I Want His Life Size Poster

[Mark Jones]

Spotted this on the old tube and thought I'd like that poster!

Who on the scene would you want an ORIGINAL 60's poster of?

Wonder how much that poster would go for on ebay?

As well as Ms McNair I'd like one of Terry Bryant...she was (is still?) a stunner!

[Ljblanken]

i would shell out bucks for a nice (well done) poster of a soul lp cover.

i remember being in college in SF in the early nineties and the record stores all sold these MASSIVE posters of old jazz lp covers (trendy things like Coltrane's 'blue train' or miles davis 'birth of the cool'). these things were HUGE (like 8 feet high).

that would be awesome to get an eight foot tall Brenda Holloway greeting you every morning over the coffee cup!

[Guest jerrio]

i would shell out bucks for a nice (well done) poster of a soul lp cover.

i remember being in college in SF in the early nineties and the record stores all sold these MASSIVE posters of old jazz lp covers (trendy things like Coltrane's 'blue train' or miles davis 'birth of the cool'). these things were HUGE (like 8 feet high).

that would be awesome to get an eight foot tall Brenda Holloway greeting you every morning over the coffee cup!

I WAS IN A BAR CALLED THE BIG CHILL HOUSE IN KINGS CROSS,ONE WALL IS COVERED IN ORIGINAL L.P.SLEEVES.THEY LOOK REALLY GOOD.EVEN BETTER 12 INCH/L.P.FRAMES AT £3.00 EACH CAN BE BOUGHT FROM TIGER IN WANDSWORTH,LONDON. BACK ON THREAD OTIS REDDING .

WRIGHTY.

[Agentsmith]

ironic isnt it?, that in all of the regulation card shops you can find precisely zilch....marvin, jb excluded, but not even a supremes. classic lp covers are a great idea and you would think there is a niche in the market for that, particularly amongst the northern soul fraternity...as with anything though, it has to be about licensing and it must be incredibly frustrating, especially for instance, when you see the trouble adey has to go to, to get tracks from company archives for the kent outlet. there's no doubt people would collect posters like records if there was a wide range to chose from. why cant this side of the industry see the potential to sell to us?.radio keeps attempting to remove our specialist progs from the airwaves for all the wrong reasons, they think it isnt commercial enough...that really is tunnel vision yet, they keep making retro adverts and video's which totally contradicts the way they view our scene. there's a hippy influenced thread up now carrying loads of psychedelic lp sleeves that screams wow! these would be great as posters and the hippies would love em...money to be made....but no....its got to be run-of-the-mill and thats exactly what you get when you stroll in and out of birthdays or any name brand card shop....how many times have you seen marylin, elvis, frank, audrey....all the icons and yet you inevitably search for something different.....how about curtis, jackie, david ruffin, roy hamilton, all the motown divas....there are loads of great publicity snaps of northern soul heroes and heroines.....it just shows how bland shopping can be.

the closest we get to what we want is record labels on t-shirts and even that is limited to a few majors so licensing must play a part there as well then?. how many brilliant designs are there, that would look great on a t-shirt?....oh, and a dont mean a square print on the front......i mean that THE WHOLE T-SHIRT SHOULD BE THE RECORD LABEL back to front....always fancied the peacock label as a print, it has such striking colours or sure shot...what about mgm?, or the rca victor black issue with the dog on?.

our bedroom consists of RITZ ALL-NIGHTER POSTER, the torch repro, courtesy of dave.e, and framed promo's of the funk brothers and kim weston, the supremes promo poster for mary wilsons memorabilia display that came over here 2 years ago...and thats our wall space filled!, but a full sized brenda holloway or kim weston or tammi terrell would mean kicking out the wardrobe!!.

look,..there are probably plenty out there who are "knocking" these things up anyway, just like watches, jewellery, crockery, place and mouse mats, celebratory cards, cds etc., so maybe posters will get mass produced, wether they're legit or not but being able to buy them with confidence is something thats impossible to achieve unless they become designated as fashionable for the vast majority of consumers.

so carry on dreaming of waking up to your favourite star/s?

[Guest welshruss]

I,ve got one of "Otis Redding".......trouble is - it aint life size,its 7ft 6ins tall.......it looks like a roll of carpet rolled up.

[Guest WPaulVanDyk]

Sam cooke or Jackie Wilson or at least some nice poster of a great classic LP

[Guest Trevski]

My tailor wants one of Me!

[Autumnstoned]

Spotted this on the old tube and thought I'd like that poster!

Who on the scene would you want an ORIGINAL 60's poster of?

Wonder how much that poster would go for on ebay?

As well as Ms McNair I'd like one of Terry Bryant...she was (is still?) a stunner!

I always loved the poster which came with Motown Disco Classics Vol 2 - My eldest brother bought the album for me Xmas 74 but asked him to swap it for Motown 4 ( well I was 13 - young, foolish but at the time happy with Motown 4) Recently bought a copy online for the poster. Isn't Tammi Terrell stunning in her pic?

[Guest proudlove]

Some of the Laydees on here want a full size poster of Webby .................................................over the front door to stop the kids from running into the road.

[Guest]

Some of the Laydees on here want a full size poster of Webby .................................................over the front door to stop the kids from running into the road.

Malc

[Dave Moore]

ironic isnt it?, that in all of the regulation card shops you can find precisely zilch....marvin, jb excluded, but not even a supremes. classic lp covers are a great idea and you would think there is a niche in the market for that, particularly amongst the northern soul fraternity...as with anything though, it has to be about licensing and it must be incredibly frustrating, especially for instance, when you see the trouble adey has to go to, to get tracks from company archives for the kent outlet. there's no doubt people would collect posters like records if there was a wide range to chose from. why cant this side of the industry see the potential to sell to us?.radio keeps attempting to remove our specialist progs from the airwaves for all the wrong reasons, they think it isnt commercial enough...that really is tunnel vision yet, they keep making retro adverts and video's which totally contradicts the way they view our scene. there's a hippy influenced thread up now carrying loads of psychedelic lp sleeves that screams wow! these would be great as posters and the hippies would love em...money to be made....but no....its got to be run-of-the-mill and thats exactly what you get when you stroll in and out of birthdays or any name brand card shop....how many times have you seen marylin, elvis, frank, audrey....all the icons and yet you inevitably search for something different.....how about curtis, jackie, david ruffin, roy hamilton, all the motown divas....there are loads of great publicity snaps of northern soul heroes and heroines.....it just shows how bland shopping can be.

the closest we get to what we want is record labels on t-shirts and even that is limited to a few majors so licensing must play a part there as well then?. how many brilliant designs are there, that would look great on a t-shirt?....oh, and a dont mean a square print on the front......i mean that THE WHOLE T-SHIRT SHOULD BE THE RECORD LABEL back to front....always fancied the peacock label as a print, it has such striking colours or sure shot...what about mgm?, or the rca victor black issue with the dog on?.

our bedroom consists of RITZ ALL-NIGHTER POSTER, the torch repro, courtesy of dave.e, and framed promo's of the funk brothers and kim weston, the supremes promo poster for mary wilsons memorabilia display that came over here 2 years ago...and thats our wall space filled!, but a full sized brenda holloway or kim weston or tammi terrell would mean kicking out the wardrobe!!.

look,..there are probably plenty out there who are "knocking" these things up anyway, just like watches, jewellery, crockery, place and mouse mats, celebratory cards, cds etc., so maybe posters will get mass produced, wether they're legit or not but being able to buy them with confidence is something thats impossible to achieve unless they become designated as fashionable for the vast majority of consumers.

so carry on dreaming of waking up to your favourite star/s?

Eh?

There's loads of vintage stuff to collect relating to Soul artists? You're maybe not looking in the right direction? Typing in Northern Soul into Ebay's search engine whilst loking for that 45 to dj with ain't gonna find anythung for you.

Try:

Sheet Music

Posters

Vintage Music

Collectibles

Music memorebelia

Music ads

Film memorebelia

Artist pictures

Muisical Photographs

Lithographs

A myriad of labels under all the above

Or a hundred other variations...think you'll be pleasantly surprised at what, with a little time and effort, you con discover. I have a house full of it!

Good hunting...

Dave

[Guest Netspeaky]

Use to have an a black and silver printed Isaac Hayes life size cardboard cut out which was a promo prop in my local record shop in Prestatyn for the film Shaft.

[Guest]

i would shell out bucks for a nice (well done) poster of a soul lp cover.

i remember being in college in SF in the early nineties and the record stores all sold these MASSIVE posters of old jazz lp covers (trendy things like Coltrane's 'blue train' or miles davis 'birth of the cool'). these things were HUGE (like 8 feet high).

that would be awesome to get an eight foot tall Brenda Holloway greeting you every morning over the coffee cup!

yeah .................. we had the huge "blue note" posters on the wall in our place in the early 90s

I had forgotten about them

the John Coltrane - blue train one was fantastically massive - with JC sniffing all the blue smoke up his nostrils.

great art !

[Guest posstot]

I'd like some posters of baby washington please.....phwoarrr! not half!......

[Rob Wigley]

Tats--in his "Shell suit" period before he was famous

Rob

[spot]

SUZIE PERRY in that super tight black leather catsuit she's worn on the Gadget Show, that'd do me for life.:wub:

Take care,be safe & remember,"Dreams can come true",

Spot.

[Mattbolton]

that would be awesome to get an eight foot tall Brenda Holloway greeting you every morning over the coffee cup!

Absolutely. Good Choice.

Though Jackie Wilson in my living room would be my preferred choice. I think the missus might object to having it in the bedroom.