Sounds Of Soul chronicles and playlist (15.2.2013): Toping Up

I recently picked up the excellent self-titled album by Charles Mann, mainly for the classic early 7ts track “It’s All Over” on it, only to discover the 7″ version of this tune in a neglected part of my collection. In this case I have no regrets purchasing said LP because of the quality of the rest of this sought after piece of vinyl, but it’s not the first time that I have unwittingly toped up on records that I already own. You may think that the sheer magnitude of my collection is the reason for these lapses but that would overestimate its size or underestimate my mental capacity. It’s more my habit to rearrange my vinyl constantly in piles and shift those around that leads to those neglected and forgotten about records. A meaningful and regularly maintained database would certainly help too, but I’m way to lazy for this endeavour and on a positive side I would deprive myself of the pleasure to rediscover parts of my own collection from time to time. Here’s the playlist of last weeks show that includes a good dozen of these almost forgotten records:

Barbara Lynn/Trying To Love Two/7″ Ichiban

Jerry Butler/Playing On You/7″ Mercury

Charles Mann/It’s All Over/7″ abc

Lynn Vardano/Wash And Wear Love/7″ Gator

Tyrone Davis/What Goes Up (Must Come Down)/7″ Dakar

Watts Line/Never Stop Lovin’ Me/7″ Bullet

Joe Simon/Drowning In The Sea Of Love/7″ Spring

Billy Paul/The Whole Town’s Talking/LP War Of The Gods/Philadelphia International Rec.

Charles Brimmer/Show And Tell/7″ Testpress

Candi Staton/One More Hurt/7″ Kent

Gladys Knight & The Pips/Baby, Baby Don’t Waste My Time/LP Touch/Columbia

C&C Music Factory/Share That Beat Of Love/7″ Street Soul

Kenny Thomas/Turn It Up/7″ Go Ahead

Mixed Emotions/Gold Of My Life/7″ Rock-Way

Serena Johnson/All Work And No Play/7″ Big Z

Elvin Spencer/Lift This Hurt/7″ E.S. Cozy records

Little Milton/Survivors Of Love /7″ Mier

William Bell/I’ve Got To Go On With You/7″ Stax Records

Gloria Walker/Gift of Love/7″ Federal

Esther Phillips/Home Is Where The Hatred Is/7″ Kudu

Almeta Lattimore/These Memories/7″ Mainstream

Willy Wiley/Just Be Glad/7″ King

Tamiko Jones/Cross My Heart/7″ Metromedia Records

Tender Loving Care/My Word Is Falling/7″ Renfro

Major Lance/Gypsy Woman/7″ Curtom

If you want to hear the show back here is the link to the Sounds Of Soul page at Eastside radio:
https://eastsidefm.org/specialist/soundsofsoul/

Here’s a little clip of Jerry Butlers superb “Playing On You”:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Lsh7uH76E&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

DJ Burn Hard