Funk | Soul Vinyl 283 Items

US original, club edition.

Early Reissue!

US original, stereo version.

US original mono pressing. Vinyl with scuffs and a couple of small scratches.

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines. Cover with ring, shelf wear and spine damage.

US original mono pressing.

Cover with ring, shelf wear. Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines

Cover has ring wear and slight foxing inside gatefold.

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines

US original. Seam split.

Original US. Cover has discolouring around open spine.

US original gatefold.
Sleeve has sticker and handwriting.

Sleeve has handwriting.

Record with just a few paper scuffs.

Record is close to VG.

Original US deep groove stereo pressing.

Original US Stereo pressing. Small seam split and tear in cover.

Record has many hairlines and surface marks. Cover has slight water damage, no splits or tears.

Torn spines. Original US pressing.

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines. Cover with heavy shelf wear and writing on the back.

Vinyl close to VG+

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines

Tear in top spine.

Promo stamp on back cover.

seam split. US 1969 repress.

Slightly warped vinyl, but still enjoyable. Cover with edge wear

Original Hollywood pressing. Tear in bottom spine.

Cover is close to VG+.

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines. Cover with heavy ring, shelf wear

Close to VG+

Cover with ring, shelf wear. Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines

Drill hole in cover.

seam split, Writing on cover.

Cover with seam split on top spine, closer to VG

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.

Why you'll love it...
Let’s start with the scream. We tend to define our singers by how “great” their voice is, how deftly they can ascend and descend major and minor scales, and how they can turn up and turn down the emotion inherent in their voices. But when considering Wilson Pickett, it begins and ends with his scream. He could take you on a journey, he could butter you up, he could make you feel things in your vital organs, but you don’t get a nickname like “Wicked Pickett” because you’re a crooner.

Pickett’s “Hey Jude” forms the spiritual centerpiece and title track of hisfinal trip up to the mountain-top, his last true masterpiece LP. He’d take forays to Philadelphia for the new sound of soul, and even go vaguely disco in the late ’70s. But for his final album of the ’60s, a decade where he dominated the soul charts, he’d unwittingly help start southern rock, and scream his way across one of the most recognizable tunes in the history of song. Not bad for 31 minutes and eight seconds worth of music.