John Manship Records

Tommy Turner

Lazy C/w I'll Be Gone

There should be no confusion between Tommy Turner’s very rare “LAZY” recording and the relatively common “LADY” on the same label. Feel free to use the other part of the site to compare the two totally different 45s. It will become obvious why this offering is on Auction and the other we are quite happy to set-sale. Before you is one of the ultimate Los Angeles Northern Soul 45s arranged by the great Arthur Wright, produced by Larry Williams. Wrote by the “I Don’t Want To Discuss It” boys Beatty - Cooper - Shelby. Maybe this should have come out on OKEH.

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Four Tops

Shake Me, Wake Me (when It's Over)

Rarely seen & highly desirable Red N’ White Demo offering a timeless dancefloor classic one side and a potential monster flipside, that has yet to break as big as it surely must do soon. The Tops at their most vibrant both sides! Label condition is flawless, a-side vinyl has some light surface marks but plays perfectly, perhaps more importantly the flipside is clean excect for a couple of very light blemishes. We’d visually grade a-side vg+ b-side Ex+ labels Ex+. Soundfiles have been lifted directly of this Red & White DEMO.

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Gene Toones

What More Do You Want

We could spend all day, maybe even write an article on how good this masterpiece of Northern Soul is. More important is the condition. It is all-but STONE-MINT retaining decades of tiny dust particles, that sad-vinyl freaks like me, just love to witness, confirming the 45 has spent it’s life UNPLAYED until today. A couple of sleeve contact blemishes otherwise the grade of MINT would apply to this very RARE offering! An astonishing copy.

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Prince Ella And Sidney Jones

Baby Sugar I Love You C/w Baby I Gotta Cut Yo Loose

Step aside all Northern soul R&B pretenders, Sidney & Ella have got something to say! Only a couple of sticks of dynamite could contest the rumble this pair produce.You could DJ with this 45, blindfolded, it matters not what side you play, the place would shake. So excited was the discoverer of this 45 he bootlegged it BEFORE it was a Northern Soul play, on a boring yellow label! This is the blinding PINK and excruciating RARE original! As you can tell I’m just as excited as he was back in the mid-70s.

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Frankie (love Man) Crocker

Ton Of Dynamite

What Is Northern Soul? We’ve all been asked that question. Well just listen to Natural Impulse, Gene Toones, Detroit Executives etc then fill your ears with this celebrity DJ’s wailing’s over Frantic-Funk-Filled backing track, the mist won’t clear? But maybe an understanding will emerge of hoards youngsters enjoying themselves on the dancefloor, becoming absorbed in a world of American music everyone else on the planet was ignoring..except of course the congregations of the Blackpool Mecca & Cleethorpes Pier.

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Moments

Baby I Want You C/w Pray For Me

1965 the first record for Baltimore boys who would become household names ten years later with their work on Stang Records. This Detroit influenced debut on one of vinyl’s most imaginative label designs, is a long-standing and hotly pursued Northern Soul trophy.Even fully 25 years after the 45s release a UK Record company credited it to The Fabulous Impacts on a promo release, such was the rarity of the original. Both sides showcase 60s male-vocal group soul at it’s very best. This rare offering is in totally immaculate condition!

Al Kent

The Way You Been Acting Lately

WOW! The ultimate so very rare Ric Tic DEMO and it’s signed by Al Kent . When I first heard this tune circa 1970 @ the BRIT Club in Nottingham it had a profound affect on me. To this day I remember that night and the records played, like it was yesterday and I’m afraid I have never had a musical experience like it since. One of the reasons, why I and many other Soul-Boys hold this Detroit delight most-dear. To behold an autographed DEMO is really quite something, 40 years on.

Cindy Scott

I Love You Baby C/w In Your Spare Time

A timeless Philadelphia girl vocal Northern Soul classic. John Madara, David White, Leon Huff and the genius of Len Barry, is polished off by Joe Renzetti. A regular 5 man team that created some of the scenes best-loved songs. This copy is the very-seldom-seen STOCK release in truly immaculate condition. Do not overlooked the equally good flipside, that has been laying in wait, for a thinking DJ to unleash on an unsuspecting dancefloor. THIS IS NORTHERN SOUL, two times over.

Willie & The Mighty Magnificents

Check It Baby

Oh yes! Late 60s vocal-group Northern Soul from Willie Feaster and team, showcasing, the pure soul-harmony-vocal layering a killer dance backing-track, supplied by one of the East-Coast’s most gifted gathering of soul-musicians. Well known for their funkier instrumental offerings, this time they hit the Northern Soul nail right on the head. Rarely can you acquire this standard of rarity & quality outside the 4 figure bracket. It’s currently sits well under that ceiling, but for how long?

Roy Roberts

Got To Have All Your Love

This Carolina man can do no wrong, check out this Greenboro, N.C. indie that has disappeared from the planet in recent years, first take and label. Haunting hammond intro, is matched by Roy’s perfectly pitched soulful groans. Another example of the Curt Moore & Roy Robert collaboration creating something special. note promoters rubber-stamped name on label.

Mary Wheeler & The Knights

I Feel In My Heart C/w A Falling Tear

The “A Falling Star” side is so prized by the vocal-group collectors, it has deprived the Northern Soul addicts of owning the wonderfully slick 60s NS dancer on the flip. Check out the instantly infectious “I Feel It In My Heart” like me you’ll be adding it to your mind’s wants list. It carries every trait I love in a record; smooth male-harmonies over an easy dance beat with a wonderful Soul-Sister lead vocal. A real winner that has yet to receive the Northern Soul exposure it deserves. But when it does….

Robert Sanders & The Entertainers

What I Don't See Can't Hurt Me C/w I Can Easily Get Along With You

Two Earnest Slade compositions provide this laid back, brass driven Northern Soul rarity from the Bay Area with two fabulous tunes. A very rare 1967 Richmond, California recording provides the collector / DJ with two NS strollers of immense street-level quality. As Mr. Sanders comfortably squeals and moans his way through to a brass break with a rolling hammond break completing the production. This copy is the more desirable high-fidelity VINYL press.

Masqueraders

How

Lou Beatty’s wish to have a vocal-group on his label came true, when by chance The Masqueraders fell into his lap whilst gigging in Detroit. An amazing thing is fate, as this association spawned some wonderful recordings that would wow a generation 10 years later and some 5000 miles away. This is the very best of that relationship, stonkin’ Northern Soul from an masterful vocal-group who’s reputation was elevated even higher when they performed in the UK recently. This 45 many consider their finest..

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Delegates Of Soul

I'll Come Running Back

Condition, Condition, Condition! A huge percentage of this rare Philadelphia Northern Soul classic have water-damaged labels. Varying from discolouration to obliteration. If you, like-most serious collectors, labels, like vinyl, are of paramount importance. Then this 45 offers both flawless vinyl and labels. A darn hard thing to acquire, as far as this title is concerned. A what a tune too..

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Ben Aiken

Satisfied

Within the debate on styrene verses vinyl there can be only one winner. The debate of the Warner Bros label against the Loma label is not so clear cut. But we certainly feel this incredibly RARE and pristine Canadian press of the Philadelphia Northern Soul classic, in infinitely more desirable that it’s USA counterpart. Not only much-rarer and decidedly attractive but pressed in high fidelity, durable and near flawless VINYL!

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Wombat

I'm Gettin On Life

You are viewing the incredibly rare and much-debated ORIGINAL first press of this Northern Soul classic, that many remember vibrating the walls and the low ceiling of the legendary Catacoombs club in Wolverampton; this was a “Niter” Monster that carried it’s reputation and popularity onto the beginnings of Wigan Casino. Note the label colour and text layout. The producer and arranger credits etc are neatly aligned on the right hand side, Company address at the bottom is GEMNI MUSIC Co. with the lowercase “o”. This is without question one of the VERY RAREST of all the Northern Soul classics to ever emerge from Detroit. Condition is flawless!