Benji

Great minds think alike Pete. I thought it filled the floor of the oldies room when it was played in the rare/underplayed room. Seriously, as said before funky edge tune have been played for well over a decade but in recent years that stuff gained momentum. DJ's tried to find more and more new sounds that fit in. My opinion is that they clearly went too far.

Don't take it personal but this is exactly what I had in mind when I said all that funky stuff is sh*te. This got nothing to do with Northern or Rare Soul.

TIMOTHY WILSON - LOVE IS LIKE AN ITCHING - BLUE ROCK D/J (VG++) 25 solid uptempo Northern version, nice white demo. comes in original sleeve. Hear it! TOJO - BROKEN HEARTED LOVER - TEC (EX+/M-) 30 Forgotten oldie? What a dancer. Uptempo, great breaks, the lot. Hear it! flatrate postage £2.90 worldwide. 'signed for' £5.00 Paypal only, as gift preferred. Please PM if interested Thanks! Benji

if anyone's after Sass "I only wanted to love you" I have a nice 20th Century issue for sale. EX+ condition @ 25 quid plus 2.90 postage from Germany. Please PM

GRACE JONES - SORRY - BEAM JUNCTION (EX) 10 great uptempo SMOKE CITY - LOVE AFFAIR - AMPI (M-) 10 quality stepper JJ JACKSON - LET ME TRY AGAIN - MAGNA GLIDE (EX) 5 So so underrated 70s dancer TOUCH OF CLASS - YOU GOT TO KNOW BETTER - MIDSONG (EX) 10 Superb Philly dancer from 1976 WILL HATCHER - YOU HAVEN'T SEEN NOTHING YET/AIN'T THAT LOVING YOU - WHEELSVILLE (EX) 20 SOLD light blue/turquoise press w/out intro. Weird version of Johnnie Taylor on flip. GLORIA WALKER - MY PRECIOUS LOVE/PAPA'S GOT A WAGON - PEOPLE (M-) 10 Nice crossover soul b/w funk classic CHUCK STRONG - YOU BEAT ME AT MY GAME / PT. 2 - VENTURE (EX+) 10 Great '79 dancer, lovely copy JUNIOR PARKER - I'M SO SATISFIED - BLUE ROCK (dh, EX) 10 Crossover, in original company sleeve flatrate postage £2.90 worldwide. 'signed for' £5.00 Audio clips for all records here. Paypal only, as gift preferred. Please PM if interested Thanks! Benji

Tell you what. I agree. What a tune. Although I don't see it as dancefloor material. NB: And not funk or even funky IMO. Just so soulful it hurts

Chalky/Gerd, thanks for posting some truly awesome beat ballads. Ray Pollard is deep soul in my books, but a gem nonetheless. Jimmy Radcliffe - My ship best version by far. Gave my copy to the missus and regret it right now . Little Ann is a gem. First heard it on a tape a mate recorded from the Great Yarmouth weekender radio shows back in 1990/1991 and immediately fell in love with it. Tho have to say it's really at the very slow end of what I consider a beat ballad. Here's another one for you, Rocky Roberts - If he could. Might be a tad too fast for a beat ballad but it's such a full production in your face sort of sound it surely fits in this thread. It's from a western movie "Tom Dollar". The only releases I know are a french EP and an argentinian 33 rpm 7"

Russ, that's just black/white thinking. It seems that to you it's either up the funky soul road or down the crap-substandard-NS road? Is there anything in between for you? I'm pretty open minded, always rather listening to newies/lesser known stuff than oldies. my ideal world of NS incorporates many different styles in black music. But funk isn't one of them. Period. In the beginning 'new wave of funky soul' was quite refreshing and was really what it said on the tin, funky soul. John Harris, stuff like that. And the records were really good! But it seems that as dj's were struggling to find new stuff they went more and more down the funk road and ended up in funk country, no soul. And that's the stuff I think is sh*te. Another period. Maybe you and everbody else who's championing funky soul should challenge yourself: Is it really still danceable soul music or is it funk?

updated. Free postage if anyone buys the other two.

Paul, both times I guested at TOS nobody was abusive to me but folks were grabbing my beer. I'd rather had a a "f*ck you" than being thirsty.

Did this come out twice? Always thought flipside is "ain't gonna be no fool".

Three nice 60's goodies sale: Ben E. King & Dee Dee Sharp - We got a thing going on - Atlantic Testpress (VG++) - £10 SOLD Nice collectable test press of this great dancer. Same song both sides. Don't think many of these exist? TNT Band - The meditation - Cotique - (VG) - £15 Great latin dancer with a funky edge. Label worn, vinyl looks VG- but plays better, check the soundfile Young-Holt Unlimited - Soulful strut - Coral Germany (VG+/VG++) - £5 Very rare german original. No P/S but can supply printed scan of my own copy. postage £2.90 worldwide. 'signed for' £5.00 Audio clips for all records here. Paypal only, as gift preferred. Please PM if interested Thanks! Benji

Oi Stove, I saw that!

You want examples of which funky stuff is sh*te? Pretty easy, take 90% of what's been played over the last few years. Remaining 10% are just crap.

Pure Sh*te. It's not 'funky soul' it's just funk. And I hate funk.

For sale: Dorothy Morrison - I can't go without you/pt.2 - Brown Door (EX) - £50 postage £2.90 worldwide. 'signed for' £5.00 Audio clip for both sides here, pt. 2 starts at about 3:00 min. Paypal only, as gift preferred. Please PM if interested Thanks! Benji

Must be dutch. Didn't come out in Germany as far as I know. Or are you mixing it with "Come back girl"?

There's nothing in it that lets me assume he's joking. Quite the opposite, it makes him look like a chancer. Or maybe it's my lack of sense of humour as a german?

Mick Smith is the seller. Thought he had more integrity

Actually, I think this is a good question. Why are there records pretty expensive even though they're mediocre and never played anywhere? Supply and demand determine price of a record. But what if there's no demand? The Curtis Davis record is a good example. As good as it is (I like it) it's not a record with a huge demand for it, is it?

It's an auction for 19 records not just for one.

No, you're right. 1.000's of people see Manship's auctions. Many tend to take whatever he says for facts when infact sometimes they're just assumptions.

Another big surprise this one. This usually sells for less than 50 (?) I think I wanted only 30 quid for the definitely rarer german MCA release. Or did demand increase?

He said Diva Detroit. I take he tried to describe some sort of 'sophisticated Detroit girl group' sound and didn't imply that the group was from Detroit. Does that make sense?