Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities Volume 6

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Santa's gift on Top 50 Christmas Songs of All Time 🎅 Merry Christmas 2024 🎄 The Best Christmas Music Playlist For instance he also found the original master tape to Ty Karim's super-rarity You Just Don't Know that Ty's husband Kent Harris had lovingly looked after while awaiting a proper deal for the licensing of his superb Romark label. So now listen to the clarity of that cascading piano, crisp cymbal work, haunting organ and Ty's fabulous, rich, deep brown vocals on a song that epitomises all that's good about mid-60s, soul-soaring music. Our “Northern Soul’s Classiest Rarities” series seems to be settling into a familiar groove. We feature a handful of big money items, some were “cheap but have tripled in value” numbers, a pair of old school, Northern classics, some tips for the top and a couple of previously unissued recordings. R&B Punker – THE BRITISH WALKERS – Diddley Daddy [EQ] – PYE INT 7N 25298 UK 1965 Mr Dynamite Sue Grp In the crowded marketplace of northern soul compilations, the release of a new volume in Kent’s Classiest Rarities series still manages to turn the heartbeat up. For obsessive connoisseurs and occasional dabblers alike, this is as satisfying a soul collection as you’ll find." ★★★★★

There is always an imaginary musical pot bubbling away at Kent with contenders for the next volume of this fine series. Many leads are followed, the most spectacular of which this time was following the Salt & Pepper story on the Soul Source internet forum. It’s the tale of how six GIs stationed in Thailand managed to form a group, gig regularly around the country, compose their own material and record a great double-sider of a 45, all within their allotted year’s conscription.Country Music Hits on Top 50 Christmas Songs of All Time 🎅 Merry Christmas 2024 🎄 The Best Christmas Music Playlist

Finally we complete the CD and our reissue of Eddie & Ernie recordings with Columbia’s unfinished original of ‘Indication’. It’s a very different reading to the one that was issued on UK Jay Boy, but is very moving and emotional, like so much of that duo’s fabulous music. We also have one of the best Mirwood sound-a-likes in the Originals Of Sight & Sound’s ‘Long Boots’; a raver of a record that Larry Williams and Johnny Watson would have been honoured to cover. An Atlanta super-rarity is featured in the girly soul sound of the Flowers’ ‘Got To Get To Know You’, the only uptown sound from Bill Haney’s great southern Chant label. Whilst there can never be a substitute for owning the original 45s (anyone with a spare copy of Dan Folger for sale?!!)...a CD such as this goes a long way in easing and catering for that desire, and all without having to remortgage the house! Rarity often means big price tags in the Northern Soul world. Here those are commanded by the Servicemen’s almost mellow, uptown dancer ‘Connie’, Don & Ron’s offbeat and insidious New Orleans rarity ‘I’m So So Sorry’ and a great LA stomper, Ty Karim’s ‘You Really Made It Good To Me’. That was released on Ty’s husband’s Romark label who also supplied the old Northern classic by Larry Atkins ‘Ain’t That Love Enough’. Both are taken from master tape and have never sounded better. They will be covered by Ty and Kent Harris’s daughter Karime at this years Cleethorpes Northern weekender; which should be some show.Special mention in dispatches for Barbara Redd's I'll Be All Alone, which potentially may raise a few eyebrows. Special mention in dispatches for Barbara Redd’s I’ll Be All Alone, which potentially may raise a few eyebrows. – By Dave Timperely – Ace Records You may also like… Our “Northern Soul’s Classiest Rarities” CDs have showcased high quality 60s and early 70s records beloved of collectors and dancers. The series has proved much appreciated by the soul cognoscenti, making this new vinyl edition a necessity.

The “Classiest Rarities” series tries to represent all the facets of the Northern Soul collector’s world and to us the little nuggets that we play at home are just as valuable as the monsters that draw dancers to the floor like moths to a flame. Records like Danny White’s Miss Fine, Miss Fine on the Frisco label out of New Orleans are within most people’s spending limits but are as downright dirty and soulful as this music gets. Having Isaac Hayes and David Porter write and produce the single in Memphis undoubtedly made the session happen and Danny rose to the occasion. In a similar bag is Billy Keen’s smoother soul sound I Finally Got Wise cut for Galaxy and featuring the sort of big Ray Shanklin arrangement that Cliff Goldsmith used to such success on Little Johnnie Taylor’s recordings. Holy Night on Top 50 Christmas Songs of All Time 🎅 Merry Christmas 2024 🎄 The Best Christmas Music Playlist The "Classiest Rarities" series tries to represent all the facets of the Northern Soul collector's world and to us the little nuggets that we play at home are just as valuable as the monsters that draw dancers to the floor like moths to a flame. Records like Danny White's Miss Fine, Miss Fine on the Frisco label out of New Orleans are within most people's spending limits but are as downright dirty and soulful as this music gets. Having Isaac Hayes and David Porter write and produce the single in Memphis undoubtedly made the session happen and Danny rose to the occasion. In a similar bag is Billy Keen's smoother soul sound I Finally Got Wise cut for Galaxy and featuring the sort of big Ray Shanklin arrangement that Cliff Goldsmith used to such success on Little Johnnie Taylor's recordings. This latest episode of the high-quality end of the Northern Soul world is as varied as the scene has become, featuring manic funk, Detroit grooves, doo wop-inspired ballads, neo-Motown and pure soul stompers.Oliver Dassen on Top 50 Christmas Songs of All Time 🎅 Merry Christmas 2024 🎄 The Best Christmas Music Playlist Whilst there can never be a substitute for owning the original 45s (anyone with a spare copy of Dan Folger for sale?!!)…a CD such as this goes a long way in easing and catering for that desire, and all without having to remortgage the house! A new volume in this series is eagerly anticipated and always “on the go”. Northern Soul is a sufficiently broad field to make various styles of records potential contenders. The R&B and modern ends of the spectrum tend to get covered on our “New Breed” or “Masterpieces” compilations, but if the sound has made it onto mainstream Northern dancefloors, it wins its place on “Northern Soul’s Classiest Rarities”.