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I think I only heard this for the first time on Richard Searling's radio show this week. Very showbiz / pop, maybe but absolutely excelllent!

The Al Perkins Buddah one is a later recording and different and inferior to, the one on Atco. The one by Velma Perkins is unreleased at the time I think, but on the Numero Twinight comp.

Agree with original post. Like some of these new releases as a genre in and of themself. Some are a bit contrived others are great, Couldn't give a toss if someone on here thinks they are not 'authentic ' northern soul. How dreary.

Hi Mal, I think it's Spiral *Starecase* isn't it? Love this version: Btw...I think I sold you my copy of Almeta Latimore a few years ago. Can I have it back?

Looking at the 'RIP Lou Johnson' thread, I remembered I've got the UK demo of 'Always Something There to Remind Me'. So I dug it out. And there on the label, is the date of release: 28-8-64. Which also happens to be the day I was born! How cool is that? Anyone else got one like this? A record with the release date on the label having some significance for you, I mean. Not a Lou Johnson demo (unless you share my birthday)? Probably a niche thread that'll go nowhere. Prove me wrong. (Footnote: Barbara Lynn ‎– 'Oh! Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin)' also came out on London American on the same day but I haven't got that).

Oh yeah, and '1000 Wonders' was on the Archie Bell 'Tighten Up' LP on Atlantic so you would think / hope Cal Thomas who wrote it must have got some royalties off that.

....Yeah this one. (Just realised drum intro sounds a bit like its going be, 'What happened to yesterday')

Well, they got their own records released on Atlantic as a result of that, I assume, and a couple of them must have done well going by how common they used to be. Also, they are actually credited on a subsequent Archie Bell b-side (Think it's ' You're such a beautiful child'. Nice tune).

Any truth in the story that the Houston Outlaws was a successor group? Sounds like them.

RIP. Sad news. Another of the greats gone. Couple of awesome covers from the fellas. Love these:

Thought track six was 60s Detroit when I heard it on the radio the other week (or had a sample from something quite familiar of that kind) but assume its just a skilful recreation of that sound. Like it.

Lol! I think my copy has got 'Ginger' scratched into the run out. I haven't seen it though since about 1992 when it was stolen! If anyone out there has got it say hello from me.

More on a disco /boogie tip but like this a lot. One for the purist download collectors...

Yes indeed but we all know about downloads, etc already. If I hear a new track I like, first thing I do is look if it's out on vinyl. I know it's backwards but like most on here, I suspect, I'm a record collector / child of the 60s / 70s and while I might like something that's only available that way, I am never ever gonna get excited about downloading a download. Buying a 7 on the other hand.... All the best.

Farewell record from one of the greatest groups of all time. Briliant. Talk about going out on a high....

Re-read my original message. And don't be so patronising. I'm guessing that some people who are into northern / rare soul like vinyl 7s....

This is really good, whatever era it came from. Copies drying up...

I'd start off with the ones I had burgled out of my flat in the late 80s (nothing else taken) then add all the ones I've sold when times were a bit tight and subsequently regretted. That would be a pretty good collection....then I'd really get serious! Knowing me, would be reduced to selling them off again within a few years when I ran out of winnings!

Thanks. Yes, you're right! Whoops!

This one has been about for a few years but now out on (limited) vinyl for the first time, I think? Massive.

Lesser known number and not from the era for which he is best remembered perhaps, but this is just great!

Such sad news. Brilliant singer and artist. Didn't Bacharach used to get him to demo his songs? Love this:

Double album and most of the ones that were sent out had duplicate copies of the same two sides. No presing fault, an operational mess up. It's supposedly coming out again...but if you got one now would hang on until that actually happens.

Thanks. Any idea why? I can see from Discogs that a couple of other 60s recordings by the same artist appear to have come out early 80s on Dore. So assume it wasn't because it got played at Stafford. From memory, don't ever remember it being an absolute monster. It was played at 'newies' venues and then forgotten within about 2 years. Also, assuming, 'What did you gain?' got reissued for some other reason, do we know which release Guy (or whoever played it first) had? Wondering if it's a bit like Tony Middleton, ' Spanish Maiden' which was first discovered / played on the b-side of a salsa / disco 12 from the 70s (by Ithe legendary, much-missed Ian Clark, I think)?