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Brilliant vid and sound. Thanks for that. I still love the "A" side too ("You got the love I need"). 1971 was a good year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7PUgYASz7Q

Having only recently acquired Linda's " Hypnotized" LP on Loma, I have to say it's barely been back in the sleeve since. Just amazing. (Thanks again BG if you read this). With that on one deck and the recently released Ty Karim LP delight from Ace/Kent on the other, I've lost a good few hours just listening and soaking in the soul from what must be two of the best female soul vocalists ever.

Guessing some of you may have seen this Ikea ad: "Ikea Presents, Harry Love's Records. Make room for your life". It goes on a bit but I do think the finished article looks pretty impressive...Then again, I also think seeing records just all over a house looks just as good!

Secret passage to mine but only works for me..like Narnia..takes me to a different place away from the day to day! Wife sometimes locks me in there by mistake as she doesn't know it exists! Actually I think she does know but I like to think its just my sanctuary, which it truly is when I need it. If only it were bigger.

I was having good chat the oher night with someone who attended many of the early reggae / two step soul events in London and he told me about a night he went to where the event / sound system was actually in an old swimming pool...sounded brilliant and rammed to the rafters. I can't remember specific records he said were being played but will see if he'll post something up on here. Someone else might recall it in meantime? Elf n safety nowadays, there'd be no chance of something different like this for a soul night!

Interesting as always to see different view on stuff like this. Best no one starts another thread for "what's crossover?"! A more modern interpretation for sure but I'll throw this into the debate from '93....The late great Teddy Pendergrass - I believe in love. This particular mix always gets me "stepping"

Hi. Still looking for this 45 if anyone has a spare or knows someone who might have a copy tucked away to sell to very good home?! Thanks, Steve

Neighbour has just wheeled this round to me on a sack barrow with a smile on his face. Not had chance to listen yet but all looks and feels great. Nice one.

I don't think this has been mentioned yet, but I quite like it. From 1973..Liberty - Girl you better wake up.

Groovy That is surely recorded onto you tube about 20mph faster than it should be

Thanks for that Simon.Yes I'm a fan of J. C. Brooks and also some of the Street Soul + Soul Junction releases (Natural Impulse "We're gonna make it through" being a personal fave ). I picked up the manic / brilliant Joseph Henry this time last year and have heard it out, although legs couldn't keep up . You list some artists there I don't know and will look up, which is largely why I started this thread, but just interested to get different views too. You make a valid point there about recent increase in shipping costs and import duty etc meaning perhaps fewer new US releases will make it over here in any great numbers. I certainly only tend to buy new UK releases, or from UK sellers. It is interesting to see how some new records start to get played, pick up in price (often quickly!) in terms of what people then ask for them / offer for them, then level out and hold for a bit or then drop in demand again depending on what's going on. EG the first Kings Go Forth 45 from a few years ago. Has always been the way I know. Demand and supply etc. As for this thread...to quote from sleeve notes of the Little Ann LP I'm just listening to (again!!)... "If it doesn't work out, I tried"!

I appreciate there's lots of threads which cover some of what I'm thinking here, but just wondering about some of the great recent(ish) new recordings + recently released 60's / 70's discoveries which might be top wants of of the future. I often read on here (with a dash of envy ) about records people picked up back in the 60's / 70's for the price of a pie & pint, which now command serious money to prize them out of collections etc. Not wanting to focus on the money side here (although I appreciate that "rare" and "price / value" kind of go hand in hand), but just interested in hearing of some more great recent soul releases &/or recently issued older discoveries which are being enjoyed NOW and where you think they just have "it" (everyone's view and taste is different I know) to stand the test of time... Sounds which maybe, just maybe could be the top sought after 45's / LP's / CD's of the next 10..20...30 years? For example, some recent(ish) "new" releases which I think are pretty great now and could fit the criteria might be say: - DeRobert and the Half-Truths - "The Joy" 45 and the "Beg Me" EP - Many of the Timmion releases...eg Willie West & The High Society Bros "Lesson of Love" / "She's so wise" etc (thanks again Brian!), or Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators "If this ain't love", etc. As for recent(ish) "discoveries" of 60's or 70's recordings which have been made available for the first time in limited quantity on 45's or LP / CD etc, I'm thinking things like say: - Many of the amazing Kent / Ace 45 releases, eg Paramount Four "Sorry ain't the word", Spencer Wiggins "I'm at the breaking point", Willie Bollinger "I won't have to cry no more", etc. - or LP's like the Little Ann "Deep Shadows" on Timmion / Ace (which I only picked up yesterday and think both the story behind it and the LP itself are just brilliant). Cheers, Steve

Thanks for those...So moving ahead a few years, what can you all recall of the earliest "soul" records played and danced to at these and other venues? Would they have just been the more popular releases of the time? Cheers. Steve

Picked a copy of this up earlier last year: Kool & the Gang - Chocolate Buttermilk

Blimey I didn't realise Benny Spellman was quite so early either. Must've been cool at the time and still not too bad, compared to some of what I have to endure now the kids have discovered itunes

That makes sense and I think I'd read that somewhere. Whilst I do personally prefer recordings from mid to late 60's onwards, I can't help but think now and then about what was going on before that time which led to such unbelievable range of soul music. Cheers. Steve

1957?! Blimey! I genuinely didn't know that a late 50's record had "Northern" plays!

Interestin'. Thanks. Just pulled out a CD comp of some early Twisted Wheel things and earliest record they chose to include on that little snap shot of the story was from '62...Bunker Bill - Hide & Go Seek. Most of what's included and written about in the sleeve notes is '66 onwards. I just sometimes wonder, drift off, about how much must have been going on back then, musically and otherwise, both here and in the States etc. How the jazz, gospel, rock n roll, soul and other influences of the time all suddenly developed into the amazing range of soul and associated music from early 60's onwards.

Very good Dave. I've edited title of post as I guess where I was trying to go here is that hearing it, somehow got me wondering about some of the real EARLY 60's records (soul or not, loathed now by many or otherwise) which, for one reason or another, started getting played out at soul nights here in late 60's / early 70's. Was this one of the earliest being released in '62? I like to understand the past to appreciate the present, and all that.

I don't watch too much TV lately but just watching bit of the England game and ads come on at half time when I hear Mel Torme on the latest Autotrader Ad. I know it, probably from sort of stuff my Mum used to play on the 8 track in Cortina in 70s when I was a kid, and whilst maybe not for posting up on a Rare Soul Forum, I have to be honest that it did bring a smile to my face as some sounds just do dont they, soul or not? I reckon I'd even dance to it if I heard it out somewhere, in the moment and all that. Guessing it's been played out and danced to at Northern soul nights in years gone by. Would that be right? Any more on it in terms of when and where (and no doubt someone will say "why?!" Lol). Doo do do....do do do doo bee doo be doo..... Come on, let me off...it is Friday night and they're 6-0 up!

I guess I'm not alone in that I generally see great records on eBay at price I would have been happy with when searching for something AFTER its sold and then not to be seen again for months! Grrr. All part of the fun of it though I suppose.

One I've enjoyed this last couple years / still enjoy hearing out and dancing to is The Bamboos take on Archie Bell & Drells classic Tighten Up. Not bad for an Aussie Funk outfit!

What a gorgeous cover! Worth the asking price for that photo alone I think. Thanks. Firmly on "pre-order" It's becoming an expensive but good night. Right...back to the original post / question. Anyone?

Brilliant! Thanks. I missed that release but now firmly on order

I don't know the answer to your question and sorry to hijack thread but as well as hearing more on this I'd also like to read more about Ty Karim and her outstanding double vocal performance on the Towana & Total Destruction 45 (Wear your natural baby / Help me get that feeling) also on Romark.....Was that the only other release she sang her heart out on, or is there more? Thanks, Steve. .