Manhattan Soul: Scepter Wand & Musicor / Various [Import]

UK collection that focuses on the great '60s Soul music released on the New York labels Scepter, Wand and Musicor. The imprints were much more than the hits of the time, already widely available so we've gone back to the one-offs, the neglected and indeed the newly discovered sides that have turned up in recent times. Big city ballads are rightly represented and the notable ones include Winfield Parker's scarce 'Will There Ever Be Another Love for Me', George Tindley's beautiful 'So Help Me Woman' and a previously unissued version of the popular beat ballad 'Millionaire' by the unknown artist Lee Thomas. Finally we're including Johnny Maestro's flip to 'Stepping Out of the Picture', 'Afraid of Love', which is a corking early Soul sound deserving of plays. Kent. 2011.