Garethx

I'm speculating whether the Stereo version might possibly have been remastered at Columbia's Chicago studio. All in all this is an odd one. Chess would have been owned by PRT-Janus by the time 'Landslide' was found and popularised by the Northern Soul scene (mid 1973?). Why not release the record legally on a contemporary PRT-distributed Chess label? The theory about an official 1973-4 repress using old Chess label stock makes zero sense. The Chess family had sold their stake in everything but the recording studios to PRT by that point. I'd be highly sceptical about them digging out sheets of label stock to help out in producing such an ad-hoc reissue for another company. I'm wondering if this wasn't done by the Chesses themselves, and therefore technically a bootleg.

T M refers to the record being recorded and or mastered at Chess's Ter-Mar Studios. C K as a mastering facility for the Stereo version I'm none the wiser on.

Anyone got a value for this in todays' market? The other side is a frantic Tighten Up-influenced side which as Jordi says sounds good now.

Mod is a mindset, not a specific fashion or a particular set of clothing items–that comes from the revivalists. Mod meant constantly being in fashion/style (call it what you will). It meant not being a Grebo, a Hairy or a Mummy's Boy. It meant treating a night out as an adventure and being interested in music which wasn't being force-fed to you by Radio One, the Melody Maker or any other arm of the grown-up world. The transition from Mod to Skinhead to Suede to Soul person was natural and organic. Just as the clothes and hairstyles evolved so did the music. It's all part of the same aesthetic. That 'Mod' sensibility drove the scene. Maybe it's unhelpful to give it that particular name because it conjures up images of a very specific set of clothes or hairstyles.

One thing to bear in mind. Scootering is different to 'riding a scooter'.

I would say that the soul allnighter scene was the mod scene or what the mod scene transmuted into. It's an unbroken thread. Mod revivalists (or more accurately re-enactors) circa Quadrophenia and subsequent revivals muddied the waters as a they looked backwards whereas the true ethos was always about looking forward.

The Trip!

Here's RS's spot from the corresponding allnighter a year earlier: the week after the fifth anniversary 1978. Betty Boo ‘Say It Isn’t So’ Lou Roberts ‘You Fooled Me’ Vicki Baines ‘Country Girl’ Cobblestone ‘Trick Me Treat Me’ Paula Durante ‘If He Were Mine’ Benny Sigler ‘Who You Gonna Turn To’ Yvonne Vernee ‘Just Like You Did Me’ The Construction ‘Hey Little Way Out Girl’ Rita & The Tiaras ‘Gone With The Wind’ (first time out?) Jimmy Burns ‘I Really Love You’ Gerri Thomas ‘Look What I’ve Got’ J.C.Messina ‘Time Wont Let Me’ Paul Anka ‘When We Get There’ The Twans ‘I Can’t See Him Again’ Wakefield Sun ‘Trypt On Love’ The Dogs ‘Soul Step’ Reperata & The Delrons ‘It’s Waiting There For You’ The Newbeats ‘Don’t Turn Me Loose’ Toni Basil ‘Breakaway’ Holly St James ‘Thats Not Love’ Frankie Beverly & The Butlers ‘Because Of My Heart’ Bobby Paris ‘I Walked Away’ Lou Roberts ‘You Fooled Me’ (again) Tamala Lewis ‘You Won’t Say Nothing’ The Generation ‘Hold On’ Ben Zine ‘Village Of Tears’ Family Affair ‘Love Hustle’ The Millionaires ‘You’ve Got To Love Your Baby’ The Wall Of Sound ‘Hang On’ Peggy March ‘If You Love Me’ The Construction ‘Hey Little Way Out Girl’ (again) Paula Durante ‘If He Were Mine’ (again)

Is anything known about this artist?

I don't think the cheaper version is anything like as poor as some are claiming. In some ways it's a better record–maybe not for 'our' scene–and I can see why they wanted another crack at recording it with a fuller backing, girl chorus etc. I don't have either but like both versions in different ways.

Bear in mind there are Stereo and Mono versions of the Speak Her Name lp. This might account for the different mixes of Uphill Climb.

Worth pointing out that this was originally recorded by The Valentinos on SAR 144.

It's the off-the-wall singing which makes this so special. The last forty seconds or so are pretty unique.

A literally amazing find.

Am I correct in saying this is from the Ed Townsend sessions which produced Mellow Fellow?

The lead probably was 'middle class'. His dad had floppy hair and went to work with a tie on to probably do something clerical. You make it sound like it's a massive problem with the film. To me it helps to give a back story as to why the lead character might feel marginalised in his environment. Such families existed in every town in the country. The scene was always quite a broad church and reflected the demographics of the time. Surely one of the great things about Northern was that it really didn't matter what your folks did for a living. As long as you got into it and embraced all it offered you could be accepted. I'm sure lots of soul fans went to grammar schools, went on to have 'white collar' jobs etc. etc.

Philippines certainly.

Here's the original pink labelled Lee Harris (early 1967) and the re-labelled copies (1971). Maybe done to cash in on Marva Whitney's success with James Brown? The funk instrumental on the other side of the Lee Harris ballad is retitled from "Skate Boogaloo And Karate Too" to "Everybody Groove With A New Bag" the former title perhaps being too dated in 1971. The blanks–copies where the original Columbia Custom labels were peeled off–were maybe in the process of being re-labelled when someone got bored with doing it. The bulk of the Forte label stock was allegedly found in a dumpster outside of Ellis Taylor's daughter's house in Kansas City in the early 2000s.

I don't have Manship's guide I'm afraid. It makes sense that there should be a Monarch pressed demo. Must be very scarce.

Can anyone post a scan of the styrene white demo if one exists?

Umbra is the correct answer as given by Kjw in post #2. Specifically designed for the Ludlow typesetting system as would have been used in American printshops in the 1950s and 60s. It's a derivation of Futura.

The original is a country record by Rosalie Long on Ro Ark, an Arkansas label.

Carl Hall unissued which Richard Searling used to play. Brilliant version.

I think the US issue is a pretty rare record and seems to be outstripped in terms of supply by the Jamaican one quite significantly. Nev's point about it currently being a DJ record rather than a collectors' one is spot on–that's why there's no apparent gap in value between the two releases. Really there should be as the American is maybe as much as ten times rarer. As for John's point about a styrene issue–it wouldn't surprise me as Atlantic often used several plants for each 45–but I haven't seen one.