https://www.ebay.com/itm/BOOGIE-FUNK-45-Jeff-Floyd-Best-Of-Friends-Dont-Leave-Me-RARE-PRIVATE-GRAIL-84-/261481321174?ssPageName=STRK%3AMESINDXX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=CetPLdyQzkD3BRjgFWsN5lx4iQg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

 

 

Must be a joke ?

 

Simon

Been talking about this period a lot with Stuart Norfolk as he's one of the only fella's I see out regularly of late from the old days (although it was great to play these records to Jacko snr&jr and the Hull folk at the bethnal green soul club the other week). 
On Friday we were praising records such as Bill Sugar Bear Jones 'Step Away' which would probably clear floors at current soul events. 
I have quite a few flyers in the loft (including the dom polski) will try and dig them all out when I can. 

Nice one Mark .

Here we are- found a fair few old lists

 

rr379 Jeff Floyd 4.00

Just puts in perspective how much stock was coming through Soul Bowl…..if it was £4 probably quite a bit of quantity….

Edited May 26, 201410 yr by Steve G

So whats the real value of Jeff Floyd?

IMO  its hard to say Chris , after all  the internet has turned up many a holy grail  but they keep going up ( Well the NS stuff does ).  This copy of Jeff floyd went a bit nuts   

Here's a copy I sold 4½ years ago on this site.......some hike in price since then - 

Did you sell Troy Johnson in the end Mark?

Got one for sale if anybody wants to make me an offer vg++

Cripes! Sat on a copy of that with pic sleeve for years. Went in a job lot a few years back.

 

But, I only paid a pound for it out of curiosity out of a very well known dealers' bargain bin at Soul Essence about 15 years ago!

 

You win some.....

  On 26/05/2014 at 18:09, NCFC said:

Did you sell Troy Johnson in the end Mark?

Got one for sale if anybody wants to make me an offer vg++

 

Yeah, I sold that copy Chris.

  On 26/05/2014 at 12:51, Simon M said:

Stuart Cosgrove's articles at the time gave an insite into a few of the artists , was it not Richard C on a whole page in Echoes some time in 1984 ?

Hello Simon,

Hope all is well for you. It was a whole article about the current( at the time) resurgence in the Memphis Soul scene with an in depth piece on Richard Carl Watson ( Richard C)..... That Sho boat label 45 still sounds great ! Stuart Cosgrove did some great pieces in Black Echoes. There were Northern and Indie soul special articles as well from the same period. Good times. It was only Echoes and Steve G's Blackbeat magazine that even mentioned this stuff.....

Anyone remember Jay Strongman flirting with indie soul in the mid 80s too ?

Hello Ivor,

I don't remember Jay Strongman doing it, but I do remember Robbie Vincent having a brief dance on his Radio 1 show with Indie Soul......I even sent him some records to play (Johnny Dean etc.) which he duly did....Steve

I remember Danny Rampling having a dabble  pre  1987  .  Do you remember the Broadstairs weekender  Ivor  ? lol

  On 28/05/2014 at 06:42, Steve G said:

Hello Ivor,

I don't remember Jay Strongman doing it, but I do remember Robbie Vincent having a brief dance on his Radio 1 show with Indie Soul......I even sent him some records to play (Johnny Dean etc.) which he duly did....Steve

He used to call it the little label collection.

  On 28/05/2014 at 06:42, Steve G said:

Hello Ivor,

I don't remember Jay Strongman doing it, but I do remember Robbie Vincent having a brief dance on his Radio 1 show with Indie Soul......I even sent him some records to play (Johnny Dean etc.) which he duly did....Steve

 

 

 

Sitting Around My Table : good 45 still dig it out now and again ,his best - not sure an album ever came out despite it being cited on the label.

 

i have got some Jay Strongman shirts from Rok a Cha - I think that was his anyway.

 

RV little label collection - I remember him playing Linda Tillery Secrets, Perry Sisters Maybe Tomorrow,Thomas & Taylor before it got UK release......happy daze !

  On 28/05/2014 at 07:27, Simon M said:

I remember Danny Rampling having a dabble pre 1987 . Do you remember the Broadstairs weekender Ivor ? lol

I do remember it well Simon...... Great days indeed.

  On 28/05/2014 at 06:42, Steve G said:

Hello Ivor,

I don't remember Jay Strongman doing it, but I do remember Robbie Vincent having a brief dance on his Radio 1 show with Indie Soul......I even sent him some records to play (Johnny Dean etc.) which he duly did....Steve

Yes Steve...... Robbie V used to play the odd I dependant Soul record in the little label spotlight on his radio show. Jay Strongmans flirtation with this stuff was around the mid 80s when he was doing the Electric Ballroom ( Camden) just after the Gogo stuff was popular.... I was surprised because the stuff he was playing was identical to the type of tunes being played at Modern Soul venues of the time. Didn't last though.....!

  On 28/05/2014 at 19:09, neiljon31 said:

Sitting Around My Table : good 45 still dig it out now and again ,his best - not sure an album ever came out despite it being cited on the label.

 

i have got some Jay Strongman shirts from Rok a Cha - I think that was his anyway.

 

RV little label collection - I remember him playing Linda Tillery Secrets, Perry Sisters Maybe Tomorrow,Thomas & Taylor before it got UK release......happy daze !

Charles Beverly was another

  On 28/05/2014 at 19:09, neiljon31 said:

Sitting Around My Table : good 45 still dig it out now and again ,his best - not sure an album ever came out despite it being cited on the label.

i have got some Jay Strongman shirts from Rok a Cha - I think that was his anyway.

RV little label collection - I remember him playing Linda Tillery Secrets, Perry Sisters Maybe Tomorrow,Thomas & Taylor before it got UK release......happy daze ![/quot

Hello Neil,

Yes...... Rock A Cha was part owned( I think) by Jay Strongman. It's weird because I know this as my mates had a stall directly opposite theirs in Kensington Market. My mates used to sell clothes and records on the stall. I spent many an afternoon with them and we used to talk to the Rock A Cha people. It wasn't until years later that I realised who he was. They were so into the the whole fifties look whereas we were young moddy types back then. My mate used to order 100 packs from Soul Bowl and there were loads of good stuff in them then. Kensington market was a fantastic place for anyone who wanted to dress apart from the mainstream.....

Great days.

  On 28/05/2014 at 21:13, Ivor Jones said:

Hi Ivor

 

i had a few shirts - didn't get all 50's and didn't have a clue who's stall it was till years later. I agree it was a proper treasure trove just like the soul bowl packs. Anytime I had a trip to London I'd head there and Record Corner, Hanway Street. Mid 80's ish.

good stuff