Soulfulsolutions

All this reminds me I heard Jock Mitchell - Not a chance in a million, in a café in Oakhampton a few years back, it was on the radio not CD, odd thing was the café staff clearly weren't Soulies but they were merrily going about my full English appreciating the soulful backing.......... sunny side up!

The following for sale: Postage: 1.20 first class, 2.50 recorded or 6.95 special PM or e-mail to benray@sky.com Thanks for looking, Lee Otis Smith - Let her go - Perception 4 M- £200 (Rare white demo of this fabulous NYC dancer) Let her go.mp3 Sandy Hadley — Since I found a love — So-Char 12000 Vg++ £300 (A few audible clicks but otherwise plays through loud and clear, bell sound stamped original) Since I found a love.mp3 Tony Middleton — Return to Spanish harlem — Speed 1016 M- £300 SOLD (In-demand and infectious Latin tinged dancer) Return to spansih harlem.mp3

Instantly recognised the fabulous horn intro to Billy Butler & Chanters "I can't work no longer" on Drive Time on the way home, surprise to hear a northern classic on mainstream news programme, someone was clever enough to use it as backing to a news piece about the chancellors November statement, clever given the politics and title! Anyone on here in that BBC production team? If so schedule more northern between 4.30 and 6 every day, ta, Lee

Great bloke, well missed, quite often think back tour long chats over sales.

Put the sofa back!

The following for sale….. Postage: 1.20 first class, 2.50 recorded or 6.95 special PM or e-mail to benray@sky.com Happy to send label scans and sound files on request Thanks for looking, Lee Lavern Baker — Wrapped, tied and tangled — Brunswick 55311 dh M- £125 Shirley Karol — Just to make you happy — Dakar 1449 M- £100 Monzas — You know you turn me on — Moon 7330 M- £125 Ambers — Potion of love / Another love — Smash 2111 M- £100 edge warp DNAP Sandy Hadley — Since I found a love — So-Char 12000 Vg++ £325 bell sound stamped Tony Middleton — Return to Spanish harlem — Speed 1016 M- £300 Billy Wells — This heart these hands — Sweet Soul 003 M- £125 Billy Harner — I’ve got to check you out — V-Tone 1003 M- £125

The following for sale: Postage: 1.20 first class, 2.50 recorded or 6.95 special PM or e-mail to benray@sky.com Bear with me and I'll get back to you in order when I'm back off the road Happy to send label scans and sound files on request Thanks for looking, Lee All WHITE DEMO's Elites - You've got two hearts - ABC 10460 Ex £40 Linda Jones - I'm taking back my love - Atco 6344 M- £125 Malcolm Hayes - Put your love to the test - Filmways 101 M- £100 Len Jewell - Bettin' on love - Fontana 1599 M- £225 Donald Height - You blew a good thing - Jubilee 5681 Ex £25 Carl Hall - Let me down slowly / Summertime - Mercury 72318 M £120 Major Lance - Too hot to hold / dark and lonely - Okeh 7226 M £30 Otis Smith - Let her go - Perception 4 M- £200 Bobby Hutton - Come see what's left of me - Philips 40601 Ex £175 Victors - Hurt / Not only the girl knows - Philips 40475 M- £200 Freddie Gorman - In a bad way - Ric Tic 101 M- £25 Satisfactions - Take it or leave it - Smash 2098 M- £200 Phonetics - Don't let love get you down / What good am I - Trudel 1012 M- £300 WHITE LABEL ISSUES (thought I'd squeeze some in!) Combinations - While you were gone - Solid Rock 70592 M- £100 Frank James - Sea of faces - Tru-Sound 424 M- £125

Great selection of USA 45's for sale, Selling these for a good mate at his prices But he has indicted he will consider sensible offers I'm happy to let him know your best offer and get back to you Sound files on request Postage: 2.50 recorded or 6.95 special, PM me with questions or to reserve, Thanks for looking, Lee Drake & En-Solids - Please leave me - Alteen 8652 M- £125 Invincibles - Can't no one man / Wonders of love - Ciray 6702 M £175 Donald Jenkins & Delighters - I've settled down - Cortland 116 Wdj M- £125 Enchanters - I should be loving you - Delta Ltd 156 Dj M- £100 Four Darlings - Baby your love is amazing / Give me your love - Forte 1105 M- £150 Shadows - My love has gone - Golden Sound 200 M- £200 Carl Hall - Let me down slowly / Summertime - Mercury 72318 Wdj M- £125 Briggette Koberley - Don't love me and leave me - Naptown 902 M- £150 Dave Blocker - Nothing's gonna change me - Robere 100 M- £100 Combinations - While you were gone - 70592 Wdj M- £125 Clara Hardy - I dream of you - Tuna 010 M- £250 Phonetics - What good am I / Don't let love get you down - Trudel 1012 Wdj M- £320 Merle Spears - I want to know - Whit 711 M- £75

Learn something new every day!

Thanks for replies, I take it Bobby Matos is an instrument and boy there are plenty to choose from!

Northern RARITY out of Lynchburg - Virginia up for grabs, easily an auction item but here it is at set sale..... Robert Tanner - Tell me your name - MEGATONE 111 £800 HOLD temp2 44.mp3 Equally as good as "Sweet memories" with a great deep flip. When it does show up it never ever comes up in this condition and invariably never better than VG+. Russ Vickers was offered 850 for a VG copy on here in Aug 12, "Tell me your name" vinyl condition is as good as mint, label is mint minus but with the very feint lift on the inner rim due to the nick on the flip. "How I feel" vinyl condition is mint minus with just a couple of paper lines, label is mint but with a very minor nick on the inner rim and the residue from 2 small sticker spots either side of title, probably to have identified what was the play side for someone else. Postage: £7.95 for special delivery. Payment: Paypal GIFT, Cheque or Bank Transfer. Easy payments considered. PM or e-mail benray@sky.com Thanks for looking, Lee P.S. Can't believe I am letting this go!

Any advice welcomed on current value of this Tony Middleton & Bobby Matos - Spanish Harlem - Speed M- Thank you, Lee

I was told some years ago when I picked up my first copy that Sammy King was the brother of Tommy Ridgley of "My love is getting stronger" - International City fame. Agree there are similarities with Willie Tee but perhaps it is the bayou style that shows the likeness. Sold my 2 copies for 250 - 300, still planning on finding a 3rd!!!! Lee

Loads of goodies here, all bargains too! Postage: 1.20 1st Class, 2.50 Recorded, 6.95 Special. Label scans and sound files can be provided Please PM or e-mail benray@sky.com Thanks for looking, Lee Jackie Wilson - Because of you - Brunswick 55495 Wdj M- £80 (The voice, never made a bad record regardless of genre) Little Milton — Sometimey — Checker 1132 M- £15 (Smooth R&B dancer, music to anyone’s ears) Sam & Bill - Trying to get back to my baby - Decca 32200 M- £25 (Equally as good as “I’ll try”, sit back, relax and indulge in this duo’s superb harmonies) Billy McGregor - Fall on my knees - Flash 6601 Ex £10 (How easy it is to constantly over look a 45 because of a low value, this track is just awesome) Ritchie Kay - It’s all over - Gama 675 M- £125 (Under the radar obscurity, not many around at all) Skyliners - Everything is fine - Jubilee 5505 M- £25 (Stunning………….. nope, I’ll go further its’ an OUSTANDING tune) Melodics - Ain’t that sharing love - M.O.C. 674 Dj M- £30 (Fabulous x-over with a hint of sweet) Major Lance - Dark and lonely - Okeh 7226 Wdj M £30 (Immaculate copy) Major Lance - Investigate - Okeh 7250 Wdj M- £70 (All the right things in the right place, “Anthem, White Demo, Picture Sleeve — WOW!) Dora Hall - Pretty boy - Reinbeau 1302 M- £20 (Infectious dance floor filler) Lee Charles - If that ain’t loving you - Revue 1107 M- £15 (Another one of those dormant cheapies that needs to see the light of day) Freddie Gorman - In a bad way - Ric-Tic 101 Wdj M- £25 (Immaculate white demo!) Showmen - Take it baby / In paradise - Swan 4213 M- £25 (Fantastic double sider) Syl Johnson I’ve got to get over / Falling in love again Tmp-Ting 115 M- £15 (Another fantastic double sider) Phonetics - What good (am I without you) / Don’t let love get you down - Trudel 1012 Wdj M- £300 (A near mint copy, combo of Willie Hutch, Jack Brown and Malynn Publishing = PURE Class!) Clara Hardy - I dream of you - Tuna 010 M- £225 (Slick femme Detroit) Olympics - Girl, you’re my kind of people - Warner Brothers 7369 M- £25 (Lovely green issue of this x-over winner at a knockdown price) Lee Rogers - Cracked up over you - Wheelsville 118 Dj M- £35 (Surely a hard one and at a snip for the Detroit demo collectors)

Jason, it was, key-loc probably 1st release, lots of good stuff on the label, Lee

The following beauties for sale: Postage: 1.20 first class, 2.50 recorded or 6.95 special PM Happy to send sound files on request Thanks for looking, Lee Royal Lancers - The head of the crowd - ABC 10751 Wdj M- £20 Barbara Lynn - This is the thanks I get - Atlantic 2450 Dj M- £20 Linda Jones - I'm taking back my love - Atco 6344 Wdj M- £125 Lavern Baker - Wrapped, tied and tangled - Brunswick 55311 M- dh £125 Maurice & Radiants - Baby you’ve got it - Chess 1954 Ex dh £25 Shirley Karol - Just to make you happy - Dakar 1449 M- £100 Tommy Tucker - That's how much - Festival 704 Ex £45 Malcolm Hayes - Put your love to the test - Filmways 101 Wdj M- £100 Temptations - Beauty is only skin deep - Gordy 7055 Wdj Ex £20 Donald Height - She blew a good thing - Jubilee 5681 Wdj Ex £25 Albert Jones - Fifteen cent love - Kapp 2112 Wdj M- £40 Monzas - You know you turn me on - Moon 7330 Ex £125 Sunny & the Sunliners - If I could see you now - RPR 105 Vg++ £35 Small nick on label and a few light ticks at the start, but otherwise plays loud and clear, a bargain! Mike Tomasetti - Come see what I got - USA 836 Dj M- £40 James Jones - Whatever it is you got it - Virgo 500 M- £75 Billy Harner - I've got to check you out - V-Tone 1003 M- £125 Always happy to help with easy payments

Phonetics ~ What good (am I without you) / Don’t let love get you down ~ Trudel 1012 Wdj M- £350 now £320 Next best after their biggie, 2 uncompromising mid-tempo killers, combo of Willie Hutch, Jack Brown and Malynn Pub = Class! A near mint copy when most for sale are poorer grades, don't sleep on it! temp3 22.mp3 temp3 23.mp3 Postage: 2.50 1st class recorded or 6.95 special PM to reserve or ask questions and always happy to accommodate easy payment

Great selection of USA 45's for sale, selling for a good mate at his prices, Sound files on request, can hold or take easy payments, Postage: 2.50 recorded or 6.95 special, PM me with questions or to reserve, Thanks for looking, Lee Drake & En-Solids - Please leave me - Alteen 8652 M- £125 Invincibles - Can't no one man / Wonders of love - Ciray 6702 M £175 Donald Jenkins & Delighters - I've settled down - Cortland 116 Wdj M- £125 Enchanters - I should be loving you - Delta Ltd 156 Dj M- £100 Four Darlings - Baby your love is amazing / Give me your love - Forte 1105 M- £150 Shadows - My love has gone - Golden Sound 200 M- £200 Shirley Grant - I won't set you free - La Vette 1003 Wdj Ex £100 Carl Hall - Let me down slowly / Summertime - Mercury 72318 Wdj M- £125 Briggette Koberley - Don't love me and leave me - Naptown 902 M- £150 Dave Blocker - Nothing's gonna change me - Robere 100 M- £100 Combinations - While you were gone - 70592 Wdj M- £125 Melvin Elling - Lonely eyes - Stretch 44 M- £200 Clara Hardy - I dream of you - Tuna 010 M- £250 Phonetics - What good am I / Don't let love get you down - Trudel 1012 Wdj M- £350 Merle Spears - I want to know - Whit 711 M- £75

West coast demo in superb condition. Christine Cooper - Heartcahes away my boy - Parkway 983 M- £320 includes special delivery PM's please

Some Northern Classics and tasty Motown Demos Postage: 1.20 first class, 2.50 recorded or 6.95 special PM or e-mail to benray@sky.com Thanks for looking, Lee Linda Jones - I'm taking back my love - Atco 6344 Wdj M- £150 Reduced to £125 temp3 24.mp3 Lavern Baker - Wrapped, tied and tangled - Brunswick 55311 M- dh £150 temp3 19.mp3 Malcolm Hayes - Put your love to the test - Filmways 101 Wdj M- £100 temp3 6.mp3 temp3 7.mp3 Temptations - Beauty is only skin deep - Gordy 7055 Wdj Ex £20 Hit Pack - Never say no to your baby - Soul 35010 Wdj Ex 2xol, no Bell reference £25 Marvin Gaye - How sweet it is - Tamla 54107 Wdj Ex £25 2xol £20 Bobby Taylor - Blackmail - VIP 25053 Wdj Ex 2xol, backed with same title £15

Linda Jones - I'm taking back my love - Atco 6344 Wdj M- £150 temp3 24.mp3 Postage: 2.50 recorded or 6.95 special PM or e-mail to benray@sky.com Thanks for looking, Lee

Tony, I have the following copy for sale, Regards, Lee Soul Brothers Six - Thank you baby for loving me - Atlantic 2592 Dj Ex £50 temp2 55.mp3 3.3MB

temp3 18.mp3 Leroy Barbour ~ I ain’t going nowhere ~ Frontiersman 5662 Ex- £250 (Superb cover of Jimmie Reed on Mercury, some minor marks on vinyl which means its graded visually Ex-, it does plays through loud and clear and therefore excellent, labels clean) Postage: 2.50 recorded or 6.95 special PM or e-mail to benray@sky.com Thanks for looking, Lee

Topic is locked, for obvious reasons, so here we go: I have had 2 over the years, Cautions and Les Chansonettes, both sparkling mint, also missed out narrowly on a Shirley Edwards and decided against Eddie Daye & 4 Bars when it was 200 quid with Adey Pierce in the mid-late 80's, what was I thinking? The 45's for sale look superb in the images, but the carpet leaves a lot to be desired!!! Who will be the lucky buyer in this age of financial downturn to pick up a whole Shrine collection? Lee

Some tidy cheaper end tunes for sale Postage: 1.20 first class, 2.50 recorded or 6.95 special PM or e-mail to benray@sky.com Thanks for looking, Lee Royal Lancers - The head of the crowd - ABC 10751 Wdj M- £25 (Semi-known big production) temp3 13.mp3 Barbara Lynn - This is the thanks I get - Atlantic 2450 Dj M- £30 (Sultry number from this Soul diva) temp2 56.mp3 Soul Brothers Six - Thank you baby for loving me - Atlantic 2592 Dj Ex £50 (Never a bad track from this superb outfit) temp2 55.mp3 Tommy Tucker - That's how much - Festival 704 Ex £50 (How good is this, simple infectious lyrics and backing track) temp3 12.mp3 Albert Jones - Fifteen cent love - Kapp 2112 Wdj M- £50 (Sublime crossover dancer, always popular) temp1 6.mp3 Monzas - You know you turn me on - Moon 7330 Ex £130 (Popular North Carolina beach soul) temp3 16.mp3 Cheers - Two loves / Never again - Nation 7859 M- £100 (Uptempo Chicago winner on top side, cultured mid-tempo on the flip, 2 great sides) temp3 8.mp3 temp3 9.mp3