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Selected 45's – Check the Grapevine website for a full list of outstanding in demand reissues scroll down for reviews of the following

A full listing of the excellent selection of singles available appears on the grapevine website and this is just a brief selection of mainly Crossover items

Ron Henderson & Choice of Colour – Gemini Lady /Goodbye my love - G2K 45- 131

Now this one has become very in demand, not that some of these releases haven't, that's why there here, but this one is storming the Modern rooms. Persistent midtempo beat, ideal for the current marketplace and sufficiently upbeat to crossover

L V Johnson – Trying to hold on/ I love you , I want you , I need you - G2K 45- 129

Formidable and unmistakeable vocal – has he cut a bad track? - a wonderful up beat track, catchy yet supremely soulful and just feel and go with the vocal. The reverse is slower and maybe more of what you would expect from LV, but again very very good.

Carbon Copies – Just don't love you / Baby I'm coming home - G2K 45- 125

This is gloriously powerful crossover with strong wailing vocals from Jewel Bass, midtempo rhthm, early 70's I suppose,great backing vocals to supplement it. Flip is also very worthwhile hard and slow Soul in the Southern tradition

Archie Hodge – I really want to see you girl / If I didn't need you woman - G2K 45- 1115

This one takes me back, or reminds me very much of Albrighton – the sort of sound that would grace both Modern and Main room. More midtempo crossover

Ernest Baker – Alone Again/ Do it with feeling - G2K 45- 110

A barely midtempo item with a strained pleading vocal and that such a side like this gets plays, exposure and a release shows how far the scene has developed. The b side is a funkier blues number more in tune with the 'King Ernest' of some other releases by him. A very fine dancer in his day apparently.