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Auction: RSV-1495 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: COOKIE JACKSON
Title: Try Love
Label: Cyclone 121
Condition: VG++
Lorraine ‘Cookie’ Jackson made a handful of 45s that are all worth a soul fan’s attention. Her rarest moment came with this 1961 effort however, which has had the attention of dancefloors for nigh-on 20 years in the UK and is indeed a brassy, infectious call for foot action.
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Reserve Price: £300.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1496 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: THE TIARA'S
Title: Loves Made A Connection
Label: Seton 777
Condition: VG++
With apologies for the incorrect possessive apostrophe on the groups’ name, this is the same group who backed Rita on her Dore epic… tho’ she never actually met them! They also made two records on the Valiant logo but for pure Northern Soul, refer to this one. Always has been a rarity and only our third copy in 30 years.
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Reserve Price: £300.00
Current Bid: £400.00
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Auction: RSV-1497 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: GENE CHANDLER
Title: Fool For You / Buddy
Label: Universal Acetate
Condition: VG++
A real oddity – these are the instrumental band tracks to Chandler’s Constellation release ‘(I’m Just A) Fool For You’ and ‘Buddy Ain’t It A Shame’. Both work incredibly well as instrumentals. In fact, in terms of “Northern”, ‘Buddy’ takes on a light of its own to become a dancefloor monster! Check the soundbite – a one off?
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1498 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: BOB & FRED
Title: I'll Be On My Way
Label: Big Mack 6101
Condition: VG++
Such a big spin around 15 years ago and copies rarely turn up for sale. Detroit of course, with producer Ed McCoy being the label owner. Bob Thomas and Fred Brown were the singers and they ended up on the label after a $14.95 buy-your-own-demo session sponsored by the Detroit Free Press! It was McCoy who spotted their potential via the demo and he took them into the studio; although the record itself scarcely went further than the end of the street.
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Reserve Price: £1,000.00
Current Bid: £1,002.00
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Auction: RSV-1499 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: SOUL COMMUNICATERS
Title: Those Lonely Nights
Label: Fee Bee 221
Condition: M-
The great Chuck Corby offers up one of the most convincing blue-eyed soul efforts on this gem. The label was a Pittsburgh imprint owned by long-time distributor Joe Averbach and which takes its name from the freebies Averbach was constantly given (Freebee). Interestingly, big Northern demand on this one seemed to come from an early Goldmine CD ‘This Is Northern Soul’ back in ’91.
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £525.00
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Auction: RSV-1500 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: REACHERS
Title: I Just Want To Do My Own Thing
Label: Magic Disc 212
Condition: M-
Not had this 1977 West Coast dancer in quite some time. Was sent this as a new(ish) release by a contact and it took me a dozen years to see another copy. Interestingly, the song is arranged by doo-wop group Rochelle and The Candles – a group that included N.S. legend Johnny Wyatt; lo and behold, he is on the writing credits.
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1501 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: LEN JEWELL
Title: All My Good Lovin' (Is Going To Waste)
Label: Pzazz 050
Condition: M-
Arise Sir Leonard, the right honourable Knight of Northern Soul and legend of a hundred gems. He could do it for himself as well as others – this beauty on Paul Gayten’s label proves it. The label was a 1968 retirement for Gayten… not a bad effort! Styrene Monarch press is the original here (no original vinyl copies). A double-header right here, don’t miss the brilliant flip ‘The Elevator Song’ which has picked up plays over recent years. Both on soundbite.
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Reserve Price: £350.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1502 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: TOWANDA BARNES
Title: You Don't Mean It / (You Better) Find Someone To Love
Label: A&M 1141 (dj)
Condition: M-
Gloria Barnes takes the Ohio Players song and tears it apart in wonderful fashion (she also did a slower album version). The stock copy of this is one of the rarest major label issues in N. Soul, but here we have a mint promo. Do not ignore the funkier flip ‘(You Better) Find Someone To Love’ either as it fits in well with any creative/alternate DJ set.
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Reserve Price: £200.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1503 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: OLIVER JOY
Title: Keep Love Growing
Label: Big Deal 133
Condition: VG++
‘Keep Demand Growing’ might well be an alternate title for this New Orleans stomper which has emerged from the pack to become available only infrequently. A tiny bit of label wear perhaps described as ‘ring wear’ (ooh-erh) but nothing preventing spinning around on a turntable and filling the dancefloor.
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Reserve Price: £350.00
Current Bid: £400.00
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Auction: RSV-1504 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: THE NICKY NEWARKERS
Title: Woman
Label: Mercury 73812 (dj)
Condition: M-
The oddly named group and their 1976 release has always been a rarity and it’s difficult not to think that Jason ‘Jesus’ Alvarez, who produces the record, is the vocalist on this one. It’s a B-side to the funky/disco sound of ‘Leave Me Or Love Me’ and, as most seventies promos are one song on both sides, we are fortunate the promo has the side. Produced in association with Jerry Ross, this one quickly vanished back in the day.
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Reserve Price: £400.00
Current Bid: £400.00
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Auction: RSV-1505 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: THE MYSTIQUES
Title: Put Out The Fire
Label: Twinight 112 (dj)
Condition: VG
For sure one of the rarest discs on the Chicago label and a quite excellent crossover dancer that also came out on the hideously obscure Orr record label. Some wear on the label and, for sure, some on the vinyl, but it plays pretty well. Check the soundbite.
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1506 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: BESSIE BANKS
Title: Don't You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come
Label: Quality 603 (dj)
Condition: M-
The right label for this great singer without a doubt and this superior seventies dancer has never been easy to locate. This is surprising, as she was known and rated at the time of this release (1976) but the disc failed to show up much in the UK and wasn’t around N.Y. either. This one is a sparkling white mono/stereo promo copy.
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Reserve Price: £200.00
Current Bid: £300.00
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Auction: RSV-1507 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: THE MARTINEQUES
Title: If You Want To Call Me
Label: Me-O 1002
Condition: M-
This is the Detroit doo-wop group The Martiniques on their final recording from ’65 (tho’ it isn’t a Detroit label) – a beautiful piece of midtempo harmony therefore emerges from the embers of doo-wop to ignite soul music. The more uptempo flipside ‘My Baby She Can’t Dance’ may have its devotees too.
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1508 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: TERRI GOODNIGHT
Title: The Victory Song
Label: Phelectron 702
Condition: VG++
Three 1966 releases on this 1966 Los Angeles label and every one of them a rarity. However, the two Terri Goodnight releases are the rarest of the trio by some way and this particular 45 the rarest of the two by her. The catchy rhythm has that slight Latin feel which made things like ‘You Should O’ Held On’ so popular. Just waiting for the right deejay therefore.
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Reserve Price: £1,500.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1509 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: THE EL COROLS
Title: Chick, Chick / You Gotta Be An Angel
Label: Rouser 2954
Condition: M-
This release from the label of Tommy Rouse has soared in demand in recent times. It was a Washington label, one of comparatively few in a city with a large black population. The El Corols are largely unknown but this obscure number also saw release on the tiny… Tiny label. Flipside ‘You Gotta Be An Angel’ is also ‘soundbitten’.
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £501.00
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Auction: RSV-1510 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: LIMITATIONS
Title: I'm Lonely, I'm Troubled
Label: Bacone
Condition: VG++
Storming group soul once more, this time from Elizabeth Bacone’s Philadelphia label which had just the two releases in the late sixties and only one from this group who then had a solitary release on the famed Volt logo. Bacone herself wrote one side of the rare Joni Wilson Volt release. A career rather submerged in obscurity then – all of which deserved better.
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Reserve Price: £400.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1511 Ends: 27/02/2020 18:00
Artist: COURT DAVIS
Title: Try To Think What You're Doing
Label: East Coast 1047
Condition: M-
One of the Casino’s longest-running cover-ups was this one covered up as Herbie Williams by Richard Searling. For the full story and further details on this record, see Richard’s book ‘Setting The Record Straight’, suffice it to say that Court Davis is even depicted in the book. Considering that the record got reasonable press at the time of its release, it has always been rare with very few copies ever cropping up for sale.
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Reserve Price: £1,800.00
Current Bid: £1,800.00
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