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Hi Folks Just to let all know that I am now back in work mode after my recent health issues. All orders awaiting mailing are going in the mail this afternoon. Thanks for your patience - and if you didn't order yet because of my time away - all is clear for you to do so ! Thanks Garry

Just got word from the pressing plant that the 2 new HR 45s on Bobby Sheen and The Truths Inc are being despatched today - and are scheduled for delivery Thursday this week. Full details with soundclips are here :www.garryjcape.com/hitandrun.htm These arrived from the US this morning - all existing pre-orders will be in the mail to you tonight..............

Also available direct at : www.garryjcape.com - along with all the other Grapevine CDs and Soulscape CDs

Tuska = the owner doesn't want to deal; funk guys have approached him for the funk and I've shown interest for the Barbara Hall's .... it's a no... Annette Snell = not enough stuff for a CD - she did ruffs for the Epic LP, but they're unusable....

Willie Johnson = Soulscape was working on that - then Willie went and released his own botched job - which took the icing off the cake. Clarence Reid = Henry Stone has done his own botched jobs - and approaching the major in UK for licensing is a waste of time cos as soon as anyone does it, they'll go release it themselves. Charles Brimmer = Soulscape working on this - but the licensing is a nightmare with New Orleans being the minefield it is and everyone and his dog claiming ownership - and 2 of the major players now dead, the chain of title is a mess.

Soulscape was working on that through her daughter in Cleveland - then Kim died, and the lines of communication got muddied.

Soulscape were working on an Otis Leavill compilation with Carl Davis - the logistics of proper licensing were a nightmare... I gave up in the end - the work and potential litigation just weren't worth it for the sales involved.

and later this year, the 2 cream dance tracks may well be available on vinyl ......

CD ONLY - Johnny Adams - 'Greatest Performance' on US Ace (no association with UK Ace) No date on the CD, but from memory probably early 90s when Senator Jones had gone back to Jackson MS from New Orleans.

You're right, Sean - tis indeed a goodie - and one that was scheduled for a Grapevine 'Modern/Crossover CD- inclusion - before things got a bit legal with a 3-way dispute re the ownership of Senator Jones's productions......... Yarmuff at the mo looks a bit dodgy for me - might need to be in the US around those exact dates.

Yes it is - and if any of you had been at Red Bar Wakefield last Saturday, you'd have heard me play it. And (un) surprisingly - no-one knew it !

Thinking about this further - I recall when Bostock's in Bradford used to bring in 45s by the 100,000 load - the ones they couldn't sell on the market stall or wholesale, they used to sell to local fairground operators as targets for rifle shoots....... then there were the 100,000s that ship operators used to buy to put into the ships as ballast...... then when there was the last oil crisis in the 70s (?) there were the millions that were recycled cos it was cheaper doing that and using 2nd hand vinyl than buying oil for new vinyl... Of course, they weren't all soul 45s - but given the quantites that were pressed back then, you can bet that a good percentage of them were .....

I remember that around the late 70s when I had an office in Wakefield, I had a guy from the north-east (who is still around so I won't mention his name) he was/is a big Chicago collector. His wife used to get me to put together a '100 Chicago soul pack' for him for 3 or 4 Christmas's in a row - and I basically used to chuck in all the odds and ends that I'd had sitting on the shelf on little labels that I'd had on my fortnightly list about 10 times and hadn't sold. I do remember things on Monique, for instance going in there. Of course, I've long forgotten what most of them were, lots of little-label stuff - I shudder to think really - but nobody wanted them at the time, and Santa Claus made him happy. The other good ones were the '100 TK 45s' packs ... 100 different 45s from the TK group of labels from Miami. I can imagine the glee when someone got every George McCrae 45 and every KC & the Sunshine Band 45 - but they did also get Jimmy Bo Horne 'I can't speak' and lots of other very nice stuff on the rarer TK labels .... I think that when they got them most people played through, kept the Northern and junked the rest... a few enlightened ones stuffed them up in the loft and forgot about them for 30 years.... Talking of starting digging - there's a story about a guy in the US having a large house built and wanting some sloping gardens to surround it - he went to a distributor and bought millions of cut-outs which he used as the base for the slopes, then covered it with soil and lawned it all .........

The very lovely June Allett from Ravensthorpe ................ Re Wakefield, to be honest I don't think a lot has changed in the interim years - the only sensible place downtown is The Red Bar when it's the night put on by The Manic Brothers of Wakefield City Soul Club ............ Anyway - back on topic with Simon - I remember when I used to work in Leeds around 1970 and went in HMV on Vicar Lane nearly every dinner time - Bentley, LeMoyne, Swish etc - Simon would come in and someone, can't recall who now, covered up the flip of Steam's 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye' - which was a pop hit around that time - as an unknown Northern rarity. But all in all - he never did me any wrong.

How very dare you besmirch the name of this fair city ...................

with the generosity I showed to all those folks down there, they should have given you the keys to the Quad Cities...... Garry

wot ?? no Broadway Sound ?? or MSS down by the river ?? surely some mistake ??

For some unexplainable reason, DHL were super-efficient with this - the 45s came in today, at least one day earlier than scheduled - and all pre-orders went in the post earlier today. Thanks for your support on this.

I was in Florence Alabama for just about the whole of July 2007 - how come I missed you ????????? :-)) Garry

Here's an update on the situation - had notice that the 45s were shipped from US yesterday - so they are due to be here Friday this week or next Monday. Thanks to those of you who have already pre-ordered - yours will be mailed out on the day of receipt. For anyone who was waiting until they came in - now's the time - you can get soundclips and order online with paypal at : www.garryjcape.com Thanks

Nice scans John and Cliff I'm ever the student of soul music - I really don't recall having seen one before. Garry

Hello folks Yes, I got it repressed when meeting with Stan Lewis in Shreveport. There were 500, mainly for selling overseas for the ballad side. The repress was on vinyl - the original had been on styrene. The repress used a slighly lighter blue paper - the original darker blue was that which has a sparkly effect to it. The repress had a different size font - the original font was pressed into the label - rather than being printed on it. Many times back in those days, a record would be on a demo to service the radio stations - then if it didn't appeal to the jocks, they simply wouldn't go ahead with a regular release of it. I don't know if I ever saw a regular non-demo copy of the first issue - if someone has one, then it must exist Garry

Thanks, Tony ... does that mean I owe you some dosh ? (or maybe take comfort in that your team is higher than mine in Div 1 - at the moment, anyway .... )

Hi Ian It was an unreleased 70s Muscle Shoals Sound recording - which I included on the CD 'Just The Beginning' - along with Phillip's version of many other great songs he wrote for other artists - released on Grapevine in 2004. Copies still available at - www.garryjcape.com Thanks Garry

and I remember Phillip Mitchell telling me that although he wrote it specifically with Mavis in mind, how she could never get it down right despite him coaching her on the vocal over and over .....a good song, by the way, and Phillip's own version is pretty worthy too.