Soul Auction
Check out the Rare Soulman soul auction for all the best bargains available online. Be sure to check the closing date and time for each record to ensure to don’t miss out on the best bids. Our auction stock dramatically varies in price, with records ranging from £12-£700. Find the perfect soulful additions for your own collection.
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Nicky C & The Chateaux
Those Good Times / Try Some Soul
Bay Sound : C-67012 (45s)
The band most-likely inspired by Baltimore's other local Soul luminaires like Winfield Parker, Joe Quarterman, Arthur Conley, Bleu Lights etc. as framed in the harsher R&B a-side "Try Some Soul" you can certainly envisage this style delivered hard and fast by their on stage act, propelled by hurricane force horns.
"Those Good Times " is another evasive Northern Soul rarity back on a hard and determined comeback trail, featuring on "play and want lists" in equal measure.
Experience now, this young energetic 7 man blue-eyed soul band, saturated in enthusiasm for R&B; unfortunately this was to be their only contribution to the Northern Soul scene, but what a total killer it is. And now rarer than ever..
Condition Report
ballpoint X X on flipside label, a-side label is clean, vinyl carries full gloss unblemished mint minus surfaces.
Poets
Wrapped Around Your Finger / Can't Wait Until Tomorrow
J - 2 : 45-J2-1302 DJ (45s)
Condition Report
Two clean promo labels - bright gloss excellent vinyl - just a few soft surface blemishes
Nabay
Believe It Or Not / same: Instrumental
Grapevine : GRP 143 DJ (45s)
As this Grapevine GRP 143 DEMO it is in our experience, the RAREST Grapevine promo. A quick google reveals the word's largest most comprehensive vinyl websites DISCOGS and 445CAT have never had a copy - there is NO FILE, NO SALES HISTORY to accommodate this 45 on either site.
Even the 1980 UK Grapevine reissue STOCK copy, is fast becoming the label's most wanted 45 as availability of that format quickly evaporates.
As the seriously rare DEMO this is a British vinyl "Ghost"
Condition Report
Two clean promo labels, full gloss mint minus vinyl, still housed in both sleeve
Pacesetters
I'm Gonna Make It / What About Me Baby
Minit : 32043 DJ (45s)
A supremely accomplished male harmony quartet with James Gregory second tenor; Daniel Sanders tenor; Robert Coleman baritone; and Melvin Williams bass/baritone. With James Gregory and Daniel Sanders composing both sides, the group travelling south to Los Angeles to be guided by two doyens of the studio Jimmy Holiday & Rene Hall. The result was two spectacularly soulful sides, one an "in-vogue" stylish Northern Soul dancer. With the flip giving up a splendid "Lowrider" treasure with hovering horn cradling heavenly harmonies strolling into your space, truly mood changing.
"I'm Gonna Make It" is growing in stature on the back of the rare and under played NS movement, breaking into the main-rooms. Still many, many miles to go with this soaring dancer. That ticks all the Northern Soul boxes for much bigger things.
Two superior sides that have "snoozed" for too long.
Condition Report
Two clean promo labels, still housed in original company sleeve, vinyl is an immaculate mint minus.
M.B.'s
Another Day / Be Ever Near Me
B-Jet : P#5822 (45s)
We associate this good-looking disc with Rob Marriott's unconventional play box of rare goodies. A sound that stayed with you, long after you've left Stafford's "Top Of The World" innovative Saturday night, long behind you.
The M.B.'S (Modern Blues Sound) from Kansas City, USA. A group benefitting from Tom Bark's rasping vocal, swirling keyboard skills and beseeching, often reflective lyrics. Tommy Ross strengthens the vocal presence, Bob Marquez's laidback bass guitar pulses, not forgetting John Lotz off road guitar finale, Ed Tankersley's considerate percussion with Ed Burke and Ron Whittington enriching the whole arrangement as gliding brass blending into the innovative Morse code effects.
A most unusual, but highly effective NS tune that fitted the "Stafford's" songbook completely, not to mention the staggering label design. To the "Top Of The World" disciples this is an iconic memory.
Tough to find, ad this copy is flawless!
Condition Report
two clean labels, full gloss mint minus
Vows
When A Boy Loves A Girl / Say You'll Be Mine
Sta-Set: 402 (45s)
An utterly gorgeous groove, relegated to a flipside, on the reverse of a grittier harmony shouter so in the style Chicago '64.
This five man team, first went under the moniker of "The Symphonics" but that apparently immediately caused a name clash with another group. So Sta-Set ( Leo Austell) quickly withdrew that press, renamed and released it as "The Vows". The group they later moved through a series of identities. Renaming themselves as Major Three, The Majors, displaying to true extent of their combined talents with three 45s as the Major IV under the administration of William "Mickey" Stevenson after he left Motown.
"When A Boy Loves A Girl " may have started life as a flipside, but emerged from obscurity to become a majestic Chicago vocal-group masterclass of the male vocal-group sound. Joseph "Fuzzy" Buckner, Larry Montgomery with the dual lead voices, Lawrence Bibbs seamlessly welding the parts together into slick harmony, Burlyn Bynum's and William "Kurt" Davis adding the rich abyss with dual baritone and tenor lightly polishing the song into soul perfection.
A truly awesome soulful glider. the original a-side "Say You'll Be Mine" taking inspiration from some Motown's early 60's group ballads, leaving the raw edges intact.
A Very Rare disc! giving up two fabulously organic cruisers from the streets of Chicago.
Noting a year later the great Robert Lee had a hand in putting "Vows - Lost In The City / When A Boy Loves A Girl - Big 3 400" onto the streets of the "Windy City that 45 also disappeared into oblivion.
Condition Report
Two rich red labels, bright sharp silver text mint minus throughout, vinyl is mint minus revealing only the merest surface blemish when angled under light. both sides play perfect.
Ve-Shelles
Shingaling / Pledging My Love
Boola Boola : M-H-200 (45s)
A late 60's street-level imprint, that would prove to be an important portal for local soul artists, to showcase their talent on. Particularly famous starting blocks for The Natural Four, Marvin Holmes and The Uptights, Pacesetters, Baby Jewel, Eugene Blacknell & The New Breed, Hartfield Brothers etc.
Two attractive, crisp clean mint-green labels, decorated with chocolate text, the only time Willie Hoskins adopted this lip-smacking design. As a taster for his imminent label launch.
Rarity was the only obstacle standing in the way of this Ramsey Lewis inspired piano/drum/horn dominated dancer decorated by well time "Terry-type" bari-sax burps. Johnny Hartsman most likely had some input into this " Shingaling" shaker that has been known since the very early 70's when Bob Catteneo exported a couple my way in 1972. Somehow it laid dormant for decades, even though it is saturated in obvious the Northern Soul dance vibe.
Another killer NS tune that has sadly endured a lack of exposure, due to the suffocation of its own by serious obscurity.
Ideal for the DJ who'd like to introduce a thumping instrumental in their sets. A head turner that few will have encountered before.
The original a-side is a deep soul girl group version of the 1954 Johnny Ace Texas anthem. Girl group fans will enjoy its raw approach.
Condition Report
Two attractive and clean mint-green label, decorated with chocolate text, the only time Willie Hoskins adopted this lip-smacking design. Full gloss vinyl, reveals just a few soft surface blemishes, both sides play beautifully clean.
Westbound Freeway
Right Or Wrong / Jamaican Jam
Fraternity Records : 3373 (45s)
This is this obscure group's only 45, and it's a divine mid-70s soulful stepper, of the most delicious kind.
A back-room at Great Yarmouth Soul Essence style chill-out cruiser enjoying a strong but near secret "sweet soul" cult following.
A spine-tingling "David Sanborn" quality saxophone interlude, cuts a partition through this beautifully constructed stepper. Sweet girl-group backing embellishes the consummate flow of the flawless lead vocal. A recording that drifts under your skin, with its undeniable class and poise.
VERY RARE of course, the perfect tune for those selective dreamy soulful Sunday afternoon rendezvous'.
The Jazz-soul appreciation society will drown in the complexity of "Jamaican Jam" instrumental hidden away on the flipside.
Condition Report
Two totally clean labels, full gloss mint minus vinyl - a beauty!