Funky Si

It has got a pre-amp, but not because it has usb! The latest version of this deck has usb and phono-only output. The usb is because it has an external sound-card built in for using with a computer - it can connect to a laptop or PC or mac or whatever that has appropriate software installed (plenty of free software out there) and you can then convert vinyl sounds to digital sounds.

Line level is what you can feed into AUX input of an amp - phono level is raw output from the turntable and needs to go either into a pre-amp or a phono input on the amp. So you can connect the red and white outputs to the inputs on the AUX channel, put the switch on to line, and all will be good. Or if you get an amp with a phono channel, connect to that and put the switch to phono (might be worth trying both options if you have a phono amp - if the turntable has a better pre-amp than the amp, then it would be better to use that).

Mind you, this is also one of the greatest records ever made .... I'd better stop there!

Three of my faves:

Are you still looking for this?

Well I'd buy it!

Cricket Lovely Cricket by Jah Thomas

RIP The Left Rev. Mc D

Too right - how about a Northern Soul Theme Park?

https://www.stylusplus.co.uk/audio-technica-atn-103-stylus-3810-p.asp

OK, so here is my theory. If you look at the interview with Darrow Fletcher from the Xmas 1975 Blues & Soul, he talks about recording an album. I reckon that the tracks he recorded were: It's No Mistake Try Something New We've Got To Get An Understanding This Time (I'll Be The Fool) Improve Let's Get Together Rising Cost Of Love Honey, Can I So all the singles released from 1975 onwards were from that session referred to in the article.

Title: darrow fletcher - improve - atco added by Funky Si on 18 Aug 2010 in the soul-clips refosoul category artist: darrow fletcher title: improve label: atco label extra: no info entered audio/video: audio info posted: I only have the demo of this one - an issue went for over $400 a few months ago ..... link to reofosoul clip info page

Title: darrow fletcher - this time (i'll be the fool) - crossover added by Funky Si on 18 Aug 2010 in the soul-clips refosoul category artist: darrow fletcher title: this time (i'll be the fool) label: crossover label extra: no info entered audio/video: audio info posted: Nice ballad (terrible beat up copy). link to reofosoul clip info page

Title: darrow fletcher - we've got to get an understanding - crossover added by Funky Si on 18 Aug 2010 in the soul-clips refosoul category artist: darrow fletcher title: we've got to get an understanding label: crossover label extra: no info entered audio/video: audio info posted: Ray Charles is credited as the engineer on this one ... sorry but my copy is in dreadful nick! link to reofosoul clip info page

Title: darrow fletcher - now is the time for love pt2 - genna added by Funky Si on 18 Aug 2010 in the soul-clips refosoul category artist: darrow fletcher title: now is the time for love pt2 label: genna label extra: no info entered audio/video: audio info posted: And this is the wigged-out b-side - the organ part is great when it comes in. link to reofosoul clip info page

Title: darrow fletcher - now is the time for love pt1 - genna added by Funky Si on 18 Aug 2010 in the soul-clips refosoul category artist: darrow fletcher title: now is the time for love pt1 label: genna label extra: no info entered audio/video: audio info posted: Psyched out hippy funk soul - quite an extraordinary record. Like every Darrow Fletcher love song it has a dark side. link to reofosoul clip info page

Title: darrow fletcher - i think im gonna write a song - congress added by Funky Si on 18 Aug 2010 in the soul-clips refosoul category artist: darrow fletcher title: i think im gonna write a song label: congress label extra: no info entered audio/video: audio info posted: Not perhaps his best, and certainly the roughest copy I have in my Darrow Fletcher section. link to reofosoul clip info page

Title: darrow fletcher - those hanging heartaches - revue added by Funky Si on 18 Aug 2010 in the soul-clips refosoul category artist: darrow fletcher title: those hanging heartaches label: revue label extra: no info entered audio/video: audio info posted: This is the flip of Sitting There That Night, and another Mike Terry arrangement. link to reofosoul clip info page

Title: darrow fletcher - we cant go on this way - revue added by Funky Si on 18 Aug 2010 in the soul-clips refosoul category artist: darrow fletcher title: we cant go on this way label: revue label extra: no info entered audio/video: audio info posted: Flip of Gonna Keep Loving You, also a Mike Terry production link to reofosoul clip info page

Title: darrow fletcher - gonna keep loving you - revue added by Funky Si on 18 Aug 2010 in the soul-clips refosoul category artist: darrow fletcher title: gonna keep loving you label: revue label extra: no info entered audio/video: audio info posted: Mike Terry produced - I like this but never see it in play lists or whatever ... link to reofosoul clip info page

Thought I would add a few missing Darrow Fletcher tracks to Refosoul. This one is mentioned above & is the not-often-seen flip of the release of Rising Cost of Love. Title: darrow fletcher - honey can i - atlantic added by Funky Si on 18 Aug 2010 in the soul-clips refosoul category artist: darrow fletcher title: honey can i label: atlantic label extra: no info entered audio/video: audio info posted: link to reofosoul clip info page

Excellent ... lets hope there's some real gems in there!

Yes - that ATCO single as a minty issue with the B-side went for $470 a couple of months ago - the highest price paid on eBay for any Darrow Fletcher single as far as I can see. A really beat up issue of the Atlantic single Rising Cost of Love/Honey Can I, went for $100, and Its No Mistake/Try Something New on Crossover is (in my experience) really hard to get hold of, so I would have thought there would be a lot of interest in a 1975 Darrow Fletcher album.

I got hold of Blues & Soul 176, the Xmas 1975 edition, because it has a Darrow Fletcher interview. Towards the end of the article, by David Nathan, there is the following intriguing snippet: "Meanwhile, he's concentrating on completion of his first Crossover album. "We actually finished work on the album a couple of weeks ago and hopefully it will be out in the new year", (says Darrow)." So what happened to it? It was never released - or if it was, I have never seen any mention of it anywhere, let alone any copy for sale. Is there an unreleased Darrow Fletcher album somewhere in the vaults? If so, why hasn't it been rescued? Attached below is the article in full

Also on a BGP 7" release with Linda Lyndell - What A Man on the flip.