Sebastian

Wow. I'm amazed. It's got a half decent backing track but the vocals are absolutely dreadful. Each to their own and all that... but I would be really, really dissapointed if I heard this while out dancing, let alone in my living room.

Is this track supposed to be good?

Hello! I've listed a bunch of records on eBay. All of them has got sound clips and label scans. Check them out at: https://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZpushkings Some examples: Tamla Motown Hitsville USA Appreciation Society 45 GWENN DOUGLASS on Michelle ELLA WASHINGTON on Atlantic RAY ALGERE on Tou-Sea LITTLE JOHNNY TAYLOR on Galaxy OTIS WILLIAMS on Okeh JUNE CONQUEST on Fame LAVERN BAKER & JIMMY RICKS on Atlantic ENTERTAINS on Steeltown LATTIMORE BROWN on Duchess MARGIE JOSEPH on Okeh LITTLE MAC & THE BOSS SOUNDS on Atlantic UK ROY WARD on Seven B SOLOMON BURKE on Atlantic RICHARD BERRY on Jonco ...plus more. Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

Love these two! Have a listen below.

Do you mean "I Got Loaded"? Sorry, don't have a copy for sale, but that sure is a fantastic tune. Keep an eye on eBay, it frequently sells on there for $10-$30.

"We're Gonna Make It" is indeed very good, but are you implying that you think it is better than "Move On Up". Surely not.

I don't. I was just answering the original question.

The "you don't begin to comprehend" bit, that's Paul Simon speaking. It's the exact same part that can be heard on the original Simon & Garfunkel cut (which ofcourse also was released on Columbia and is fantastic). I wouldn't consider Dana Valery's cut to be "soul" in any way.

I'm with you on this one, "Lost Friends" is definitely the better side, just thought it would be easier to sell for the uptempo side.

Couldn't agree more, at least 8 of her 10 Columbia sides are top stuff!

A fantastic deep soul track indeed, but wouldn't it be easier to sell this 45 (on a message board populated with mostly northern soulies) if you advertised it for its flipside, the stomping dancer "I Can't Do It (I Just Can't Leave You)" instead?

Please excuse me, I had just come home from a 13-hour work day when I wrote that (note to self: shouldn't go out on the internet when I'm tired/frustrated/etc...). Sorry if the tone of my reply was a bit harsh. I didn't mean to offend you.

There's no repress/reissue. The ones on the Daptone site are "originals". Bloody hell. It was released a couple of weeks ago! Go here and send them your money: https://www.daptonerecords.com/pages/dap1022.html

While on the G.C. Cameron tip... I personally love "You Need A Change" from the "Rich Love, Poor Love" LP by Syreeta & G.C. Cameron. Nice piece of uplifting 70s soul.

The above was released as Prodigal 0617 and according to https://www.seabear.se/detroit2.htm : "Prodigal was a Detroit label owned by Barney Ales. It was started 1974 and was discontinued in June 1979. Catalog numbers 0611 - 0620 were pre-Motown releases. Numbers 0621 onwards were manufactured and distributed by Motown." "Body Chains" sure is a fantastic hard pounding mid 70s dancer with gritty vocals though.

...but then again... you raved about that unissued Al Williams tune... so...

Someone buy this. It's a great stomping tune, far better than the Capitols version and at £10, being offered at a very decent price. Have a listen:

What?!

No, I did. And I'm quite happy with the outcome to say the least.

I sold a M- stock copy of this on eBay about three months ago for $71.

GREAT tune!

As Christian wrote, the mixing/mastering/pressing of the LP is absolutely ridiculous. Anyone without any kind of "studio skills" could've done it better. Perhaps someone should do a proper remixed/remastered (re)issue of "Don't Take You Love" on a 45 (something for Grapevine perhaps? or Sanctuary as they seems to own the rights to Turbo material) because the sound quality on the original Turbo LP cut isn't impossible to "work with", I've done it and I've managed to get some decent sound quality on it (filtering out about 90% of the bass and upping the mid and treble, then running it through a compressor. The japanese reissue/bootleg sounds the same or even slightly worse than the Turbo LP.

Don't know if it's of any interest, but "Don't Take Your Love" by The New Sound has been legally reissued on a Sanctuary/Castle CD-compilation from 2003 entitled "Flying High - The Modern End Of Northern Soul" and consists of Turbo/Today/Vigor/Colossus/HotWax/Stang/AllPlatinum/etc. material.

Great tune indeed!

Now that is one hell of a magnificent tune. Pounding bang bang bang stuff. Very hypnotic track and kinda proto-house in feel don't you think? I love it!