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What about Billy Butler's Mardi Gras? - a great place with top live acts. I saw Al Green there on his first visit at the time of Let's Stay Together. Billy was and probably still is a champion of Soul Music and I used to see him regularly at venues in North Wales and the North West playing Soul in the late 60s and 70s SLIM

Get the Wade In The Water album. It was Ramsey's first with a big band backing. As well as the classic title track it has the first outing for Hurt So Bad and not a dud track in sight. Sound quality is terrific, as good as the 45s I'd say. You can get the original album for less than a tenner off ebay even from the USA. I even found a CADET postcard in mine inviting me to send in for a CADET catalog & newsletter to the legendary 2120 South Michigan address. Hurt So Bad was not issued as a 45 in the USA but was in the UK! SLIM

Soul & R&B For Sale. All records graded and guaranteed. Please contact me on volt4stax@aol.com or PM me if you want anything. You can check my feedback on ebay under my user name of volt4stax. Feedback is currently 100% on 600+ trades Postage on 45s is £1.50 in UK. £2 Europe. £2.50 elsewhere. 12" or LPs £2.50 UK. £3 Europe. £4 elsewhere. I take Paypal at no extra cost. Marv Johnson - Come On And Stop - UA Promo & o/s mint £140 Drake & En-Solids - Please Leave Me - Alteen Promo NM 140 Harry & Keyavas - If This Is Goodbye - IPG NM 40 Mitty Collier - My Babe/Miss Loneliness - Chess Ex 40 Kathy & Calendars - Please Don't Go - Port Promo Mint 40 Cookie Jackson - Love Finds Pain - Uptown EX 15 Stevie Wonder - Aint That Asking For Trouble - Tamla Pic Sleeve Ex/Ex 15 Timi Yuro - When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Frequency EX 20 Pat Thomas - I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face - Verve Mint 30 Sam Cooke - Good Times - RCA EX 5 Lee Charles - Then Would You Love Me - Dakar Mint 30 BB King - Help The Poor - ABC EX 5 Darrell Banks - The Love Of My Woman - Cotillion Promo Mint 25 Bessie Banks - I Can't Make It - Verve Promo EX 40 Jnr Walker - Anyway You Wanta - Soul VG+ 4 Radiants - Feel Kind Of Bad - Chess - xol + sml stkr EX 5 Robert Lee & Exquisites - Tears Are Falling - Steeltown Mint 15 Clyde & Blue Jays - The Big Jerk - Loma EX 15 Betty Everett - I've Got A Claim On You - OneDerful EX 35 Yeomans - Unlucky/I'm The Guy - Heidi VG- but plays EX 5 David Ruffin - Rode By The Place - UK Motown Promo EX 40 Beverly Ann Gibson - A Three Dollar Bill - Jubilee NM 80 Charles Spurling - Popcorn Charlie - King - NM 10 Adam Wade - Half The World - Remember Promo & o/s NM 20 George Duke - I Want You For Myself - Epic NM Great Modern 15 Graham Bond - Wade In The Water - UK Columbia NM 100 Nolan Porter - If I Could Only Be Sure - ABC EX 60 Gino - It's Only A Paper Moon - Golden Crest NM 75 Benny Latimore - Girl I Got News For You - Dade NM 30 The Grandisons - I Love You So - RCA EX 35 Nappy Brown - My Baby (like 'Fever') Savoy EX 15 Willie Hightower - Because I Love You - Mint 90 Coasters - Crazy Baby - Atco tight crack in run out groove does not affect play, vinyl is VG- so there is some surface noise otherwise plays loud! LPs David Ruffin - In My Stride - Motown incs Rode By The Place/You're My Peace Of Mind/I Can't Stop The Rain(great) etc. Sleeve shrink wrapped but has tiny tear and BB hole/Vinyl absolutely mint 40 David Ruffin - Feelin' Good Motown EX/EX 15 David Ruffin - Gentleman Ruffin - Motown Ex/EX 15 Ben E. King - Songs For Soulful Lovers incs On The St Where You Live - Ex/EX Atco 20 Freddie Scott - Lonely Man - Columbia Ex/M 20 Betty Harris - Soul Perfection - UK Action EX/NM 80 Barbara Mason - Oh How It Hurts - UK Action EX/NM 75 LJ Reynolds - Lovin' Man incs Weigh All The Facts - Club Promo EX/EX 10 Lamont Dozier - Black Bach - ABC 10 Barbara Lynn - Here Is - UK Oval issue of rare Atlantic LP incs You're Losing Me etc EX/EX 20 4 Tops - Soul Spin - Motown Ex/EX 10 Various - Lost Soul - UK Epic Double EX/EX (postage £1 extra) incs Bobby Womack Home Is Where The Heart Is Gwen McCrae Lead Me On etc 15 Thanks, SLIM

Which is which? Cottage For Sale without and Person To Person with? Personally I prefer the latter SLIM

O.C. Smith - I Betcha Major Lance - I Never Thought I'd Be Losing You Willie Hutch - In And Out Thelma Houston - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning Temptations - Standing On The Top Marvin Gaye - Come Get To This Finished Touch - The Down Sound Originals - Dowqn To Love Town Undisputed Truth - What It Is Temptations - Law Of The Land SLIM

Love Me & Wherever She Leadeth Me - both on Curtom are well worth getiing SLIM

I Have a few, I think they are great memorabilia. There's a great one of Cornelius Bros & Sister Rose - Too Late To Turn Back Now, Jnr Walker - Shake & Fingerpop and my favourite, The Spinners - I'll Always Love you with a great pic of the group. SLIM

Anybody else see it today? Football Focus did a profile of Wigan Athletic ans kicked it off by showing the Casino from the outside and somme footage of dancers within to a soundtrack Of Frank Wilson - Do I Love You! Apparently according to FF, until the Athletic have become almost promoted the Casino was Wigan's main claim to fame SLIM

Wanted in EX condition if you can help please John Lee Hooker - Money - Impulse JB Lenoir - I Sing Um The Way I feel - USA not UK Sue Ramsey Lewis - Day Tripper - UK Chess not US copy Sonny Boy Williamson - Checking Up On My Baby - UK Pye EP or US Trumpet (I should be so lucky) or a 45 reissue Johnny Nash - You Can Count On Me - ABC Thelma Harper - Unchain My Heart - Jell Jackie Mittoo - Hanging Tree - Studio One Vernon Harrell - Slick Chick - Lescay Do Do Green - Hold On - Time Jo Ann Henderson - Baby Please Don't Go - Phonograph Rudy Robinson - Get It Together - Enterprise Landlords - Soul Hoedown - UA Cheers SLIM

Thanks lads. I live in Llandudno so I'll make my way to the Chester branch shortly. By the way Sam, have you updated your system from the tinny tannoy you used to play sounds on in Overton circa '64? SLIM

My current M.S. is OK but basic. However, It only has an input point for my turntable. This means I cannot record directly from my turntable to my computer through my tuner. I am looking to update with extra inputs that will allow me to do this. I would be particularly interested in one that has a CD recorder. About mid price range? I've looked in Comet & Currys but all the models on sale seem to have only the one input point. Any suggestions/ideas including where to buy it would be welcome. Thanks SLIM

Don't forget the great original version by Bobby Marchan on Dial. Much less frantic but still a great dance track. SLIM

All records graded and guaranteed. Please contact me on volt4stax@aol.com if you want anything. Postage is £1.50 in UK. £2 Europe. £2.50 elsewhere. I take Paypal at no extra cost. You can check my username volt4stax on Ebay. Currently I have a 100% rating on 600+ trades. Harry & Keyavas - If This Is Goodbye - IPG Ex 40 Mitty Collier - My Babe - Chess Mint 25 Bobby Taylor - Oh I've Been Blessed - VIP EX 15 Freddie Hubbard - Return Of The Prodigal Son - Atlantic Mint 15 Harold Burrage - Things Aint What They Used To Be - Mpac mint 15 - grt R&B dancer Kathy & Calendars - Please Don't Go - Port Promo Mint 50 Esther Philips - While It Lasted - Lenox Mint 20 Cookie Jackson - Love Finds Pain - Uptown EX 15 Stevie Wonder - Aint That Asking For Trouble - Tamla Pic Sleeve Ex/Ex 15 Earl Conley - They Never Told Me - Mayco EX 8 Timi Yuro - When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Frequency EX 20 Pat Thomas - I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face - Verve Mint 30 Prince Conley - Love & Laughter - Emerson EX 20 Aretha Franklin - Soulville - CBS EX 10 Sam Cooke - Good Times - RCA EX 5 Lee Charles - Then Would You Love Me - Dakar Mint 50 BB King - Help The Poor - ABC EX 5 Rosco Gordon - Just A Little Bit - VJ Maroon VG+ plays fine 10 Bobby Joy - You Sweet Devil You - Sentry - top side EX, flip has some marks that do not affect the sound 30 Fuller Bros - Moanin' Groanin' And Cryin' - Keymen Mint 25 Darrell Banks - The Love Of My Woman - Cotillion Promo Mint 30 The High (Troy) Keyes - You're My Girl - Atco Mint 8 Bessie Banks - I Can't Make It - Verve Promo EX 40 Jnr Walker - Anyway You Wanta - Soul VG+ 4 Lou Rawls - When Love Goes Wrong - Capitol (In Demand) EX 20 Radiants - Feel Kind Of Bad - Chess - xol + sml stkr EX 5 Percy Wiggins - Can't Find Nobody - Atco Mint 5 Robert Lee & Exquisites - Tears Are Falling - Steeltown Mint 15 Clyde & Blue Jays - The Big Jerk - Loma EX 15 Betty Everett - I've Got A Claim On You - OneDerful EX 35 Rosco & Barbara - Could This Be Love - Old Town Mint 20 Yeomans - Unlucky/I'm The Guy - Heidi VG- but plays EX 5 Peaches & Herb - We're In This Thing Together - UK CBS PROMO Mint 35

Here's A Few Mainstream issues LJ Reynolds - Weigh All The Facts - UK Club Larry Woo - Love's Gonna Get You - UK 10 Vernon Burch - Baby For You - Chocolate City Denise LaSalle - I'm Tripping On You - MCA Goldie Alexander - Go Back - UK Project Dells - Your Song - 20th Cent Willie Hutch - In And Out - UK Motown SLIM

Try Mighty Clouds Of Joy - Time - What a stomping track. Produced by the great Dave Crawford and you can pick it up for about a quid on UK ABC!

I agree, I thought the whole DVD was riveting. Even the 'live' rendition of My Girl gave me goosepimples. By the way has anyone ever seen the original B&W video of that? David Ruffin seems to be singing something else entirely. Slim

I only went once, to see Steve Mancha perform. Except he didn't because of 'contractual reasons' (rumour had it his voice had long gone). He did a DJ spot of Detroit stuff instead (big deal). No refund tho'! SLIM

It is Troy Keyes as lead with the High Keyes. He also recorded as Mitchell Keyes on ATCO prod by Bob Crewe. SLIM

I saw the same show in the ABC Chester. Jim is right about The Miracles - Ooh Baby Baby with Smokey on his knees, great. Claudette was also in the group then. Little Stevie did a duet with his then manager, Clarence Paul on 'The Masquerade is over' who has also had records out and issued in the UK. Georgie Fame was also in the show to attract the 'pop pickers'. It truly was a tremendous show and I still have the programme. The crazy thing was that the place was less than half full, so the announcer asked everyone to come to the front to help create an atmosphere! That suited me and my mate as we were broke and bought cheap seats, hitchiked from Wrexham to Chester and blagged a lift home off Soul Sam and some other guys we both knew from Overton where Sam(Martin) lived who were in a pop group and later appeared and won 6 times on Opportunity Knocks! Slim

Some more Soul reads Clyde McPhatter - Colin Escott - Short but sweet Nowhere To Run - Gerri Hershey - A nice general read about soul music The Sound Of The City - Charlie Gillett - The transition from R&R/R&B to Soul Honkers & Shouters - Arnold Shaw - Mostly R&B oriented and good chapters on OKEH/Old Town/ Groove/Herald record labels The Sound Of Philadelphia - Tony Cummings - From the 50s to the 70s - A great read from one of the UK soul writing pioneers And last but not least - Last Train To Memphis - Peter Guralnick - It's not about R&R per se in fact It's a great read, hard to put down and Guralnick gets you to understand and feel how Elvis came to be so big. Lots of R&B references too SLIM