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Small light scuffs on both sides.
Cover lamination is peeling.

Here are two great cuts, previously unreleased as singles, recorded for Al Sears’ Sylvia label in New York City in 1965. The Corvairs had one very good release on the label in a soul group harmony style. ‘I'll Never Do It Again’ and ‘A Feeling Deep Inside’ are more R&B and sound earlier than the 45 release. Both tracks have picked up admirers from their New Breed and Modernist CD releases and their release as a Sylvia repro label single will be very welcome.

Sticker on sleeve.

Split at bottom seam. Back cover has a big water stain.

Cover has shelf wear and slight foxing.

The only original album by West Coast soul vocal group The Ballads, released in 1969, is still a favourite among soul fans, but has only been reissued on vinyl once before, in 1982. P-vine is honoured to be able to reissue it on LP with a Japanese obi.

The album is extremely rich and wonderful, with gems such as Gene Chandler's 'God Bless Our Love' and 'The Gift Of Love', as well as Detroit-style dance numbers, and will also include a bonus track that was only released as a single. The album captures the band's cradle period in the 1970s, when they began to fully embrace a sweet soul style.

Bottom spine is torn. Original inner sleeve.

taped spine. Writing on cover.

The album that started it all! Spanky Wilson’s legendary debut from Mother’s Records saw Philadelphia’s soon to be soul diva teaming up with legendary producer/arranger H.B. Barnum to deliver a killer 11-track LP! From the opening notes of “You’re Gonna Miss Me”, to the final fading chimes of “The Last Day of Summer”, Spanky Wilson’s beautiful voice is always on full display. Despite the fullness of her voice, there’s a surprising tenderness - undercutting soulful funky numbers with an element of emotionality unlike anything her peers would ever put out. As Spanky’s voice soars, her backing band, at times as sparse as a single piano, and at times as full as a big band, is always tight, giving Spanky plenty of room to shine while showing off their own immense talents. Don’t miss the album that started it all for legendary soul diva Spanky Wilson, now available on limited edition vinyl with a special Japanese Obi-strip!

Record has hairlines and some superficial scratches.

Record has some hairlines and a few superficial scratches.

The album Rock 'n Soul was originally released in 1964 by Grammy Award winning Solomon Burke (†2010). 7 tracks ended up in Top 100 Billboard Hits at the time. "If You Need Me" went as high as #2 in the Black Singles Chart. This extraordinary album is not only soulful but a confirmation that Burke is a genius when it comes to writing music and making it happen in a studio!

Cover is missing.

Breezy Sunshine-Pop / Soft-Rock / Psych-Pop from California, 1970, featuring Peter Clark a.k.a Chet DeMilo.

Crystal clear recording, awesome vocal harmonies, superb musicianship, bossa & blue-eyed-soul-jazz touches,folk-rock moves…

In 1969 Chet Demilo was appearing at Donkin's Inn, Marina Del Rey, where he met Arnie Marcus and Ray Hames, who together were to become part of an incredible slice of history. Donkin's became the hottest and most famous destination in Southern California for the next seven years, and Chet was the magnet that started the new singles scene in Los Angeles with Marina Del Rey as ground zero.

Arnie sat in on bongos with Chet from time to time, and Ray, who was managing an apartment complex that housed 200 flight attendants, just happened to have a unit available!! Chet moved in, and he and Ray started working on songs together. Chet suggested forming a vocal group with Arnie and SST was born. For three months they practiced the intricate vocal harmonies and in early 1970 cut the album, "Soft Soul Transition". A thousand records were pressed, and an album release party was held at Donkins where SST gave their one and only performance that night!

There was interest in the project at Burt Bacharach's Blue Seas Music, but it was not to be and SST faded away...until more than 20 years later when the SST album was discovered by a new generation of DJs and collectors looking for cool and groovy sounds from the 60s-70s.

US original.

Vinyl is Close to VG. Original US Pitman pressing. Unipak has a seam wear.

- "Sex Machine" sampled by Beastie Boys for "Sex Machine"

- "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" sampled by Geto Boys for "Punk Bitch Game",
Ice Cube for "Horny Lil' Devil",
Ice T for "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey",
KAM for "Stereotype",
MOP for "G-Building" and
Schoolly D for "Don't Call Me Nigger"

- "Stand" sampled by 3XDope for "Believe Dat",
7A3 for "Coolin' in Cali",
A Tribe Called Quest for "Rap Promoter",
Kool Moe Dee for "Rise 'N' Shine",
Professor Griff for "Last Asiatic Disciples",
Public Enemy for "Who Stole the Soul?" and
Scarface for "The Diary"

- "You Can Make it if You Try" (Drums) sampled by 7A3 for "Coolin' in Cali",
Diamond D for "What You Seek",
DJ Quik for "Niggaz Still Trippin'",
DJ Shadow for "Basic Mega-Mix",
Ice Cube for "The Product", "True to the Game" & "Wicked",
Ice T for "New Jack Hustler",
Insane Poetry for "Grim Reality",
Jungle Brothers for "Because I Got it Like That",
King Sun for "Be Black" & "Stunts",
King T for "Take You Home",
Lifer's Group for "Jack U. Back (So You Wanna Be a Gangsta)",
Mad Flava for "Wax on tha Belt (Baby G Gets Biz)",
Mobb Deep for "Hit it from the Back",
Powerule for "Gots to Get This",
Public Enemy for "Night of the Living Baseheads",
Queen Latifah for "Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children",
Rumpletilskinz for "I-N-I",
Schoolly D for "Mr. Big Dick" & "This is It (Ain't Gonna Rain)",
Stetsasonic for "Talkin' All That Jazz",
Tupac for "Troublesome",
Two Kings in a Cipher for "Movin' on 'Em",
X-Clan for "Xodus" and
Yo-Yo for "You Can't Play with My Yo-Yo"

- "I Want to Take You Higher" sampled by De La Soul for "A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturdays'" & "Ladies Nite Decision",
DOC for "Mind Blowin'",
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five for "Magic Carpet Ride" and
Schoolly D for "Dis Groove is Bad"

- "Sing a Simple Song" (Drums) sampled amongst others by A Tribe Called Quest for "Jazz (We've Got)",
Ahmad for "Can I Party?",
Akinyele for "Bags Packed",
Alkaholiks for "Make Room",
Arrested Development for "Mr. Wendal",
Big Punisher for "Twinz (Deep Cover '98)",
Boss for "Drive By",
Chubb Rock for "Lost in the Storm",
Compton's Most Wanted for "I Don't Dance",
Craig Mack for "That Y'all",
Cypress Hill for "Latin Lingo",
Da King & I for "Krak Da Weazel",
Da Lench Mob for "Buck tha Devil",
Das EFX for "Hard Like a Criminal" & "Mic Checka",
De La Soul for "Eye Know",
Del for "Worldwide",
Diamond D for "Check 1, 2",
Digital Underground for "Return of the Crazy One" & "The Humpty Dance",
Domino for "Getto Jam", "Long Beach Thing" & "Sweet Potato Pie",
Dr. Dre for "Deep Cover",
E-40 for "Hide n Seek" & "Nuttin' A-s Nigga",
Eazy-E for "Eazy-Duz-It" & "It's On",
Ed OG for "Skinny Dip",
Erick Sermon for "Stay Real",
Fu-Schnickens for "Props" & "Sneekin' up on Ya",
Gorillaz for "192000",
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five for "Kid Named Flash",
Group Home for "Supa Star",
Heather B for "All Glocks Down",
Ice Cube for "Gangsta's Fairy Tale 2",
"Jackin' for Beats", "Really Doe" & "Who's the Mack?",
Ice T for "Ricochet",
Insane Poetry for "How Ya Gonna Reason with a Psycho",
Jungle Brothers for "For the Heads at Company B", "J. Beez Comin' Through" & "Simple As That",
KAM for "Ain't That a Bitch", "Holiday Madness", "Pull Your Hoe Card" & "Stereotype",
Kris Kross for "Can't Stop the Bumrush",
KRS-One for "Sound of da Police",
LL Cool J for "How I'm Comin'" & "Mama Said Knock You Out",
Lords of the Underground for "Here Comes the Lords",
MadKap for "Check it Out",
Mary J. Blige for "Love is All We Need",
Me Phi Me for "Put Sho' Hands Together",
Mellow Man Ace for "Me La Pelas",
Naughty by Nature for "Ready for Dem",
ODB for "Hippa to da Hoppa",
Papa Chuk for "Trunk of Funk",
Paris for "Check it out ch'all",
Pete Rock & CL Smooth for "Anger in the Nation" & "For Pete's Sake",
Pharcyde for "I'm That Type of Nigga",
Public Enemy for "Brothers Gonna Work it Out", "Can't Truss It", "Get the Fuck out of Dodge", "Livin' in a Zoo" & "Party for Your Right to Fight",
Redman for "Blow Your Mind", "So Ruff" & "Time 4 Sum Aksion",
Rumpletilskinz for "Sweet Therapy" & "Theramixx",
Run-DMC for "In the House",
Salt-N-Pepa for "Somma Time Man",
Scarface for "Your Ass Got Took",
Schoolly D for "Dis Groove is Bad",
Showbiz & A.G. for "Represent",
Sir Mix-A-Lot for "The Jack Back",
Soul II Soul for "Nuff Love",
Stereo MCs for "The Other Side",
Stetsasonic for "It's in My Song",
Stezo for "Gets into His Move",
Terminator X for "Back to the Scene of the Crime",
TLC for "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", "Hat 2 Da Back" & "What about Your Friends?",
Tupac for "Peep Game", "Souljah's Revenge", "Temptations" & "Young Niggaz",
UTFO for "Rough and Rugged",
WC & the Maad Circle for "Behind Closed Doors",
West Street Mob for "Sing A Simple Song",
Wu-Tang Clan for "Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)",
X-Clan for "Funk Liberation" and
Yo-Yo for "Mackstress"

Sly & the Family Stone came into their own with their second album, Dance to the Music, released in 1968. It contains the Top Ten hit single of the same name. "Dance to the Music" peaked at #8 in The Billboard Hot 100, and reached 9th place in the R&B Singles of 1968. The song propelled Sly & The Family Stone into the stratosphere. This seminal album helped lay the groundwork for the development of Funk music.

180g vinyl.

Cover has seam split and small tears along the opening edge.

Shirley Wahls is known as one of the young pioneers of Gospel music. Singing in the church since the age of three, she began her singing career in the junior choir of the Mt Pleasant Baptist Church under the direction of Ruth Jones. Her professional career began with such legendary groups as "The Argo Singers", "The Ward Gospel Singers" and "The Dorothy Norwood Singers" before trying her hand on secular music around the mid 1960s. Between 1967 and 1976 she had released eight 45RPM singles on different labels such as King, Calla, Smash, Blue Rock, and Giant. The two songs featured on this 45 are probably her funkiest recordings and were long overdue for an official reissue. We'd like to say "Thank You" to Ms. Wahls for giving us the permission to re-release these wonderful songs. This is an essential double-sider which certainly fills any dance floor.

Before there was War there was Señor Soul, which saxophonist/flutist Charles Miller formed in Long Beach, California; he played on Brenton Wood sessions for Double Shot, who released their loose interpretation of Miriam Makeba’s ‘Pata Pata,’ the hit that led to this blinding debut LP. Blending funk, Latin jazz and psychedelic soul, the group makes a range of material their own, led by Miller and vibraphonist Edwin Stevenson; everything from Heard It Through The Grapevine to Psychotic Reaction gets the Señor Soul treatment, rendered with equal doses of sensitivity, humour and funky flavour. Long before Miller recruited members of Nightshift to morph Señor Soul into War, this top-notch debut is a stone-cold winner from first note to last, a must-have for all funk and Latin jazz afficionados.

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines. Cover with long open seam splits on top and bottom spines.

Very little is known about Roy Redmond besides the fact he recorded 4 songs and 2 singles in 1967 for Loma Records, a Warner Bros subsidiary that is well known by Norther Soul/6os Soul aficionados. Redmond's largest success is probably his soulful cover of The Beatles 's "Good Day Sunshine", considered by some as one of the best Beatles covers. His other single is a more obscure affair featuring on the A side "Ain't That Terrible" and on the flip "A Change Is Gonna Come", a very fine cover of the Sam Cooke's classic - beautiful stuff. The A side "Ain't That Terrible" is a stylish, uptempo, relentless Northern Soul piano stomper that will get Soul fans up and moving their moneymakers in no time! Relatively unknown, this track is on par with the greatest numbers of the genre such as Lou Pride's "I'm coming home in the morning" or Bob and Earl's "Harlem Shuffle". This is pure underground Northern Soul at its absolute best. To be played often and... Loud. Keep the faith!

Vinyl with scuffs, hairlines and a couple of deeper marks

Record Store Day 2020 Release. Finally, after 53 years, “I Caught You In A Lie” is now rightly regarded as one the Great New Orleans Soul classics. Whilst many people may only know the various cover versions, Robert Parker’s original sublime slice of heartfelt Soul has steadily built in reputation, especially recently. That’s why original Nola copies are £150+, even for battered ones! So here is the official legitimate, remastered repress on the sacred Nola label. 7 Inch with replica artwork.

This slice of Louisiana deep Southern soul has taken on a life of its own since Dave Godin included it on his first “Deep Soul Treasures” CD, and the single has shot up to well over three figures in value.

In 2021 the song is the subject of a cover version by the-name-to-drop Lady Blackbird and we felt it was about time that it was reissued in its original format.