Steve G

I don't think mixcloud playlists show up in google - just saying like.

I did it ended up with Bob.

Richard Marks an old Yarmouth spin for me and Bob Cosby some years back. £25 I thought. Channel 3 never a £350 record for a demo, or even the rarer issue come to that. Why would anyone want Benzine?

Very rare and it should be added to the longest running rarities thread since Richard spun it at Wigan. I did actually play it at the soul bowl room at prestatyn.

Don't have time to scan it but what do you need to know about it?

Very sad to hear, a bright shining star goes out.

This week's show https://www.mixcloud.com/steve-guarnori/soul-time-1st-may-2015/ 2015 Soul Diane Shaw - That thing you do (Love life & Strings) Ty Causey - Testify (Cause & Effect) The A Bees feat Melissa Boling - Money (Never going back) The PB underground feat D Tale - Stand up (Stand up) ConFunShun - More than love (More than love) Andre Lee - My girl Bluey - Hold on (Life between the lines) Mather & Kingdon -Life's so sweet (Life's so sweet) Illumination Experience - Somethings up (Illumination Experience) Rashid Ali - Soul Power (1968 Soul Power) Tad Robinson - Love is a winner (Day into night…) Mister Barrington - Justify (Can't turn back) Melvin Davis - Thinking of you (2015) (Double or nothing) Adrene - Better things Randy Roberts & The Capital Strokes - District 11 (CS) Hour 2 80s 70s 60s James Reese & The Progressions feat Rosalyn Foster - Joker Where did you come from (Najma) The Teques - Don't push my love cup Nature Boy - Tell me that you're mine Garfield Fleming - Don't send me away Garden of Eden - Everybody's on a trip Don Gardner - We're gonna make it big Eddie Parker - Body chains Johnny Nash - Get myself together Northern Soul 3 The Cotillions - Ain't no big thing Martha Starr - No part time love for me Sandy Wynns - I'll give that to you Ben E King - Tears tears tears Ben E King - Til I can't take it anymore Ben E King - I can't take it like a man Ben E King - Don't take your love from me Ben E King - Drop my heart off

Class as always Mark.

Oooh I like a mystery singer no one knows anything about…..one of the rarest on Scepter.

Interesting…..

Some real sick feckers out there….The hoax earlier this week and now everyone is reporting it to be true….I hope not.

If I tell you who it is I'll have to kill you

Still there Rod….

Shocking,…..no mention of boots etc. on many of them...

…and a lot never got sold….Remember in the late 70s visiting a shop in Maidstone full of 60s singles (not all soul by any stretch). But a lot of what was pressed just sat on shelves for years. And there were plenty of shops like that scattered around the UK.

I think that's a good bit of detective work there John. Can hear Nick Ashford and Valerie on backing vocals. If it's an acetate why wouldn't we believe who it is I wonder? Those three did loads and loads of acetates.

richardsearling@solarradio.com

This week's show https://www.mixcloud.com/steve-guarnori/soul-time-24042015/ 2015 Soul The A-Beez featuring Melissa Boling - Right in front (Never going back) Joyce Elaine Yuille - Just say goodbye (Welcome to my world) Bluey - Been there before (Life between the lines) Chubby Tavares - If there's a next time (Can't knock me down) Mather & Kingdon - Soul night (Life's so sweet) Heart 2 Heart Band - Mind your business (Theodis Ealy presents A southern soul mix…) Rasheed Ali - Burn baby burn (1968 Soul Power) The Boogie Man - Shake your body (David Morales remix) 3 Winans & The Clark Sisters - Dance (Louis Vega Funk House remix) Dion Rainey - Victory William Stuckey - The night belongs to us (This night belongs to us) Reality Jonez - Don't count your money Bobbye Doll Johnson feat Ricky White - My woman's fed up (True to you) Clark & The Superslicks - Pillow talk Hour 2 80s 70s 60s Millie Jackson - All the way lover Millie Jackson - Love doctor Main Ingredient - Instant Love Flowers - We could make it happen Dynamic Sounds Orchestra - All I wanna do is love you The Side Show - Lonely girl Al Dos Band - Doing our thing with pride Staple Singers - I'll take you there Tom Green - Endless confusion Jesse Rico - Oh what a girl Revelation - Feel it Split Decision band - Watching out Danny Leake - Hung up in mid air Northern Soul 3 Jack Montgomery - Don't turn your back on me Laura Lee - To win your heart The Eddy Jacobs Exchange - Can't seem to get you out of my mind

Oh don't, painful Dave….

I've always much preferred the remake to be honest, which for my money is one of the best ten New Orleans records ever made... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5nbjUQSNc Remember the song is all about a put down to another man….differences between the orig and the remake in brackets: You're nothing but a popcorn. (something that puffs up larger than it really is) (Sucker John) Stone suckin' John (stone sucking is something dumb people are supposed to do) (They call you the) Alley man (means sleazy) (Cos) You think you're raisin sand (raising sand is a southern expression for causing trouble)…. Enjoy.

Books? I've got an idea. Why doesn't someone sit down with Soussan then and ghost write his story. It shouldn't take too long with a bit of effort and a few cups of tea and cake and it could be self published on Amazon. Someone like Ian Dewhirst who has an affinity with the man or even Ian L could do it? To me that would be better than snippets of unreliable information coming out. But it would still come with a massive health warning. We've seen how good some DJs memories are of events 40 years ago (no drug convictions at Wigan / 4m etc).

As I remember Cecil Washington was the biggest record Richard had in his playbox in 1979….Whatever you think of it now, you can't deny it was a monster in it's day.

Absolutely, they often bought things that couldn't be sold in the UK. Which brings us full circle to the mysterious "Japanese lists" at Soul Bowl. I asked to be put on "the list" at the time, but never saw it . But I am drawing my comparison with the container loads of stuff that has been coming here since the end of the 60s. When I was growing up in London there must have been at least 50-100 shops in London selling imports. Not so much the rare stuff, but imports nonetheless. Loads of overstocks ended up at places like Black Wax in Streatham, Bluebird, Chequers (Croydon) and so on. It's well known that in the late 70s / early 80s I picked up Brand New in Petticoat Lane, Wil Collins x 2 (Bareback) in Mile End, Alfie Davison in Croydon, Bill Brandon "Streets" in Streatham, Bobby Hutton (ABC) (Walthamstow), Living Color in Leytonstone and a host of others for 10p-30p, all of which had come in as new imports. Fabulous days I'd just walk around all day looking for records.

I think you are over estimating the size of the Japanese market there Jordi. There are some prolific collectors of course, and loads of records went there. But I don't think anywhere near as many as have come to Britain over the years….But we know there are some good finds in Japanese collections.

Singles I think were 65c /75c about that time. An American like Robb K will know...