12-inch Soul-Cal SCR113

Description: Booked to spin at soul clubs in Japan in the summer of 2005, Scottish DJ Keb Darge received an exciting gift upon his arrival, an ultra-rare original of the Mixed Feelings' United label 45-rpm. The white-label DJ copy had "Sha-La-La" as the plug side, and Darge wasted no time in working the deceptively simple yet absolutely gorgeous soul dancer into his club sets, setting off a frenzy among his contemporaries on the rare soul scene.

Back in St. Matthews, South Carolina, Mixed Feelings band leader and keyboard player Glenn Walling never expected that "Sha-La-La" would become an international sensation three decades after its original release. Drafting it on the fly in under 20 minutes in 1976, he intended it for the flip side of the group's self-proclaimed masterpiece, a country-inflected soul ballad entitled "Love Will Find A Way," but the Nashville-based distributor inadvertently switched up the sides on the promotional copies.

Soul-Cal Records, in coordination with Keb Darge and Kenny Dope at Kay-Dee Records, is pleased to breathe fresh air into the music of the Mixed Feelings, bringing it to even more diverse audiences that might not have the $4,000 to pay for an original copy of the 7” when it pop up at auction!