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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.

Ian What's the news on Verna Francis ? I thought she did a great job on 'Because of you'. Where did you find her & are you cutting other things on her ? And what's going on with Brenda Holloway - are you still working with her ? Thanks Garry

Brother Mooney is currently under house arrest whilst he completes the mastering of the forthcoming Soulscape CD on Big John Hamilton.

Folks I've had several emails in the last few days asking about these 2 upcoming 45s. They're being pressed in the US and are estimated to be here mid-January. These are a limited press of 500 copies, so for anyone wanting to get their order in now - details & soundclips are available at : www.garryjcape.com/hitandrun.htm Thanks Garry (for avoidance of doubt - the 'second issue' under my avatar relates to me - not the 45s !)

Chris 1. you've obviously never roomed with him - when he's got a bottle of red inside him, you only ever hear the same story ... over and over.. and over..... 2. I don't think he's been going to the US that many times for the past 20 years. Like a lot of (us) old timers, he can't take the crap at the airports and at US Immigration anymore. 3. but he wouldn't be the same if he didn't... Merry Christmas to all .. and Happy Hogmanay to him too ............. Garry

For it to be a comprehensive compilation of his work, the licensing for that would be such a challenge that it probably wouldn't be cost effective with the limited appeal it would have - and would be down to someone who didn't choose to observe the niceties of licensing .......

Yes - and Snake loved it really. To be fair to the Snakemeister, he had been doing a solo gig in Barnsley previously and had got held up there. He sent the group ahead to get set up so he could jump on stage as soon as he got there. Sound check was a bit of fun (almost like PPM at Prestatyn.....)

Nope, it's not..... but Shirley is a bit like Johnnie Taylor was ... why get on a plane and go through all the crap when she can get all the gigs she wants in the Southern States ...... a lot of acts I talk with have a paranoia of flying.

A night to compare with that was when Dave Box had his 60th birthday at The Frobisher and he brought in Syl Johnson and Jackie Ross. Financially a disaster for Dave - but then you're 60 only once I guess ....... If you want hooking up with any Soulscape acts, let me know. Garry

Good morning Ian Out of interest, where did you get this 10k number from ? I was always thinking that something like this Pinnacle thing would happen - so for that reason Soulscape, and previously Grapevine, never allowed themselves to be put in the situation where a distributor had that amount of control over them. Because of that, the sales might not have been what they could have been - but it did mean I got paid for every single CD that I ever shipped. Best Garry

I'll start a new thread on this closer to release date - but for the moment, thanks Sean - at least I've sold one copy - do you have 499 friends ?

OK - here's the true story. John Anderson and I got a deal thru Bernie Binnick to each take 100 copies of every TK record in the Tones Dist warehouse in Miami just before they took them all to be ground up because they didn't want to keep paying the rental on the storage facility. We had to take 100 each of everything because they didn't want to waste the time looking for individual titles. So we got 100 each of every freaking KC 45...the only thing I recall not being there was the Charles Johnson on Alston. It's all very well joking now that I was selling them at £8 and £15 .... but the simple fact is that I'd been listing it for yonks at £8 and nobody had the 'ear' to buy it until it started getting played. In fact, some may have even gone in those TK Soul Packs I did in order to get rid of the KC's and George McRae's etc. I can't remember Cliff buying a bunch, but I can remember selling the last 10 or so to Tim Brown for £35 each. So whilst other people got a bargain, I'd paid 10c each - so I was pleased to be selling it too .... plus all the other TK deepsoul stuff that I sold for far bigger money to Japan and the other stuff I had on my shelf when the funk resurgence happened - thank you very much. So - all round, everybody was happy. And to make everybody happier (possibly ?) there'll be a revival of my 'Hit and Run' label in January 2009 - the first 2 45s will be Mary Gresham and Doris Allen - 4 storming dancers. All 4 previously unreleased (other than my Soulscape CDs) - so the big question is - will they be able to be played at venues... classic real soul from back in the day, first time on vinyl, first time on 45... what other excuse can anyone find for not playing them ? not rare enough ? ......... tricky...

I'm looking for someone who has Roscoe's 'Leave you in the arms of your other man' on Gerri. I don't need the Atlantic cut, and I don't need the Seventy 7 cut which I had repressed. Anyone who can help me out with this, please pm me at garry@garryjcape.com. Thanks

Add to that the fact that I had a 100 box of the yellow 'Can't you see' - must have been about 10 or 15 years ago now - I think that at the time I did seem to flood the market here with them - but I was selling it at £30, I think. I do recalla lot of mine went to Japan. They came from the label owner via a well-known Southern onestop friend.

Yes, we did Ted Ford - lots of the deep things which had originally come out on Sound Stage 7 - Little Richie too. I seem to recall that some of them were pressed on the Seventy 7 label copy - but actually had Sound Plus release prefix SP - nothing sinsiter or mystical - just that John R had thousands of the Seventy 7 backgrounds pre-printed and in those days you just printed the label copy over the top of them with the individual release details.