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Yes but i kinda had to use a certain amount of poetic license with the sleeve notes there was some very dubious goings on back then which although mentioned to me were omitted from the published piece. I'll send you a PM Fred did mention that Ben Knight also sang on the 2 B.O.S Shock 45's due to Richard Knight being in the 'Pen', i did speak with Ben he too had been a one time member of The Royal Jokers and if memory serves me right was also a friend of the late Stanley Mitchell. I did have cause to speak with Ben a couple of years back but his phone number had been disconnected and when i asked around people realised they had seen him around for awhile, so maybe he had passed ? Dave

Hi Graham RE: The 21ST members her's my CD Sleeve notes: The 21ST or as they were briefly known The 21ST Century were a vocal quartet founded by former Royal Joker, Willie Cornelius Jones. Willie, the elder statesman of the group at the ripe old age of 33 years, was instrumental in mentoring his three younger charges. Firstly Kurt Jefferson Sr a former G.I. who for a period of time had been wheelchair bound due to the combat injuries he sustained while serving in Vietnam. Kurt or as he was fondly known as ‘Fats’ due to his svelte like physique, was introduced to the group by his old neighborhood friend Dwight Cabean. Following Dwight’s approach to join The 21ST, Kurt curtailed his shift as a fork lift truck driver at Chryslers, grabbed his walking cane and walked out on his factory job forever. Willie, Kurt and Dwight, who was often jokingly referred to as “The Ladies Man” would also be joined by Rubin ‘Chico’ Davenport a former work colleague of Willie Jones at the Detroit Diesel Engine Plant. Eventually the 21st signed on with the Joy label which was owned by the well connected business man Joe Terrell, who placed them under the musical direction of Andrew ‘Mike’ Terry whom he had employed to run his label. The 21ST would go on to record three excellent songs. Their first release being the Mike Terry, Mikki Farrow and James Semahaj penned “I Just Can’t Forget Your Name” backed with the Mike Terry and Don Mancha penned “The Sun Came Out” (Joy 672) recorded in 1972 at the GM studio’s with Mike Terry’s arrangements being interpreted by the musicians of the Detroit Symphony. The popularity of this initial release would soon bring the group into conflict with a New York group of the same name. So to avoid any possible legal disputes the Joy group reverted to the abbreviated name of ‘The 21ST”. (N.B. On some of the initial 45’s pressing you can still see where the word century has been scored out with a black felt pen). “I Just Can’t Forget Your Name” was later issued again with a different flipside the Fred Bridges and Richard Knight penned “The Thought Of Me Losing You” again released on Joy 672. The name of the publishing company for Joy records was ‘Cangem’ a derivative of Candy and Gem the pet names Joe Terrell gave to his wife, Hazel. Due in part to the popularity of their Joy recordings The 21ST would regularly tour the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia often performing to French only speaking audiences who couldn’t understand a word they sang but really digged their exciting stage shows. They toured with a regular seven piece band, in a hired 12 seater camper van affectionately christened as ‘The Love Train”. This period of success would eventually come to end when the trappings of success began to turn some of the younger member’s heads, prompting Willie Jones to leave the group. So during 1974 The 21ST finally disbanded with Rubin later marrying a Canadian girl and settling in Toronto. Dwight also married and moved down south signaling the end of both of their performing careers. While Kurt briefly sang with a group called the 5 Phases, before later joining the group ‘The Solid Solution’ who recorded the popular album “Loving You” on Silver Spoon Records in 1978. Willie Jones did return to Canada a a year later with a short lived ensemble by the name of ‘McArthur’. McArthur were an all male vocal quartet founded by Willie Jones Following the disbandment of The 21ST during 1974 Willie vaguely remembers that the other group members of McArthur were Cheslawn Vickers at the time a serving Police Officer who timed his annual leave to coincide with the groups tours. A guy called Larry and a fourth member who Willie couldn’t recall his name. Willie again was the lead vocalist and elder statesman of the group then aged 35. Willie’s new ensemble needed a name and they finally chose what they perceived to be a strong and instantly recognizable name when they became ‘McArthur’ in honor of the United States Supreme Commander of the Allied Pacific Forces during World War II, General Douglas McArthur. Through his previously made connections as part of The 21ST, Willie returned to Canada with his new ensemble ’McArthur’ securing two performing dates at The Arrows Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ‘McArthur’ finally broke up after a period of circa 18 months together with their lasting legacy being a solitary 45 single “It’s So Real/I’ll Never Trust Love Again” which gained a release on the New York based Mainstream subsidiary label, Brown Dog (BD9006) in 1975. Both sides of the 45 were produced in Detroit by Clyde Clay and Charles ‘Teddy’ Johnson for Funhouse Associates, with Teddy Johnson being an old High School friend of Willie Jones. The A-side “It’s So Real” was written by the late legendary baritone Saxophonist Andrew ‘Mike’ Terry and William Marvin Smith a respected bass guitarist and one time child protégé of Johnny Mae Mathews and Dave Hamilton. William had previously been a member of Lou Beatty’s La Beat labels house band, The LPT’s (La Beat Production Team) and was later briefly associated with the ill fated Lemon’s families Gold Records. Mike Terry had previously worked with Willie Jones during his time with the 21ST over at Joy Records as a songwriter and arranger but it is the former owner of Joy Records Joe Terrell who is credited as the arranger on McArthur’s ”It’s So Real” side ? The B-side had begun its life under the working title of “If I Live For A 100 Years” but was eventually released using the second part of the hook line “I’ll Never Trust Love Again” written by the songs co-producer Teddy Johnson and late former lead singer of the Falcon’s (Big Wheel) Carlis Sonny Munro. The String arrangements on both sides were provided by The Detroit Symphony. The result is two excellent mid 70’s soulful ballads that have of late been gaining some belated attention and has now become very sought after. Words By: Dave Welding. With acknowledgments to: Willie Jones & Kurt Jefferson.

Great interview Graham, as mentioned Fred was as adamant with me about Fred and Skeets (Mutt ) not being him or any other B.O.S members. I've just checked my notes but no names given by Fred he just state two random guys he'd never met before. I couple of other things which i thought maybe of interest Fred wrote "Baby Don't You Weep" with the working title of "i'm Coming Home" but was persauded to change it to "Baby Don't You Weep" by Ted Harris Sr the guy who administered Lou Beatty's publishing company Mums BMI. Fred also told me that he originally wrote the song "Candy" with James Shorter in mind, Shorter turned it down and as we know the B.O.S recorded it themselves. Fred also told me that that songwriter D.Quick Silver credited on some of the Aquarius releases was a pseudonym of Don Mancha's. Also Fred told me that he met Roy (Cortez) Butler from Eastpointe MI, through one of his (Fred) former girlfriends, he was a family relative of hers. Fred told me two of his favourite B.K.E productions/songs were "Candy" and Chuck Bernard's "Bessie Girl" so the last time i met him in a hotel in Birmingham (UK) he was touring with the then line up of the 'Four Tops' i gave him a copy of each he was chuffed to bits and spent the whole night showing them to all the Four Tops touring party even waking his wife up who had gone to bed early to show her. He actually bought me a pint of bitter as a thank you (my claim to fame LOL!) Joe Terrell was quite a notorious local character, he cut those Joy singles on 'The 21ST' (Also credited as '21st Century' before they dropped the Century due to a name clash with another group) of Which Willie Jones was the lead singer. we licensed the Joy 45's off Joe's Widow Hazel Terrell for a Soul Junction compilation a few years ago, a very lively woman (for her advancing years) to say the least she periodically rings me up from time to time trying to persaud me to release some of her Grandson's Hip Hop offerings !! Willie Jones later formed the group McArthur cutting "It's So Real" Brown Dog Records which Joe Terrell somehow credit's himself as the arranger on humm! Dave Welding

Modern, Crossover, Funk & Sweet Soul 45’s (QQ) Sharen Clark & The Product Of Time I’m Not Afraid Of Love/Mama Did’t Lie (Sho Come True) APT W/D Mint £75.00 SOLD The Moving Violation Spinin’ Top Atlantic Demo Mint £20.00 SOLD (Vince Montana Philly Dancer) Majestic Arrows One More Time Around Bandit VG £75.00 SOLD (Record plays in VG+ condition, vocal & instrumental) Bettye Jean Plummer You Don’t Know/I Remember Well Bell VG++ £40.00 Betty Jean Plummer How Can We Save It/Make It Together Bell VG++ £30.00 Cynthia & The Imaginations Hey Boy (I Love You)/Love Is Real Blue Rock WD Mint- £200.00 SOLD (2 X’s on Love Is Real side) Willard Burton & The Funky Four Funky In Here Capitol Demo Mint- £40.00 The Congenial Four You Played The Part (Of A Loser) Capitol Mint £100.00 The Sound 70’s I’ll Be Waiting Capitol Demo VG++ £30.00 Leroy Hutson Love O’ Love Curtom Mint- £10.00 SOLD Leroy Hutson So In Love With You Curtom Demo VG++ £25.00 Earl White Jr Very Special Girl Cygnet VG++ £1100.00 SOLD (Plays perfect) The Donations I’m Going To Treat You Good Dee’O Mint £25.00 (Cleveland, Ohio sweet soul) Johnny Washington Oh Girl Delite Mint £25.00 Electrified Action Love Foundation Delite Demo £20.00 Skip Jackson & The Shantons I’m On To You Girl/Promise That You’ll Wait Dot-Mar VG+/VG++ £325.00 SOLD (A few scuffs on the vinyl but plays perfect, distributor sticker on label) Betty Everett Danger/Just A Matter Of Time Till You’re Gone Fantasy Mint- £15.00 SOLD The Creations Just Remember Me Globe Mint- £75.00 (Label slightly off center, does not effect play) The Creations I’ve Got To Find Her/Times Are Changing Globe Mint- £25.00 The Creations Oh Baby/Plenty Of Love Globe Mint- £40.00 (All 3 Creations 45’s are recommended crossover soul) Billy Sha-Rae Do It/I Found The One Hour Glass Mint £20.00 (Detroit funk with deep soul flip) Chocolate Syrup You’re Off An Runnin’ Ira Mint- £60.00 The Continental 4 The Way I Love You Jay-Walking Mint- £40.00 Catch Mr. Nice Guy LKK Records Mint- £20.00 Jay Rhythm Wouldn’t It Be A Pleasure/Soul Emotions Leo Mint £30.00 Louis Curry A Toast To You/I’ll Try Again Tomorrow M-S W/D VG++ £35.00 SOLD Louis Curry Captivated M-S W/D Mint- £75.00 Louis Curry God’s Creation/I’ve Got To Get Away From Here M-S W/D Mint- £40.00 Wilton Crump Think It Through/Give Your Love To Me Olive Branch Mint £40.00 SOLD (Gary, Indians sweet soul) Sly, Slick & The Wicked Surely, Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby/Stay My Baby Paramount Demo VG++ £60.00 SOLD (Unfortunately the record has a small tight crack in the runout groove which encroaches on to the playing surface approximately 5mm causing a couple of light clicks as the record finishes, hence the reduced price) Gloria Walker My Precious Love People Mint £25.00 David Morris Snap, Crackle, Pop Plush Mint- £20.00 (Philly dancer) Brenda Devlin Were You Ever Lonely Road VG++ £20.00 (Philly sister funk) Holly Maxwell Winter Go Away/Never Love Again Smit-Whit W/D Mint £25.00 The Thoughts Plain As The Nose On Your Face/Walk On Brother S.O. Records Mint- £40.00 (Philly Sweet soul with funk flip) Nolan Chance I’ll Never Forget You Thomas Demo VG++ £35.00 SOLD Bobby Womack Daylight United Artists Mint £15.00 Clay Hammond Part Time Love/Women Are Human Versepto Mint- £20.00 SOLD The Radiations Love Be Not A Stranger/Shaking Up The Nation Valise Mint £20.00 (Sweet soul with funk flip) Postage: 1-3 45’s = £4.50 (return by recorded delivery, UK) overseas at cost. To reserve PM or e-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk

In the post tomorrow morning Steve

Many thanks for your kind words guys and a big thanks to all the people that have supported the label through purchasing the album yo've all made this project so worth while. Regards Dave Soul Junction Music

Northern/60’s Soul Classic’s For Sale (20) Lee Williams Lost Love/Peepin’ (Through The Window) Carnival VG++ £125.00 SOLD Harry Caldwell Please Come Back/Nobody Loves Me Carnival Mint £40.00 (Clown label design) Harold And Connie Bugaloo Party Carnival Demo Mint- £25.00 Don Hart Soldier Comin’ Home/I Can Make It Cool School Mint £40.00 (Great Detroit double sider) Jackie Verdell Are You Ready For This Decca Mint- £25.00 (Texas dancer) Bunny Sigler For Cryin’ Out Loud Decca Demo Mint- £200.00 (Stafford classic) Ray Pollard Lie Lips Lie Decca Mint- £35.00 Ray Pollard Wanderlust Decca Demo Mint- £75.00 The Entertainers IV Temptation Walk Dore Mint- £15.00 The Superbs My Heart Isn’t In It Dore Mint- £40.00 (Purple label) The Entertainers IV Getting’ Back Into Circulation/My Garden Of Eden Dore Mint- £200.00 (Slight label wear) The Commands Don’t Be Afraid To Love Me Dynamic Mint- £150.00 Tommy Tucker That’s How Much! Festival Demo Mint- £75.00 Soul Gents Wonders Of Love/If I Should Win Your Love Fros Ray Mint £80.00 The Drapers (I Know) Your Love Has Gone Away Gee Records W/D VG++ £135.00 SOLD Harry And The Keyavas If This Is Goodbye IPG VG++ £125.00 SOLD Billy Young The Sloopy/Same Thing All Over Jotis VG++ £30.00 Lee Harvey & The L.A. Untouchables My Assurance Kris W/D Mint £80.00 Johnny Moore What More Can I Do/Let’s Get It Together Larry-O Mint- £40.00 SOLD Edward Hamilton & The Arabians Thank You Mother Mary Jane Mint £25.00 (One of Edward’s most underrated sides) The Compliments Beware, Beware/Borrow Til Morning Midas Mint- £125.00 The Cheers I Made Up My Mind/Take Me To Paradise Okeh W/D Mint- £75.00 Major Lance Sometimes I Wonder/I’m So Lost Okeh Mint- £20.00 Major Lance Too Hot To Hold/Dark And Lonely Okeh Mint- £40.00 Major Lance It’s The Beat/You’ll Want Me Back Okeh Mint- £40.00 Christine Cooper Heartaches Away My Boy Parkway W/D VG+ £375.00 SOLD (Several very light marks from not being kept in a sleeve but plays great, clean labels) Nikki Blu (Whoa, Whoa) I Love Him So Parkway W/D Mint- £30.00 Melvin Carter Teacher Of Love Peacock Demo Mint- £30.00 Benny Harper Don’t Let It Happen To You Phil-L.A. Of Soul Mint- £30.00 Ila Van You Made Me This Way/My Mother Said P.I.P VG++ £325.00 SOLD James Bryant Hey There You Girl Renee W/D Mint £40.00 The Illusions Shake Your Mini/The Funky Donkey Showtime Mint- £60.00 (X on b-side label) Bobby Bradshaw Show Me A Man Wand Demo VG++ £20.00 Diplomats Love Ain’t What It Used to Be/I’ve Got A Feeling Wand Mint- £25.00 Maxine Brown One In A Million Wand Mint- £30.00 SOLD (Date stamp on label) Postage: 1-3 45’s = £4.50 (1st, recorded UK) overseas at cost. Reservations: PM or e-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk

CREATING A TREND: THE TOM DORSEY STORY. The mid 60’s Chicago vocal group, The Trends were responsible for a fine body of work that never achieved the measure of success it richly deserved at the time of its creation. Although later well documented the group has always been credited with an all male line up with no mention of its husband and wife founding members Carolyn and Tom Dorsey. The article below will now hopefully right this long overdue wrong. Lucius Thomas Dorsey was born August 31, 1937, the oldest of five sons raised by their parents Lucius Sr and his wife Sara. The struggling Dorsey family later migrated north from their Augusta, Georgia home in 1943 to relocate on the west side of Chicago, Illinois. Tom was a sickly child who struggled with an inconsistent memory due to a serious head concussion he received at the age of 12. An average student in school with his favorite subjects being Science and Art, Tom was a victim of bullying that used his reasoning and inquisitiveness to better understand why and how life worked to earn more respect and success for himself as no adult at that time was there with needed help. Feeling confused, isolated and stressed while knowing the law, Tom dropped out of High School at 17. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1954 to be trained as a radar operator for the next 4 year and credits his military life for giving him the discipline and mental maturity to develop an appreciation for education. Gaining a GED Diploma, he began in college to study psychology to help others with mental issues like his. It was during this time in school that he met his wonderful wife of 58 years, Carolyn! Even though attaining top grades in his chosen subject, Tom’s curiosity caused him to conclude that psychology was being used by corporations and politicians to ’control’ the public for selfish gain and not to help as promoted, again causing him to quit school! Although with no formal music background, Tom taught himself how to play the guitar to begin constructing songs for fun. Initially working part-time for the U.S Postal Service while studying psychology, Tom’s first live performance was with a fellow part-time postal worker and budding songsmith and performer Bobby Miller. Miller and Tom made a pact that whoever landed a recording contract first would bring the other with him. Miller got his break first with the 60’s dance crazy hit “Uncle Willie Time,” (Constellation-111) but reneged on the agreement. Miller went on to become a Chess Records Staff writer composing numerous songs for the mighty Dell’s such as “Stay In My Corner” and wrote Gene Chandler’s outing “Bet You Never Thought” (Constellation -166). Tom’s chance meeting with another fellow part-time postal worker during this time would eventually lead him into the recording world of popular music. This second postal worker was Emmett Garner Jr. who was a member of a live performing singing group who told Tom that he was good enough to make a few bucks on the weekends playing guitar behind Emmett’s group. After agreeing, the group rehearsed at Tom’s home on the Westside of Chicago each weekend. One group member, Eddie Dunn, was without personal transportation which caused him to hitch a ride home with Emmett after rehearsals. Emmett, a lead and background singer, had hopes to audition for a solo recording contract in the future and knowing that Tom was attempting to compose original songs, he suggested they could both benefit from Emmett learning and singing Tom’s material for the audition. Because Emmett was somewhat nervous about his anticipated solo audition, he asked Tom, Carolyn and Eddie (Dunn) to vocally accompany him with what he became comfortable hearing from them during his rehearsals each week. Emmett eventually gained an audition with Eddie Thomas (then Chicago’s promoter for ABC-Paramount record label and manager of the Impressions) with the hope of being signed to a record label. It was after Emmett’s failed audition with Eddie Thomas (who did so out of not being interested in another group sound) that the idea to pursue a contract together with Tom, Carolyn and Eddie Dunn at several Chicago based record labels was born! By 1963 Eddie Thomas and The Impressions were at the height of their powers following their #1 hit “It’s All Right” for ABC. They followed this up in 1964 with hit popular singles “Talking About My Baby”, “I’m So Proud” and “Keep On Pushing” culminating with their “Keep On Pushing” album reaching number 8 in the pop charts. The arranger on these recordings was Johnny Pate. Pate a successful jazz bassist (with his own Trio during the late 1950’s) had come to prominence three months before as the arranger for Carl Davis at Okeh records. This occurred when he was contracted to arrange in place of his out of town mentor Riley Hampton on a recording that spawned Major Lance’s hit record “The Monkey Time,” thus introducing Pate to Chicago as its newest hot arranger on the strength of Lance’s hit! ABC opened an office in Chicago after contracting Johnny Pate as their new A&R Director for the Midwest that included among other artists, Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions! Tom Dorsey had introduced his groups’ sound to Johnny Pate prior to Pate’s popularity when Pate was working in a local record store to supplement his income as a musician. Tom Dorsey’s group (to be named “The Trends” later) live auditioned, but also included a two song tape recording that was left with Chess Records which got their attention. Chess offered a contract that required Tom’s group to tape record their mixture of original ballad and blues to determine which ones would be used for their session. The only request by Tom was that Johnny Pate arrange the music which Chess agreed to and gave Pate the original two song tape to listen to. The next day Tom received a phone call from Pate declaring that he had a signed cheque in hand from Mercury Records to produce Tom’s group as soon as their contract was signed! The group decided to sign with Mercury Records’ sure offer over Chess’ promise and was in the studio by the end of the week! Mercury Records released The Trends on their subsidiary label Smash with two 45 singles of “Dance With Me Baby/ (To Be) Happy Enough” (Smash 1914) followed by “Get Something Going/That’s The Way The Story Goes” (Smash 1933). Unknown to The Trends, Pate also informed Mercury Records that ABC planned to sign The Trends once they were released from their one year contract causing Mercury Records to not promote their records and gave them an early contract release. Needless to say, The Trends did finally arrive at ABC in early 1965 with their first 45 release of the Tom Dorsey penned “If You Don’t Dig The Blues/Not Too Old To Cry” (ABC10731) in the fall of the same year. Tom although signed to ABC as a recording artist also continued to work as an independent songwriter and publisher. The Trends second 45 outing came during the following year with the Tom Dorsey penned “Gonna Have To Show You” backed with a joint composition between Tom and Earl Smith (who happened to be Jerry Butler’s brother-in-law) titled “A Night For Love.” (ABC 10817) This association would also be prevalent in another independent 45 release by a local teenage group the ‘Ivory’s’. At the time Johnny Pate had a secretary working for him by the name of Jan Despenza whose brother Barry operated three independent Chicago labels, Contact, Despenza and Dispo. A subsequent introduction would lead to, two of Tom Dorsey’s songs “Please Stay” and “I’m In A Groove” being recorded and released on the Despenza label. The co-producer on the project being the aforementioned Earl Smith, The Ivory’s did also provide some backing vocals on some Jerry Butler recording sessions before their parents pulled the plug on their burgeoning recording career feeling that it was interfering with their school work. The Ivory’s 45 was later signed to the national distributed Wand label of which Tom had no idea about! The Trends third ABC release came in 1967 again with two Tom Dorsey compositions “No One There/That’s How I Like It” (ABC-10881). This was the group’s last release to feature Tom’s wife Carolyn who left the group due to being pregnant with the couple’s first child. The Trends briefly tried working with a female replacement singer on several live shows, but didn’t include her on future recording sessions. Continuing as a male trio for a little while longer with Tom’s last performance with the group in a live show in Gary, Indiana where The Trends performed as one supporting act behind featured performer Major Lance. For The Trends next 45 release of 1967 “Check My Tears/Don’t Drop Out Of School” (ABC-10944) Emmett and Eddie brought in two members from their original group that they had originally performed with, Ralph O’Neill and Jerome (Jerry) Johnson (later of The Notations on Gemigo and The Channel 3 on Daker). The group’s third 45 release of 1967 was the Tom Dorsey penned song “I Never Knew How Good I Had It” backed with “Thanks For A Little Lovin” (ABC-10993). Two subsequent Trend’s 45’s followed in 1968, the Van McCoy penned “The Big Parade/The soul Clap” (ABC-11091) and a final Tom Dorsey composition for the group “You Sure Know How To Hurt A Guy/Not Another Day” (ABC-11150) with The group breaking up for good not long after. As good as the group’s records were they never secured that elusive hit, although further belated recognition did arrive in the UK and beyond when The Trends body of work found favor within the Northern Soul Scene. Throughout the Trends recording adventure Tom had continued to work for the U.S Postal Service. He learned the mechanics of the music industry while signed as a recording artist to ABC, but he remained an independent songwriter keeping control of his songs and started his own publishing company, Rascal Music, BMI. Controlling 32 songs recorded by various artists which he still receives royalties on to this day, he earned a platinum award when Erykha Badu sampled Maurice Jackson’s “Lucky Fellow” on her two million selling album “Baduizm”. Tom’s songwriting credits can be found on a plethora of Chicago artist’s recordings besides the Trend’s. Tom’s close friendship with Johnny Pate would also lead to Tom being considered as Pate’s choice to replace him when Pate was promoted to ABC’s New York headquarters, a position Tom turned down because he and his wife Carolyn agreed that a healthier and happier balance was needed between their family and the music finance related stress! They cancelled their active involvement in the music industry with Tom working full time with the US Postal Service. A further career and life change would follow when at age 35, Tom felt unaccomplished. Together he and Carolyn agreed for him to quit the Postal Service and use his G.I Bill benefits to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago initially to secure a degree in painting while she financially supported the family. But during his first semester courses, he was strongly attracted to photography causing him to not take any painting courses before earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography! Tom developed his own eye-hand coordination technique to alter and enhance color photographs before today’s computers and image altering Photoshop. This new found skill secured Tom a job at a prestigious non-minority photographic studio that allowed him to learn their approach to the camera portrait business, which Tom used as his business model to start ‘Beautiful Memories By Dorsey’ (aka Camera Portraiture by Dorsey) with each print being embossed with the gold Dorsey logo which was officially registered. Their venture into photographing black families in their homes exclusively exploded from word-of-mouth advertising! In 1977 following Tom’s continuing sinus infections from Chicago’s dirty air, the Dorsey Family reluctantly relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. After joining Atlanta’s Chamber of Commerce, Tom taught photography in Clark College’s Art Department for 1977-78 to learn more about how Atlanta worked. Atlanta families did not think like Chicagoans and business did not take off as expected even with costly advertising and marketing thereby causing Carolyn to again pay the bills with a secretarial position at BellSouth. Tom fanned the fire for business, but began to question his worth as a photographer trying to support his wife and their two children who were attending school in 7th and 9th grades! After hearing on the radio about a government School of Carpentry being offered, Tom enrolled for two days a week until completion that secured him a job as a full-time Carpenter apprentice! The contractor was supportive of Tom’s aspiration in photography and encouraged him to go take care of his few occasional photo assignments and then come on back to work. This worked fine for 6 months, but the photo shoots were beginning to cause too many interruptions even though not enough to support a full income, Tom shook hands with his employer for the last time and quit! A blessing came in the form of a high school senior requesting cap & gown photos to replace those she was not satisfied with taken by the official school photographer. Tom’s ego only accepted the request because her family and his became friends years ago after Tom photographed her family when both lived in Chicago. The photo session went off well with Tom’s sensitivity to his subject and his use of the beautiful outdoors for a few casual poses. The day after the final order was delivered calls started coming in from students requesting what they saw from the photo shoot. All calls were graciously refused because of Tom’s lack of respect for the standard craft of cap and gown photography. Carolyn overheard Tom turning down these requests and insisted he change his attitude to not refuse any photo job he could perform because they needed the income! Tom reluctantly started scheduling appointments, but soon felt he should respect his clients with the best he knew how to do. Before long, word-of-mouth promotion by students from over 35 different high schools brought many high ranking parents and personalities both locally and from out of state to the Dorsey Studio! After 32 years of sharing their photographic sensitivity to the value of family togetherness with pride and dignity in both Chicago and Atlanta, the Dorsey’s retired in 2003! Tom and Carolyn’s blessings received in life became blessings to be shared with others. Since 2007 they continued to work together to become known for the Brother 2 Brothers TEAM MENtoring Method of Atlanta, helping some confused mid-teen males in Atlanta Public Schools improve ethically to stay in school and graduate with respect and success in life! The program’s ethos is “it’s easier (and cheaper) to build strong children than to (attempt to) repair broken men” by Frederick Douglass. In circa 2015, Tom’s recording industry past came back to haunt him when I contacted him about some of the songs owned by his publishing company, Rascal Music, which was administered by his wife Carolyn. Tom a very courteous and humble man was a little bemused by an Englishman’s inquisitiveness about the songs he wrote and recorded way back in the mid 60’s. But during our many subsequent conversations and growing friendship Tom mentioned a master tape from his last ever, self-produced recording session that he still had. The session was of four songs, two of which had been released at the time of their recording and two which had not. Sadly, Tom was to suddenly lose his beloved wife in 2017 which meant my idea had to be put on hold to allow Tom the necessary time to grieve and readjust. After a suitable time of mourning, we reignited the project, leading to the recent release of the two unissued Willie Williams songs of the delightfully soulful “Give It All I Got” backed with the funky, social conscience themed “Do You Understand” on the UK Soul Junction label, harking back to the days of Chicago Soul’s golden age. Blind, Chicago soul singer Willie Williams was first discovered performing in clubs around the Windy City. He was signed to ABC Records by their A&R Director for the Midwest, Johnny Pate. Pate chose one of Tom Dorsey’s songs for Willie to record as the flipside of his initial ABC release “Have You Ever Been Played For A Fool/With Al My Soul” (ABC-10860). Recorded in 1966, “With All My Soul” became a popular radio play of the time with Willie becoming known locally as Willie “Soul” Williams. Williams went on to record two further ABC 45’s under Pate’s guidance, “It Doesn’t Pay/Just Because” (1967) and “I’m Through With You/Strung Out” (1968). In 1969 Willie’s next 45 release again recorded in Chicago under Pate’s supervision was placed with another major label RCA, although credited as a GWP Production (Gerrard W. Purcell). Both sides of this RCA release are two excellent Tom Dorsey penned songs “Just To Be With You backed with “Name It”. Throughout his career Williams worked the clubs with his own band led by his musical director, confidant and bassist Bradley (Brad) Bobo. Bobo featured on many recording sessions for other artists too notably the creation of the acclaimed Notations album on Curtis Mayfield’s Curtom subsidiary label, Gemigo. On The 22nd of December 1970 a recording session was held in RCA’s Studio B, on North Wacker Drive, Chicago with sound engineer Russ Vestuto. The session was arranged and financed by Tom Dorsey flush with song writing gratuities received from the three songs he had composed and contributed to the popular blue-eyed hit group The O’Kaysions “Girl Watcher ABC album. The results of this session yielded four Willie Williams songs. Tom provided the arrangements, Brad Bobo played bass, and Tom’s wife Carolyn joined he and Brad on backing vocals. The fruits of this session were offered to Chicago stalwart Eddie Thomas. Thomas picked up two of the songs for release on his Lakeside label. Eddie’s choices were “Must Mean Love” later renamed as “The Baa Baa Song” and “Psyched Out”, leaving the two other songs to mature like fine wine in the can. Williams now sadly deceased, in later life once the opportunities for a performing artist began to dwindle chose a different path, gaining a Doctor’s degree he became a College Lecturer. As previously mentioned, Tom too turned his back on the music industry and over the realms of time lost much of his musical memorabilia but luckily for us, he did hang on to the master tape of Willie’s session and so after a 50 year wait Willie’s songs have found the ears of an appreciative audience. N.B Two Willie Williams credited 45’s also appeared on the Gamma label which at the time of writing this article I’m unsure if they are the same Willie Williams in question, as there was also a renowned Chicago Blues artist of the same name. The Tom Dorsey Song Book: A Night For Love The Trends ABC -10817 (45) Baa Baa Song (Must Mean Love) Willie Williams Lakeside-3100 (45) Bad But Beautiful Bag Cicero Blake Tower-494 (45) Blue Bird believed to have been recorded by Geraldine hunt but not released. (Come On) Let’s Get Something Going The Trends Smash -1933 (45) Dance With Me Baby The Trends Smash -1914 (45) Do You Understand Willie Williams Soul Junction -545 (45) For Lovers Only Geraldine Hunt ABC -10859 (45) Give It All I Got Willie Williams Soul Junction -545 (45) Gonna Have To Show You The Trends ABC -10817 (45) Hey, Hey, Girl The Marvelows ABC -11139 (45) How Are You Fixed For Love The Tams ABC-664 (LP) (Girl Watcher) I Need A Change Betty Everette Uni-73048 (LP) (There’ll Come A Time) I Never Knew How Good I Had It The Trends ABC -10993 (45) If You Don’t Big The Blues The Trends ABC -10731 I’m In A Groove The Ivory’s Despenza -470 (45) It’s Gotta Be Love The Kittens ABC-10835 (45) Just To Be Loved By You Willie Williams RCA 47-9736 (45) Love Butterfly believed to have been recorded by The Kittens but not released. Love Machine The Tams ABC-11153 (45) & ABC-664 (LP) (Girl Watcher) My Baby’s Love The Tams ABC-664 LP (Girl Watcher) Name It Willie Williams RCA 47-9736 (45) No One There The Trends ABC-10881 (45) Not Too Old To Cry The Trends ABC-10731 (45) Please Stay The Ivory’s Despenza-470 (45) Psyched Out Willie Williams Lakeside-3100 (45) So Much Better Emmett Garner Jr Maxwell -802 (45) That’s How I Like It The Trends ABC-10881 (45) That’s The Way The Story Goes The Trends Smash-1933 (45) (To Be) Happy Enough The Trends Smash-1914 (45) With All My Soul Willie Williams ABC-10860 (45) You Sure Know How To Hurt A Guy The Trends ABC-11150 (45) Words By: David Welding & Lucius Thomas Dorsey. My acknowledgements to Tom and his late wife Carolyn for sharing their most cherished memories with me and also to the recently departed Emmett Gardner Jr. and Eddie Thomas may they rest in peace.

Modern, Crossover, Funk & Sweet Soul 45’s (PP) Wilson Williams Faith Will Bring It Home/Up The Down Stairs ABC Mint £75.00 SOLD Denise LaSalle I Get What I Want ABC Mint- £20.00 The Caprells What Do You Need Baby/Dotty’s Party Ariola America Mint £20.00 Love Committee Am I Wasting My Time/Heaven Only Knows Ariola America Mint- £20.00 (Number on label) Ace Spectrum Don’t Send No Nobody Else/Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight Atlantic Mint £60.00 Ace Spectrum Live & Learn Atlantic Demo Mint £15.00 SOLD (Lived in the shadow of the previous record for far to long, this is a damn good soul record) Archie Bell & The Drells I Can’t Stop Dancing/You’re Such A Beautiful Child Atlantic Mint- £10.00 (Two class sides for the price of a posh pint of lager) Black Nasty Cut Your Motor Off Big Hit Mint- £25.00 The Epics We Are Made As One (Part 1 & 2) Bridge Town Mint £30.00 (Same song as The Manhattans on Carnival Records) Gwen Owens You Better Watch Out Casablanca VG++ £15.00 The Vibrations Shake It Up/Make It Last Chess Demo VG+/VG++ £250.00 SOLD (The ‘Shake It Up” Side is VG+ and plays with a couple of feint pops, the “Make It Last side is VG++ And plays perfect, hence price reduction) Lou Ragland & Hot Chocolate I Can’t Take It/What The Doctor Prescribed Co-Co Mint £25.00 Hot Chocolate We Had True Love/Good For The Gander Co-Co Mint- £30.00 (Mid-tempo Cleveland soul with funk flipside, Lou Ragland on lead vocals) Darrow Fletcher Sitting There That Night Congress Mint- £15.00 SOLD (One of Darrow’s less appreciated sides) The Mayberry Movement I Think I’m In Love Event Mint- £75.00 SOLD Dee Dee Sharp The Bottle Or Me Gamble Demo Mint £30.00 SOLD (Nice looking west coast Demo of this great song) Jackie Ross A Woman (Get’s Nothing From Love) GSF W/D Mint- £15.00 Joe Johnson Perfect Love Affair/The Blind Man GSf Mint £15.00 The Hesitations Is This The Way To Treat A Girl/Yes I’m Ready GWP Mint £80.00 Joey Dee Baby Don’t You Know Janus Records W/D Mint £20.00 Lee “Shot” Williams Baby, Baby/Checking Out Jewel Records Demo Mint- £75.00 Sam Dees It’s All Wrong (It’s All Right) lo Lo W/D Mint- £15.00 SOLD Bobby Womack Tried And Convicted Minit VG £15.00 (Plays great) Krystal Generation Ain’t No Way To Live Mister Chand Mint- £15.00 Bill Brandon & Lorraine Johnson Let Me Be Your Full Time Groover Moonsong Mint £150.00 (Original with 3 x W stamp in the run out groove) Chocolate Syrup Who You Trying To Fool Girl/Everybody Party MVTH Mint- £80.00 SOLD Little Dooley (It’s Got To Be) Now Or Never North Bay Mint- £15.00 (Two ‘X’s on label) Bobby Hutton Lonely In Love/More Today Than Yesterday Philips VG++ £65.00 SOLD (Bobby at his soulful best backed with a great version of The Spiral Staircase classic) Weapons Of Peace This Life (About To Get Me Down) Playboy Records Mint £15.00 Citation Inspiration Of My Life/We’ve Come A long Way Baby Red Line VG++ £125.00 SOLD (two excellent Ivy Jo Hunter sides now very sort after group soul) Mary Wells I Found What I Wanted/I See A Future In You Reprise W/D Mint £20.00 (Excellent cover of the George Jackson song by Mary) Whirlwind Don’t Let Him Get The Best Of You/Full Time Thing (Between Dusk And Dawn) Roulette Mint £25.00 The Love Foundation Let One Hurt Do/What’s The Matter Baby Spot Records Mint- £15.00 The Originals Baby, I’m For Real Soul Mint- £10.00 (The ultimate ballad) The Courtship It’s The Same Old Love/Last Row, First Balcony Tamla Mint £20.00 August If He Makes It Good (I Can Make It Better) 14KT Gold …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. New Soul Junction 45 Release: Reggie Soul & The Soul Swingers “My World Of Ecstasy/Mighty Good Loving” SJ553 First released on the local Chicago ‘Capri’ label in 1968, this is a first time reissue of this perennial Chicago crossover favourite which came to prominence during the late 80’s that has risen in price and popularity over the ensuing years backed with the underappreciated up-tempo dancer “Mighty Good Loving”. Take a listen to the you tube link: https://youtu.be/YrrmbFEk0zI ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Postage: 1-3 45’s = £4.50 (1st recorded, UK), overseas at cost. To reserve PM or E-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk

Grapevine 2000 Collectors List (New Additions) All in mint/unplayed condition. Electric Express Hearsay (Vocal & Instrumental) G2K 101 £10.00 (Modern Soul favourite which has remained hard to find) Electric Express Hearsay (Vocal & Instrumental) G2K 101 Demo £20.00 (Excellent Modern Soul Dancer that still remains quite elusive on it US label) Bobby Wayne Long Hard Road/Do I Love You Indeed I Do G2K 103 £10.00.0 The Magnetics (Feat: John McKinney) The Look On Your Face/You Were Made For Love G2K 104 Demo £40.00 Two great previously unissued crossover sides first played by Richard Searling on a one-off acetate. Matt Brown Thank You Baby/Sweet Thing G2K 107 £15.00 Little Hank Try To Understand/Mr. Bang Bang Man G2K 108 £25.00 George Hobson Let It Be Real G2K 109 £15.00 (Great Northern, now so hard to find on the original label) Ernest Baker Alone Again G2K 110 £40.00 Fortson & Scott/Robby Fortson Sweet Lover/Are You For Real G2K 111 £50.00 Sex It’s You (Baby It’s You) G2K 113 £15.00 (Great New Orleans Modern Soul, and very hard to find on it’s US label). Sex It’s You (Baby It’s You) G2K 113 Demo £50.00 Archie Hodge I Really Want To See You Girl G2K 115 £15.00 (Another holy grail 45 on a original copy, modern soul perfection) The Servicemen Are You Angry/I Need A Helping Hand G2K 116 £50.00 Bill Coday/Sandra Wright A Man Can’t Be A Man G2K 117 £15.00 Original UK release for as a 45 for both of these songs. Swiss Movement I Wish Our Love Would Last Forever G2K 118 £15.00 The Magnetics I’ll Keep Holding On G2K 119 £20.00 (In demand oldie that would cost several thousand on the original label) Don Gardner Cheatin’ Kind G2K 120 £45.00 The Springers Nothing’s Too Good For My Baby G2K 121 £25.00 The Four Dynamics Things A Lady Ain’t Supposed To Do G2K 122 £30.00 The Jones Brothers Good Old Days/Lucky Lady G2K 123 £15.00 (Shares the same backing track as Nathan Williams “What Price”). Melvin Brown & James Mathews Love, Stormy Weather G2K-124 £25.00 Melvin Brown & James Mathews Love, Stormy Weather G2K-124 Demo £50.00 The Carbon Copies Just Don’t Love You G2K 125 £25.00 Eddie Billups Ask My Heart G2K-126 £30.00 C.P Love Trick Bag/Plenty Of Room For More G2K 127 £15.00 (C.P’s previously unissued version of Earl King and The Excuses dancer Trick Bag backed with Southern Soul rarity “Plenty Of Room For More”). Willie Tee I’m Having So Much Fun/First Taste Of Hurt G2K 128 £40.00 L.V. Johnson Trying To Hold On G2K 129 £15.00 Ron Henderson & Choice Of Colour Gemini Lady G2K 131 £40.00 Percy Stone & The Explosions Chained GSK 132 Demo £40.00 Matt Brown Everyday (I Love You Just A Little Bit More) G2K 133 £15.00 Bobby Rich There’s A Girl Somewhere (For Me) G2K 139 £25.00 Bobby Rich There’s A Girl Somewhere (For Me) G2K 139 Demo £50.00 Sly Johnson All I Need Is Someone Like You/Do You Know What Love Is G2K 140 £25.00 Gerri Hall Who Can I Run To/ The Jades Lucky Fellow G2K 143 £75.00 Corey Black How Can I Go On Without You G2K £75.00 Bobby James/The Lovelites I Really Love You/I’m Not Like The Others G2K 145 £75.00 The Vines After The Rain/So Be It G2K 146 £15.00 Two previously unissued Lee Silver produced sides, “After The Rain” shares the same backing track as the currently popular Minnie Jones “Shadow Of A Memory”) The Saints I Let You Slide/Cal Brandon I Kept On Smilin’ G2K 148 Jerry Williams When You Move You Lose G2K 151 £15.00 (Jerry’s previously unissued northern dancer) The Saints/Cal Brandon I’ll Let You Slide/I Kept on Smilin’ G2K 148 £25.00 Dottie Pearson A House Made Of Love/Bring It Over Baby G2K 152 £125.00 Chuck Brooks Last Minute Plans/Anita Robbins I Can Stand A Little Bit More G2K 153 £30.00 The Precious Three/Wendell Watts I Need A Man/You Girl G2K 154 £40.00 Storm Can’t No Body Love Me Like You Do G2K 156 £35.00 Eddie Holman Sweet Memories Are Haunting Me/Grooving At The Go-Go G2K 160 £20.00 (Previously unissued as a 45). The Detroit Magnificents Is This A Woman’s Way G2K 161 £15.00 The Detroit Magnificents Is This A Woman’s Way G2K 161 Demo £40.00 (Previously unissued northern dancer which shares the same backing track as Youngblood Smith’s “You Can Split”) SJ100 Series: Jimmy Ruffin Leading Lady/Take My Hand SJ 105 Demo £20.00 (Two excellent previously unissued Philly modern soul dancers that deserve more airplay) Postage: 1-3 45 records £4.50 (1st recorded, UK), overseas at cost. To reserve PM or E-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk

Grapevine 2000 Collectors List (New Additions) All in mint/unplayed condition. Electric Express Hearsay (Vocal & Instrumental) G2K 101 £10.00 (Modern Soul favourite which has remained hard to find) Electric Express Hearsay (Vocal & Instrumental) G2K 101 Demo £20.00 (Excellent Modern Soul Dancer that still remains quite elusive on it US label) Bobby Wayne Long Hard Road/Do I Love You Indeed I Do G2K 103 £10.00.0 The Magnetics (Feat: John McKinney) The Look On Your Face/You Were Made For Love G2K 104 Demo £40.00 Two great previously unissued crossover sides first played by Richard Searling on a one-off acetate. Matt Brown Thank You Baby/Sweet Thing G2K 107 £15.00 Little Hank Try To Understand/Mr. Bang Bang Man G2K 108 £25.00 George Hobson Let It Be Real G2K 109 £15.00 (Great Northern, now so hard to find on the original label) Ernest Baker Alone Again G2K 110 £40.00 Fortson & Scott/Robby Fortson Sweet Lover/Are You For Real G2K 111 £50.00 Sex It’s You (Baby It’s You) G2K 113 £15.00 (Great New Orleans Modern Soul, and very hard to find on it’s US label). Sex It’s You (Baby It’s You) G2K 113 Demo £50.00 Archie Hodge I Really Want To See You Girl G2K 115 £15.00 (Another holy grail 45 on a original copy, modern soul perfection) The Servicemen Are You Angry/I Need A Helping Hand G2K 116 £50.00 Bill Coday/Sandra Wright A Man Can’t Be A Man G2K 117 £15.00 Original UK release for as a 45 for both of these songs. Swiss Movement I Wish Our Love Would Last Forever G2K 118 £15.00 The Magnetics I’ll Keep Holding On G2K 119 £20.00 (In demand oldie that would cost several thousand on the original label) Don Gardner Cheatin’ Kind G2K 120 £45.00 The Springers Nothing’s Too Good For My Baby G2K 121 £25.00 The Four Dynamics Things A Lady Ain’t Supposed To Do G2K 122 £30.00 The Jones Brothers Good Old Days/Lucky Lady G2K 123 £15.00 (Shares the same backing track as Nathan Williams “What Price”). Melvin Brown & James Mathews Love, Stormy Weather G2K-124 £25.00 Melvin Brown & James Mathews Love, Stormy Weather G2K-124 Demo £50.00 The Carbon Copies Just Don’t Love You G2K 125 £25.00 Eddie Billups Ask My Heart G2K-126 £30.00 C.P Love Trick Bag/Plenty Of Room For More G2K 127 £15.00 (C.P’s previously unissued version of Earl King and The Excuses dancer Trick Bag backed with Southern Soul rarity “Plenty Of Room For More”). Willie Tee I’m Having So Much Fun/First Taste Of Hurt G2K 128 £40.00 L.V. Johnson Trying To Hold On G2K 129 £15.00 Ron Henderson & Choice Of Colour Gemini Lady G2K 131 £40.00 Percy Stone & The Explosions Chained GSK 132 Demo £40.00 Matt Brown Everyday (I Love You Just A Little Bit More) G2K 133 £15.00 Bobby Rich There’s A Girl Somewhere (For Me) G2K 139 £25.00 Bobby Rich There’s A Girl Somewhere (For Me) G2K 139 Demo £50.00 Sly Johnson All I Need Is Someone Like You/Do You Know What Love Is G2K 140 £25.00 Gerri Hall Who Can I Run To/ The Jades Lucky Fellow G2K 143 £75.00 Corey Black How Can I Go On Without You G2K £75.00 Bobby James/The Lovelites I Really Love You/I’m Not Like The Others G2K 145 £75.00 The Vines After The Rain/So Be It G2K 146 £15.00 Two previously unissued Lee Silver produced sides, “After The Rain” shares the same backing track as the currently popular Minnie Jones “Shadow Of A Memory”) The Saints I Let You Slide/Cal Brandon I Kept On Smilin’ G2K 148 Jerry Williams When You Move You Lose G2K 151 £15.00 (Jerry’s previously unissued northern dancer) The Saints/Cal Brandon I’ll Let You Slide/I Kept on Smilin’ G2K 148 £25.00 Dottie Pearson A House Made Of Love/Bring It Over Baby G2K 152 £125.00 Chuck Brooks Last Minute Plans/Anita Robbins I Can Stand A Little Bit More G2K 153 £30.00 The Precious Three/Wendell Watts I Need A Man/You Girl G2K 154 £40.00 Storm Can’t No Body Love Me Like You Do G2K 156 £35.00 Eddie Holman Sweet Memories Are Haunting Me/Grooving At The Go-Go G2K 160 £20.00 (Previously unissued as a 45). The Detroit Magnificents Is This A Woman’s Way G2K 161 £15.00 The Detroit Magnificents Is This A Woman’s Way G2K 161 Demo £40.00 (Previously unissued northern dancer which shares the same backing track as Youngblood Smith’s “You Can Split”) SJ100 Series: Jimmy Ruffin Leading Lady/Take My Hand SJ 105 Demo £20.00 (Two excellent previously unissued Philly modern soul dancers that deserve more airplay) Postage: 1-3 45 records £4.50 (1st recorded, UK), overseas at cost. To reserve PM or E-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk

Bargain Soul 45’s At £5.00 Each Or 5 for £20.00 plus postage. Warren & Burris Why Not Love Me Becket Mint Lee Williams & The Cymbals Save It All For You Black Circle VG++ Donald Woods Close To You Blue Hound VG+ (Excellent Chicago Mid-tempo soul) Gene Redding This Heart Capitol/Haven Mint Buddy Scott Big Leg Woman/Don’t Make Me Pay For Your Mistake Capri Mint Buddy Scott Money Tree/There’s Something On Your Mind Capri VG++ The Radiants Voice Your Choice Chess VG- King Floyd Everybody Needs Somebody Chimneyville Mint- (Sticker on label) Gene Washington & The Ironsides Got To Get Through To You/Don’t Throw Your Love Away Colemine Mint The Impressions Check Out Your Mind/Can’t You See Curtom VG++ Wild Flower Please Don’t Stop Dash Mint Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Never Gonna Leave You/Hot Chills, Cold Thrills & Fever Dash Mint Jo Ann Garrett Sting Me Baby Duke Demo Mint- (Label tear) Ujima A Shoulder To Lean On Epic W/D Mint Essence I Ain’t Much, But I’m All I Got Epic W/D Mint- Randy Brown I’m Always In The Mood/Love Is All We Need Expansion Mint Bobby Jones Talkin’ About Jones Expo VG Otis clay Trying To Live My Life Without You Hi Demo VG++ SOLD Lamont Dozier Why Can’t We Be Lovers Invictus VG++ Special Delivery I Destroyed Your Love (Part1&2) Mainstream Mint Dramatics No Rebate On Love/Feel It Mainstream Mint- Terry Huff Just Not Enough Love/That’s When It Hurts Mainstream Mint Holidays Lazy Day/Ego Tripping Marathon VG++ SOLD (Excellent Detroit Sweet Soul Harmony with Funk Flip) Brenda Lee Eager & Peaches I’m Lonely (I Can’t Groove) Mercury W/D Mint- The Sisters Love My Love Is Yours (Till The End Of Time)/You’ve Got My Mind Motown Mint- Billy Butler & Infinity Now You Know/When Your Baby’s Gone Pride VG+ Universal Mind Something Fishy Going On/For You Girl Red Coach VG++ Chuck Jackson I’ve Got To Be Strong/Tell Him I’m Not Home Scepter/Wand Mint (Multi-coloured label) Marvin Gaye Come Get To This Tamla VG+ Smokey Robinson Sweet Harmony Tamla W/D Mint- Alvin Cash Keep On Dancing (Vocal & Instrumental) Toddlin’ Town VG Alvin Cash Moaning And Groaning/Funky 69 Toddlin’ Town VG+ Secrets (Baby) Save Me Wand Demo VG+ Ruby Andrews You Made A Believer (Out Of Me) Zodiac VG- Chuck Bernard Turn Her Loose VG++ (Sticker On Label) Brighter Side Of Darkness I Owe You Love 20th Century Demo Mint Postage: 1-3 45’s = £3.00, 5-45’s = £4.00(First Class, UK), Overseas at cost: To reserve PM or e-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk

Northern/60’s Soul Classics For Sale (19) The Mighty Marvelows Talkin’ Bout Ya Baby/In The Morning ABC Mint £30.00 The Marvelows I Do ABC -Paramount Mint- £10.00 Bobby Byrd & Vicki Anderson Here Is My Everything ABC Mint £30.00 (Recommended Dancer) The Cre-Shendos Your Still On My Mind/This Must Be Love Aquarius Mint £125.00 (Two great Willie Hoskins produced sides) Carl Carlton I Can Feel It Back Beat Mint- £175.00 Carl Carlton Don’t Walk Away Back Beat Mint £20.00 Carl Carlton The Generation Gap Back Beat Mint £20.00 Little Carl Carlton Why Don’t They Leave Us Alone/46 Drums- 1 Guitar Back Beat Mint- £15.00 (Date on label) Brothers Of Soul Come On Back/The Love I Found In You Boo Mint- £100.00 (Orange Label) Brothers Of Soul You Better Believe It Boo Mint- £30.00 Leonard Lee I’m A Poor Boy (with Millions) Broadmoor W/D Mint- £25.00 Jean Wells With My Love And What You Got Calla VG++ £40.00 The Chancellors All The Way From Heaven/Sad Avenue VG++ £150.00 SOLD The Montereys & Grandeurs Come Home To Me Cardinale Mint £40.00 The Natural Four The Devil Made Me Do It/Give A Little Love Chess Mint £10.00 Spencer Wiggins Lonely Man/The Power Of A Woman Goldwax Mint £40.00 Steve Mancha Friday Night Groovesville Mint- £350.00 (Two ‘x’ on label) Steve Mancha Just Keep On Loving Me Groovesville Mint- £25.00 Four Gents I’ve Been Trying/Soul Sister HBR Mint- £30.00 SOLD (Great cover of the Curtis Mayfield classic by this respected Detroit group) Mike & The Sensations I Need Your Lovin’ Highland Mint £30.00 Johnny And The Expressions Give Me One More Chance/Boys & Girls Together Josie Mint- £40.00 Jimmy Love Two Sides To Every Story Josie W/D Mint- £35.00 (Dancer) Bobby Tucker Your Love Is All I Need Mala Demo Mint- £25.00 (Same song as Cliff Nobles on Atlantic, Vocal & Instrumental version) Sean Taylor Too Late To Turn Back Now/Put Me Down Easy Magic Touch Mint- £40.00 The Charades You’re With Me All The Way Mercury W/D Mint £50.00 (A great soul record that has been overshadowed by their MGM sides for far too long) The Performers I Can’t Stop You/L.A. Stomp Mirwood Mint £35.00 (Mint vinyl with some slight label tear, hence price) The Cheers I’m Gonna Get Even With You/Never More Penny Mint- £75.00 SOLD The Cheers I’m Gonna Get Even With You/Never More Penny VG- £25.00 (Plays with a few light pops) The Cheers (I’m Not Ready To) Settle Down/Mighty, Mighty Lover Penny Mint- £75.00 SOLD Jack Montgomery Dearly Beloved/Do You Believe It Scepter Mint £350.00 SOLD (Radio Station date Stamp on label) Judy Clay You Busted My Mind Scepter Demo Mint- £50.00 The Catalinas You Haven’t The Right Scepter Demo Mint £40.00 The Anglos Since You’ve Been Gone Scepter W/D Mint £75.00 SOLD Eddie Purrell The Spoiler Volt Mint- £20.00 SOLD The Charmels Loving Material/I’ll Gladly Take You Back Volt W/D £25.00 The Charmels As Long As I’ve Got You Volt W/D Mint £350.00 SOLD To reserve: PM or e-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk Postage: 1-3 records £4.00 (1st/recorded, UK) overseas at costs.

Happy birthday Sandra have a great day Louise & Dave

Modern, Crossover, Funk, Sweet Soul 45’s (00) Spinners I Just Want To Fall In Love Atlantic Demo Mint- £30.00 SOLD Eddie Kendricks (Oh I) Need Your Lovin’ Atlantic Demo Mint- £15.00 Mark Putney Today’s Man Atlantic Demo Mint £40.00 The Arrows Bring Back The One I Love/We Have Love Bandit Mint- £100.00 Donald Woods Close To You/Disco Party Blue Hound Mint- £25.00 (Chicago Crossover Soul with Funk flipside) Four Mints You Want To Come Back/You’re My Desire Capsoul Mint £30.00 SOLD (two great Cleveland Soul sides) Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr Your Love Keeps Drawing Me Closer/You Can’t Blame Me Capsoul Mint £75.00 SOLD (Classic) Otis Leavill You Brought Out The Good In Me/I’m So Jealous Daker W/D Mint £30.00 (Two great sides from this great singer) Ben Munro Broken Home Daker Mint £20.00 SOLD The Blendels Beware (Vocal & Instrumental) Dontee Mint- £250.00 SOLD (Washington funk, please note this is rare paler blue original label release and not the light blue reissue as shown on Discogs) The Steelers You Got Me Callin’ Epic W/D Mint- £25.00 (Great Chicago crossover) George Jackson My Desies Are Getting The Best Of Me/Find ‘Em, Fool ‘Em And Forget ‘Em Fame Mint- £25.00 Hank Sample So In Love With You/You’re Being Unfair To Me Jay-Walking W/D Mint £15.00 The Continental 4 What You Gave Up/Day By Day Jay-Walking Mint- £20.00 Billy & The Bloodknots Gotta Get Away Josie W/D Mint- £50.00 SOLD (Group Soul classic) Chuck Brooks Loneliness (Is A Friend Of Mine)/Baby Please Don’t Set Me Free Mercury W/D Mint- £30.00 Marvels One Of These Old Days/Stop Mercury W/D Mint- £30.00 Marvins Sims Dream A Dream Mercury W/D Mint- £25.00 The Entertainers Why?/Po Boy Ovide Mint- £20.00 Masters Of Soul Sad Face Ovide Mint- £20.00 Bobby Patterson I Get My Groove From You Paula Mint- £100.00 SOLD The El Dorados Looking In From The Outside/Since You Came Into My Life Paula W/D Mint £40.00 The new Concepts Give Me Another Chance Philips W/D Mint- £20.00 Jules Johnson & The Dynamics Take A Little Time This Time Polydor W/D Mint £20.00 Steeplechase Never Coming Back Polydor W/D Mint £40.00 SOLD Pep Brown Is It All Over Polydor W/D Mint- £20.00 R.B. Hudman I Could Paint A Picture R&B Mint- £35.00 The Center Stage Hey, Lady/Someday, Someway (You’re Gonna Love Me) RCA Demo Mint- £25.00 Garland Green Don’t Let Love Walk Out On Us/Ask Me For What You Want RCA Mint- £25.00 (Sticker on label) The Holidays This Is Love/The Love We Share Rob-Ron Mint- £50.00 (Recommended, great mid-tempo double sider that used to fetch 3 figures at one time) Richard C It’s Hard To Make It Sho-Boat Mint- £75.00 James Hazelhurst I Won’t Die Swar Mint- £20.00 Darrell Banks I’m The One Who Loves You Volt Mint- £160.00 Jeanne & The Darlings Soul Girl/What’s Gonna Happen To Me Volt Mint- £40.00 Dramatics Your Love Was Strange/Toast To The Fool Volt Mint- £15.00 SOLD (One of the best cheaper records you could buy, recently seen listed for twice the price) Branding Iron Right, Tight And Out Of Sight/Slave For Love Volt Mint- £30.00 (Issue copy with b-side) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Recommended New Soul Junction Release: SJ552 Jesse James “Everybody’s Talking At Me/Your More Than A Friend Of Mine” The A-side is Jesse’s previously unissued up-tempo version of the classic Fred Neil song which has been receiving rave reviews, while the b-side is the popular modern soul favourite from Jesse’s 1990 “Looking Back” album now available as a 45 for the first time. Please take a listen to the you tube link: https://youtu.be/wZzaDC4Tkv8 This and many more excellent titles can be found on the Soul Junction website: https://souljunctionrecords.co.uk/ ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Postage: 1-3 45’s =£4.00 (1st recorded, UK), overseas at cost. To reserve: PM or e-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk

Northern/60’s Soul Classics For Sale (18) The Remarkables Is The Feeling Still There/Easily Mislead Audio Arts Mint- £30.00 The Incredibles I Can’t Get Over Losing Your Love/(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons Audio Arts Mint £25.00 The Incredibles All Of A Sudden/Standing Here Crying Audio Arts VG++ £10.00 Mary Saenz Would She Do That For Me Big Ben Mint £40.00 (Seems to a forgotten oldie these days, W.O.L on label) Frank Polk Love Is Dangerous Capitol VG++ £50.00 SOLD Patrice Holloway Stay With Your Own Kind/That’s All You Got To Do Capitol Mint £25.00 Earl Wright Thumb A Ride Capitol VG++ £120.00 (Very Slight edge lift which doesn’t affect play) Lou Rawls Dead End Street (With Monologue) Capitol VG++ £15.00 SOLD Tommy Butler Right On Up To The Weekend Chattahoochee Mint- £40.00 The Wanderers Somebody Else’s Sweetheart Cub Mint £30.00 (Ray Pollard on lead vocals) The Augustine Twins (Don & Ron) My Place/Everyday Of My Life Duke Mint- £20.00 Clarence Green & The Rhythmaires Ground Hog (Instrumental) Duke Demo Mint £20.00 (Old Guy Hennigan Stafford C/U) Bobby Conerly A Whole Lot Of Soul Is Gone Duke Demo Mint- £20.00 Bobby Bland Ain’t Doing Too Bad ( Part 1 & 2) Duke Mint- £15.00 Billy Storm Educated Fool Infinity Demo Mint £100.00 SOLD (X on label) Darrow Fletcher Infatuation/Little Girl Jacklyn Mint £100.00 SOLD Casino Royale Get Yourself Together/Live And Learn Key-Loc Mint- £100.00 Alder Ray My Heart Is In Danger/I Need You, Baby Minit Mint £75.00 (In demand Dancer) Chubby Checker Hey You, Little Boo-Ga-Loo Parkway W/D Mint- £25.00 (Number on label) Christine Cooper S.O.S (Heart In Distress) Parkway Mint- £15.00 Nikki Blu (whoa, Whoa) I Love Him So Parkway W/D Mint- £30.00 Larry Cappel Hush, Hush RCA W/D Mint £40.00 The Cavaliers Hold To My Baby/Dance Little Girl RCA W/D VG++ £160.00 The Cavaliers I Really Love You/I’ve Gotta Find Her RCA W/D Mint- £60.00 (Double Sided Dancer, W.O.L) Kenny Carter Don’t Go RCA W/D Mint- £40.00 SOLD (Sticker on label) Rose Valentine I’ve Gotta Know Right Now/When The heartaches End RCA W/D Mint £100.00 Carl Henderson See What You Have Done/I Have Been Loving You Too Renfro Mint £75.00 (Dancer) Carl Henderson That Girl/You’re All I Need Renfro Mint £100.00 SOLD The Malibus Ten Times A Day Sure-Shot Mint £30.00 (Nice Mid-tempo) Ricky Ricks Chained And Bound Sure-Shot Demo Mint £40.00 (R&B Dancer) Penny Carter We Gotta Try Harder Verve Demo Mint- £25.00 The Superiors What Would A Do Verve Mint- £50.00 (Sticker on label) To reserve PM or E-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk Postage: 1-3 45’s =£4.00 (1st/recorded,UK) overseas at cost.

Modern, Crossover, Funk, Sweet Soul 45’s & Albums (NN) Wilson Williams Groovy Feelin’ ABC W/D Mint £15.00 SOLD Denise La Salle I Get What I Want ABC Mint £20.00 Ron Keith & Lady’s Can’t Live Without You (Sticks and Stones) A&M W/D Mint £25.00 Chosen Few Lift This Hurt Bandit Mint- £50.00 The Caprells Hey Girl Wht’d You Have To Do It/Deep Love Bano Mint £100.00 SOLD The Caprells What Ever Goes Up (Has To Come Down)/I Believe In The Stars Bano Mint £20.00 SOLD Sam & The Iridescents Without My Sugar/While The City Sleeps Capitol Demo Mint- £30.00 (Radio Station number on label) Marion Love Can’t Forget About You, Baby Capitol Demo Mint- £50.00 SOLD Virgil Henry I’ll Be True/You Fooled Me Colossus Mint £75.00 The Jonesettes Once I Had A Love/Stop, Look & Listen Cougar Mint- £30.00 SOLD (Early Karen Jones) Donald Height A Mean Thing Daker W/D Mint- £25.00 Vonciel Myers It Won’t Be Easy Gaynote Mint £275.00 The Hesitations Is This The Way To Treat A Girl (You Bet It Is) GWP Mint £80.00 Numonics (Got To Give Love) One More Try/It’s So Easy To Be Mislead Hodisk Mint- £25.00 Barbara Lynn I’m Still The Same Jamstone Mint- £60.00 Four Tees One More Chance/Funky Duck Kent Mint £30.00 The Premiers She’s Always There King W/D Mint £30.00 The Solars Here’s My Heart King Mint- £40.00 (Excellent crossover, number sticker on label) Samson and Delilah Got To Get Myself Together/Honey Match Mint £25.00 SOLD Johnny Moore Your Love Is Fadin’ Mercury Mint- £80.00 SOLD Johnny Moore Thank You Baby Mercury Mint- £25.00 Chris Bartley Tomorrow Keeps Shinning On Me/A Woman, A Man Musicor W/D Mint- £20.00 Tony Drake Let’s Play House/She’s Gone Musicor Mint- £20.00 Miss Louistine I Don’tWant To Love Nobody/Tired Of Being Alone NOWE Mint- £25.00 SOLD (A.K.A Louise Stallings and wife of the late Tee Fletcher) Cloud One Spaced Out P&P Mint- £12.00 Anthony White Hey Baby Philadelphia Int W/D Mint £60.00 SOLD 5 Wagers Come And Ask Me Tiara Mint- £15.00 Free Youth Love Investigator/You Take Too Much Time To Change TMI Mint- £200.00 (You Take Too Much Time etc can only be found on the issue copies) The Green Brothers Lack Of Attention/Sweet Lovin’ Woman Tortoise International Mint £25.00 Brockington Singers Stretch Out/My Inspiration TSOP Mint £20.00 Nate Reese & Brown Sugar A Message To The People (Part 1 & 2) 360 Degrees £125.00 (Funky edged Cleveland Ohio dancer) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Recommended new Soul Junction 45 Release: Bill Albright “Sitting By The Phone/In The Middle Of The Night” SJ1020 £13.00 Two contemporary songs that still retain an old school feel “Sitting By The Phone” gives more than a passing nod to Billy Stewarts “Sitting In The Park” which in many peoples mind is no bad thing while “In The Middle Of The Night” has a tad more of a dance appeal to it. Please take a listen to the You Tube clip: https://youtu.be/9t-YaU3ooPE ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Soul Albums Sale All albums £8.00 each or 3 for £20.00 Vinyl Grading First, Cover Grading Second. Betty Wright I Love The Way You Love Alston Mint-/VG++ (Inc: Clean Up Woman, etc) Paul Humphrey America Wake Up Blue Thumb Mint-/Mint- (Inc: Cochise, That’s Deep, I Walk For A Smile, etc, sleeve corner clipped) Tavares Check It Out Capitol (UK) (Inc: Strangers In Dark Corners, Check It Out, I’ In Love, etc) O’Jay’s Back Stabbers CBS (UK) Mint-/Mint- SOLD (In’c: Back Stabbers, Love Train, (They Call Me) Mr. Lucky, Sunshine, etc) New York City Soulful Road Chelsea (UK) Mint-/Mint- (Excellent set of Philly Soul) Betty Wright Same: Epic (UK) Mint-/Mint- Luther Vandross Never Too Much Epic Mint-/Mint- (Inc: Never Too Much, Dom’t You Know That, You Stopped Loving Me, etc) Terry Huff & Special Delivery The Lonely One Mainstream Mint-/Mint- (Ins: I Destroyed Your Love, That’s When It Hurts, Just Not Enough Love, Where There’s A Will, etc) Southroad Connection Sweet Ride Mahogany Mint-/Mint- SOLD Leslie Uggams Same: Motown Mint-/VG++ (Inc: I Want To Make It Easy For You, This One Sided Love, I’ve Got A Jones On You, etc) David Ruffin Everything’s Coming Up Love Motown Mint-/VG++ (Inc: Discover Me, On And Off, etc) The Intruders Super Hits Philadelphia International (UK) Mint-/VG++ (Inc: Check Yourself, Cowboys To Girls, Slow Drag, I’ll Always Love My Mama, etc, etc) Weapons Of Peace Same: Playboy Records Mint-/Mint- SOLD (Inc: Roots, Just Can’t Be This Way (Ruth’s Song), This Life, etc) The Independent Movement Slippin’ Away Polydor Mint-/VG++ SOLD (Inc: Slippin’ Away, Lost For Words, One In A Million, etc) Clay Hunt Part One Polydor Still Sealed SOLD (Inc: Keep Me On Fire, Love Hoppin’ etc) The Brothers Disco-Soul RCA Still Sealed (Inc: Are You Ready For This, Never Can Say Goodbye, You’re the First, The Last, My Everything, etc) Silvetti World Without Words Salsoul Mint-/Mint- SOLD (Inc: Spring Rain, etc) David Ruffin Who I Am Tamla Motown Mint-/Mint- (Inc: Walk Away From Love, Heavy Love, Love Can Be Hazardous To Your Health, etc) New birth Behold The Mighty Army Warner Bros Mint-/Mint- (Inc: Your Love Is Deeper, How Will I Live, Ain’t It Something, etc) Willie Hutch In Tune Whitfield Mint-/Mint- (Inc: Easy Does It, Anything Is Possible If You Believe In Love, etc) The O’Jay’s Same: Mint-/Mint- (Inc: Shattered Man, Just To Be With You, Gotta Get My Broom Out, etc) The Younghearts The Taste Of: 20th Century (UK) Mint-/Mint- SOLD (Inc: For The Rest Of My Life, You’re Not Here With Me, What Does It Take To Win Your Love, etc) Postage: 1-3 45’s, £4.00 (1st/recorded, UK), Overseas At Cost. Albums: First Album: £5.75 (1st/Recorded, UK) add £1.00 per album thereafter, Overseas at cost. To reserve: PM or E-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk

Northern/60’s Soul Classics For Sale (17) The Falcons Standing On Guard/I Can’t Help It Big Wheel Mint- £30.00 SOLD Reggie Lamont How Lonely (Can One Man Be) Blue Rock VG++ £50.00 SOLD The Entertainers Baby Baby Brevit Mint £75.00 The Artistics Walking Tall/What Happened Brunswick Demo Mint- £25.00 The Artistics Price Of Love/Yesterdays Girl Brunswick Demo Mint- £25.00 (DJ prompt on label) Jackie Wilson I Don’t Want To Lose You/Just Be Sincere Brunswick Demo Mint- £50.00 SOLD The Dells Run For Cover Cadet Mint- £90.00 Andy Mack Later Than You Think/Do You Wanta Go Chess Mint- £40.00 (Drill hole in label) Billy Stewart Because I Love You/ Mountain Of Love Chess Mint- £15.00 The Valentinos Sweeter Than The Day Before Chess Mint- £375.00 SOLD The Compliments The Time Of Her Life Congress W/D Mint- £60.00 (Black label text) Ortheia Barnes I’ve Never Loved Nobody (Like I Love You)/Waiting For Joey Coral Mint- £50.00 SOLD (Large label text, two excellent Detroit sides) Patti Austin Got To Check You Out Coral VG++ £25.00 Jackie Verdell Call On Me Coral Demo Mint- £25.00 Richard “Popcorn” Wylie Do You Still Care For Me Epic Mint- £20.00 Soul Gents Wonders Of Love/If I Should Win Your Love Fros Ray Mint £100.00 Jean King Don’t Say goodbye HBR Mint £40.00 SOLD The Show Stoppers Ain’t Nothin’ But A House Party/What Can A Man Do ? Heritage Mint- £10.00 The Volumes You Got It Baby/A Way To Love You Inferno Mint- £60.00 (“A Way To Love You” is the same song as The Commands on Dynamics) The Perfections And Then The Sun Went Down/Never Let Me Go Jubilee W/D VG++ £40.00 The Capitols I Got To Handle It/Zig-Zagging Karen W/D Mint- £30.00 Charles Spurling Mr. Cool/You’d Be Surprised (The Way I Love You) King W/D Mint- £30.00 (Rarer white demo) Bobby Freeman I Got A Good Thing/Lies Loma W/D Mint- £75.00 SOLD (Not For Sale blanked out on label) Marie Franklin Don’tcha Bet No Money/You Ain’t Changed Maverick Mint £30.00 (RnB/Sister Funk Dancer) Terrible Tom We Were Made For Each Other/Lovin’ Cup Maverick Mint £250.00 SOLD (Classic Dancer on the more desirable issue copy with excellent b-side) Prince Harold Baby You’ve Got Me/Forget About Me Mercury W/D Mint- £20.00 SOLD (Dancer which shares the same backing as The Sapphires “Slow Fizz”) The Tymes What Would I Do M-G-M Mint £75.00 Ed Townsend Who Would Deny Me M-G-M Demo Mint £25.00 SOLD (Big City Soul) The Broadways Goin’ Goin’ Gone/Are You Telling Me Goodbye M-G-M Demo Mint- £30.00 (Equally as good as their other one at a fraction of the price) Betty Taylor You’re a Winner Nola Mint- £40.00 (Great New Orleans mid-tempo) Minnie Epperson Grab Your Clothes Peacock Demo VG++ £60.00 (Classic Dancer) Lou Courtney You Ain’t Ready Riverside Mint £20.00 (Dancer) Timmy Willis Mr. Soul Satisfaction Sidra Mint £25.00 SOLD (Classic dancer) Poets I’ve Got Two Hearts/I’m Particular Symbol Mint- £200.00 SOLD (Vinyl copy) Magnificents Take Me On Symbol W/D Mint- £25.00 (Dancer) Harvey Any Way You Wanta Tri-Phi Mint- £100.00 (Nashville Matrix and Bell Sound stamped) George Smith I’ve Had It Turntable W/D Mint- £125.00 SOLD Virgil Blanding You Turn Me Aroun’ Verve Demo Mint £30.00 Garnet Mimms Stop And Think It Over Verve Mint- £15.00 The Webs I Want You Back/We Belong Together Verve Mint- £25.00 (Northern dancer with group harmony flipside from this great Texas group) To reserve PM or E-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk Postage: 1-3 45’s =£4.00 (1st/recorded,UK) overseas at cost.

Interest or not the problem with releasing a compilation album/cd is that you have to secure licensing deals with several different owners of the masters, some may be receptive to the idea and some not. If some of the tracks are owned by major labels they may want crazy money to license tracks which wouldn't make the project viable.

DEWI, CHEETUM & HOWE: Who The Hell Were They? During 1968 the imperious Impressions recorded their first album for fellow group member Curtis Mayfield’s own Curtom label. The title of the album was “This Is My Country”, this seminal album especially the title track (which also gained a 45 release on Curtom) would become one of many songs that became part of the soundtrack of black America’s Civil Rights Movement. Three years later a further version of “This Is My Country” was also released as the b-side to a song called “Impossible Decision” under the obscure artist names of “Dewi, Cheetum & Howe” which begs the question who were this fictitious trio? A clue is in the songwriters credits on the A-side song “Impossible Decision” which is “Melvin And Mervin” one of several different songwriters names used by The Steals Brothers, Mervin “Mystro” Steals And Melvin “Lyric” Steals. Both twin brothers having been former members of The Four Perfections who recorded the northern soul anthem “I’m Not Strong Enough” (Partytime 1001). Although Melvin and Mervin would later hit pay dirt with the 1974 Detroit Spinners million seller “Could It Be I’m Falling In Love” and Gloria Gaynor’s “Honey Bee”. Back in 1970 the Steals Brothers were finding that the opportunities for hearing their music played on major national American R&B/Soul radio stations were being deliberately restricted by some of the more powerful and influential people within the Philadelphia music scene. It was for this reason that they decided to reach out and offer their compositions to producers in other cities. To this end, the Steals brothers were joined by a fellow native of Pittsburgh, Johnny Louis Gilliam a singer and bass player from the Hazelwood neighbourhood of the city, whom they had originally met through highly respected Pittsburgh DJ, Brother Matt (Johnny’s best friend at the time). Johnny being the same Johnny Gilliam who recorded a string of excellent 45’s on the following labels Bo-Mar, Modern, Cancer, Paula, IX Chains (as J.G. Lewis) and on ICA (as John Gilliam)His final known recording was on Baltimore Disc Jockey Al Jefferson’s own Al & The Kid label. Johnny (who had a similar sounding voice to Jerry Butler) was during the early 1970’s working as the musical director for The Marvelettes. In 1970 Johnny and the Steals Brothers recorded two songs upon which Johnny also played on in a Pittsburgh studio using future Sigma Sound Engineer Ken Present. Johnny then proceeded to play these two songs to Curtis Mayfield. Suitably impressed, Mayfield invited the threesome to join him at the ABC studio’s in Chicago. Their arrival in Chicago would bring joy for the Steals Brothers with Curtis appreciating their composition “Impossible Decision” but rejecting Johnny Gilliam’s song (Which just happened to be a group version of Johnny’s solo 1965 Bo-Mar outing “Find Yourself Another”!). Signing them to his and partner Eddie Thomas’s self-named Thomas (TH-810) label. Curtis invited them to record The Impressions song “This Is My Country” which due to the songs huge significance they all felt highly honoured to have been asked and readily agreed to do. Following the recording of their version of “This Is My Country” in 1971 with Johnny’s distinctive voice providing the bass parts, the guys needed a name. After giving the matter some thought and with all of them being great fans of the popular 1950’s US TV comedy show ‘Amos & Andy’ in which one of the major characters ‘King Fish’ and his equally unscrupulous lawyer ‘Calhoun’ had concocted a fictitious Accountancy company in an attempt to get rich quick under the name of “Do We Cheat Them and How”! Johnny, Mervin and Melvin adopted this name and thus became the recording artists ‘Dewi, Cheetum & Howe’. Although the fictitious characters of ‘Amos &Andy’ did get rich, the real life characters of ‘Dewi, Cheetum & Howe’ on this occasion did not!!! The Steals Brothers story is still very current and ongoing with the recent discovery and release of their lost masters on the Philly group The Intrigues “If The Shoe Fits” (SJ 5013) available through Soul Junction Records: www.souljunctionrecords.co.uk and their current cd album project with the Chairmen Of The Board (Featuring Ken Knox) “Words Left Unsaid” produced on their own Mo-Philly label in partnership with Detroiter McKinley Jackson available through CD Baby. Words By: David Welding Acknowledgements to Melvin Steals Sr.

Modern, Crossover, Funk, Deep, Sweet Soul 45’s & Albums (MM) The Masqueraders I Ain’t Got To Love Nobody Else/I Got It Bell Mint- £15.00 The Stereos I Can’t Stop These Tears Cadet Demo Mint- £25.00 SOLD Reggie Garner Hot Line Capitol Demo Mint- £50.00 SOLD Leon Haywood Consider The Source Capitol Demo Mint- £100.00 SOLD Willard Burton & The Funky Four Funky In Here Capitol Demo Mint- £40.00 Margo Thunder The Soul Of A Woman/Mama You’re All Right With Me Capitol/Haven Mint- £10.00 (Two quality sides) Sherm (Reb) Nesbary Don’t Make Me Sorry (For Loving You) Cheri Mint- £20.00 Eddy Jacobs Tired Of Being Lonely Chess Mint- £20.00 (Quality) David Sea Night After Night Crown Limited Mint- £60.00 SOLD Chuck Stephens Let’s Get Nasty East Coast Mint- £15.00 (Mecca last hour ender for Colin Curtis) Water & Power Mr Weatherman Fantasy Mint £25.00 SOLD Joe Johnson Perfect Love Affair/The Blind Man GSF Mint £20.00 Liberation Don’t Spread Your Love Around GSF Mint- £25.00 The Quadraphonics Betcha If You Check It Out Innovation II Demo £20.00 (Vinyl copy) The Continental 4 The Way I Love You Baby Jay-Walking Mint- £40.00 SOLD (Maroon label) Goldie Love/Jeffrey Elliot Hurry Don’t You Wait/Never Fall In Love Kalibanos VG++/Mint- £250.00 SOLD Eldridge Holmes Let’s Go Steady Kansu Mint £75.00 Samson & Delilah The Boss Six Living In A World Of Trouble/Don’t Leave Me Here King James Mint- £30.00 True Image Different Kind Of Love/Roller Dancing Malaco Mint- £50.00 SOLD (Nice cover version Of Ronnie McNeir on Tortoise International with boogie dancer flipside) Brenda Jones & Coconut Love I Am The Other Woman/Good Thing (What It Is) Mercury Demo Mint- £20.00 SOLD Gin & The Gents Teenage National Anthem q`1 Boy And Girl/Dreams For Sale Miss Thing Records Mint- £30.00 Charen Cotton A Little Bit Of Soul Perception VG++ $40.00 The Fabulous Fiestas One Hurt Deserves Another RCA Demo Mint- £20.00 John Brothers I Just Wanna Be Free/Try To Walk A Mile RCA Demo Mint £40.00 (Great double sider, both sides written by Bunny Sigler) Shock Footsteps Across Your Mind/Why Should I Forgive You Sirocco Mint- £30.00 (Mecca spin, with in vogue sweet soul side) Tommy Tate You Taught Me How To Love Sundance Mint- £25.00 SOLD Bobby Shannon Yor An Uplift/I Get My Groove From You To-Mark Mint- £500.00 SOLD The Radiants Don’t Wanna Face The Truth/My Sunshine Girl Twinight Records Mint- £30.00 Sly Johnson That’s Why/Everybody Needs Love Twinight Records Mint- £20.00 (Miss) Jackie Moore Loser Again/Who Told You Wand Demo Mint- £40.00 SOLD …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… New Soul Junction 45 Release: SJ5 Crystal Motion There’ll Be Another/Million Dollar Baby £13.00 Two previously unissued differing sweet soul tracks tracks from the New Bedford M.A group that brought us the classic Mecca dancer “Your My Main Squeeze (Part 1 & 2)” on Philadelphian producer Frank Fioravanti’s Sound Gems label. Please take a listen to the You Tube Sound Clip below: https://youtu.be/MWGTnnRCKJ4 Please check out the Soul Junction website for many other previously unissued songs: https://souljunctionrecords.co.uk/ ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Soul Albums: Vinyl Grading First, Cover Grading Second. The Masqueraders Everybody Wanna Live On ABC W/D Mint-/Mint- £15.00 (Inc: Listen, Sweet Sweetening, (Call Me The Travelling Man, etc) (Corner of the cover clipped) Chapter 8 Same: Ariola Mint-/Mint- £15.00 (Inc: Ready For Your Love, Don’t You Like It, Let’s Get Together, etc) Paul Humphrey America Wake Up Blue Thumb Mint-/Mint- £8.00 (Inc: Cochise, That’s Deep, I Walk A Mile For A Smile, Sleeve corner clipped) The Best Of Both Worlds I Want The World To Know Calla Mint-/VG++ £35.00 (Inc: Lost In The Shuffle Of Love, Anyway The Wind Blows, Invisible Flowers, etc) Ron Matlock Love city Cotillion Still Sealed £75.00 (Inc: You Got The Best Of Me, I Can’y Forget About You, Take Me To The Top (Of Your Mountain), etc, sleeve corner clipped) Side Effect What You Need Fantasy Mint-/Mint- £20.00 (Inc: Always There, Keep That Same Old Feeling, Finally Found Someone, etc, etc) (Gatefold cover) The Blue Notes The Truth Has Come To Light Glades Still Sealed £20.00 SOLD (Inc: Title Track, Standing By you Girl, We Can Make It, The Girl Makes Me Wanna Sing, etc) (Great album) Gregg Jackson One For The Road KYP Productions Mint-/Mint- £125.00 SOLD (Inc: Title Track, Your Love, etc) Terry Huff & Special Delivery The Lonely One Mainstream Mint-/Mint- £10.00 (I Destroyed Your Love, That’s When It Hurts, Just Not Enough Love, Where There’s A Will, etc) Freedom Changes Of Love Malaco Mint-/Mint- £25.00 (Inc: I Give You Love, Everlasting Love, You, You’ve Got The Power, etc) (Corner of cover clipped) Leslie Uggams Same: Motown Mint-/VG++ £10.00 (Inc: I Want To Make It Easy For You, This One Sided love, I’ve Got A Jones On You, etc) The Brothers Disco Soul RCA Still Sealed £8.00 (Inc: Are You Ready For This, Never Can Say Goodbye, You’re the First, MyLast, My Everything, etc) Creative Source Same: Sussex Mint-/Mint- £20.00 SOLD (Inc: Let Me In Your Life, Who Is He And What Is He To You, You Can’t Hide Love, gatefold cover) Dee Dee Sharp Happy ‘Bout The Whole Thing TSOP Mint-/Mint- £15.00 (Inc: Touch My Life, Happy ‘Bout the Whole Thing, plus others) The O’Jay’s Same: Up Front Mint-/Mint- £12.00 (Inc: Shatter Man, Just To Be With You, Gotta Get My Broom Out, etc) New Birth Behold The Mighty Army Warner Brothers Mint-/Mint- £8.00 (Inc: Your Love Is, Deeper, How Will I Live, Ain’t It Something, etc) Postage: 1-3 45’s, £4.00 (1st/recorded, UK), Overseas At Cost. Albums: First Album: £5.75 (1st/Recorded, UK) add £1.00 per album thereafter, Overseas at cost. To reserve: PM or E-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk

Northern/60’s Soul Classics For Sale (16) The Attractions Why Shouldn’t A Man Cry/Some Of Your Time Bell Mint- £100.00 Eddie Holman I’ll Cry 1000 Tears/I’m Not Gonna Give Up Bell Mint £30.00 The Lovettes Little Miss Soul/Lonely Girl Carnival W/D VG++ £50.00 (Bell Sound stamped) Harold And Connie Bugaloo Party/Everybody’s Doing It Carnival Mint- £25.00 (b-side is VG++) Little Royal You Know (You Made Me Love You)/I Can Tell Mint- £40.00 Sandy Wynns Love Belongs To Everyone Champion Mint £30.00 Dee Clark That’s My Girl/It’s Raining Constellation Mint £120.00 SOLD (Yellow Label first release C-113) Vic Henderson Soul Source (Wachi Wara)/Stand By And Cry Coral Demo VG++ £75.00 (Vocal version of Carl T. Jader, with great beat ballad flipside) Ruby Winters Better/I Want Action Diamond Mint- £100.00 Leon Haywood Ain’t No Use/Hey, Hey, Hey Fat Fish Mint £25.00 (Keb’s old Fred Hughes Stafford cover up) Jo Armstead Band The Urge Keeps Coming (Dance, Dance, Dance)/A Stone Good Lover Giant Mint- £30.00 SOLD Darrow Fletcher The Pain Gets A Little Deeper Groovy Mint- £40.00 Al Greene & The Soul Mates Don’t Leave Me/Back Up Train Hot Line Music Journal Mint- £15.00 (Class double sider) Jimmy Love Two Sides To Every Story Josie W/D Mint £35.00 (Great dancer) Jimmy Delphs Almost/Don’t Sign The Paper Baby (I Want You Back) Karen Mint £20.00 Lee Harvey & The L.A Untouchables My Assurance Kris W/D Mint £80.00 Tony Middleton To The Ends Of The Earth M-G-M Demo VG+/VG++ £280.00 (Not For Sale has been blacked out on the label) The Broadways You Just Don’t Know/Sweet & Heavenly Melody M-G-M Mint- £200.00 SOLD Eddie Holland I’m On The Outside Looking in Motown Mint- £50.00 SOLD (Unfortunately, this copy has a crack in the vinyl which does not affect play, hence low price) Walter Jackson Where Have All The Flowers Gone/I’ll Keep Trying Okeh Mint- £25.00 Little Richard A Little Bit Of Something Okeh Mint- £50.00 Ernie Lucas What Would I Do Without You/Love Thief Okeh VG++ £20.00 Walter Jackson Special Love/Suddenly I’m All Alone Okeh Mint- £25.00 (Demo Sticker on label) The Wooden Nickels Nobody But You Omen W/D Mint- £350.00 SOLD (X on label) The Soul Three Temptation Walk (The Line Dance) Omen Mint- £30.00 (Nice West Coast dancer) Marvin L. Sims Get Off My Back Revue Mint £60.00 The Fantaisions Unnecessary Tears/That’s Where The Action Is Satellite Mint- £50.00 Kelly Brothers Love Time Sims Mint- £60.00 SOLD (Classic Oldie) Prince Phillip Keep On Talking/Love Is A Wonderful Thing Smash Mint- £40.00 (Same song as James Barnet) The Miracles Going To A Go-Go Tamla Mint- £10.00 SOLD Tee Fletcher Would You Do It For Me/Down In The Country Tragar Mint £50.00 The Tripps Give It Back/Here Comes Those Heart’aches Victoria Mint £75.00 (Two excellent sides needs more turntable time.) The Sensations I Won’t Be Hurt/Get On Up Mama Way Out VG++ £25.00 (Excellent Cleveland, Ohio double sider) To reserve PM or e-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk Postage: 1-3 45’s = £4.00 (1st/recorded, UK) overseas at cost.

Modern, Crossover, Funk, Deep, Sweet Soul45's & Albums (LL) Flo Florence Ballard Love Ain’t Love ABC Mint £30.00 (Dancer) 5 Farenheit Just Let Your Heart Be Your Guide Abet Mint- £25.00 The Randalls Slums Of The City/Ridin’ High Avalanche Mint- £50.00 SOLD (Same as The New Establishment on United World) Coffee, Cream & Sugar Gotta Find A Way/Dance ( My Way Into Your Life) Both Sides Mint- £30.00 SOLD Final Decisions Keep On Walking/Hour Of Your Need Bumpshop Mint- £25.00 Sherlock Holmes Investigation Your Game/The Pot’ s Hot C.R.S Mint £60.00 (Mid-tempo Philly soul with funk flipside) Fourth Creation I Think I Would Cry/Why Is There No Trace Of You Daran Mint- £300.00 Phase V Woman Of The Street/There’s Got To Be Me Dynamo Mint £30.00 Sonny Munro Open The Door To Your Heart/(Tears) Can Only Make The Problem Wet Epic Mint £75.00 Annette Snell It’s All Over Now/Promises Should Never Be Broken Epic Mint £75.00 SOLD Sons Of Robin Stone Let’s Do It Now/It Only Happens In The Movies Epic Mint £40.00 (It Only Happens In The Movies can only be found on the issue copies, excellent Philly Soul) Walter Jenkins Back In My Life Faderkat Demo Mint £30.00 Jimmy Jules I Should Have Listened/Women Gonna Rule The World Gamble W/D Mint £50.00 SOLD Pat Hodges My Man, My Man/Ain’t Watcha Got HME Mint £60.00 SOLD (Deep Soul with funk Flipside) Common Law All I Need Is The Thought Of You Jay Pee Mint- £20.00 (Excellent mid-tempo Chicago Soul) Jon Pierre Gee So Good To Me/Just Get On Kandi Mint £15.00 (80’s Modern with Boogie Flipside, comes with Picture Sleeve) Impulse I Really Love You Kandi Mint £15.00 The Love Potion This Love Kapp Mint £150.00 SOLD Albert Jones Unity Kapp Mint £40.00 Jimmy Delphs Almost/Don’t Sign The Papers Baby (I Want You Back) Karen Mint £20.00 Donny Burks You Never Know What You Have (Until You Lose It)/I Was Satisfied Metromedia Mint- £100 (Radio Station Prompt On Label) Imperial Wonders Love Coming Down Musicor Mint £15.00 Betty Adams Make It Real (Ride On)/Too Much Goin’ On Notes Of Gold Mint- £25.00 (Sister funk with southern soul flip) Jones Girls If You Don’t Love Me No More Paramount Mint £15.00 The Insights Love And Peace Of Mind/Turn Me On Sweet Rosie Peacock Demo VG++ £25.00 (Two excellent crossover soul sides) Lorraine Johnson The More I Get, The More I Want Prelude Mint £40.00 Betty Bibbs The Story Of My Life/Who’s Gonna Take Care Of Me ? Saxy £15.00 Brothers Of Soul Candy/Try It Babe Shock Mint- £30.00 SOLD These Gents Yesterday Standing By Soulvation Army Mint- £15.00 Ike Lovely Fools Hall Of Fame Wand Mint £20.00 The Philadelphia Story You Are The Song (I’ve Been Writing For All Of My Life) Wand Mint £15.00 Spyder Turner I’ve Been Waiting Whitfield Mint- £50.00 Ruby Andrews Hey Boy Take A Chance On Love/Come To Me Zodiac VG++ £40.00 Chuck Bernard Got To Get A Hold Of Myself Zodiac Mint- £20.00 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Recommended New Soul Junction 45 Limited Release: SJ550 The Petersons Just What I’ve Been Looking For/What’s It Gonna Be £13.00 Brilliant extremely rare early 70’s Philly Soul, the A side is a excellent mid-tempo stepper backed with a up-tempo dancer with a slight funky twist. The original copies with possibly only a handful known to exist would set you back at least circa 3K at least if one very came onto the open market. Please take a listen to the you tube clip below: https://youtu.be/rJFXMiqw7I4 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Soul Albums Vinyl Grade listed first, Cover Grade Second: Street Corner Symphony Little Funk Machine ABC Mint-/Mint- £15.00 SOLD (Inc: No Game To Play, I’ll Fly Away, We Got A Good Thing Going, etc) Blacksmoke Same: Chocolate City Still Sealed £15.00 SOLD OUT (Inc: Sunshine, Roses And Rainbows, What Goes Around Comes Around, etc) These are original copies which I have been selling for £15.00, the album has recently been re-issued and is being sold at £22.OO, go figure? Brenda & The Tabulations I Keep Coming Back For More Chocolate City Still Sealed £15.00 SOLD (Inc: Let’s Go All The Way (Down), etc) Donald Byrd Places & Spaces Blue Note Mint-/Mint- £60.00 SOLD (Inc: Places & Spaces, Dominoes, Wind Parade, etc) This is the original release with the inner picture sleeve. O’Jays Backstabbers CBS (UK) Mint-/Mint- £20.00 (Inc: Backstabbers, (They Call Me) Mr Lucky, Love Train, Sunshine, etc) Side Effect Portraits Elektra Still Sealed £20.00 (Inc: I Need Your Lovin’, Midnight Lover, etc) Luther Vandross Never Too Much Epic Mint-/Mint- £20.00 (Inc: Never Too Much, Don’t You Know That, You Stopped Loving Me, etc) Side Effect Same: Fantasy Mint-/Mint- £20.00 SOLD (Inc: Checkin’ It Out, I Love You So much, Oh Baby, etc) Roger Glenn Reachin’ Fantasy Mint-/Mint- £40.00 SOLD (Inc: Reachin’ Rio, Don’t Leave, etc) Excellent Jazz set on the original release, Roger played flute on all the Blackbyrds sessions too. Lainier & Co Same: Larc Mint-/Mint- £12.00 SOLD (Please Don’t Go, Fallin’ In Love Again, Share Your Love With Me, etc) Willie Hutch Having A House Party Motown Still Sealed £25.00 (Inc: I Never Had It So Good, I Can Sho’ Give You Love, What You Gonna Do After The Party, etc) David Ruffin Everything’s Coming Up Love Motown M-/VG+ £8.00 (Inc: Discover Me, On And Off, Everything’s Coming Up Love, etc) The Dynamic Superiors Same: Motown Still Sealed £25.00 (Inc: Shoe Shoe Shine, Don’t Send Nobody Else, One-Nighter, etc, corner of cover clipped) The Individuals Together (We Can Make Something Happen) Pickwick Int Still Sealed £25.00 (Inc: title track, Never Too Late, Gotta Make A Move, etc) Weapons Of Peace Same: Playboy Mint-/Mint- £15.00 (Inc: Roots, Just Can’t Be This Way (Ruth’s song), This Life, etc) Vessie Simmons On my Own Simco Mint-/Mint- £100.00 SOLD (Inc: I Can Make It On My Own, Never Too Late, Last Mistake, etc) Carol Townes & Fifth Avenue Still Sealed £15.00 (Inc: The Best A Man Can Do For His Woman, Let It Happen, Free Me, etc) David Hudson The Royal Sessions Soul Junction Mint/Mint £15.00 (Inc: (Girl I’m Coming Home To ) Something Good, You’re My Dream Come True, The Best Is Yet To Come, etc) Previously unissued set from this Southern Soul Hero, highly recommended. Tommie Young Do You Still Feel The Same Way Soul Power Still Sealed £125.00 SOLD (Inc: She don’t Have To See, Hit And Run Lover, You Can Only Do Wrong So Long, That’s All Part Of Loving Him, etc) Creative Source Migration Sussex Still Sealed £15.00 ( Inc: title track, I’m Gonna Get There, I Just Can’t See Myself Without You, etc) New Birth Behold The Mighty Army Warner Bros Mint-/Mint- £12.00 (Inc: Your Love Is, Deeper, How Will I Live, Ain’t That Something, etc) Postage 1-3 45’s = £4.00 (1st/recorder, UK) overseas at cost. Albums: postage: £5.75 plus £1.00 per additional album thereafter. To reserve PM or e-mail: david.welding@blueyonder.co.uk

Great post Rod, i was only involved in a similar conversation the other night the majority of people i knew who entered the Northern Scene as kids all had jobs or how else would they afford to travel around the country in the first place ? and not dead end jobs as we led to believe, but proper indentured apprenticeships, jobs with futures which many excelled at eventually owning and running their own businesses, and yes they did part take in the darker side activities of the scene so no saints there. Dave

Very well worded post Baz and correct in everyway on every point. Dave