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  1. SAVOIR FLAIR - HAPPY HOUR - SOUL TEX Can anyone help me with this one Cheers Dave
  2. -------------------------------- On The Air 2 Nite -------------------------------- Back on the radio again 2nite for my 3rd and last show of this month, Malayka next week, hope some of you can join in.7pm - 9pm 'From the hard to find, To the just plain good'.............................. More new things to play, plus some cracking classics. Listen live on air or on the web ............. https://www.gloucesterfm.com/ Plus join in all the in show chat here in our Facebook grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/134390513398200/
  3. ​Those others were well over three months ago, just looked and I really did think I sold up, but anyway 2 left then there gone 4 good...........................
  4. OK sound files from actual records now on site
  5. Ffound I have 5 copies left, thought I'd sold them all, so first come first served, then their gone............................ so as these are the last £40 shipping + £1.50 UK or £2.50 rest of the world. Just passin' on the love...............Sold for over £200 in the last year on Ebay The Old (M) Pressions - Right on/Let me know - Brooks Brothers Stone MintRicahrd & Arthur Brooks aka The Brooks Brothers aka Bits n' Pieces, on this indemand modern soul/funk winner, backed with a deep soul stunner. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  6. Hi All Another nice bunch of 45's gone up on the site including these cool shiny things....................... Chymes - Wrong crowd/wanting you back - Margie Mint £220Bell Boys - I don't want to lose you - Jamar VG+ £260Stonewall - Party time in the gas line - Love Cap Mint £200Jerry Hoyle - Dream lady - L.A.C. Mint £35Ebony Essence - Let me in - Goodie Train Mint £220David Morris - Snap crackle pop - Plush Mint £40Bobby Patterson - I'm about loving you - Jet Star Yellow Wax Demo Mint- £75Four Real Inc. - The man - Flying Eagle Mint £350Johnny Moore - Just be for real - Jadan Mint- £120Plus a whole bunch more, full description and others at www.topdogrecords.co.uk Cheers Dave & Malayka
  7. -------------------------- Last nights Radio Show, Listen Again ------------------- Last nights 'Crossing The Tracks' radio show now up for listen again. 2 hours of fun and frolics with the listners and some nice soul thrown in for free...........................................https://listen-again.gloucesterfm.com/index.php?cat=Crossing The Tracks
  8. -------------------------------- On The Air 2 Nite -------------------------------- Back on the radio again for this month, 2nd show of the month 2Nite, hope some of you can join in.7pm - 9pm 'From the hard to find, To the just plain good'.............................. More new things to play, plus some cracking classics. First play 2nite of The Sanders Sisters - Stone Man, previously un-issued killa early 70's funk track Listen live on air or on the web ............. https://www.gloucesterfm.com/ Plus join in all the in show chat here in our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/134390513398200/
  9. -------------- The Group Behind The Sound ---------------------- Tommy & The Derby's of Kansas City were the 'Go To' musical unit in the city back in the day if you wanted a super tight group of musicians on your session. They were another case of 'The group you never knew you'd heard' Not to be confused with the group of the same name that recorded 'Don't Play The Role' on Swing records, which was Tommy Tate's group from Jackson, Ms. The group included the two Gadson brothers Tooty aka Tommy & James, Walter Chisolm (sax), Harold Rice (bassist), Harry Wilkins (drums), Tommy (guitar) & James (vocals). At first they recorded several 45's on Federal as The Carpets and one on KC. They then changed their name to Tommy & The Derby's and passed The Carpets name onto another KC group. This was the group that recorded on VJ & Show Me. But Tommy and the boys kept the connection by providing instrumentation for these tracks. At some stage they ended up in Houston and recorded 'I'm going back to Houston' on the eclectic Kool label. By the 70's the group had split up. James had honed his skills as a drummer and join Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band and then joined Motown and played on The Temptations '1990' LP and the Miracles 'City Of Angles' masterpiece. Along with this he also tried his hand as a solo artists, recording a couple of sides for the Cream label. Tooty also went out to the west coast and recorded a number of 45's out there. Another KC group that they backed was The Idols, they can be heard on their U.S.A. 45 'Check her out' Thanks to James Trotter of Kansas City who confirmed that the group also had release on KC, Ty-Tex, Central and George Redman's Bluelight imprint.
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  10. --------------------- Last Nite Radio Show ---------------------- Thanks to everyone that tuned in last night, great to see so many of you finding the show after a month off. For those that missed it or would like to listen again, follow the links to the play back .............................. https://listen-again.gloucesterfm.com/index.php?cat=Crossing%20The%20Tracks
  11. Marco PM sent. John my dear boy, yep a truely nice 2 sider and only 2 left
  12. Hi All Early this year I sold 10 copies of this and thought that was it. But having a good sort out, found that I have 6 more copies, so first come, first served and when these have gone, their all gone for good......... Ray Quarles - It's gonna be all over / Ain't love good when it rains - Faces 3-11 One of the rarest releases, 'A' side is the a stunning slice of 'Crossover' soul. The 'B' side is one of those tracks that makes southern deep soul collectors go weak at the knees. Add to this that there has only been a handful of these ever come up for sale in any condition, selling for as much as £180+ and all have been yellow issues. Here we have the oh so rare mint white demo. £40.00 + £1.50 in UK or £3.00 outside shipping. Paypal as a friends payment daveT@uk2.net Please put your shipping address on the paypal payment in the comments box
  13. -------------------------------- On The Air Now -------------------------------- Back on the radio again for this month, first show 2Nite, hope some of you can join in.7pm - 9pm 'From the hard to find, To the just plain good'.............................. More new things to play, plus some cracking classics. Listen live on air or on the web ............. https://www.gloucesterfm.com/ Plus join in all the in show chat here in our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/134390513398200/
  14. A few people listed it Nev and Brad put it in his last podcast that goes out to alot of peeps
  15. Morning All Another bunch of nice shiny 45's and something for every pocket. 'From the hard to find, To the just plain good', including these ....................... Tones - One more time - Criminal Mint £25 Hard to find on 45, cool group modern soul Singing Sammy Ward - Hard to get over - Renaissance 76 Mint £150 Massive Fast Steppin' Eddie' C/U, funky dancefloor destroyer !!!!!!!1 SOLD, 1 LEFT Pointer Sisters - Send him back - Atlantic VG+ £35 Mid 70's red & black pressing Tommy Hunt - Words can never tell it - Dynamo Mint- £45 Stafford classic, midtempo magic Innocent Bystanders - Frantic escape - Atlantic Mint- £40 Thumpin Popcorn Wylie Detroit instrumental Wendell Watts - You girl - Ref-O-Ree VG+ £170 Crossover magic, VG+, but plays close to mint Garland Green - Ain't that good enough - Revue Mint £100 Stone mint, company sleeve for this classic !!!!!!!!!!! SOLD Plus a whole bunch more, full description and sound files on site www.topdogrecords.co.uk Thanks for looking Dave & Malayka
  16. Well I'm glad they put it out so I can own it again. Sold my acetate to Roger Banks, which was a different version to the one Pat had.
  17. OK just spoke to Butch and he is supa excited. He is gonna try to have copies for me when I pass through mid June
  18. I played it at Stafford, Ian Clark was also playing it at the 100 Club around the same time. At the time if Ian or I found something new that was interesting and we had a spare copy, we would let the other have one. I found a couple of copies of this in Florida, but sat on them a couple of years. It wasn't until Stafford that, that type of record could be excepted, this would have been around 84. This was when I was playing tracks like Soul Brothers Inc - Pyramid, Johnny Gilliam - Room full of tears, Guitar Ray - Your gonna wreck my life and Willie Tee fitted with these perfectly. But with many not going to Stafford, many of these type of tunes got picked up again late 80's early 90's for a second lease of life. As for 'Please don't go', to my knowledge Richard Searling was the first to play it at Wigan. On the same trip as finding 'First taste of hurt' I also got a copy of this, think that was the second copy to turn up. Played it at Yate and then continued to play it at Stafford. Both records came from the racks of Sid (King) Arthur's Oldies in Fort Lauderdale.
  19. Just leave a request message on this thread and I'll hit everyone up when Butch has copies
  20. How cool is that, Butch will be pleased. Had over 30 people this morning ask for a copy to be reserved
  21. Morning all, here's a couple of current dance floor destroyers Highway QC's - Be at rest (I'll fly away) - Peacock Mint/Company Sleeve £75 + P&P Killa funk driven gospel soul group dancer, here on the much rarer issue release and stone mint Artistic Sounds - Give it up - Savoy Mint £50 +P&P One time Paul Sadot dance floor winner. Up tempo group funky modern soul meets gospel. Hard to find on 45
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  22. --------------- On vinyl for the 1st time in July --------------------- For the first time ever Butch Williams cool modern soul track 'Keep on loving me' is coming out on a vinyl 45. Taken from his CD 'Introducing Butch Williams', which was released a few years ago and sold well at the time. This track in particular has gain a following, so Butch has decided to put out a 45 of it. Butch was a one time member of The Heartbreakers on Derby City. So this is Butch's full story........................... He started singing at high school in Louisville with a group called The Creations at middle school, then joined The Marvells when he was at Ahren's High School, Butch wrote a song 'Smile for you' for the group that they then recorded. In 1969 he joined The Heartbreakers. This group had been formed two years earlier by Eddie Haynes and recorded a 45 on Miracle records, owned by a local lawyer Ms. Ora Miracle. For the next couple of years he continued singing with this group. Apart from Butch and Eddie Hayes, Curtis (TC) Wiggins Elzy White made up the group, Elzy also owned the label Derby-City records. They recorded a further 45 on Derby-City, 'I've got to face it/How do you say goodbye', this was recorded at United Sound in Detroit, as Elzy love the Motown sound and was trying to get a Temptations feel to the recordings. the first side had Curtis on lead vocals, the second side with Eddie on lead, backing was provided by session musicians at United Sound studio. After the group broke up he along with Eddie Haynes joined a group called Enterprise The full line up was the aformentioned plus Kenneth Morton, Al Marshall and James Nes Neblett They had limited success in the Louisville area playing the clubs including The Frontiersman & The Palm. As an aside these two clubs also had record labels named after them, which Curtis Wiggins, after The Heartbreakers broke up recorded on one of them, Palm and release 2 45's. Frontiersman was the label that Leroy Barbour - recorded 'I ain't going nowhere and a song by local writer Phillip Mitchell 'Find me'. Enterprise did go into the studio and recorded a number of sides including a track that Butch felt they should have been released called 'Love bandit'. Tapes of this track got sent round all the local stations and had a fair amount of play for a few months, but no release was forth coming. With no real success with this group, His next stop was to join the house band at The Joe's Palm club called Crisis through the 80's he sang and played with them and a group called Area Code 502. In the early 90's he became the presenter of a TV show called Satrgazer, which showcased local groups. When this ended Butch felt that music wasn't going to provide him a living for much longer, so got a job at GE.Butch's love of music never waned, and a stroke of fate produced his last two sets of recordings. His immediate work mates were always playing blues, one day he asked them why the blues, not R&B with. They said 'because it comes from deep inside and has more feelin' Butch said to them I'm going to write you guys a song. Some weeks later he came to work with his guitar and played them the song, they were blown away and said he must record this and anymore music he had. So a year later in 2006 Butch found himself releasing his album 'Introducing Butch Williams'. This was a mix of soul & blues classics plus some songs of his own, including the self penned number 'Keep on lovin' me the way that you do'. This was recieved well and this track got air play around the world and the CD a 5 star Amazon rating, which he is very proud of. This was followed by another album in 2012 containing mainly blues tracks, called 'How do you like me now?' . Butch has now retired from GE and is passionate about helping conserve and promote the musical heritage of the city of Louisville, most recently working his old friend Ron (Mr. Wonderful) Lewis and The Kentucky Music Hall Of Fame to create a permanent section for the cities R&B artists. I will be getting some of these for sale when they get released .................... https://youtu.be/6ISfGtUACsY
  23. Jae Mason went in seconds, have a Mint copy also for £75 Sorry all sold now


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