Neil Rushton

All below are £10 each or any 3 for £25, postage and packing included.All mint/unplayed. Pay Pal - sales@soulvation.biz If paying cheque or cash please pm me CRAZY WORLD - KENNY THOMAS (suSU 12") Am sorting out records and found some of these, once they have gone that's it.was only ever a limited edition pressing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are all singles given away at our Trentham Gardens all-nighters. Having a massive sort out and found some of each, didn't know there were any Jimmy Burns left....and the remastering means it sounds a lot better than my copy on Erica. I REALLY LOVE YOU - JIMMY BURNS/MR BLUE - CODY BLACK ( to commemorate Top Dog Stafford Top Of The World revival all-nighter) WHAT HAPPENED TO YESTERDAY - MR SOUL/I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING - DAISY HICKS ( Trentham second anniversary) BECAUSE OF YOU - JACKIE WILSON/LET ME COME BACK - WALTER JACKSON (licenced in from Brunwick to tie in with the last ever All-Nighter @ Trentham ) AND FINALLY A REAL NICE EP - THIS WAS MANUFACTURED IN VERY LIMITED QUANTITIES BY BEE COOL PUBLISHING TO BE GIVEN AWAY WITH THE INTITIAL HARDBACK SALES OF THEIR BOOK "THE IN CROWD". BEAUTIFUL EXPENSIVE FEELING COLOUR SLEEVE WITH FANTASTIC PHOTOGRAPH ON COVER OF RANDY COZENS RECORD COLLECTION TAKEN IN 1967.NOTE THE DIFFERENT MIX/TAKE OF ROSE BATTISTE. SIDE 1 SPREADIN' HONEY - WATTS 103RD STREET BAND/I NEED MY BABY - JACKEY BEAVERS SIDE 2 NO ONE TO LOVE - PAT LEWIS/ I MISS MY BABY (DIFFERENT TAKE FROM ONE USED FOR THE REVILOT RELEASE!) - ROSE BATISTE. AGAIN HAVE FOUND THESE WHILE HAVING A CLEAR OUT, ONCE THEY ARE GONE THEY ARE GONE, WONT BE ABLE TO GET ANYMORE. Everyhing £10 each or any 3 for £25. I will pay postage.

I had 400 WDJ promos.Whether I had them all or not I don't know but was told none had gone out to radio stations. I got through more than 400 of the pink issues. And date wise - first remember hearing it an our Dudley Zoo All-Dayer which I think was around October 1974, that was when it started to get played, became an immediate monster. .

I never imported any of the reds but I don't think they were boots, I think Selecta imported them from NUVJ some time after the pink label copies had all gone.

I used to get the pink originals of "Come On Train" from Bob Cattaneo in Daly City but I didn't have the first copy in UK, unlike other of Bob's finds like "You Better Keep Her" - Marvin Holmes which I took 50 copies on Bob's reccomendation, sold or gave Colin Curtis one after he went mad for it after I played it at a Burntwood Baths all-dayer, and I then went on to import hundreds more following plays from Colin. Other 45's I had first from Bob included "No One Else Can Take Your Place" - The Inspirations (just the one copy unfortunately) and "You're Gone" - Celeste Hardie.. Years later I licenced in "Come On Train" to release on Inferno.The collapse of the Northern scene meant even though we had rights for a seven inch single we shelved it, but did include it as b side to our 12" on Gloria Jones "Tainted Love". That sold about 20,000 copies so format must be the biggest seller of "Come On Train". I rang up the NUVJ office in LA and they were so happy they had been paid the advance that when I asked if they had any originals they came back and said yes but "unfortunately they are only radio promos which were never sent out" and they sent me 400 WDJ's for free! I am pretty certain I had the first WDJ copy years before that when Dave Yates at DJM was sent a WDJ when DJM issued it in UK and he passsed the demo on to me. I was well pleased but then broke it one Saturday night while pissed getting ready for The Ritz the next day so it was odd to years later get another 400 copies. Happy days.

Well Lou said Rita Graham was Rita from Rita & The Tiaras and she has confirmed ..and he says Linda Jones was one of the Tiaras.

Have been asked for ages I have any Frank Beverly in old Inferno stock. found a box tucked in between the Phil Coulter's!! These are black vinyl and not in pic bags.

First Taste Of Hurt/,Funky Funky Twist - Willie Tee (Gatur green label) - £170 Take Me Back - Crossfire (Virtue) - £20 Deeper Than That - The Preludes (Harthon re-issue) £10 Watch Out Mr Lonely - Shirley Vaughn (Double R) - £15 If That's What You Wanted - Frank Beverly And The Butlers (Inferno mint/unplayed) £20 I'll Hold You - Frankie & Johnny (Inferno mint/unplayed) £15 Gotta Get Closer To My Love (never released in USA) - The Showstoppers/I'm Not Strong Enough (instrumental to Four Perfections) - (Inferno Demo) -£20 Why'd You Put It To Me Baby - Short People (Inferno mint unplayed) £10 You Don't Mean Me No Good - Jelly Beans/Your Autumn Of Tomorrow - The Crow (Inferno demo) £20 Don't Fight It - Wilson Pickett (UK Black Atlantic AT.4052. Fromt 1965 mint/unplayed) £10 Stop (Don't Give Up Your Loving) - The Two Fellows (Fred & Skeets) (Mutt) £10 Stranger In My Arms - Lynne Randell (Columbia Special Products) £10 Baby, I'm Here Just To Love You - Stagemasters (Slide) £10 I Really Love You - Jimmy Burns/Mr Blue - Cody Black (Trentham Stafford Top Of The World Revival All-Nighter single mint/unplayed) What Happened To Yesterday - Mr Soul (Trentham All-Nighter single mint/unplayed) Trying To Get Back To You - Jackey Beavers (Jay Boy mint/unplayed) £20 Get Out - Harold Mevlin & The Blue Notes (Phil LA 2nd issue mint/unplayed) £10 You've Got To Love Your Baby - The Millionaires (Castle legit 2nd issue mint/unplayed) £10 Waiting 'Round The Corner - Mike & The Modifiers (US Motor City mint/unplayed) £10 In Love - Tony Galla (Joe Boy promotion copy, one sided Swan lookalike mint/unplayed)£10 Hurting - Eric & Vikings c/w - My Baby Ain't No Plaything -Willie Jones/In The Pocket - Detroit Strings (Kool Kat mint unplayed) £10 Janice - Skip Mahoney (Soulvation anniversary single) £10 Because Of You - Jackie Wilson/Let Me Come Back - Walter Jackson (Soulvation Trentham Finale All-Nighter single mint/unplayed) £10 The Bottle - Gil Scott Herson/Brian Jackson - (Inferno 12 mint/unplayed) £10 I will pay postage. Pay Pal - sales@soulvation.biz If paying by cheque or cash PM me.

The Joe Boy release of the extended version is on CD only, not Joe Boy seven. Glenn from Joe Boy cut me a promo carver on it when the label had rights to Dore and it is massive at Soulvation, it makes the Dore original seem too short! Glenn was recently contacted out of the blue by Lou Barretto who was after info on "Gone With The Wind Is My Love" and was completely unaware that the record had a following in the UK.He has identified Rita as Rita Graham who recorded for Tangerine? He is also adamant that one of The Tiaras is Linda Jones, as in THE Linda Jones. As she was tied up with New Jersey scene don't know how she would have featured on a LA recording session but that's what he says. And believe it or not he says he could not remember "Blowing My Mind To Pieces" by Bob Relf which Lou wrote and I always thought produced. Glenn had to send him an MP3 . As it's just about the best record ever it's a bit like Picasso forgetting he liked to do a bit of drawing!

Don't know if anyone will remember, but we gave away 50 copies of this (probably demos) and 50 Jeff Perry sevens at a Manchester Ritz All-Dayer when they were forthcoming brand new UK releases. I was working for Black Echoes at the time and knew the press promo people at the various labels and persuaded them to give us the records as freebies to first 100 through the doors. Happy days!

I interviewed George Clinton at United Sound in Detroit 20 years ago for The Face and he almost fell of his chair when I mentioned "You Won't Say Nothing" - he says Tamala was just a play on Tamla and the singer was his wife.

Respect is due.

Sorry Pete, brain not working this morning, meant to PM you with bids. Neil .

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Song is also flip to "Lost & Found" _ Kenny Carlton on Blue Rock

Just noticed a guy mentioned "Somebody Somewhere Needs You" - Ike and Tina Turner on UK Warner Brothers single Warners were pressed and distributed by Pye at the time and have got a copy of the EP containg "Somebody Somewhee Needs You" on UK Pye (not Warners) test pressing, with info typed on, ie not a white label, which is tasty, Did have a London demo of "Open The Door"/"Our Love" - Darrell Banks with the titles and artist TYPEWRITTEN ON - very much regret selling that.

I've got one and would sell for serious offer. Neil

Dave Welding had one in his sales box for £100 at Soulvation on Saturday.

Casanova composed by one of the Detroit greats George McGregor - top songwriter, drummer, producer and a&r man. Had the privilege of interviewing him whilst gathering info for The Precisions album on Joe Boy/Inferno - he tells great stories about Detroit in the 60's. And he's the reason "Sugar Ain't Sweet" - The Precisions is so rare (all revealed in sleeve notes to the album).

I don't think anyone realises how impossible it would have been to licence the original versions and try and use them over our footage. As Ian has pointed out for a start the majors don't want to do business wth an indie company and if they do deign to do so charge a fortune and would allow a licence for just a limited number of years.But in most cases they would just point blank refuse to allow their old masters to be synched with new footage anyway citing legal reasons in the contracts for the original master recordings - so Ian had no choice but to create new versions. Even then we had the problem of getting an agreement with MCPS who collect royalties on behalf of the songwriters/music publishers Nowadays the popularity of DVDs means there is a blanket licence which provides for a uniform pre agreed royalty rate to be paid for music to be linked to video footage. At the time of the VHS release of SWONS this blanket licence did not exist and potentially we had the nightmare of every different music pubisher for all the song copyrights used charging us a different upfront fee per song to allow for the synchronisation of their music with the footage - and to make it worse this would actually be on top of the roylaties to be paid per sale for the use of the songs. After some very compicated negotiations with MCPS this was resolved, but honestly no one from the outside can have any comprehension of the logistical nightmare SWONS was. In comparison putting out a CD compilation is like a 100 yards sprint and with SWONS we were putting ourselves through a gruelling marathon. I have never minded grafting and am not complaining, but it is too easy to look from the outside and be a critic without any idea of the practical problems we had to overcome ....then on top of everything Ian turned around and said he was filming The Dells just one week before the SWONS launch at Blackburn meaning I had to squeeze a production job that would normally last 17 days into 5 days!

I am shocked. Last spoke to Richard after Dave Thorley had warned me that Richard was not as on top of things as he used to be; Dave was right but Richard was as nice as ever. Richard was a true kind gentleman - after staying at my house (he loved going out to a wine bar in Burntwood and sampling somewhat enthusiastically what what was on offer one lunchtime) he always took the trouble to send a Christmas card every year and his first question would always be "how are the kids?" And he was fantastically friendly and hospitable at his home in Detroit where he loved to get the wine out and talk about the old days.On one trip over there he took me around to meet Casablanca - the legendary one time Golden Word/Ric-Tic promotion man - and to hear swap stories about the sixties days was jaw dropping.Richard was a beautiful a person as his music was amazing. He had a fall out with Motown in their early days, otherwise he would have been one of their top producers. And he loved the UK scene - does anyone remember him DJ'ing playing his own productionsat a club in Nuneaton (?) where we had a party to promote the release of his "Detroit-A-Go-Go" album on Inferno?I have got the photos somewhere. God bless you Richard and rest in peace.

You must be a Thatcherite who believes everything has to be profit driven and nothing else is important?. Why are you focusing on the artists getting a share of the profit for their performances when as I have tried to explain once the decision was taken to make the project so ambitious there never ever was likely to be a profit - it had become, whether you like it or not, a labour of love. The artists did not do it because they were promised money, they wanted to be remembered and their performances preserved for posterity. But one of the on going costs were royalties earned by the songwriters for every sale and these have been paid.

I haven't got any stock. SWONS DVD is released by Wienerworld not me and they have got an efficient distribution system for UK and overseas. The VHS we released is long deleted.

What are you on about "so no payment has gone out"? I will say it one more time - royalty payments HAVE BEEN PAID to the songwriters. In some cases the songwriters are also the artists, in some cases they are not. Ian put most of the money in to SWONS and by making the decision to make it so ambitious with 131 artists it meant he accepted he would be unlikely to ever make a profit. That was not bad or good business, rather he thought he would invest in something he believed in and if it did not make a profit that would be one of those things. The artists were never ever misled and told to expect to earn anything from SWONS, but we did the right thing and they were given a contract that if it did make a profit then 50% of that profit would be split pro-rata between them. How can you have a problem with that?

If you want to buy a copy of SWONS you can stiill get one from Wienerworld. What has Ebay got to do with anything? The new release is not something I am directly involved in, but what are you on about.......the previous releases would have recouped x amount of the costs, the new release if it sells will recoup more, and the more that is recouped the more closer you are to break even when there will be a profit to split. What are you on about "the artist getting money back"? The artsits didn't lay out any money to get back - we did.The songwriters - who in some cases are the same people as the recording atists - have been paid on every copy sold, including our VHS release. If you want to check go the MCPS.

. How much can a video cost 10 years ago £1.00 each or £2.00 each and CD are what 0.04 p each to make.