And what joy it is - great condition, original factory sleeve and sounds fantastic! Playing now. Joy Tones arrived yesterday from Classic 45s all the way from USA. It's a safer bet than eBay and that's for sure! Cheers Anyway, have a browse and maybe you'll find something, I'll post details of further auctions as and when they appear. Records came this morning,well packed and undamaged and in pristine condition!whole transaction conducted in positive way.pleasure to do with business with you.highly recommended!Īs you know, I do not advertise ANYTHING for ANYONE usually, but the quality of these records is astounding and I thought if my customers don't know about them already, they ought to. Thanks Leyland Satisfactions record arrived this morning perfect condition (Fortunately, during the 1950s and 1960s, nearly all promo releases had two songs on them starting in the 1970s, most promos came with one song, in both Mono and Stereo mixes.) Presumably because Neal was playing mainly RnB and Soul music, most of the 45s in this collection fall into those categories. Most of the collection consists of new, unplayed promo releases, many in their original factory sleeve. Her collection contains virtually nothing after 1970. Even after she left Reidsville in 1967, 45s continued to accumulate unopened at her vacant Reidsville address from all the record companies and distributors she was registered with, including ABC, Atlantic/Atco, Chess/Checker/Cadet, Decca, Brunswick, Shout, Stax/Volt, Fame, Imperial, Jubilee, Okeh, Sue, Philles, SureFine, Vee-Jay, Kent, Duke, Bell, Paula/Ronn, Rojac, Peacock, Motown (all labels), Veep, Capitol, Modern, Dial, Jamie and many others. In those days, record companies sent DJs promo copies of their releases, and in Neal's case they were sent directly to her house in Reidsville. (One of the 45s the estate held back was by Joe Tex, which came with a love note to Louise.) She died 4 years ago in New York, in her 80s.ĭuring her career, and for many years afterwards, Neal collected thousands of (mostly) promo 45s from the 1950s and 1960s. NEAL AUCTION NEWTON NC UPDATE(I'm still collecting information from Neal's extended family and will update this to be more precise as I learn more.) During her DJ career, Neal met many of the top Soul and RnB artists of the day, and according to relatives she dated at least two of them: Wilson Pickett and Joe Tex. By 1961 at the latest, she switched to using her maiden name professionally. Early in her career, Louise used "Napper" as her last name, after a man she was briefly married to. She played at WREV, a small AM station in Reidsville, from the late 1950s to about 1963, and then again from 1965 to about 1967. Rummage through hundreds of original-issue 45's for $6.00 or less!Īnnie Louise Neal was a black female disk jockey from North Carolina. A tree for site navigation will open here if you enable JavaScript in your browser.
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