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Auction: RSV-2065 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: TOMMY DODSON
Title: One Day Love / Mind Reader
Label: Uptown 709
Condition: M-
One of those ‘how did we miss it?’ 45s that was around (limitedly) back in the day without anyone really knowing how rare it was. Time has revealed the truth. Roy Thomas Dodson was a high-calibre West Coast artist and a listen to the flipside of this one, ‘Mind Reader’ on our soundbite will confirm the fact.
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £500.00
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Auction: RSV-2066 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: LITTLE JOE COOK
Title: I'm Falling In Love With You Baby
Label: Hot 1003
Condition: M-
It’s the Ritz, Manchester 1976 and Richard Searling announces the next record as ‘the best find for two years’. He may not have been wrong and certainly it had the dancefloor bouncing! At the time it wasn’t known to exist on the original label auctioned here, rather it was played on the Two-Jay label. Pure Northern Soul all the way.
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Reserve Price: £700.00
Current Bid: £775.00
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Auction: RSV-2067 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: RICHY CEE
Title: Ship Like Our Friendship
Label: Happy Beat 102
Condition: VG++
A label owned by one Steve Cummings from 1979 to 1981 and which divided its obscure product between black and white music. Played initially, not too long after its release (by which time it was already tricky to find) in the early 80s Modern Soul movement (which actually started in ’79). Time has treated the track well and it sounds better than ever today. Wrap your ears around the finest track Oscar Perry never made!
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-2068 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: MARY SAXTON
Title: Take My Heart
Label: Quality 1921
Condition: M-
In 53 years of looking for records in Canada, our own Martin Koppel has found this Canadian-only 45 just three times! It is without doubt a rare record. Indeed, it was his discovery that brought it to UK turntables in ’77, whereupon another take on ‘Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy’ created quite a storm.
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Reserve Price: £350.00
Current Bid: £350.00
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Auction: RSV-2069 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: THE FASADES feat. ELREE FLORES
Title: Mary Sunshine
Label: Shelly 10605
Condition: M-
Featuring the vocals of Ree Flores, this obscure 45 proves just how many great records are waiting for their turn on rare soul dancefloors. Dating from 1969, this powerhouse mover sounds more like a 1966 or 1967 effort – whatever the truth this one has got what it take for an imaginative deejay/collector.
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Reserve Price: £800.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-2070 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: SOUL MIND & BODY
Title: I Took Your Love (To Be True)
Label: Rocktown 15
Condition: M-
Superior 80s dancer from a label within the True Soul group from Little Rock, Arkansas owned by Lee Anthony (who also had a shop in the town called Soul Brother’s). This particular 45 was Anthony’s last effort at soul music before he moved into rap – largely due to the total failure of Rocktown (which had replaced True Soul). By the owner’s own admission this is a rare 45.
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Reserve Price: £300.00
Current Bid: £400.00
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Auction: RSV-2071 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: DAVE MITCHELL & THE SCREAMERS
Title: The Trip
Label: P.S. 2768
Condition: VG+
I used to play this track off an Emidisc at the local youth club back in ’75! In those days I couldn’t even imagine owning an original on the Met label, never mind this rarity! It was to be a few years before anyone knew that the first label was Paul Serrano’s eponymous P.S. imprint. Certainly rare and a love-it-or-hate-it wacky instrumental for sure. This copy would appear to have been ‘skimmed’ for improved sound quality; see if you agree via the soundbite.
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Reserve Price: £150.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-2072 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: EMANUELLA QUICK
Title: You Gotta Believe What Somebody Say / You And Me
Label: Key-Vac 3416
Condition: M-
One of only two releases on the Carolinas Key-Vac label and, seemingly, much the more obscure. Apparently a 1982 release, but sounding three or four years earlier, more like a late seventies release. The curiously named Ms Quick also turns out a decent ballad on the flipside ‘You And Me’, and we have soundbitten that too.
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Reserve Price: £300.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-2073 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: JAMES BOUNTY
Title: Prove Yourself A Lady
Label: Compass 7005
Condition: M-
One of the greatest, and an incredible Philly production from Bobby Eli, despite the track ending up on a New York label. And you know what? It is quite a few years since we had a copy of this gem and very many years (over 30) since we had one in such sparkling condition out of the store room at Eric Records.
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £250.00
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Auction: RSV-2074 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: GERRI GRANGER
Title: I Go To Pieces (Everytime...)
Label: Bell 969 (dj)
Condition: VG++
It was Cleethorpes Pier that really built this track, only to see Wigan adopt it a couple of years later as a kind of ‘4th before Eight’. The song has a rather unusual pedigree (as related in our 1975 book) but continues to be a very popular number. Condition is very strong with only one small mark relegating it from a minter.
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Reserve Price: £250.00
Current Bid: £400.00
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Auction: RSV-2075 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: CHARISMA
Title: 5 Up - 1 Down / Don't Act Surprised
Label: Beauty 2144
Condition: VG++
The Modern Soul faction is not known for its instrumentals really but this strangely titled and obscure one hits a considerable groove. We think the 45 is from California – and the A-side, is a killer sweet soul ballad. Given the interest in those kind of records at the moment, we have soundbitten that side too.
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Reserve Price: £300.00
Current Bid: £350.00
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Auction: RSV-2076 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: PATTI AUSTIN
Title: Take Away The Pain Stain / Take Your Time
Label: Coral 62491
Condition: VG++
Rarer issue of this classic from the Torch era and a cut that simply bursts from the speakers. All but forgotten these days it really would be worth a revival. The flipside ‘Take Your Time’ would be massive in its own right if discovered today.
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Reserve Price: £200.00
Current Bid: £250.00
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Auction: RSV-2077 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: LUTHER INGRAM
Title: Ain't That Nice
Label: Decca 31794
Condition: VG++
The great Luther Ingram had quite a track record in Northern Soul-styled dancers before his career on KoKo Records which culminated in ‘(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right’. This Bob Bateman produced number ticks all the right boxes and proves just how many underplayed records all still available to the all-nighter dancefloors.
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Reserve Price: £150.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-2078 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: BILL CODAY
Title: A Man Can't Be A Man
Label: Epic 8-50167
Condition: M-
One of those oft-found seventies major label scenarios whereby the killer B-side (like this one) is not to be located on promo copies – only on the side sent out to the record stores. Clearly in this case, not too many went out to the trade! A superb example of Modern Soul southern-style recorded in Muscle Shoals.
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Reserve Price: £200.00
Current Bid: £200.00
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Auction: RSV-2079 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: THE FALCONS
Title: Good Good Feeling / Love You Like You Never Been Loved
Label: Big Wheel 1972
Condition: VG++
They certainly got the title right on this one, as a magical concoction of rhythm and soul would elevate anyone’s spirit right down to their feet. Buyers in 1967 clearly thought differently as this is one of the couple of rarer items found amongst their quadruple of Big Wheel releases. The thrill is not gone however, flip the record over to locate the quite excellent midtempo ‘Love You Like You Never Been Loved’. Fabulous double-sider therefore.
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Reserve Price: £300.00
Current Bid: £0.00
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Auction: RSV-2080 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: SPIDER TURNER
Title: I've Got To Get Myself Together (Before I Lose My Mind)
Label: Good Time 1019
Condition: VG+
Turner’s superior version of the Kenny Carter number sees this great singer revert to the arachnid form of his name! A fairly worn copy but one which sounds better than it looks (see soundbite).
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Reserve Price: £500.00
Current Bid: £500.00
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Auction: RSV-2081 Ends: 19/05/2022 18:00
Artist: WADE FLEMONS
Title: Jeanette
Label: Ramsel 1001
Condition: VG++
It seems all has been said about this record – how Soul Bowl found a big box in ’75 and offered them, basically an unknown, at 65p on their lists. How the song is about a rather-too-young girlfriend of the singer (Jeanette Hutchinson of The Emotions). How Ramsey Lewis placed it on his label, etc, etc. Fact remains that is latter-day popularity is totally deserved… we were too busy listening to August and Deneen at the time.
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Reserve Price: £400.00
Current Bid: £500.00
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