago, Dave Pinch said:

Truly awful record.. worse than Margaret little and that’s saying summat

Don't forget Lynn Terry as well Dave of which we spoke about several months ago,another very expensive pile of shite.

[Solidsoul]

This topic is becoming negative, with people feeling the need to share their personal dislikes of various different unconnected records.   

It's supposed to be about Terri Goodnight on auction at the moment.  Anybody got anything positive to say? 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Solidsoul