Seano

Same from me, thanks for posting this taster.

Hopefully not repeating other's postings, but thought it worth reminding anyone out there playing this weekend it could be interesting to flip over the Four Tops' Keeper of the Castle on Probe from 1972 to play "Jubilee with Soul". Not... Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full

Nice one, thanks again Philippe!

Thanks Philippe, with your comment and the current Amazon price of $56 I'll wait a while and see if it ever hits Fopp!

Fantastic link, thanks for this. Still waiting for Sidney Barnes' book to come through, I'd love to see one by Mr Womack too.

Just heard. Good to have Soul Source here to confirm and get more info. Very sad at that age, but good to hear he was still performing.

I'd certainly buy it. I got the Motown Remixed CD back in 2005 which had a good version of Let's get it on, and I'd say I find this more interesting.

Enjoyable trip to Leamington's Head Records. Clarence Carter, Mirwood EPs from Kent, and Rose Battiste and Pat Lewis Outta Sight reissues, along with Fish Go Deep 'Cure and the Cause' on TSOD.

Sounds fascinating - just emailed him and hoping to hear soon!

Just seen the end of the video - nice touch, I'd begun to assume I was looking at the album sleeve or something.

I wouldn't have even known how to describe the production, but spot on that the voice and phrasing is still there which is great to know. Doesn't leave you with much choice than to buy it anyway, and maybe hope there's an alternative take somewhere to be found....

Great record. I picked up a demo on Dynamo in New York for $10 in Academy Records a few years ago. It became my wife's favourite record!

Been impressed with the ones I've bought so far. Added all of these to my Amazon wish list - Christmas can wait!

My first copy was on UK People (B-side is 'The Miracle', so not the instrumental). Then a few years ago I picked up the Scepter demo on a visit to New York, I've posted it here: https://www.parkroadict.co.uk/Site/Soul_Blog/Soul_Blog.html And here's the label scan: Sean

At the end of July we went off to Meganissi, small Greek island near Lefkas. A bar on a beach called Fanari was playing a Reggae radio station (which I think was Reggae 141) all the time and at one point there was a fantastic soulful track which I wasn't able to get the title of. But it added to the interest I've developed talking with Eddie and Roger here in Banbury who have been into the crossover between reggae and northern for quite some time. Took me to buying the Trojan CD 'Work your soul' on which for me, the stand-out track in Glen Miller's 'Where is the love'.

What I loved about buying soul packs was the range of music. Yes, there’d be some stuff you thought was rubbish, but the great thing was the slow burn of the sounds that you knew were good but didn’t sound right, or the thrill of the occasional well known sound. The exception to this was one of my first packs, of 40 records that were all bootlegs. I’d guess known and popular sounds only counted for about 10% of the records at best in general, but personally I don’t see that as a bad thing at all. You quickly zeroed in on Soul Bowl as the source of the most consistently good stuff, and the task of sifting through that exciting package as soon as it arrived included making a pile of the ones you already knew, the ones you thought should be interesting, and all the others. The great thing about those last two groups was that if you didn’t know the record anyway, then you didn’t know which side to try - so it really encouraged that mentality of checking both sides of the record and often discovering some brilliant ‘B’ sides. Of the ones some people have already mentioned I got these over the years in soul packs: Carlena Weaver - Jealousy on Audel Erine Marbray - Ain’t nobody’s business on Wee Young Folk - Lonely Girl on Mar-V-Lus Jimmy Robbins - I just can’t please you on Jerhart Ethics - Standing in the darkness on Vent Darrow Fletcher - What good am I without you on Jacklyn (along with Infatuation and What have I got now, and My judgement day on Groovy) SoulfulTwins - I can’t let you go on Sable A couple more worth mentioning... Pat and the Blenders - Just because on Fast Eddie (the more common release) Brief Encounter - Human on Sound Plus Sean