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RECORDs OF THE LIST
Frank Lucas “I Believe It’s Time To Move Along” (ICA) £5
Knockout throbbing ‘77 ‘Tyrone Davis’ Crossover style winner. In fact, so good is this, if someone had told you it was unissued Tyrone, you’d believe them. That is a testament to how good a singer Frank Lucas was rather than an attempt to undermine him. Throbbing flip is in a similar vein and you may find yourself flipping backwards and forwards trying to decide which side you prefer. Perfect toe-tapping summer listening for those who want a slice of ‘Chicago-meets-Memphis’.
Aretha Franklin “As Long As You Are There” (Atlantic) £5 Blisters into a sublime slowie from 1975. Nuff said.
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Recommended 60s Soul 45
Fred Hughes “Love Is Ending” / “ Baby Don’t Go” (Cadet) £5 Quality 1968 mid to uptempo beater with all the usual Chicago trappings of this era, girls, sax, great but subdued bass etc. Equally good moody, mid flip. Great saturnine vocals.
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Crossover heaven.....
CS312 The Committee “Give in To The Power Of Love” (NMI) £100 Superb and sought after 70s /Crossover group winner.
CS314 Shelley Fisher “Girl, I Love You” (Dalya) £150
CS316 Lee Mitchell “Is It You Or Is It I” (Roll) £30 You’ll never hear this in a venue, but it’s a rolling maelstrom of a side - incredible vocals and it builds and builds....
CS317 Lawson James “I’ve Been Kissed Before” / “Mender of Broken Hearts” (Del-Val) £60 Another fogotten old Thorne spin - achingly soulful with fantastic deep flip. The label put a sticker over his name - very minor mark where it was.
CS318 Jimmy Burns “I Tried” (Minit demo) £100 Shook the walls at Thorne and ready for a re-activation.
Atmospheric beat ballad heaven...
CS319 George Freeman “Down & Out” (Valiant) £125 A towering 45 - a Rollys Royce big city side.
CS320 Sonny Holley “I Need You More (Than You Need To Be Free)” (Vee Eight) £80
CS321 Jimmie Raye “Look At Me Girl’ (Crying)” / “I Tried” (Tuff) £30
CS322 Bobby & Expressions “Everywhere I Go” (King) £30 Fabulous ‘deep-with-a-beat’.
CS324 Jimmy Helms “If It Was Me’ / “ Always” (Date) £40 Mint in orig sleeve. Powerhouse vocals; Northern flip.
CS325 Walter Jackson “After You There Can Be Nothing” (Okeh) £25 .........light blue touch paper..................
Collectors’ 45s.
CS328 Prime Cut “I’m So Glad” / “ Message To the Ghetto” (Polydor) £150
Incredibly rare issue - Clay McMurray lilting midpace ballad from 1973. Stunning lead vocals. Funk flip.
CS330 O.C.Smith “The Best Man” (Columbia) £5 Big production 60s soul ballad.
CS331 Originals “A Man Without Love” / “ Keep Me” (Soul) £5
CS332 Miki Honeycutt “Make Up For Lost Time” (Paula) £5 ‘76 lush femme ballad that has really started moving fast.
CS333 Vernon Garrett & Jewel “You’ve Got What It Takes” / “ My Every Thought” (Pam Mar) £25 Punchy 60s soul / ballad.
CS334 Vernon Garrett “Shine It On” (Kent) £75 Seriously fantastic Northern punchy mid*****£165 IN RECENT AUCTION*
CS335 Vernon Garrett “IF I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time’ (Modern) £25 Brilliant Northern, serious soul.
CS336 Simtec & Wylie “Nine Times Out Of Ten” / “ Everybody’s Got A Part To Play” (Mister Chand) £8
Slightly funky Crossover - both sides - produced by Gene Chandler.
CS337 Barbara Lewis “Make Me Belong To You” / “Girls Need loving Care” (Atlantic) £5 60s beat ballad / lavish slow flip.
CS338 Percy Mayfield “My Love” / “ My Bottle Is My Companion” (TRC) £8 60s midpace r’n’b plus deep flip with bluesy hints
CS339 Percy Mayfield “Memory Lane” / “You Don’ Exist No More” (TRC) £8 Moody 60s midpace - both sides.
CS341 Magnificent Opinions “So Happy To Be In Love With You” (Skippyophonic) £15
1988 but sounding 70s midtempo with roaring vocals.
CS344 Special Delivery “I Destroyed Your love” (Mainstream) £5 Classic ‘75 group ballad.
CS345 Chuck Jackson & Maxine Brown “Cause We’re In Love” / “I Need You So” (Wand) £5 60s soul ballads.
Modern Soul 45s.
831 Norman Connors “Melancholy Fire” (Arista demo) £5 s/b.
832 Side Effect “The Thrill Is Gone” (Elektra) £5 Superb uptempo - great vocals.
834 Jeb Stuart “Someboy’s Got To Win” (Esquire Int) £20 Lavish 84 midtempo that I thought might have gone in today’s climate. Will appeal to the open minded.
835 Al Downing “I’m Just Nobody” (Polydor) £30 vg++.
839 David Porter “Long As You’re The One” (Enterprise) £8 Tripping mid gem.
841 Manhattans “Happiness” (Columbia) £5 Midtempo magic. Gerald Alston sounding David Ruffin on the Philly winner.
843 Faith, Hope & Charity “The Ghost That Keeps Haunting Me” / “ No Trespassing” (Sussex) £5 vg++ near M-. 2 full on uptempo dancers - Van McCoy.
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Bargain 45s
BB19 Nancy Wilson “Like a Circle Never Stops” (Capitol) £2 Clean vg+.
Gene Page produced lavish 70s mid.
BB21 Joe Anderson “You Gotta Believe” (Buddah demo) £3 vg++.
Big voiced 70s mid ballad.
BB22 Jerry Butler “One Night Affair” (Mercury) £2 vg++.
BB24 Little Milton “Let’s Get Together” (Checker) £2.50 Clean vg+. Fantastic Chicago Crossover - small quantity.
BB25 Honey Cone “VIP” (Hot Wax) £3 vg++ Finger clickin’ Crossover.
BB26 New York City “Make Me Twice The Man” (Chelsea) £2.50 vg++.
Swirling 1973 Philly mid ballad*
BB29 Independents “Let This Be A Lesson To You” / “No Wind, No Rain” (Rain) £2 vg++. Bargain of the list; killer Chicago group ballad with fabulous soulful mid flip*
BB30 Aretha Franklin “Long As You Are There” (Atlantic) £2.50 vg++.
BB32 Aretha Franklin “This Is For Real” (Arista) £2 Vinyl is M-, labels have minor discolouration. My current ‘play it 3 times in a row’ spin of hers. 1982 but forget that. A wonderful intricate slow builder that unfolds like a good book. Leather bound, naturally. If you like slow, thinkin’ mans soul - add it to the order - perfect summer soul.
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DEEP & SOUTHERN SOUL 45s
DS308 Joe Medwick “You Ain’t Treating Her Right” (All Boy demo) £75 Mouth wateringly fantastic - written by Eathon Gums (!) - even the label is brilliant......
DS309 Norma Jenkins “Need Someone To Love” / “Me Myself & I” (Carnival) £25
Real nice smouldering slowie; lavish 1967 midtempo flip. drill hole.
DS311 Willie Johnson “These Arms Of Mine” / “Respect” (Savannah Int) £8
DS312 Tiny Watkins “Spell Bound Mood” / “Words Of A Dying Man” (Kick) £15
DS313 Jimmy Dotson Dreams” (Aar-o-Dot) £15
DS315 Magnificent Opinions “I Couldn’t Ask For Anything More” / “Recipe For Love” (Skippyophonic) £5
DS317 Wilson Pickett “People Make The World” (Atlantic) £4 My all time fave singer; at Muscle Shoals; written by Womack; slow burning killer. Knockout.
DS318 Soul Children “Take Up The Slack” / “ Tighten Up” (Stax) £5 Too gritty to be accepted by the Crossover crowd, but it’s great throbbin upbeat soul from the pens of Hayes & Porter; Blackfoot doing his best to get sectioned on the flip.
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Recommended 70s Soul 45s for the discerning ear.
Aretha Franklin “What If I Should Ever Need You” (Atlantic) £5 Subtle but soaring lilter from 1979 with ‘back to church’ vocals. Stunning.
Manhattans “It Feels So good To Be Loved So Bad” (Columbia) £2.50
Velvety smooth 1977 group ballad.
Ted Taylor “She Loves To Do It As Well” / “ Ready For The Heartbreak” (Ronn) £5 Chattering funky Southern Soul that has started to move out. As this is going to funk, Northern & Crossover types, you’ll get the drift. The seriously fantastic ballad is, seriously fantastic. My fave TT 45 is ‘Steal Away’, this is close.
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Japanese Soul LPs
Syl Johnson “Is It Because I’m Black”
(P-Vine) £40 Fantastic vinyl. Fantastic Deep. Fantastic Crossover / Northern. Fantastic funk. Yup, it’s pretty good.
Various “Soul Pack From Houston”
(ABC) £40 1978 release - vinyl is pristine. Bobby Williams; Kim Tolliver; Buddy Lamp; Melvin Carter; Bell Brothers - Sureshot / Back Beat cuts - Deep, punchy Southern & Northern...
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70s tips on LP for the thinkin’ dj...
Carl Carlton “Everlasting Love” (ABC) £10 “Hurt So Bad”, “Smokin’ Room” , “Morning, Noon & Night” ;fabulous high stepping mid to up Philly style winners.
Margie Joseph “Makes A New Impression” (Volt) £15 Sensational ‘hidden’ Crossover gem “Punish Me” (swirling strings akimbo), the long filed away and forgotten “Medicine Bend”, “Same Thing” another bounding Crossover sleeper. VERY GOOD LP.
THAT'S ALL!
Hope you find something of interest - best wishes Rod |
