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you dont know what you got untill you lose it - kenny gamble - 11984 refosoul

you dont care - leon gardner - 11982 refosoul

sweet tooth - chubby reynolds - 11981 refosoul imagine this lad on X factor

spanish maiden - tony middleton - 11980 refosoul wellknown i know, but what a vocal!

the man who dont believe in love - marv johnson - 11978 refosoul that's lovely!

I think in order to prove your point, and to maintain the good reputation of the great Belgian people, you should tell me who all your sources are.

I think it's just one Belgian who is responsible for years of these scams. If you think about it: the chances of there being many outright concience-free robbing scumbags out there who also know quite a lot about rare soul / popcorn are fairly slim. I think it's just this notorious 'philipe Salamone' twat using a multitude of names - i think he uses real peoples' identities, maybe from empty / rented houses and seems based in the Charleroi / Mons area. He definitely knows his stuff, and even has records, as I actually got 2 rare records from him before getting ripped off for some others - at the time he was pretending to be a woman - an idea he probably had in prison while getting rimmed by his cell mate. Anyway, the other prominent Belgian dealers - Michel Scarpone, Soul Attic, fill1999 to name a few are excellent - friendly and really honest from my experience.

There's one on Popsike at over £500 but I have seen them cheaper in lesser condition. Problem is I paid over this for it so can't take less and have had some interest anyway, so I think it's probably about right for a mint one. As for the track, the Up Down version sure has some power in a club and sounds great out but has some strange / pretty bad overdubbing going on IMO, the Hull version has less immiediate impact but I think it's a really nice n tidy piece of R&B. If it wasn't for this other version with it's big attention grabbing foghorns I think the Hull one would get played a lot more! I like both and have contemplated attempting a sort of mega-mix of the two while DJing, but never dared. Probably for the best!

it's weird and kind of a shame to thinkof all those great records sat in rich folk's bedrooms if they're folk who don't get involved in any way - monster rare tunes that never get heard out while a lot of the working DJs play the same old easy to get stuff. On one hand it's good that it'll keep demand and prices up - no one wants their collection to be worth f*** all in 10 years! - but on the other hand, it's a shame I never get to dance to a great tune because it's sat in a vault in Germany or somewhere. Something like the Trent Sisters - it should have been bought for the mod scene - where it was intended to be - being danced to and enjoyed (and given to me to play!) like significant paintings are bought for the country! I heard about a guy in NY who outbids everyone on everything who's buying tons of stuff who's a millionaire and just hoards them. Millionaires usually spend £1000s on cars / holidays / houses etc., If they decide to spend some of their disposable on rare records, the price variations must mean nothing to them. We all shit our pants about whether a record is worth £300 or £400...why would they give a f***? they spend that £100 difference on a meal without thinking, it means nothing to them. It's surely one of the great justices in life that, untill recently at least, really rich people have been too busy getting really rich to bother developing good taste in music and therefore leave the good records for the soulful scum!

i wanted to tell you - little nicky soul - 11867 refosoul

every witcha kinda way - king connelly - 11866 refosoul

listen my children - quotations - 11865 refosoul

Leo Price - Hey Now baby (Up-Down) M- £350 cheapest you'll get a minter for! Joyce Taylor - what can i do / mean mistreater (Wal-ly) VG++ lovely beat ballad backed with top R&B - check clips £275 Tom Grayson - that you feel love (Magic Circle) EX very rare popcorn R&B £175 mik.parry@talk21.com price__leo___hey_now_baby.mp3 TAYLOR__JOYCE___WHAT_CAN_I_DO.mp3 taylor__joyce__mean_mistreater.mp3 grayson__tom___full.mp3

i know I want one version of this, but never sure which one - 1003 or 1006 (*its not the 70s one) can anyone post soundclips of either?

comin home baby - casey group - 11786 refosoul obscure Dutch version for Hammond fans. dont even listen if ur not a Hammond organ fan!

Great stuff again Nashee, love that 'nightmare'. Sure I've got this Mort Stevens track, is it on the Hawaii 5-0 soundtrack? and is it on 45? Also love Harlem Rumble and that Ramsey & company - quite expensive is it not Cunnie?

dont know, probably. it's a N.O. single on Tailgate

cofee pot - bo jr - 11756 refosoul

oops wrong track

I'm not 100% but I think that the Stateside one is taken off the live LP. The HMV / ABC / Sparton issue is a different studio recording of the track with the same band (the Bobby Bryant quintet) and doesn't appear on an LP. I'm sure it's the ABC / HMV one that you want.

the stateside issue is a different recording I think. Live I think and not as good

There's 2 main styles of R&B I think - the 'traditional' sounding R&B that was most popular in England in the 60s - John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin Wolf etc. and the type that took the R&B rhythms & chords but added big city / pop production values - and I guess in the end became soul. I got to be honest and say I prefer the more produced big city sound made with arrangers, bandleaders & bigger bands. I often find the traditional r&b sound a bit formularic and samey but I really like examples of the more traditional sound too, like Howlin Wolf 'spoonful', Sonny Boy williamson 'help me', John Lee Hooker 'Money' etc. There's no line where one style stops and the other starts and loads of great artists and records cross over into both styles. Tommy Tucker, for example, released the very nice but certainly more pop/soul flavoured 'Oh What A Feelin' in the UK the same year as the more traditional sounding 'Long Tall Shorty'. I think any claims that one is more 'authentic' than the other is bogus, I dont think authenticity is relevent to pop music. I actually think that the Englishman's tendency towards retro-ism & purism kept the traditional blues / R&B sound popular in this country long after American R&B artists really had moved on. But to an extent I think the Americans probably fell into two camps - those who embraced the pop/soul movement pioneered by labels like tamla & King/federal and those who stuck to the authentic sound. A lot of the old blues men never even added horns or anything to their sound and it was pretty much the same in 1970 as it was in 1950. I dont really see the point of that. R&B classics would most likely be of the more traditional style, as that has been popular and played longer, the more produced stuff only really becoming popular in the last 10 years. Classics of the latter style would be stuff like Mike Pedicin 'burnt toast & black coffee', Joanne Henderson, Five Royales, Joe Tex 'I wanna be free', Ernie Washington ' lonesome Shack', Cookie Jackson ' i got to know', Charles Sheffield etc etc. But these have far from hit the mainstream in the way stuff like John Lee Hookers 'boom boom' or Muddy Waters 'I'm a man' did. The soul scene takes more to the better produced, and often later, r&b as it shares more production values with 60s soul. sorry for the ramble

Love that Magicians on Villa but never seen it for sale, what's it go for?

the original version of Zuzu is by Watts 103rd street band isn't it? I'm sure I heard somewhere (probably previous thread on here) that the Juju blues band was a Dr John project. Might be totally wrong. I bet it's a studio project by sessioners not a band though. It's not exactly archetypal rhythm & blues either.

am I missing something? thought it was a thread for posting r&b. Intruders, Temps, sly stone surely only r&b in the American sense of the description which basically means 'black music' and I figured no-one actually uses it to mean that in real life. Anyway, sorry, enjoy me r&b clips possibly