VAN JONES TIME HAS MADE ME NEW PRIVATE FUNK & SOUL

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1981 IMPULSE / NIGER RIVER RECORDS  VJ004

VAN JONES ~ TIME HAS MADE ME NEW

ULTRA RARE PRIVATE PRESSING, BOOGIE DISCO FUNK AND SWEET SOUL

COVER IS IN VG+ CONDITION

RECORD IS IN A VERY NICE VG+ CONDITION

I WILL CLASSIFY EACH TRACK ON THIS ALBUM.

SIDE 1:

      1.  NOT ABOUT THAT (SHOW ME SOME RESPECT)    TIME:  5:21      SMOKIN' FUNKY BOOGIE DANCE TRACK WITH STRINGS AND FEMALE VOCALS AND MALE RESPONSE.  FEMALE LIBERATION THEME. ERA

      2.  TAKE TO THE LIGHT AND WIND    TIME  4:16    SWEET SOULFUL BALLAD WITH THE ONE AND ONLY VAN JONES ON LEAD.

      3. SAY OW OW OW     TIME  4:05     SMOKIN' FUNKY BOOGIE DANCE TRACK WITH FEMALE VOCALS

      4.  LET'S GO "THIS GO"    TIME:  4:02    DISCO TRACK WITH VAN JONES ON LEAD WITH FEMALE ACCOMPANIMENT AND STRINGS

SIDE 2:

       1.  SHAKE YOUR CHEEKS TO THE BEAT    TIME:   6:07    FUNKY BOOGIE DANCE TRACK WITH MALE AND FEMALE VOCALS AND PLENTY HORNS

        2.  TIME HAS MADE ME NEW    TIME:   3:58   SWEET SOUL GEM FEATURING THE VELVET SOUL OF VAN JONES WITH FEMALE ACCOMPANIMENT AND STRINGS, BEAUTIFUL PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT

        3.  SHE'S A FFFF (FINE FOXY FREAKIE AND FAT)     TIME 3:47   HOTTER THAN FIRE FUNKY BOOGIE DISCO DANCE TRACK WITH THE SWEET SOUL OF VAN JONES ON LEAD WITH FEMALE ACCOMPANIMENT.

       4.   LOVING AND HUGGING    TIME  3:03      SWEET SOUL HAND DANCER WITH VAN JONES ON LEAD WITH FEMALE ACCOMPANIMENT

WONDERFUL PRODUCTION BY VAN JONES AND COMPANY THAT WILL HAVE YOU DANCIN' AND SINGING ALONG ALL THE WAY THROUGH

FOR THE RECORD:

          MY RELATIONSHIP WITH SWEET SOUL SINGER VAN JONES HAS NOT BEEN ONE OF GREAT DIMENSION. I HAVE MET WITH HIM A FEW TIMES IN THE LAST 15 YEARS. HIS SONS WHO LOOK JUST LIKE HIM ON THIS ALBUM COVER VISIT MY STORE FROM TIME TO TIME TO BUY HIP HOP CDS. I ONCE MADE A COPY OF THIS RECORD ON CD AND SENT IT TO HIM. HE WAS VERY PLEASED AS VAN JONES LIKE MOST LOCAL ARTISTS FROM OUR AREA AND MOST PLACES DON'T POSSESS COPIES OF THEIR OWN RECORDS. WHAT A SHAME, BUT THAT IS HOW LIFE IS. TODAY VAN JONES SINGS GOSPEL WITH A LOCAL GROUP.

           WHAT I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS THIS RECORD  " TIME HAS MADE ME NEW ".  FIRST OF ALL WHAT A LAVISH  PRODUCTION THIS IS TO COME OUT OF LITTLE NORFOLK VIRGINIA IN THE EARLY 80'S. LEAST I FORGET THAT NORFOLK VIRGINIA IS THE HOME OF THE FABULOUS " NORFOLK SOUND "  DISCOVERED AND PRODUCED BY THE LATE GREAT FRANK GUIDA IN THE 50'S AND 60'S.

           THIS ALBUM RECORDED MOSTLY IN RICHMOND VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIA BEACH AS WELL AS DETROIT AND PHILADELPHIA, HAS STRINGS, HORNS OR SHOULD I SAY A FULL ORCHESTRA. IT HAS EVERYTHING. A FEW  SMOKIN'  FUNK TRACKS, BOOGIE, DISCO AND NOT TO SAY THE LEAST, SWEET SOUL FEATURING THE FULL RANGE OF VOCALIST VAN JONES UNBELIEVABLE SOUND INCLUDING ONE OF THE SWEETEST FALSETTO YOU WILL EVER HEAR.

           LEAVING THE SOUTH BRONX AND ARRIVING IN NORFOLK VIRGINIA IN 1980 I HAD NEVER HEARD OF VAN JONES. I HAPPENED TO SEE A STACK OF HIS RECORDS IN  A STORE (OWNED BY FRANK GUIDA) CALLED ' FRANKIE'S GOT IT '  WHEN I FIRST SET OUT TO FIND NEW SPOTS FOR MY RECORD ADDICTIION.  ANYWAY AT THE TIME I DIDN'T HAVE MUCH MONEY AND CHOSE ANOTHER $3.00 RECORD OVER VAN JONES AND PUT HIS RECORD BACK IN THE BIN.  BY THE TIME I HAD ANY KIND OF MONEY TO REALLY SPEND ON RECORDS  ' FRANKIES GOT IT '  HAD CLOSED FOR GOOD. WELL NOT TO BE DETERRED SOME YEARS LATER I OPENED MY OWN RECORD SHOP IN P-TOWN (PORTSMOUTH) VIRGINIA ACROSS THE RIVER FROM NORFOLK.

          AS TIME PASSED AND I WAS IN MY ELEMENT BUYING AND SELLING OLD RECORDS, THE OVERSEAS DEALERS STARTED SHOWING UP IN MY STORE. FIRST THE ENGLISH, THEN THE GERMANS AND THEN THE JAPANESE. THEN ONE DAY EVEN BEFORE I HEARD ABOUT VAN JONES FROM THE LOCALS, A JAPANESE GENTLEMAN ASKED IF I HAD ANY VAN JONES RECORDS?  WELL YOU SAY BOO!  AND I SAY WHO?  AND WONDER WHAT TO DO. I KNEW THAT IF THE JAPANESE WERE LOOKING FOR THIS RECORD IT MUST BE A GEM.  AFTER THAT I WAS ON THE HUNT FOR VAN JONES RECORDS. WITHIN THE NEXT 2 YEARS I PROBABLY SOLD UP TO 15 TO 20 COPIES OF THIS RECORD TO THE OVERSEAS DEALERS, NOW NOT SO MUCH AS THEY ARE GETTING SCARCE.

           I BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO VANS RECORD. MOST OF THE LOCALS WERE GIVEN COPIES AS PROMOTIONAL OR COURTESY. SOME MAY HAVE ACTUALLY BOUGHT IT IN THE LOCAL RECORD SHOPS. WHAT THEY DID WAS TO TAKE IT HOME, LISTEN TO IT JUST ONE TIME AND THROW IT IN SOME CORNER NEVER TO LISTEN TO IT AGAIN. WHAT A SHAME AS THIS ALBUM IS A CLASSIC AND WAS TOTALLY FORGOTTEN, I BELIEVE TILL THE JAPANESE DEALERS AND COLLECTORS RESURRECTED IT. I HAVE LISTENED TO THIS RECORD MANY MANY TIMES AND I LOVE IT. WHAT INTRIGUED ME SO MUCH WAS VANS FALSETTO AND THE WAY HE HANDLES IT. GROWING UP IN THE STREETS OF THE SOUTH BRONX IN THE 50'S AND 60'S I WAS A STREET SINGER OR DOO WOPER, I ALWAYS SANG LEAD TENOR AND HAD A VERY HIGH PITCHED FALSETTO. I COULD IMMITATE FRANKIE VALLI, SMOKEY ROBINSON IT DIDN'T MATTER, I COULD HIT EM' ALL. SO WHEN I HEARD VAN I WAS FASCINATED AND TOTALLY DELIGHTED. WHAT HAPPENED THAT THIS RECORD OR VAN JONES DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE? I THINK IT WAS JUST SOMETHING CALLED LUCK AND VAN DIDN'T HAVE IT AT THE TIME.

           TODAY VAN'S RECORDS ARE POPULAR TO MANY COLLECTORS AROUND THE WORLD, MOSTLY IN JAPAN AND FRANCE, AND A LITTLE IN ENGLAND WITH HIS NORTHERN SOUL 45'S.

           BEFORE I GO I MUST TELL A VERY FUNNY STORY THAT HAPPENED ONE DAY WHEN I WAS IN MY STORE YEARS AGO. A JAPANESE GENTLEMAN SHOWED UP, AND AS HE WAS A REGULAR CUSTOMER FROM JAPAN,  I LET HIM LOOK THROUGH SOME OF MY OWN BOXES OF RECORDS THAT I HAD BROUGHT FROM HOME OUT OF MY PERSONAL COLLECTION. THE REASON I HAD BROUGHT THESE RECORDS FROM HOME WAS BECAUSE OF CONSTANT NAGGING AND PRESSURE FROM MY SWEET  DARLING  MARIA THAT I SHOULD GET SOME OF THESE #$%@&* RECORDS OUT OF THE HOUSE (SPANISH WOMEN ARE SO TEMPERMENTAL), SHE SAID THAT THERE WERE TOO MANY RECORDS KLUTTING UP THE ROOMS AT HOME. WELL PUTTING MY TAIL BETWEEN MY LEGS I HAULED OFF ABOUT 2000 ALBUMS AND PUT THEM IN BOXES AND CARRIED THEM TO A SECURE SECTION IN THE STORE, WHERE NO ONE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO LOOK AT THEM. WELL THAT DIDN'T LAST LONG AS SURVIVAL KICKED IN AND I LET MY JAPANESE FRIEND HAVE FIRST SHOT AT THE ALBUMS (LETTING HIM KNOW THAT THEY WERE FROM MY PERSONAL COLLLECTION AND I MIGHT SAY NO TO SOME). WELL AFTER ABOUT 30 MINUTES OF LOOKING THROUGH MY RECORDS AND GATHERING UP ALL THE GOODIES HE COULD FIND HE COMES RUNNING OUT WITH THIS VAN JONES RECORD HELD HIGH IN THE AIR AND ASKING, HOW MUCH! HOW MUCH! HOW MUCH!  WELL I COULDN'T BELIEVE MY EYES!  AS THIS WAS ONE OF MY PERSONAL COPIES THAT I HAD MISPLACED AND COULDN'T FIND.  NOW YOU GOT TO UNDERSTAND I HAVE SO MANY RECORDS IN MY STORE AND AT HOME AND IN TWO STORAGE SHEDS THAT WHEN I LOSE A RECORD IT STAYS LOST. AND HERE COMES HISASHI WITH THIS RECORD IN HIS HAND, AND I'M THINKING OH NO!  JUST WAIT TILL I SEE MARIA.  BEING A FAIR MINDED BUSINESS MAN I'M THINKING ALRIGHT I CAN'T SAY NO AS HE IS SPENDING ALOT OF MONEY AND HE HAS COME SO FAR.  SO I CAME UP WITH WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A FAIR PRICE WHERE I WOULD MAKE SOME MONEY AND HE ALSO COULD MAKE SOME MONEY WHEN HE GOT BACK TO JAPAN. SO I SAY " IT IS NOT FOR SALE BUT I WILL TAKE $200.00 IF YOU WANT IT NO LESS" ALL THE TIME I'M HOPING TO GOD HE WILL SAY NO, OR "IT'S TOO MUCH"  AND I CAN KEEP MY RECORD. WELL IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG AS HE LOOKED AT THE CONDITION (EXCELLENT) AND SAID HE WOULD TAKE IT. I ALMOST DIED RIGHT THERE, BUT I KEPT MY COMPOSURE AND HE LEFT WITH A GOOD LITTLE PORTION OF MY COLLECTION. IT WAS A GOOD DAY AT THE STORE TO SAY THE LEAST AND THERE WERE PLENTY MORE VAN JONES RECORDS OUT THERE AT THAT TIME (I JUST HAD TO FIND THEM), NOW NOT SO MUCH AS VAN JONES RECORDS ARE GETTING SCARCER AND SCARCER.

MARIA I LOVE YOU, BUT YOU ARE WALKING ON THIN ICE WHEN YOU MESS WITH MY RECORDS.

   .... ERNESTO AND MARIA HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR 41 YEARS... WAIT A MINUTE SHE JUST SMASHED ONE OF MY RECORDS!  HERE WE GO AGAIN!  AY DIOS MIO!

THE COVER IS IN VG+ CONDITION, HAS A LITTLE SEAM WEAR, NO SPLITS.

RECORD IS IN  A VERY NICE VG+ CONDITION WITH SOME VERY VERY LITE GROOVE WEAR ON FIRST TRACK ON BOTH SIDES NOT AFFECTING SOUND QUALITY AT ALL. SOUND QUALITY IS EXCELLENT.

THIS RECORD MUST BE INSURED.

THIS IS AN ORIGINAL AMERICAN PRESSING.

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