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Just to clarify, falsetto does not just mean singing in a high register. A man can have a weird voice where he can sing high without going into falsetto and like i mentioned above, you can sing falsetto for lower notes. It's a specific technique in your vocal chords (if you want a complicated explanation see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsetto). Heart full of love was their biggest hit (and is great), but this is my favorite invincibles track, it's even a cover and they destroy any other version. The falsetto over that guitar and sparse production is amazing (unfortunately this is slightly sped up): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNKXCRGmQcE

Dante told me it was his first record and he has hung out with rudy. The record is very weird.

for the record, I have since gotten a polydor stock copy with the flip. the flip is clearly andre williams just screwing around in the studio, intentionally making some garbage that nobody would every play (it's vaguely amusing). So it's not a lost ultra-rare gem like some of the polydor flips.

you need at least 60x to actually see what's happening in the grooves, although you can see the lines at 30x

I have the super rare soul brothers on kanwic which is rudy love's first recording. Dante C in Chicago has pretty much every Wichita soul record but still doesn't have that one... re: wichita soul, the Smart Brothers and their related records are from there, also Chuck Walker, who was on 20th Century and who had an excellent deep soul / group 45 as chuck walker and the VIPs on Virgo.

never heard this before, thanks for posting. i like this style of music, and Jimmy Stokes' voice is recognizable and he sings well, but this sounds like a mediocre song to me. What does the other side sound like? Thanks.

If someone has a record that skips I can fix it for them for a fee. It would not involve any sort of stupid thing like pushing the tonearm down when it played or anything like that -- it would involve me looking at the grooves with a microscope and directly fixing the skipping part.

I actually don't really like any version except the Manhattans (although I don't own the icemen and haven't heard it much to really judge). The answer record also isn't exactly the same in lyrics or tempo (it's slower) and it sort of drags to my ear, not my favorite Linda Jones cut. Not bad records, just not great ones. That demo version above was of the original version (not the answer record), clearly an unfinished demo but the rawness of it made it original and awesome. Does anyone have that LP or have the cut on CD and know if it's longer? More off topic, my favorite manhattans deluxe track is "the picture became quite clear", so good.

can someone point me to one of these CDs with this specific track? Thanks.

Does anyone own the LP that the track in that youtube video is taken from? The youtube clip fades after two and a half minutes. I'm just wondering if the LP version is longer. It's on some "records jimi hendrix played on" LP, I think one of the LP comments says it. Thanks.

this page is interesting: https://www.earlyhendrix.com/artistsconfirmed/84-lonnie-youngblood-fakes

oh i see in the comments that a) lowrider dudes already know it and b) the singer is gloria barnes

this rules so hard. if that were on a 45 it would already be bootlegged on every lowrider cd ever. of course now it's going to be bootlegged on every lowrider cd ever in the future.

Hi. I'm looking for a copy of the Dynamics "woe is me" on Black Gold #12. Please PM me with price and condition if you have a copy. Thanks in advance.

Even after numero's first deep city comp came out, Craig Moerer had copies of Them Two available for $75. Even though I had never seen it before I kept waffling on it (e.g. if it's that at craig moerer, is it really worth that much). After a few weeks some dude bought them all and sold them for $300+ on ebay.

I never noticed before but that linda jones 45 is the first Loma and after record i can think of that has female backing. I always thought the vest record was their last 45. Does it say "1965" on the record? as long as this is the "say stuff about the icemen thread" I might as well be the first person to mention that Jimi Hendrix supposedly played on the Samar 45s.

One of my favorite records of all time is Johnny and the Expressions "shy girl". Not fast enough to be northern I guess, but boys and girls together is. I don't understand the Sam Dees thing mentioned above though. What tracks does he sing falsetto on?

i get mislisted items all the time. a good way to maximize your price is to post a thread on soul source linking to your auction.

Also, I was wondering what the elements guy's hair looks like when he wakes up before he picks it out, and how much time it takes to maintain that hair each day. Also, does he even need a pillow?

Dante C says that he has a Saru photo of the elements and that they have fros in that also. I have an exits photos where they all have pretty big afros (and it includes jimmy conwell, coincidentally connecting it to this thread...)

It was the manhattans biggest hit on deluxe. Linda Jones and the Mamselles on ABC did the same answer song.

this is good but what interests me most are originals, like 99% of "island soul" is covers of US hits

yeah, but you probably do other things like go outside, interact with people in real life, etc.

according to some youtube comments, the guy in the chair is (now deceased...) rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's father. The group does have someone with the same last name, I think it's probably true.

I think I said my age in the first interview I did... Anyways, the internet is funny. If you go to record shows in the US there are all these crusty old dealers that are total jerks or just weird. The anonyminity of ebay hides all that. It's surprising the times where I get a taste of reality. Like I called a dealer to hear something, and he had a southern drawl, clearly didn't know or care about soul, etc.