Ace Organic Grooves 29 Items

Rubba / The Roger Webb Sound

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Formed by drummer Bill Curtis in 1970, the Fatback band started off as a funk band although when disco began to break in 1974, they added that four-to-the-floor wrinkle to their sound to serve up some classics. In 1975 Fatback released both their fifth and sixth albums - “Yum Yum” and “Raising Hell” - in the same year. Although singles had been released Stateside as early as 1971, it was not until 1975 that Fatback began to appear on singles here.

Their third UK 7” – ‘Yum Yum (Gimme Some)’ - got to number 40 in the UK charts in August. Later in November, ‘Are You Ready (Do The Bus Stop)’ got to number 18, which helped propel the “Raising Hell” LP into the top 20. This album also spawned the Top 10 hit ‘Spanish Hustle’ in early 1976. Both “Yum Yum” and “Raising Hell” have been out of print on vinyl for decades. These new editions allow funky Fatback fans to drop the needle and get back into the groove.

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Way Star / Moon Bird

7" | 2020 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

Release: 2020 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

Candi Staton

I'm Just A Prisoner

24,99 €*

Tape | 1971 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With Candi Staton hitting the UK to play the Love Supreme festival over the weekend of 30th June/2nd July, Ace records is delighted to reissue her debut LP, which has been out-of-print on vinyl for decades. "I'm Just A Prisoner" was released in 1970 and remains a definitive slice of Southern soul. Recorded at Rick Hall's legendary FAME studio in Muscle Shoals, "I'm Just A Prisoner" pulled together five tracks - 'I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than A Young Man's Fool)', 'I'm Just A Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin')', 'Evidence', 'You Don't Love Me No More' and 'Sweet Feeling' - that had appeared as A and B-sides on early singles issued in 1969 and 1970. These were augmented by another five tracks recorded specifically for the album; 'Someone You Use', 'Get It When I Want It', 'Do Your Duty', 'That's How Strong My Love Is' and 'Another Man's Woman, Another Woman's Man'. Like Southern fried chicken, this music is essential food for your ears. This new edition includes an inner sleeve featuring a new interview with Candi conducted by Ace Records' Ian Shirley about this magical stage of her career as well as photos from the period.

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Funkadelic

Maggot Brain

20,99 €*

LP | 1972 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

Release: 1971 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1971 and Black America was luxuriating in the soft soul of the O’Jays, the Temptations had just left behind their flirtation with psychedelia, James Brown was explaining Soul Power, Sly & the Family Stone were having a Family Affair, and Marvin Gaye was asking ‘What’s Going On’.

In their own inimitable way, Funkadelic were laying down their own statement about the ecology of the planet in the opening of lead and title track ‘Maggot Brain’, turning it into an elegy for the Earth in the ensuing heart-wrenching extended Eddie Hazel guitar solo – one of the most radical records of the period.

The album also spawned two Top 50 singles with the usual Funkadelic wry observational humour of ‘You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks’ and ‘Can You Get To That’. And just in case you think things have normalised, the set closes with nine minutes of the chaotic sound collage ‘Wars Of Armageddon’.

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Ohio Players

Pleasure

19,99 €*

Release: 1972 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tres Chic! More French Girl Singers Of The 1960s

LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Ace)

24,99 €*

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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180g Colored Vinyl! Hand-picked titles by Françoise Hardy, France Gall. Annie Philippe, Elsa, Violaine, Pussy Cat, Brigitte Bardot, Delphine and Liz Brady!

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Latin Freestlye - New Yor / Miami 1983-1992

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Ace)

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Latin Freestyle was a dizzying, passionate, ultra-modern music. It was the aural equivalent of a can of thirst-quenching Quatro or a Spanish Harlem dance-off, and it became the electronically constructed bridge between disco and house.

Freestyle grew out of the electro sound of the early 80s, combined clean staccato rhythms with morse code synth hooks, and topped them off with emotive, usually female, frequently Latina vocals. There was plenty more going on besides: proto-house piano lines, Cuban percussion, high emotion and synth hooks to die for.

Put together and annotated by Bob Stanley (who also compiled the acclaimed “The Daisy Age” and “Fell From The Sun”), “Latin Freestyle” is the first compilation to cover the whole gamut of Freestyle from its early 80s breakthrough to its early 90s revival. So many classics… Lisa Lisa made the UK top ten with the 808 joy of ‘I Wonder If I Take You Home’. Stacey Q’s cosmically great ‘Two Of Hearts’ came out in 1986, while 1987 saw the likes of Company B’s ‘Fascinated’ and Exposé’s ‘Point Of No Return’ become huge UK club hits.

Today, Freestyle is a scene with a solid collector’s market, and rarities like Janelle’s ‘Don’t Be Shy’ sell for hundreds of dollars. It’s a classic summer soundtrack, finally condensed in one Ace Records compilation – “Latin Freestyle”.

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28 Little Bangers From Richard Hawley's Jukebox

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Ace)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bonnie Dobson & Her Boys

Come On Dancing

7" (Ace)

14,99 €*

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2007 | EU | Reissue (Ace)

Super funk 5 - is back

25,99 €*

Release: 2007 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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21 super funky rare tracks by The Uniques, The Diplomats, Alvin Cash, The Explosions, ...

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Live It Up! Bayswater Beat Girls 1964-1967

CD | 2019 | EU | Original (Ace)

15,99 €*

Just Say A Four Letter Word (Love) / She's A Real Sweet

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Hand-picked 60s she-pop from UK Philips, Fontana and Mercury, including many titles new to CD.

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California Playboys

7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Ace)

Don't It Make You Feel Funky / I Gotta Be Free

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The top two dance tracks from The California Playboys’ collectable Loadstone LP are pressed here on a handy 7” disc. The California Playboys’ Loadstone LP has been a several hundred pounds album for decades. Here we feature the top two dance tracks which propelled it into that price bracket. Both are Modern Soul fans’ favourites and to have them on a handy 7” disc with a suitable 45 edit will make them irresistible.

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Joe Hicks

7" | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Ace)

12,99 €*

September Jones / Pied Piper Players

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At last a legal re-release of Joe Hicks’ Northern all-time classic ‘Don’t It Make You Feel Funky’; a record oozing adrenalin and sounding magnificent from the original master tape.

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Chink A Chank Baby / That's What Love Is

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Ace)

14,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Ace)

Spotlight On Fraternity

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the 1950s and 60s, the Cincinnati recording scene was dominated by Syd Nathan’s King label, whose R&B catalogue made it a major player among post-war independents. In its shadow was Fraternity, a smaller concern launched by Harry Carlson in 1954.

The well-respected Carlson set about building an artist roster which reflected his conservative musical taste, scoring smash hits by Cathy Carr and Jimmy Dorsey a couple of years later which established the label as an indie to be reckoned with.

Here, though, we spotlight decidedly non-MOR Fraternity recordings by influential guitar hero Lonnie Mack, soulful girl group the Charmaines, bluesy singer-guitarist Albert Washington, and female duo the 2 Of Clubs.

For those with appetites whetted by this old-fangled 7-inch vinyl sampler, further Fraternity recordings by each of these artists can be found elsewhere in the Ace Records catalogue. For now, though, here’s your chance to enjoy four fine examples of the sound of mid-60s Cincinnati.

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LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Ace)

Rhythm & Blues Christmas

19,99 €*

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Ace)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Having noticed that Christmas tends to be an annual event and that vinyl is suffering a resurgence, we here at Ace have put the two together and extracted 14 blues, R&B and doo wop sides from our Christmas R&B compact disc and turned them into a seasonal platter.

A mostly upbeat selection that will certainly help you and yours get through these fraught times.

Blues stars like B.B. King and Lowell Fulsom, with their ripping up-beat guitars join forces with the mellower mistletoe sounds of Hadda Brooks and Jesse Belvin.

This positive view of seasonal goodwill was probably down to the fact that all these sides were cut in Los Angeles in the warm California sun.

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Billy Hawks

O'Baby!

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Billy Hawks’ second album "Heavy Soul" is an organ-heavy mod R&B masterpiece. It included club classic ‘O'Baby (I Believe I'm Losing You)’, as well as three other floor-fillers; ‘You've Been A Bad Girl’, ‘Whip It On Me’' and ‘What More Can I Do?’.

The beautifully packaged EP is designed in the London Records / Decca style and showcases the two known photographs of Billy. These were provided by the organ-playing singer's brother Leroy in 2014. Until this point almost nothing was known about Billy.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, he based himself in Philadelphia and his trio worked up and down the Eastern seaboard. He was discovered playing in one of the endless clubs and lounges that existed at the time and made his first album for Prestige, “The New Genius Of The Blues”, in 1966; “Heavy Soul” followed a year later.

Produced by Cal Lampley at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, both ‘You've Been A Bad Girl’ and ‘What More Can I Do’ are appearing on 7- inch for the first time.

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2LP | 2000 | EU | Original (Ace)

Super Funk 1

22,99 €*

Release: 2000 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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20 super funky rare tracks by Denise Lasalle, The Counts ...

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The soul of Spanish Harlem

2LP | 2009 | EU | Original (Ace)

24,99 €*

LP | 1985 | UK | Original (Ace)

Release: 2009 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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feat. Olivieri, Joe Bataan, Tito Ramos, Ralfi Pagan, Parrish and more ... essential!

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Jack McVea Orchestra

Come Blow Your Horn

6,99 €*

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Ace)

Release: 1985 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Cover and vinyl are close to NM.

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Lightnin' Hopkins

Blues In My Bottle

16,99 €*

Documenting The Sensation Recordings 1948-52

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

EU reissue.

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John Lee Hooker

3CD+Box Set | 2020 | UK | Original (Ace)

30,99 €*

CD | 2022 | UK | Original (Ace)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Tiny wear. Box set with booklet.

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Dusty Springfield

Dusty Sings Soul

Boogie Chillen' 75th Anniversary 45 Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

CD comes in a soft case, instead of the original crystal case. All booklets included.

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John Lee Hooker

7" | 1948 | UK | Reissue (Ace)

13,99 €*

Release: 1948 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the release of John Lee Hooker’s ‘Boogie Chillen’. Recorded in Detroit in September 1948 by Bernard Besman – who had his own Sensation label – it was licensed to Modern Records in Los Angeles and released on 3rd November. The flip side was ‘Sally May’.

To say that the single caught fire is an understatement. It is believed that ‘Boogie Chillen’’ shifted in the region of a million copies in 1949 placing Hooker on the map as a blues guitarist and singer of the first rank – where he stayed until his death in 2001.

The original was, of course, released as a 78rpm single. In 2020 we issued ‘Boogie Chillen’ with ‘Boogie Chillen’ #2 on the flip as a limited edition of 500 copies that played at 78rpm.

We now present ‘Boogie Chillen’’ and ‘Boogie Chillen’ #2’ as a limited edition 7” single that plays at 45rpm. Despite being 75 years old, this classic recording still sounds so fresh and rhythmically propulsive it is hard to believe that you are listening to one man and his guitar playing live and stomping his feet in a room. Besman caught lightening as it flashed, just like Sam Philips did some years later with Elvis Presley in Sun Studios.

There are classics. There are stone cold classics. And there is ‘Boogie Chillen’’.

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Hearts For Sale! - Girl Group Souns Usa 1961 - 1967

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Ace)

28,49 €* 29,99 € -5%