VARIOUS – Loma Northern Soul Classics and Revelations 1964-1968 – 7″ x 7 – Vinyl Box Set

7″ x 7- Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set.

To celebrate Kents 40th birthday (“admittedly a month late, due to pressing times”),Kent are releasing our first ever box set of singles. This is due to getting access to the Loma vaults and finding some previously unheard soul gems to augment the best of the soul dance tracks from the esteemed imprint.

Starting with THE discovery of the soulful 20s we present LA soul group the Marvellos, whose Its Your Love That I Need written by the great Willie Hutch is a Motownesque dancer whose arrangements and melodies are so stunning we also issued the backing track as its instrumental B-side.

The Invincibles were another fabulous Los Angeles outfit whose four Loma releases were ballads but two great dance tracks, the sublime Heartstrings and the manic Got A Thing Goin showed they could really turn it up when needed.

Ben Aikens Satisfied is a stone classic Northern Soul dancer – finding the more subtle If You Should See Her and Thats All You Gotta Do in the vaults makes the Philly singer the best represented artist of the set.

New York-based Carl Hall is another singer with a released classic – Mean It Baby and a great unissued tape vault find Like I Told You. The pair sit well together on their new 45 pressing.

The Enchanters cut several tracks after they left Garnett Mimms; Just A Little Longer is a great Drifters-sounding number which weve coupled with the beautiful Ill Find A Way by Bobby Reed.

See The Silver Moon by west coast girl group the Apollas would have wowed them at Wigan. The poptastic number has the perfect stomping dance beat, beloved of the Casinos patrons. Alas it was not heard until 2012 when researcher and co-compiler Alec Palao unearthed the master tape. We paired it with Larry Lasters terrific Go For Yourself which shares the backing track of fellow Northern monsters Lighten Up Baby and Somebody Somewhere (Needs You), more than holding its own.

Tracklist:

A. The Marvellos – It’s Your Love That I Need
B. The Marvellos – It’s Your Love That I Need (Instrumental)

A. The Invincibles – Heartstrings
B. The Invincibles – Got A Thing Goin’

A. Ben Aiken – That’s All You Gotta Do
B. Ben Aiken – Satisfied

A. Carl Hall – Like I Told You
B. Carl Hall – Mean It Baby

A. The Enchanters – Just A Little Longer
B. Bobby Reed – I’ll Find A Way

A. The Apollas – See The Silver Moon
B. Larry Laster – Go For Yourself

A. Ben Aiken – If You Should See Her
B. Bobby Freeman – Lies