Pearlean Gray and The Passengers
I Don't Want To Cry / The Love Of My Man
Green-Sea: 104 DJ
Detail
- Artist: Pearlean Gray and The Passengers
- A Side: I Don't Want To Cry
- B Side: The Love Of My Man
- Label: Green-Sea
- Format: 45s
Condition
Description
Description
Taking me back right back tp my formative teenage years - when I was driven rabid-mad by "The Brian 45 Philips affect" desperately tryinmg to acquire the records I had heard on cassette sample tapes or read a rave review on Brian's mailshot. In 1971 if anyone had a copy of something on my want list, it would the Twisted Wheel DJ Brian 45 Phillips.
This is a listing for those collectors attracted to beautifully clean, decidedly affordable Northern Soul anthems that catapult you back to your own personal "Golden Years" .
Pearlean Gray holds a special place in my heart because it was one of the very first "expensive" records I purchased through the mail from a Brian 45 Philips listing; with a footnote recommendation that had me hooked. Such was my curiosity, I sent off my £3.20p postal order to Manchester, then suffered the agonising ecstasy that vinyl-arrival-anticipation triggered. When would it be falling through my letterbox at 25 Baldocks Lane, Melton Mowbray? I couldn't wait....
As you can imagine, on arrival day, I frantically tore at the package, to liberate Ms. Gray from her cardboard bonds, a quick stride from the kitchen, a short step to my Mum's Dansette. Was it gonna be as good as Brian eulogised?
WOW! That booming guitar intro dropped my jaw, then Pearlean's searing n'climbing vocal had me instantly dancing on me'mam's front room carpet. My brother looked at me from behind his "Parade Magazine" like he now had irrefutable proof his little brother was indeed a complete "twat".
Then that male vocal group harmony sailed in, I was floating on air in Soul collectors paradise. My brothers idea of "paradise" was the local Ford Garage receptionist being slowly undressed in his over-imaginative dirt-track mind. For me it was that gliding Soul sister voice from Connecticut that gave me my thrills.
I couldn't believe what I had just heard. Brian 45 Philips had understated its brilliance. A smart move by Brian, as after the "Pearlean" experience, every record Brian listed with a extra comment, got my attention. This was my second rare USA Northern Soul capture, Jimmy Soul Clarke " Sweet Darling" was my first. But those footnote reviews had me buying records by Emanuel Laskey, Tee Fletcher, Martha Star, all artists I'd never heard of but none of them ever disappointed. The lure of the "unknown", that impeding expectation of spontaneous dancing in my front room was worth every penny of my pittance wages, as an incompetent gas fitter's apprentice. Every spare ££ I spent on my vinyl addiction.
When it comes to rare white promos of Northern Soul classics this is not an easy one to find, the Chicago press from February 1966 as a perfectly clean promo, I consider a prize. The New Haven, Connecticut creation never came out as a promo (well I've never seen one). For the dedicated to rare white demo variations you don't need me to tell you this example is not to be sniffed at.
Pearlean a seasoned New England songbird with her long term male vocal-group The Passengers, give up by far the finest version of this much-recorded classic. As her skyward vocal sizzles from one peak to another. Her lead voice, closely followed by The Passengers, continually softening the edges with flowing "Ooohs and subtle gliding "Come On In" choruses. Not forgetting the marvelous guitar break in the middle, screaming to any stragglers to the dancefloor, get on out there now; and strut your stuff to one of the finest Northern Soul outings that has never been bootlegged, counterfeited or overplayed..
still fresh as the day I first heard it, in 1971 in m'mum's front room.
This is a listing for those collectors attracted to beautifully clean, decidedly affordable Northern Soul anthems that catapult you back to your own personal "Golden Years" .
Pearlean Gray holds a special place in my heart because it was one of the very first "expensive" records I purchased through the mail from a Brian 45 Philips listing; with a footnote recommendation that had me hooked. Such was my curiosity, I sent off my £3.20p postal order to Manchester, then suffered the agonising ecstasy that vinyl-arrival-anticipation triggered. When would it be falling through my letterbox at 25 Baldocks Lane, Melton Mowbray? I couldn't wait....
As you can imagine, on arrival day, I frantically tore at the package, to liberate Ms. Gray from her cardboard bonds, a quick stride from the kitchen, a short step to my Mum's Dansette. Was it gonna be as good as Brian eulogised?
WOW! That booming guitar intro dropped my jaw, then Pearlean's searing n'climbing vocal had me instantly dancing on me'mam's front room carpet. My brother looked at me from behind his "Parade Magazine" like he now had irrefutable proof his little brother was indeed a complete "twat".
Then that male vocal group harmony sailed in, I was floating on air in Soul collectors paradise. My brothers idea of "paradise" was the local Ford Garage receptionist being slowly undressed in his over-imaginative dirt-track mind. For me it was that gliding Soul sister voice from Connecticut that gave me my thrills.
I couldn't believe what I had just heard. Brian 45 Philips had understated its brilliance. A smart move by Brian, as after the "Pearlean" experience, every record Brian listed with a extra comment, got my attention. This was my second rare USA Northern Soul capture, Jimmy Soul Clarke " Sweet Darling" was my first. But those footnote reviews had me buying records by Emanuel Laskey, Tee Fletcher, Martha Star, all artists I'd never heard of but none of them ever disappointed. The lure of the "unknown", that impeding expectation of spontaneous dancing in my front room was worth every penny of my pittance wages, as an incompetent gas fitter's apprentice. Every spare ££ I spent on my vinyl addiction.
When it comes to rare white promos of Northern Soul classics this is not an easy one to find, the Chicago press from February 1966 as a perfectly clean promo, I consider a prize. The New Haven, Connecticut creation never came out as a promo (well I've never seen one). For the dedicated to rare white demo variations you don't need me to tell you this example is not to be sniffed at.
Pearlean a seasoned New England songbird with her long term male vocal-group The Passengers, give up by far the finest version of this much-recorded classic. As her skyward vocal sizzles from one peak to another. Her lead voice, closely followed by The Passengers, continually softening the edges with flowing "Ooohs and subtle gliding "Come On In" choruses. Not forgetting the marvelous guitar break in the middle, screaming to any stragglers to the dancefloor, get on out there now; and strut your stuff to one of the finest Northern Soul outings that has never been bootlegged, counterfeited or overplayed..
still fresh as the day I first heard it, in 1971 in m'mum's front room.
Condition Report
Two beautifully clean promo labels, full gloss vinyl revealing only a few soft surface blemishes - top copyA Side
- Title: I Don't Want To Cry
- Title: The Love Of My Man
B Side
- Year: February 1966
- City: New Haven, Connecticut