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For sale, serious bargains here, PM me if interested Cheers, Mark. Jimmy Gilford - Nobody loves me like my baby - Thelma vg- visual hence price, but plays very well indeed just a couple of minor crackles 70 Dynamite Singletary - Same way you love your man - Dynamite 150 Twilights - You're the one - Aqua 90 Whispers - The dip -Dore 50 (Unfortunately a tear on label and a bit of WOL, but actual vinyl is excellent. Bargain price to reflect) Lad Teens - White rice / Keep on rollin' - Cadillac 150 incredible double siderJohnny Guitar Watson - Ain't gonna move - Jowatt flipside vinyl trashed, but this side excellent, so bargain! 120 Barbara and the Browns - You don't love me / If I cant run to you I'll crawl - XL 35 (alternative version to Jerry Gainey)

I'm sure I saw it says he played sax somewhere too Pete. For such a humongous label I assume a lot of product was leased in and not from LA? There's at least some Memphis stuff there.

Yeh I know Bob, need the label background info for some distantly related research on a particular artist. Was it always Hollywood, LA based? Address ever change?

Cheers guys will check em out

Can anybody direct me to a comprehensive historical account of Challenge Records location and activities (post Gene Autry) please, beyond a discography? Cant seem to find one on-line. The 'Dial 3' CD notes any good? Cheers Mark

Oliver Cheatham does an Our Father half way through one of his records, does that count?

Koko Taylor - Voodoo woman ( flip to Mama he treats your daughter mean) Will take this on UK Sonet or any other 45 it may happen to exist on! PM me please, Mark

Wild Sound Unlimited - I know you - Colpar SOLD SOLD Great frantic blue eyed Virginia soul from the same label as Ron Moody & Centaurs. In excellent condition. £80 secures, PM me if interested, Cheers, Mark

Picked up a Columbia Record Productions acetate of this great tune a few months ago, got an issue and the acetate now so could be persuaded to move one of them on if anyone is interested, as this is just greed...

Quick one, for sale, excellent condition: Commands - Hey its Love / No time for you - Dynamic £45 SOLD

These are in sales but posting here too, as interested in trades for any interesting 60's Memphis, New Orleans and other southern label stuff Pm me if you have anything Cheers, Mark. Jimmy Gilford - Nobody loves me like my baby - Thelma vg at best visual , but plays very well just a couple of minor crackles 80 (Only selling this coz I picked up the acetate recently). Dynamite Singletary - Same way you love your man - Dynamite 150 Twilights - You're the one - Aqua 100 Whispers - The dip -Dore 50 (Unfortunately a tear on label and a bit of WOL, but actual vinyl is excellent. Bargain price to reflect) Appreciations - She never really loved me -Sport demo 50 Lad Teens - White rice / Keep on rollin' - Cadillac 150 Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't gonna move - Jowatt WOL and flipside trashed, this side excellent, so bargain! 120 Barbara and the Browns - You don't love me / If I cant run to you I'll crawl - XL 40

Trying to find out a bit more about the history of Satelite (NY) publishing ? Cheers, Mark

For sale, all excellent condition or better unless stated, PM me interested in anything, Cheers, Mark. Jimmy Gilford - Nobody loves me like my baby - Thelma vg at best visual , but plays very well just a couple of minor crackles 80 (Only selling this coz I picked up the acetate recently). Dynamite Singletary - Same way you love your man - Dynamite 150 Prophets - I got the fever - Smash WD 25 (got a black UK large centre Mercury format too for 20 - still available) Harry Deal & Galaxies - I still love you - Eclipse promo 60 Twilights - You're the one - Aqua 100 Whispers - The dip -Dore 50 (Unfortunately a tear on label and a bit of WOL, but actual vinyl is excellent. Bargain price to reflect) Appreciations - She never really loved me -Sport demo 50 Anglos - since you been gone - Scepter promo vg couple of pops and crackles but plays OK 35 Lad Teens - White rice / Keep on rollin' - Cadillac 150 Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't gonna move - Jowatt WOL and flipside trashed, this side excellent, so bargain! 120 Black & Blue - What I got / Goin' back to Miss Annie - Mercury (harder issue and has this flip) 100 Barbara and the Browns - You don't love me / If I cant run to you I'll crawl - XL 40

Also have UK Action (large centre, black and green/silver text) copy of the Showmen "Our love will grow" for £40 excellent cond.

Endeavors - I can't help crying / Beware of your friends (Empire State) £120 Incedible double sider. Excellent condition. PM me please Cheers Mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJgErf4f4ys

Couldn't agree more Flanny. "I wanta be your baby" sooo needs playing out more. Actually the 45s for sale are originally sourced from Gene Rumley's (Gene and the Team Beats) personal collection. And before anyone asks, no there isnt a box of them! Great set of tunes this lot, if I didnt have 'em already I'd have em myself! All these 45s are also discussed in this summer's best seller (see link below)....

Some truly fantastic and rare Virginia 45s here for sale, most in very fine condition. All tracks can be found on youtube. I'm putting these up here on behalf of a US pal. Prices in USD. Please don't PM me, but contact him direct at: jack.217@comcast.net Cheers, Mark. The Lost Soul - I'm gonna hurt you - Raven (Excellent cond.) $300 The Soulmasters - I'll be waiting - Raven (vg plus) $100 Gene & the Team Beats - I wanta' be your baby - Raven (Excellent cond) OFFERS OVER $230 Gene & the Team Beats - I'll carry on - Leatherwood (Excellent cond.) $50

Cheers for posting up the link Dave. Three options Geoff: colour, PDF (follow the colour version link) or B&W. I also have a few personal stock copies of B&W and colour if anyone wants to PM me. Postage will be a bit cheaper than online purchase. Mark

Roburt, it's all soul, worry not, and all but one of the 'bands/groups' related chapters deliberately focus on those associated with rare soul as played on the northern scene from the late seventies to the present. Regards beach stereotypes, preconceptions and misconceptions, well, I hope you find the book explores this before moving onto the real business of digging deeper.

Thanks Jock for the kind comments. Technically though mine is printed in the Netherlands for UK buyer. Blurb have print houses there and in the US (Blurb is a US company). I have a few personal copies of both colour and black and white versions, which will cut down the postage to UK buyers as I am UK based. If anyone wants one just PM me. There's also a PDF option available for purchase on-line (sorry no ebook).

I really focussed on the NC side of things geographically and the Tempests 60s output. However I think Mike Branch (now deceased) was the link in the Scepter release of the BH. Of course in the late seventies Mike and General Johnson revived the beach scene with Surfside Recs. Roger Branch still works / owns a recording studio in New Orleans. Van Coble was the main contributor to my book regards the Tempests. He's been ill recently but on the mend again and now editing stuff in his studio along with his mate Nat Speir founder of (Bob Meyer and the) Rivieras. They were both incredibly supportive of the project. I was lucky enough to meet both in person this year and consider them good friends.

I kind of agree with Steve, her autobiography is good enough general reference stuff but given the very interesting events of her life a good ghost writer could've made the best job of it. Buy my book instead!

Members of The Appreciations and The Tempests are both interviewed in detail in my book "Its Better to Cry" (see link below). Members from both bands had a lot of respect for Hattie. She was a 'name' for all young R&B acts (beach or otherwise) in the 60s in NC and indeed elsewhere. Whilst she did just about everything in her life, these days she is an extremely private person. I spent about 6 months trying to track her down, for the book. I eventually managed to have a short conversation with her on the phone, in the middle of a thunderstorm whilst she was trying to control her grandchildren / great grandchildren so not the most productive of encounters! I did however have her autobiography to fill in the gaps, and the bands gave me the rest. Arthur Smith Studios (in Charlotte) were used for some of her bands as it was a respected local studio, and just about every beach band in the 60s in North Carolina who recorded anything, recorded something there. Arthur Smith by the way was the guy who wrote the Duelling Banjos originally, before it was re-recorded (and claimed as their own for a while) by others for the movie Deliverance. Studios were sold by his family in the 80s I think. They are still there now called Studio East or similar. The In-Men Ltd. (Little girl etc) on Pyramid, (not the Bob Kuban lot) recorded a reunion CD there 2005, which has just been released this year. Mike Williams' "Lonely Soldier" was probably one of her bigger success stories. Superb record. The 'Tempest Band' that played on this and had an earlier self-release on Atlantic were an earlier line up to the Smash profile, only containing a couple of the later Tempests (the Branch brothers etc). The Tempests had switched management by the Smash period. The Appreciations had a lot to do with her throughout their recording career. Chronologically speaking the Jubilee release launched their career. But hey, buy my book for their full story, probably the first time their history has been documented. More than a few surprises relating to all their recordings including the Sport ones. Part recorded in Nashville, Memphis and Detroit! Very sad story too; one of the members who was taking his schoolkids to Santa Barbara on a flying trip they won with National Geographic, was killed along with the children in the 9/11 Pentagon terrorist attack. Mark

Clear out of cheapies here, some genuinely great 60's titles here for the price. PM me if interested. These need to clear so if taking a bundle, haggle away, Cheers, Mark. £30 SOUL Anglos - Since you been gone - Scepter promo vg a couple of clicks and pops hence price but still very playable and labels fab Barbara & the Browns - I dont love you - XL £20 SOUL Carltons - Ooh baby / Cant you hear the beat - Argo James Royal - Just call my name - French CBS Jamo Thomas - Stop the baby - Conlo vg+ plays fab Frank Polk - Do the jerk / Years of tears - Capitol Gary & Gary - I'm leavin - Arock demo Lance le galt - I'm breaking through - Palomar Carrie Grant & Grandeurs - Take all of my life - NewArt Earl Gains - Its worth anything - HBR Herb Johnson - Two steps ahead - Swan promo Azie Mortimer - Put yourself in my place - Swan promo Gibraltars - I wont be your fool anymore - A&W Jelly Beans - Dont mean me no good / Hip to you - French pye & pic cover ('75 release) SOLD Wade and Jamie - Dont put off to tomorrow - Palomar vg+ plays fab O'Jays - Miracles - Apollo (their first? Really is superb early stuff!) Sammy Bryant - Grapevine / Popeye dance - Roulette promo Snowmen - Sugar Daddy - Roulette promo Barry White - all in the run of a day - Bronco Two Tons of Love - Brown and beautiful / Bad situation in a beautiful place- Kapp promo £10 soul/popcorn Cletus Marland -You're gonna miss me - Terry JJ Jackson - Seems like I've been here before - Calla Timothy Wilson - Pigtails / Say it again - Buddah Al Perkins - Yes my goodness yes - Atco (so much better than the later Buddah version) Tony Orlando - Chills - Epic (for all you Popcorn pickers! With fab pic sleeve!) Prophets - My kind of girl - Stephanye (hairline crack, but playing surface intact, doesnt affect play) Chuck Jackson /Dionne Warwick / Shirelles / Maxine Brown - The greatest on stage - UK Pye EP incs (live) Hand it over (no pic sleeve sorry but a bargain EP at a tenner!) £5 soul / latin Dramatics - No rebate on love - Mainstream Manhattans - One live to live - Deluxe Willie Bobo - Hurt so bad - Verve Manny Corcado - Pow wow - Jazzman reissue WJ Moore and Dynamic Upsetters - Everything good to you - Gutter WJ Moore - Shame, shame, shame - Gutter Diane Lewis - Please let me help you / My Darlin - Love ZZ Hill - Hey little girl - Kent water damage label, fab R&B! Sapphires - Who do you love - Swan CODs - I'm a good guy / pretty baby - Kellmac CODs - Michael - Kellmac (label stain one side) Lou Courtney - Skate now - Riverside

Need this BUT must in excellent condition and labels very clean for scanning. SORTED THANKS Cheers Mark