John Reed

What think is strange about this UK release is that the b-side "What Love Has Joined Together" has a 1972 publishing date, compared to "Harmour Love" which is 1975. The European releases of "Harmour Love" have "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" on the other side, which also has a 1975 publishing date. I wonder why guys at EMI in London thought differently from the rest of Europe (please no comments about UKIP and being different.....)

As Mal has mentioned above, I think PayPal are more concerned with being tough on perceived “layering” in relation to Money Laundering rules than missing out on commission. If you pay for goods in the standard way, you theoretically have a real reason for a transaction and an audit trail can be identified. Whereas F/F is a bit grey, which is probably why their being so hot on those type of payments.

Some of the Sofa's and armchairs in the lounge are quite comfy, but you need to be early to get those choice seats. The downstairs bath is a nice treat.

Typo probably https://www.45cat.com/record/nc822699us

John Ridley wrote something on his site, althought he did concentrate on "I Pledge", and I do agree with him, that it's their best side. https://www.sirshambling.com/artists_2012/L/lonnie_floyd/index.php

Think these were bootlegs pressed for the Japanese deep & sweet soul market. Dave Porter has stated that 32 LP's were pressed in the series

My understanding is that she hailed from Jackson and only had two releases, which both bombed. If you look at the credits these are Malaco productions which were leased to ABC on the back of Tommy Couch/George Soule’s trips to New York based labels. Three out of the 4 sides were written by Paul Davis who became a sort of in-house writer for Malaco and wrote quite a few hits for country artists.

I think its silly people worrying if the Northern scene is “underground” or not. Most people would agree that it’s generally populated with people over 40, who’ve loved whatever scene they’ve been on for years. Surely worrying about “undergroundness” — yes, I know it’s not a real word, is for the youth and young adults who are trying to find their own identity and place in the world and not for people in later life with mortgages and children of their own. I may that thought it years ago, but now I don’t care, as adverts on telly using 60’s Soul, TV programmes, waistcoats and other comedy clothing don’t detract from or affect the music I love or venues I attend. As a grown man I have better things to worry about than hearing the Mello Souls whist shopping in Tesco’s.

Don't think it got released on vinyl as it was a Lavine/Motorcity creation.

It's also on the "I Wanna Dance" LP

Dave, This was issued twice on the same number with different artist names. I think its a slightly different mix to the Hutson release, with some girlie backing John

Just listened to them both again and it sounds like they are the same recording to me, but the one on John's site has some extra special effects that the eBay one doesn't have.

It sold for £1,500. I put in a snipe but that got blown away. John Ridley has the unreleased version on his web site.

I watched last night with my wife, who has no interest in Soul/Northern at all. She thought it was quite interesting and got an insight into that world, which I think overall is a good thing. She did ask "why are people wearing novelty clothing" which I thought was a bit embarrassing and made me wonder how many other “outsiders” thought that way.

Peter, if your not that fussed about getting the 7", try the LP Blues in My Bedroom as it's on there and I think its the same version as the 7" and it'll probably be cheaper to get.

I quite liked Gabrielle's version

This was played at the time of release (1989) and a bit after. I thought it was quite odd that this 12" released was issued in between the two LP's but wasn't included in either of them. It may have even been a joint venture with Rod Dearlove and Brad Comer. I thought "More Than Enough Love" was quite catchy, but was spoilt by that inane rap.

There may also be some charge for foreign exchange transactions, when I’ve tried to pay for something in Yen, PayPal wouldn’t allow a F/F payment without incurring a charge even thought my PayPal is linked to my bank account. I can’t remember if this happened for Dollar or Euro payments.

Althought i'm not a UK collector I only remember seeing dinked releases of "You Got Me Where You Want Me", but some of his other Phillips releases did have centres.

Polydor had a mixture of dinked and small hole'd UK releases in the late 60's to the mid 70's and well as Atlantic. Otis Clay's - Baby Jane on Atlantic was only a dinked release and Edwin Starr's Stop Her On Sight on Polydor came out in both variants.

Mal, If you dont have a yearning for the 7", go for LP (Brotherhood) as its got a few other likable tracks and it'll probably be more than half the price of the single.

One sold on ebay in April for $7.25 Can someone confirm the release number as its documented as 2414-S? if A&M were correct with is numbering, it would have been the groups last release on A&M (then moving onto Montage) and was sandwiched between Squeeze - I've Returned (2413-S) and Howard Johnson - So Fine (2415-S). Jeffrey Osbourne's first Solo release on A&M was I Really Don't Need No Light (2410-S) which was 4 releases before this one. So it looks like A&M had the singer they wanted and had no need to promote what I would assume to them was a redundant group and maybe the release was something to do with a contractual obligation for a specific number of single releases.

You just beat me to that comment..... was this released before the Impressions Keep On Pushing LP? according to to cat45 and wikipedia it was by about 4mths

That’s the mislabelled copy, as it’s a cover of the Otis Clay song "That’s How It Is". There are copies which have it correctly labelled. The other side is a good great redition of the O V Wright classic.

And what I've always thought strange about this release is that Charisma Road is the "A-side" on BDA 483 where you'll generally see it as single sided demos with ANLYL only on the issue. Then you have ANLYL as a single sided demo BDA-483-N, which shows in the Ref number (BDAS-483-B) it as a "B" side. Does that make the ones with a "N" suffix reissues?