Neil Rushton

UK All Platinum 12 - SOUL 001 This was a promo only 12" Features the full length extended "Disco Version" of each side Side 1 - Nine Times - The Moments Side 2 - Do What You Feel - The Rimshots 1976 promo £75 Please PM me if interested. Thanks, Neil

NOW SOLD - THANKS - Neil USA CAT 1977 ORIGINAL (CAT 2010) RAW SOUL EXPRESS THE WAY WE LIVE / THIS THING CALLED MUSIC PRISTINE CONDITION - THERE IS ONE DRILL HOLE £300 PLEASE PM ME IF INTERESTED THANKS, NEIL

USA Soulvation Army (SW 742) DANCING ON A DAYDREAM INST/ VOCAL SIDE 1 - INSTRUMENTAL - THE SOULVATION ARMY BAND SIDE 2 - VOCAL - FLORA WILSON £45 PLUS £2.50 ROYAL MAIL IST CLASS RECORDED DELIVERY.. PLEASE PM TO RESERVE. Thanks, Neil

Dave Thorley and myself dedicated some of his records to the memory of George at the Weston Weekender. I interviewed George when I wrote the sleeve notes for The Precisions CD on Joe Boy, and it was awesome to talk to him, and that led to me quoting him in one of the foreword pieces to the book "Northern Soul Stories". What I loved about talking to George was that he was not in the slightest bit blase about it all. We used his quote "No one individaul created that music and era, it was a spiritual phenomenon"on the Made-In-Detroit labels. RIP.

Don't forget Carl Dene was playing Rare Soul at The Catacombs, The Chateau Impney and Walsall George Hotel and Royal Hotel way before the term Northern Soul was invented.

Never made it to the Sunday sessions. Persuaded Max to let me DJ at the last night as I was a resident by then, but had holiday booked and could not get out of it. So while all my mates were at the last night of The Catacombs, was in Torquay and went to The Compass and met for the first time Bob Hinsley and Maureen. Memories of Lou Johnson "Unsatisfied" flooding back from that night, maybe Bob had copy with him?. Was with Graham Warr a couple of weeks ago and he he has some amazing stories,don't forget the Ian Leveine find in Miami was only because Graham told him he had left records there from his visit to the thrift store! Graham also got a lot of UK stuff from a shop in the East End. That night at The Cats when he played Dena Barnes, The Trips, George Carrow, Epitome Of Sound, Bobby Treetop, all for the first time played on the Northern scene, was one of the best ever.

Brilliant news. Well done Chris and team. Please get him to perform "So Glad", released for the first time on the Secret Stash m-pac album. Starts like The Inspirations "No One Else Can Take Your Place" and then gets better..amazing you have got Willie one just as this little beauty has been discovered.

The Bottle - Gil Scott-Heron/ Brian Jackson (Strata-East) was played as soon as The Winter In America album was released. Game Players - Dooley Silverspoon It's Better To Have (And Don't Need) - Don Covay Mick Holdsworth mentioned Jeff Perry "Love Don't Come No Stronger" getting instant plays. We actually gave away UK Arista demos of this as brand new release to first x number in at Manchester Ritz All-Dayer the Sunday before it was officially released on the Monday. Same with demos of Debbie Taylor "Just Don't Pay".

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Nice clean copy WHAT CAN A MAN DO / AIN'T NOTHING BUT A HOUSEPARTY - THE SHOWSTOPPERS PARTY TIME 1002 £100 plus delivery Please PM if interested Thanks, Neil

What price does "Guilty (Of Love In The First Degree) - "Little" Jimmy Ballard on ABC demo go for these days? Thanks, Neil

I remember Lily Fields "Love Has So Meanings" and Danny Reed "What Makes Her A Woman" being advertised as new releases by New York distributors in Billboard which you could get in the UK every week pretty easily, and sending off for 25 copies a time and they would arrive pretty quickly. Cannot remember for the life of me how we made payments in those days.

Bob Mays involves Bob, Ollie McLaughlin, booze and thousands of Ric-Tic singles we liberated from Detroit.

Flaming Emeralds "Have Some Everybody" was played on the Northern scene before it got distributed in the USA. John Anderson had got Ist pressings from Fee (Woody Wilson?) and gave Richard Searling a copy to play to build up demand before release. Richard spun it at a Manchester Ritz All-Dayer and I had a look at it whle it was playing and made a mental note of what it was. That was on a Sunday and the next Saturday afternoon I was at a Detroit distributors, at the start of a record buying trip all over the USA. The guy only stocked had new releases - no 1960's - and wanted to go home as I kept saying no thanks to everything he played... Finally, he said before closing for the day and sending me on my way, he would open up a box of stock of a brand new record that had arrived that morning to ship the following week. He pulled out "Have Some Everybody" and got exasperated when I said "I'll take them" before he even played it, saying I could not possibly know the record as he had not even heard it, and he had the first stock from the label to any distributor. I don't know if hew believed me when I explained how I knew it, but stopped being exasperated when I paid for all the 500 copies he had. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! .Twenty minutes found some Skullsnaps and Garland Green LP's at a store in shopping mall ..and then on to Bob Mays which is another story..

In no particular order, some favourite recordings rather than favourite songs, but first two listed are both - What's Going On - Marvin Gaye My Love Is Your Love - Isley Brothers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tell Me It's Just a Rumour Baby- Isley Brothers My Weakness Is You - Edwin Starr Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (wooden blocks used instead of drums to recreate sound of American Civil War army) Can't Seem To Get You Out Of My Mind - The Four Tops (Ashford & Simpson meet Levi Stubbs = Soul Heaven) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin & Tammi Baby I Need Your Loviing - Four Tops Helpless - Kim Weston I Got A Feeling - Barbara Randolph (met her and told her about being 16 and getting this on Walsall Market and then looking at it on the bus all the way home and then playing it 20 times in a row, she must have thought I was mad) Lucky Lucky Me - Marvin Gaye (All the time when we were kids in love with "All For You" this vocal was lost in the vaults, tragic) Just A Little Misunderstanding - The Contours Keep on Loving Me - Frances Nero Shotgun - Junior Walker Come On And See Me - Tammi Terrell Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations There's hundreds isn't there!

UK CHIPPIING NORTON (CHIP 2) THE CHANTS I'VE BEEN TRYING / LUCKY OLD ME 1976 BRITISH SOUL. LOVELY X-OVER. THIS IS NICE CLEAN COPY OF WHAT IS QUITE A HARD SINGLE TO TRACK DOWN. £60 PLUS DELIVERY. Thanks, Neil

UK EXPANSION 7" MINT/BRAND NEW SIGNED BY SHARON AT CLEETHORPES WEEKENDER (SHE WAS PAID FOR THE SIGNINGS). GET OUT OF MY LIFE / MAYBE YOU'LL BE BACK SHARON McHAHAN £10 PER RECORD PLUS DELIVERY £2 FIRST RECORD, ADD 50P FOR EVERY SUBSEQUENT RECORD. PLEASE PM TO ORDER. THANKS

DONNY HATHAWAY ALWAYS THE SAME / DON'T TURN AWAY GO-AHEAD (TICK 15) FIRST EVER VINYL RELEASE - NOW ON SEVEN INCH SINGLE, RECORDED IN 1968 AND STUCK IN ATLANTIC'S TAPE VAULTS UNTIL RELEASED ON A DONNY HATHAWAY CD COMPILATION LAST YEAR. PROPER POUNDING HARDCORE "RARE AND UNDERPLAYED" STYLE NORTHERN FROM DONNY. HARDLY THE MOST LIKELY ARTIST FOR THIS GEM OF A TRACK, BUT THERE YOU GO. £10 PLUS £2 DELIVERY. TO MAKE PAYPAL PAYMENT PLEASE SEND TO - neilrushton2@btinternet.com

When the vocal got released nationally - very shortly after Selecta got vocal copies to replace the instrumental copies - they must have filtered some of the instrumental copies in with the vocal copies as there were a few around in the Midlands. Max Millward remembered getting an instrumental in his vocal stock. Dave Williams interview about it is in "Northern Soul Stories" along wit Dave Godin review of the vocal from Blues & Soul 66 "In a similair bag to Chubby Checker's "At The Discotheque", it is a really groovy item that every discotheque should expose, and it on of those uptempo items that seems to have more and more to say each time you hear it" .

All copies from Stroud...a lot of it is old Global stock and the Joey DeLorenzo will be the legit Joe Boy single.

Funnily enough, was in at The Crown today. It's best experienced when Birmingham City are at home! . Our Soulvation nights @ Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham are busy. Full house last Friday. Tony Reynolds was guest DJ,and he has a great pedigree (The Outrigger etc) in bringing Soul to Birmingham. And don't forge that before he was at The Chateau Impney and The Catacombs, Carl Dene was playing "Rhythm'n'Soul" at Le Metro in Brum. and he is due to appear at Hare & Hounds Soulvation night soon. Plus, there were the great days of both Graham Warr and Steve Glover having record stalls in the Oasis Market.

Maybe from the LP at The Catacombs, but I don't think it was known until it was booted.

Ian Are you sure Susanne DePasse was not horrified by the original plan to release it on a 12" picture disc with photos of Northern Soul DJ's?!!! I can still remember the late phone call from you and Simon, coming up with the plan and I went back to bed shaking my head. I think it was going to be Northern Soul medley to begin with (?), and you came up with the concept of making it a Motown Medley. Can you imagine how awful a NS medley would have been? I can also remember you calling me from LA after you had seen Susanne. Then of course Simon got more backers for the records than there were shares...I think he must have seen the film "The Producers". He well and truly ripped us of on it.

Here's something standing up for the man. In the late 1970's in London I met Randy Wood to discuss a licence deal for the Mirwood catalogue. He was adamant that Simon paid him for use of Mirwood, and was very happy with Simon. Randy thought it was creative of Simon to come up with "My Sugar Baby" credited incorrectly and illegally to Sherlie Matthews. Randy - "How many did it sell" Me - "500" Randy - "Who gives shit, he must have lost money recording it".