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Setting the Record Straight. Music and Memories from Wigan Casino 1973-1981 - a book by Richard Searling. In stock at A Nickel And A Nail. Usually £24.99 but £5 discount when quoting FIVEDEAL at link below. Discount applied at checkout! While stocks last. Richard Searling is known as one of the original DJs at the famed Wigan Casino Soul Club, joining the line-up in 1973. Staying with the club for almost its entire eight year history, he earned a reputation as one of country's foremost northern and modern soul DJs. Richard takes us on a journey through his tenure at Wigan Casino and other venues. He also reflects on his wider 40-plus years in the music industry as warehouse man for Global Records, promo man for RCA, co-founder of Grapevine Records and Expansion Records, national radio DJ and soul related events promoter. An honest, informative and impressively illustrated presentation from one of northern soul's most familiar names, which will invoke fond memories for readers who were part of the soul scene at that time, and provide an intriguing insight for more recent entrants (paperback, gloss colour illustrations, 288 pages). ORDER VIA LINK https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/books/products/setting-the-record-straight-music-and-memories-of-wigan-casino-1973-1981-richard-searling

Chess / Checker / Cadet '60s R&B sales – ALL £5 EACH, OR 5 FOR £20 Some great titles here also actually for the price - look closely! All US originals. Scans provided on request. Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please. Andy Mack – Do you wanta go / Later than you think – Chess g+/vg- has scratches ++, “Do you” plays better – a freebie for the customer with the first order I get! Ex would be £30 plus. Jackie Ross – Take me for a little while / Honey dear – Chess ex (2 copies available) Jackie Ross - Haste makes waste / Wasting time – Chess ex Jackie Ross – We can do it / Honey dear – Chess ex (2 copies available) Ramsey Lewis – Up tight – Cadet vg+ Little Milton – Ain’t no big deal on you / Who’s cheating who – Checker ex Little Milton – Help me help you / Without my sweet baby – Checker ex Little Milton – I know what I want / You mean everything to me – Checker ex Little Milton – Let’s get together / I’ll always love you – Checker ex Little Milton – So blue / Poor man – Checker ex Little Milton – I’m mighty grateful / When does heartache end – Checker ex (2 copies available) Little Milton – Your people / My baby’s something else – Checker ex (2 copies available) Billy Stewart – I’m in love / Crazy bout you baby – Chess ex Albert Williams – I’m in your corner / Tumbling = Checker – ex visual but background noise. Plays through OK Mitty Collier – For my man / help me – Chess ex Mitty Collier – Together / No faith no love – Chess ex Johnnie & Joe – You said it and don’t forget it / Across the sea – Chess ex

**Soul/R&B 45s sale** **Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please.** Modern Redcaps – Never too young – Swan vg++scratch is visibly noticeable across the vinyl (hence price) but not deep and, plays absolutely fine! £50 Sammy Fox – Monkey time – Hit ex £10 great lesser known version! Toussaint McCall – Nothing takes the place of you – French Stateside ex £10 classic in a great looking format with picture cover too The Tams – Find another love – General American ex £10 superb early soul! Albert Williams – I’m in your corner / Trembling – Checker looks ex / NM but some background ‘static’ noise (? at manufacture), louder parts drown the noise £10 bargain El Chicano – Viva Tirado – Kapp vg plus some superficial marks but DNAP £10 Rocky Roberts and the Airdales – 4 track French Barclay EP (The Monkey / Beaches / 1000 Dances / Stubborn kinda fella) ex vinyl and incs picture cover £12 Little Milton – Who’s cheating who / Aint no big deal on you – Checker ex with company sleeve £10 Billy Stewart – Crazy about you baby / I’m in love - Chess ex £10

60S SOUL/R&B SALES Betty Lavett – Witchcraft in the air – Lupine ex superb early Detroit R&B! £25 Peggy Gaines – Playboy – Hit vg+ £10 lots of interest in the last couple of months re Peggy on her "When the Boy That You Love" etc, here she gives us a very competent cover of the Marvelette's classic. Also appeared on Caravelle as Betty White (actually Peggy in disguise) The Neptunes - House of heartaches – Instant ex £20 fab early group R&B, a group version of the later Hal Hardy take (in fact Hal Hardy was in this earlier recording session too, along with PW Cannon). Don and Juan – What I really meant to say – Big Top (pen mark on label) ex vinyl £20 immense soul-duo-thingie-goes-northern – for those who weren’t there when this was popular (at least up my way) – try it! Billy Stewart – Sitting in the park + 3 – UK Chess EP (no pic cover) vg £10 Joanne Garrett – Unforgettable / We can learn together – Chess (French) ex with picture cover £10 Jimmy McCracklin – Think / Steppin’ up in class – Imperial vg+ , with company sleeve £10 ***Postage UK £3. Europe £7, Elsewhere £14. Paypal only please***

60s soul / R&B Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please. Timiko – Is it a sin – Checker demo ex £40 Bobby Moore – Chained to your heart – Checker (vinyl ex, writing on flipside of label) £15 Muddy Waters – Two steps forward – Chess ex £15 Edwin Starr – I’m still a struggling man – Gordy ex £15 Two Tons of Love – Brown and beautiful / Bad situation in a beautiful place – Kapp ex £20 Bobby Bland – Yum yum tree – Duke ex £20 Little Milton – Don’t leave her – Checker ex so one of his best, superb! Ex. Condition and company sleeve £10 Wilson Pickett – EP incs She’s looking good, jealous love, We’ve got to have love and Ive come a long way vg+ £10

Christmas deal of 20% off all original '60s and early '70s soul memorabilia at A Nickel And A Nail! Three pages of concert programmes, industry correspondence, booking contracts, and publicity photos to choose from. Discount applied automatically at checkout. Follow the link https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/collections/memorabilia

60s soul / R&B LPs Postage UK £4, Europe £8, Elsewhere £14. Paypal only please, Dee Dee Warwick – Foolish Fool – Mercury LP cover slight wear, but vinyl ex £15 V/A – A Little Bit of Soul – RCA ex incs Willie Kendrick – Change your ways, Exciters – Blowing up my mind, Dynamics – Lights out, Rose Valentine, Steve Colt etc. CLASSIC LP! £15 Joe Simon – Simon sings – UK Monument ex Factory Test pressing LP ! £15 SOLD Ohio Players – First Impressions – UK DJM LP incs “You Don’t Mean it” etc £20 Intruders – Together – Gamble vg- various marks / scratches plays through but some noise hence price. Incs “You’d Better Check Yourself” etc £5 The Shirelles - Spontaneous Combustion (live at Columbia University NYC) – Scepter £20 Vinyl ex, cover seam split on edge. Incs. Last minute miracle (“dubbed” as live – well will raise a few eyebrows over the decks anyway! ) and others Sonny Til and the Orioles - Modern Sounds of the Orioles - UK Summit/ Egmont (1962). £15 ON HOLD Cover ex, vinyl ex. Inc “Hey! Little woman” and others Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels – Breakout! – New Voice ex incs Breakout, Midnight hour, Devil with the blue dress etc £20 Chris Bartley – Sweetest thing This Side of Heaven – Vando LP ex £15 title track, and a great LP only version of Tony Talent’s Don’t wanna tell nobody. Z.Z. Hill - Greatest Hits - (US circa 1971) Kent. £20 ON HOLD Vinyl ex, cover ex. Incs Hey little girl, Someone to love, You don't love me, If I could do it all over, Everybody has to cry, That's it, What more, Oh darling, Set your sights higher and others – highly recommended LP! Lou Rawls – That’s Lou! – UK Capitol ex £10 incs When Love Goes Wrong etc BJ Thomas – The Very Best Of BJ Thomas – Hickory LP cover seam split but vinyl ex £20 incs Keep it up

Some 70s / modern soul bits, PM if interested in anything. Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please. All 7” formats. JG Lewis – What am I gonna do – IX Chains ex £10 Percy Larkins – Music of passion / strangers into lovers – UK Move ex £10 Archie Bell and the Drells – You never know what’s on a woman’s mind / Ain’t nothing for a man in love – Glades ex £10 Tyrone Davis – Turning point – (Spanish) Zafiro £10 with pic cover Sammie Relford – Breaking ice on love / Hey love / Hook me up – Izipho Soul Records ex £10 Otis Clay – Messing with my mind – Echo (blue) ex £10 Saun and Starr – Hot shot / Gonna make time – Daptone ex £10 Bobby Womack & Lulu – I’m back for more – UK Dome with pic cover. Ex. Great version! £5 Ecstasy, Passion and Pain – Ask me – (French) Roulette £10 ex with pic cover Cecil Parker – Really really love you – UK EMI promo visually ex but some static type noise - ? common issue with this format? £3 Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose – I’m so glad – UA vg+ £5 ZZ Hill – Whoever is thrilling you is killing me / I keep on loving you – UK UA ex £5

Soul sales Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please. Lou Johnson – Unsatisfied – Big Top ex all time classic £25 Jimmy McCracklin – Get together – Minit ex £20 Unlimited Four – Calling / I wanna be happy – Chanson ex £20 version of the LMNOPs Lenny O’Henry – Across the street – Atco vg plays fine £15 William Bell – Born under a bad sign – Stax ex £15 superb now getting attention The O’Jays – Think it over / Lipstick traces – Imperial vg+ £10 Ovations – You had your choice / I’m living good – Goldwax ex £10 Danny Wagner – Harlem Shuffle – Imperial audition / promo copy ex £15 Madeline Bell – Thinkin’ / Don’t take your love away – German Philips ex with pic cover £15

Got a few of these in for sale. Blues link was the early 1970s successor to the long running Blues World (had been around since '65) after it folded. Not sure how long Blues Link lasted but these are great little mags, the focus remaining on 40s to 60s blues artists and stuffed with LP reviews, bios and pics. Screaming Jay Hawkins, Lightnin' Slim, Jimmy Witherspoon and the more obscure folk all in there, and all well researched. Great resources for R&B projects etc. £15 for the job lot, and I'll even chuck in free post.

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Wednesday soul / R&B sales Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please. All US originals unless stated. James Royal – Call my name – Columbia demo £20 superb double sider – “Call my name” was a big fave in Scotland in the mid 80s, I hear it’s getting a resurgence in interest again. Flip “When it comes to my baby” also a very decent version of Ronnie Milsap on Scepter, Ashford and Simpson penned. Betty Lavett – Witchcraft in the air – Lupine ex superb early Detroit R&B! £20 Kelly Brothers – Sound of a cryin’ man – Excello ex £15 and in company sleeve James Carr – Coming back to me baby – Goldwax ex £15 Gino Johnson – I’m aware of your love affair / The story of a woman – Bailey ex £15 Rhythm and Blues Showcase Vol II (EP) – Muddy waters / Howlin Wolf / litte Walter / Jimmy McCracklin – (UK) Pye Int ex with picture cover £20 The Magic Tones – We shall overcome / It’s better to love – Mah’s great Detroit double-sider £12 Wilson Pickett – Midnight mover / She’s looking good – (Japanese) Atlantic with pic cover ex £15 Larry Williams – I wanna know / Like a gentleman oughta – Chess promo ex £10

More original 1960s performance contract memorabilia for various soul and R&B artists - ZZ Hill, Jimmy Hughes, Joe Simon, Eddie Floyd, Willie Hightower, Betty Wright etc. on ebay auction, all at low open bids. Grab a piece of soul music history! Many ending over the next couple of days. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?item=193248530068&hash=item2cfe828e94%3Ag%3AaZQAAOSwzkldyYk7&_dmd=2&_ssn=edwwin53&_sop=1

Soul/R&B sale Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please. Modern Redcaps – Never too young – Swan vg++/ ex- superficial scratch, plays fine! £60 Sammy Fox – Monkey time – Hit ex £10 great lesser known version! Toussaint McCall – Nothing takes the place of you – French Stateside ex £10 The Tams – Find another love – General American ex £10 superb early soul! Albert Williams – I’m in your corner / Trembling – Checker looks ex / NM but some background ‘static’ noise (? at manufacture), louder parts drown the noise £10 bargain Rocky Roberts and the Airdales – 4 track French Barclay EP (The Monkey / Beaches / 1000 Dances / Stubborn kinda fella) ex vinyl and incs picture cover £12 Little Milton – Who’s cheating who / Aint no big deal on you – Checker ex with company sleeve £10 Billy Stewart – Crazy about you baby / I’m in love - Chess ex £10 El Chicano – Viva Tirado – Kapp vg plus some superficial marks but DNAP £10

Soul / R&B / Detroit 45s Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please Lee Rogers – I want you to have everything / Our love is more – D-Town ex £15 Tammi Terrell – Can’t believe you love me / Hold me oh my darling – Motown vg++/ex- £12 Little Milton – Driftin’ drifter – Checker ex £10 one of his best Tony Clarke – The Entertainer / This heart of mine – Canadian Chess ex £15 Jimmy McCracklin – The walk – Checker vg plus £15 J.J. Barnes - Now she’s gone / Hold on to it – Revilot ex- £10 Al TNT Braggs – Home in that rock – Peacock ex £10 great R&B! Jan Bradley – I’m over you – Chess vg plus £10 Leroy Jones – Hey girl – Hit ex great version £10

60S SOUL/R&B SALES Betty Lavett – Witchcraft in the air – Lupine ex superb early Detroit R&B! £25 Peggy Gaines – Playboy – Hit vg+ £10 lots of interest in the last couple of months re Peggy on her "When the Boy That You Love" etc, here she gives us a very competent cover of the Marvelette's classic. Also appeared on Caravelle as Betty White (actually Peggy in disguise) Martha Reeves and the Vandellas – You’ve been in love too long – Gordy her best and gaining popularity in recent years ex £15 J.J. Barnes – Now that I got you back / Forgive me – Groovesville ex quality double sider £15 The Neptunes - House of heartaches – Instant ex £20 fab early group R&B, a group version of the later Hal Hardy take (in fact Hal Hardy was in this earlier recording session too, along with PW Cannon). Don and Juan – What I really meant to say – Big Top (pen mark on label) ex vinyl £20 immense soul-duo-thingie-goes-northern – for those who weren’t there when this was popular (at least up my way) – try it! Billy Stewart – Sitting in the park + 3 – UK Chess EP (no pic cover) vg £10 Joann Garrett – Unforgettable / We can learn together – Chess (French) ex with picture cover £10 Jimmy McCracklin – Think / Steppin’ up in class – Imperial vg+ , with company sleeve £10 ***Postage UK £3. Europe £7, Elsewhere £14. Paypal only please***

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60s soul / R&B sales Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please. Jimmy Soul Clark – Tell her / Hold your horses – Moira ex £20 Little Oscar – I tried – Supreme Blues ex £20 Walter Jackson – Speak her name / They don’t give medals – Okeh demo vg++ £12 Edwin Starr – Way over there – Gordy ex £15 recommended! Jackie Lee – Would you believe – Mirwood ex £15 Ty Hunter – Bad loser – Chess ex £20 Martha Reeves and the Vandellas – Been in love too long – their best! £15 Bobby Bland – You’re worth it all – Duke ex £10 The Holidays – Watch out girl – Golden World ex £10

Soul / R&B 45s Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please Fantastic Four – Pin point it down / I feel like I’m falling in love again – Soul ex £20 Latimore Brown – So says my heart – Seventy Seven (mid 70s legal reissue of the SS7 release) ex £10 The O’Jays – I’m so glad I found you – Bell ex £15 Earl Gaines – It’s worth anything – HBR vg++ 10 Little Milton – So blue (without you) – Checker ex £10 Jimmy Hughes – Shot of rhythm and blues / Worship the ground you walk on – Fame ex £10 Little Milton – Just a little bit - Checker ex with company sleeve £10 Walter Jackson – One heart lonely – Okeh ex £15 sold J.J. Barnes – Chains of love / Baby please come back home – Groovesville vg £7

SOUL 45 SALES Postage UK £3, Europe £6, elsewhere £10. Payment via Paypal please Marlina Mars – Put my love on strike – MGM ex £60 Bobby Bland – Yum yum tree – Duke vg++ £20 Tyrone Davis – Can I change my mind – Dunhill Goldies 45 (original 1968 version, predates the Dakar one but this version unreleased until c. 1972 on this oldies format) ex £10 Bobby Moore and the Rhythm Aces – I wanna be your man – Checker ex £15 superb left field, smacks of Romance Watson! sold King Williams – Patience baby / Fight for your girl – MGM vg+ £10 Charlie Cole Brown Black – I just can’t get over you – Jewel ex £10 vinyl repress Roddie Joy – Walkin’ back – Parkway with company sleeve ex £15 The Tams – “Hey girl… / Take away – Belgian Stateside with picture cover ex £15 sold Mitty Collier – For my man / help me – Chess ex with company sleeve £10 R&B picture cover EPs / 45s Grade is for vinyl, covers as shown. Lou Rawls – Mean black snake / Walking proud – German Capitol ex £15 John Lee Hooker- When my wife quit me, Brownie McGhee-Livin’ with the blues, Memphis Minnie- - Kidman blues, St. Louis Jimmy – trying to change my ways - (French) Visadisc ex £15 Ramsey Lewis Trio – The In Cowd – (French) Chess (1973 issue) ex £10 Ray Charles – At Newport - incs “I got a woman” – (UK) Plum London Atlantic ex £15 SOLD V/A – Festival of the blues Vol. 1: Sonny Boy Williamson – Bring it on home, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and Willie Dixon - Wee wee baby, Buddy Guy – Worried blues, Muddy Waters – Got my mojo working – (UK) Pye Intl. ex £15 Charlie Parker – Yardbird (incs. Charlie’s wig, Don’t blame me, Dexterity, Drifting on a reed) – (UK) Bravo ex £10 Booker T and the MGs - - Green onions, Big train, Home Grown, Aw mercy – Plum London American g+ / vg- several surface scratches plays through £5 Sarah Vaughan – Show me a man, Gone, You got it made, Sole, sole,sole – (French) Mercury ex £12 Ray Charles – Hit the road Jack (+3) – (UK) HMV ex £10

Pile of pre-owned books here (see pic below) which don't pass the Gordy-esque quality control procedures adopted at A Nickel And A Nail. Most are soul or black music themed books. All are actually in very good / excellent condition, just picked them up as part of a bigger collection and don't need them for the store. Anybody wants them, £5 each plus post (generous deals on multiples) or if you are within a 20 mile or so radius of Leeds I'll deliver the lot by hand for £50, post free. PM if interested in anything.

Do you need an up to date one or any? I've got a couple of old 3rd and 4th edition ones (a bit tatty but intact) I'll send for the postal only or collect if you or anyone else needs them. I was going to sling 'em.

I’ve got a 1965 performance contract for Garnet Mimms at Pi Kappa Phi frat house at the University of Alabama here.

The Tempests: A Carolina Soul Story - E. Mark Windle. BACK IN STOCK! ORDER VIA LINK BELOW In the mid-1960s, North Carolina was feverishly embracing the soul explosion. From emerging local R&B acts came The Tempests, a racially integrated band which stood out from the rest. Featuring an African-American lead singer with a commanding vocal presence and talented white musicians from a range of backgrounds, their powerful soulful delivery and tight rhythm and horn sections could not be ignored. The Tempests attracted the attention of the music industry through energetic on-stage performances and quality studio work. They would soon become a booking agent’s go-to for sharing the billing with national soul stars on tour in the south east. Part heavily researched narrative and part first-hand oral history, The Tempests: A Carolina Soul Story explores how soul music took hold in the Carolinas, the origins and influences of the band, their recording period with two major labels, hectic touring schedules, and the inevitable split. But that’s only half the tale. Those early experiences shaped careers in song-writing, studio production and musicianship in popular music which continue to influence others to this day. Then there is the latter-day rediscovery of the Smash-Mercury recordings by a UK underground soul scene and formal recognition of The Tempests’ contribution to soul music following induction into the Carolina Beach Music Hall of Fame. This book continues the series in which author E. Mark Windle presents biographies of regional artists and bands who contributed to the southern soul music phenomenon of the 1960s (new paperback, 168 pages, approx. 80 colour and B&W illustrations. Dimensions 15x23cm). ORDER VIA LINK https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/products/the-tempests-a-carolina-soul-story-e-mark-windle?_pos=3&_sid=6d14c963a&_ss=r

As an aside, when I interviewed Donnie Trexler, he told me he co-wrote the song "Got what it takes". Donnie was a member of Bob Collins and Fab Five - and also wrote their "Inventory on Heartaches" and "My one and only girl".