Neil Rushton

Soulvation @ Lea Hall 5th Anniversary Single YOU DON'T MEAN ME NO GOOD - THE JELLY BEANS (SOULVATION) A SIDE - ORIGINAL VERSION B SIDE - ALTERNATIVE LONGER VERSION Limited edition seven inch. £10 each, P&P £2 I copy, 2 or more I will pay P&P. Pay Pal - sales@soulvation.biz Cheque - please make cheque payable to Neil Rushton and send to 11 Wheatcroft Close, Burntwood, Staffs, WS7 4SX. Thanks, Neil

Now in stock and selling fast!!!. SOUL BROTHERS FEAT. JOI CARDWELL "LET IT GO" 500 run limited edition UK re-issue licenced from Nervous Records, NYC. Copies are £10 each plus P&P £2 Ist disc, £1 for each extra disc. If paying by Pay Pal - sales@soulvation.biz Cheque - please make payable to Neil Rushton, and send to 11 Wheatcroft Clsoe, Burntwood, Staffs, WS7 4SX.

Bump. Any help much appreciated.

Bump. Any help appreciated.

Wanted - UK label EPs. DON'T MESS UP A GOOD THING - FONTELLA BASS AND BOBBY McLURE (CHESS CRE 6025) THE IN-CROWD - RAMSEY LEWIS/BILLY STEWART/RADIANTS/LITTLE MILTON (CHESS CRE 6010) BOBBY BLAND - BOBBY BLAND (VOCALION VE-PIT0157) BOBBY BLAND SINGS - BOBBY BLAND (VOCALION VE-P170153) TIME IS ON MY SIDE - IRMA THOMAS (LIBERTY LEP 4035) Thanks, Neil

Wanted - these UK albums. ARE YOU LONELY FOR ME - FREDDIE SCOTT (JOY 215) BELL CELLAR OF SOUL VOLUME 1 - VARIOUS ARTISTS (BELL MBIL 102) BELL CELLAR OF SOUL VOLUME 2 - VARIOUS ARTISTS (BELL MBIL 107) BELL CELLAR OF SOUL VOLUME 3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS (BELL MBIL 1170 YOU'VE GOT MY MIND MESSED UP - JAMES CARR (STATESIDE SL 10205) CHARTBUSTERS USA - VARIOUS O-KEH ARTISTS (COLUMBIA sx 6016) THE GIRL DON'T CARE - GENE CHANDLER (CORAL LVA 9236) BAREFOOTIN' - ROBERT PARKER (ISLAND ILP 942) A WHOLE LOT OF SOUL - ZZ HILL (ACTION ACLS 6004) Thanks, Neil

Soulvation celebrate its’ 5th Anniversary with a monster bash at Lea Hall Club, Rugeley on Valentines Night. SOULVATION 5TH ANNIVERSARY VALENTINES NIGHT AT LEA HALL,RUGELEY Soulvation celebrate its’ 5th Anniversary with a monster b... Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full

Had some enquires asking if Kenny Thomas is re-issue? No,it's the original pressing on suSU, I kept some copies back from then. Neil

This is single to be given away at Soulvation 5th Anniversary @ Lea Hall, Rugeley Valentines Night Saturday Feb 14. A side "You Don't Mean Me No Good" - The Jelly Beans - orig version. B side -previously unreleased longer version. Copies on sale from Feb 16 @ £10.

The following are all mint/unplayed. All £10 each, p&p £2 first disc, £1 every extra one. Or all 5 for £40 with p&p free. HIGH ON LOVE - EAST WEST CONNECTION (CHILLIFUNK 12") Chillifunk's 50th release and they marked it with this brilliant slice of male vocal Soulful House. Ideal for the enlightened Modern Soul rooms, sounds like a British slant on Blaze. Nice pic bag to mark the 50th relese. THE BOTTLE - GIL SCOTT-HERON/BRIAN JACKSON (INFERNO 12") CRAZY WORLD - KENNY THOMAS (suSU 12") BECAUSE OF YOU - JACKIE WILSON/LET ME COME BACK - WALTER JACKSON (Trentham 7") JANICE - SKIP MAHONEY (Soulvation 7") Thanks, Neil

No, Tim Brown copy came from Kev Roberts who got it from Joanthan, who got it from Les etc.

------------ Ron mastered records for a lot of Detroit techno producers, including Kevin Saunderson of Inner City, I managed Kev and Inner City and one day Kevin said as a thank you he wanted to buy me a present. I said OK can you get me a rare record that Ron Murphy showed me in his shop one day?. Kevin said no he meant a real present but agreed to try and buy "Do I Love You" for me. He thought getting it would be a formality.He was phoning up Ron as we drove from Chicago to Detroit and was flummoxed that Ron would not sell him this one piece of vinyl. Kevin at the time was just about the hottest dance music producer in the world and he just didn't get the whole rarity thing. Anyway Kevin went up to around $5,000 and he said Ron was wavering and as Kevin was quite persuasive he may well have got it for a bit more, but I thought it was getting a bit pricey and told him to forget it and to save his money.

Simon Soussan was supplying records in quantity to Les McCutcheon and Kev Roberts for them to wholesale in the UK. Simon borrowed "Do I Love You" on Soul from Tom DePerrio and kept it/stole it. The story goes that Tom was living with Lester Tipton and Simon had promised Tom a copy of "I Am Nothing". He then sped the record upand had acetates cut of the faster version in LA. These were sent over to the UK to promote the record which was now credited by Simon as by Eddie Foster. I had one of these given to me by Les, as did other people. Russ may have had a copy sent direct to him by Simon or got his off Les and Kev, but he didn't "discover it" although if Simon sent him the first acetate he would have heard it before anyone else over here. Demand duly built up which led to Simon bootlegging the sped up version as Eddie Foster on In, ie the same label as Eddie's "I Never Knew". Thousands of copies were pessed up by Simon and sold in the UK and nobody over here knew there was a Motown angle. The only clue to a Frank Wilson connection I guess was that Marvin Gaye's version of "Sweeter As The Days Go By" - the same song as the Eddie Foster bootleg b side - had come out with the correct credits on the USA album of unreleased Motown tracks put together by none other than Tom DePerrio. Les McCutcheon went on to buy Simon's record collection. Just about the last record he was handed was "Do I Love You" - Frank Wilson and Les is said to have gone white with shock when he saw it was a Motown recording. He did not realise he had unwittingly been selling a bootleg as Simon, as was his way, had lied convincingly.One thing I have often wondered - how close did Hal Davis and Marc Gordon who ran the Jobete office in LA and had arranged the recordings of "Do I Love You" come to releasing "Do I Love You" - Chris Clark as by Connie Clark on Joker? They released "My Sugar Baby" - again a Frank Wilson composition which he again also recorded the first version - and credited it to Connie on Joker, and Frank Wilson says they had permission from Motown in Detroit to do so. .

No it's a performance recorded for Top Of The Tops that was never broadcast. Sounds brilliant!

When we licenced it for Inferno we were sent publicity photograph but told we could not use it as the father of "Johnny" was so distraught that he had died in motor bike accident that he did not want to see any photographs. The photograph is on the Soulvation web site.

I first used to buy records of A.J ( Anthony)Lewis) when he was based down South,in St. Leonards On Sea I think. In 1970 I was 16 and used to sneak into the George Hotel In Walsall. Carl Dene was the god like DJ there and everyone wanted Bobby Sheen, Little Anthony, Mitch Ryder etc..spotted an ad from Anthony is music paper and sent him wants list and unbelievably he had lots of the records, some more than one copy. The in crowd at The George couldn't belive it when I turned up with some of the spares to swop/sell. I kept in touch and I was the first person some years later to go to his place in St. George's near Telford before it officially opened, remember meeting his Mum.I went over one Friday afternoon and had memorised Brian Philips sales list and came out with loads of stuff, most of which got flogged at Va Va's that night. Pulled loads of stuff out there right through the seventies in quantity for my wholesaling business, so much so that some years later, I junked 200 copies of "Streets Got My Lady" - Bill Brandon I had pulled out of there and which were taking up space in my garage....I know, I know, not the smartest move.......... And I went back to buying quantity from him when selling at the Scooter runs in the 80's.. Funniest story was going there in 70's (probably with Bill Baker) and Anthony and his Dad Jack (who used to work at British Embassy in Washington hence the stories about them having Shrine 45's) had got to know us and said we could go and spend the afternoon in an old chapel they had converted to store vinyl and which normally was closed and just used for storage. Piles of records everywhere, I climbed up for something and fell on to a carpet of records and (as you do) even though I was in a bit of pain, before I got up I put an arm down into this pile of vinyl on the floor and my hand came back with a mint "I Travel Alone" - Lou Ragland. Told Clive Jones the story at Birmignham Locarno All-Dayer on following Sunday and he persuaded me his life would end if I didn't sell it him on the spot.. Anthony was very brusque and impatient, that was just his way, but very funny with it,if you were buying a record in quantity he would not count them, he would say there's x records to an inch and you have had 5 inches worth which is equivalent of whatever. When I said can't we just count them he would say no, he wasn't out to fiddle you, that was way he was. At the height time of Oldies Unlimited success, if you were a candidate in the General Election you got free posting to everyone in the constituency. Anthony cottoned on to this and either he or some Oldies Unlimited person would put themselves up in loads of constiituences to get the free post. You couldn't make it up could you? Last saw him on the Cannes sea front during Midem some years ago. Asked what he was up to and he said he was writer and publisher for a good to UK Massage Parlours and lo and behold he turned on up on a telly programme about Massage Parlours some months later!!!! Definitely a one off.

Stock due in late next week. If you want to reserve a copy PM me. Record is £10, plus postage and packing £2 Ist record, £1 each extra record. Thanks, Neil

Mine arrived today, two great singles. Thanks, Neil

Here are labels for the Soulvation single to be given away free at the 5th anniversary of Soulvation @ Lea Hall Club Rugeley on Saturday Feb 14. 5TH_ANNIVERSARY_LABELS.pdf More details on www.soulvation.biz

Just got copy of original masters from New York - sounds great. If you want to reserve a copy e-mail me - neilrushton2@btinternet.com Neil www.soulvation.biz

Tapes to cut from are on the way from New York. Records should be ready in about 3 weeks time, maybe earlier. If you want to reserve one, just PM me. Neil www.soulvation.biz

This will be in stock in about 3 weeks, maybe sooner. Cut from original masters. . To reserve a copy PM me. Neil www.soulvation.biz

Just got orders for 36 copies in last hour which is mindblowing ...it is a 500 limited edition run and they are going fast, to guarantee a copy reserve one by sending me a PM. Neil www.soulvation.biz