Connie Clark - My Sugar Baby

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[@Pcperoni]

Best Northern Soul ever!

[@strictlynorton]

America's Dusty, CC is elite tier.... Motown should have made her massive. Like Dusty Connie could stand on any stage and not only hold her own, but win black audiences over. This sister had it all...

[@stuartmorriss]

I love Dusty.But i have to agree this woman could give her a run for the money

[@carlkalland3089]

My favourite Northern Soul song. God bless you.

[@martinlambeth5499]

Was my top Northern tune in 74 and still is in 2020 🎶🎶🎶

[@stevenstewardson8613]

This one is right up there with the VERY BEST 1978- 81 my favourite period in life long live our kinda of music ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

[@stevenstewardson8613]

1st heard this jewel at Colman's nottm late 70's sadly disappeared from us like so many other's fond memories 🪕🎺🎶🎵🎻🎷

[@sparkyk5736]

Not a bad song, But, all those emojis are OVERKILL!

[@williammowe3307]

Brilliant tune remember buying this from ruby reds Wolverhampton in the 70s

[@cathstubbs4830]

how can you choose, they're all absolutely brilliant !!!!!!! K. T. F !!!

[@TheOkehman]

Class!!! memories of Mr Ms all those years ago....thank god for Soul in the Sun and all the fantastic venues keeping the faith alive....right on Brothers and sisters thanks for the post.

[@rseka1979]

Better version of this track by a country mile! Simply brilliant ✊🏻

[@adrianvarty2422]

Cracking song and for me THIS is the best version. KTF

[@thesoultwins72]

adrian varty.......hated it then and still hate it today

[@StephanParr]

The best northern soul record ever pressed without question, where's the talc 👣 🤔

[@pierocastagnino6657]

love it love it

[@tyroneepps3018]

This song is 🔥!

[@briancunningham7091]

brilliant song

[@steveholcroft4966]

pure class.

[@derykebanner9252]

I bought this in 74/75 from a Seller in Middleton, Manchester. Paid the princely sum of £22, which back then was a fair whack of cash. Sold it a couple of years later and I think I got around £30. Fetching circa £1,500 these days.... IF ONLY WE KNEW THEN, WHAT WE KNOW NOW, EH? The pittances I got for some cracking originals back then... Lou Pride - I'm Com'un Home In The Morn'un... Tomangoes - I Really Love You... Duke Browner - Crying Over You... Luther Ingram - Exus Trek... To name a few.

[@clivegreen441]

Paid £2 in 1972 wish I'd never sold it for £10 oh well

[@derykebanner9252]

@@clivegreen441 We live and learn.. LOL! The best thing that did happen for me, was having Holly St. James - That's Not Love and not being able to sell it. I couldn't even give it away! Then it became a massive sound. I paid £4.00 for it. In fact, I didn't even pay owt really, I did a swap for a pressing of Mike Post that I was selling at the Casino... Bet the lad that swapped regrets it.

[@clivegreen441]

Holly st James...WOW what a track that is

[@keithturner7345]

Paid 75p for my copy in 1975 and still got it

[@derykebanner9252]

@@keithturner7345 I'll give you £22 for it..... LOL!!!

[@stuarthibberd5048]

Absolutely loooove this tune!! 👌🏻🕺🏻

[@suebradford5758]

😊 🎶❤🎶💃✊...Thank you✊...Thank You Lord ✝️ for the Tingles 🙏❤✝️

[@sirpaulconwaysirpaulconway6944]

Classic northern soul

[@lindahayward4205]

Absolutely...dancing at Wigan...what more can you have wanted...

[@robertedwards3743]

One of my Favorites

[@garykeen1006]

I tink tis is a brilliant tune one of the first records i heard at --THE GOLDEN TORCH

[@jimg165]

Wasn't played at the Torch, it was 1974 Wigan Casino, Richard Searling played it having got it from Simon Soussan. The mind can play tricks sometimes!

[@jerrylott4465]

I never hear it at the torch Either

[@57dogsbody]

@@jimg165 You are Right.

[@ronnieallen6484]

Connie clark is one the one of the best.

[@brianhanley7267]

Top Ms tune great days loved it

[@conniemcclellan6252]

Great song

[@mrvimto]

Classic........................

[@colinwilkinson5450]

Pure class ktf

[@joefaherty4358]

Top top. Tune in 70. Till 2022. Fact

[@ericstanley8525]

Classic Classic Northern

[@roygriffiths8501]

Top Quality Northern Soul KOKO

[@larr9095]

Those backing vocals !!

[@robertfynn9314]

Connie has the power all night long

[@1970johnpaul]

Great record, and now NOT that expensive!!

[@MikeBlitzMag]

Considering the price tag I saw on the last one that crossed my path, I'll wait for the reissue.....

[@TheMeltdown23]

Man, Brico these playlists are wonderful! thank you

[@yvonnenairn9649]

Tuuuuuune OR WHAT !!!!!!

[@gary9426]

A very underrated singer....she got lost in the shuffle at Motown.

[@strictlynorton]

Ain't that the solid truth... America's Dusty deserved so much better from Gordy. A sensational artist!

[@57dogsbody]

You are wrong. She was an Executive at Motown,and fom '81 to '89 she was head of Creative Affairs. She was a pretty big cheese, she didn't get lost at all.

[@gary9426]

@@57dogsbody I was referencing her recording career.

[@norbertneri2635]

Bella voce, benissimo

[@maxineelizabethhendry7138]

Classic top tune ❤️ x

[@57dogsbody]

This is is a very nice song.I'm delighted my char lady recommended it.

[@marrbill]

57dogsbody haha thought you we’re going to say she sang it lol

[@57dogsbody]

@@marrbill She tells me she is singing background vocals, and playing the organ, no less. She is prone to these flights of fancy when she's been on the diet pills.

[@stevenstewardson8613]

@@57dogsbody cracking tune my good friend glad you ENJOY this same here ✊✊🏻

[@mickbrown8249]

Took this exact copy with me to Capetown in Dec 75...X Shropshire X

[@robbk1]

I wonder who the male background singers are? I wonder if they are The Autographs, who also sang Jobete Music songs for Joker Records? They sound quite like them.

[@TyroneEpps]

This song is hot 😊 !

[@stevenstewardson4829]

Special thanks BRICOMALIGNO,,, I bought this from Johnathan woodlife ( hurts yard ) near on 40 years ago & 1st heard IT at COLMAN'S Friday nights nottm those were the days ktf !

[@Georgiahulse]

Do you remember the Tally Ho?

[@stevenstewardson4829]

@spainpete hi Pete hope you're keeping well my good friend a mighty fine tune I consider you as one of the SENATOR'S OF NORTHERN SOUL SOUNDS bless you my good friend 💯👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾🙏🏼🙏🏼🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉😁😁🌞🌝🌞🌝🌞👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👑👑👑👑✊🏼✊🏻✊🏼✊🏻✊🏻✊🏼✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏼

[@johnw7236]

Colmans loved that place, first introduction to Northern Soul then came the Palais KTF

[@stevenstewardson8613]

@@johnw7236 morning John great memories mate and thanks for the kind words I'll keep in touch bless ya 💯✊🏻

[@MrGlendean]

Do I love you ( indeed I do ) same riff, Earl van dyke on Organ, Benny Benjamin on drums please tell me Im wrong but that's the funk brothers moonlighting, along with the whole Motown shhebang

[@strictlynorton]

Make you right... CC is elite! 😎 👊

[@aVinylDaniel]

This is not Chris Clark, if you know Chris' voice it's obvious but this is great too!

[@MrGlendean]

@@aVinylDaniel well you are certainly entitled to your opinion but I have listened to both and that's my opinion cheers great track

[@aVinylDaniel]

@@MrGlendean Yes, this track is certainly impressive.

[@kevinsmith-ub8gw]

The Funk brothers were always moonlighting, they worked on a lot of smaller labels before Motown, and a lot after..KTF.

[@alaneverett2531]

❤❤❤❤❤😊

[@duncanmcdonald6730]

Classic KTF

[@sdoca]

Class

[@merseymained]

@bricomaligno- EXCELLENT

[@sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585]

The chord progressions in this song remind me very strongly of another song by Frank Wilson.

[@breakfastclub6895]

muhahaha

[@deprofundis6855]

Well, both songs were written by Frank Wilson, so that might have a strong bearing on the reason for that.

[@ronnieallen6484]

Connie clark life please

[@MrGlendean]

Frank Wilson wrote, arrange and produced my sugar baby by Connie Clarke, like I said in a previous comment its highly likely they moonlighted the whole production as frank had been scuppered with the release of Do I love you by Berry Gordy Jnr somehow I think Frank was on a more soulful level of music, (which was steered towards being uptempo) than the rest of the Motown sound,

[@bluenose007]

Had this on a black label with the instrumental on the flip side. It was very thick plastic was it a bootlegg. Great tune

[@melvyndolby8625]

Yes black is the bootleg, yellow is the original

[@mrharvey3679]

I’m a northern soul dj and I’ll play re-issues, bootlegs or anything else I can get my hands on. If I come originals I buy them (at a reasonable price) but I’m not spending hundreds to dj with, that’s for collectors not dis

[@davehughes2057]

lmao ffs if youre a NS dj you would have respect pal

[@saintac31northernsoul]

Pity you don't want the real thing . I play on origanals when out I do it because people who go deserve to hear the real thing. British or American or Canadian origanals any one can buy boot legs & pressing your doing is conning people out of the hard earned working class wages. money. You will never play a decent venue with that attitude because people now want to see it on a camera deck. If you want to hear & see the real thing come to Nuneaton allnighter.where I have DJ edfor 15 years.

[@soulboy6073]

@@saintac31northernsoul spot on pal!!!!

[@mikesomes2951]

Sound

[@siobhanquinn2648]

✊🏼🇮🇪❤❤

[@stevenstewardson4829]

Evening Siobhan a superlative I'm glad you remember this groovy soul sound best regards from Steve 🙏🙏🙏⭐⭐⭐

[@siobhanquinn2648]

@@stevenstewardson4829 good evening ya brilliant tune

[@sirpaulconwaysirpaulconway6944]

Mods

[@drwhatson]

When will people stop citing "Mr. M's"? It was an oldies room, playing records that had already been massive, sometimes several years earlier. It has absolutely no relevance to the history of a record. You may as well lay claim to an old film from when you personally watched it on TV. :-(

[@kevinsmith-ub8gw]

Some like to listen and dance to the oldies, When will you learn its not about you, but the tunes people like, not wot u want to hear. Ms was a god place for me.

[@drwhatson]

@@kevinsmith-ub8gw The point is, it was an oldie - played elsewhere long before. Is everything to be credited to "Mr.M's"? WHEEL, Torch, Cats, Mecca?

[@Genghis-Khan121]

@@drwhatsonwell said spot on !!!

[@Genghis-Khan121]

I virtually lived in mrms but most of the tunes as D what’s on says most was played elsewhere before m’s not all but majority

[@chantellehickman4618]

i like this better than frankie wilsons wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[@clivegreen441]

Frank Wilson is fantastic lucky enough to see him once but Connie Clarke version is much better love love this👊👊

[@chantellehickman4618]

@@clivegreen441 what was he like live

[@clivegreen441]

@@chantellehickman4618 Hey Chantelle sorry for late delay yeah he was good being honest think I prefer Edwin Star live you okay...I'm just trying to sort a few tracks out we have a local guy near to where I live in Worcester he does I live gig on FB called Steve Descher Friday between 7pm and 9pm you can pop tracks on he'll try and play them Holly st James...Mary love ...Eddie Parker will be on my list for tomorrow 🤞🤞🤞perhaps you should try and find him keep the faith lovely 👊👊

[@clivegreen441]

Mind you Major Lance at the Torch in Stoke was fab probably a month later JJ Barnes played there such happy times once a Soulie itll never leave you 👊👊👊 just playing Tony Galla omd love this music

[@chantellehickman4618]

@@clivegreen441 over the years i seen edwin star a few times he was amazing , i seen tommy hunt and eddie holman now he was out of this world , oh ill look for that guy think ill request pearlean grey i dont wana cry thats in my top three keep the faith

[@redroof6904]

this as just sold on ebay for£1,680.00

[@Georgiahulse]

That is completely overpriced. I've only ever seen it once in my time and couldn't buy it unfortunately, but even so it tends to fetch around £250 - £300 and that is about right.

[@imeldagolder5811]

floor filler ....... KTF

[@Genghis-Khan121]

the proper one as in the clip is rare as f... , another great record trashed by cheap boots and wannabe dj's

[@saintac31northernsoul]

Well said mate

[@imeldagolder5811]

another floor filler

[@Gunner2919]

Yeah but Frank's original beats it all ends up!!

[@ethanhowarth6080]

franks isnt the original, it was done at the time of the strange world of northern soul dvds by levine!

[@57dogsbody]

Get a new hearing aid.Frank wrote it but this is the original.

[@paulthompson6284]

Choon 😊✊