Kevin Jones

I have the following three records for sale, all include recorded postage. Registered/Insured postage will be extra. Ritchie Adams - I Can't Escape From You - Congress Demo ( Nice clean labels, EX vinyl, plays great ) £265 Walter Jackson - Let Me Come Back - Brunswick ( Very slight label fade, some surface marks, plays fine ) £47 Gloria Gaynor - This Love Affair - UK Polydor ( Ex, plays fine ) £22 Payment by Paypal as a gift or by cheque but this will have to clear before posting. PM if interested. Regards Kev

By coincidence I spoke to someone at Pontins today requesting my deposit being returned. I was asked where had I received my information that it was not going ahead in March. I asked where did it state from Pontins that it WAS going ahead in March. I was told that the owners did not consider it a viable event and that the cost of the weekend with regards to Live Acts etc. was too expensive. If the event did not go ahead in March the deposit would be refunded either to my card or if someone had paid cash and has a receipt it will be by cheque. To be honest I never checked if the deposit payment was actually taken from my card last March. My guess is that if anything does go ahead it will be a last minute thing. Having had the priviledge to be both a punter and DJ at both the Northern and Motown Weekenders my body clock is telling me that all soul fans should be heading up the A55 in about two months time as the Prestatyn Weekend really is a huge loss on the soul calendar. Let's see what happens. Kev Jones

Mark, If you would like to hear Sam live, but not as a recording, then come along to Broughton Wings on August 20th. I know there are a number of events to celebrate his 70th Birthday, but this is the official one on home ground. He has been a personal friend for 40 years and two of his great qoutes must be " If your into Soul Music, your in it for life " and " this is one of the best things I have ever had, or ever heard, TUNE " Kev

The following are for sale. Payment please by either cheque or Paypal as a gift. Postage is £1.80 recorded 2nd class. Barrino Brothers - Trapped In A Love - US Invictus - Ex 35 Johnny Nash - ( I'm So ) Glad You're My Baby - US MGM - Ex 25 Continental Four - The Way I Love You - US Jay Walking - M- 15 Odds & Ends - Let Me Try - US Today - VG+ 8 Joe Simon - The Chokin Kind - US SS7 - VG+ 5 Ronnie Walker - You Got To Try Harder - US Event - M- 12 Jackie Moore - Both Ends Against The Middle - US Atlantic DEMO - M- 10 The Chi-Lites - What Do I Wish For - US Brunswick - VG+ Slt Label rub - 5 Betty Everett - Unlucky Girl - US UNI - VG+ 8 Billy Butler - Come Over To My Side - US Brunswick - M- 20 Archie Bell - Girl You're Too Young - US Atlantic - VG+ 5 Please PM if interested Kev

Hello Matty, I thought this only came out on the Soundtrack cd to the film Love and Basketball. There may be a 12" but I am not sure. Regards Kev

I went to the D&J record shop Pittsburgh about eight years ago. Started to look through the records and the owner came over and said "hello nice to meet you, take no notice of the prices on the sleeves and the more you buy the more I give discount" After about an hour in there I took a pile of 45s up to the counter, nothing rare just nice clean records. He took the pencil from behind his ear and started to cross out the prices on the white paper sleeves and put new prices which were nearly all double the original price. After about ten records I offered to put them all back on the shelves for him. He asked what I was doing, to which I replied, I may from Wales but we don't all live in the mountains. Consequently I was thrown out of the shop with a load of verbal abuse. The guy in Johnstown was similar, I found about ten nice records and took them to the counter. He pulled John Manships Price guide from under the counter and started pricing them up more than John's prices. I told him I could get them cheaper than that in the UK, so he told me to f*%k off and buy them in the UK and not to waste his time. Must be all that old coal dust in Pennsylvania ! Kev

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For Sale. The Constallations - I Did'nt Know How To - Gemini Star - Ex £175 Lovely White Demo William Bell - Easy Coming Out ( Hard Going In ) - Blue Mercury Ex £25 Lovely Dancer David Ruffin - I Wanna Be With You - Warner Brothers - Mint- Promo £25 Great Crossover Dancer, Hard to Find The Reflections - Day After Day - Capitol - Mint- £10 Great Crossover Dancer The Fifth Dimension - No Love In The Room - Arista ( Canadian ) EX+ £20 Great tune on the not often seen Canandian Arista The Stairsteps - Don't Waste Your Time - Windy C - VG+ £7 Their best dancer after Stay Close To Me Chuck Jackson - Hand It Over - Sceptre/Wand - VG+ £7 Second Issue Bobby Womack - Daylight - United Artists - Ex £7 Knocks spots off Georgie Fame The Spinners - I'll Be Around - Atlantic - Ex £5 Classic Don Covay - It's Better To Have - Mercury UK - VG+ £3 Bobby Wells - Let's Copp A Groove - Beacon UK ( White Issue ) VG+ to Ex ( good sheen ) £15 All are US issues except for Don Covay & Bobby Wells. Postage is £1.50. Please feel free to PM me. Thanks for looking. Kev Jones

If you are referring to the same song as William DeVaughn, then I am pretty sure it is not by Curtis Mayfield, don't think he ever recorded it. It is one of those doctored computer recordings where the speed of the vocals is either speeded up or slowed down, as is the music. I have a cd with that track on it and I must be honest some of them sound pretty good. Kev Jones

Thanks Steve, Yes that's the one. Live and learn everyday, thanks again. Kev

I rember going a few times with Soul Sam, it must have been around 72 or 73. I bought Ella Fitzgerald - Get Ready for about 50p which I still have. On one occasion I remember that Sam had been tipped off that he may get jumped for his records when he left. So two kind soulies accompanied us to the car in exchange for a lift home, but they lived the other side of Manchester. Just added an extra hour to the journey that's all. I remember Richard Searling being there on one of the nights I attended. Remembered it as a great club althoug I only went a few times. Kev Jones

Does anyone know the backing music to the latest Kellogs Special K advert on TV. It is a female artist sounding a bit like Nancy Wilson or maybe it is one of those made for TV songs. It is pretty darn good whoever it is. Your help is appreciated. Kev Jones

Can anyone out there please help with a copy of Milt Mathews - Me & You & Love - H&L Records. Many thanks in advance. Regards Kev

Firstly, apologies for the delay in this posting. I remember as a 10 year old watching Top Of The Pops ( I think ) in my Grans house on a black & white TV and the Four Tops were performing their No. 1 hit "Reach Out , I'll Be There" From that moment on I was hooked. Seems a little strange now saying that as a 10 year old I was into Motown, but it was true. So started the forty year hobby or obsession (as my wife calls it) for record collecting and Motown and Soul Music. So I really have to thank Mr. Levi Stubbs for all that. He has made such an impact on my life as a lover of Motown & Soul music or any type of music for that matter that I believed myself to be his No. 1 fan. But I am sure lots of other people would consider themselves in that position. Whenever Levi sang a song he told a story. You could clearly hear every word, precise and meaningful. To say his heart and soul was in a performance was an understatement, he gave his all and more. His character was that of a true professional, highly dignified. Respected by his peers, his fans and musicians and singers from the length and breadth of pop music. His role as a truly wonderful family man was well known. So many wonderful characteristics of a human being. I once read a quote from Lamont Dozier and Briand Holland saying that when they were working in the early and mid sixties with the Four Tops, their work was so easy it was untrue. They (the Four Tops ) were always punctual, well prepared and so easy to work with. Levi was a master with his phrasing and timing. History has proved that those HDH songs and the Tops performances are and always will be forever timeless. A few years ago I wrote an article in the Motown fanzine Chatbusters. It was titled Levi Stubbs- The Voice Of Motown. I am not a writer or a journalist or anything like that, just a Motown fan. Someone in the States had gotten hold of a copy and showed it to him, he was so pleased that he got in touch via his daughter and requested 25 copies. All the family has to have one he said. This was the start of a friendship between his daughter Deborah and my wife and I. We were fortunate to visit Detroit last year and met up with his family. Sadly he had not been well that weekend, but had insisted in signing a photo for us which when it was given to me had me in tears. That was the type of man he was. Although I never met him on a one to one, you could just feel his presence that day. This year his daughters had planned to come over and stay with us and to attend the October Prestatyn Weekender. They wanted to say a public thank you for all the love, support and devotion that the British fans had given to him over the years. He had told them that the British fans, well they are genuine and loyal, they really do appreciate you when you perform there. Sadly due to unforeseen circumstances they could not make the trip. I was so pleased to have played a tribute to him at Prestatyn, little did I know that a week later he would no longer be with us. One of the funnier things he told his daughter to ask us was that whenever the Four Tops were touring the UK they could never get over the place names especially in Wales and Scotland. How do those people ever pronounce those places that we passed through he said. Sorry to have gone on a bit but when you see or hear all the tributes it just proves that he was THE Giant amongst Giants. And the best singer ever ? A most definite yes in my book. The world is a sadder place for the passing of Levi Stubbs, but don't be down as he is never going to be too far away. You will hear his voice for many, many years to come. Kev Jones

Thanks to BrianB. I did mean Joe Hunter of the Funk Brothers fame. Maybe I got a little carried away in my eagerness to post the thread. Thanks to Dave and Eddie also for claryfing things.

Another sad loss. Ivy Joe Hunter passed away last Friday in Detroit. A great musician and also a brilliant writer of so many of the Motown classic songs. He was part responsible for writing my all time favourite, Ask The Lonely. He was in the UK only a few weeks back as part of the Funk Brothers tour with Jack Ashford. A very talented and a very nice guy. Sincere condolences to his family. Kev Jones https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/10922203/detail.html

I have the following for sale. Please e-mail jonesk@apci.com if interested. Many thanks for looking. Sidney Jo Qualls - So Sexy - Chi-Sound LP Still Sealed £70 Mary Wells - If You Can't Give Her Love - Reprise Demo Ex £20 William Bell - The Man In The Street - Stax Ex £20 Sons Of Robin Stone - Got To Get You Back - Atco Unplayed Demo £23 Postage will be at cost only.

Not Soul I know, but a friend of mine went to a Church Fete last year. Amongst the folding wallpaper pasting tables was an old lady in her late 70s selling home sponge cakes and scones. He went over with his wife to buy a few scones and a cake. When they were waiting to be served he noticed a few boxes on the floor. One had some old Womans Own magazines and another had some 45s. He picked up the box and started to look through them. He had never heard of hardly any of the artists, but they were all unplayed, in original sleeves and mostly demos. He asked the lady how much they were and she said a pound. He turned to his wife and said how much change have you got I may as well buy a few I have heard of. The old lady said, No, a £1 for them all. He had 67 singles in the box. They were all mainly 60s psychadelia, all mint all unplayed. Amongst them was The Fleur De Lys on Polydor, the Robert Plant singles prior to Led Zeppelin. I totalled the value up against the Record Collector valuations and it came to just over two grand. Now I ask you, Church Fete, little old lady, hand of God, who knows. How did they get there ? But it is the truth.

Only available on the Jerry Butler album on Mercury titled The Spice Of Life. On both UK and US issues. regards Kevin

I believe that there is a DVD out anytime now of this concert. Kev Jones

Try, That's It, I Quit. It is on both UK and US RCA. great record. Kev Jones

I believe that the footage came from last years concert Live With Levi at the Detroit Symphony Hall. I spoke to two people who went to see the show and there was not a dry eye in the house. For me he was not just the lead singer of the Four Tops, he was the voice of Motown. Listen to their records from the 60s, 70s or the 80s or watch any of their shows and you know that they could really do the business. True professionals through and through. Kev Jones