Gloria Barnes ‎– Uptown [USED]

OG 1971 Yellow Maple Record label on heavy vinyl!

Extremely Rare DEEP CUT Soul

One listing on Discogs: £1,790.00 +£17.50 about $2,476.03 total

MEDIA: VG Has been cleaned in an Ultrasonic Cleaner is shiny overall no scratches only a couple hairline marks. A foggy blemish on Side A 

ARTWORK: has sharp blacks and vibrant reds and yellows still. Delicate lite ringwear on front cover mostly only visible at center top and a little on right edge. a little spine and corner wear. Small bend at lower side of opening that has led to a tiny tear. Small hole punch. 

Gloria “Towanda” Barnes is an obscure soul sister of whom little is known except what can be gleaned from the notes on the back of her Maple album, Uptown, from 1971. She came from Harlem, NYC, and was discovered on Mary Fox’s Northern Soul Night on Radio Stoke, UK. Her first release was ‘If I Am Guilty’ / ‘Oh Darling’ on the Groovy Imprint, as Towanda Barnes, but she is best known on the Northern Soul circuit for the tracks ‘You Don’t Mean It’ (backed by Lewis/Brantley song ‘Find Someone to Love Me’) and ‘Love Slips Through My Fingers’, interestingly both originally recorded by the Ohio Players.