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Auction: RSV-1784 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: ELLUSIONS
Title: You Didn't Have To Leave
Label: Lamon 2004
Condition: VG++
Lamon was a strange label, originally from Charlotte, NC its output was overwhelmingly Country & Western. This included Ellusions producer Dwight Moody, who seems to have had very little to do with soul music but who, in 1965, managed to produce (as a B-side) an amazing piece of uptempo soul (the same could be said of the song’s writer Neal Davenport).
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Reserve Price: £400.00
Current Bid: £600.00
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Auction: RSV-1785 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: BETTY LLOYD
Title: I'm Catching On
Label: BSC 401
Condition: VG++
A copy from the little clutch that turned up in the U.K. in the early nineties has only ever had one careful owner. Condition reflects that situation and is a strong VG++ edging towards mint minus. The copies originally came from Ms Lloyd herself, but the finder failed to ask her much. As far as we know she was a member of the group the Percells on ABC (unless they had a different Betty Lloyd). It’s likely she part owned BSC.
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1786 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: THE INSPIRATIONS
Title: Your Wish Is My Command
Label: Midas 1003
Condition: VG++
Milwaukee’s Inspirations were just one of at least half a dozen soul groups that used the name, although they went to the nearby city of Chicago to record this one. Group member Billy Miller was one half of the Soulful Twins on Sable. This came to the scene in ’78 and in a generally poor year for Northern Soul stood out like a diamond in the rough.
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Reserve Price: £600.00
Current Bid: £700.00
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Auction: RSV-1787 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: HARVEY SCALES
Title: Trackdown
Label: Magic Touch 2077
Condition: VG++
Talk of Milwaukee (see above Item C) leads us to one of the city’s great soul labels owned by Lenny LaCour – one of its greatest talents too in the shape of Harvey Scales (although he originated in Osceola, Arkansas, same place as Jimmy Thomas). For our money this ferocious from ’69 stomper is his rarest outing on the label.
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Reserve Price: £200.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1788 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: RALPH "SOUL" JACKSON
Title: Set Me Free / Take Me Back
Label: Black Kat 276755
Condition: M-
Two absolutely scorching Southern Soul dancers from the ‘Alabama Loveman’ recorded at Neal Hemphill’s studios in Midfield, Alabama in 1977. The studios employed the Birmingham Rhythm Section and, just like Muscle Shoals and Fame Studios they were mostly white musicians… that knew how to make soul!
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1789 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: JAMES FOUNTAIN
Title: Seven Day Lover
Label: Peachtree 127
Condition: VG+
Talk of Northern ‘Southern Soul’(!) records – did anything ever make a bigger splash than this one? At on time the North’s most costly record… and worth every penny. It became decidedly less rare over the years but is now hard-to-find on the scarlet original with its strange little manufacturers mark in the dead wax.
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Reserve Price: £750.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1790 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: TONY MILTON
Title: Comin' Home Baby
Label: French Versailles EP
Condition: M-
Remember ‘Paris Blues’ by Tony Middleton? Well, here is the origin of it all. Domiciled in France for a couple of years, Middleton became Tony Milton and recorded this fine version of the Mel Torme song on a 4-track French-only EP. Very nice condition on both vinyl and sleeve – looks like it was made last week.
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Reserve Price: £150.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1791 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: THE DESIRES
Title: Smile / Baby We Can Make It
Label: Tamboo 2004
Condition: VG++
Obscure Chicago release from a group that did one of two other recordings including the parent label Starville – in fact it’s quite possible that they are also the Del-Tours as group member Charlie Mays wrote both sides of that rarity. Two fantastic sides that are almost completely under the radar… don’t miss the sound bites. Very strong VG++ by the way.
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1792 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: THE SOUL TWINS
Title: Quick Change Artist
Label: Karen 1533
Condition: VG++
Two different designs on this one, one ‘lined’ and a really dark blue, the other ‘un-lined’ and a lighter royal blue. We would take the latter as being slightly the rarer – and what a record of course. Wish we could find one like this today!
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1793 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: THE DYNAMICS
Title: Yes, I Love You Baby
Label: Top Ten 100 (dj)
Condition: M-
Stone mint copy of this Popcorn Wylie Detroit gem. Confusion reigns on the identity of this Dynamics actually with some sources claiming the disc to be The Dramatics (who were originally pressed up as The Dynamics on Wingate). I think not, but the falsetto lead doesn’t half sound like the one on ‘Inky Dinky’.
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Reserve Price: £300.00
Current Bid: £330.00
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Auction: RSV-1794 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: JOY ARMSTRONG
Title: Out Of Sight Love
Label: Azuza 1003
Condition: VG+
Very obscure West Coast mover (Los Angeles) from an unknown singer sits right on the edge of soul and R&B and could really do something for the right deejay. Written by the great Chester Pipkin this is probably a very rare 45.
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Reserve Price: £150.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1795 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: JAMES BELL & THE HIGHLIGHTERS BAND
Title: The Love Of My Girl / Trying To Get Chosen
Label: Three Diamonds 002
Condition: M-
Very nice copy of this Indianapolis release that had images rather than a label name and saw rather a revival due to latter-day interest in this artist and his original material. Ballad/Deep fans should not ignore the great ‘Trying To Get Chosen’ on the flipside.
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Reserve Price: £400.00
Current Bid: £725.00
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Auction: RSV-1796 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: ROBERT KELLY
Title: My Time To Win
Label: One Way 113
Condition: M-
Totally superb crossover soul! Knockout vocals from one of the fabulous Kelly Brothers (and produced by them too). And it’s a tough 45 too. The few copies that have turned up have sold comparatively cheaply but this gem deserves so much more – turn up the soul dial!
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Reserve Price: £150.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1797 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: RAY CAMACHO & THE TEARDROPS
Title: I Told You So
Label: Copper State 1078
Condition: M-
If Wigan had had this one, we would be talking about a fondly remembered and highly sought-after oldie. It would have been a veritable monster. The copy here still retains marks in the dead wax of a recent cover-up manoeuvre but went no further than one venue me thinks. Camacho and his group often recorded Chicago soul and funk, on the evidence of this rarity – they were hot!
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Reserve Price: £1,000.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1798 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: THE CURTIS LIGGINS INDICATIONS
Title: What It Is?
Label: Kaycee-Soul 102
Condition: M-
It would appear that this superb piece of uptempo soul from 1969 never came out other than on a promo (and again we wonder what the seventies rare soul scene would have made of it… a great deal I suspect). This tremendous piece of Kansas City soul was actually the B-side to a Sly Stone-inspired piece of psych-funk that didn’t ever get beyond radio stations. Liggins himself was killed in a car accident in 1972.
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Reserve Price: £350.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1799 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: THE OTHER BROTHERS
Title: I'm Gonna Find Love
Label: Pet 73267
Condition: VG+
This Texas group were an accomplished outfit and they recorded a couple of times for Bill Petty’s Pet label around ‘69/’70. ‘I’m Gonna Find Love’ is their prime Northern outing and is rarely located. The copy for auction is certainly not a minter but plays quite well – check the soundbite for confirmation of that statement.
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1800 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: JOEY IRVING
Title: Can You Handle Me Girl
Label: Vincent 130
Condition: VG++
Irving, from Rockford, Illinois cut around half a dozen singles from 1972 to 1982, including one which originally came out only in Belgium for some strange reason. ‘Can You Handle Me Girl’ is his big one however and don’t ignore the wondrous ‘What Happened To The Love We Knew’ (which was also issued on its own on Vincent) either, we have soundbitten both sides for your delectation, prevarication and cogitation.
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1801 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: THE TI-CHAUNS
Title: What You Wanna Say
Label: Sonar 102
Condition: VG+
Wrap your ears around this one – it’s got all it takes to do the dancefloors. We had a couple of copies in the nineties but haven’t seen a copy since then. A look around the internet and found… nothing seems as if there is a good reason why we haven’t seen this one in years. Plays with a bit of noise – check the soundbite.
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Reserve Price: £300.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1802 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: THE PETITES
Title: Lonely Girl
Label: Teek 96624
Condition: VG++
A girl group rarity out of St Louis that really doesn’t come up for sale at all. Deemed by some to be a Detroit recording, but really Freeman Bosley’s label was from further south in Missouri and just happened to feature one or two Detroit artists. Producer Billy Drain was the brother of soul singer Charles Drain.
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Reserve Price: £150.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-1803 Ends: 12/08/2021 18:00
Artist: JERRY AND HIS UNIQUES
Title: Yes He Will
Label: Lennan 1261
Condition: VG+
Both sides of this one was tried in the early Wigan era but failed on the dancefloor (as did quite a number of today’s revered records). It has remained a rare record ever since and one only available on its original imprint. Blue-eyed for sure, but with lots of appeal. Check the soundbite if you don’t know it.
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Reserve Price: £200.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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