Roger Williams

Pierre Hunt - I've Got To Have Your Love Profiles - Take a Giant Shit Bob Sinclar - Tribute Hideous, all of them. Roger

Also now coming out on a 45 I believe. Roger

Pat, sent you a PM about that LP you sold me. Thanks Roger

Me too, it's quality.

Change the label name to FFS for stuff like this

The finest disco record I've ever heard and owned. Utterly uplifting and just bloody marvellous.

Buying the Spanish picture cover 45 from Ned Flanders the window man was the first time I ever shelled out three figures for a seven, back in 1999. Great record. Roger

Cheers Steve, I'll get on that. Nice one mate, thanks. Roger

Cheers Steve. Yes I did find those scans, it was released in Venezuala by all accounts, never in the US, but it's proving impossible to find, the last one on Popsike went for over $2000 so sod that for a game of soldiers!! I only really want to borrow a copy to use for artwork for a forthcoming CD issue of it, so maybe I'll just have to end up trying to manipulate those scans for the artwork. Cheers Roger

Looking for an Avco copy of the Little Anthony & the Imperials album 'Hold On" if anyone could point me in the direction of one please? If you have one, could you send me a message anyway please, I'd like to ask a question about it. Thanks Roger

Awesome tune, always loved this. This would be my definition of 'crossover'. Roger

Remember Dave from a long time ago on here, never met him but had a good few exchanges with him both on the forum and in private, he was always very forthright and honest, which is something I really liked about the guy. Sad news indeed, rest in peace fella. Roger

Got that Tammy Payne on a 10 inch white label, massive tune in the north west over the years.

The best market stall ever, funnily enough I had an album in my hand I remember buying off you Rod, the Sir John Roberts album, quite a tough one to find now. Happy days. Roger

Nowt wrong with this as a soul tune in my book.

The 80s definitely got a bad rep which wasn't deserved, with you all the way on that one Baz.

Great when you miss the smiley's off isn't it, people don't know how to take you!!

Not really, just explaining myself based on your 'you should know better' comment, that was all.

"Shoud know better"? What are you on about? I hadn't read the thread properly that was all. It was conversation Barry, not some attempt to have a go at anyone.

I wouldn't class this album as New Jack Swing to be honest, or the Tashan album either, the Def Jam stuff (in my view) was more soul/hip-hop oriented. Great album the Chuck Stanley though, especially Real Soon which you posted. This is the type of LP which I bought by the hundreds throughout the 80s, not being a scene person back then, simply somebody who just bought soul music. I've got literally hundreds of New Jack Swing CDs though, many bought 'blind' for peanuts on ebay within the last 6 or 7 years because although a lot of it wasn't that good, the harsh productions and kiddy lyrics and such, in amongst all of that on most of the albums are some serious quality ballads, which makes each one a couple of quid well spent in my book. Yes, good to see a thread like this on here, definitely. Roger

Quality!

The expanded version of what I said, and meant, exactly.

Of all the gigs I did last year playing mainly new releases on the modern scene, the most feedback on any one track I got was when I played Average White Band 'Queen Of My Soul', massive pop record at the time - I think that was the catalyst for me waking up as far as the music is concerned and made me realise how blinkered I'd become because of the scene and DJ'ing and the like. All cured now, thankfully.

You stop listening once you start DJ'ing, that's something else I sadly only released not that long ago.

Yep, been there, done all that, worn the T-shirt - it's a scene curse I'm afraid, but just like you Peter, I finally came to realise just how great the majority of the tunes many of us look down our noses at because of scene involvement, actually are. Better late than never eh?