Do I love you...well for £15.000 Kenny Burrell did
The holy grail of Northern soul...only two known copies,
Frank Wilson-Do i love you indeed i do) on Soul is the rarest of the rare
First found by Motown researcher and historian Tom Dieperro while working for the label in the 70's, the disc was in unplayed condition when he received it as research material from the company for some future project, as such the record was put aside, that was until famous (infamous) Record dealer and producer Simon Soussan met up with Tom, Both having a love of Detroit soul Tom gave a stack of obscure 45,s for Simon to listen to, well Simon was Blown away by "Do i love you" and in no time it was covered up as Eddie foster and acetates were soon winging their way to UK DJ's...well the rest is well known, it went massive becoming a Northern classic. the real identity only becoming know in 1978 when Simon sold his collection, Question did Tom ever give Simon the record or is it still on loan ??????
So how did Kenny Burrell get it ?
Simon sold his collection to Les McCutcheon (Shakatak etc) including the Frank Wilson, at first when it became know what had happened and the news filtered through the scene it seems that the fact Les was not in the inclowd the discovery was somehow ignored or given short shrift (nothings changed there then) anyway for unclear reasons Les sold the 45 to
Jonathan Woodcliffe a Notts DJ quite well known in his day, I think he has something going on in the Southport scene today, Nothing is known about the time Jonathan owned the disk, he sold the record to Kev Roberts who owned the record for 11 years until he sold it to his business partner Tim Brown for £5000 a then world record.....but not for long...enter stage left Mr. Kenny Burrell clutching his £15,000