Steve G

CDBaby also now charging VAT on their downloads…..

Sleep well? Isn't this part of the clamp down on "corporate tax evasion" nice Mr Millionaireband keeps telling us is a good thing? Was thinking of opening a discogs account, as have a load of 12s but the problem for me is a lot of them aren't in their database and I think they have to be in a format before you can post them.

Very nice, went down well at Yarmouth.

Bettye Swann and Dynamics both spun at Soul Essence, OK it's not a northern soul niter, but these aren't old style northern soul records. Both had a good reaction.

Great record but not in the slightest bit rare. They pressed up loads thinking they had a hit record.

Looks like it may have been sold as it is no longer on the site……Good, excellent soul record….I am moving on

Its legendary in the Carolinas as hardly anyone there has it. Known copies are mostly over here…First heard this mid 90s, Sam had a copy and sold it….very hard record.

Dynamics is a Carolionas legendary 45, but mine is vg so I am selective when it comes out Agree on the rare scene.

No not at all my Mar Go came from a Soul Pack, how many came that way I have no idea( Jimmy Bo Horne incidentally was also a soul pack 45 as was Channel 3 etc.).

No it was a response to Sean.

Well Clarky has just been in touch to confirm that he did have Solid Solution on a 45 after all. He sold it to Japan for 1k and reminded me that I had forgotten to bid on it. Says he found it in S Carolina on a buying trip with Shay. So there you go.

And this is where I think you are missing the point Sean. Finding an "unknown" for the rare soul scene is not about going on JM's site and spending £3 on a decent AND KNOWN ballad / floater / front room soul pack record many of us got years ago…... I just can't imagine Maxine Weldon getting spins at Niters and upfront venues somehow. But I'll let the Soul Source Juke Box Jury make their own minds up about this one…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwwA-TJ17kY

Same reaction at Skeggy and Filthy Soul Mick

I have that too and plenty of others will have too since it was a soul pack record, and that's the point….Mar-Go is a known sound whereas Bettye Swann wasn't.

Good it was meant to get your attention. Find this constant "holier than thou" approach somewhat tedious to say the least. Soul Junction do indeed do a great job, but the scene cannot rely on the small quantity that SJ put out. I know Anthem fests are very popular but some people still want to hear something refreshing and new.

What a ridiculous conclusion. Plenty of youngsters are red hot on their vinyl searching.

I agree this copy looks over priced compared to what the rest of us have paid for our copies….but who knows it may be more in demand now than it was back then. It's certainly been getting plays from a number of us, and it's much rarer than comparable northern oldies that go for this sort of sum. No copies on popsike etc. and only one internet playlist mention….But once all the "diggers" and groundhogs start putting it on their wants lists, I am sure a few copies will come out of the woodwork from somewhere. They usually do. Obviously some people still don't get how difficult it is to find genuinely unknown records and break them. Just maybe then they should stick to "discovering" underplayed Luther Vandross and Teddy Pendergrass tracks. I am sure they'll find some if they look…..

The critics can say what they like, it always gets people up and dancing.

Ive still got that somewhere will try and dig it out.

It is known, as one or two have played it uncovered. I got mine from Butch and it's still covered. Goes down well, played it at Filthy last night. It's not an average album filler either…. It might be Sams copy for sale.

This weeks show. Hour 1 new music. Hour 2 Billy Butler tribute - there 's so much more to his music than just "Right track" and so we've put the whole of the hour over to playing Billy's tracks. https://www.mixcloud.com/steve-guarnori/soul-time-342015-billy-butler-tribute/ 2015 Soul Music Cool Million feat Glenn Jones - Tonight (7" mix) Olga Makovetskaya feat Incognito - Got to keep moving on (Soul Life) Rhonda Thomas - Speak life (Vinyl Daze) Juan Laya & Jorge Montiel feat Chenez MCKenzie - Groove on (Radio Futura Re-vision) Lugo feat Marcia - Fire (DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins Mix) Soulful Session feat Cheryl Lee - Relax & breath (Thankful) Gladys Knight - Soon Lyrik En Song - More than love (This is Lyrik EP) Avail Hollywood - I'd be a damn fool (Wasted confessions) Gilley Wiltz - She's all Jill Scott - You don't know Saun & Starr- Big wheel (Look closer) Shameia Crawford - Heartbeat (Birthright) Tony Rallo & The Midnight Band - Holding On (request) Hour 2 Billy Butler Tribute… Billy Butler - Play my music Billy Butler & Infinity - What do you do when your babes gone Billy Butler - My love for you grows Billy Butler & The Enchanters - Gotta get away Billy Butler & The Chanters - My heart is hurting Billy Butler & The Chanters - I can't work no longer Billy Butler - Thank you baby Billy Butler - Love grows bitter Billy Butler - I'll bet you Billy Butler - Come over to my side Billy Butler & Infinity - Hung up on you Billy Butler & Infinity - I don't want too lose you Billy Butler & Infinity - Keep it to yourself Billy Butler & Infinity - Free yourself Billy Butler - Careless heart Billy Butler & The Chanters - Nevertheless Billy Butler - You make me feel you ain't ready Billy Butler - Right track Billy Butler - Alone at last

OK so I have looked at them, the only difference in them in some were not distributed by Scepter, and that would have been the first press run for the Texas market. However Scepter distributed it pretty much straight away, so its contemporaneous, maybe a month later not like its a bootleg or a recent job.

I've not heard of a second issue, it was originally one of Huey Meaux's Jetstream records that Scepter distributed. That might be where the confusion is coming from. Who is saying its a second issue I can compare it to mine (orig) if you want?

Didn't think it was bootlegged?

There was never "earn your way onto the dance floor" anyway. First time at Wigan just went onto the floor whenever I wanted and near the front too…..all these urban myths