MORE REVIEWS TO COME THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A DEADCHICKEN AT!
SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE IS A MIKE TERRY MID TEMPO DETROIT TUNE, WAILING SAX....TOP HARMONYS....DANCEFLOOR DELIGHT!
WHAT CAN WE SAY ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HARD TO FIND VINYL? THE FLIP SIDE IS EQUALLY BRILLIANT WITH THE CATCHY "I GOT SPUTUM IN THE MORNING" WICH IS A BLUES/HIDEAWAY STLYLE GROOVER!
UNFORTUNATLEY THE LATE GREAT TEX WILIAMS ONLY EVER RELEASED THIS ONE SIDE BEFORE HIS UNTIMLEY DEMISE AT THE AGE OF 19 FROM YOU GUESSED IT...TOBACCO PRICES BEING A LITTLE ON THE HIGH SIDE!
WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID ABOUT THIS ONE....SOON TO BE WITH ALL THE OTHER TOP DRAW SOUNDS ON MANSHIPS RARER THAN RARE
WATCH THIS TUNE TAKE THE NIGHTERS BY STORM!
WE CAN'T TELL YOU MUCH ABOUT FREDDIE AS SHORTLEY AFTER THIS WAS CUT HE SUDDENLEY DISSAPEARED TOO, ALONG WITH THE PRODUCER....WRITER...BASS PLAYER AND HORN SECTION....HEY BABY ....THATS THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF NORTHERN SOUL (AND WE DO MEAN SOUL)
JUST A COUPLE OR RARE TUNES LEFT TO REVIEW!
THIS IS A TOM AND JERRIO FUNK WORKOUT ! TOUGH AS YOU LIKE! KEB DARGE IS EVEN LOOKING OUT FOR THIS BABY! MIKE CRAIN IS ONE COOL FUNK BROTHER! CHECK OUT THE BLACK USA M51 FISHTAIL BABY!
THE B SIDE IS A SLOW MID- TEMPO TUNE ALONG THE SAME LINES AS JIMMY RADCLIFFE, AND IT IS ENTITLED "FRUSTRATED WITH MY RELIGION" WHICH WAS A 6TS TUNE THAT HAD BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN INFLUENCING "FAT BOY SLIM" INTO RETIREMENT! AGAIN.... A TOP DRAW FUNK SOUL BROTHER TYPE SHENNANIGANS AFFAIR!
THIS IS ONE SERIOUS HARD HITTING GOSPEL FUNK WORKOUT MAN! IF YER SEE IT........BUY IT!
LAST BUT NOT LEAST IS THE MOTOWN STYLE "OUR HEARTS ARE SINGING" BY THE BRAILLETTES" ...I MUST ADMIT, I BOUGHT THIS ONE BLIND OFF MARK BICKNELL...BUT WHAT A TUNE!!!!!!!YOU CAN NEVER QUESTION" BIG DADDYS" TASTE! BUY THIS TUNE NOW OR YOU MAY NEVER SEE ANOTHER COPY, ASTOUNDING SOUL IN THE VIEN OF BRENDA HOLLOWAY Vs LA BRENDA BEN! RARER THAN RARE.....YOU JUST DONT SEE COPYS OF THIS TUNE COMING UP FOR SALE!
ERRRRRRRR..... MORE RARE TUNES REVIEWED NEXT WEEK! (IF WE CAN FIND ANY)