(please also see the Reissues section for more about Burning Soul and Soulfire)
Note: a special thanks to Karen West of Natal, South Africa for supplying many of the wonderful records below, especially some of those autographed by Steve Fataar. Karen offers many fine records on Ebay as 'kazwest'.
Title: Ummm! Ummm! Oh Yeah!!! (mono edition) label & number: Rave RMG 1213 date: 1965 Engineer: D. Erbstoesser, Production: A. Heatlie, Cover Photo: Wilf Lowe/Tru life. Side 1
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There is a sleeve note on this record, as follows: Who are these four musicians? Well, collectively they are known as THE FLAMES,
individually they are: The four "FLAMES" have highly individual - and conflicting - personalities, but fortunately they are able to compromise and incorporate the best ideas into their acts. They are fortunate too in that they have similar musical tastes; they all admire the work of the late Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The influence of these artists is evident on this album. From their humble beginnings THE FLAMES quickly outstripped any opposition and were soon the top group in Natal. They twice won the National Rock Band Contest. Most groups in Natal recognise their position as the top group. Indicative of this is the fact that THE FLAMES are regarded as trendsetters, both in music and dress. What THE FLAMES do, others follow. The group has had a few single releases, but this is their first long player which is sure to make them even more popular. UMM, OH YEAH.
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Title: Thats Enough (mono edition) label & number: Rave RMG 1228 date: April 1967 Cover photo: H. Street / Kalahari Films Side 1
Side 2
Note: The rear of the sleeve features pictures of the first Flames album as well as the following Fontana acts: the Troggs, the Spencer Davis Group, the New Vaudeville Band, Manfred Mann, the Mindbenders and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Micky and Tich. Both Fontana and Rave records were distributed by Teal, who released the Flames CD in 1994.
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Title: Burning Soul! (mono edition) label & number: Rave RMG 1232 date: October 1967 A Grahame Beggs production. Brass arrangements by Art Heatlie. Side 1
Note: a copy of this album signed by Steve Fataar is shown in the lower picture
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Title: Burning Soul! (stereo edition) label & number: Rave SRMG 51232 date: August 1968 A Grahame Beggs production. Brass arrangements by Art Heatlie. Side 1
Note: There is one copy of this record in the Flames collection which has a mispressed sleeve, featuring the song list on the front instead of the rear. See lower picture!
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Title: Burning Soul!
(South African 8-Track, stereo
edition) label & number: Rave 8T-SRMG-51232 date: unknown Programme 1: You've Got It Made / Hold On I'm Coming / When Something's
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Title: Burning Soul! (first South African reissue, stereo
edition) label & number: Rave BP 1038 date: March 1972 A Grahame Beggs production. Brass arrangements by Art Heatlie. Side 1
Note: Side 2 is mono |
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Title: Burning Soul! (second South African reissue, stereo
edition) label & number: Trutone CB.2 date: unknown A Grahame Beggs production. Brass arrangements by Art Heatlie. Side 1
Note: Side 2 is mono |
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Title: Burning Soul! (third South African reissue, stereo
edition) label & number: Rave/Trutone STAR 505 (cb2) date: probably late 70's A Grahame Beggs production. Brass arrangements by Art Heatlie. Side 1
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Title: Burning Soul! (fourth South African reissue, stereo
version) label & number: Rave STAR 714 date: 1980 A Grahame Beggs production. Brass arrangements by Art Heatlie. Side 1
Note: Orange Rave label. Marketed by Phonogram. According to the sleeve the album was also available on cassette, number MC-STAR 714. The final track "Purple Haze" was shortened by omitting the Beatle-style tape-reversed ending.
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Title: Burning Soul! (Zimbabwe reissue, stereo version,
PROMO) label & number: Rave/Trutone STAR 714 date: 1980 A Grahame Beggs production. Brass arrangements by Art Heatlie. Side 1
Note: Excellent sounding stereo record in inferior paper sleeve. White Trutone label. Marketed by Phonogram. According to the sleeve the album was also available on cassette, number MC-STAR 714. The final track "Purple Haze" was shortened by omitting the Beatle-style tape-reversed ending. Two purple PROMO stamps on the sleeve read "D.J. Sample, Not For Sale"
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Title: Burning Soul! (Australian mono edition) label & number: Parlophone/Page One PMEO 9454 date: 1967 Side 1
Note: This record was published in England on Page One records in mono FOR-009 and in stereo FORS-009. The Page One label was distributed by Parlophone-EMI in Australia. The record label is old-style green Parlophone, with the legend 'A Page One Recording'.
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Title: Burning Soul! (UK test pressing) label & number: Page One FOR 009 date: April 1968 Side 1
Note: This library record has a plain white flip-back cardboard sleeve with centre-hole, and with a rubber-stamped date APR 1968 in the top left corner.
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Title: Burning Soul! (UK mono edition) label & number: Page One FOR 009 date: 1968 Side 1
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Title: Burning Soul! (UK stereo edition) label & number: Page One FORS 009 date: 1968 Side 1
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Title: Soulfire!! (mono edition) label & number: Rave RMG 1234 date: April 1968 A Grahame Beggs production. Cover Photo: L'Atelier. Recording engineer: B. Pretorius. Side 1
Note: a copy of this album signed by Steve Fataar is shown in the lower picture
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Title: Soulfire!! (original South African stereo edition)
label & number: Rave SRMG 51234 date: August 1968 A Grahame Beggs production. Cover Photo: L'Atelier. Recording engineer: B. Pretorius. Side 1
Notes: There is a minute typographical error on the spine of the record sleeve: There, the album title only carries a single exclamation mark! Note: check here for different stereo pressings
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Title: Soulfire!! (first South African
reissue, sleeve claims stereo, but read notes)
label & number: Trutone (Rave) SRMG 51234 date: August 1968 A Grahame Beggs production. Cover Photo: L'Atelier. Recording engineer: B. Pretorius. Side 1
Notes: This is a very strange release, with side 1 in mono and side 2 in stereo! The reissued sleeve states that the label is Rave but the record is actually Trutone, with the Rave catalogue number. Did anyone at the record company really care?
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Title: Soulfire!! (second South African reissue, sleeve
claims stereo but record is mono) label & number: Trutone (Rave) CB 6 date: 1970? A Grahame Beggs production. Cover Photo: L'Atelier. Recording engineer: B. Pretorius. Side 1
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Title: Soulfire!! (third South African reissue, sleeve
claims stereo but record is mono) label & number: Trutone (Rave) STAR 506 (CB 6) date: unknown A Grahame Beggs production. Cover Photo: L'Atelier. Recording engineer: B. Pretorius. Side 1
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Title: Soulfire!! (fourth South African reissue, sleeve
claims stereo but record is mono) label & number: Rave STAR 715 date: 1980 A Grahame Beggs production. Cover Photo: L'Atelier. Recording engineer: B. Pretorius. Side 1
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Title: Soulfire!! (fifth South African reissue, sleeve
claims stereo but record is mono) label & number: Teal Trutone GSL 313 date: 6 Febuary 1989 Side 1
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Title: Soulfire!! (re-stickered South African
stereo version) label & number: Rave SRMG 51234 date: 1968 Side 1
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Title: Soulfire!! (cassette reissue) label & number: Rave GSC 313 date: 6 Febuary1989 Side 1
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Title: Best of the Flames label & number: Trutone STO 712 date: November 1969 Side 1
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Title: Ball of Flames (sleeve claims stereo but record is
mono) subtitle: featuring For Your Precious Love (version 1) label & number: Rave BP 1025 date: November 1970 Side 1
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Title: The Flame (UK LP) label & number: Fallout date: 2006 Note: sadly no bonus tracks.
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Title: The Flame (UK CD) label & number: Fallout date: 2006 Note: sadly no bonus tracks. |
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Title: The Flame (USA Mint
Sealed) label & number: Brother 2500 date: 1970 Note: a mint sealed copy of The Flame was added to the Flames collection in February 2006. This record was opened in the presence of Garbiel Witteveen and Klaas Jelle Veenstra, (both noted Dutch Beach Boys collectors) on Friday 24th February 2006. The record was found to contain the poster and also the printed note about quadraphonic sound. The first few minutes of side two were played using a new Ortofon MC 20 moving coil cartridge and the sound was better than any other disc so far auditioned. Note: as mentioned elsewhere on this site, TWO mint sealed autographed copies of this album were kindly given to the Flames collection by recording engineer Stephen W. Desper, one for opening and one for keeping. Both these discs where among the first 100 units pressed.
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Title: The Flame (Uruguay) label & number: Odeon SURL 20784 date: 1971 Note: pressed by Fonografico, Montevideo, Uruguay. The sleeve is made of this cardboard, completely covered by plastic. This is probably the source of Los Shakers cover version of See The Light. The matrices used are from the UK pressing (see below). |
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Title: The Flame
(Uruguay PROMO) label & number: Odeon SURL 20784 date: 1971 Note: pressed by Fonografico, Montevideo, Uruguay. The sleeve is made of this cardboard, completely covered by plastic. This is probably the source of Los Shakers cover version of See The Light. The matrices used are from the UK pressing (see below).
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Title: The Flame (UK version) label & number: Stateside/Brother SSL 10312 date: 1970 All songs composed by Fataar/Chaplin/Fataar/Fataar. Produced by Carl Wilson. Engineer Steve Desper. Photo & art direction Robert Jenkins. Cover design Dan Quest studio - Nashville. Side 1
Recording dates: October 13 1969, November 3-21 1969, December 28-January 12 1970,
March 16-April 10 1970, July 13-24 1970.
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Title: The Flame (NL version) label & number: Stateside/Brother SSL 10312 date: 1970 All songs composed by Fataar/Chaplin/Fataar/Fataar. Produced by Carl Wilson. Engineer Steve Desper. Photo & art direction Robert Jenkins. Cover design Dan Quest studio - Nashville. Side 1
Recording dates: October 13 1969, November 3-21 1969, December 28-January 12 1970,
March 16-April 10 1970, July 13-24 1970.
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Title: The Flame (Canadian version) label & number: Capitol/Brother ST-6360 date: 1970 All songs composed by Fataar/Chaplin/Fataar/Fataar. Produced by Carl Wilson. Engineer Steve Desper. Photo & art direction Robert Jenkins. Cover design Dan Quest studio - Nashville. Side 1
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Title: The Flames (SA version) label & number: Trutone STO 737 date: January 1971 Produced by Carl Wilson. Engineer Steve Desper. Photo & art direction Robert Jenkins. Cover design Dan Quest studio - Nashville. An original Brother recording. Side 1
Note: Two different pressings of this SA version are in the Flames collection. On the discs the matrix numbers are different. The earlier sleeve is "flip-back" and the later is not. This indicates that there were several pressing runs of this album.
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Title: The Flame (US PROMO) label & number: Brother BR 2500 date: March 1971 All songs composed by Fataar/Chaplin/Fataar/Fataar. Produced by Carl Wilson. Engineer Steve Desper. Photo & art direction Robert Jenkins. Cover design Dan Quest studio - Nashville. Side 1
The Promo release of this album (pictured here) was delivered with a large fold-out poster featuring excellent photographs of the band. These pictures are available elsewhere on this website.
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Title: The Flame (USA version) (sealed copy
also in the Flames collection) label & number: Brother BR 2500 date: March 1971 All songs composed by Fataar/Chaplin/Fataar/Fataar. Produced by Carl Wilson. Engineer Steve Desper. Photo & art direction Robert Jenkins. Cover design Dan Quest studio - Nashville. Side 1
The regular US release of this album (pictured here) was also delivered with the large fold-out poster and a note about Quadraphonic sound.
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Title: The Flame (UK TEST PRESSING) label & number: SYRX 3647-1U (matrix number) date: 1970 Side 2:
Notes: This is a test pressing of side two only. The plain white sleeve has stuff on it like "OK 29/12/70", "Crackle End of Side" and "The Flame Side One (sic)". The plain white label picture is colour enhanced to reveal the stamped word "stereo" more clearly.
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Title: Soul Meeting!! (collaboration with Una Valli and the
Peanut Butter Conspiracy) (mono edition) label & number: Rave RMG 1233 date: April 1968 A Grahame Beggs production. Cover photo: L'Atelier. Side 1
There is a sleeve note on this record, as follows:
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Title: Soul Meeting!! (collaboration with Una
Valli and the Peanut Butter Conspiracy) (mono UK edition) label & number: Page One FOR 019 date: April 1968 Side 1
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