Kent HHV Records 69 Items

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The mysterious and oddly named Soul Interiors recorded two terrific sides for Mickey Stevenson in 1972, ‘The Inside Guys’ - a sublime dancer and the deep soul harmony of ‘My Friend Heartaches’.

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Tobi Lark

True Love

LP | 1971 | UK | Reissue (Kent)

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dean Chalkley’s Good For The Soul celebrates the joy of dancing to northern soul. This fast-paced stylised short film plugs right into the emotional and cathartic nature of the music. Intricate and expressive dance moves are delivered by Durassie Kiangangu to a soundtrack of blistering rhythms and raw vocals from Tobi Lark’s rare soul track ‘True True Love’. The resulting combination is a fusion of dextrous dance moves and potent sounds that will turn your heartbeat up.

The film was originally presented at “50 Years On The Soul Stays Strong” exhibition, that marked the 50th anniversary of the first legendary Wigan Casino Allnighters in 1973. Northern soul has a rich legacy and its devotees are very passionate about it, but this film focuses on the here and now, the energy, heat and wonder of being in your own dancing world.

The northern soul scene continues to attract devotees young and old all keeping the faith and letting the music move them.

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The Undisputed Truth

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Search For The Inner Self / We've Got Love

Release: 1971 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Motown producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield assembled The Undisputed Truth to further explore the psychedelic soul he had been developing with the Temptations on songs like ‘Cloud Nine’ and ‘Psychedelic Shack’.

Joe Harris, Billie Calvin and Brenda Evans were assembled as the vocal front-line and their first single was ‘Save My Love For A Rainy Day’/’Since I’ve Lost You’ that was released on Gordy in February 1971 and got to #43 on the R&B Chart.

It was followed by ‘Smiling Faces Sometimes’/’You Got The Love I Need’ that was a massive hit single getting to #2 R&B and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their debut album “The Undisputed Truth” followed and not only contained all four tracks issued on 7” but an almost interstellar version of ‘Ball Of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today)’, ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’ as well as a very soulful prowl through Bob Dylan’s ‘Like a Rolling Stone’. Tracks like ‘California Soul’ and ‘Aquarius’ also ticked the psychedelic soul box. All told it was a fantastic debut and sold strongly.

Amazingly this fantastic album has not been repressed since 1972. Thus Ace are delighted to put it back into the record racks pressed on 180gm black vinyl.

With the planet still a ‘Ball Of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today)’ records like this speak to both an old and new generation. Good music never goes out of fashion.

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Jon Lucien

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Search For The Inner Self’, Jon Lucien’s 1971 ethereal, soul masterpiece has gained admirers costantly since its 1971 release. The Beau Ray Fleming production, ingeniously arranged by Horace Ott in New York, kick-started a successful career of sensuous soul songs that saw him write and record more than a dozen albums from the 70s to the noughties.

‘We’ve Got Love’ is more of an “old school” 60s soul dancer, recorded around the same time, that was not heard until a self-released CD in 1999. It has remained under the radar to all but a few of the cognoscenti. This vinyl debut will earn it many more fans.

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Lowriders - Sweet Soul Harmony From The Golden Era

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Kent)

LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Kent)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Our Lowriders album is an amalgam of the two “This Is Lowrider Soul” CDs. We have chosen 14 tracks that represent the sounds loved by Los Angelenos, often of Mexican descent, that emanate from their fabulously designed motors while cruising Whittier Boulevard in East LA or, say, Van Nuys Boulevard in the northwest of the city.

The classic Los Angeles vocal group the Superbs are featured here on their glorious ‘It Hurts So Much’, but it is mainly the records discovered by sweet soul collectors that dominate. The Carnival label has a great reputation on this scene; Lee Williams & the Cymbals’ ‘Please Say It Isn’t So’ and ‘Follow Your Heart’ by the Manhattans are a pair of killer ballads perfect in tempo and harmony for the cruisers. Other East Coast offerings include the Persians’ captivating ‘Here It Comes’ and two gems which were only on master tape prior to their Kent releases – Melvin Hicks & The Versatiles’ ‘I’m Just Passing Time’ and the similarly unknown outfit the Exceptions, with the wailing ‘So Much In Love’.

Chicago has always been a breeding ground for black harmony groups. The Esquires saw much success at Bunky; ‘No Doubt About It’ was their equally great first release at Wand. Little Ben & The Cheers hailed from the same city; their ‘I’m Not Ready To Settle Down’ fetches big bucks due to Lowrider demand, as does ‘What Am I Gonna Do’ by the mysterious Houston Outlaws – their origins are uncertain, but must be Midwestern. The Vanguards hailed from Indianapolis and deservedly charted with ‘Somebody Please’, licensed to LA’s Whiz label. All of their seven singles on Lamp are also fine, harmonic soul tracks. The Lovers were a Bay Area group who recorded in Los Angeles with the maestro Arthur Wright; their ‘Someone’ was tipped for the charts when licensed to Philips, but flopped, leaving it ripe for revival by the soul connoisseurs. Like the Lovers, the reputation of Reuben Bell’s ‘It’s Not That Easy’ has grown over the decades and a record once considered common can now fetch hundreds of dollars – class will out.

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Ty Karim

Wear Your Natural, Baby

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Elijah Rockin' With Soul / East Side

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The LP features all her dancefloor favourites: from the exciting and super-rare 60s 45 ‘You Just Don’t Know’ to the smooth 70s soul floater ‘Lightin’ Up’ and on to the hipper-than-hip call to ‘Wear Your Natural, Baby’. We can see she took to this message to heart, looking at our fabulous colour cover photo.
• In thick cardboard sleeve and 180g coloured (green) vinyl.

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Hank Jacobs

Black Mother Goose / Chase Those Clouds Away

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hank Jacobs was an accomplished West coast keyboard player who had an instrumental hit with ‘So Far Away’ in 1964. He became a Los Angeles session man who worked on many recording sessions with arranger Arthur Wright with whom he had four releases on Alton Scott’s Call Me label. The uber-cool ‘East Side’ with its mid-tempo groove was initially his best-known track, having been appreciated by the Lowrider and Popcorn scenes since its release.

The flip ‘Elijah Rockin’ With Soul’ was the one for the UK soul scene though. Its urgent beat was perfect for Northern Soul dancefloors and was augmented by the cream of LA’s musicians.

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Sam Nesbit

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This killer double-sider was one of the first US imports to go “big” on the rare soul scene at the Twisted Wheel and Blackpool Mecca in the early 70s.

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Eddie Parker

I'm Gone / Crying Clown

(You'd Better) Straighten Up And Fly Right / Doin' "The Gittin' Up"

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Regarded as the epitome of Northern Soul by many aficionados, ‘I’m Gone’, by Detroit’s Eddie Parker, captures the adrenalin and anger of a busted relationship and he tells of his determination to start again - elsewhere. The pulsating rhythm matches that anger and producer Jack Ashford, one of Motown’s key Funk Brothers, utilises his percussive know-how to produce such a vital track.

The flip ‘Crying Clown’ is musically and thematically miles away - with heartbreak and sorrow to the fore over a beautiful ballad backing. These are two of the greatest soul recordings from the 1960s.

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The Devonnes

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Songwriter / producer Larry Banks worked a lot with girl groups in the late 60s, particularly for GWP productions. The Geminis and Exciters tracks he produced were issued on the RCA imprint… but the equally good Devonnes recordings failed to make it to wax. Kent accessed the master tapes some twenty years ago and released all four of their performperformances. The catchy dancer ‘Doin’ “The Gittin’ Up”’ first came out on a 100 Club anniversary 45 in 2005 and has been in demand ever since.

‘(You’d Better) Straighten Up And Fly Right’ was issued on CD in the same year, but has never made it to vinyl until now. The song was recorded by Terri Bryant on Verve in 1967 and is highly regarded; this new coupling will be a popular choice.

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Ronnie McNeir

Say You / I'm Sorry

(Love Is My) Secret Weapon

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kent’s licensing deal with Mickey Stevenson is proving to be a major musical find. Ronnie McNeir is regarded as an absolute top-class, modern soul singer. These tracks are from the early 70s, around the time he cut his eponymous first LP in Los Angeles with Mickey. ‘Say You’ is a superb updating of the Monitors’ harmony hit from 1965 and is given the distinctive, sensitive McNeir treatment.

‘I’m Sorry’ is a slow-burning song that builds into a perfect dancefloor beat. It was penned by Ronnie and his writing partner of the time, Andre Moore. The release is a taster of the complete, previously unreleased album we will issue on Ronnie later this year.

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Darrow Fletcher

7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Kent)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Just Be Yourself / It's Everything About You (That I Love)

The Pretenders

7" | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Kent)

Eddie Parker / The Pace-Setters

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Pretenders were the Carnival label’s main act throughout the 70s and up to 1980. By 1977 producer Joe Evans was embracing the disco era and recorded them on the excellent Kenneth Ruffin song, ‘Just Be Yourself’. Its furious yet solid rhythm and catchy title-line has captivated soul dancers for many years, making the originals expensive and very hard to find now. The flip was their final release, an updated and disco-slanted version of Lee Williams & the Cymbals’ ballad.

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Body Chains / Push On Jesse Jackson

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Kent)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Here are two big Northern tracks on the funkier edge that are already hugely popular with forward-thinking DJs and dancers. Gruff-voiced Eddie Parker’s ‘Body Chains’ is a very different take on the Prodigal release with an added girl chorus and some appropriate and effective metal chains added by Jack Ashford for percussion. The Pace-Setters’ politically motivated ‘Push On Jesse Jackson’ has crossed over to the main Northern Soul dancefloors and this extended version from a five minutes plus master tape will cause a major stir for dancers and DJs alike.

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Dave Hamilton's Detroit Dancers

LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Kent)

27,99 €*

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Kent)

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We have been releasing Dave Hamilton tracks on CD since 1998; several Kent and BGP singles have followed, but this is our first vinyl album. Finnish company Timmion have released individual LPs by Little Ann and O.C. Tolbert but this is the first various artists collection.

‘What Can I Do’ by Little Ann starts the LP. It was the “unknown artist” acetate, played as Rose Valentine in the latter days of Wigan Casino, that turned it into a legendary disc. It is followed by two Topper singles which found great favour on the Northern Soul scene in the 2000s: Tobi Lark’s ‘Sweep It Out In The Shed’ and Dottie & Millie’s ‘Taking About My Baby’. Big voiced O.C. Tolbert contributes with ‘I’m Shooting High’, mid-tempo 60s soul perfection, and ‘You Got Me Turned Around’, the definitive take on that ‘Sweep It Out In The Shed’ backing track.

Dave Hamilton’s acts were often obscure and records by James Lately and the Ravins are now so scarce they must have sold in tens rather than hundreds. They now reach four-figure prices, which is reflected in the quality.

Like Little Ann, Danny Cobus is only known through unreleased tracks found in the vaults. His ‘The Two Of Us’ is a fabulous piece of music, now revered. Tobi Lark was the class act of the small set-up; her ‘Challenge My Love’ is a highlight of Dave Hamilton’s writing and production.

Chico & Buddy were originally members of the Tokays but threw their lot in with the highly respected Dave Hamilton. ‘You Don’t Miss Your Water’ is a catchy late 60s dancer with just a hint of funk that has made it very popular. J.T. Rhythm’s ‘My Sweet Baby’ is the epitome of mid 60s effortless midtempo soul infused with a memorable melody. Dave’s vocals were at best charismatic and rightly confined to the call and response of tracks such as the catchy ‘Shoop Doop’: fortunately he excelled elsewhere.

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Rudy Ray Moore

The Cockpit

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Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Kent)

Rudy Ray Moore

This Pussy Belongs To Me

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trini Lopez / Johnny Copeland

Sinner Not A Saint / No Puppy Love

7" | 2011 | UK | Original (Kent)

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ain't That Love Enough / Lighten Up

Larry Atkins

Kenneth Wright / Miss Louistine

Release: 2025 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The stomping intro to Larry Atkins’ ‘Ain’t That Love Enough’ leads into an excellent soul song by R&B stalwart Kent Harris. Hs mid-60s soul productions were as good as they come.

The pairing repeated the formula on ‘Lighten Up’ a backing track that Kent also used on his partner Ty Karim’s ‘Lighten Up Baby’. Both sides here are recognised as Northern Soul classics.

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The Souls Of Black Folks / Extra-Extra

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Don't Try To Tell Me / Laughing On The Outside

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul connoisseurs are adventurous folk and the emergence of a previously unknown singer/songwriter is big news among the cognoscenti. The only trace of Atlanta’s Kenneth Wright is a handful of unrecorded song titles on BMI represented by Aware’s publishing company Act One. At least a dozen of his recordings have recently been found in the Aware tape vaults and ‘The Souls Of Black Folks’ is the pick of them. It features Kenneth’s vocals and an equally impressive unknown female lead who adds more mystery to the project.

From the same Atlanta label source comes Miss Louistine’s take on the Sam Dees’ song ‘Extra, Extra’. Originally recorded by Ben E King as an album track, Louistine’s punchier take featured on a recent 100 Club Anniversary 45 and is well in-demand.

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Berna-Dean

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LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Kent)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bernadine or Berna-Dean Washington recorded seven singles for producer Dave Bartholomew in New Orleans in the early 60s. A protégée of Earl King, her final single was released on Los Angeles’ GNP Crescendo label in 1964 and is stylistically similar to her previous Imperial and Post 45s. ‘Don’t Try To Tell Me’ and ‘Laughing On The Outside’ were cut for GNP but the company never followed up on her ‘This Is The City’ single.

Both tracks are in a more soulful style than her released sides and are attracting much attention on the current retro R&B scene and with the rare soul crowd also. This is their first public hearing.

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James Carr

The Best Of

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Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Shrine Northern-60s Rarest Dance Label

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Kent)

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Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ace Records is proud to announce the purchase of the Shrine label and Eddie Singleton’s independent productions.

To celebrate we have compiled an album of the very best dance recordings the label made in 1965 and 1966, primarily in Washington DC.

The business’s failure made this music incredibly hard to find for record collectors and Shrine is rightly known as the rarest soul label.

It is much more than that though. The music was made by some one of the original founders of Motown, Raynoma Liles Gordy and her Motown-schooled cousin Mike Ossman, New York music business luminaries Eddie Singleton and Harry Bass and the up-and-coming talents of Washington’s Keni St Lewis and Maxx Kidd. The acts included the hugely respected Ray Pollard and fellow New Yorker J.D. Bryant, talented and established Washington and Baltimore acts Eddie Daye & The 4 Bars, Bobby Reed and the Enjoyables. Importantly, they discovered and developed the local talent of the area in the shape of the Cautions, Les Chansonettes, the Prophets and Shirley Edwards.

It took decades for UK Northern Soul fans to realise the significance of the label. It finally clicked for Stafford’s Top Of The World all-nighter DJs who searched out the incredibly hard to find later releases and played them to the cult-following of the rare soul scene. The scarcity was caused by Shrine pressing up a batch of fourteen future singles but only getting a handful released before they folded. The vast majority of the later releases were destroyed in a warehouse fire or simply binned as stillborn commercial failures.

Such was the scarcity that when the first Shrine compilations were issued in 1990, the Prophets tracks from Eddie Singleton’s master tapes were assumed to be unreleased - until Shrine sleuth Andy Rix later obtained one from a group member.

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The San Francisco Tkos

Make Up Your Mind

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Since its first plays at the 100 Club in the 90s, the San Francisco TKOs’ ‘Make Up Your Mind’ has been a revered sound that consistently packs the dance floor - with soul music devotees who like their music edgy. It first appeared as an Anniversary single and has sold out of its previous Kent pressing. We have taken the opportunity to re-release it coupled with the group’s beautiful ballad version of the Miracles’ ‘Ooh Baby, Baby’.

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Jackie Dee

Who

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jackie Dee’s ‘Who’ was one of many great tape finds from Detroit producer Dave Hamilton’s vault in the 90s and first came out on CD in 1999. In 2015 Ace licensed that version to Colemine Records in the USA who issued it on their First Light subsidiary. That disc is now deleted and fetching a high price. In recent years we have found the multi-track tape with an extended version of the recording and an instrumental take on it that features Dave Hamilton’s vibes-playing. The vocal side is a full one minute and forty seconds longer than the original release.

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The Classic Example

Right On

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Classic Example were a Los Angeles duo - possibly the song-writing team of Curtis Colbert and Harriet Hurst who provided four of the songs on the eponymous 1972 GSF LP. Inexplicably the superb dance track ‘Right On’ was the only one omitted from the album, but Kent’s licensing deal with Mickey Stevenson’s Stevenson International revealed this gem. It was finally released as a promo 100 Club Anniversary 45 in 2021 and has been in demand ever since. Now it can be purchased at a reasonable price with the duet’s excellent harmony ballad ‘I Found Me A Girl’ added on the B side. The backing group is none other than Hodges, James, Smith & Crawford.

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Joe Buckner & Major Iv

I Wish I Knew

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joe Buckner was lead singer of the Major IV, a Chicago group who recorded in Los Angeles in the late 60s. ‘I Wish I Knew’ had been issued by the Ballads on Venture in 1969 and that outfit later re-cut it as ‘Butterfly’ in 1975. Joe and the Majors give an equally impressive performance on this great Leon Ware/Susaye Greene song. ‘I Stand Blue’ is another Ware composition that we first featured by writer/producer Mickey Stevenson on the Kent 100 Club Anniversary single of 2019. Big-voiced Hal Frazier also gives a top performance on the excellent beat ballad.

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Loleatta Holloway

I Can't Help Myself

Eddie Hill / Detroit Emeralds

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Loleatta Holloway’s sojourn at Aware records in Atlanta in the mid-70s was just about as good as soul music can get. We have taken the wonderful two-stepper ‘I Can’t Help Myself’ (not the 4 Tops song) from her “Cry To Me” LP for DJs and collectors and added the originally unreleased – until it’s Kent CD appearance in 1996 – ‘Mrs So And So's Daughter’. That track is a more raunchy, sister-funk number compared to the smooth top side; each side oozes class.

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I Am So Thankful / Long Live The King

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Finding a new Eddie Hill recording from 1969 was quite a thrill and on hearing the beautiful mid-tempo groove, we included it on both our “Westbound Northern Soul” and “Masterpieces Of Modern Soul Vol 3” CDs in 2010. Since then, demand for ‘I Am So Thankful’ has risen and we can now issue it as a single. It was originally scheduled to be Westbound 151 in the USA but that spot was claimed by Emanuel Lasky’s ‘Never My Love’. Eddie now has a Kent release to go with his Detroit waxings on Thelma, Ge-Ge and M-S. ‘Long Live The King’ was an LP track from the Detroit Emeralds’ acclaimed debut album “Do Me Right”. It didn’t get a US 45 release but did sneak out on a Various Artists UK DJ-promo EP in 1973 for then-current Phonogram releases. This is the first time this superb and popular dance track it has been commercially available as a single. .

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For Dancers Forty Black Vinyl

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Kent)

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Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Celebrating 40 years since the game-changing “For Dancers Only” LP, Kent 001, “For Dancers Forty” revisits the Los Angeles labels that have given us so much. Like Kent 001, the collection represents the broad church of the Biharis’ recordings and features soul stompers, rhythm & blues busters, girly grooves and heavenly harmony. Most tracks are new to Kent LPs and there’s a brand new 1966 soul recording from 50s Modern R&B artists Aaron Collins & the Teen Queens. Long-time Kent favourites Jackie Day, Z.Z. Hill and Johnny Copeland are included with some of their underplayed tracks – for Copeland it’s the first vinyl outing for his dancer ‘I Was Born To Love You’. As ever on our rare soul scene, it’s the lesser-known artists who we revel in and there are stunning tracks from the Simms Twins, the Marvellos, the Intentions and the in-demand (due to the Kent 45 being deleted) ‘I Got Love’ by the Other Brothers. Tommy Youngblood’s LP track ‘Tobacco Road North’ has been a sleeper, eventually being picked up by hip hop samplers for its atmospheric musical qualities – and we at last give its proper accreditation after decades of misinformation. Little Joe Hinton’s ‘Tired Of Walkin’’ is now looked on as an R&B dance classic, despite its poor sales on release. The Sweethearts adorn our cover with a recently discovered colour photo from the archives of Modern’s head engineer Bill Lazerus. Apart from their bouncy ‘This Couldn’t Be Me’, they provided backing for many of the stable’s 60s recordings. You Have “Only”, “Also” and “Forever” – make space for “Forty”

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Atlanta Soul Artistry 1965-1975 Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Kent)

I Sat And Cried / She's My Baby (Smokey's In Town)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Though built with highly questionable finances, gangster Michael Thevis’ GRC, Aware and Hotlanta labels produced some scintillating mid-70s soul music. Thevis knew his limitations and allowed his producers, arrangers and songwriters free reign as long as they worked hard and came up with good recordings. It was the period in music when Detroit and the south got together, as with Stax and Westbound’s Memphis/Detroit co-productions, and Thevis tried to make that blueprint work for his Atlanta set-up. He brought producer Marlin McNichols and engineer Milan Bogdan down from the Motor City and Floyd Smith from Chicago. Smith came with the highly talented singers Loleatta Holloway and John Edwards, while McNichols brought the Counts, Ripple and Deep Velvet to cut in the spanking brand-new Sound Pit Studios. Songwriter supreme Sam Dees was co-opted from Thevis’ Moonsong operation, which he ran out of nearby Birmingham, Alabama, and the resulting sessions produced some exquisite soul songs – several of which charted, making the company hot between 1973 and 1975.

Those main acts are here along with artists from the Los Angeles office of the stature of Jimmy Lewis, King Hannibal and Joe Hinton. The John Edwards track debuts on vinyl for the first time, while the Joe Hinton number ‘I’m Tired Of Dreaming’ is the original version of the collectible 45 as recorded by Pure Velvet on Osiris in 1976 – it has never been issued before at all. The King Hannibal track is from his Atlanta sessions (Hannibal lived in both Los Angeles and Atlanta, from where he hailed) and makes it out of the tape vaults for the first time, while gospel legend Dorothy Norwood’s epic opener ‘Big Boat Ride’ had previously only been available since 2016 on CD and is now available to vinyl purists too.

We tried to avoid the non-Atlanta tracks from the Thevis years but have included earlier offerings from Arthur Alexander and Bobby Wilburn recorded by the independent producer Bill Haney – a man as far adrift in personality to Thevis as you could wish for. One of Haney’s acts, Joe Graham, did record for the Aware set-up around 1973 but the four excellent tracks were shelved until now – more will follow. Bill Haney recorded Drifter Charlie Thomas while he visited the city for live work, and ‘Don’t Let Me Know’ is another classy mid-tempo number making its vinyl debut.

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Jimmy Nelson

I Don't Want To Take A Chance

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Some records are irresistible. Jimmy Nelson’s ‘I Sat And Cried’ is an easy-going swinger of a disc that you feel you’ve always known – even on first hearing. It is a future classic that somehow has managed to stay a secret for decades. That is likely down to it being so rare (for whatever reason) that it doesn’t feature on Discogs and only two sales have ever been recorded on the Popsike website; they were cheap too!

We’ve coupled it with another great mover, ‘She’s My Baby (Smokey’s In Town)’, which debuts on a 45 – it was unreleased until an Ace LP way back in 1987. Two killer tracks on a lovely Repro design of that colourful early 60s label.

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Wee Willie Walker

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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These are two of the finest, previously unheard tracks to come out of the Goldwax vaults. Though they have been around in this complete form, with the horn section, since 2004, it is the first time they have been commercially available on a prestigious 45. The Kent 100 Club anniversary promo of ‘Chance’, with its Northern Soul flip, will now set you back up to £300; this pairing makes musical and economic sense.

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Hodges, James & Smith

Wishful Thinking

I Need Your Love / Can't Nobody

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hodges, James & Smith were the mainstays of Mickey Stevenson’s post-Motown recordings and he gave them this fabulous Mikim Publishing song, written by Vicki Basemore and the redoubtable Leon Ware. Superbly orchestrated, after a dramatic intro, it hits an uptempo rhythm that epitomises the great girl soul sounds of the early 70s – somewhat reminiscent of the Supremes’ ‘Up The Ladder To The Roof’.

Kim Weston was Mickey’s most prolific solo act throughout his career and ‘It Takes A Lotta Teardrops’ is another triumph for her, albeit one that has only surfaced recently. It is another Basemore/Ware song from the late 60s which imitates the Motown sound exquisitely.

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Brothers Of Soul

Melvin Hicks & The Versatiles

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bridges, Knight & Eaton are revered names in rare soul scenes as diverse as Lowrider, Northern and Modern; their work crosses over to most soul genres. We are therefore very proud to present two previously unheard (apart from on their Kent CDs) tracks from their 1969 Galaxy recording sessions, when they were known as the Brothers Of Soul. ‘I Need Your Love’ is an exquisite midtempo dance track and ‘Can’t Nobody’ has been a success on the latest Lowrider Soul CD.

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The Intruder

Can't Give It Up / End My Suffering

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘The Intruder’ has been one of the biggest finds to be played at the 100 Club in the last three years. Writer Billy Terrell found what turned out to be a Vigor label test pressing among his records and submitted the tracks to Kent. We were knocked out by the ballad side, ‘I’m Just Passing Time’, which we have since issued as a Deep Soul single, but it is the dance groove of ‘The Intruder’ that has excited the rare soul world. Uptempo soul tracks of this quality hardly ever turn up. The imaginative Terrell/Dahrouge song was arranged with full orchestration by Tony Camillo but the deal with Vigor was never finalised. The urgency of the music makes it a dancer’s delight.

The flip is a Terrell solo song on another Asbury Park act – Clarence Pinckney, who delivers the superb big ballad with panache.

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The Opals

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Kent)

Maxine Weldon / Peggy Woods

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chicago soul girl group the Opals released three exquisite singles on the Okeh label between January 1964 and February 1965, all of them produced by Carl Davis, in addition to which they also recorded background vocals for other artists. When Tony Rounce compiled Kent’s CD of Billy Butler’s Okeh recordings in 2007, unexpectedly found on the master tape transfer of Billy’s ‘Right Track’ were two unidentified female tracks we eventually ascertained were by the Opals.

The uptempo ‘Can’t Give It Up’ is taken at a perfect dance beat for Northern Soul discos. It was written by Billy Butler and Gerald Sims, and likely recorded around the time of the ‘Right Track’ session in 1966. On the flip is the beautiful, mid-tempo ‘End My Suffering’, which bears a resemblance to Marvin Smith’s ‘Time Stopped’, also from 1966 and produced by Carl Davis. This is the first release for both tracks and will appeal to fans of many genres of vintage soul music. track listing

A. Can’t Give IT UP – The Opals B. END MY Suffering – The Opals

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I'm The Other Half Of You / You'd Better Be Good To My Baby

7" | 2020 | UK | Reissue (Kent)

Release: 2020 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Maxine Brown / Chuck Jackson

I Wonder What My Baby's Doing Tonight / Two Stupid Feet

7" | 2020 | UK | Reissue (Kent)

Release: 2020 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We Always Come Back Strong / The Man

John Edwards

7" | 2020 | UK | Reissue (Kent)

Release: 2020 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1984 | US | Original (Kent)

Z.Z. Hill

Final Appearance

3,99 €*

Release: 1984 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: G+

7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Kent)

Unique Blend

Gonna Spread The News

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When The Boy That You Love (Is Loving You) Everybody Knows

Peggy Gaines

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Kent)

Phillip Mitchell / Ray Godfrey

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nashville singer Peggy Gaines had two singles on Ted Jarrett’s Ref-O-Ree label but the best track, the Bob Holmes-written and produced ‘When The Boy That You Love (Is Loving You)’, was only discovered in the mid-90s. Released on CD and a limited 100 Club Anniversary single, it became a guaranteed dancefloor filler and is still in demand, fetching over £100 for that first pressing. The plaintive ballad ‘Everybody Knows’ is making its vinyl debut and will appeal to both Southern and Deep Soul aficionados.

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I'll See You In Hell First / I Ain't Givin' Up

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Kent)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Phillip Mitchell only cut one single for Spring’s Event subsidiary in 1975 – despite the beautiful ballad ‘There’s Another In My Life’ being an R&B hit, he did not have a follow-up. However, there were three songs recorded at the Brad Shapiro-led Muscle Shoals session, and ‘I’ll See You In Hell First’ was the superb mid-tempo track that lay dormant until compiled on an Ace CD in 1990. It features Mitchell singing at his best on an inspired, self-penned song and is long-overdue a vinyl pressing as originally hoped for.

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Los Angeles Modern Kent Northern Soul

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Kent)

22,99 €*

The Best Of The Wand Years

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Mel Williams, Larry Davis, Peggy Woods, Arthur Wright & His Orchestra, Jackie Day, The Brilliant Korners, Wally Cox, Jimmy Bee, Gene & Gary, Vernon Garrett, Johnny Copeland, The Other Brothers, Mary Love, Z.Z. Hill

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Chuck Jackson

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Kent)

Alice Clark / The Devonnes

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Although Chuck Jackson had eight solo LPs on Wand, there has never been a greatest hits compilation derived from all of that fine label’s recordings, until now.

First known to the original mods as a singer of superb ballads such as ‘Any Day Now’ and ‘Tell Him I’m Not Home’, he attracted a loyal following and further releases such as ‘I Keep Forgetting’, ‘Beg Me’ and ‘Hand It Over’ demonstrated the depth of his and Wand’s talents on uptempo tracks. Somewhere in between rhythmically were highlights such as ‘Two Stupid Feet’, an album-only track, and Jackson’s Wand debut that first made his name in the USA, ‘I Don’t Want To Cry’.

By the mid-60s it was back to ballads as a stunning reading of the Skyliners’ ‘Since I Don’t Have You’ charted, followed closely by Goffin and King’s ‘I Need You’. These two sold well so it is surprising that the superb version of the Van McCoy song ‘I Don’t Want To See You Cry’ was never released. Vee-Jay released Jerry Butler’s version on 45 in 1965, but Jackson’s rendition tops even that.

Moving with the times, in 1965 Wand took Chuck to Detroit for ‘Good Things Come To Those Who Wait’ which, like ‘Chains Of Love’, became firm favourites on the early Northern Soul scene, while being largely ignored in the States. Those rare soul fans rekindled their appreciation of all things Chuck in the late 80s when UK Kent Records unearthed unissued Wand recordings. They included ‘What’s With This Loneliness’ and ‘(I’d Be A) Millionaire’ which filled dancefloors with new recruits and older originals who appreciated the easier pace and more soulful delivery of these gems.

The compilation is crowned with a brilliant studio publicity shot of Chuck on the cover which captures both the majesty of his singing and the era.
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You Hit Me (Right Where It Hurt Me) / I Couldn't Build A World (With You On The Out Side)

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Kent)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Masterpieces Of Modern Soul

LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Kent)

27,99 €*

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mel Williams / Arthur Williams Orchestra

Can It Be Me / Lay This Burden Down

7" | 2015 | UK | Original (Kent)

LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Kent)

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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There has been a constant demand for Mel Williams’ Modern 45 ‘Can It Be Me’ since it was first spun at the Torch all-nighters in the early 70s. Its classic 60s stomping sound has made it a Northern perennial. The flip is the original instrumental of Mary Love’s ‘Lay This Burden Down’ that was pressed by Modern in 1974 for shady UK dealer Simon Soussain. Instrumentals are back in vogue and this is one of the very best.

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Preston Love

Omaha Bar-B-Q

23,99 €*

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1964 | UK | Reissue (Kent)

Jimmy Hughes

Steal Away

24,99 €*

Release: 1964 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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colored vinyl

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Dave Godin’s Deep Soul Treasures

LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Kent)

23,99 €*

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g Colored Vinyl with heavy-duty card sleeve!

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2LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Kent)

Mod Jazz

31,99 €*

Darrow Fletcher / Richard Temple

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vintage jazz grooves!

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My Young Misery / That Beatin’ Rhythm

7" | 2013 | UK | Original (Kent)

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lady Day And John Coltrane / See-saw Affair

Gil Scott-Heron / Cesar

7" | 2013 | UK | Original (Kent)

LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Kent)

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This might be the Gil Scott-Heron track next to 'The Bottle' that lights up dancefloors everywhere. Now reissued on a handy 45!

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George Jackson

The Fame Sessions

23,99 €*

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Kent)

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the finest voices in Southern Soul, George Jackson’s success as a writer meant he wasn’t pushed as an artist and so his vinyl output is disappointingly small. Kent Records is rectifying that with this 12-track LP.

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Rudy Ray Moore

Eat Out More Often

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2012 | UK | Original (Kent)

Jackie Day

Naughty Boy

Karmello Brooks / Carla Thomas

Release: 2012 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Naughty Boy’ was one of the key records in reviving the Northern Soul scene in the 80s and has remained a £1000+ trophy ever since. ‘Get To Steppin’ is another on the fours dancer that has only graced a 100 Club anniversary single prior to this release.

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Tell Me Baby / I'll Never Stop Loving You

7" | 2009 | UK | Reissue (Kent)

Release: 2009 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Goldwax Records - Memphis Soul Rarities 1964-1969

Box Set | 2024 | UK | Original (Kent)

80,74 €* 84,99 € -5%

LP | 1969 | US | Original (Kent)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The renowned Memphis 60s soul label Goldwax was a medium-sized operation with just short of a hundred releases. Though it ran a tight ship, inevitably some of their recordings fell by the wayside.The label is revered by fans of the classic age of soul music around the world. In the late 70s the Japanese Vivid Sound label contacted Goldwax owner, Quinton Claunch and accessed his tapes. They found a dozen excellent, previously unheard, tracks and issued them, along with Goldwax favourites on a short series of LPs in 1977. In 2000 Ace Records purchased the label from Claunch and his partners gaining full ownership of the tapes, which lead to more musical discoveries.Our releases on Ace and Kent over the past twenty plus years have seen most of these recordings featured, primarily on CD - the medium of the early years of the 21st century. More recently the renewed demand for vinyl has led to new 12” compilations and to augment those we have come up with a neat, boxed collection of seven singles that will appeal to the soul collectors who live for this format.Of the 14 tracks, only three have been singles before - the sublime harmony vocals of the Vel-Tones and the Lyrics with their mid-60s Goldwax releases and Barbara Perry’s R&B explosion ‘A Man Is A Mean Thing’ first released on Kent but now long gone and craved for. A. YOUR LOVE MADE A U-TURN – James CarrB. WHO’S BEEN WARMING MY OVEN? – James CarrA. I MISS YOU - The Ovations feat. Louis WilliamsB. WHAT DID I DO WRONG – The Ovations feat. Louis WilliamsA. TO ME IT’S STORMING – George & GreerB. LET THE BEST MAN WIN – George JacksonA. WELCOME HOME BABY – Barbara PerryB. A MAN IS A MEAN THING – Barbara PerryA. A LUCKY LOSER – Willie WalkerB. YOU GOTTA HAVE SOUL – Lee “Shot” WilliamsA. SO HARD TO GET ALONG – The Lyrics with The Top NotesB. I DO – The Vel TonesA. IF YOU LOVE HER – Phillip & The FaithfulsB. IT’S REALLY ALRIGHT – Unknown Artist

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Snatch And The Poontangs

33,99 €*

Release: 1969 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

7" | 2007 | EU | Original (Kent)

Sugar & Spices

Have faith in me

Release: 2007 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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/ The Brilliant Korners 'three lonely guys'

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For Dancers Also

LP | UK | Reissue (Kent)

14,99 €*

Funky Way: Venture Recordings 1967-1969

Release: UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Record has some hairlines and a few superficial scratches,
but is close to VG+.

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Calvin Arnold

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Kent)

24,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tommy Youngblood / The Other Brothers

Tobacco Road North / Nobody But Me