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Trio Records – 3A-118 Released 1973 Japan Track A – とん平のヘイ・ユウ・ブルース Hey You Blues I have promised myself to do  a post on Hidari’s “Hey You Blues”, since the day of his passing back in 2018. That was 7 years ago! Why do these things take me so long to get to? I recently pulled […]

Riviera 231328 France Released 1969 Track B1 – Nicholas Well here’s a favourite french 7″ that fits into a few categories. It’s beat ye’ ye’, it’s groovy French pop, it’s got a funk kick and it could definitely be filed under oddities. This is all I could find out about the mysterious Vetty that is […]

United Artists Records – UA 36 033 Releaesed 1975 Track A: Executive Party Track B: Executive Party Dance Jazz influenced classical music composer-conductor, Andre Previn was responsible for one of the most funkiest spaced out film tracks you will ever hear, called Executive Party, released for the Rollerball soundtrack in 1975. Although I had watched […]

RCA Italiana – PM 3581 1971 Track 1: Chissa’ Chi Sei Here is a real fire cracker from Raffaella Carrà! After losing her just a short time ago (on 5 July 2021), I thought this would be a good time to post what I think is one of her best tracks! Shine on Raffaella! Raffaella […]

CBS 1647 Netherlands 1973 TRACK A: BALEK 12 years ago today we lost the legendary Marc Moulin, so I thought this is a nice opportunity to post the one and only seven inch Placebo ever released, in his honour. I was hoping I’d be able to dig up and share some hidden knowledge about this […]

Mercury DJ-369, 73387 Mono, Promo US 1973 Track 1 Hercules Track 2 Going Home Aaron Neville has a gentle voice that could bring the hardest man down to his knees. A distinctive voice that closes the eyes and opens the soul. Hercules is his lost gem that deserved to outshine so many popular soul hits […]

ABC Records 11343 Stereo Year 1972 Nolan Porter’s If I Could Only Be Sure is one of my absolute favourite soul 45’s, and while it gets copiousness amounts of rotations around the house, that fervor it holds to me has never dwindled. But once again, it’s a little sad to discover that the man behind […]

Columbia 16540 Year 1979 India Track: Mausam Hai Gaane Ka So I just recently returned from a short but incredible trip into country India, which I’m just refusing to let go of at the moment. The experience was one I’ll never forget because of the people I met, the things I saw, and the sounds […]

Seventy 7 Records 77-104 US Year 1972 Track 1 – You’ve Been Gone Too Long   Track 2 – You’re Letting Me Down Mary Ann Sexton was born In Greenville, South Carolina and was yet another child raised by a family heavily influenced by gospel music (a time it seems when heavenly angels were certainly handing […]

Soulhawk Records USA Cat.# 1008 Year 1969 I thought researching this extremely beautiful and soulful New Holidays composition (and one of my top ten I must add) was either going to be fairly easy (such an outstanding recording from them…surely credit and facts should be well documented)…or quite difficult, (other than collector’s of fine soul […]