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yeah, surreal in the sense that it was just normal people going about doing their business and to Alan it was a post-apocalyptic wasteland where everyone was there just to kill him.

I can't speak for other titles on the label, but barefooting was such a big hit I wouldn't be surprised if it was repressed many times with different variations. I know I've seen it on styrene and vinyl, for example.

The group in question here is NOT the magnificent men and is not the david bupp group.

chalky, my friend got the membership of the parliaments from one of the members, I can dig it up and send it to you if you care. Mel Harris wasn't a member of the vocal group, just the band. I think also mentioned in this thread is that the temptashions on federal / lemco and magnificant seven (not 'men') on TMS are the same group as the magnificent seven on dial / eastern. Also, they were all white. My scanner is still broken but I took a photo of the pic sleeve with my camera phone but now my phone isn't sending email... I will see if I can post it tonight. Thanks.

Hi Fingers. The book lists both as #729. One of the b-sides is listed as "Need your love (right now)" and the other is listed as "I've gotta find out for myself." I have the "need your love right now" version, I think I've seen the other version but I could be wrong, I would be happy to have someone else confirm I'm right with an example or deny I'm wrong by saying that they've been paying closer attention than me and have never seen it. Thanks.

I think there are two different flips listed in the soul harmony singles book (the '4th' record by them is a mistake, though, actually a garage 45 by 'the interns').

I have a temptashuns on lemco pic sleeve, it's all white guys on the sleeve by the way.

I have also seen more white demos than issues, I don't think that there is much of a price difference between the two though.

also, I'm telling you Mel Harris was part of the band, he was the keyboardist, my friend talked to another group member...

I have the symbol 45 (it has the same names on it) and can post a scan (actually my scanner just broke so I can post a crappy cell phone camera shot) and audio. It has the same names and I think is earlier than the other records. I always thought the magnificent 7 on dial sounded white or 'brown eyed'.

the cabell / symbol (and apparently unpredictable) group are from West Virginia I think.

If the name mel harris is on it it's the cabell group. Melvin Harris was not a member of the vocal group but was their keyboard player. The cabell group are also the same group as on Symbol.

Tony, if you don't get one by later tonight PM me or email me and I'll scan it for you.

The lollipops is not really expensive, craig moorer had one sitting on his site for $100 for a while (although it's gone now). Maybe you could get a little more but not much more. The other 45s you listed are expensive though.

I'm still looking for this, I got outbid on ebay on this. if someone doesn't have a copy to sell, I could also use a recording of both sides to give to the group members. Thank you.

I don't think so, but it is the same group as the cascades on renee and von gayels on usa / dore. They were from the north side of chicago (Cabrini Green housing) and Terry Callier was a member of the group at one point, according to another person who was in a Cabrini Green group (I don't know if he's on any of the records though).

The jerry osborne was the main US 45 price guide until 'northern soul' guides came along. Older dealers use it. Maybe 5 years ago he expanded the guide to include northern items. The prices in the guide are insane, even more expensive than the Manship and Tim Brown guide (plus since it's a US guide, they're listed in US$ so dealers can't get confused by the pounds listing). Older dealers will still buy that guide now due to their familiarity, but I don't think it really took off as a "northern soul" guide.

I avoid buying stuff from the label since it's all white stuff so I don't know the title, but the label you're probably talking about is Jim-Ko.

Does anyone know if there is a connection to the Corlettes on Nita (and I think another label)? I have the nita 45 and it's a girl group thing from around 1963 / 1964. I think it looks like a New York record -- is the Corlettes' Bobby Robinson the Enjoy Bobby Robinson? Can anyone tell me the names that are on the Capitol / BR 45 so I can compare names? Thanks.

I can record it and post it if I get a chance later tonight. Another odd thing is that the common cookie scott got released twice on ORR, the same record just with two different numbers.

This will be hard to believe, but I just tried to record it and it won't play on the turntable that's hooked up to my computer. The thing is, the record is polished beyond belief, I got it from a shady US seller who polishes his records, this one was so beat that he polished it to oblivion (I had to pay a lot too for a messed up record). When I record it, you can barely hear the vocals. The other side also sounds bizarre when I play it, I think it must have somehow played fine at the radio station on the 1200 because of the way the heavy tonearm tracks differently. It now plays like this on my regular home turntable, which means I paid a lot for like a worthless record now... here is audio of what happened when I tried to record it. messedupelements.mp3

yes, it's slightly more northern also, I will try to record it and post it here when I get a chance. Thanks.

I used to see this in every record store I went into, it was always behind the counter like they though it was valuable. It's not really rare.

I'm just bumping this show once because I think it was a good show. Thanks.

In my opinion the above record is the best record mentioned in this thread so far. Although I would probably pick some ultra-obscure records given that I'm a collector, I would think that the truly best soul records of all time would probably also have to be records that were so good that they were huge national hits. For example, I think that the best soul record of the 70s, hands down, is the Spinners "I'll be around". If I had to pick my favorite sweet soul record of all time (since I collect sweet soul), I would have to go with an obscure one, though -- the Young Mods "I can't hurt you back."