Louise

Hi Steve Got the book this morning, congratulations on a job well done Regards Dave

Keep up the goodwork gentlemen ...................oh! and btw Tricky Trev (a time honoured expert at Djing while the buffet is being served) Dave

Hey Phil Does the impending sale of Big Daddy Rogers, signal the end of you taking that lovely wife of yours down to your wood shed and dropping a couple planks on her head ? Dave

Their Excel 45 "All The Time/Gonna Be Strong as always been a favourite of mine. Low in price , high in quality R.I.P Sonny. Dave

For Sale The Detroit Magnificents "Is This A Woman's Way/Where Can I Find Love" Grapevine 161 White Demo Mint £30.00 Great uptempo dancer that shares the same backing track as Youngblood Smith's Verve northern soul classic "You Can Split" Postage £2.50 (1st/recorded) Dave

Funnily enough, while interviewing Richard Brooks prior to our Soul Junction release of his "I'll Do Anything To Make You Happy". He mentioned that the UK pop band the Dave clark Five approached Eddie Thomas about them doing a cover version of The Brooks Brothers Thomas release "You Got Something Baby" but no DC5 version ever materialized. Dave

See ya soon Ted Can't wait to see your new Zip Tattoo Dave & Louise

Thanks Jordi Think its also worth mentioning Jan Nichols (before she married) was Jan Clarke who in the 80's lived in London & was a barmaid at The 100 club and was well known & liked by many people, she was a genuine, generous & kind person. We will miss her happy smiling face. R.I.P Jan Love Louise xxx

Crossover & Modern Soul Candace Love Wonderful Night/Uh! Uh! Boy, That’s A No No Aquarius Mint £25.00 Candace Love I Want To Get Back/Never In A Million Years Aquarius Mint £10.00 Vivian Reed Save Your Love For Me Atco VG £100 (plays perfect) Betty Lavette You’ll Wake Up Wiser/Heart Of Gold Atco Mint- £30 Donny Elbert In Between The Heartaches Atco W/D Mint- £25 Al Hudson & The Soul Partners When Your Gone Atco Mint £60.00 SOLD Skip Mahoaney & The Casuals Running Away From Love Abet W/D Mint £20.00 Rick Sheppard I’m Gonna Change Bang W/D Mint £75.00 Bobby Boyd Whatcha ‘Gonna Do About It Bang W/D £30.00 Ameriquette You Are Life Brou-Larch Mint £20.00 (New Orleans Modern Soul) Joe Anderson You And I Buddah Demo Mint £30.00 SOLD Curt Darin Two On A Cloud/Grown Up Fairy Tale Buddah Mint £60.00 (This Is Curtis Gadson) Richard Caiton I See Love In Your Eyes Girl/I wonder Will You Always Love Caiburt Mint- £250 SOLD Swiss Movement Try Something Casablanca Mint - £15.00 Noah Got To Get Away Candy Stix Mint £7.00 Bobby Wilson Here Is Where The Love Is Chain W/D Mint- £10.00 Edee Leatherwood Make It Last Chi- Heat Mint £100.00 SOLD (First Label before ICA) Maxine Brown I Can’t Get Along Without You Commonwealth United Mint- £7.00 The Young Devines Deep In Your Heart Cotillion Mint £60.00 Patti & The Lovelites Love Bandit/I’m The One That You Need Cotillion £25 Otis Leavil You Brought Out The Good In Me/I’m So Jealous Daker W/D Mint £25 Donald Hieght A Mean Thing Daker W/D Mint £25 Philip Wright Keep Her Happy Dash Mint- £300 Leon Haywood It’s Got To Be Mellow Decca Mint £20.00 Bill Space Lady Dollar Bill Mint £25 21st Century Got No Reason/Every Little Heartache Dot W/D Mint £50.00 Annette Snell It’s All Over Now Epic W/D Mint- £30.00 Sly, Slick & Wicked All I Want Is You Epic W/D Mint £50.00 SOLD Haywood Cash You’re Messing Up A Good Thing/Give It Up Epic £125 SOLD Lou Rawls Stop Me From Starting This Feeling Epic W/D Mint £25.00 Rena Scott La-Te-Da (This Girl’s In Love) Epic W/D Mint £15.00 Bobby Jonz I Thought You Were Loving Me Expansion Mint- £30.00 Roscoe Robinson Don’t Pretend (Just Be Yourself) Fame Mint £40.00 Hoodoo Rhythm Devils Gotta Lot Of Love In My Soul Fantasy Demo Mint £30.00 Johnny Baker Practice What You Preach/Fog City (And You Baby) Fog City Mint £7.00 The Jaggerz Gotta Find A Way Back Home Gamble W/D Mint £25 Billy Shields I Was A Boy (When You Needed A Man) Harbour Demo Mint- £20 Barbara Carr Messing With My Mind Gino’s Mint £7.00 Universal Love It’s You Girl Glades Mint- £125.00 Honey Cone If I Can Fly Hot Wax Demo Mint £20.00 Jon Pierre Gee So Good To Me Kandi Mint £20.00 (Complete With A Picture Sleeve) Ester Phillips I’ve Never Found A Man (To Love Me Like You Do) Kuu Mint £15.00 The Classic Sullivans Paint Yourself In A Corner/I Don’t Want To Lose You Kwanza Mint- £7.00 Hazel Martin Out Of My Life Marco Mint £60.00 (Former lead singer of The Tempests) The Holidays Lazy Day/Ego Tripping Marathon Mint £15.00 Jerry Butler You Walked Into My Life Mercury Mint £7.00 The Insiders Tunnel Of Love/Nighty Night Mercury Mint- £100.00 Audio Do You Really Want Me Mote Mint £20.00 Don Gardner Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy Mr G Mint £35.00 Wilton Crump Think It Through/Give Your Love To Me Olive Branch Mint £40.00 The Entertainers Why?/Po Boy Ovide Mint £20 David Morris Snap Crackle Pop Plush Mint- £30.00 Garland Green Don’t Let Love Walk Out On Us RCA Mint £60.00 (Sticker On Label) James Gaylan You Come First At Last RCA Mint - £30.00 SOLD Blood Hollins How Have You Been RCA Mint- £20.00 (Demo Sticker on label) Black & Ward Back Up (Against Your Persuasion) RCA VG+ £50.00 (Canadian Only, play perfect) Saude Open Up Your Mind (To My Mind)/Love Won’t Hurry Red Line Mint £20.00 Robert Jones Singers Trying To Reach My Goal Rob Matt Mint £30.00 The Holidays The Love We Share/This Is Love Rob-Ron Mint- £75.00 The O’Jay’s Shattered Man/La De Da (Means I’m Out To Get You) Saru Mint £25.00 The Specials Everybody Say Yea Satch VG £60.00 (Plays Perfect) Brief Encounter (Don’t You See) I’m Crazy About You Seventy- Seven Mint- £20.00 Lou Ragland What Should I Do SMH Mint £100.00 The Originals I’m Someone Who Cares Soul W/D Mint £15.00 The Fantastic Four I Feel Like I’m Falling In Love Again/Pin Point It Down Soul W/D Mint- £30.00 SOLD (Rarer Demo with b-side) The Fantastic Four On The Brighter Side Of A Blue World/I’m Gonna Carry On Soul Mint- £15.00 Moments Nine Times Stang Mint £7.00 The Courtship It’s The Same Old Love/Last Row, First Balcony Tamla Mint £25 J.J. Johnson Don’t Go Away Tec Mint- £30.00 Lalomie Wasburn Could It Be Tematii Mint £75.00 Bobby Freeman Everything’s Love Touch Mint £25 The Notations I’m Still Here/I Can’t Stop Twinight Mint £25.00 The Notations A New Day Twinight Mint £40.00 Johnny Williams Maggie/Breaking Point Twinight Mint £40.00 Darrow Fletcher Changing By The Minute/When Love Calls Uni Mint £30.00 Ron Patterson Story Book Venice Mint £200.00 SOLD James Jones Whatever It Is You Got It/A Little Love Goes A Long Way Virgo Mint- £75.00 Ike Lovely Fools Hall Of Fame/Little Miss Sweet Thing Wand Mint- £30.00 Frankie Newsome We’re On Our Way Warner Bros Mint- £20.00 Jesse James If You Want A Love Affair 20th Century Demo mint £60.00 Funk. Willie & The Mighty Magnificents Funky (8) Corners (Part 1 & 2) All Platinum Mint £40.00 Linnie Walker People Let Me Know/Darn Well Amtonac Mint £30.00 (Detroit Sister Funk) The Commodores Keep On Dancing/Rise Up Atlantic Demo Mint £50.00 Old (M) Pressions Right On/Let Me Know Brooks Brothers Mint £25.00 Caprell’s Every Day People/Which One Will It Be C.R.S Mint £20.00 Toby King Love One Another/Operator Deesu Mint £40.00 ( Nice mid tempo flip) Billy Sha-Rae Do It Hour Glass Mint £25.00 Four Tees Funky Duck/One More Chance Kent Mint £30.00 (Crossover flipside) Willi J. & Co Boogie With Your Baby Ki Ki Mint - £75 SOLD Jay Rhythm Soul Emotions/Wouldn’t It Be A Pleasure Leo Mint £30.00 (Detroit Funk and Mid tempo Soul) Mad Dog & The Pups Hep Squeeze Magic City Mint- £20.00 Holidays Ego Tripping/Lazy Day Marathon Mint £15.00 Levy Davis My Brother’s Keeper Mohkou (Parts 1 & 2) Mint £100.00 The Fabulous Counts Jan Jan Moira W/D Mint- £20.00 Big T & The Peace Makers Tighten Up Tighter/Tears (I Shed For You) Nasco Mint- £50.00 (Deep Soul Flipside) The Brothers & Sisters Don’t Let ‘Em Tell You (Part 1 & 2) Nickel Mint- £25.00 SOLD Fantastic Johnny C Is There Anything Better Than Making Love ? Phil-L.A Of Soul Mint £25 (Test Press) Alberto Excobo & The Majestic’s Main St. Mission Revis W/D VG++ £75.00 Art Neville Bo Diddley (Part 1 & 2) Sansu W/D Mint £25.00 Prime Mates Hot Tamales (Part 1 & 2) Sansu Mint £30.00 The Barons Society Don’t Let Us Down/No More Baby Love Shout W/D Mint £25.00 Funk with mid tempo flip) Billy Sha-Rae Let’s Do It Again/I Want Some Satisfaction Triple B Min- £20.00 Jackie Lee The Chicken Uni Mint £10.00 Jeanette White No Sunshine/Music Vibrations Mint £30.00 (First label before A&M) Reggie Milner Soul Machine/Hello Stranger Volt W/D Mint £40.00 Deep Soul. Oliver Joy You Know That I Love You/Don’t You Let Nobody Tell You Big Deal Mint £75.00 Clarence Carter Don’t Make My Baby Cry/Thread The Needle Fame Mint- £10 Willie West I Need Your Love (Baby)/You Told Me Frisco Mint- £20 Bobby Lacour Commandments Of Love Hep’ Me Mint £25 (Cover version of the Little Richard Classic) 1+1 Been So Long M.O.C. Mint £20 Zilla Mayes I Still Love You/All I Want Is You Tou-Sea W/D Mint £50.00 Reservations either by PM or E-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk Postage: 1st/Recorded = £2.50. Special Delivery =£8.00. Overseas at cost. Regards Dave

The Servicemen I'll Stop Loving You Grapevine Dottie Pearson Bring It Over Baby/A House Made Of Love Grapevine Georgeous George You Can't Stop A Woman Grapevine Louise

Which just proves it's popularity and as a businessman wouldn't John be on the lookout for good sellers ? We now have 40yrs plus of knowledge to what has turned out to be rare or not rare, hindsight would be a wonderful thing back in the day. You only have to take a look at the article Butch started on Soul Bowl and the prices on the lists attached. Records for a quid that are now fetching 1000's Who can honestly say they gave a shit about rarity in the 70,'s it was just about collecting the records you liked at the cheapest price possible.

Wasn't the Decisions "I Can't Forget About You" a popular tune around that time ? Dave

Great Job Chalky (as always) with some fantastic photos too. It's always makes the job a hellva lot easier when the artists themselves have had the peace of mind to hang on to some of their own memorabilia. "I'll Never Stop Loving You" was one of Grapevine 2000's best sellers a complete sell out and it now appears to have become a furure rarity. I bet some of the people who turned their noses up at it when first released now wish they had opened their wallets quicker. Still recieving calls from punters and retailers alike but unfortunately the cupboard is now well and truely bare ! Great records always have their day and this has always been a great record Dave

For the first time on a leal 45 release: Betty Boo "Spellbound" (Vocal & Intrumental Versions) Soul Junction SJ1006 £10.00 The is the first time that the instrumental version has been released on any format. Available through the Soul Junction website: www.souljunctionrecords.co.uk By using the 'Buy Direct' option on the tool bar at the top of the page. Postage £2.50 (1st/Recorded) Regards Dave SJ

Hi Guys Out today, so don't delay advance sales on this title have been really good, available from all the usual outlets or direct from the Soul Junction website: www.souljunctionrecords.co.uk. A big thanks to those who have already purchased, it just shows that nearly 40 years on from it's initial discovery "Spellbound" still has the magic factor to fill a northern dancefloor. Dave SJ

Hey Trev I'll take the New Figurations if it's free 'n' gratis Dave

I lay the blame squarely on Little Hank !!! Dave

Three figure Duke records, whatever next a woman prime minister ! Dave

Not wishing to appear being pedantic but wasn't The Holidays version of "Loves Creeping Up On Me" on Revilot (1967) the original version with United Images version being a later cover version (1971). Both good records I might add. Dave

Out today "We Got A Sweet Thing Going On" Volume 2 Available frm all the usual suspects or direct from the Soul Junction website: www.souljunctionrecords.co.uk The initial response has been that volume 2 is even better than volume 1 Thanks for your contnued support of our products. Dave SJ

I have a nagging recolection in the back of my head that Tony Diamond was a pseudonym used by a former group member of a well known Chicago group to record his one and only solo outing. Possibly The Chi-Lites but then again I might be wrong, need to think more about it. Dave

Gareth I couldn't find a soundfile of Sugar Baby (Blue Rock )to play him, although he did say that Joe Hunter and the rest of the cast from Thr Funk Brothers played on the session. Possibly priviously having plenty practice with the Four Tops "Tea House In China Town" and "Don't Turn Away", LP session,maybe so, maybe no? Dave

Hey Tony Didn't they finish their set off with an impromptu rendition of "Y,M,C,A Roger the go to man when you need a bottle opener or corkscrew at 4am in the morning at a allnighter Dave & Louise

Hi Guys Just to throw some intrigue in to the subject. I've just asked Jimmy Holland about the above theory that he and Jimmy Hart are one and the same ? He claims to have knowingly never recorded under the name of Jimmy Hart and upon playing him "Tea House In China Town" he claims to have never heard the record before (not even The Four Tops LP version) and assured me that it wasn't him singing. He's quite aware of "Sugar Baby" on Syco and Markie, which he recorded for Andre Williams at United Sound. The plot thickens !! Dave

The same school of thought did cross my mind Guy and the question has been asked but currently all the living protagonists in this story don't seem to know, either way. So currently the jury remains out for now. Dave