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Thanks Chris. I'm talking about albums specifically - and not exclusively soul etc. I'm sure the same principles will apply. Cheers mate

Have you used it?

I'll be in New Orleans in October and plan to buy quite a bit of stock for the record shop I'll be taking over later that month. I reckon the LPs will be over the weight allowance for the flight and planned to ship them before I leave. What's the best/cheapest way of shipping quantities of vinyl from the States to UK. The time it takes isn't really a factor, so if surface mail is an option that would be fine. Anyone with experience of this and/or US based who can advise please? Cheers

It says that his group recorded Love You So Bad. Game set and match

Update: the pic above is an earlier doo wop group. However here's one of the group who recorded for the Chavis/Candi Delaware based labels...

Don't know how reliable the source is but this makes sense to me...

As opposed to white? - you been watching The Commitments Chalky Seriously though, I think we all said that back in the day. Can't remember what evidence there was, though, if any. Billboard refers to him as 'British talent' in 1960.

Thanks very much Jaco. Touch of radiation poisoning led to a long period of hibernation but I'm fire breathing fit again now. Nice to be back

Talking of white geezers, we were in London watching Fenella Fielding's spoken word show yesterday and I spotted this among the old publicity photos at the Phoenix Artists Club...

Living Color are surely a black group? Apart from the fact that they sound black, the record has solid Chicago soul producers on both sides. I also think you're going off a bootleg as City Skies is a different 45. The flip of Thank the Lord is Gotta Good Feeling, which again sounds black. City Skies is instrumental and I've never yet come across a way of determining whether session musicians are blue eyed just by listening....

PMd amigo...

Cracking! The vibe on the patio was amazing in 2013

I was trying to be kind rather than say she took a composer credit for a traditional song - you know what I meant!

They look as though the the label dimensions might be wrong too. Lots of new/reissue 45s have much smaller labels than were used until the 2000s. The first one I remember definitely noticing was the boot of the Vibrettes - Humpty Dump on Lujon from 2007.

Cheers! Second time for me. Thought it was a sort of once in a lifetime thing but we had such a great time time at the last one two years ago (and loved the city so much) that we thought, b*llocks to it - this is what we work for anyway.

As the seller says "100% authentic "original" recordings. Mint condition 7" 'pressing'."

I'm actually looking forward to a lot of the non-soul stuff too. PF Sloan for example. Roy head will be doing an R&B set and a rockabilly set later.

So apart from me and Mike Lofthouse, any other Soul Source members heading to New Orleans for this in a couple of weeks? https://www.ponderosastomp.com/concert_2015.php

The tent scene has always been pretty underground...

I've got a couple of Atlantic TPs but without the logo and label details at the top, as on the Benny Latimore and Barbara Lynn discs above. I bought the Les McCan one in the hope that it might contain the 'unbleeped' version of Compared to What. Naturally it didn't Curses - foiled again!

I struggled a bit at Lindisfarne festival a couple of weeks ago. An open sided dance tent with a gale blowing through it and my spot bounced from noon back to 10am. You can't say I'm not up for a challenge... There's always a learning point, however and this time it was focus on the stewards - if you can get them dancing, other people are intrigued as to what's going on and gradually you can drag 'em in

Red original with Bellsound stamp, slightly more orange boot.

As a further aside, I don't recall seeing any boots with "licensed to Soul Galore"tag. The ones that came into the shop I worked in the mid-late 70s didn't. Can anyone confirm for definite? We actually had a topic a few years ago that aimed to list all of Soussan's Soul Galore / Soul Fox records and we added this at the end: Reproductions of original labels marked "Licensed Exclusively to Soul Galore Productions" ASHFORD 1000 EDDIE PARKER – LOVE YOU BABY / INST CHIRRUP 1523 JOHNNY ROSS AND THE SOUL EXPLOSION - I CAN'T HELP MYSELF / SORE LOSER DISCOVERY 41541 VICKI NELSON - STONEY FACE / STAR FIRES - STONEY FACE INST JOKER 716 CONNIE CLARK - MY SUGAR BABY / INST MOHAWK 703 RITA DACOSTA - DON'T BRING ME DOWN / NO NO NO SUPER SOUND 7002 EULA COOPER - LET OUR LOVE GROW HIGHER / HAVE FAITH IN ME Additions are still welcome of course. Here's the original thread: /forums/topic/196167-soul-galore-label/#comment-1609113

The tune is an adaptation of "Elijah Rock" - a traditional gospel song. The best known version available on 45 is probably Mahalia Jackson's but there are also versions by Reverend Cleophus Robinson and Richard Baker. There are tons of album versions. I think Bettye swan's credit should be seen at best as one for the arrangement.

Looks like it was actually 30 + bands and DJs, with the live acts including a band The Casino All Stars - presumably NS covers bands then? As for whether using the term in the title makes it a Northern Soul event - well if playing garage, country, teen records etc at Northern Soul venues makes 'em NS records, I don't see why not Besides, lots of flared trousers evident in the pics so it must have been one....