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We just had a great soul event on the beach here on the California coast. We rented a moving van ("lorry"?), put a full bar and sound system inside, powered it with a military grade field battery, and had a blast! Big tune was "California soul" by Brenda and Tabs!

how can you mistreat the one you love - jean and the darlings just as i thought - william bell

don't know if anyone mentioned this, but the "Darker than Blue" comp from Blood and Fire has all of these great reggae soul covers.... (tracks 10, 12 and 15 are amazing) 1The Boris Gardiner Happening featuring Leslie Butler - Ghetto Funk 3:09 2The Chosen Few - Collie Stuff 2:52 3Carl Bradney - Slipping Into Darkness 3:06 4Ken Boothe - Is It Because I'm Black? 3:28 5Freddie McGregor - Get Involved 3:34 6Al Brown - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City 3:26 7In-Crowd - Mango Walk 3:22 8Ken Boothe - Ain't No Sunshine 2:15 9Milton Henry - Gypsy Woman 3:01 10Junior Murvin - Give Me Your Love 2:07 11John Holt - For The Love Of You 3:40 12Alton Ellis - It's A Shame 2:48 13Jimmy London - I'm Your Puppet 3:38 14Delroy Wilson - Get Ready (12" mix) 5:40 15Lloyd Charmers - Darker Than Blue 2:59 16Tinga Stewart - Why Can't We Live Together? (extended) 7:00 17The Tamlins - Baltimore 4:01 18Welton Irie - Hotter Reggae Music 3:50

ha ha. they were from Richmond?? surprised they lived long enough to record anything.

"then would you love me" on Dakar. fantastic!

cool!

dang! wish i could find zena foster now for 30!

will have to get this one - never heard of it!

ha ha ha....send me that new intern!

I just started getting into Mary Wells recordings on Jubilee ("sweet love", "dig the way i feel" - and ESPECIALLY "mind reader"). i never realy noticed them before, i guess, because they are "cheap as chips" (as the Brits say) anyway, she is great (of course), but all of them seem to share the same kind of interesting production. it sounds really kind of relaxed, almost rudimentary, but it gives the recordings (especially the recording of the lead vocals) a really intimate vibe. It says they are all produced by Cecil and Mary Womack. does anyone know anything more about the band, etc? Am i on crack? Thanks! "mind reader"

thanks for all the help! i just thought it was weird to have the same "handwriting" on multiple copies...

i just saw this copy of lovelites "found me a lover" on craig moerer's website on ebay and noticed that my copy has the same weird handwritten extra words on each side (the words "me" and "you better"). is this a boot? https://www.ebay.com/itm/LOVELITES-I-Found-Me-A-Lover-You-Better-Stop-It-rare-soul-vinyl-45-/300509769599?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item45f7c72f7f

thanks!

I really love this song, but only have a re-issue of it. I looked on popsike, but there are no sales listed. I check for it periodically on ebay, but never see the original. is it rare? or am i just unlucky?

i used to DJ rock-a-billy and this Googie Rene song always went down a STORM! "bigfoot"

i will weigh on this debate with two points: - first: yes, it is "timeless" in the sense that people get blown away by it on the first listen. you all (just generalizing here) run in circles of very knowledgable soul types - i don't. i DJ in places where folks are young (20s-30s) and have NO knowledge of soul beyond "oldies" Temps/Aretha/M Gaye/Supremes... and when i play them rare northern stuff they are just BLOWN away (and these are tough crowds that don't mind giving you the business when they don't like stuff). they simply can't believe how music that is so good can be so unknown. so...i would agree with "Roburt" that it IS a "special" slice of music history. - second: WHY was it so good? I think because you had a concurrence of four things almost unique in history. ----you had tons of young people that had some free time and disposable income (not working 18 hr days in the fields or factory) ----you had lots of "home grown" musicians and singers (due to church choirs and sitting on street corners playing/singing) ----and kids were not yet poisoned with TV/internet/video games to destroy their attention span and skill sets (which results in "musicians" today who can barely take the time to stitch some beats, samples, overdubs, auto-tuned vocals, and "raps" together on a 64 track computer program into a cacophonic mess) ----and, finally, there was not a global homogeneity of culture as there is today. each american region (and each city and maybe even each neighborhood) was working/creating in near isolation - so you have thousands of petri dishes cooking up awesome stuff instead of one massive "least common denominator"/Sony corporation/Jonas Brothers/Jay-Z global media cauldron corralling most artists in one direction simultaneously

.....and is making me double post

damn, i love that song. not sure on price. speaking of Clydie, does anyone know the current price of "oh me" by Clydie and the Teens on RPM? i would love that... (sorry to not answer your original question - vodka is clouding my judgment)

damn, i love that song. not sure on price. speaking of Clydie, does anyone know the current price of "oh me" by Clydie and the Teens on RPM? i would love that... (sorry to not answer your original question - vodka is clouding my judgment)

too fast for all but the b-boys! lillian hale - don't boom boom ....and gigi- daddy love pt 1

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i am watching your sale. i am curious as well!

Not sure if this fits the bill, but a great song:

I use the EXACT same tactic - - - builds that dramatic tension! ...i like this one... Leona Dunn "baby don't play around"

just checking back in on this thread and i can't help but admire all of your dedication to soul music and its history. every time i start a thread on soul-source i end up with my mind blown. you all should start a detective agency - this much tenacity could crack a bunch of unsolved murders!