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Half a dozen decent double-siders to go, mixed bag spares & things. Please PM if interested. Sound clips from actual records. Soul Source gradings. Paypal (F&F preferred). Please add postage (£2.50 Recorded / £7.50 Special). Cheers, Steve Ron Keith - Gotta go by what you tell me / Party Music - (Jap A&M with sleeve & pic insert) - M- £125 Rare Jap issue and bonus of cool pic sleeve insert here & brilliant feel good alt to Pat Lundy's Party Music on the other side! Timothy Wilson - Loving You / Pigtails (Buddah) VG++ DH £40 Two late 60's feel good dancers, decent on both sides..George Kerr & Richard Tee! Ray Lewis - Cool Love / Sugar toe (Atco) - VG++ £30 Two interesting early 70's sides here, don't see for sale too often. Worth a listen anyway. SOLD THANKS Pat Lewis - Can't shake it loose / Let's go together (Golden World) - VG++ £20 SOLD SOLD THANKS Debbie Taylor - Just don't pay / I don't wanna leave you (Arista) - VG+ £20 SOLD

A few to go at £40 each + post. Please PM if interested. Conservatively graded. Paypal (F&F preferred). Cheers, Steve. Phil Terrell - Love has passed me by / Vic and John - Why did she lie (Kent Anni) VG++ Jessie Gomez - Lace / Baby I'm coming at you (Mankind) VG++ Harold Hutton - Lucky Boy / It's a good thing (Checker) VG+ The Lost Family - Blow my mind / Pretty Face (International) VG++ SOLD THANKS The Vontastics - Never let your love grow cold / You can work it out (St.Lawrence) - VG+ SOLD Irene Scott - Everyday worries / You're no good (Midas) VG++ Shirley Karol - My baby's gone away / Faith (Dakar demo) VG The Variations - Yesterday is gone / Empty Words (Bob-Joy) VG++

Lovely clean copy of this Ohio mid-tempo rarity up for grabs. VG++ £500. Slight label wear as per photo below. Flip side "Out of the night" is more like VG+ (has a small scratch which is audible on rotation). Please PM if interested. Paypal (F&F preferred) and please add £7.50 for Special Delivery. Sound clip from actual record here: 01 It happened to me.mp3 Cheers, Steve

Hi and Happy New Year. A few decent 45's here, sound clips from actual records and using SS grading (M-, VG++, VG+, VG, G). Please PM with any interest and Paypal payment (F&F preferred) + suggest Special Delivery for anything over £50 (please add £7 P&P for that or £2.50 normal Recorded Delivery signed for. Cheers, Steve SOLD THANKS...Universal Joint - Love won't wear off / Inst (Sniff) - VG++ £300 SOLD SOLD THANKS The John - Don't leave me baby (Pick) - VG++ £185..SOLD Sonny Allen - Your love was so wonderful / Inst (Hit Pack) - VG+ small WOL - £175 05 Your love was so wonderful.mp3 SOLD THANKS....The New Group - Love can't be modernized / There's that mountain (Gemini) - VG+ £150 SOLD The IIlusions - It's Just an Illusion / Take it easy (Freedom) - VG++ £150 03 It's just an illusion.mp3 04 Take it easy.mp3 SOLD THANKS ...E.J. and the Echoes - Say you're mine / If it takes a lifetime (Ranger) - VG+ £125 SOLD Thanks for looking. 02 Love won't wear off.mp3 06 Love can't be modernized.mp3 07 There's that mountain.mp3 09 Don't leave me baby.mp3 10 Say you're mine.mp3

Merry Christmas & happy / healthy New Year everyone. Another great year for soul and personally looking forward to more of the same in 2018! Cheers, Steve

Thanks to Brian (Len knew him first) Goucher for putting me onto many things again this year, including recent “new old” lp by Sugaray Rayford which has a few very decent tracks including this one. No expense spared on the video but at least its a video..a rare thing itself for real soul releases!

Great shout re Split Decision Band LP and I’ve also really enjoyed that whole album this year Another LP which I think worth sharing for anyone not already aware, even though released in 2016 I didnt pick up on it until the start of this year, is The Chapells “Are you ready for the Chapells”..lovingly pulled together by those great guys & gals at Numero and sort of secretly issued under their monthly membership scheme last year rather than sold through stores or dealers etc. As well as the sublime sides from their 45 releases, some amazing unissued dancers and slowies, a bit lo-fi in places but I love it all the more for that. Great sleeve notes too. Anyway looks like there’s a few still lurking on Discogs etc if anyone needs it. Right...pub! Cheers everyone

Following on from above I’ve just stumbled on this recent upload into youtube by Cannonball Records which includes a little of the original acetate recording of the huge Big Lee Dowell track from a couple of years ago. A sort of before & after when you play / watch it. Would love to see that untouched original released in that lovely raw slower mix!

Thanks for the posts so far everyone, please keep it rolling as I’m hungry and need feeding some more new soul over Christmas! The next couple of 45 releases from Connonball Records sound good to me and can be pre-ordered now for the mid Jan release date

..not forgetting your own great show on Starpoint Mark! Anyway, back to new / recent releases, I missed this at the time of release this August, but Cliff Steele kindly sold me one this weekend. Not to all tastes I know but I really like it. Diamond Street Rhythm Machine “Living Harmony” on Gemco. I’ll be honest I was sold on the artwork alone and hadnt even listened to it when I handed over the cash https://www.gemcorecords.com/

Quite a few as you say Dave! I flit around a bit between them all but I’m mostly listening each week via Podomatic etc to Mark Merry’s Soul Sermon on Starpoint, Mick O’Donnell’s Soul Discovery on Solar and Dave Halsall + others on 365Soul. Keep up the great work guys and Merry Christmas!

Mostly yes but I buy and listen to lots of contemporary soul and other types of music too, all tempos. I agree, Mark’s superb Soul Sermon show and Mick’s equally great Soul Discovery show + many others are great for hearing new and old alongside each other, which is what I’ve always liked personally. To my ears most decent “new” soul sounds “old”..eg the brilliant Kim Tibbs you mention, most of those tracks could be 20-30 years old in their style, but I think with her tracks “Soul!” and “I need you for your love”, it’s that new take on those sweet-spot tempo grooves. Anything new with great vocals and production, real instrumentation (not always essential but I prefer to hear) and good quaility recording, soul or otherwise. I buy and enjoy covers of old songs when done well / differently too. Eg Syleena Johnson’s recent “Rebirth of Soul” album and Martha High’s “Tribute to my Soul Sisters”..both superb albums I think, but equally I hope such talented artists continue to release new and original material as well. New old, old new, new new. I love how we just keep layering even more genres to this wonderful music!

Not for everyone on here I know but personally think it's been another great year for new soul releases / previously unissued releases. Anything recent and decent warming your cockles at the moment..vinyl, digital only or otherwise? The recent (sadly last) LP from Sharon Jones (R.I.P) & The Dap Kings has been on repeat in the car and in my office most days, as it will be over all of Christmas. I'm looking forward to the new James Hunter Six LP in a few weeks from Daptone that can be pre-ordered now. Catchy first track recently released as a download only for now "I don't wanna be without you": Still listening to this track on a regular basis by JR. Thomas and the Volcanos "What a Shame" on Colemine, + their LP from a couple of years ago on Truth & Soul is brilliant for anyone who likes a bit of reggae to forget about winter for a bit! The recent 45 by BAGS "Hey Girl" is lovely I think and was great to hear played out at the weekend towards the end of a soul night: Black Diamond with their "Best Thing" from late summer Lee Fields & The Expressions just pure class and this download only slowie "Time" slipped out a few months back, not on the recent LP as far as I remember: I could go on as I've had a couple of beers tonight, but anyway..over to ya'll and Merry Christmas! Cheers, Steve

Another great compilation, hard to keep up with so many great releases this year! Really enjoying this cd over the last few weeks and the usual top quality notes & pics. I’ve completely lost myself in the prev unreleased Robert Montgomery track on more than one occasion, especially towards the end with the gorgeous backing harmonies flowing alongside Robert’s lead vocal. The Delegates of Soul track is so good and I regret not buying the 45 a few years ago when I had the chance at much cheaper price than I expect it would cost now. Great to have both sides of The Scott Three on cd too for quality audio (how young were those guys at the time?!) + loads more make this well worth buying. Cheers!

Wow..Stunning album, been on repeat in the car all day today and again on the record player tonight. So sad it’s her last ever album release, unless Daptone have more unreleased recordings and material, which hopefully they’ll share in time if they have. I won’t attempt to review it as there’s plenty more capable people already doing so..just go buy and enjoy, no matter what preference your soul taste. Bless you and thank you Sharon Jones and your Dap Kings.

Great to read that thanks and to hear some of their new material.. one or two of which I think they might have included in their gigs last year. They were brilliant in Northampton last Sept and certainly well worth seeing live. Ken can sure still belt out vocal and I think Thomas & Brandon are superb, the band too, all really know how to entertain a crowd. Cool photo I snapped last year and great to have a brief chat with them

Another great release thanks! Brilliant to see this track getting wider attention and interesting to hear the Toppiks version and read all the info + photos. Think I first heard it out played by Steve G. Was fortunate to pick up a copy on IDB a few years ago but this release beats it on sound quality! Love the words too, listening again just now.

Download only I thought? Great track introduced to me by the “Gouch” when it first got released / discovered. Not sure if the singer went on to do anything else? Shame if not. A later version with same backing track (artist name I cant remember at the mo) might have had a 7 or 12 release? Cheers, Steve Useful previous thread here:

Charles Bradley - You put the flame on it + Hurricane (Daptone) Mighty Gospel Southernairs - The time is drawing near (Soul-O) Veda Brown - I had a fight with love (Rav) Leonard Adair - That smile upon your face (Stage Production) The Lovations - Later baby (Cap City) Split Decision Band - Shoot your world (Now Again) Top Shelf - Doggone baby I love you (Spectrum) The Dynamics - Woman (Brainstorm) Epics and Larry & The Hippies - My Destination (Midas / Secret Stash) Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces - Can't get away (Chess) The Fabulous Malibus - My love (Unity) Dynamite Dyous & The Green Tree Express - You made my living worthwhile (Tomahawk) The Natural Resources Unpolluted - Don't bite the hand that feeds you (Dore) The Luckett Brothers - Lay down these old burdens (HSE) Alton Ellis - Love is the answer (Total Sounds) The Green Berets - (Lord) send me somebody (Uni) Ferguson, Davis and Lee - Must be going out of my head (GRT) Lynn Williams - Don't be surprise (Suncut) Realistic's - Please baby please (De-Lite) Cheers.

Oh no, really is sad news this weekend

Thanks as always to those who came along and to Brian + each the guest DJ's this time: Dave Halsall, Sid Clayton & Gilly. We'll be back there again on Sunday 24th Sept for anyone interested in popping along and in the meantime I'll kick off with a few that I started the evening with this time, cheers Sonny Craver - I wanna thank you (Stanson 45) The Fiestas - So fine (Vigor 45) Veda Brown - Short stopping (Stax 45) DJ Jazzy Jeff & Ayah - Make it last (free download) Gene Jackson - 1963 - (Blue Lotus Recordings CD album) E.R.I.C - Nightlife (Soul Junction 45) Soulutions - Thankful (One World Records CD single) Tanika Charles - Endless Chain (Record Kicks 45) Ebony Evans ft Daryl Howard of the Nu'rons - All our tomorrows (Emandolyn Music / Coastal Records download) The Jack Moves - Doublin' down (WP 45) The Jay Vons - Did you see her (Wick / Daptone 45) Grace Love & The True Loves - Love you down (True Love Records LP)

Hi Rob, I'll be very interested and grateful if you have the Soul Harmony Singles book (Jeff Beckmann) and/or Voices from the Shadows issues 20&21? Thanks. Steve

Couple years on, so thought I'd throw this out there again to see if anyone might have a copy for trade(s) or sale sometime. No rush Cheers, Steve

Thanks so much to DaveK for selling me issues 1-6 of Voices + some other really great reading material...much appreciate Dave! Paul...I'll be very happy to take issue 21 off your hands if you still have that please and if anyone else can then help me with issue 20, I'll be very grateful and will then be able to complete my Voices Bingo card and claim my prize from Rod Dearlove Cheers, Steve

That matrix matches the one on my black vinyl copy Andy (ending S-1 on the Soul Pot side / S-22 on the Prayer side). I can't recall who I bought it from, when or how much paid, but looks near mint so wouldn't surprise me if this is a recent reissue or something rather than a 45 yr old record? Who knows, could well have been a recent(ish) find of a dozen or so from the early 70s and someone is dripping them out. I'd also be interested to learn more. Cheers. Steve This recent sale on eBay quotes a different matrix number and looked to be in less than great condition, so maybe there's the answer? https://www.popsike.com/SOUL-ONES-Soul-Pot-RARE-TEXAS-FUNK-45-DEAL-WSTAMPED-MATRIX-hear/382057157114.html