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All USA originals ON HOLD -CRACKIN' UP OVER YOU - ROY HAMILTON (RCA W/DJ) £125 -ON HOLD YOU DON'T WANT ME NO MORE/WAIT TILL I GET YOU IN MY ARMS - MAJOR LANCE (OKEH W/DJ) £250 LOST AND FOUND - KENNY CARLTON (BLUE ROCK DEMO - NOT W/DJ) £250 LET HER GO - OTIS SMITH (PERCEPTION W/DJ) £200 NOW SOLD --WHY WOULD YOU BLOW IT - CALUDE HUEY (GALAXY ISSUE) £170 NOW SOLD SATISFIED - BEN AIKEN (LOMA W/DJ) £100 OO WEE LET IT BE ME BABE - KARL EVANS (SKYWAY ISSUE) £60 IF YOU EVER WALK OUT OF MY LIFE - DENA BARNES (INFERNO W/DJ) HALF INCH SPLIT FROM OUTER RIM IN TO DISC,DOES NOT AFFECT PLAY £250 GETTING TOGEHTER - A BROTHERS GUIDING LIGHT (MERCURY RED LABEL) £100 LONELY FOR YOU BABY - SAM DEES (SSS INTERNATIONAL) SURFACE NOISE AT START, PM FOR FULL DESCRIPTION) £250 PROVE YOURSELF A LADY - JAMES BOUNTY (COMPASS W/DJ) £120 THE GREATEST GIFT - RICHARD LACKEY (SOLID FOUNDATION) £200 COME SEE WHAT'S LEFT OF ME - BOBBY HUTTON (PHILLIPS W/Dj) WATER DAMAGED LABELS, PLAYS PERFECT £150 Thanks, Neil

TEASIN' YOU - WILLIE TEE (USA NIGHT TRAIN LP) DELETED 2002 COMPILATION WITH GREAT SLEEVE DESIGN.. ALL MINT/SEALED/NEVER PLAYED THIS CONTAINS HIS BEST NORTHERN AND CROSSOVER GEMS. INCLUDES MATERIAL FROM GATUR, NOLA, CINDERELLA, ATLANTIC, AND BONATEMP. TRACK LISTING - YOUR LOVE AND MY LOVE TOGETHER TEASIN' YOU WALKING UP A ONE WAY STREET THANK YOU JOHN I WANT SOMEBODY (TO SHOW ME THE WAY BACK HOME) YOU BETTER SAY YES PLEASE DON'T GO MY HEART REMEMBERS TEASING YOU AGAIN YOU GONNA PAY SOME DUES FOOLISH GIRL I PEEPED YOUR HOLE CARD AIN'T THAT TRUE BABY I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN SWIVEL YOUR HIPS Price £15 plus £3 Recorded Delivery - Total £18 Due to customs and freight charges getting them in from USA was more than I expected, after this am putting price up. PayPal payments to - sales@souvation.biz Thanks, Neil

This will be in stock Tuesday. If It's All The Same To You Babe - Luther Ingram b/w Exus Trek - Luther Ingram Orchstra By arrangment with Robert Bateman, UK release on lookalike of his H.I.B label via Inferno 150 only - all individually numbered from 1 to 150 - multi-coloured vinyl - Auditon Copy - solid centre - £20 & regular release, black vinyl, no solid cenre - £10 or the two for £25 Add Postage & Packing (Ist class recorded) £2 Ist record, £1 each extra PayPal payments to - sales@soulvation.biz Robert Bateman talking about this all time Detroit classic: "I was the B in H.I.B and Luther Ingram was the I. The address on the label was my house. We recorded the track at Golden World using the Funk Brothers who moonlighted from Motown to do the session. I then took the tapes to New York where I went into the Mercury studios and added the strings. The orchestra was actually just two violinists who I overdubbed until I got the sound I wanted. I had learnt all about overdubbing from my time at Motown. I manufactured the records and right away got plays on radio stations in St. Louis where Luther had a following. I sold maybe 5,000 copies and then the distributor wanted me to commit to more, and I was concerned about the costs so he said no problem he would get someone to call me who could help. A few days later I got the phone call and it was from Jerry Wexler at Atlantic!. He cut me a nice deal including a good advance and Atlantic took over distribution, that's why the later copies have got Atco on them. I had earned from the records I sold, and also got an advance from Jerry so I was very happy, it certainly was no flop as far as I was concerned. Why did I make the record so fast? You think it's fast? I just wanted to come up with something that sounded similair to what The Four Tops were doing."."

LOST AND FOUND - KENNY CARLTON (BLUE ROCK DEMO) £300 ALONE WITH NO LOVE VOCAL/INST - THE CONTEMPLATIONS/DONTEE STUDIO BAND (DONTEE) £300 THE GREATEST GIFT - RICHARD LACKEY (SOLID FOUNDATION promotional copy sticker) £250 COME SEE WHAT'S LEFT OF ME - BOBBY HUTTON (PHILIPS W/DJ water damaged label) £150 LET HER GO - OTIS SMITH (PERCEPTION W/DJ) £225 WHY WOULD YOU BLOW IT - CLAUDE HUEY (GALAXY) £170 YOU CAN'T HOLD ON TO LOVE - THE DETERMINATIONS (IMPORTANT W/DJ) £150 GETTING TOGETHER - A BROTHERS GUIDING LIGHT (MERCURY red label) £120 SORRY AIN'T THE WORD - THE PARAMOUNT FOUR (KENT 100 CLUB 31ST ANNIVERSARY DISC) £50 SHAKE IT - MATT LUCAS (3246 AUDITION COPY, 100 COPIES INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED) ONE SIDED DISC, BLUE VINYL) £20 PLEASE PM TO RESERVE. Thanks, Neil

All USA originals LET HER GO/ALLEY FULL OF TRASH AND BOTTLES - OTIS SMITH (PERCEPTION W/DJ) £225 lovely copy OO WEE LET IT BE ME BABE - KARL EVANS (SKYWAY) £75 lovely copy, has not been played since I bought it from Skyway office in bungalow in Hollywood in late 70's!) PROVE YOURSELF A LADY - JAMES BOUNTY (COMPASS W/DJ) £125 lovely copy SATISFIED - BEN AIKEN (LOMA W/DJ) £100 lovely copy THAT'S THE WAY HE IS - ANN PERRY (THEODA T-120) £100 I CAN'T CHANGE - THE SENSATIONS WITH YVONNE BAKER (JUNIOR W/DJ) £100 (SMALL X ON LABEL, OTHERWISE FLAWLESS) PEACE OF MIND -E.RODNEY JONES (TUFF) £125 nice condition ---SOLD--- WHY WOULD YOU BLOW IT - CLAUDE HUEY (GALAXY) £170 superb copy LONELY FOR YOU BABY - SAM DEES (SSS) £250 styrene burn for first 10 seconds, hence price WINNER TAKES ALL - GERALDINE HUNT (ABC W/DJ) £200 superb copy IF YOU EVER WALK OF OUT OF MY LIFE - DENA BARNES (INFERNO W/DJ) £300 No marks on labels, there is hairline fracture on outer rim and going one third inch into disc, hence price. Plays perfectly. And one UK rarity THE PANIC IS ON - ROY HAMILTON (UK MGM) No writing or marks on labels.Scuff marks on vinyl. VG plus. £200 If interested please PM me. Thanks, Neil

Special Summer Sale! For August only. NORTHERN SOUL STORIES - NEIL RUSHTON (YELLOW HARDBACK) Reduced from £20 to £15 THE WIGAN CASINO YEARS - TIM BROWN (HARDBACK) Reduced from £30 to £20 THE IN CROWD - MIKE RITSON & STAURT RUSSELL (SOFTBACK) Reduced from £25 to £15 Please add £5 postage & packing per book All 3 books for £60 including delivery. Please make PayPal payment to - sales@soulvation.biz Above UK postage only. For postage rates outside UK please PM me. Thanks, Neil

As it is a UK pressing there is no Nashville stamp. Although it is a lookalike. the intention is not to confuse with the original, so the new release has got Hype&Sou! logo added to it and is red vinyl. Therefore canot see it affecting the value of the original at all. Maybe a third of the advance orders are from overseas which shows the spread of Motown. The overseas buyers seem very happy with the single, I guess the original is much less known overseas as it was done for the UK Tamla Motown Appeciation Society. Al worked closely with Dave Godin, and the book reproduces a letter (and the envelope it came in!) from Dave to Al, so we thought the TMAS single was a good choice to go with the first 500 of the book. By the way does anyone know how The Elgins got their name? The story is told in a newspaper clipping in the book. It is with a Washington paper and Al says this is the only USA newspaper he managed to persuade to interview the group. It stuns me that Motown did not realise what a classic H-D-H potential monster hit they had with "Heaven Must Have Sent You".

Two originals I CAN'T GET OVER LOSING YOU - THE INCREDIBLES (USA AUDIO ARTS) £20 COOL OFF - THE DETROIT EXECUTIVES (PAMELINE, LABEL OFF CENTRE) £25 & re-issues THAT'S WHAT LOVE IS - THE HESITATIONS (SOUL SERIES) £10 GONE WITH THE WIND IS MY LOVE - RITA & THE TIARAS (JOE BOY PIC BAG) £10 I REALLY LOVE YOU - JIMMY BURNS (TOP DOG) £10 IF THIS IS LOVE EP - THE PRECISIONS (DREW/INFERNO PIC BAG)£10 WHY GIRL EP - THE PRECISIONS (DREW/INFERNO PIC BAG) £10 YOUR AUTUMN OF TOMORROW - THE CROW (INFERNO 1979 RED AND WHITE DEMO) £20 YOUR AUTUMN OF TOMORROW - THE CROW (INNER EAR/INFERNO 2012 GREEN VINYL) £10 YOUR AUTUMN OF TOMORROW - THE CROW (INNER EAR/INFERNO 2012 GREEN VINYL DEMO 100 ONLY ALL INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED)£20 DO I LOVE YOU - FRANK WILSON/DO I LOVE YOU - CHRIS CLARK (UK TAMLA MOTOWN 982 153 0) SHRUNK WRAPPED - £15 IN LOVE - TONY GALLA (JOE BOY/SWAN PROMO ONE SIDED) £10 I NEED YOUR LOVE - CLYDENE JACKSON (SOUL HQ) £15 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - JEAN SCHERRIE & LYNDA (USA MOTOR CITY) £10 BECAUSE OF YOU - JACKIE WILSON (TRENTHAM ) £10 SAVE THE YOUTH - MELLOW MADNESS (KAY-DEE) £10 SHE SAID GOODBYE - BILLY HAMBRIC (GRAPEVINE DEMO) £10 LET'S SPEND SOME TIME TOGETHER - LARRY HOUSTON (HFMP) £10 TRUST IN ME - JACKIE ROSS/LUCKY LUCKY ME - MARVIN GAYE (NORTHERN SOUL STORIES DEMO) £10 GVIE ME ANOTHER CHANCE/ A DREAM - PEARL JONES (JOE BOY/SIDRA DEMO RED VINYL) £10 BE'S THAT WAY SOMETIMES - BOBBY WELLS (GRAPEVINE DEMO) £15 SHAKE IT - MATT LUCAS (3246 BLUE VINYL) £10 SHAKE IT - MATT LUCAS (3246 BLUE VINYL SOLID CENTRE DEMO 100 ONLY ALL INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED) £20 A THOUSAND WONDERS - T.S.U TORONADOS ORIG RELEASED VERSIOIN AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TAKE (NORTHERN SOUL STORIES) £10 ALL SENT OUT FIRST CLASS RECORDED. ADD £2 DELIVERY FIRST DISC, £1 EACH EXTRA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USA COMPILATION LP FROM 2001 - LONG DELETED - GREAT ALBUM - MINT/SEALED - JUST IN FROM STATES TEASIN' YOU - WILLIE TEE (NIGHT TRAIN) INCLUDES AIN' THAT TRUE BABY, YOU GONNA PAY SOME DUES, PLEASE DON'T GO, I PEEPED YOUR HOLE CARD, I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN, TEASING YOU AGAIN, WALKING UP A ONE WAY STREET. £15 PLUS £3 DELIVERY. PLEASE PM TO RESERVE. PAYMENT DETAILS TO - sales@soulvation.biz

TEASIN' YOU LP WILLIE TEE (NIGHT TRAIN INTERNATIONAL) Finally got the stock released by HM Customs. All pre-orders were sent out today Ist class recorded post. All new orders will be sent out same day Ist class recorded post. This is the superb 2001 USA compilation that takes in best material from Gatur, Nola, Atlantic, Bonatemp (Butch's big 2 plays), and Cinderella. Price is £15 plus £3 delivery - ie £18 total. All LP's are sealed & mint. Now long deleted. So first come,first served! Track listing Side A 1 - YOUR LOVE AND MY LOVE TOGETHER (GATUR 512) 2 - TEASIN' YOU (NOLA 708) 3 - WALKING UP A ONE WAY STREET (NOLA 708) 4 - THANK YOU JOHN (ATLANTIC 2287) 5 - I WANT SOMEBODY (T0 SHOW THE WAY BACK HOME) (ATLANTIC 2302) 6 - YOU BETTER SAY YES (ATLANTIC 2302) 7 - PLEASE DON'T GO (NOLA 737) 8 - MY HEART REMEMBERS (NOLA 737) Side B 1 - TEASING YOU AGAIN (GATUR 512) 2 - YOU GONNA PAY SOME DUES (BONATEMP 401) 3 - FOOLISH GIRL (CINDERELLA 1202) 4 - I PEEPED YOUR HOLE CARD (GATUR 701) 5 - AIN'T THAT TRUE BABY (BONATEMP 401) 6 - I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN (GATUR 557) 7 - SWIVEL YOUR HIPS (GATUR) All The Best, Neil

I-TRAVEL ALONE - LOU RAGLAND (AMY ISSUE) £400 SOLD NOTE - HAS ONE AIRLINE CRACK ACROSS MOST OF DISC, DOES NOT REACH RUN OUT GROOVE. TAPE ACROSS CRACK ON BACK, HENCE LOW PRICE. PLAYS ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY, NO POPS OR CRACKLES. BABY RECONSIDER - LEON HAYWOOD (FAT FISH W/DJ) £450 SOLD CAN YOU REMEMBER - RHONDA DAVIS (DUKE DEMO) £150 SOLD CALL ON ME - THE DYNELLS (VENT ) £170 (lovely conditiion) ON HOLD BABY, I NEED YOU - TJ WILLIAMS AND TWO SHADES OF SOUL (JOSIE) £175 SOLD BETTER - RUBY WINTERS (UK STATESIDE DEMO) £150 WINNER TAKES ALL - GERALDINE HUNT (ABC DEMO) £175 PREPARED TO LOVE YOU - THELMA LINDSEY (MAGIC CITY W/DJ) £200 SOLD SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - THE METROS (AUSTRALIAN RCA DEMO) £200 SHAKE IT - MATT LUCAS (3246 solid centre demo) £20 NEW UK RELEASE. 100 AUDITION DISCS ONLY, ALL INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED. SAME BACKING TRACK AS EDWIN STARR BACKSTREET, BLUE VINYL YOUR AUTUMN OF TOMORROW - THE CROW (INNER EAR DEM0) £20 NEW UK INFERNO RELESE. 100 DEMOS ONLY, ALL INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED. GREEN VINYL PLEASE PM TO RESERVE Thanks - Neil

Would like to add my condolences. Had the pleasure of interviewing him for Black Echoes way back in the 70's when the Loma compilations came out. Despite me being woefully unprepared, he was genial and charming, and his love of Soul Music shone through.

TEASIN' YOU LP WILLIE TEE (TUFFAMERICA) Well after problems with HM Customs, pleased to annnounce this wll definitely be in stock on Monday ready to ship out same day. If you have ordered already, your LP will be going out Monday. If you haven't ordered yet then hurry, the remaining stock is going to fly out. Great USA compilation from 2001 now long deleted, includes all Mr Turbiton's Northern/X-Over gems including Butch's discoveries "You Gonna Pay Some Dues" and the excellent "Ain't That True Baby". Track listing is - YOUR LOVE AND MY LOVE TOGETHER TEASIN' YOU WALKING UP A ONE WAY STREET THANK YOU JOHN I WANT SOMEBODY (TO SHOW ME THE WAY BACK HOME) YOU BETTER SAY YES PLEASE DON'T GO MY HEART REMEMBERS TEASING YOU AGAIN YOU GONNA PAY SOME DUES FOOLISH GIRL PEEPED YOUR HOLE CARD AIN'T THAT TRUE BABY I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN SWIVEL YOUR HIPS £15 PLUS £3 IST CLASS RECORDED POST DELIVERY - IE ALL IN £18 PLEASE SEND PAYPAL PAYMENT TO - sales@soulvation.biz

Thanks to everyone who has ordered copies. Am looking forward to seeing the muli-coloured vinyl. The production process means that every copy comes out differently.

I dunno. Sounds a bit biblical like "Exodus" to tie in with space travel? Goes good with Trek I would think. Will ask the question..

I just love the idea of Jerry Wexler signing the record for Atlantic to distribute.

NOW SOLD - THANKS LOVE DON'T LIVE URBAN BLUES PROJECT PRESENT MICHAEL PROCTER (1996 UK AM:PM 12") Record one of a Two Record Set and this is the best of the two as it includes the U.B.P Classic Mix & Soulfuric Dub £20 plus £3 Ist class recorded post. Just got the one spare copy, so please PM to reserve it. Payment via PayPal to - sales@soulvation.biz All The Best, Neil

Robert and Richard Wylie also showed they liked following fashion trends with "I Spy For The FBI" by Luther Ingram. And Richard did the same of course with "Rosemary (What Happened)". Talking to Robert he was surprised that The Poets "She Blew A Good Thing" had a following in the UK. He and Richard were bought in to do post production work on it ,and came up with the finished version we all love, but got no label credits.

If I had know about it in time for NORTHERN SOUL STORIES I would have included it for sure.. John Rhys also talks about what he called "Motown thugs" marching into Golden World Studio and grabbing the multi-track of what had just been recorded there, would you believe "Ain't It Baby" - Kenny Gamble .and wheeling the tape along Davision Avenue with the precious multi-track spilling everywhere. Luckily John (who is from England) had done a safety copy! Again if I had this in time for NORTHERN SOUL STORIES would have included it. The new Al Abrams book "Hype & Sou! - Behind The Scenes At Motown" is full of great stuff. There's a whole chapter on the March On Hitsville for Tommy Good which was orchestrated by Al. And after reading the book you will look at that famous quote from Bob Dylan about Smokey Robinson being America's greatest living poet in a different way.

One of my favourite Robert Bateman productions is Lou Courtney "Me & You (Doin' The Boogaloo)". It is an LP only track on the Lou Courtney "Skate Now Shiingaling" LP on Riverside, or it was until Simon Soussan booted it on a seven inch. Seems that Simon was not the first to come up with the idea of it being a 45, as Robert sold me an acetate of what was intended to be a single.

Yes, they were jumping on the Star Trek craze.

No, definitely the initial in christian name of Robert's girlfriend at the time of release.

By arrangement with the great Robert Bateman, I have arranged with him for me to re-issue IF IT'S ALL THE SAME TO YOU BABE - LUTHER INGRAM EXUS TREK - LUTHER INGRAM ORCHESTRA on a lookalike of his H.I.B label (B was for Bateman, I for Ingram and H for Robert's girlfriend at the time!) As well as regular black vinyl, am doing a limited edition run on multi-coloured vinyl. These will be individually numbered from 001 to 150. These will be £20 each plus postage. I can see them being snapped up, so if anyone wants to reserve a copy please PM me to do so. I am keeping Numbers 1, 45, and 100 for myself, but the rest up for grabs! Am happy to allocate numbers starting with No 2 on first come, first served basis and send PM reply confirming numbers that have been allocated. Robert remembers the recording sessions well. The main one was done at Golden World Studio with the Funk Brothers playing. Richard Wylie came up with the lyrics and worked on the track with Robert. They had a history together with Luther Ingram via "I Spy For The FBI". Robert, without Popcorn, then took the tapes to New York where he pulled a favour of Shelby Singleton and got use of the Mercury Studio where he added on the manic strings we all love so much. The Orchestra was in fact just two violinists, who Robert overdubbed and overdubbed until he got the sound he wanted ("I learnt to do that when I was at Motown"). We all think of Northern Soul classcis as being flops, but Robert tells a different story. Luther was popular in St. Louis and "If It's All The Same To You Babe" got regular radio plays there, and Robert's first pressing sold out and he had to supply more to deal with the demand. He sold about 5,000, his distributor in St. Louis wanted more and at that point Robert got concerned about the costs he was running up. He told the distributor his dilema and they said they would get someone to contact him who could help. Shortly afterwards Jerry Wexler from Atlantic rang him and arranged a distrtibution deal, hence the Atco credits on later copies. So Robert sold around 5,000 copies himself, and got an advance from Atlantic that covered all his costs/made him a profit, so he certainly does not see it as a flop. I explaind to him how the fast beat and whole feel of the record makes it ideal for the Northern scene, but asked who on earth he was aiming such an uptempo dancer at in the USA. His answer says it all: "I just wanted to make a record that sounded like something The Four Tops were doing!". All The Best, Neil