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Now up on the site, the latest in the serialisation of "The Tempests: A Carolina Soul Story" book. The Tempests split, formation of The Holidays, and even The Spontanes get a mention... Follow the link: https://windlefreelance.com/2021/09/23/the-tempests-pt-10-the-split-and-a-new-band-forms/?fbclid=IwAR16qHrH-S2qz_zb92vldNKGl1LuB8DbCR4sfzKJqmB_jmHlqkkijhmGobE

Single VIP ticket for Detroit-a-Go-Go UK 3 day event available here, as unfortunately I won’t be able to make it. Face value £90, will sell for £60, please enquire via PM if interested. The dates / venue are of course from last year as rolled over and ticket still valid.

Sunday soul. PM to reserve. Postage UK £3.50 any quantity. The Whispers - Needle in a haystack - Soul Clock ex £10 great crossover version of their Dore outing and so cheap! The Whispers - Flying high - Soul Clock ex £25 again, superb John Roberts - To be my girl - Duke ex £30 Saun and Starr - Hot shot - Daptone ex £15 Grand Strand - Little misunderstanding - It Will Stand ex £20 George Jackson I want that love back / If I could open up my heart - Hit and Run ex £10

A piece of soul music history! Solomon Burke and band, March 1966 original performance contract for Klooks Kleek, London. £25 inc UK post. PM to reserve.

Saturday 60s soul - PM to reserve - postage UK £3.50 any quantity. Fred Hughes - You cant take it away - Vee Jay ex £15 The Holidays - I know she cares - Revilot ex £20 Nathaniel Meyer - Work it out - Fortune ex £20 Steve Karmen Band feat Jimmy Radcliffe - Breakaway - UK UA ex £20 classic Wilson Pickett - Nothing you can do / Everybody needs somebody - UK Atlantic red ('Nothing' is great version of the Bobby Womack rarity) £15 Chuck Jackson - Getting ready for the heartbreak / In between tears - Wand ex £20 superb classic double sider

House of Broken Hearts. The Soul of 1960s Nashville A book by E. Mark Windle. BACK IN STOCK!! The Northern Soul of a Southern City… Nashville may forever be associated with country music but there is another story to the city’s past. In the 1960s an exciting, vibrant black music scene thrived in the night clubs and bars along Jefferson Street and in surrounding neighbourhoods. Ingredients for commercial success were also in place – charismatic DJs and promoters, entrepreneurial record store and label owners, a radio station making hip soul music accessible to teenagers across the southern states and TV shows which featured local R&B acts. It was even the time for white artists and musicians to experiment; a crossroads where soul met country. For a brief period at least, it appeared that Nashville was about to forge a reputation comparable to that of Detroit, Chicago and other cities of the north. Through interview and in-depth research this book presents the histories of Frank Howard and the Commanders, Peggy Gaines, Herbert Hunter, Jimmy Church, The Avons, Sandra King, Johnny Jones and the King Kasuals, The Hytones, The Spidells and many more. Part pioneer and part follower of fashion, Music City is long overdue recognition for its role in popularising soul music. Author E. Mark Windle continues his quest to uncover the stories of artists whose recordings are now the stuff of legend on the UK and European underground soul scenes. House of Broken Hearts is an essential reference source for fans of the genre and indeed anyone wishing to explore an alternative version of Nashville’s rich musical history. Book specifications: Reference / biographical collection. Paperback.180 pages, 100+ B&W images. Dimensions 9" x 6". Order via link: https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/books/products/ssss

Clarence Carter performance contract (August 1972) for an appearance at the Golden Horsehoe in Leesburg, Virginia. Full details of artist's fees, venue, terms and conditions. Keeping the top copy, but I do have three in-house carbon copies which were made at the time of the original booking for office purposes, all pretty high quality despite age. Each is also complete with an extra rider with communications about agency deposits etc. Just £15 each and post free. PM if interested.

As it says on the tin! An original performance contract (August 1965) for Lou Johnson and Sheffield (I think) band back up (Cool School) for an appearance at the famous Kooks Kleek during a U.K. visit. Item in decent shape given age. Looking £25 for this unique piece of soul music history, free U.K. post (no overseas at present, sorry). PM to reserve. SOLD

Saturday soul and R&B. PM to reserve.Postage UK £3.50 any quantity. The Royalettes - Only when you're lonely - MGM ex (Drill hole to label. Superb group version of Holly Maxwell on Constellation)£20 Tyrone Davis - You keep me holding on / We got a love - Dakar ex £15 Jimmy Norman - I don't love you no more - Little Star ex £20 Billy Butler and the Chanters - I can't work no longer - Okeh demo ex with pic cover £20

Thursday 60s cheap but quality soul. PM to reserve. Postage UK £3.50 any quantity. Fred Hughes - Baby don't go / Love is ending - Cadet ex £10 Fred Hughes - You can't take it away - Vee Jay ex £15 Billy Stewart - Summertime - Chess ex £10 The Impressions - You always hurt me - ABC (gold ink to label as shown) vinyl ex £20

It Ain't Retro. Daptone Records and the 21st Century Soul Revolution - a new book by Jessica Lipsky. ***Order via link below*** “All Sharon Jones ever wanted was recognition—not only for herself but for the whole Daptone family and the soul scene. We proved that soul never died, and It Ain’t Retro is a solid chronicle of our collective effort.” (Binky Griptite). With a collective of soul-obsessed producers and musicians, Daptone, the Brooklyn-based independent label launched the careers of artists such as Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Charles Bradley, while providing sonic support for the likes of Amy Winehouse. Daptone’s records pay homage but never lip service to the original artists, proving that soul is still culturally relevant, and just as exciting as ever. This definitive tale of Daptone Records’ soulful revolution chronicles the label’s history, players, and sounds, while dissecting the related scene’s cultural underpinnings, which continue to reverberate in pop music. The book also contains rare and unseen images of Daptone artists past and present, including Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, Lee Fields, Antibalas, The Sugarman 3, The Budos Band, and more. Jessica Lipsky is a journalist and DJ from Brooklyn by way of the San Francisco Bay. She first encountered sweet soul music as a child by obsessively tuning her radio dial and has since extensively covered soul, funk, reggae, and alternative Latin music. Her work on the intersection of culture, music, and politics has appeared in the New York Times, NPR, Billboard, The Recording Academy, Columbia Journalism Review, Vice, Newsweek, Wax Poetics, and LA Weekly. In her free time, she likes to boogaloo down Broadway (paperback, new), 275 pages, colour images). Order via link: https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/books/products/it-aint-retro-daptone-records-and-the-21st-century-soul-revolution-jessica-lipsky

Tuesday soul / R&B. PM to reserve. Postage UK £3.50 any quantity. Ray Charles - I chose to sing the blues - ABC Paramount ex £15 The Tams - Take away / Hey girl etc - ABC Paramount ex- £10 (small amount label wear as shown, but vinyl is ex) Chris Jones - I'm the man / Destination unknown - Goodie Train (topside fine, scratch to flip hence price) £10 Chuck Bridges and the LA Happening - Keep your faith baby - Vault ex £15

60s UK labels 45s. PM to reserve. Postage UK £3.50 any quantity. Steve Karmen Big Band - Breakaway - United Artists ex £30 Inez Foxx - Mockingbird - Sue ex £10 Charlie and Inez Foxx - Hummingbird - London American ex £10 Righteous Brothers - He will break your heart (+3) - Verve £15 with picture cover Bo Didley - I'm high again / Another sugar daddy - Chess ex £5 Chuck Berry - Wasn't me / Its my own business - Chess ex £5 Wayne Fontana - Um um um etc (+3) - Fontana ex £10 with picture cover Bill Doggett - Can't sit down - WB ex £5 Book T. - Green onions (+3) - Plum London American g+ with picture cover £5

The latest instalment of the Tempests story, just up on the site. Challenges of touring, and recording a live session at the Pour House on Charlotte's west-side... https://windlefreelance.com/2021/08/29/the-tempests-pt-9-winds-of-change

The Soulful Kinda Music Guide to the West Coast - a book by Dave Rimmer. IN STOCK £14.99 ORDER VIA LINK BELOW Representing the seventh book in the Soulful Kinda Music series, Dave Rimmer presents his west coast label discography of 1960s and 1970s 45rpm soul releases. Details of label owners, original addresses, operation dates of 1960s and 1970s soul releases on major and independent labels are all in here, from Hollywood, Los Angeles and beyond (new, 295 pages). Order via link here: https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/books/products/the-soulful-kinda-music-guide-to-the-west-coast-dave-rimmer

As random aside, Harry Deal and the Galaxies did a radio Coca Cola jingle using pretty much "I Still Love You". It's at 1:30, but watch the whole video (yes there's a snippet of them recording ISLY too).

Thursday soul sales. PM to reserve. Postage UK £3.50 any quantity. Martha Reeves and Vandellas - Nowhere to run / Live Wire - (Dutch) Tamla Motown ex with pic cover £20 John Roberts - To be my girl - Duke ex £20 The Tams - Deep inside me - Arlen ex great early group sound £15 The Violinaires - I don't know / Call on him - Checker ex £15

Part 8 of The Tempests: A Carolina Soul Story now up on the site. Hitting the road, a residency at Boston's Sugar Shack, and Mercury commit to an LP release. Follow the link (and sign up to receive future updates): https://windlefreelance.com/2021/08/19/the-tempests-pt-8-touring-bostons-sugar-shack-and-the-lp-release/

Chips Moman. The Record Producer Whose Genius Changed American Music - A book by James L.Dickerson. Available at A Nickel And A Nail order via link below: https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/books/products/chips-moman-the-record-producer-whose-genius-changed-american-music-james-l-dickerson The blurb: Chips Moman's genius began in the studio, where he instituted technical innovations that forever changed the recording industry, but it expanded from there with an uncanny ability to recognize hit songs when he heard them as rough demos. Moman often goes under recognised in his contributory role in the very early days of Stax before co-founding American Sound Studio, and carving himself an impressive production and songwriting career that blossomed with an unsurpassed string of hit R&B, soul, pop and rock records, rescuing Elvis Presley's career with his recordings of "Suspicious Minds" and "In the Ghetto". Not bad for a Georgia country boy who dropped out of school in the eighth grade and hitchhiked to Memphis in search of the American Dream (Paperback, 348 pages, illustrated).

Part 7 now up on the site. The start of the Smash recordings... Follow the link: https://windlefreelance.com/2021/08/02/the-tempests-pt-7-the-mercury-smash-sessions-begin/

A few more 60s / 70s soul sheet music bits. Most in great shape for age. Dimensions approx A4-ish size for most, can supply further images of individual items on request £10 each plus £3.50 U.K. post any quantity. PM to reserve.

STOCK JUST LANDED AT A NICKEL AND A NAIL! Love Factory: The History of Holland Dozier Holland - the new book by Howard Priestley. Details / order direct via link: https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/books/products/love-factory-the-history-of-holland-dozier-holland-howard-priestley It has long been acknowledged that Berry Gordy Jr and his Motown Empire put Detroit on the International musical map but it was the creative genius of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland who would take the sound into uncharted territory. In this book author Howard Priestley explores in depth the story of the three friends, their meteoric rise to fame and their fall from the heights. Forty years in the making, Priestley's love affair with the work of H-D-H started with his art thesis (so, well illustrated for a start!). The focus of this book is as much on their Invictus and Hotwax story as Motown, and is peppered with interviews with the likes of Steve Mancha, Chairmen of the Board, Melvin Davis and Eddie Holland himself (softback, illustrated, new, 236 pages).

The Van Dykes - a 1967 US performance contract, around the time of “Save my love for a rainy day”. Outlines venue details, terms and conditions and fees etc. The top copy shown isn’t for sale, but I do have two 'original' carbon copies from the Walden Artists and Promotions office estate which are available, at £15 each including UK post. Great framed for the record room and really neat pieces of soul music history. PM if interested.

Friday soul. Postage £3.50 UK post any quantity. The Esquires - Listen to me / Get on up - Bunky ex £15 Otis Clay - I got problems - Onederful / Secret Stash ex £10 Little Oscar - I tried / The message - Supreme Blues vg+ slight crack on centre edge, DNAP £15 The Five Stairsteps - Tell me who / Something missing - Buddah ex £15

Sunday soul sales. PM to reserve. Postage UK £3.50 The Artistics - I'll always love you / Love song - Brunswick ex £20 superb doublesider Jimmy Norman - I don't love you no more - Little Star ex £20 The Ikettes - Don't feel sorry for me / I'm so thankful - UK Polydor ex £20 Charlie and Inez Foxx - Hummingbird -UK London American ex £15 Clifford Curry - She shot a hole in my soul / Were gonna hate ourselves - UK Action ex £10 Kim Weston - I got what you need - MGM ex with picture cover £15