OK, Stevie G, the gauntlet is down!

Where do you start with 'best ballads on All Platinum/Stang/Turbo/Sugar Hill'? The labels fair overflow with them! You could fill a thread with Linda Jones tracks alone - but I won't...

Here's my starter for 10, in no particular order:

1. When The Hurt Comes Back - The Heartstoppers (AP)

2. 3 Minutes 2 Hey Girl - George Kerr (AP)

3. Just can't Lose Your Love - The Whatnauts (Stang)

4. You Won't Support Me - Mill Street Depo (Turbo)

5. You Made Me Love You - Phillippe Wynne (Sugar Hill)

6. Distant Lover - Kevin Keeys (Jersey Connection)

7. Gotta Find A Way - The Moments (Stang)

8. Love On A Two Way Street - Lezli Valentine (AP)

9. What Can I Do - Val Martin (AP)

10. I Fell Asleep - Chuck Jackson (AP)

Next list, please!

TONE

  TONY ROUNCE said:

OK, Stevie G, the gauntlet is down!

Where do you start with 'best ballads on All Platinum/Stang/Turbo/Sugar Hill'? The labels fair overflow with them! You could fill a thread with Linda Jones tracks alone - but I won't...

Here's my starter for 10, in no particular order:

1. When The Hurt Comes Back - The Heartstoppers (AP)

2. 3 Minutes 2 Hey Girl - George Kerr (AP)

3. Just can't Lose Your Love - The Whatnauts (Stang)

4. You Won't Support Me - Mill Street Depo (Turbo)

5. You Made Me Love You - Phillippe Wynne (Sugar Hill)

6. Distant Lover - Kevin Keeys (Jersey Connection)

7. Gotta Find A Way - The Moments (Stang)

8. Love On A Two Way Street - Lezli Valentine (AP)

9. What Can I Do - Val Martin (AP)

10. I Fell Asleep - Chuck Jackson (AP)

Next list, please!

TONE

Dave the Dentist has already mentioned The Equations and I have added

Optimistics on Turbo

and Bobby Patterson R.P.W.T.

Might have an All Platinum day on Sunday There's enough for a Kent LP....

Don't know about posting a list, Tone - I'll leave that to others more knowledgable than me - but top, top marks for numbers 1, 3 and especially 6, which has always been a favourite of mine.

  TONY ROUNCE said:

OK, Stevie G, the gauntlet is down!

Where do you start with 'best ballads on All Platinum/Stang/Turbo/Sugar Hill'? The labels fair overflow with them! You could fill a thread with Linda Jones tracks alone - but I won't...

Here's my starter for 10, in no particular order:

1. When The Hurt Comes Back - The Heartstoppers (AP)

2. 3 Minutes 2 Hey Girl - George Kerr (AP)

3. Just can't Lose Your Love - The Whatnauts (Stang)

4. You Won't Support Me - Mill Street Depo (Turbo)

5. You Made Me Love You - Phillippe Wynne (Sugar Hill)

6. Distant Lover - Kevin Keeys (Jersey Connection)

7. Gotta Find A Way - The Moments (Stang)

8. Love On A Two Way Street - Lezli Valentine (AP)

9. What Can I Do - Val Martin (AP)

10. I Fell Asleep - Chuck Jackson (AP)

Next list, please!

TONE

Mill Street Depo is on Stang, not turbo. Jimmy Mayes, leader of the Mill Street Depo, knew Al Goodman from back in Jackson, MS where Al was a member of the Carvettes.

1. moments - To you with love (this came out twice, both as b-sides, one is a horrible studio outtake sounding thing with no group and the other is totally excellent)

2. whatnauts - try me

3. spoilers - sad man's land on turbo (totally different than the tobin record)

4. We Three ltd. on astroscope (ultra-rare record)

5. Ponderosa twins - bound - astroscope

6. Young ladies on stang

7. prophecy - nya on all platinum

8. optimistics - should I let myself go - turbo

9. Linda Jones - for your precious love - Turbo

10. Willie and the mighty magnificents - make me your slave - all platinum

11. Equations - oh you sweet darlin - all platinum.

ALL PLATINUM -WITHOUT A DOUBT DONNIE ELBERT -GOT TO GET MYSELF TOGETHER,SOUL PERFEECTION,MY FAV STANG BALLAD AND THERE ARE MANY IS MARK GREEN-IM SO GLAD-VERY BIG DEEP SOUL RAVE UP OUR WAY,AS FOR TURBO THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE LOL LINDA JONES -ID SAY ,DONT GO SWIFTLY FOLLOWED BY THE IMPECCABLE -THINGS IVE BEEN THROUGH.

BAZ A

Linda Jones - Not on the outside - Turbo

The 45 responsible for my 30+ year love of Deep Soul

Steve

A few classic ballads in my book would be,

Lezli Valentine "I've Got To Keep On Loving You" (All Platinuim)

Derek Martin "That's What I'll Do" (Vibration)

Donnie Elbert "Can't Get Over Losing You" (Rare Bullet)

Linda Jones "Dont Go (I Can't Bare To be Alone)" (Turbo)

steve

Technically speaking not a ballad, as Dave 'Baby' Cortez doesn't sing more tell a story, but "Unaddressed Letter" is worth a listen. I seem to recall John Abbey loved this and mentioned in his US imports reviews in B&S. It's on the flip of "Funky Robot" and also on the Soul Vibration LP. Both on All Platinum of course.

Stuart

  Steve G said:

There's enough for a Kent LP....

theres a few AP Balads on the recent Tears full of soul CD

  lifeandsoul said:

theres a few AP Balads on the recent Tears full of soul CD

Was just going to mention that as well. There are at least two CDs on Castle which concentrates quite heavily on this stuff (by the way, I love "With You" by The Moments! ):

Basement Tracks: Soul Ballads from the Heart of Black America

1. For Your Precious Love - Jones, Linda

2. Time Is Love - Barnes, J.J.

3. I Can't Take No More Chances - Chosen Few (1)

4. Coward's Way Out - Valentine, Lezli

5. With You - Moments (1)

6. What You Don't Want Me To Be - Moses, Lee

7. Hurry Sundown - Staton, Candi

8. Think Of The Children - Satisfaction Unlimited

9. Let Me Keep On Walking - Prophesy

10. And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going - Jackson, Chuck

11. Love Is God Almighty - Optimistics

12. You Won't Support Me - Mill Street Depot

13. Love Stealing - Sheen, Bobby

14. I Can't Make It Alone - Lee, Laura

15. I've Been A Winner I've Been A Loser I've Been In Love - Smith Connection

16. Let's Make Love (At Home Sometimes) - Escorts (2)

17. Leaving Him Tomorrow - Taylor, Debbie

18. Give It Up - Johnson, Benny

19. For You Girl - Universal Mind

20. Meeting Place - Robinson, Wanda

Tears Full of Soul: Outta Sight Soul Essentials - the Heartfelt Sound (Basement Tracks Vol. 2)

Disc: 1

Jimmy James - I'm Glad

Odds & Ends - Talk That Talk

Brown Sugar featuring Clydie King - Weep For Me

Lee Charles - I Just Want To Be Loved

Black Ivory - Time Is Love

Gloria Barnes - Old Before My Time

Ray Gant & The Arabian Knights - Don't Leave Me Baby

Soul Generation - I Wonder What She's Doing

Pat Dennis - It's So Easy

Brook Benton - You Were Gone

The Trumains - Girl Don't Let Me Down

Lezli Valentine - Love On A Two-Way Street

Charles Brimmer - Please Let Me Come Home

The Carstairs - Story Of Our Love

Linda Jones - I Can't Make It Alone

Tommy Keith - On The Real Side

The Dynamics - Let Me Be Your Friend

Charen Cotton - A Little Bit Of Love

Disc: 2

Marion Jarvis - Hell Of A Fix

(You're Living) In A Dream World

Val Martin - What Can I Do

Jean Carn - Do My Best

Positive Express - Not On The Outside

Bobby Patterson - Right Place, Wrong Time

Lonnie Youngblood - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You

Communicators & The Black Experience Band - One Chance

Mark Greene - I'm So Lost

Jean Knight - Don't Ask For 24 Hours

Jimmy Briscoe & Little Beavers - Where Were You (When I Needed You)

Louis Williams - I Care For You

Eleanore Mills - Telegram

The Barrons - I'm So Lonely

Lee Moses - I Can't Take No More Chances

Susan Philips - He's Gone

First Class - What About Me

Dave Baby Cortez - Unaddressed Letter

Edited August 30, 200717 yr by Sebastian

Then there is also the following from Castle (I wouldn't mind an "All Platinum Boys" CD):

All Platinum Girls

Disc 1:

Norma Jenkins - Coward's Way Out

Susan Phillips - He Knows My Key (Is Always In The Mailbox)

Lezli Valentine - I Won't Do Anything

The Heartstoppers - Marching Out Of Your Life

The Moments and Linda Jones - I'm So Glad I Found You

Barbara Jean English - I'm Living A Lie

Norma Jenkins - Where Does The Love Go

Linda Glass - Before Love Beats Me Going

Rhetta Young - My Man Is On His Way

Geraldine Curry and The Heartstoppers - You're So Wonderful

Little Betty Baker - Just What The Doctor Ordered

Susan Phillips - Please Don't Keep Me Lonely

Sylvia - I Can't Help It

Gloria Spencer - I Got It

Jeanette White - No Sunshine

The Heartstoppers - The Ice Is Melting

Lezli Valentine - I'm So Lost

Linda Jones - When Hurt Comes Back

Eleanore Mills - How Can I Love You

Jean Carn - A Little Bit Of Your Love

Lisa Danielle - You're All I Need

Candi Staton - Hurry Sundown

Disc 2:

Barbara Jean English - Comin' Or Goin'

Norma Jenkins - One Girl Too Many

Susan Phillips - Answer To A Prayer

Eleanore Mills - Stop Accusing Me

Linda Jones - If Only We Had Met Sooner

Little Betty Baker - Stop Boy (What You're Doing Is Wrong)

Barbara Jean English - Breakin' Up A Happy Home

Beverley Hills - I Don't Care Anymore

Norma Jenkins - Go Home To Your Wife

The Heartstoppers - Courtin' Mama

Sylvia - It's A Good Life

Linda Jones - I Do

Eleanore Mills - Fascinating Devastating Man

The Heartstoppers - Brainwashed By Love

Retta Young - Really, Really

Jeanette White - Music

Susan Phillips - That's What I'll Do

Little Tracy Kerr - We've Got A Good Thing Goin'

Lezli Valentine - I've Got To Keep On Loving You

Sylvia - Pillow Talk

Candi Staton - Tender Hooks

Jean Carn - No More

Unknown Artist - Every Little Thing Will Be Fine

Edited August 30, 200717 yr by Sebastian

"Falling In and Out of Love" Derek Martin

Could someone also please tell me if there exists a complete discography of every LP released on the Stang / All Platinum / Turbo group of labels, including all the smaller subsidiary labels .

Eleanore Mills - Telegram

Donnie Elbert - That's If You Love Me

Donnie Elbert - I Can't Get Over Losing You

Donnie Elbert - If I Can't Have You

Pah!

I challenge all of the above with the magnificent......

"So This Is Our Goodbye" by the Moments.

Surely the Perfect Pinnacle of All Platinum Platters!

Sean

  boba said:

Mill Street Depo is on Stang, not turbo.

Sorry Boba, slip of the keyboard in my haste to kick this thread off...

...how are you liking Little Duck and the Quackers, BTW?

  TONY ROUNCE said:

Sorry Boba, slip of the keyboard in my haste to kick this thread off...

...how are you liking Little Duck and the Quackers, BTW?

haha, I can't tell if you're making fun of me for buying that, but I haven't gotten it yet. Ronn is a random label to collect for me, especially because they put out so much weird chicago stuff. Plus my friend is really into chipmunk-style novelty records, so I figured I could give it to him if it didn't work out.

  boba said:

haha, I can't tell if you're making fun of me for buying that, but I haven't gotten it yet. Ronn is a random label to collect for me, especially because they put out so much weird chicago stuff. Plus my friend is really into chipmunk-style novelty records, so I figured I could give it to him if it didn't work out.

No, not making fun of you at all, my friend - I've had a copy of that 45 for about 38 years and I've often played it out to mirthful reaction.

You are probably aware that LD and the Q's are, in fact, Joe Stampley and the Uniques. It's Joe himself doing the duck vocals.

I only noticed that you were bidding on it because I've been looking to upgrade my own copy, which is about the same condition as the one that you were bidding on. It's a pretty rare item, all in all....

  TONY ROUNCE said:

No, not making fun of you at all, my friend - I've had a copy of that 45 for about 38 years and I've often played it out to mirthful reaction.

You are probably aware that LD and the Q's are, in fact, Joe Stampley and the Uniques. It's Joe himself doing the duck vocals.

I only noticed that you were bidding on it because I've been looking to upgrade my own copy, which is about the same condition as the one that you were bidding on. It's a pretty rare item, all in all....

I did not know it was the uniques, thanks for the info. I still have to ask that guy about the turnarounds photo for you, I will get back to you.

  baz atkinson said:

ALL PLATINUM -WITHOUT A DOUBT DONNIE ELBERT -GOT TO GET MYSELF TOGETHER,SOUL PERFEECTION,MY FAV STANG BALLAD AND THERE ARE MANY IS MARK GREEN-IM SO GLAD-VERY BIG DEEP SOUL RAVE UP OUR WAY,AS FOR TURBO THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE LOL LINDA JONES -ID SAY ,DONT GO SWIFTLY FOLLOWED BY THE IMPECCABLE -THINGS IVE BEEN THROUGH.

BAZ A

Mark Green.....................now that really is a top tune ...........on any label if you ask me. Only had one for a short amount of time (it was too scratchy)

All the Linda Jones tracks are wothwhile, I've even got a Yugoslavian ''Greatest Hits" LP

Love the Mill St Depot too

Great labels ,,,,,,,,,,great thread too

Cheers Paul

  soul shrews said:

Mark Green.....................now that really is a top tune ...........on any label if you ask me. Only had one for a short amount of time (it was too scratchy)

All the Linda Jones tracks are wothwhile, I've even got a Yugoslavian ''Greatest Hits" LP

Love the Mill St Depot too

Great labels ,,,,,,,,,,great thread too

Cheers Paul

AGREE ON THAT PAUL,DID MARK GREEN DO AN LP?THESE LOGOS ARE THE DOGS BOLLOKS IMHO.

BAZ A

A Mark Green LP now theres a thought.............don't think so but I will investigate baz

Cheers Paul

FIRST CLASS / ME AND MY GEMINI / ALL PLAT

Hello,

Nice track. And it sounds like Jerry Harris himself on lead vocals.

Paul Mooney

Got an ojays track on astroscope somewhere,will have to diG it out.

BAZ A

  millbrand said:

Hello,

Nice track. And it sounds like Jerry Harris himself on lead vocals.

Paul Mooney

Thanks. Who is Jerry Harris? Can you easily recognize his voice when he's singing falsetto?

I'm glad someone appreciated the clip, I thought everone thought it was crappy with the lack of response. If anyone wants to hear it and doesn't know it, I can post a clip of the spoilers on turbo, which in my opinion is the 2nd best all platinum ballad (WAY better than the tobin record, which somehow doesn't even sound like the same group singing).

Hello Bob,

Jerry (Gerald) Harris wrote and produced a lot of songs with George Kerr (Linda Jones, Troy Keyes, Shirelles etc) and was on the staff at All Patinum.

We did some publishing business with him in the 1980s and 1990s and he often sang songs over the phone to me. It sounds like his voice on "Girl I'll Always Love You" - and of course he was the producer.

Next time I speak with him I'll ask about it.

Best regards,

Paul Mooney

- "Sexy Mama" - Moments

-"Jak In The Box" - Moments

-"Love In A Two-Way Street" - (I got it by The Moments, not by Lesly!)

-"Pillow Talk" - Sylvia

I wonder if the album by The O'Jays & The Moments on Astroscope is worth to find. Also, some stuff co-produced by Bunny Sigler and Sylvia Robinson, I think for Parliament (??).

  boba said:

Thanks. Who is Jerry Harris? Can you easily recognize his voice when he's singing falsetto?

I'm glad someone appreciated the clip, I thought everone thought it was crappy with the lack of response. If anyone wants to hear it and doesn't know it, I can post a clip of the spoilers on turbo, which in my opinion is the 2nd best all platinum ballad (WAY better than the tobin record, which somehow doesn't even sound like the same group singing).

Boba, please post The Spoilers, another one I don't know. Can't stop listening to the We Three Ltd - what a tune eh Sean?