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Auction: RSV-6530 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: TIMI YURO
Title: It'll Never Be Over For Me
Label: (UK) Liberty 15182
Condition: VG++
A Northern Soul icon, only ever originally released in Britain as a 45 (in fact, it is a UK production made at Wessex Sound Studios in London in 1967). Timi covers a Baby Washington tune from three years earlier and the strident rhythm makes it a better bet for the Northern scene than Baby’s original. Ginger Taylor’s copy, there are a few light marks but basically (as you can hear) it plays well.
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Reserve Price: £1,500.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-6531 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: ESTHER PHILLIPS
Title: Just Say Goodbye
Label: (UK) Atlantic 4077 (dj)
Condition: VG++
Song stylist Esther Phillips hits an almost-Bossa Nova groove on this atmospheric number from 1965, so very tasty on a British yellow promo too. Condition is accurate with one or two light marks taking the single away from mint minus.
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Reserve Price: £200.00
Current Bid: £210.00
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Auction: RSV-6532 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: P. P. ARNOLD
Title: Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Label: (UK) Immediate 040
Condition: VG+
Located by Ginger on Todmorden market 40 years ago when the records from Astro Mobile Disco in Hebden Bridge appeared! I (TB) couldn’t believe it as I only ever go on there looking for undies! The result is that the 45 has the stamps and stickers from that situation on it. It’s a piece of history. Catch P.P. (who still has the pipes) at the Blackpool International Soul Festival – June 19th - 21st.
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £260.00
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Auction: RSV-6533 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: CHUCK JACKSON
Title: Chains Of Love
Label: (UK) Pye International 25384 (dj)
Condition: VG++
Perfect Northern Soul which, somewhat surprisingly, is a little overlooked these days. Very rare on a UK promo and condition is strong with just a little ‘greying’ on the vinyl. The American release is ‘These Chains Of Love’ but Pye abbreviated the title by one word.
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-6534 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: HENRY C AND THE IVY LEAGUERS
Title: Country Girl
Label: Action 117
Condition: VG++
Obviously not the famed UK label rather an obscure Memphis imprint from the mid-sixties that didn’t turn up on Rare Soul turntables until the 1980s. Typically for the location it has a nice ballad flipside. A decidedly rare 45.
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Reserve Price: £2,300.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-6535 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: LOU PRIDE
Title: I'm Com'un Home In The Morn'un
Label: Suemi 4567 (dj)
Condition: M-
Known to every Northern Soul fan surely? Are these promos or not… Lou said they were and that the record didn’t end up for sale in shops. Very unusual to find a copy in as good condition as this one for sure.
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Reserve Price: £6,000.00
Current Bid: £6,000.00
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Auction: RSV-6536 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: GUITAR RAY
Title: You're Gonna Wreck My Life
Label: Shagg 711
Condition: VG++
Very strong condition grading on this copy. Real name George Raymond Washington, this release was his swansong after an eight-year recording career (all for New Orleans labels).
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Reserve Price: £1,000.00
Current Bid: £1,050.00
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Auction: RSV-6537 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: BESSIE BANKS
Title: Don't You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come
Label: Quality 503
Condition: VG++
Total 70s class from the ‘Go Now’ lady, so much quality here that is hard to believe that it was a total flop. Incredible Deep Soul on the flipside too. Essentially Quality is a Canadian label, although amazingly, this only came out in the States. Strong VG++.
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Reserve Price: £400.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-6538 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: VIVIAN JONES
Title: Money Can't Buy My Love
Label: Lark 102
Condition: VG++
Technically a Detroit record and this copy has a faint ‘promotional copy’ stamp on the flipside ‘Crying’ (which is a Blues-influenced slowie). Recent times have shown that this is a ‘must’ for anyone deejaying to the ‘upfront’ crowd.
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Reserve Price: £750.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-6539 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: YVONNE BAKER
Title: You Didn't Say A Word
Label: Parkway 140
Condition: VG++
Rare yellow/orange stock copy of the Northern Soul icon. As an issue it has never ever sold on Discogs and amazing to consider that it is the official B-side.
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Reserve Price: £1,500.00
Current Bid: £1,535.00
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Auction: RSV-6540 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: RUBY SHERRY
Title: Feminine Ingenuity
Label: Take 6 1002
Condition: VG++
Ruby was Ruby Johnson, not the Volt singer but wife of producer Larry Johnson who leased the track to Hollywood’s Take 6 but with a different flipside ‘Please Don’t Go’ (which now sounds more than acceptable). Great vinyl, but the label has been restored from old water-damage.
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Reserve Price: £400.00
Current Bid: £400.00
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Auction: RSV-6541 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: JIMMY FRASER
Title: Of Hopes And Dreams And Tombstones
Label: Columbia 4-43407 (dj)
Condition: M-
Difficult to believe now that Wigan played the instrumental side of this one, 30 years later and the Northern scene ‘down south’ started spinning the superior vocal side. It would seem that the copies pressed up as the ‘Youth Opportunity Program’ are contemporaneous i.e. released at exactly the same time.
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £511.00
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Auction: RSV-6542 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: SANDY HADLEY
Title: Since I Found A Love
Label: So-Char 12000
Condition: VG++
Very rarely crops up for sale if you think about it. Almost certainly a Philadelphia artist despite a release on this obscure Musicor related label and being recorded at Groove Sound Studio, New York in 1966. Booted very quickly back in the day, so loads of potential left in this one.
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Reserve Price: £600.00
Current Bid: £600.00
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Auction: RSV-6543 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: DE-LITES
Title: Lover
Label: Cuppy 101
Condition: M-
Famously named after Bill Haley’s ex-wife Barbara Cupchak, who co-owned the label with Sonny Casella and Tony Messina, it was the first release on the label and sold so poorly it is a wonder they persisted with more releases – of which there are six, although only one, the very rare Thornton Sisters, would be considered as ‘black music’.
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Reserve Price: £3,000.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-6544 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: IVORYS
Title: Please Stay
Label: Despenza 470
Condition: VG
Not mint by any means but plays not too badly at all (see soundfile). It would seem that the ‘upright’ label text is a little rarer than the italicized font.
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Reserve Price: £650.00
Current Bid: £810.00
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Auction: RSV-6545 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: ART WHEELER
Title: Charlena
Label: Million-Air 7777
Condition: M-
A very rare and obscure 1965 release from the West Coast artist (so rare that Discogs doesn’t even list it). A fine R&B-styled dancer that you will not see for sale again, perhaps.
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Reserve Price: £400.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-6546 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: THE HEADLINERS
Title: Little Sister
Label: Super M 5001
Condition: VG++
Obscure 1975 mover out of Pittsburgh via Walt Maddox’s Super M label from a local group who, as far as we know, are unconnected to others using the same name. Germany’s Tramp Record label reissued the track in 2020 so clearly there is a pre-existing demand.
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £255.00
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Auction: RSV-6547 Ends: 14/05/2026 18:00
Artist: TEAKWOOD
Title: Suddenly You're My Life
Label: Encore 557
Condition: VG+
And the same Germany company also reissued this uptempo modern track originally released in 1976, clearly they had taste/demand as this is another fine and obscure 70s item.
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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