Steve G

You are showing your age now Ian Haven't heard that one mentioned for years….

No, true but a non soul collector in Plymouth finds one in a box of non soul material……so what's he to do? I know JM Auction…..gets rich in time for Xmas...

There's one on Loma I need to dig out….another shocker…. Also got a rock record on Malaco somewhere in the garage.

Hi James, how many copies of the "known" Little John?

Nope, this doesn't exist sorry….. Some chance Rupe…..she might bid on it herself though…..thinking of selling the jewellery etc….

What's going on here lads?

The clue is in the "c/w" in the description....meaning it's a double header! It all points to SG....

I am sticking with Sandy Golden - sorry lads!

Original just using up old labels......when a smallish label like All Platinum gets a hit they'd pull out all the stops, use various pressing plants around the country, whatever they can find to get the thing out to the distributors before the demand wanes...

Is there a prize for the person who gets the right answer? I remember the language used over the Mello Souls was very similar....

No more, think a few "monied" types would be in the hunt for this one.....

....and the answer maybe Sandy Golden!??

Crap? Over produced? Pop? Was a youth club favourite for many and it's a good example of late 60's pop-soul.

Excellent set as always John.

Yes but you won't believe it anyway.....To be honest I prefer you on freebasing Ian....it's more fun than your Soul music theories..

And here we go……...History re-writes itself write in front of our very eyes…….Ian here are your previous posts just to remind you what you were saying a couple of days ago…….Glad you have now "got it" See you soon, toddle-pip…..

The date stamp in many cases is just when someone, like a radio station received it, not the date the company sent the records out…..but I know you know that.

Hi Russ, I think they did 3 in all.....Mine came from John Anderson, he pitched up at Soul Essence one year (can't remember when now) and had this in a small box.....when I heard it I thought "instant", bought it and put it straight on my next set. Went down a storm straight from the off. Like you, mine is a vg / vg+ type copy. ATB

You are talking b*llocks again Ian, plain and simple. "Shake a tail feather" is quite obvious what it's about and you can see the dance on youtube, as are songs about the "back door man", "Lickin stick", "Honey dripping", "your Lovemaker", "Sixty minute men", "Make it last forever" etc etc. You mention "While you're out looking for sugar" the lyrics are pretty obvious there too never for one moment thought that it was about anything else, and "Band of Gold" was about a newly weds disappointment in her man's performace. Some of us do actually listen to the lyrics and 'get' black slang. But with Mel & Tim you are just guessing wildly based on a 1989 reference in a rap song, and I am not buying a word of it. And I am certainly not "crazy" when it comes to soul music.

Thank you for clarifying the rules of the game Mikey.....not one of my favourite sports.....but all clear here. I just get very cross when people make stuff up on the internet to suit their own limited knolwedge. Adding 1 + 1 and making 3. I often think it's better to say nothing than to speculate wildly, cos then the guesswork becomes the "truth". If the song was really about a girls "butt" it would have been banned from the airwaves in 1969 plain and simple. The Christian white fundamentalists would have had a field day with it (pardon the pun)......But none of that happened....Why? Because it was simply a pretty pop record about a girl's cheating laced with some well placed footballing metaphors. So E.U and The Beastie Boys used the term in the late 80's big fookin' deal, and it doesn't change the fact this is an innocent piece of pop soul.

May 70?

We were talking about Cat 45 the other day, and looking at it seems that the UK release was at the end of April 1976 https://www.45cat.com/record/6146313 So the US release almost certainly would have been before then.....need to check some old Mags to see when it first appeared in Billboard etc.

Phew!

Ian, Are you persisting with your story that the song is about a "girls arse" then, when it is clearly simply a song about a girl's cheating on her fella - using football metaphors? If you are, maybe best if you stick to "Freebasing"

Ray Agee had several records on that Krafton label with the script design, all in the 60s on the 500 and 600 numeric series. He did later ones on the label but they had a completely different label design - capital letters. So that Krafton script design was around long before Soussan etc. etc. etc. etc.