Sunnysoul

While we're on about PJ Proby , how 'bout his version of That's The Tune ! Sound clip anyone ?

All on the one bill ... The Dells , The Dramatics , the O'Jays & the Isley Brothers (is Ronnie in jail at the moment ?)

Well , what's the music like ?

The clip again, superb ! Download Video Youtube Link

We recently eulogised about Levi Stubbs, and deservedly so, but let's now have a tribute to another one of the greatest soulsters of all time ... Tyrone Davis ... Chicago's finest ! And here's the real plus, look at this fantastic original colour promo film from late 1969 for his Turn Back the Hands of Time ... this is brill ... watch this ! Download Video Youtube Link

I won't be watching it because, well , you know, we Aussies HATE you lot !!! And we can't stand for England to win it again !!! Mind you , neutral observers will lose out either way , don't want South Africa to win it neither

Yep, my red issue is exactly like this but there's no ugly master stamp on mine ! Brilliant record and so few of the red issues around. I'm sure there just has to be be some interesting behind the scenes stories about this record , what with it being the first release on the label , and the scarcity of the record , perhaps it was pulled because of legal issues over the cover of the UK hit They're Coming To Take Me Away ..... and did Rose Brooks do anything else ?

Mel Williams' "Burn Baby Burn" is of course wonderful and rarer but Delilah's is the version to play ! Anyone out there with a nice Loma Demo or Issue ?

For a Northern Soul fan it's a one track LP. For a lover of all types of Soul music, it's great listening from start to finish and is definitely one of the most underrated sister soul / sister funk LP's ever made ... deserves comparison with all the great far more sought after LP's from the likes of Marva Whitney, Queenie Lyons, Doris Duke , Sandra Phillips etc etc

Someone please post a clip of Black Ice's fabulous "Post Card Love Affair"

Time , me thinks , for Soul Source to have an Ashford & Simpson (& Armstead) thread in Media Source. So many classic tunes to enjoy from these great song writers !

Yes quality LP if you are into "soul" music ... as against just plain northern soul !!!

How about a value then, John, for the issue ?

Inner Life, studio group creation, Patrick Adams strikes again.

Just occurred to me that whenever this turns up, it usually seems to be the white demos , whereas mine is a red issue copy. Is the issue a lot harder to come across ? What are the current values for demo and stock then ?

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Dean, good to have someone of your calibre on this site. Can you elaborate a little more on Scorpio's form and history as far as its issuing of vinyl goes ? I mean , are they doing deals with Sony/Motown and Polydor/Polygram etc etc ? Also a lot of the LP's were on indie labels which are of course long gone and for which surely there would surely be no masters in existence and no rights owners or label owners for them to have to answer to ?

Is that dealer a Soul Source member ?

Alan, not sure what you mean by "who else cares" but there are a lot of very serious LP collectors of soul and funk out there and they care a hell of a lot !!! The Ramp LP is particularly problematical as I believe it has been issued in (unauthorised) "replica" form by Scorpio Records out of Detroit (so I understand) who have been flooding the market world wide now for years with replicas of rare soul and funk LP's. The replicas have fold over scanned sleeves (not paster on slicks) , usually omit the inner printed sleeves of the original and the vinyl is usually lightweight and the label shiny & moulded (not paper stick on). Then a few years back I had an ebay seller send me a "copy" of the Ramp LP with an ABC Demo white & grey scanned label on the vinyl but the fold over cover was thinnish and white and shiny and scanned too. That gave it away. It was good though, very good ! The real hard to spot LP reissues are where the copiers have used hard brown board covers for the sleeves such as the Lee Fields , and some of the RCA soul LP's from around the late 70's early 80's like Breakwater ... Some of the replicas from Scorpio are of classic Motown LP's such as Edwin Starr's Soul Master and 25 Miles LP's amongst many others and it's interesting that Sony/Motown and the other major companies concerned apparently don't seem to have pursued legal action. I guess as with northern 45 bootlegging they just couldn't care less about a little illegal vinyl in this day and age as against the huge problem of illegal net downloads. Maybe Paul (Mooney) or Sebastian on here could enlighten us a bit more on this whole situation and whether it is in fact Scorpio or some other company that are producing these replicas and how or why they are getting away with it, assuming of course that no legal licenses have been granted ?

That's right, Ton of Dynamite and Funky Eight use the exact same backing track, one is not a lift off or different version of the other . But you're right Godz, All Platinum fiddled about with the speed of the backing track on Dynamite !!!

Well Steve, if no one wants 'em , someone please fix me up with a copy of the Gloria Barnes LP on Maple ? And Helene Smith on Deep City LP ? and countless others ....

And of course the jury remains out as to whether "Think About It Girl" was "legitimately" issued as a seven, despite the 45 scan that has appeared in a previous thread !!!

Paul, I reckon you're blessed with what you do for a living ! Now, let's get that Bert Decoteaux thread happening again ... got me thinking because I was looking at that youtube jobbie of the making of Tony Drake's Let's Play House, Bert was involved in that record and the visuals of the people in the studio had me thinking the guy at the piano had to be Bert ?

Whose Little Girl Are You : Danny Williams ? Mr Williams was ... ahem ... coloured ... was he not ?

Yes, I think it was Tony Cummings mentioned it in Black Music back in the 70's. No surprise that Anka couldn't remember those tunes, Can't Help Loving You never charted in the States and by 1966 or '67 Anka and all the other teen idols of the late 50's were stone motherless cold in the States in terms of chart placings . Still Paul Anka would have been a very very wealthy man purely on the songwriting credits and success of "My Way" !!!