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Micky G just posted one in sales Sean

If the Strivers Show Band is going for $400 now Le Cop should be double that based on quality and scarcity! Loads more Strivers around than Le Cop: used to be nigh on impossible to shift the Strivers when they all appeared a few years back.

Le Cop is probably one of the beefiest pressed records Evers: speaker quake off that one!

Love this!

Just uploaded 45+ James Brown and related 45s to the website soulstacks.com
You can find them here https://www.soulstacks.com/product-category/james-brown-and-related/

J.D Hall on J.D.H is a strange one. Still considered by many to be a hard one on original the pressing that surfaced via J.D himself a few years back (that is markedly different from copies around before then) seems to have confused things a bit. Once an expensive £300+ sold the other week was £15 though doesn't say if it's the 'fuzzy edged' copy or not. Still, £15 down from £300 represents a bit of a trip! 

Sunday seems like the ideal time to wind down with some long players (unless you have nutter kids running around your ankles)...try these recent releases   
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DeRobert & The Half Truths - I'm Tryin' (G.E.D Soul) £13 (sealed) 
Decent mix of Nashville funk and soul from a band quietly ploughing their own furrow in the soul world. 
Standouts are The Dole Pt 2, I Don't Get mad No Mo, Do It Alone and Write A Letter.
 
I’m Tryin’
My Momma Told Me
Ooo Wee
The Dole Pt. 2
Get On It
The Speech
Going Places
I Don’t Get Mad No Mo
Do it Alone
Please Shine On Me
Write a Letter
I’m Tryin’ Outro

Also got a few copies of the 7" that was going to be on the album but pulled at the last minute. Instrumental to 'Ooo Wee' plus 'I Got Burned'. See here

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Give The People What They Want (Daptone) £14 (sealed) 
Another solid long player from this most consistent of soul groups, loads of highlights on the album including the straight up Northern Stranger To My Happiness, the classic Daptone sounding We Get Along, the sweet finger-snapper Get Up and Get Out and more. So good. 

Various Artists — Purple Snow : Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound / (Numero) £80 

Immense 4Lp set with individual hard sleeves printed with 4 different designs housed in a thick box and including a 100+ page 12" x 12" hardbound book this has a lot of love gone into it's making! 32 tracks across eight sides of vinyl with over a dozen previously unreleased (not counting the 94 East and Flyte Tyme and Herman Jones tracks that Numero issued on 45s at the same time) this set chronicles a stylistic, technological and attitude progression in the sounds coming out of Minneapolis from the late 70s to the early 80s. 
Class release, stunning object! 4kg in weight so this needs it's own special method to ship!
 

Oops Just seen this. As John says the easiest way to spot the difference is that on both sides of the label the pressing number is (UR-234-B)

$800 buy it now on his ebay thing the other say: sure I saw it

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BARBARA-ST-CLAIR-Teacherman-Jekyll-And-Hyde-45-rare-Soul-/300952915277?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4612310d4d

I believe Walter Grady - who was keen on pulling a few underhand tricks - 'reissued' this a couple of years after The Blenders issue came out, renaming the group so that either it would look like a new release and get airplay or so the band wouldn't know (and I guess they'd want paying if they found out ) You could postulate that If Grady had paid all studio/pressing costs without reaping much back, he maybe felt he owned the music to do with what he wished.

I had some strange dealing with him in the early 2000s - peculiar guy, seemed a bit shaky. Speaking to Roy Roberts recently he fondly recalled that everyone in the Carolinas wanted to kill him!

More info on the Blenders here

https://www.carolinasoul.org/site/index.php/site/comments/note_to_funk_fans_the_blenders_soul_hustlers/

Top two sider.

On a related note the just released previously unreleased album on the group is well worth checking too: doesn't include these two cuts.

Some new and recent albums for sale. All are in new condition.
Check out all albums on the site here

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DeRobert & The Half Truths - I'm Tryin' (G.E.D Soul) £13 (sealed) 
Decent mix of Nashville funk and soul from a band quietly ploughing their own furrow in the soul world. 
Standouts are The Dole Pt 2, I Don't Get mad No Mo, Do It Alone and Write A Letter.
 
I’m Tryin’
My Momma Told Me
Ooo Wee
The Dole Pt. 2
Get On It
The Speech
Going Places
I Don’t Get Mad No Mo
Do it Alone
Please Shine On Me
Write a Letter
I’m Tryin’ Outro

Also got a few copies of the 7" that was going to be on the album but pulled at the last minute. Instrumental to 'Ooo Wee' plus 'I Got Burned'. See here

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Give The People What They Want (Daptone) £14 (sealed) 
Another solid long player from this most consistent of soul groups, loads of highlights on the album including the straight up Northern Stranger To My Happiness, the classic Daptone sounding We Get Along, the sweet finger-snapper Get Up and Get Out and more. So good. 

Various Artists — Purple Snow : Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound / (Numero) £80 

Immense 4Lp set with individual hard sleeves printed with 4 different designs housed in a thick box and including a 100+ page 12" x 12" hardbound book this has a lot of love gone into it's making! 32 tracks across eight sides of vinyl with over a dozen previously unreleased (not counting the 94 East and Flyte Tyme and Herman Jones tracks that Numero issued on 45s at the same time) this set chronicles a stylistic, technological and attitude progression in the sounds coming out of Minneapolis from the late 70s to the early 80s. 
Class release, stunning object! 4kg in weight so this needs it's own special method to ship!
 

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70,s grapevine MCA ABC BRUNSWICK ETC they was all made because of the success the tunes had on the soul scene so where issued again some 15yrs later to cater for the scene, where a British release came out at the same time ish as the import ie cameo parkway stuff your liberty and united artists etc. . Then obviously yes cool as they are originals issued at the same time with no other motive for release.

 

Surely a record company is going to release something outside of the original domain because of it's popularity (be it on a soul scene or wherever) not in spite of it !? Surely they wouldn't release it just for the sake of it? Unless maybe to get foreign interest for the artist, but even so... 

Gutted you couldn't find the copy for sale here - was looking forward to a reunion with that one.  Always be a classic 'deep Funk' spin for me: fits right next to Cross Bronx. 

Great price for a proper original - think the price crashed due to Hall 'issuing' copies which, in hindsight, weren't early 1980s vintage.

Not the best pic but if the text has that blurry edge it's a newer copy. There's on ebay with a blurry looking edge (though not a great image) that was at £60 with a bid last time I looked. 

Yeah this is an identical one James. Sure it came out on Aestaurium (spelling?) - guess they decided it was time to make it available again to a new audience?

Wayne Carter - Mad Mouth Woman/Wahoo, Wahoo, Wahoo (Mootrey's Studio) New £8

Long overdue reissue of this once big funk ‘scene’ two-sider that somehow crossed over to the more adventurous side of Northern and still cuts the mustard on the more ‘experimental’ side of the scene. ‘Mad Mouth Woman’ tells a downcast tale of some guy (Wayne) bemoaning his ‘woman’ (name not known) and her ‘pulled down mouth’ in what must be a scene of domestic dread. The theme on the flip isn’t much perkier but musically the moodiness of both sides gives this an edge. Limited to 333 hand numbered (on the sleeves) copies. 

Wayne Carter - Mad Mouth Woman

Wayne Carter - Wahoo, Wahoo, Wahoo

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After what seems like an age between signing the contract with Roy and taking the box of finished 45s off the courier man's hands, at last these are here!

Those who've had pre-orders placed for months - yours are going out today. *Lesson learned: If you can't hold it, don't 'sold' it! 

You can PM or (ideally) order at the site here

Roy Roberts - Thinking About You/Let's Wrap Up Tonight Baby (Country Star) £8

PM'd about an earlier Wales Wallace want but never heard back 

Digging through the boxes revealed a wealth of good older 'new' 45s (I'm calling 'em Modern Vintage): releases from the past decade and then some! Making the soundclips of these reminded me how much good music was made in this period. Check the clips if you don't know them.

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Wonder where these are coming from - universal claim to have none left (my rep even asked around for some!): hope they're not resold returns 

You're welcome. Thanks for that Pat  

Recently recorded (and sung) from 'sketches' laid down by the band 40 odd years back, Mal. Gonna play it on here soon

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