Tee Scott: Invite to Better Days (Promo 7”)
Sins of Satan: Dance and Free Your Mind (Buddah Promo 12”)
Exportations: Party Down (Birdie 12”)
Alias: Shake (Nia 12”)
Blaze: Can’t Win For Losing (AIGT edit) (Quark 12”)
Rockin Horse: Love Do Me Right (RCA LP)
Carly Simon: Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) (Elektra Promo 12”)
Zulu Gang: I Got A Magic Feeling Making Love (AB Productions 12”)
First Love: Don’t Say Goodnight (Dakar 12”)
Glen Dorsey & The Big J: Movin On (AIGT re-edit) (GooD 7”)
Laj & Quakerman: Former Glory (Fiasco 12”)
Kenny Dixon Junior: Yesterdays (Soul City 12”)
Master Jay & Michael Dee: TSOB (TSOB)
Jack Michaelson: Ever and Ever (AIGT re-edit)
JP Rodgers: All My Loving (Inculcation 7”)

Keeping it super soulful, the all in good time selectors pull out another batch of soulful gems.

As previously promised the disco mix will be up very soon, it’s currently doing battle on http://chat.southportweekender.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=10 in this years mix off, check out some of the mixes in this years competition, number 8 is my favourite, but I would say that!

Quiet Storm: Only You (Long Version) (Motown promo 12”)
Brick: Living From Your Mind (Brick, Bang LP)
Pockets: Come and Go With Me (CBS 7”)
Blood Hollins: How Have You Been (AIGT Philly Disco re-edit)
The Temptations: Aiming At Your Heart (The Temptations, Gordy LP)
The Mayberry Movement: Think I’m In Love With You (Event 7”)
The Chi-Lites: You Got To Be The One (Brunswick 7”)
Ambelique: Talk Like That (Rag Town 7”)
The Mystic Moods: Midnight Snack (Mint 7”)
Ernie Bush: Breakaway (Tom Moulton disco mix) (Contempo 12”)
Geater Davis: My Love Is So Strong For You (House of Orange 7”)
The Soulvation Army Band: Dancing on a Daydream (Soulvation Army)
Leroy Hutson: Love Oh Love (Love Oh Love, Curtom LP)
Barabas: Mellow Blow (Heart of the City, ATCO LP)
Captain Sky: Moon Child (AVI 7”)
Gail Eason: I Can See The Hurt (Epic 7”)

We’ve had the first taste of summer here in the UK and it’s hot, well comparatively speaking anyway. Here we’ve dished up a slice of ice cold soul, nice and laid back in preparation for the next podcast which is full on disco heat from start to finish. All in good time,keeping it soulful...the only way we know how

The Tymes: It’s Cool (RCA 7”)
Leo’s Sunshipp: Give Me The Sunshine (We Need Each Other, Lyons Record Company LP)
Plantlife: When She Smiles She Lights The Sky (Gut 7”)
Imagination: Love Diet (20th Century)
Ashford & Simpson: Don’t Cost You Nothing (Warners 12”)
Coke Escovedo: I Wouldn’t Change A Thing (Comin At Ya, Mercury LP)
Margie Joseph: Come On Back To Me Lover (Atlantic 7”)
Al Green: Love & Happiness (London 12”)
Roisin Murphy: When We’re In Love (Sequins, ECHO EP)
The Dells: Free & Easy (Freedom Means, Chess LP)
Aaron Neville: Hercules (Jazzman 7”)
Lattimore: I Get Lifted (It Ain’t Where You’ve Been, Glades LP)

More quality soul music tumbling out of your speakers courtesy of the All In Good Time selectors. Honourable mentions this week to Eddie Kendricks’ One Tear, to me his best tune ever and the Donny Hathaway ingeniously arranged Centre Stage’s Someday Someway.

Starvue: Put The BS Aside (Upward Bound, MIR LP)
LaVelle: It’s Too Soon (Brand New Start, Blue Silver LP)
Touch of Class: You Got To Know Better (Midland International 7”)
Marion Javius: Waiting In The Wings (Encore 7”)
LV Johnson: I Don’t Really Care (ICA 7”)
Eddie Kendricks: One Tear (For You, Tamla Motown LP)
Lowrell: Overdose of Love (AVI 12”)
Ten City: Say Something (Columbia EP)
The Persuaders: Two Women (Calla 12”)
The True Example: That’s Where I’m Coming From (ST, ATCO LP)
J.O.B Orquestra: Don’t Want That Illusion (Open The Doors To Your Heart, Iskon LP)
Citation: Inspiration Of My Life (Redline 7”)
Lou Courtney: I Don’t Need Nobody Else (I’m In Need Of Love, Epic LP)
The True Example: What I Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Me (ST, ATCO LP)
Jackie Moore: Do Ya Got What It Takes (I’m On My Way. Columbia LP)
The Center Stage: Someday, Someway (You’re Gonna Love Me) (RCA 7”)

We take the tempo up a notch or two as we delve into the crates and pull out some deep disco with a sprinkling of house. A couple of scarce disco 45s to start off then Mr Ashley Beedle’s ace re-edit of the super rare Tumblack from a few years ago. Kenny Dixon Junior flexes his sampling muscles and rips up Ten City’s Satisfaction from the Foundation LP. The mysterious Band of Small Men turn in a Philly influenced instrumental put through the AIGT mincer before we get down to some block rocking boogie and funk. Things turn a bit jazzy with the sublime Moving Finger from Dorothy Ashby and we continue in the vein with Linkwood Family’s recently reissued EP on Firecracker. Louie Vega turns in his version of Candido’s Thousand Fingered Man before Larry Levan’s remix of Sparkles Handsome Man, I don’t think this was ever officially released, I’m playing this off the Salsoul Comp, Larry Levan’s Greatest Mixes Vol 2 (there never was a Vol 1 so don’t bother looking). Who knows who Margrette Trotter was but so had a bash at Billy Paul’s Only The Strong Survive, I’ve got a stack more Philly cover versions for the next Versions mix, coming soon. Pacy modern soul from Brown Sugar before we finish with some good old fashioned house music from Jovonn, keeping it super soulful just the way we like it.

Plezee: Disco 200 (Brewton Sounds International 7”)
Lo-end: Le-Beat (New World Records 7”)
Tumbacara (Ashley Beedle’s Disco Dub Pt2 edit)
KDJ: Track 2 (Moods & Grooves)
Band of Small Men: Be Good For Goodness Sake (AIGT edit)
Sai Whatt: Put Your Weight On It (Stache 12”)
Fessor Funk: Love is Such a Good Thing (Part 1&2) (Roxbury 12”)
Dorothy Ashby: The Moving Finger (The Rubainat of Dorothy Ashby, Cadet LP)
Linkwood Family: Miles Away (Firecracker 10”)
Candido: Thousand Fingered Man (Roots Mix) (Vega 12”)
Friends feat Sparkle Tehran: Handsome Man (Larry Levan Mix) (Salsoul)
Margrette Trotter: Only The Strong Survive (Margrette 7”) (AIGT tweak)
Brown Sugar: I’m Going Through Changes Now (Capitol 7”)
Blvd. East feat Kaaye: Shout (Planetary Lift mix) (Next Moov 12”)

Part 4 of this 6 part series

Billy Paul: It’s Critical
Peoples Choice: Do It Anyway You Wanna (Re-edit)
Brenda & the Tabulations: Let’s Go All The Way
Billy Paul: Let the Dollar Circulate
Dee Dee Sharp Gamble: Easy Money
The Harris Machine: In Good Faith
Jean Carne: My Love Don’t Come Easy
Deniece Williams: It’s Your Conscience
Teddy Pendergrass: Set Me Free
Mighty Clouds of Joy: Mighty High (edit)
Frankie Knuckles: Only The Strong Survive (instrumental)
O’Jays: Put Our Heads Together
Jean Carne: Don’t Let It Go To Your Head
Philly Devotions: Hurt So Bad
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes: Bad Luck

More quality soul, disco house and the rest from the all in good time camp, keeping it soulful the only way we know how...

Eryka Badu: Honey (DJ Day remix) (white 7”)
Audio Phonic: It’s Too Far Away (aesthetics mix) (Soulfire 12”)
Bobby Caldwell: What You Won’t Do For Love (Bobby Caldwell, TK LP)
CB Overton: If I Can’t Stop You (AIGT re-edit) (Shock 7”)
Smokey Robinson: Virgin Man (Pure Smokey, Motown LP)
Jaisun: Reach For The Sky (Jaisun, Jett Sett LP)
David Ruffin: Discover Me (Everything’s Coming Up Love, Motown LP)
Barbara Jean English: Comin’ Or Goin’ (Alithia 7”)
Carol Jones: Don’t Destroy Me (Mutt 7”)
Candi Staton: The Best Thing |You Ever Had (Candi Staton, Fame LP)
Delia Gartrell (Fight Fire With Fire (Right -On 7”)
Ballistic Brothers v The Eccentric Afros: Blacker (94 EQ) (Black Sunshine 12”)
Zoot Simms: African Challenge (Studio One 7”)
Baby Charles: This Time (Baby Charles, Record Kicks LP)
Wilson Pickett: I Want You (EMI 7”)
Kerri Chandler: We Should Fall In Love (Kerris Jazz Café, Flipside EP)

Podcast 12

A little southern soul, a little philly soul and a little more make up this weeks podcast. The Jezebel LP by Mary McCreary features contributions from Merry Clayton and Jose Feliciano, apart from the title track the rest of the LP is a little weak, the cover is terrible but somehow it comes together on Jezebel. Likewise the Norma Jenkins LP is a one-tracker for me. Some more Philly flavour firstly from PIR favourites the Jones Girls this time on a Curtom promo 45, then a quick AIGT reshuffle of Ace Spectrum’s Keep On Holdin On. Smoke’s Have I Really Lost You sounds like vintage 70’s philly but is actually from the Mid West.

Geraldine Hunt (mother of Freddie James) is better known for her hit Can’t Fake The Feeling on Prism records, here we have the London 2-step underground classic Undercover Lover, tucked away on the B-side of It Doesn’t Only Happen At Night. More 2-step from Shirley Brown’s Love Starved, it’s also worth seeking out her eponymous LP from 1977 on Arista ( recently re-issued by Soul Brother Records) which contains the All In Good Time favorite, A Mighty Good Feeling

We‘ve also got the Lamont Dozier produced Zingara LP from1981, I Surrender features vocals from James Ingram as well as the beautifully soulful Look At the Boy from Jean Plum (more from her to come in later podcasts).

No disco, no house this week, well you can’t have it all, see you next time…

Mary McCreary: Jezebel (ST, Shelter LP )
Norma Jenkins: I Fooled You (Didn’t I) (Patience Is A Virtue, Desert Moon LP)
Jones Girls: Hey Lucinda (Curtom 7”)
Ace Spectrum: Keep On Holdin’ On (AIGT quick-fix edit) (Atlantic 12”)
Smoke: Have I Really Lost You (J.Bridge 7”)
Zingara: I Surrender (Zingara, Wheel Records LP
Geraldine Hunt: Under Cover Lover (Redrock 12”)
Shirley Brown: Love Starved (The Real Feeling, Stax LP)
Dells: All About the Paper (20th Century 12”)
Moments: Rain In My Backyard (Stang 7”)
Jean Plum: Look At The Boy (Hi 7”)
Tyrone Edwards: Can’t Get Enough Of You (Invictus 7”)
Family of Eve: Having It So Bad For You (Full Sail 7”)

Back again bringing you the supersoulful sounds of an April Fool’s special.

Kicking of in style with a woman who surely can do no wrong, Aretha Franklin with the Burt Bacarach penned April Fool which is tucked away on the flip of All The King’s Horses.

Just how many versions of Can’t Hide Love are there? Not enough in my opinion, here we have Isaac Hayes and Dionne Warwick’s live version which incorporates a bit of Love To Love You Baby into the bargain, I’m sure we’ll squeeze in another few versions over the coming months.

Elsewhere we have blistering lo-fi funk from Alex Williams and The Mustangs, perfect modern soul from Greg Perry and feel good Northern funk from Jack Hammer’s rarity Swim. Karriem’s I Love You is another hard to find 12” with a lovely picture sleeve, shame I can’t fit it in my scanner.

UK listeners will remember Swing Out Sister who had a number of top tn hits in the 80’s, here there provide a bit of a surprise with the Frankie Knuckles remix of Not Gonna Change.

Next podcast will feature a lovely guest mix from the Rendition of Soul show (AKA Mark Jordan) of www.futurebeatradio.com I’ve had a sneak preview and it’s a top quality selection of modern day soul, just how we like it. Expect a further update later this week.

Aretha Franklin: April Fools (Atlantic 7”)
Honey Cone: Sunday Morning People (Honey Cone, Hotwax LP)
Jack Hammer: Swim (Young Blood 7”)
Greg Perry: Come On Down (Casablanca 7”)
The Mighty Bop: Feelin Good (Yellow 12”)
Isaac Hayes and Dionne Warwick: Can’t Hide Love (A Man and a Woman, ABC LP)
Odetta: Hit or Miss (Polydor 7”)
Alex Williams And The Mustangs: The Thrill Ain’t Gone (Jewel 7”)
Roy Ayres Ubiquity: Red, Black and Green (ST, Polydor LP)
Mother’s Finest: Love Changes (Epic 7”)
The Ballads: Butterfli (Balja 7”)
Karriem: I Love You (Pashlo 12”)
Leprechaun: Loc-It-Up (Citation 12”)
Shuffle Inc: All I Do (Moulton Studios 12”)
Swing Out Sister: Not Gonna Change (Classic Song Mix) (Polydor 12”)

Gladys Knight & The Pips: I Love To Feel That Feeling (Buddah 7”)
Chic: Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) (Buddah 12”)
Rena Scott: Super Lover (Buddah 12”)
Ben Vereen: I’ll Keep A Light In My Window (Off-Stage, Buddah LP)
The Charisma Band: Charisma Road (Buddah 7”)
Purple Reign: Love Shortage (Parts 1 & 2 edit) (Buddah 7”)
Marie Green: I’m Sorry But That Number’s Been Disconnected (Buddah 7”)
Norman Connors: You Are My Starship (ST, Buddah LP
Melba Moore: Standing Right Here (Buddah 12”)
Oneness Of JuJu: Every Way But Loose (Buddah 12”)
New Birth: Granddaddy (Parts 1& 2 edit) (Buddah 7”)
Jae Mason: Cloud Of Sunshine (Tender Man, Buddah LP)

Keeping it soulful all in godd time oresents part two of the Buddah Records mix. Sticking to the later brown Buddah label we kick off with a cheapie 7” from Gladys Knight, well worth a couple of quid in anyone’s book. After leaving Motown, Gladys Knight signed up with Buddah and released a couple of big hit records such as Midnight Train To Georgia as well as some records which never achieved the critical acclaim that they should have, more of these to come in later mixes including the sublime Love Is Always on My Mind.

Most of you will already know You are My Starship and Standing Right Here, they need little introduction.

I’ve included a few more obscure releases from The Charisma Band, Purple Reign and Marie Greens crossover tune. We finish with the sublime Cloud of Sunshine by Jae Mason.

Part 3 to follow

Four Flights: All I Want Is You (Almeria 7”)
Brenda Cuffari: My Music Says It All (Charisma 7”)
Alma Faye: Don’t Fall In Love (Flamingo 12”)
Catherine Miller: You’ve Been Hunchin All Night (And Can’t Get It Right) (Tyson 7”)
Larry Nevilles: This Time It’s Real (Laray 7”)
Minnie Riperton: Reasons (Perfect Angel, Epic LP)
Nina Simone: The Family (CTI 7”)
Barrino Brothers: Livin High Off The Goodness of Your Love (ST, Invictus LP)
Smokey Robinson: Do Like I Do (Smokey’s Family Robinson, Motown LP)
Funkhouse Express: Chase Your Blues Away (Roxbury 7”)
The Earls: Get On Up And Dance The Continental (Woodbury 12”)
Eloise Laws: Love Goes Deeper Than That (Invictus 12”)
Maryann Farra & Satin Soul: Living In The Footsteps Of Another Girl (Brunswick 7”)
Aretha Franklin: It Only Happens When I Look At You (You, Atlantic LP)
Major Lance: You’re Everything I Need (AIGT disco re-edit)

Podcast 9

Another week another podcast coming to you from the rainy city, Manchester UK.
This week as usual a selection of soulful music from across the decades and genres. A little bit of soulful house including the new relesae form the Dave Lee's Sunburst Band, the LP is due to drop soon, also the Frankie Knuckles mix of Hercules and Love Affair's Blind, one of those tunes that's you'll either love or hate mainly due to the vocals of Anthony Hegarty from Anthony and the Johnsons, certainly not tthe usual vocal style you's associate with soulful house but all the better for it in my opinion.

I was pleased to see Mr Bobby Cutchins page on podomatic, I pleased to hear that he's still making the music he loves (you can check it out for yourself www.myspace.com/bobrobmusic). It was kind enough to take the time to answer a question I emailed him recently. Some of you will know that Lasso originally released his version of 'I Did It Again' on a 45 then subsequently another version was released a few years later by Jesse Henderson, this is what he had to say. ''When my contract with Lasso Records expired and I decided not to extend it, the owner decided to take the tracks that he had from my sessions and put Jesse's voice in place of mine. Peter Brown came into the picture and did a disco mix of the track and voila! The new version was born. They used the very same tracks as I did with the same background singers and orchestra but they just added the disco effects.''

I hope you enjoy the rest of the music I've selected this week, plenty more to come in the forthcoming weeks.

Gene Chandler: I’ll Make The Living If You Make The Loving Worthwhile (Chi Sound 12”)
Breakwater: Say You Love Me Girl (Arista 12”)
Ren Woods: I Love The Way You Do It (Out Of The Woods, ARC LP)
Gary Bartz: Keep Going On (Bartz, Arista LP)
The Two Tons: I Been Down (Fantasy/ Honey 7”)
Galaxy: A Love So Strong (Hot, Wet and Sticky, Arista LP)
Bobby Cutchins: Leaving (Lasso 7”)
Hercules And Love Affair: Blind (Frankie Knuckles Mix) (DFA 12”)
The Sunburst Band: Rough Times (Joey Negro Club mix) (Z records 12”)
Sabrynaah Pope: Someone For You (Fudge remix) (KIF 12”)
Chemistry: Skateboard (Masterpiece 7”)
The Tymes: How Am I To Know (The Things A Girl In Love Should Know) (RCA 12”)
Chuck Jackson: I’ve Got The Need (Needing You Wanting You, All Platinum LP)
Bobby Cutchins: I Did It Again (Lasso 7”)

Off we go again with a varied but still super soulful selection. Sydney Joe Qualls excellent LP features not only my choice ‘Bad Risk’ but also ‘I Didn’t Do This’, much loved in both the Modern and Northern Soul circles, until recently an LP only track it’s been re-issued on a 45 by Expansion, who have also issued a compilation of his finest work.
A recent thread on www.soul-source.co.uk has inspired me to dig out some 2-steppers including Collins and Collins version of (Harold Melvin and Sharon Paige’s) You Know How To Make Me Feels So Good, we’ve also got two lovely tracks from Freda Payne and Solar Source. Perfect Touch’s What Goes Around probably doesn’t have the beat to qualify as a 2-stepper but all the same it is a gorgeous piece of indie soul.
I’ve also selected two off kilter reggae flavoured disco records, High Feelings and Music Makes the World Go Round. The Hamilton Bros tune has been re-edited from the vocal and instrumental parts. More disco from Bill Brandon: We Fell In Love While Dancing, as well as this 45 there’s also a rare 45 bonus disc, and the super rare 12” which has Lorraine Johnson’s versions of The More You Want The More You Get on the flip side!

Sydney Joe Qualls: Bad Risk (So Sexy, 20th Century LP)
Lillian Alexander: A Dream Without You (Reynolds 7”)
Freda Payne: Tell Me Please (Supernatural High, Capitol LP)
Hamilton Brothers: Music Makes The World Go Round (AIGT re-edit)
Fish Go Deep: The Cure and The Cause (DJ Meme Philly Suite mix) (Strictly Rhythm 12”)
Solar Source: Now’s The Time (AVI 12”)
Blaze feat Hunter Hayes: Why Can’t We Live Together (Shelter 12”)
Kenny Carvajal feat John Pierce: My Words (Phuture Soul 12”)
Jimmie and Vella Cameron: Be Fair To Me (Unlimited Gold 12”)
Bill Brandon: We Fell In Love While Dancing (Long Version) (Prelude 7”)
Collins and Collins: You Know How To Make Me Feel So Good (ST, A&M LP)
Trinita: High Feeling (Stairway 12”)
Perfect Touch: What Goes Around (Celebrity 7”)

I'm losing count, it could be 7 or maybe 11. Here are some more selections currently featuring on the all in good time turntables, some new some old some old but new to me, thats how we like them.

I'm late as usual these days on new house releases about 18 months in this case, but nonetheless better late than never on Larry Heard's You Rock me on the legendary Alleviated label. The flip side The Sun Can't Comapre has been making waves on the deep and soulful house scene and features on the next Lust compilation, put together by Joey Negro (Dave Lee) , however it's You Rock Me with the nagging piano hook, strings and simple vocals has really hit the mark with me.

Brothers and Sisters: Nobody Is Gonna Turn Us Round is a heft slice of psych soul, part 2 gets even more wigged out as the producers turn the phasers and delay up to maximum, most notable in my memery because when I was listening to it in the record shop the owner came over to ask if I was OK after I'd listened to it 10 times in a row.

The new Million Dollar Orchestra LP is worth picking up out now on BBE records. I've already given props to Al Kent who put this together as a labour of love with real musicans, not a computer in sight! Keep on Doin Whatcha Doin owes a little to Brenda Harris I suspect but the addition of the strings and dancefloor friendly breakdowns puts it in a class of it's own. Canal Street Bus Stop forom the same LP is of equal class. Al Kent is also an excellent DJ, takea moment to listen to some of his mixes on his site www.milliondollardisco.com

Willie Hutch needs little introduction, writer producer and artist of the highest calibre, including one of my all time favorites, Easy Does It (an excellent song to listen to whilst doing a spot of DIY) the Soul Potrait LP is brimming with lovely music, I 've included my favorite of the bunch

Lots more good stuff this week, including Grace Jones and the Glitter Band (who'd have thought it)

Art Wilson: I Know We Can Make It (Alexander St 7”)
The Two Tons: Never Like This (Fantasy 7”)
Jeff and Aleta: Love Touch SRI 7”)
Grace Jones: Sorry (Beam Junction 12”)
Larry Heard presents Mr White: You Rock Me (Alleviated 12”)
The Brothers and Sisters: Nobody is Gonna Turn Us Round (part1) (Toddlin Town 7”)
Colours: Am I Gonna Be The One (First Take 12”)
Brenda Harris: Making Love (Dream 12”)
The Million Dollar Orchestra: Keep On Doin’ Watcha Doin’ (Better Days, BBE LP)
CJ & Co: Sure Can’t Go To The Moon (Devils Gun, Westbound LP)
Glitter Band: Makes You Blind (Bell 7”)
Randy Crawford: Don’t Get Caught (In Love’s Triangle (Columbia 7”)
Destiny: So Much Love (RCA 7”)
Leon Collins: Knowing I Love You (Elf 7”)
Willie Hutch: Your Love Keeps Liftin’ Me Higher (Soul Portrait. RCA LP)

Hope you enjoy this week's selection, next up, hopefully in time for Valentine's Day a little bit of the big man, Barry White.

More of a gospel theme rather than a pure gospel mix, this week we’re casting the net far and wide and hauling in a bountiful catch of soul, disco, house, boogie and folk as well as landing some straight up gospel. You should have seen the ones that that got away.

The Gospel Truth were not in reality a gospel band indeed to avoid being labelled as such after the success of ‘Uphill Peace of Mind’ they changed their name to Facts of Live, either way it’s a great accessible piece of music.

Two bona fide house classics from Donna Allen and Kenny Bobien. Anyone who has seen Mr Bobien perform live will know this man puts so much soul into his performances, as well as having provided one of house music greatest anthems, Rise Above The Storm he’s also released a full CD of gospel music.

Gloria Spencer makes Kenny Bobien look like a lightweight, weighing in at over 600lbs she was billed on her albums as the worlds largest gospel singer. ‘I Got It’ was recorded at Sigma studios and produced and arranged by Bobby Martin, so you know straight off it’s going to be class. Shirley Caesar another gospel act provides a version of the Eddie Kendricks anthem ‘He’s a Friend’ Following on the disco connection
a couple of disco flavoured tunes, the first from Dan Greer with ‘Love Is The Message’, not as you might think a MFSB cover and the second from Gloster Williams and Master Control with ‘No Cross, No Crown’, I’ve heard that there’s also a 12” of this.

We round things of with Linda Lewis’ Reach For The Truth, the song alone, let alone the picture of her on the LP is enough to make a grown mad go weak at he knees (or perhaps convert even the most ardent sinner).

The Gospel Truth: Uphill Peace Of Mind (Kayvette 7”)
Gloria Spencer: I Got It (Jay-Walking 7”)
The Dannie Belles: No One But The Lord (Making The Most of Today LP, Action)
Tears of Joy: This Is Not Your World (Seventy Seven 7”)
Free Life: I’ll Keep My Light In My Window (Free Life, Epic LP)
The Holy Disiples Of Chicago, Ill: After Every Dark Cloud (My Soul Needs Resting, Abec LP)
The Dannie Belles: Soon I Will Be Gone (Making The Most of Today, Action LP)
Shirley Caesar: He’s a Friend (From the Heart, Roadshow LP)
Dan Greer: Love Is The Message (Beale St 7”)
Gloster Williams and Master Control: No Cross, No Crown (Praying Spirit, LA LP)
Doris Troy and The Gospel Truth: (I Wanna) Testify: (The Rainbow Testament, MOJO LP)
Donna Allen: He Is The Joy (UBP Classic Mix) (Soulfuric 12”)
Kenny Bobien: Father (Ricanstruction vocal) (Soundmen on Wax 12”)
Linda Lewis: Reach for the Truth (Reprise 7”)

Keeping on with a mix of versions and covers,...spot the originals

1. The Supremes: Come Together (MFP LP)
2. Geoffrey Stoner: Check Out Your Mind (Ovation LP)
3. Melba Moore: Make Me Believe In You (Buddah LP)
4. Nanette Workman Lady Marmalade (Instrumental) (Pacha 7”)
5. Junior Parker: Love Hangover (Motown LP)
6. Sister Sledge: As (Atlantic 12”)
7. Cold Blood: I’m A Good Woman San Francisco 7”)
8. Gene Chandler: There Was A Time (Brunswick 7”)
9. WR: Love To Love You Baby (Tom Moulton Mix) (Rythmix 12”)
10. Toto: Georgy Porgy (Columbia 12”)
11. Side Effect: Georgy Porgy (Elektra 12”)
12. Nancy Wilson: Ode To Billy Joe (Capitol 7”)
13. Betty La Vette: What Condition My Condition Is In (Karen 7”)
14. Eddie Senay: Ain’t No Sunshine (UNI 7”)
15. Grover Washington Jr: Ain’t No Sunshine (Kudo 7”)
16. George Kirby: Feelin’ Good (Argo 7”)
17. Leslie Uggams: Lovin’ You Is Sweeter Than Ever ( Sonday LP)
18. Deodato: Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) (CTI 7”)
19. Undisputed Truth: Smiling Faces Sometimes (Tamla Motown LP)
20. Zulema: I Wanna Be Where You Are (RCA 7”)
21. Love Unlimited: Move Me No Mountain (Phillips LP)
22. Lee Charles: I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby (Chevron LP)
23. Kelle Paterson: I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby (Shadybrook 7”)
24. Gene West: In The Ghetto (Original Sound 7”)
25. Jackie Lee: Your Sweetness is My Weakness (UNI 7”)
26. Blossoms: Grandma’s Hands (Lion P)
27. Merry Clayton I’ve Got Life (Ode 70 LP)

Buddah Mix Part 1

1) Curtis Mayfield: Right On For The Darkness
2) Melba Moore: Ain’t No Love Lost
3) Norman Connors feat Phillip Mitchell: Once I’ve Been There (12” mix)
4) Black Ivory: Mainline
5) Gladys Knight & The Pips: Better Than Good Time
6) Ben Vereen: Signed, Sealed, Delivered
7) Phyllis Hyman: Living Inside Your Love
8) Modulations: Hopelessly In Love
9) Fresh Flavour: Without You Baby I’m Loser
10) MVPs: Turning My Heartbeat Up
11) Jimmy Jackson: Footsteps In The Shadows (LP version)
12) Aquarian Dream: Phoenix
13) Andrea True Connection: Fill Me Up (Heart to Heart) (AIGT re-edit)

Founded in 1967 and originally putting out ‘bubble gum’ pop records, the label came into it’s own in the mid to late 70’s and was fuelled onwards by the input of Norman Connors who joined the company in 1976. Buddah was at the forefront of the fledgling disco scene and was one of the early labels to produce 12”s, it also released some seminal Blaxplotation LPs

This mix and the subsequent instalments mainly concentrates on the era of the ‘brown’ Buddah label 1972-1978, however a few tunes creep in from the following incarnation when the label featured the capitol letter B.

Over the years Buddah featured legendary artists of the disco era such as The Trammps, Phyllis Hyman, Melba Moore, Van McCoy, Leroy Burgess (Black Ivory) and Gladys Knight and The Pips as well as many artists like Jae Mason, who have since criminally faded into obscurity but still produced some beautiful soul music. Other artists also appeared briefly on Buddah at some point in their recording career for example, Chic originally released Dance, Dance, Dance on Buddah before moving to Atlantic and Cubie and the Stairsteps introduced a fresh faced Keni Burke to the world, no bad thing in my opinion.

Curtis Mayfield’s early association with Buddah is evident throughout the story, not only did he release music on the label but Curtom was also distributed by Buddah, as was Sussex Records (we’ll hear more from both of these labels in the future). Artists on Buddah covered many of Mayfield’s songs and he also wrote specifically for them, the first mix features Melba Moore’s version of his Ain’t No Love Lost’ which was also released by Patti Jo to great acclaim on the underground scene both then and today.

Andrea True started her career in the Adult film industry, she co-penned and initially finaced her disco pop hit More More More with Greg Diamond in 1976 which was then remixed by Tom Moulton and proved a big hit in discos world wide (the drum break towards the end was also sampled by Len: Steal My Sunshine). The original promo 12” release is collectable and sought after however the tune has never been a favourite of mine, instead I’ve included Fill Me Up (Heart to Heart) which is at least if not more cheesy but I’ve always has a soft spot for it. Fill Me Up was also faithfully covered by Caress on Roulette Records.

Norman Connors should need little introduction, he was responsible for signing Melba Moore and Aquarian Dream . He also recorded in his own right for Buddah perhaps most notably on his album You Are My Starship which featured the title track and also The Creator Has A Master Plan ( featuring Pharoah Sanders). His LP Romantic Journey contains the all time classic Once I’ve Been There, sung by Phillip Michell, also released as a 12”, like a lot of the early Buddah 12” its hard to come by and very collectable. Once I’ve Been There was successfully covered by Dr Bob Jones’ East West Connection on Chilli Funk, another piece of vinyl worth seeking out.

Buddah’s releases also made waves on the Northern soul as well as the Disco scene with tracks like The MVPs: Turning My Heartbeat Up. I don’t know if Jimmy Jackson’s Footsteps in The Shadows ever got any Northern plays but it sounds like it could have, the LP version knocks spots of the 45 release with the extended drum sections and effects, shame about the slightly dodgy edit at the end.

Over the next few months I’ll be posting up at least another two episodes featuring Buddah records…’for your disco pleasure’

Philly Mix Part 3

MFSB: Mysteries of the World.
Incognito: Nights Over Egypt (Maw Mix)
MFSB: Love Is the Message (Tee Scott re-edit)
First Choice: The Player (AIGT re-edit)
Jean Carne: Was That All It Was
Vivian Reed: Save Your Love for Me
Charles McCann: Do It Again
Billy Paul: Am I Black Enough For You?
The Spinners: Are You Ready For Love (12” disco remix)
TJM: I Don’t Need No Music (Joey Negro re-edit)
Harold Melvin: Don’t Leave Me This Way

On we go with some more super soulful selections from the all in good time selectors.

Renee Geyer: Moving Along (Polydor 7”)
Independent Movement: Slipping Away (Polydor 12”)
Candy Bowman: I Wanna Feel Your Love (RCA 12”)
McGee: Now That I Have You (American Dream Records Ltd 12”)
Janette Renee: What’s On Your Mind (Super Club Remix) (Sheridan House 12”)
Ujima: A Shoulder To Lean On (Epic 7”)
Sharon Ridley: Where Did You Learn To Make Love The Way You Do (Stay a While With Me. Sussex LP)
Jean Stanback: The Next Man (Mankind 7”)
Margie Joseph: Didn’t Have To Tell Me (Phase II. Volt LP)
Betty Lavette: Let Me Down Easy (Calla 7”)
Creative Source: Don’t Be Afraid (Take My Love) (Polydor 7”)
The Dynamic Superiors: Deception (Motown 7”)
Clay Hunt: You Got Me On Fire (Polydor 7”)
Maxine Brown: Picked Up, Packed and Put Away (AVCO 7”)

Impact: Give a Broken Heart a Break
The Jones Girls: You’re Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else
Billy Paul: Only the Strong Survive (AIGT re-edit)
The Futures: Part Time Man
The Intruders: I’ll Always Love My Mama (Latchkey kid re-edit)
The Stylistics: People Make the World Go Round
Peoples Choice: Nothing Lasts Forever
The Harris Machine: I Wish (7” mix)
Jean Carne: If You Wanna Go Back
Teddy Pendergrass: Close the Door
Vince Montana: Love Beats
Black Science Orchestra: Philadelphia
Lorraine Johnson: The More I Get The More I Want

Welcome along to the latest update, once again lots of great music.

I've recently been tidying up the record room and clearing out some records destined for ebay or the charity shop, during this I came across the Phyllis Hyman tune which opens this podcast which had slipped my mind and almost made it into the discard pile, I'm pleased to say that it fell onto the turntable instead and is well worth a few minutes of your time

I've had a rare pleasure of hitting a record shop or two this week, two fruits of my digging are the Silver Platinum and Gold and Barbara Blake tracks.

Paulette Reaves: It's In Me released on PIP records but affilated to TK Disco has been stuck in my head for weeks, she's also released music on Blue Candle and is reasonably well respected on the Modern Soul scene. This track is out and out disco boogie and I love it.

Charles Earland provides a jazz funk cover version of the Eddie Kendricks classic Girl You Need A Change of Mind. You can expect a Eddie Kendricks themed podcast soon.

The very collectable Disco International label is sought after by disco fans worldwide, Delicious by the Dupress has been comped recently and still sounds superb with it's stomping pace and soaring strings. Hard to find on a 12" these days, but worth tracking down as well as a few others on the same label like LTG Exchange's Corazon.

Freddie North provides a version of My Whole World's Ended, perhaps better known by David Ruffin, personally I think if you don;t feel this you should give up now.

I've finished this week with Segment of Time's: Song to The System on Sussex Records, a label distributed by the mighty mighty Buddah Records soon to be featured in an AIGT podast coming soon, keeping it soulful ...the only way we know how

Phyllis Hyman: Kiss You All Over (7” Arista)
Four Sonics: If It Wasn’t For My Baby (7” JMC)
Silver, Platinum & Gold: La La Love Chains (7” Warner Bros)
Paulette Reaves It’s In Me (12” PIP)
Curtis Mayfield: What Is My Woman For? (Heartbeat. LP RCA)
Sting: Pleasure (12” ABC)
Barbara Blake And The Uniques: Everlasting Thrill (ST. LP 20th Century)
Charles Earland: Girl You Need A Change Of Mind (Charles III. LP Prestige)
The Duprees: Delicious (12” Disco International)
Danny Hunt: What’s Happening To Our Love Affair? (7” Dynamite)
Freddie North: My Whole World’s Ended (Cuss The Wind. LP Nasboro)
Rance Allen Group: Reasons To Survive (The Way It Is. LP Capitol)
Segments Of Time: Song To The System (ST. LP Sussex)

Part 1 of SIX mixes of music from or inspired by Philadelphia International Records. The rest will follow over the next few weeks.

(The sound quality improves after the first track)

Archie Bell and the Dells: Don’t Let Love Get You Down (AIGT re-edit)
O’Jays: This Time Baby
Anthony White: Where Would I Be Without You? (AIGT re-edit)
The Three Degrees: I Didn’t Know
Harold Melvin: Nobody Could Ever Take Your Place (AIGT Philly Groove re-edit)
Montana: Lights in the Mexican Desert (AIGT do it your way edit)
Montana Orchestra: Ooh I Love That
Dexter Wansel: The Sweetest Pain
Silk: I Can’t Stop Turning You On
Jean Carne: Free Love
TB & BT vs. TBJ: Queen of the Ghetto (AIGT re-edit)
Mary J Blige vs. MFSB: What You Do To Me (Danny Krivit re-edit)
East West Connection: The More I Get The More I Want (Teddy’s House Groove)

Once again we’re covering all the spectrums of soulful music, from Boogie to House through to Disco and Northern.

Included today is Carmen McRae’s version of the Skip Scarborough penned 'Can't Hide Love'; plenty of artists have tried their hand at this track most notably in my opinion Creative Source, but also Earth, Wind and Fire, Art Webb, Hodges, James & Smith. Norman Whitfield protégés Undisputed Truth provide I Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, as usual peddling their ‘psychedelic soul’ sound.

The Masters at Work remix BeBe Winans’ Brand New Dance, keep an eye out for the 4/4 remix of BeBe and Stevie Wonder’s live version of Jesus Children of America, there’s no information on my copy but it’s rumoured to have been retouched by Blaze. Dennis Ferrer has been making waves on the soulful house scene for some time but most conspicuously in the last year or two, here he’s teamed up with Anthony Flanagan on Madhouse Records. Flanagan has also cut a fantastic track, Never Lost Faith, for Chilli Funk records with UC Heights; personally I’d like to hear a lot more from him.

The Modulations track is the flip to I Can't Fight Your Love, their LP on Buddah is worth hunting out for the latter and the track Hopelessly In Love With You.

Thelma Houston’s eponymously titled LP for Mowest contains Nothing Left To Give beautiful song which rounds up today’s selection, the LP also contains another personal favourite, And I Thought You Loved Me, well worth tracking down but make sure you get the UK or German issues, the US issue has a different tracklisting!

Sadly Mel Cheren passed away this month, founder of Westend Records and doyen of the NYC disco scene, he was considered by many to be the pioneer of disco. I’ve included Northend’s Kind of Life, one of my personal favourites from the Westend back catalogue. There’s a great tribute mix to Mel Cheren by the multi-talented Al Kent on MillionDollarDisco..

The Modulations: Your Love Has Me Locked Up (Buddah 7”)
Baby Brother: Your Love Has Me Wanting You (ST. Cotillion LP)
Glenn Garry: I Need You In My Life (PPL 7”)
Undisputed Truth: I Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love (Smoking, Whitfield LP)
Roy Lee Johnson & the Villagers: I Can’t Stand This Loneliness (ST. Stax LP)
Carmen McRae: Can’t Hide Love (Can’t Hide Love, Blue Note LP)
BeBe Winans: Brand New Dance (MAW remix) (Motown 12”)
Dennis Ferrer feat Anthony Flanagan: So Beautiful (Madhouse 12”)
Natural Four: Baby Come On (Heaven Right Here on Earth, Curtom LP)
First Choice: Chances Come Around (Delusions, Salsoul LP)
Choice Four: Come Down To Earth (AIGT re-edit) (RCA 12”)
Northend: Kind of Life (Kind of Love) (Westend 12”)
Thelma Houston: Nothing Left To Give (ST. Mowest LP UK)

Still warming up....plenty of good stuff to come, this is a short and simple compilation of laid back soulful Sunday sounds, hope you enjoy.

The Fingers Inc LP is well worth tracking down, it still sounds great almost 20 years later. Ace Spectrum are best known these days for Don't Send Nobody Else, but the 12" mix of Live and Learn gets me every time with haunting string lines. Lots of nice stuff in between these two including JNB: I’ll Be The One the B side to a version of Kansas City Woman, which makes you wonder how it was ever recorded!

Fingers Inc: So Glad (Another Side LP Jack Trax)
EKG: Give Me Love (7” Roadrunners)
N’Cole: You’re Gonna Need This Love (7” Millennium)
Jewel Bass: Let Your Love Rain Down On Me (7” Malaco)
Solid Solution: Think About It Girl (Loving You LP Silver Spoon)
Double Exposure: After All This Time (7” Gold Coast)
Keni Burke: Keep On Singing (Keni Burke LP Dark Horse)
Ty Karim & George Griffin: Keep On Doin’ What You’re Doin’ (12” Sheridan House)
Soul Generation: Sweet Thing (Beyond Body & Soul LP Ebony Sound)
JNB: I’ll Be The One (7” Glyn Records)
Ace Spectrum: Live and Learn (12” Atlantic)

A collection of Luther's finest moments, originally recorded following his death in 2005

(intro)
Luther Vandross: She’s So Good To Me (Goonies OST) (Epic)
Charme: Georgy Porgy (12” RCA)
Luther: Funky Music (Is a Part of Me) (Luther LP) (Cotillion)
Change: Glow of Love (12” WEA)
Luther: Don’t Wanna Be A Fool (7” Cotillion)
Greg Diamond Bionic Boogie: Hot Butterfly (12” Polydor)
Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson: Best Things in Life Are Free (CJ Mackintosh remix edit) (12” Perspective)
Luther Vandross: Take You Out (Karmadelic Funk It Up Mix) (12” J records)
Luther Vandross: Are You Using Me? (MAW remix) (12” EMI)
Luther: Good For The Soul (12” Atlantic