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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Marva Josie
Don't / I Love New York
United Artists : UA 888 DJ (45s)
Horace Ott's genius harnesses the dynamic versatility of the beautiful Marva Josie. Long term producer of Marva, Norman Blagman, surrounds her with a full-blown orchestra to match her undeniably powerful vocal presence. The original a-side is another great song "I Love New York" but more suited to a Broadway stage, than a motivational spin in an underground London Club. So it was "Don't" that resounded around the the subterranean "100 Club", rumbling deep below Oxford Street.
"Don't" had all the ingredients to become a 100 Club anthem, taking pride of place as the last track, side one on Kent's 1986 album "Kissing Her, Crying For You". Also featuring in more than one DJ set as it was used as their "ender" leaving lingering impression. Which is exactly what Marva does
An inviting simplistic piano leads you into what changes up to become a mountainous NS beater. Subtle trumpeting, punctuated by handheld rattling of a big bold casaba. Horace Ott directing Marva's warnings to rise and fall on waves of brilliantly conducted orchestration; pulling a masterstroke of ignoring the temptation of shrill girls, that so many of these styles call upon. Instead, Horace summons a deep mellow voiced male-choir to ring out the choruses, the effect is stunning.
Top-drawer, top of its genre, Northern Soul.
Condition Report
Two clean Promo labels, full gloss on the vinyl, reveals only a few fine soft storage hairlines. both sides play bright and clean.
Ellusions
You Didn't Have To Leave / You Wouldn't Understand
Lamon: 2004 (45s)
THIS IS PROPER NORTHERN SOUL!
Today standing as one of the few enduring classics, seldom surfacing for sale, it's rarity within the constrains of OVO making it a tune you only generally hear when an A-list DJ is at the controls.
As an oldie it is always a delight to hear, not suffering a jot from over-exposure, still saturated in all the ingredients that triggered the dancefloor energy that lifted Wigan Casino & Cleethoropes Pier nights into gymnastic mayhem.
It's got everything required including eternally-rare validity..
a TUNE indeed...!
Condition Report
Two rich red full colour flawless labels, no light exposure red fade whatsoever. Beautifully clean MINT minus vinyl, a stunning copy!
Milton Parker
Women Like It Harder / Anyhow
Closet : 3102 vinyl press (45s)
Choppy, captivating arrangement is embellished throughout with delicious additions, as the Saxophonist changes direction to squealing out some piercing notes, as the girl-choir encouraging chant "Treat Her Harder" takes to the air.
The production is way above anything you could ever expect from a street-level private press. Rich, flowing over with imagination, drenched in quality moments and classy additions...
A skilled stand alone D.I.Y. creation from Milton Parker himself, who wrote & produced this "Closet" production ..
But he's not finish impressing you yet, flip this rarity over to be greeted by a jabbing piano intro, inviting a positive snarling vocal-edge from Milton, as if the a-side had buoyed his attitude. Still using all the components of the a-side, Sax, Horns, celestial girl-choruses but changing the approach to hammering home his message, just a little harder.
Who ever the mysterious Milton Parker was, he certainly never recorded enough 45's. This as far as we know is his only 45, and both sides are truly memorable. With their fullness of both instruments and girls, not overlooking Milton's rich vocal..
Two sides of brilliance on one very hard to acquire disc.
Not this is the VINYL press not the notoriously stylus afraid styrene press that also has a tendency to shed labels. This is the high desirable VINYL press in fine clean. Some mild surface marks revealed when angled in the light, but very little interferes with the sound. Check out the double sound file provided and spy that rather special label design
Condition Report
Note this is the VINYL press not the notoriously stylus afraid styrene press that also has a tendency to shed it's labels. This is the high desirable VINYL press in fine clean. Some mild surface marks revealed when angled in the light, but very little interferes with the sound. Check out the double sound file provided and spy that rather special label design
Various Artists
The Complete Grapevine label from GRP 101 to GRP 147 / The Complete Run of 47 singles
Grapevine : GRP 101 to 147 (45s)
Read the full listing of Promo copies and stock and the conditions.
All to be auction as a complete lot of 47 7" 45's.
This is the very first time we have listed the full run, for auction. A huge investment opportunity that gained in value year on year for the last 54 years.
Condition Report
All have clean label, at least Ex+ vinyl - most are unblemished Mint minus as acquired from new.
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
The Night / blank
Mowest: MW 3024 single-sided DJ (45s)
UK only release at the time, overlooked in October 1972 to be passed over by everyone except those investigative Northern Soul foragers looking for new candidates for those hallowed Northern Soul turntables.
Later that Wigan Casino dancefloor passion triggered this 27th March 1975 single sided UK promo to meet the huge build up of demand. The power of Wigan Casino's and Northern Soul's defining year of 1975, the song reached the breathtaking heights of no. 7 in the British charts. Later used in inspiring TV adverts, bringing "Edinburgh Gin" right into public focus with their Northern Soul dance footage, riding an edited snippet of this great song.
"The Night" suffered from inferior cover versions through the decades, all attempts to recapture its magic failed, this original song now universally considered impossible to improve upon.
This was Bob Gaudio re-crowning Northern Soul moment after the booming bassline used in the anthem "I'm Gonna Change" fiver years earlier, Gaudio raises the bass-bar even higher with a grandiose guitar intro underpinned with an atmospheric church organ foundation coated with eerie male vocal harmony setting the scene for Frankie Valli's penetrating falsetto to crash through those ever increasing crescendos. Then Bob Gaudio flexes his production muscle by adding an abyss of deep brass, the introduction of a low-blown, perfectly timed Tuber hinting at the impending storm that is about to break...
elevated to a high-plane by a soaring male harmony choir and Frankie's ear-piercing vocal drilling deep into your brain. Heavy duty percussion keep the "Northern-beat" running ... as my memories of a full dancefloor are rekindled... the finale of the spacecraft lift off again demonstrates the producer's prowess, as the Jersey Boys hit heights nobody has replicated since, and leave seasoned Northern Soul students hanging in a dreamscape of their youth.
Arguably the greatest crowd migration to the dancefloor production ever presented to a NS faithful. Today it still makes me shiver, as it rockets me back to my formative years of Northern Soul indoctrination.
Condition Report
Two clean promo labels 4 prong DEMO RECORD NOT FOR SALE" centre intact, fine clean full gloss vinyl reveals only minuscule surface blemishes when angled in the light, plays as it looks, Mint minus.