michael-j

any chance of a full MP3 of the Hopeton Lewis before you post it off? went a bit high for me - couldn't really justify spending that at the moment on a rocksteady 45...

re: instrumental versions - Work Song *was* an jazz instrumental by the Adderleys. It was Oscar Brown Jr who added lyrics. same thing happened with lots of jazz stuff, e.g. 'Comin' Home Baby'

probably old hat to everyone here, but that Herbie Williams/Court Davis is stunning, fantastic arrangement. not heard that one before... thanks Pete

the Larry Trider's alright, but listening to the Dean Barlow is a painful experience, made worse by the feeling that there's a reasonable song under there ruined by the singing and arrangement...

Greg Belson had a Jame T Horn for sale a few months back, not sure if it sold... took me ages to get a Johnny Watson - no one ever seems to sell it (with good reason!)

Crystal was a label in the President group (Jay Boy, etc). bought mine for 8 quid i think from the President warehouse stock a few years ago, but wish i'd bought a few more copies now, same for loads of titles! ah well... don't think i've ever played the other side though, only Chocolate Sugar - a heavy hammond funk track... looking forwards to digging it out and giving the other side a spin now...

sort of - the copyright year on some labels under the logo is the year of the logo AFAIK, e.g. Cameo, Jewel, One-Der-Ful, etc,

'hot box' deejaying was talked about a while back on the funk board in this thread i think: https://domain745625.sites.fasthosts.com/mo...box&start=0 a few pages in. basically it's the idea that you only own a single box of records and operate a one-in/one-out policy to keep only the best records... no idea what the thread means tho!

well 'Rhythm and Blues' was coined so that the separate charts (which already existed) could be called something other than 'Race music' which was starting to sound rather offensive...

i think that's James' point... speaking as a relatively 'young' person (30 this year!), i don't want to drive to some banqueting suite or rugby club in the middle of nowhere in order to go out - i want to go to a more 'normal' city centre venue on foot or by public transport. that's why 60s, mod or soul events such as Shooting High, Crossfire, Mousetrap, Pow Wow, London Bridge All Nighter, etc (and i presume Oslo Soul, Boiler Club, etc in Europe) and hopefully James' Soul Revolution can and will attract younger crowds.

Mik, there's one up on the thesoulgirl.com site

not sure if anyone here would be interested, but have put a few Kent compilation LPs up on Ebay. the 'Down To the Last Hearbreak' one went for over 40 quid the other week, so someone might be after it... Kent 001 LP - For Dancers Only - Northern Soul Kent 003 LP Slow'n'Moody Black and Bluesy - Deep soul Kent 019 LP - Pure Soul - Deep Soul/Northern Soul Kent 022 LP - Club Soul - classic Northern Soul comp Kent 025 LP - Soul Agents - Northern Soul Kent 062 LP - Young Holt Unlimited - Wack Wack - SOUL Kent 066 LP - Kent Stop Dancing - The Sequel - N. Soul Kent 084 LP - Down to the Last Heartbreak - Deep Soul https://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZmjemmes...1QQfsooZ1QQrdZ0?

Proper do a great 4CD compilation of Western Swing and a second volume has just come out although i haven't heard it yet. Western swing being the now virtually forgotten half of Country and Western. 100 tracks, thick booklet, some killer stuff there, all 1920-1940 ish. some other good R&B 3 or 4 CD boxsets around at the moment, there's two companies doing them by year 'hits of 1954' etc, for six quid in Fopp you can't go wrong, sound quality is good. there's also one of all female stuff called something like 'I'm a Bad Bad Girl' which has some killer early stuff on. only bad thing about listening to this kind of stuff is wanting a track and finding out it's on 78 only...

i think the point he was trying to make was that no royalties are paid on promo copies, and technically they remain the property of the record company (although whether that could actually be enforced in law is another matter). i understand artists often unwittingly have to pay for promotional materials (i.e. it's taken out of their potential earnings), and that included the white label promo copies...

anyone? just missed one on Ebay, snipe didn't fire

Della Reese and Joanne Gayles both held...

there's a reasonable version by Ginette Reno, produced by Johnny Harris, on the same Decca LP as her good version of 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood'...

New Year's resolution - sell some records! so here are some spares to start off: Della Reese - It Was a Very Good Year / Solitary Woman - HMV UK - EX - 35 https://bongolia.org/music/sales/2007-01/della_reese_clip.mp3 The Off-Beats - Have Love Will Travel - Guyden WLP - EX - 25 - cracking version, is actually 2nd issue of rare Lee Maye on Jetstream https://bongolia.org/music/sales/2007-01/offbeats.mp3 Z.Z. Hill - No More Doggin' - Kent - EX - 10 Joanne Gayles - Meet Me Half Way / Don't Shake My Tree - Bright Star - EX - 15 - sisterfunk 2-sider William Bell - Monkeying Around - Stax - VG+ WOL - 10 - great early one: https://bongolia.org/music/sales/2007-01/william_bell.mp3 Fabulous Rhythm Makers - Ya Gotta Be Doing It / Mini Mini Afro Twist - Forte - NM - 10 - nice b-side instrumental Ernie K Doe - Beating Like a Tom Tom - Minit - VG+ - 8 - beautiful https://bongolia.org/music/sales/2007-01/ernie_kdoe.mp3 Ruby Lee - I Believe In You / Gonna Put a Watch on You (24 Hours a Day) - Poptone - EX - 25 - nice soul with great r'n'b flip (prices in GBP or happy to trade, postage costs will be from UK, can take UK cheque or Paypal, clips from actual records)

shame, is a nice site, only bought one 45 from there though, wish more people had signed up. Ebay is a terrible site usability wise, only popular because it achieved a critical mass of users first (and from memory stuff like QXL around at the time in the mid 90s were even worse) - they made bad design decisions at the start, and it's too late for them to change. just really basic stuff like having separate fields for artist/author, date, title, label/publisher, for records and books (for example, and i'm other items have similar standard fields) would make searching a hundred times easier. they sorted the searching out a bit a year or two ago by syncing the categories between the different sites internationally, but the fact that they even had that problem to begin with makes me doubt their competence...

Hercules is pretty hard, sure i saw one for sale recently - either Ebay or the fryer-mantis funk board...

i think the lack of other decent soul forums means there are a lot of people of fans of non-Northern stuff here, reading even if not posting much. recognise quite a few names from the modculture board for starters... i would definitely like to see more sales lists of R&B, vocal groups and other early stuff...

is there a way to tell the Tommy Andre 45s apart? i presume that they will have different matrix numbers... and what does the Hold Back The Tears one go for?

ah must have missed that, saw a couple of threads on the subject and it wasn't mentioned, thought you'd know it though, of course.

was a thread a while back about JA covers of soul, the flip of this never got mentioned - a great version of The Manhattans 'I'm the One that Love Forgot'... ...there's one 45 on Rio i think, and probably more, where you can clearly hear the sound of the needle dropping before the track starts!

there's a copy on Netsounds with a soundclip if anyone's intrigued by this (i was)