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Can someone confirm whether there ever was an ODDS AND ENDS LP on TODAY RECORDS featuring Let Me Try on it ???

...... And I should add..... Not only can we enjoy the vocal talent of David Ruffin on thisclip but also appreciate two of the greatest producers & arrangers in soul music, Van McCoy and Charles Kipps !!!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xza6w7sZCsY&search=david%20ruffin OK, sit back and marvel at the greatest ever male soul vocalist (IMHO) tear his heart out in one of the greatest vocal performances and songs in the history of popular music !!!

Dorothy Morrison "All God's Children Got Soul" An absolute stormer Mr Godzilla, and got a super rare Aussie 7" release on the Astor label !!!!

Well done lads ! I thought I was alone in appreciating this fantastic Salsoul LP by Eddie Holman ! The whole Lp is a gem, especially, as Sean says, Where Have You Been All My Life , and some top draw ballads too ! Well done lads ! I thought I was alone in appreciating this fantastic Salsoul LP by Eddie Holman ! The whole Lp is a gem, especially, as Sean says, Where Have You Been All My Life , and some top draw ballads too !

Darrell Banks Ike & Tina, Herb & Doris , Larry Laster ... They are all great versions but the ones with the identical West Coast produced backing tracks courtesy of Frank Wilson all give them the nod over Mr Banks's version for danceability In fact that backing track together with Smokey and the Miracles "Whole Lotta Shaking In My Heart" , also produced by Frank Wilson, are two of the greatest backing tracks in the history of soul ... IMHO

Loads of great 80's , Tommy Tate "What gives You The Right", Sonny Charles "Put It In A Magazine" , Don Thomas "How Can I Help But Love You" etc etc . Didn't we have a big thread on this weeks ago ?

Always preferred the flip side to the Case of Tyme's manic "Manifesto" ! '"SOME CALL IT LOVE" Absolute cracking dancer !

Please refresh my memory ... who WAS Arnold Blair ??? Was he rumoured to be Leroy Hutson at one stage ? Thanks in advance

ANN CAUDELL - Longing For You Quick mint .Haunting tune thats going massive...very rare. offers --------------------------------- What is the general price range of this record ?

'THERE GOES THE LOVER" Gene Chandler Superb mid tempo dancer

------------------------------------- At least Pete Smith is being honest about himself, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with JUST being a soul music RECORD collector, so credit to you Mr Smith ... As for Otis Redding, his "Demonstration" 45 is pure classic style stomping NORTHERN SOUL !!!! A bit like Johnnie Taylor's "Changes" , which old timers tell me was massive at the Wheel !!!

Tony, one hundred correct (100%) (not just 90% !!!) on all fronts !!! And Patrice Holloway's cheapie absolutely KILLS AND COOKS Sam Nesbit's "Black Mother Goose" !!! And as much as I rate Phillip Mitchell's massive talent, Mel & Tim's LP version of "Free For All" is way ahead of Price Phillip's !!! In my very humble opinion of course.

"It's Got The Whole World Shaking" Sam Cooke A monster in waiting !

Yes, but exactly WHO was in this apparently bogus line-up of the Dramatics ??? I have copies of Blues & Soul and Black Music from the time and they never clearly stated what the personnel was on this record ?

Well done Tony, yes, you sussed that what I wrote was meant to be bit tongue in cheek, and a little provocative.... I think I knew which regulars on here would bite at it !!! By the way, which WAS the one original composition on Dusty In Memphis ?

For once, I find myself agreeing with Ken ... IMHO Dusty is/was way overrated as a vocalist. Take her supposedly classic Dusty in Memphis LP, every track on that LP was a cover and every one of them had - either before or after her - been done in superior style by, dare I say it, "authentic" US soul artists . The LP's reputation had more to do with Jerry Wexler's production suss and the fact that she had become the darling token "white girl who could sing soul" of rock music critics of the time, a bit like a softer version of Janis Joplin. Actually , the Dusty in Memphis LP was a commercial failure at the time , barely scraped into the charts , the general record buying public just didn't buy it ... and of course Aretha , Gladys Knight and most of the other truly great female soul artists were deservedly selling records in bucketloads at the time .... And her LP in Philly with tracks such as Silly Silly Fool WAS admittedly a very good one, probably her best work, but it was more a testament to Gamble & Huff's writing and production talent than Dusty's vocal treatment. Yes, Dusty's version of What's It Gonna Be IS superior to the original by Laura Greene but again , it's the great backing track that is the star rather than Dusty and I also believe that the backing track was recorded in the US with Garry Sherman , who was of course Jerry Ragavoy's production cohort, and Garry Sherman could make ANYONE sound good !!!! Sorry , the best I can say is that Dusty was occasionally pretty good , but of the other UK females Cilla Black , Lulu and Helen Shapiro had greater vocal talent if we are all being honest , and then you have others like Julie Driscoll who were truly brilliant ...

JOHN ANDREWS "ITS JUST LOVE" Desperately need a copy of this , pleeeease !!!!!

Chi Lites also did an excellent version on one of their LPs !

Well then , begs the question, what's Dee Dee Sharp up to these days ? Can imagine her doing a PA on the scene performing What Kind of Lady, Happy Bout the Whole Thing, Deep Dark Secret etc etc ................

Lads and lasses , let's keep this all in perspective eh ? There would have been more than a handful of African-Americans in the USA who would have bought and played this record at the time of its release well before it was a glimmer in the eye of the Rare Soul Scene many years later !!!!!! This one-upmanship about who played what first has always been one of the sillier aspects of the Soul Scene ...

For fantastic intros, you also have to throw in THE FOUR PERFECTIONS "I'M NOT STRONG ENOUGH"

I've just bought and received a Red and White DEMO of this which was described by the ebay seller as 100% ORIGINAL ! The disc is vinyl - NOT styrene , very new and glossy label , mint condition. Looks too NEW to be true ???? I always thought that the 70's boots were ONLY of the Black & Red stock copies, and they were done in the 70's anyway and look "old". Also the ORIGINAL Red & White DEMOS that I've seen over the years , I seem to recall were styrene only, not vinyl like the one I just bought. Mr Manship's bootleg book description of the difference, especially with run out markings, isn't expressed clearly and leaves me in two minds? Can anyone please help to definitively identify boots vs originals of the Pointer Sisters ? thanks in advance!

Excuse my ignorance but perhaps the above should have read Richard Searling on Bass and "Arranger" Ian Levine ???

This may probably ruffle a lot of soul die hards in the UK but the fact is that virtually all the "rare soul" scenes OUTSIDE the UK today (eg Norway Germany Australia etc) are driven by considerably younger non UK natives of such countries who have created scenes that do not conform to the traditional strictures of "Northern Soul" as we understand it , that is they tend to create their own mix of rare 60s Soul, Latin , Mod Jazz , 50s Rnb , Modern , Deep Funk even , without traditional prejudices and boundaries .... many on here would say god help us to that and claim that sort of musical mix has nothing to do with Northern Soul but truth is these overseas scenes are almost always uniformly exciting and often have that certain buzz that the Northern scene apparently used to have in the late 60s and 70s and these scenes always go about what they do with a genuine love of soul and soulful music in all its various forms. What does everyone on here think ?