Blues and Soul issue no. 1 was dated Oct. 1967 if I remember rightly.
B&S was the successor to Home of the Blues which started in '66. There were 11 issues of
Home of the Blues, the first eight were mimeographed with glossy paper stapled covers.
The last three issues were professionally printed on glossy paper.
My original copies of Home of the Blues have long since disappeared but I think I have scans of the covers of most of them .. I'll see if I can find them.
... I've just had a look at the Wikipedia page .. they're wrong. The first issue of
Blues and Soul was John Abbey's twelfth publication but it didn't continue its
numbering from Home of the Blues, the first issue of B&S was no. 1.
I remember buying it at the news stall in Central Station in Glasgow. It's indelibly
imprinted in my memory as I had never expected to see such a specialist
magazine there .. previously it had been a case of scanning the small ads in
Record Mirror then sending off a postal order by snail mail.
Anyone know when this magazine actually started......I had many issues, some I think from the very earliest, but did not bother to catalogue them, but browsing through the issues, I can recognise many that I formerly owned, before donating them to one of my punters.
Addenda: Wikipedia states May 1966 as date of the first issue, but entitled "Home of the Blues", and from issue 12 onwards the title "Blues & Soul" was used.
Includes articles about Glass House, Percy Sledge, The Voices Of East Harlem and The Memphis Horns, plus in depth reviews of the new LPs by Doris Duke and David & Jimmy Ruffin.
Dave Godin's column comments on various aspects of The UK Soul Scene and he gives his thoughts on recent visit to London of The Voices of East Harlem.
New UK 45s reviewed include The Spinners - "It's A Shame" and "Engine No 9" by WILSON PICKETT
#1 Records :-
UK Singles: CLARENCE CARTER - "Patches"
UK Albums: DIONNE WARWICK - "Greatest Hits"
US Singles: JACKSON 5 - "I'll Be There"
US Albums: JACKSON 5 - "Third Album"
Contempo Record Club Oldies: WILLIE TEE - "Walking Up A One Way Street"/"Thank You John"