Gasher Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 here we go AGAIN is this really that rare on OOTP to warrant £40 I couldnt give this away at a five last year https://cgi.ebay.com/FRANK-BEVERLEY-IF-THAT...1QQcmdZViewItem
SteveM Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 here we go AGAIN is this really that rare on OOTP to warrant £40 I couldnt give this away at a five last year https://cgi.ebay.com/FRANK-BEVERLEY-IF-THAT...1QQcmdZViewItem OOTP is quite collectable now. Isn't this one of the rarer ones ? John Manship, PeteS ?
Guest TONY ROUNCE Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 here we go AGAIN is this really that rare on OOTP to warrant £40 I couldnt give this away at a five last year https://cgi.ebay.com/FRANK-BEVERLEY-IF-THAT...1QQcmdZViewItem It's not so long ago, Gash, that I got £35.00 for an OOTP pressing of "Just Like The Weather". You might think "Silly money, paid by a silly person" (and I might agree) but to be fair, these records were pirated 30 years ago now, and a lot of people who are looking for them them, and who don't want to pay the going rate for an original, were barely out of nappies when OOTP was in full swing, let alone thinking about a future of commitment to Northern classics. I also think that a lot of the people who bought OOTP, Soul Galore etc. at the time are people who drifted permanently away from the scene, and who either shoved their old pressings in their attics or threw them in the bin when they moved onto other things. As I mentioned on a recent posting elsewhere on this site, some of Soussan's earliest efforts (e.g. the Modern label pirates, with vocal classics on one side and "Arthur Wright Orchestra" instros on the other) now appear to be rarer than the records that they were pressed by the thousand to accomodate the demand for. Strange, I know, but that's our scene for you! TONE
Guest sydney bridge Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 OOTP is quite collectable now. Isn't this one of the rarer ones ? John Manship, PeteS ? I think this shop is responsible
Pete S Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 I had 2 x Frank Beverly on OOTP on ebay 2 months back. I think they went for 10 or 12 each. Which is about right really.
bri pinch Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 look at the bid history. only two bidders knocking it up from a fiver. but that,s all it takes.............. ....doesn,t it. bri.
Guest TONY ROUNCE Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 look at the bid history. only two bidders knocking it up from a fiver. but that,s all it takes.............. ....doesn,t it. bri. Exactly what happened with my OOTP 'Just Like The Weather' (see above)... TONE
John Reed Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 High prices for boots is something that I have never understood. Surely a boot is a boot and nothing more than that? But I suppose there may be sentimental value, but I don't really understand why. Would anyone pay £7 for a forged fiver? If you want the tune, why not buy a CD, it seems that the majority of the booted tunes of the past are on one CD or another and you may get another tune that you may want/like. I personally have problems buying boots/reissues in record form, but don't worry if it's on CD or a download from ITunes etc.. Maybe it's my way of getting the tune, still thinking that one day the record will be mine. John
Pete S Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 High prices for boots is something that I have never understood. Surely a boot is a boot and nothing more than that? But I suppose there may be sentimental value, but I don't really understand why. Would anyone pay £7 for a forged fiver? If you want the tune, why not buy a CD, it seems that the majority of the booted tunes of the past are on one CD or another and you may get another tune that you may want/like. I personally have problems buying boots/reissues in record form, but don't worry if it's on CD or a download from ITunes etc.. Maybe it's my way of getting the tune, still thinking that one day the record will be mine. John Various reasons for buying one: can't afford the original and not realising there's a difference are the main ones. But having a track on cd is no compensation for having a piece of vinyl which you can look at and touch, boot or no boot.
Julianb Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Used to buy these wholesale from Chris Burton at 50p a time. As I was building a house at the time, I was not going to soul do's ( and didn't again until 1998!!). Used to give them to a guy called Ian Bottomley (aka Twink) who knocked them out at Wigan for £1 a go along with emidiscs to order at £5 a time ( I did have a few goodies to copy in those days) Anyone remember him doing the business? Julian
Ian Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Used to buy these wholesale from Chris Burton at 50p a time. As I was building a house at the time, I was not going to soul do's ( and didn't again until 1998!!). Used to give them to a guy called Ian Bottomley (aka Twink) who knocked them out at Wigan for £1 a go along with emidiscs to order at £5 a time ( I did have a few goodies to copy in those days) Anyone remember him doing the business? Julian Remember Twink well from Fri Nights at the Central Leeds & other clubs early 70s he DJd with Frank (Ian Dewhurst) around Yorkshire, remember a alldayer in Hudersfield he did with Frank at some west indian club, think I went with Trevski around 72/73 Anyone remember the earlier OOTP pressings on plain white labels Inky Dinky, Chubby Checker, Exiters Number one, and a few others can't remember other titles Regards from NZ Ian
Julianb Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Remember Twink well from Fri Nights at the Central Leeds & other clubs early 70s he DJd with Frank (Ian Dewhurst) around Yorkshire, remember a alldayer in Hudersfield he did with Frank at some west indian club, think I went with Trevski around 72/73 Anyone remember the earlier OOTP pressings on plain white labels Inky Dinky, Chubby Checker, Exiters Number one, and a few others can't remember other titles Regards from NZ Ian
Julianb Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Hi Ian seem to remember Ian Dewhirst's dad owned the company that Graham Slater worked for and it was Graham DJing at the staff Xmas parties that got 'Frank' interested in NS. Went to his house in Mirfield a few times to sell him stuff in the early days. The West Indian Club in Huddersfield was on Venn Street ( just along from Lord Jim's where I DJed 1969-1971 or '72) - Twink probably played the stuff I lent him!! The OOTP 45s were all plain white labels ( well, the ones I remember anyway) Julian
Guest Netspeaky Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Why collect boots? well some of these boots are over 30 years old, and in lots of cases are now harder to find on the boot than on the original. It's like collecting anything else really. Bet it's quite an achievement to actually collect every single OOTP 45. Value is again dictated by supply and demand, if you need it to complete your collection I'm quite sure if it's a hard number you would pay a reasonable price for it, just like anything else.
Guest TONY ROUNCE Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 ! The OOTP 45s were all plain white labels ( well, the ones I remember anyway) Julian The earlier ones were either on a teal coloured label with silver lettering or a regular green one with black lettering, and were manufactured in Chicago in - allegedly - a collaboration between A Very Well Known UK Promoter/DJ and A Very Well Known High Voiced And Now Dead Chicago Soul Singer. They were all vinyl-only (as far as I'm aware). The later issues were on the white label and were all styrene (to the best of my knowledge) TONE
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