Various - Andy Smith Diggin' In the BPG Vaults - 2 LPs of rare Soul

Various Artists 
Andy Smith Diggin' In the BPG Vaults
BGP2 195 - 2 LP set of classic and rare early soul - 24 trx!! 

Everyone loves a birthday and it suddenly occurred to me that it was 21 years since my 18 year old self slipped out of the 100 Club onto Oxford Street carrying a three-track 12 inch single from the brand new BGP label. Those three were Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers’ ‘Got Myself A Good Man’, Willis Jackson’s ‘Nuther’n Like Thuther’n’ and Billy Hawks’ ‘Oh Baby’. They were the hottest records selected by the two DJs Gilles Peterson and Baz Fe Jazz who were fronting BGP for its parent, Ace. n21 is a big one so we wanted to do something special to celebrate and so I called up Andy Smith, who was last seen in this parish with his wonderful “Andy Smith’s Northern Soul” mix CD which proved a great success.
Andy came to prominence for his fantastic eclectic sets as tour DJ for Portishead as they shot from obscurity to international success in the mid-90s. He achieved his own fame with the release of his seminal mix CD “The Document” in 1997, which mixed everything from the James Gang to Grandmaster Flash and went on to sell over 100,000 copies.
My idea was to let him chose from BGPs long archive of funk and soul, jazz and other sorts of grooves and create the sort of mix for which he is rightly famous. When he delivered we were far from disappointed. He has used this opportunity to great effect cutting up classic breaks such as Dyke and the Blazers ‘Let A Woman Be A Woman…’ and Pucho’s ‘Smoking At Tiffany’s’, as well as BGP discoveries such as Billy Garner’s ‘Brand New Girl’ and the Billy Hawks groove that started the whole thing off. -- by Dean Rudland

Contains;
     Disc One - Side One 
Wilford's Gone - The Blackbyrds 
Cracklin' Bread - Dave Hamilton 
It's My Thing - Betty Moorer 
I Don't Know What it is But is Sure is Funky - Ripple 
Got to Get Me a Job - Ann Alford 
I Got Some (Pt 1) - Billy Garner 
     Disc One - Side Two 
Sing a Simple Song - Booker T & The MG's 
Live it Up - James K-Nine 
Can't Get Enough - 87th Off Broadway 
Smokin' at Tiffany's - Funk Inc 
I Want You Back - Harold Mabern 
Just a Groove in G - Wilber Bascomb and the Blue Zodiact 
     Disc Two - Side One 
Let a Woman Be a Woman, Let a Man Be a Man - Dyke and the Blazers 
Brand New Girl - Billy Garner 
Soul Brothers Testify (pt 1) - Chester Randle's Soul Senders 
Itch & Scratch (pt 2) - Rufus Thomas 
Skunk Juice - Pazant Brothers 
Sunshine of Your Love - Spanky WIison 
     Disc Two - Side Two 
I'm a Good Woman - The Generation 
Chicken Tracks - Ron Buford
Out of Sight - The Soulsetters 
Just Another Smile - Mel Davis 
Tighten Up - Roosevelt Matthews 
(Oh Baby) I Believe I'm Losing You - Billy Hawks 

NEW SEALED import 2 LP set