I'm Collector, Digger and DJ of 45RPM records. My tastes lean towards Northern Soul/60's Jamaican Reggae/Garage Punk. Oh, I also like to share those dusty old grooves so you can SHINDIGGIT too!
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Welcome to my last post of September. I've been hard at work tromping through dusty crates and boxes to add more slivers of vinyl to my ever increasing collection. This means good things for you my visitors because I've managed to unearth some very cool stuff. What I haven't had time for is creating digital files from those old slabs. Luckily I still have a small arsenal of things I've picked up in the last year so as not to let the well run dry. This next track is one of those. Mr. Fantastic Johnny C (real name Johnny Corley) is best known for his Northern hit "Don't Depend On Me" which I haven't obtained a copy of as yet. This track is the B side to his Top 100 single from 1967 "Boogaloo Down Broadway". Amazingly this song sounds almost identical musically as the A side. For some reason I feel the need to expose the lesser know B-sides of singles I aquire. I actually had a couple emails from friends who owned the Manu single (posted below) but had never played the B-side. They were wonderfully surprised when they found out that they owned that great nugget themselves! Hey, if I can make even a TINY difference here in the Blogisphere, I feel pretty good. Have a listen to this track and let me know what you think. SHINDIGGIT!
Welcome back! I'm coming off a bad weekend where I got almost nothing done and skipped a chance to go record digging just from sheer laziness. I think my body is just plain worn out.....ah well, I start another work week today and I thought I'd start it off with a bang! The following song is a B-Side to Betty's song "There'll Come A Time". Now to be honest, I'm not a great fan of the A-Side but I thought I'd give it a try. Anything by a woman who can put out a track like "It's Getting Mighty Crowded" must be worthy right? Well as soon as I put it on, I was disappointed. It just wasn't what I'd hoped, that is until I turned it over and nearly fell on the floor when it started to play. HOLY CRAP! I mean, how did this side become a B-Side and not an A-Side????? This song is quick, funky and it's like a freight train till it's done. Betty Everett had done it again! Check this out, the single shouldn't be expensive as the A-side reached #26 in '69 and I'm not sure this has been picked up by a lot of funk collectors....Let me know what you think! Well, I'm off to work! Hi Ho Hi Ho..........
Hello Again! I've mentioned in a few previous posts the interesting difference in labels from country to country. I mean, who would think that Canada/USA would have such different distribution setups?! I see these Canadian shadow labels everywhere. Years ago, a lot of collectors would shun the Canadian copies for the US issues because they figured they were later pressings in different countries. While that MAY be true for some titles, the vast majority of US (and even most UK) singles released in Canada were simultaneous. This means that regardless of the label, they were released at the same time. Now an interesting tidbit here...the ratio of US pressings to Canadian pressings on average (considering population) would be approx. 10 to 1. That means that for every 10 copies of todays selection on Groovesville (the US label) there is 1 of them existing on Transworld. I think that the Canadian market of vinyl needs more research. A lot of our pressings were superior quality (Capitol 6000 series Beatles anyone?) and a lot of rare and interesting variations to our US and UK counterparts. I even have a Carl Perkins debut album on LONDON (The sleeve still says SUN) with an ALTERNATE cover!!! For those of you not in the know, Carl (Blue Suede Shoes) Perkins was one of the founding fathers of Rockabilly and as such, his first album is guided at between $700 & $1200 for a US copy...nobody seems to know about my copy....Hmmm....well it's not for sale anyway...
Moving on, sort of....Here is JJ Barnes classic "Baby Please Come Back Home" on the aforementioned Transworld. This was by far Mr. Barnes best known single, and rightly so, it's friggin' amazing. It reached #9 on the R&B charts way back in 1967. Give'er a spin, if you like Northern Soul, this'll keep you dancin'. Please don't mind the crackle, I've yet to find a cleaner copy...........Enjoy!
Howdy Folks! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I spent the weekend having a yard sale that really didn't make enough money to call it a success. I'm funny that way. I took my total earnings and divided it by the hours I was out hocking my crap and pretty much ended up making $4/h. My fiance pointed out that at least we got some cash for the junk and can now put it towards some home renovations....she's so "Glass Half Full"! Anyway, how do you like the new embedded features? I realize that Divshare can be slow at times but I'm fnding that NO free site will offer me 'round the clock mega bandwidth...Besides, I think the features are worth the occasional slowdowns. What do you guys think? Today I felt like putting up one of my all time fav soul tunes. I mean I still get goode bumps when I hear this song. It's a midtempo dancer and it's ALWAYS in rotation when I do a set. I have songs with more heat, I haves songs with more mellow but this song is juuuuuust right! This single was originally released on the Dakar label back in 1970. As mentioned in a recent post, this is the Canadian version as Dakar as a label had no distribution up here. Atco was parent company to many a fine soul label back in the 60's / 70's. Tyrone had a long mostly successful career that ended in 2005 with his death from complications with a stroke. By and far he is remembered for this particular track and while I like to play B-sides and rarer tunes, this is a soul staple. If you've never heard it before I hope it'll make an impression.
BTW: I decided to Abolish the chat client on here since no-one used it...good idea? Jason X
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