Dave Thorley

Hi All Another bunch of nice shiny things on the site, including these B.J. Bingham - All alone on the telephone United Artists W/D Mint £175 Dusty Springfield - Whats it gonna be - Philips W/D Mint- £25 Malo - Nena - Warner Brothers Mint £15 Tams - Be young, be foolish - ABC W/D Mint £15 Shirley Wahls - Why I cry - King W/D VG+ £60 Sugar Pie DeSanto - Go go power - Checker VG+ £175 Rochelle Rabouin - This is my year - Cygnet VG+ £80 Vondells - Valentino - Marvello Mint £130 Johnny Sayles - I can't get enough - St Lawrence Mint £100 Mary Love - You turned my bitter into sweet - Modern Mint- £75 Please check site for full description and sound file, thanks for looking. www.topdogrecords.co.uk Dave & Malayka

Agree with others, a fair few more than many would think

Hi Guys Continuing flow of new arrivals from the last trip, 'From the hard to find, to the just plain good', including these pretty things............ Marva Whitney - It's your thing - King Demo VG+ £35 Sold Bob Brady & The Con Cords - More, more, more - Chariot W/D Mint £20 Barbara Lynn - You're losing me - Atlantic Demo Mint £40 Rosco Robinson - That's enough - Gerri W/D Mint- £35 Sold Seven Soul - I still love you - Okeh Demo Mint £430 Sold Jimmey Soul Clark - (I'll be your champion) I'll be your winner - Soul Hawk Mint £200 sold Kim Weston - I'm still loving you - Tamla W/D Mint £110 Leroy Barbour - I ain't going nowhere - Frontiersman VG+ £250 Sold O.C. Smith - Double life - Columbia W/D Mint £25 Vibrations - End up crying/Ain't love that way - Okeh W/D Mint £65 Plus a bunch more, all with sound files and full description on site www.topdogrecords.co.uk Thanks for looking Dave & Malayka

Sorry if I gave you a bum steer there, I have the Stang LP, used to play it from that at Stafford. But thought I'd seen it on another budget LP, must be wrong, sorry

Chalky's right Guy and Keb didn't join until a year in. They arrived to a venue that was already mainly playing new material through the likes of Clarkie, Dave Withers, Pat Brady, Gary Rushbrook and others. They were a very important part of what happened after Wigan, but only part of the story, people like Robin, Adam, Soul Sam, Arthur, all had a major part to play at venues around that time.

He must have loads of time on his hands, he's written War & Peace on nearly all his listings

Hi All Whole bunch more gone up on the site, including these nice shiny things..................... Marlena Shaw - California soul - Cadet Demo Mint £75 Dee Dee Warwick - Susipcious minds - Atlantic Acetate Mint £30 Leroy Hutson - Ella weez - Curtom Demo Mint- £30 Opals - You're gonna be sorry - Okeh Demo Mint- £60 Tommi Young - That's all a part of loving him - Soul Power Mint £35 Cavaliers - Hold to my baby - RCA W/D Mint £140 Benny Spellman - Fortune teller - Minit Mint- £35 Oscar Perry - We're gonna make it - Quazar Mint £35 Bobby Hebb - Love love love - Philips W/D Mint £20 Full descriptions, sound files plus loads more on site www.topdogrecords.co.uk Thanks for looking Dave & Malayka

Think that was the one you went to Mike, as Pete says was a never ending affair

Hi All Gonna be loading a whole bunch over the next few weeks from the U.S. trip. 'From the hard to find, To the just plain good'. Here's a few of over 100 gone up on site. Gloria Walker - Gift of love - Federal W/D Mint £30 High Voltage - Country roads - Columbia Demo Mint- £45 Danny Hunt - What's happening to our love affair - Dynamite Mint £50 Miss Soul - Payback - Lewis Mint £30 Eskew Reeder - You better believe me - Cross Tone Mint £175 Keni Lewis - Ain't gonna make it easy - De-Vel Demo Mint £60 Pete Rodriguez - I like it like that - Alegre Mint £175 Kats - Under the covers - E&C VG+ £50 Ray Agee - Real real love - Krafton W/D Mint £75 Plus loads more on the site. Full description and sound file on site www.topdogrecords.co.uk Thanks for looking Dave & Malayka

Appears on at least two Lp's. Moments meet the O'Jays - Stang and the O'Jays budget LP on Koala

Yep just got the same from Abul this morning. He tells me they went on to working with Al Green's band. It's seems that Buddy was the main vocalist on the tracks

The lead singer was from Louisville and when the name was mentioned, they other local musicians nodded and mumbled in a knowing fashion, but I've forgotten his name. But will find out again.

Dells - Run for cover - Cadet Demo VG+ £40 Water damaged label, wax is mint Stevie Wonder - We can work it out - Tamla W/D Mint £15 Rare white demo Johnny Copland - Sufferin city - Atlantic Demo, Mint £30 Hard to find Red & White demo, company sleeve Rufus Thomas - Chicken scratch - Stax W/D Mint £20 Rare white demo, funk killa Major Lance - Rhythm - Okeh W/D Mint- £25 Mint, except for two 'X' on 'A' side label, company sleeve Obrey Wilson - Love will be right there - Epic W/D Mint- £20 Mint, except for few squiggles on 'A' side label, company sleeve

Interesting question. I thought I went to all of them, start to finish, but they were allnighters. Can't remember any alldayers, except for a few revival ones at The Baths in the early 80's

AS I SAID MANY TIMES BEFORE, THIS WAS A ALL BLACK GROUP. DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS WHITE GROUP THEORY CAME FROM, BUT IT HAS BE MISLEADING PEOPLE FOR YEARS

I know Ted, where has all that time gone. I remember putting on the list that many of the things for sale were rare and would continue to be, how true that turned out to be.

I sold all that stuff around 87, Ted

He no longer has the master, but a re-issue could be done from a clean copy. Was originally played in the early 80's when John Anderson found a bunch in a Louisville distributor he bought out. Was first played by Arthur Fenn, then at Stafford and other venues of the time.

As an added aside The Fabulous Moonlighters regularly played in Indianapolis at the Blue Eagle club, where Jimi Hendrix would sit in with them and play. Hence the label name for some of their releases. When they disbanded some of them went on to form The Nite-Liters with Harvey Fuqua

Last week I at long last got to meet the elusive Garrett Tilford aka Tim Mungford aka Abul-rahman Al-qahhar Ibn-Duriyah, the man behind the amazing 'I'm leaving you' & 'Stop him girl'. Like many I have always wondered why a Louisville group would call themselves Detroit Sounds Of Friction. Well it transpires that the group was originally from Detroit, but never recorded anything there. By the time this was recorded none of the original members remained. Both sides were recorded in Louisville and used all local musicians and singers for the tracks. Garrett started life studying classical music and played in the U.S. Army orchestra and band playing flute. After leaving he played with several jazz greats including Bobbi Humphrey. He join DSOF in Detroit but the band was short lived and started to fall apart, he moved back to his home town of Louisville, keeping the name. Garrett plays flute, key boards and drums on the tracks. In recent years he has struggler with health issues and more recently has found Islam and changed his name. Louisville is and was a very tight little musical community, many bands and records from there share connections through musicians including, The Fabulous Moonlighters, Nite-Liters, New Birth, Baby Leon Northern, DeBow, Cliff Butler, Jerry Green, The Heartbreakers and Mind Liberators to name a few.

OK lets start with an apology. Sorry to those I disagreed with over the connection between all labels. Met with James Browns sister and spoke to Howard over the last two weeks. They were connected, the label started down in Tennessee with James running it. Skip August was Howard Collins, who got more and more involved, when he moved to Toledo, he started recording more artists up there and became Vice-President of the label. Howard then left taking his artists with him and started up Connowil Records. James did a licence deal with All Platinum to put some of the releases out. James died some years ago, I now working with all to try and pull the whole thing together.

Sandra Phillips - I wish I had known - Okeh W/D Stone Mint Company Sleeve £275 Central Illusion - Shake your body down - Illusive Mint £350 Eskew Reeder - You better believe me - Cross Tone Mint £200

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