Ace Funk | Soul 27 Items

Release: 2020 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Ace)

Billy Hawks

O'Baby!

No Parking / Alternative Version

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Billy Hawks’ second album "Heavy Soul" is an organ-heavy mod R&B masterpiece. It included club classic ‘O'Baby (I Believe I'm Losing You)’, as well as three other floor-fillers; ‘You've Been A Bad Girl’, ‘Whip It On Me’' and ‘What More Can I Do?’.

The beautifully packaged EP is designed in the London Records / Decca style and showcases the two known photographs of Billy. These were provided by the organ-playing singer's brother Leroy in 2014. Until this point almost nothing was known about Billy.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, he based himself in Philadelphia and his trio worked up and down the Eastern seaboard. He was discovered playing in one of the endless clubs and lounges that existed at the time and made his first album for Prestige, “The New Genius Of The Blues”, in 1966; “Heavy Soul” followed a year later.

Produced by Cal Lampley at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, both ‘You've Been A Bad Girl’ and ‘What More Can I Do’ are appearing on 7- inch for the first time.

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Gold

7" | 2020 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

Release: 2020 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Just Say A Four Letter Word (Love) / She's A Real Sweet

California Playboys

7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Ace)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The top two dance tracks from The California Playboys’ collectable Loadstone LP are pressed here on a handy 7” disc. The California Playboys’ Loadstone LP has been a several hundred pounds album for decades. Here we feature the top two dance tracks which propelled it into that price bracket. Both are Modern Soul fans’ favourites and to have them on a handy 7” disc with a suitable 45 edit will make them irresistible.

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7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Ace)

Spotlight On Fraternity

Don't It Make You Feel Funky / I Gotta Be Free

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the 1950s and 60s, the Cincinnati recording scene was dominated by Syd Nathan’s King label, whose R&B catalogue made it a major player among post-war independents. In its shadow was Fraternity, a smaller concern launched by Harry Carlson in 1954.

The well-respected Carlson set about building an artist roster which reflected his conservative musical taste, scoring smash hits by Cathy Carr and Jimmy Dorsey a couple of years later which established the label as an indie to be reckoned with.

Here, though, we spotlight decidedly non-MOR Fraternity recordings by influential guitar hero Lonnie Mack, soulful girl group the Charmaines, bluesy singer-guitarist Albert Washington, and female duo the 2 Of Clubs.

For those with appetites whetted by this old-fangled 7-inch vinyl sampler, further Fraternity recordings by each of these artists can be found elsewhere in the Ace Records catalogue. For now, though, here’s your chance to enjoy four fine examples of the sound of mid-60s Cincinnati.

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Joe Hicks

7" | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Ace)

12,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At last a legal re-release of Joe Hicks’ Northern all-time classic ‘Don’t It Make You Feel Funky’; a record oozing adrenalin and sounding magnificent from the original master tape.

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Bonnie Dobson & Her Boys

Come On Dancing

7" (Ace)

14,99 €*

Genre: Organic Grooves

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September Jones / Pied Piper Players

Chink A Chank Baby / That's What Love Is

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Ace)

14,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live It Up! Bayswater Beat Girls 1964-1967

CD | 2019 | EU | Original (Ace)

15,99 €*

LP | 1972 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Hand-picked 60s she-pop from UK Philips, Fontana and Mercury, including many titles new to CD.

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Ohio Players

Pleasure

19,99 €*

Release: 1972 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Yum Yum Black Vinyl Edition

Fatback Band

LP | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

19,99 €*

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Formed by drummer Bill Curtis in 1970, the Fatback band started off as a funk band although when disco began to break in 1974, they added that four-to-the-floor wrinkle to their sound to serve up some classics. In 1975 Fatback released both their fifth and sixth albums - “Yum Yum” and “Raising Hell” - in the same year. Although singles had been released Stateside as early as 1971, it was not until 1975 that Fatback began to appear on singles here.

Their third UK 7” – ‘Yum Yum (Gimme Some)’ - got to number 40 in the UK charts in August. Later in November, ‘Are You Ready (Do The Bus Stop)’ got to number 18, which helped propel the “Raising Hell” LP into the top 20. This album also spawned the Top 10 hit ‘Spanish Hustle’ in early 1976. Both “Yum Yum” and “Raising Hell” have been out of print on vinyl for decades. These new editions allow funky Fatback fans to drop the needle and get back into the groove.

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LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Ace)

Rhythm & Blues Christmas

19,99 €*

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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Having noticed that Christmas tends to be an annual event and that vinyl is suffering a resurgence, we here at Ace have put the two together and extracted 14 blues, R&B and doo wop sides from our Christmas R&B compact disc and turned them into a seasonal platter.

A mostly upbeat selection that will certainly help you and yours get through these fraught times.

Blues stars like B.B. King and Lowell Fulsom, with their ripping up-beat guitars join forces with the mellower mistletoe sounds of Hadda Brooks and Jesse Belvin.

This positive view of seasonal goodwill was probably down to the fact that all these sides were cut in Los Angeles in the warm California sun.

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A Good Thing Goin'! - Girl Group Sounds Usa 1962-1967

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Ace)

20,99 €*

Tape | 1971 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ace Records has been the go-to source of 1960s US girl group compilations since the release of our “Where The Girls Are”, “Girls About Town” and “Stop, Look & Listen” vinyl albums back in the 1980s. The 10-volume “Where The Girls Are” CD series followed over the next few decades, along with a batch of standalone CD collections. These days, however, the vinyl long-player is back in favour as the format of choice for discerning collectors.

“A Good Thing Goin’!”, the latest in our current series of gorgeously packaged 12-inchers, drops this month. The album opens in fine style with ‘What About You’ by the great sounding Mousie & the Traps. Darlene Love kicks off the second side with ‘Let Him Walk Away’, a song written by Jackie DeShannon with noted arranger Jack Nitzsche, no less. Darlene Love, one of the most beloved vocalists of the classic girl group era, also sings lead on the Blossoms’ terrific previously unissued ‘You Had A Good Thing Goin’’, while Jack Nitzsche produced the Satisfactions’ lush ‘Baby I’m So Glad It’s Raining’ and Karen Verros’ castanets-driven version of the Crystals’ ‘Little Boy’.

Other highlights include Brenda Holloway’s silky pre-Motown gem ‘Constant Love’, the Puffs’ hip dancer ‘I Only Cry Once A Day Now’, the Fran-cettes’ latin-flavoured ‘Late In The Evening’ and Linda & the Vistas’ Shrine Records rarity ‘Bad Apple’. As usual in the series, the swanky inner sleeve features a picture-packed 3,000-word track commentary by long-serving compiler Mick Patrick.

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Funkadelic

Maggot Brain

20,99 €*

The Best Of - Standing On The Verge

Release: 1971 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1971 and Black America was luxuriating in the soft soul of the O’Jays, the Temptations had just left behind their flirtation with psychedelia, James Brown was explaining Soul Power, Sly & the Family Stone were having a Family Affair, and Marvin Gaye was asking ‘What’s Going On’.

In their own inimitable way, Funkadelic were laying down their own statement about the ecology of the planet in the opening of lead and title track ‘Maggot Brain’, turning it into an elegy for the Earth in the ensuing heart-wrenching extended Eddie Hazel guitar solo – one of the most radical records of the period.

The album also spawned two Top 50 singles with the usual Funkadelic wry observational humour of ‘You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks’ and ‘Can You Get To That’. And just in case you think things have normalised, the set closes with nine minutes of the chaotic sound collage ‘Wars Of Armageddon’.

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Funkadelic

2LP | 2009 | UK | Original (Ace)

21,99 €*

Release: 2009 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

Fatback Band

Raising Hell

21,99 €*

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Man! - The Ultimate Isaac Hayes 1969 - 1977

Isaac Hayes

2LP | 2009 | UK | Original (Ace)

22,99 €*

Release: 2009 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For a new generation of Isaac Hayes fans who first came to him via samples and some outrageous threads, this is the ultimate compilation of his recordings for Stax and his own HBS productions between 1969 and 1977.

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2LP | 2000 | EU | Original (Ace)

Super Funk 1

22,99 €*

LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

Release: 2000 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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20 super funky rare tracks by Denise Lasalle, The Counts ...

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Candi Staton

I'm Just A Prisoner

24,99 €*

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With Candi Staton hitting the UK to play the Love Supreme festival over the weekend of 30th June/2nd July, Ace records is delighted to reissue her debut LP, which has been out-of-print on vinyl for decades. "I'm Just A Prisoner" was released in 1970 and remains a definitive slice of Southern soul. Recorded at Rick Hall's legendary FAME studio in Muscle Shoals, "I'm Just A Prisoner" pulled together five tracks - 'I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than A Young Man's Fool)', 'I'm Just A Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin')', 'Evidence', 'You Don't Love Me No More' and 'Sweet Feeling' - that had appeared as A and B-sides on early singles issued in 1969 and 1970. These were augmented by another five tracks recorded specifically for the album; 'Someone You Use', 'Get It When I Want It', 'Do Your Duty', 'That's How Strong My Love Is' and 'Another Man's Woman, Another Woman's Man'. Like Southern fried chicken, this music is essential food for your ears. This new edition includes an inner sleeve featuring a new interview with Candi conducted by Ace Records' Ian Shirley about this magical stage of her career as well as photos from the period.

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Tres Chic! More French Girl Singers Of The 1960s

LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Ace)

24,99 €*

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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180g Colored Vinyl! Hand-picked titles by Françoise Hardy, France Gall. Annie Philippe, Elsa, Violaine, Pussy Cat, Brigitte Bardot, Delphine and Liz Brady!

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The soul of Spanish Harlem

2LP | 2009 | EU | Original (Ace)

24,99 €*

Release: 2009 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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feat. Olivieri, Joe Bataan, Tito Ramos, Ralfi Pagan, Parrish and more ... essential!

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2LP | 2007 | EU | Reissue (Ace)

Super funk 5 - is back

25,99 €*

Release: 2007 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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21 super funky rare tracks by The Uniques, The Diplomats, Alvin Cash, The Explosions, ...

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Hearts For Sale! - Girl Group Souns Usa 1961 - 1967

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Ace)

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Hearts For Sale” is the fifth and latest in our series of 12-inch vinyl albums spotlighting the US girl group sound of the 1960s. The collection opens with ‘Street Dance’ by Bonnie Jean, a little-known must-have for collectors of the genre, with Darlene Love and the Blossoms clearly audible on background vocals. Issued on Lew Bedell’s Doré label, this exciting faux-live deck in the style of Shirley Ellis’ ‘The Nitty Gritty’ was written by Guy Hemric and Jerry Styner, a hip team known for supplying songs for the soundtracks of B movies such as Muscle Beach Party and Thunder Alley.

The Hollywood-based Doré imprint is also the source of ‘You Really Never Know Till It’s Over’ by the Vel-Vetts (which shares a backing track with the Superbs’ ‘I Was Born When You Kissed Me’), ‘One Way Street’ by the Swans, a soulful update of the Teddy Bears’ ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’ by the Darlings and – featuring lead vocals by Sheilah Page, a former member of groups such as the Bermudas, Becky & the Lollipops, the Majorettes, Joanne & the Triangles and Beverly & the Motor Scooters – ‘He’s Groovy’ by the Front Page & Her.

Other highlights include the Sweethearts’ Supremes-influenced ‘No More Tears’, the sophisticated slowie ‘Lonely Girl’ by the Lovettes (that’s them on the front sleeve), ‘My Heart Tells Me So’ by the Del-Phis (an early incarnation of Martha & the Vandellas) and the Fran-Cettes’ terrific recording of ‘Heart For Sale’. As with the earlier volumes in the series, the album comes with a fully-illustrated inner bag featuring a 2,500-word track commentary by compiler Mick Patrick.

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Here There And Everywhere - Black America Sings John Lennon Paul McCartney And George Harrison

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Ace)

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Known for their shared love of black American music, the Beatles’ versions of songs by the likes of the Miracles, the Marvelettes, Arthur Alexander, Barrett Strong, the Isley Brothers and more provided an entry point into soul for many young Brits in the early 1960s.As their fame spread across the Atlantic Ocean. It was inevitable that their music would start to impact on the musical worlds of soul and jazz in the shape of multiple covers of their hit singles and album tracks.Ace has issued two previous highly acclaimed and strong selling collections featuring ‘Black America Singing The Beatles’, and “Here, There And Everywhere” is Ace’s third compilation of Soul and Jazz reinterpretations of classic Lennon, McCartney and Harrison copyrights – and the first to be issued on double vinyl, as well as CD.This time we have extended the series’ remit to also include post-Beatles songs by John, Paul and George among our strong selection of goodies from the Fab Four’s golden decade. SIDE ONE1. CAN'T BUY ME LOVE - Sam Fletcher2. YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY - Sarah Vaughan3. LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS - Natalie Cole4. MICHELLE - Four Tops5. TAXMAN - Junior Parker6. STEP INSIDE LOVE - Madeline BellSIDE TWO1. YOU CAN'T DO THAT - The Supremes2. HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE - Carmen McRae3. GIVE PEACE A CHANCE - Randy Crawford4. SHE'S LEAVING HOME - Syreeta5. HE LOVES YOU - Mary Wells6. LET ‘EM IN - Billy PaulSIDE THREE1. EVERY NIGHT - The Drifters2. MAYBE I'M AMAZED - Carleen Anderson3. MY LOVE - Margie Joseph4. ISN'T IT A PITY - The Three Degrees5. MY SWEET LORD - The ChiffonsSIDE FOUR1. IMAGINE - Keb' Mo'2. JEALOUS GUY - Donny Hathaway3. WE CAN WORK IT OUT - Stevie Wonder4. YESTERDAY - Marvin Gaye5. AND I LOVE HIM - Esther Phillips

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28 Little Bangers From Richard Hawley's Jukebox

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Ace)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Music From Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service

2LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Ace)

31,99 €*

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Ace)

New Jill Swing 1988-94

32,99 €*