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New 45: Lights Out - Tonight - Soul 7 - 7" Lights Out - Tonight b/w Surrender Your Love - Soul 7 - SOUL7048 Singer Andy Stokes, billed as the 'Northwest King of Soul Music', may have recently worked with such industry luminaries as Snoop Dogg but, way back in the late 70s, he was fronting a hopeful Jazz-Funk group struggling to break into even just the Oregon circuit. Despite boasting members from internationally successful acts like Fantasy Records' own Pleasure, Lights Out never saw their one demo – cut in 1982 for the well-established Solar Records – even get a promo pressing. Two of the tightest and busiest of their dancefloor wreckers from the session now grace their only 7” to date. IMPORTANT NOTE: The B Side is entitled 'Surrender Your Love' and not 'Take It' as printed on the label Tonight SOUL7048A Tonight.mp3 Surrender Your Love SOUL7O48B Surrender Your Love.mp3 Info and purchase options https://jazzmanrecords.co.uk/lights-out-tonight-soul7

Milton Davis - Headed for the Disco / All I Want to Do - Soul 7 Artist: Milton Davis Title: Headed for the Disco Label: Soul 7 Catalogue #: SOUL7047 Though allegedly a Texas native, Milton Davis first recorded in Los Angeles in 1967 as a member of The Four Tempos. When that act split, he trekked up the coast in stages, eventually settling in Portland. Here he secured the lead vocal role for local scene heroes, Slickaphonic. Though a full album of their own was taped, another reel of material was cut centred on Milton as a solo artist. Neither set of tracks saw release in their day, but from the latter collection we've pulled a bona fide 1977 disco-soul smasher and a mid tempo flipside with a sheen that belies its depth. *First time ever on 7" 45, dinked centre hole with picture sleeve, 500 numbered copies only. It's available exclusively on our website this week, and will be in the shops from the weekend https://jazzmanrecords.co.uk/milton-davis-headed-for-the-disco Milton Davis - Headed for the Disco 1.mp3 Milton Davis - All I Want to Do 2.mp3

Joey Irving & Just Us was a Canadian act that released a couple of 45s on various small labels but never really attained any notoriety. ‘There’s a Man’ is a cover of the original version by Leroy lane & the Upstairs Maids, an uptempo dancer that hints to the funky side of Northern Soul. The original issue of this 7” rarity was pressed in Belgium on the Baltic label, supposedly because Baltic was a label that pressed "everything nobody else wanted to press" (those are the label owner's very words!) such as Flemish chanson and elevator music. One of Baltic's contacts was a businessman from Canada who'd fly over every 6 months with a suitcase of master tapes looking for deals. One day he brought along a reel by Joey Irving & Just Us, who was unable to get a contract in the US or Canada. Baltic took a chance, pressed them up, and issued it in Belgium with a picture sleeve on their Baltic label and also their subsidiary Golden Music. As you can imagine, funky soul stompers didn’t really go down very well with the chanson and elevator crowd, and the record bombed. Very few copies are known to this day, with original copies reaching several hundred £££.

From Bobby Moore & the Rhythm Aces $1000-rated 'Dedication of Love' LP, here's one of the best tracks! Previously unreleased on 45, licensed from the late Bobby's Moore's son. Available on our website NOW, otherwise in the shops in a week or two: http://www.jazzmanrecords.co.uk/bobby-moore-the-rhythm-aces-what-is-that-you-got-loves-got-a-hold-on-me highlight grab from above link added by site He gained fame and fortune with his million-selling Checker 45 'Searching for My Love', yet his later album 'Dedication of Love' is known today in just a handful of copies. Yet the music contained therein, in terms of heartfelt soul, is pure gold. For the first time on 45, here are two tracks taken from the album, a Holy Grail that will soon be released soon in its entirety on Jazzman.