Simon T

And nostalgia not what it used to be (groan)!

Isn't that how it goes when you put water onto a chip pan fire?!

Couldn't agree more Mick. Perhaps what's Northern soul is an individual's thing,depending on what being played in what era? Though having written "My Way" the world most covered song, I shouldn't think Paul gives a flying **** about whether his single outings are in anybody's top 10 northern all time golden classic greats or not! Still he might have spent the money on some nattier threads!!

I've posted it up in the 'Sound's section. I particulary like the motorbike being reved up in the back ground for the last 30 seconds!

King Tutt - You've got Me Hung Up - Fun City £466 Ringleaders - Baby, What Has Happened To Our Love - M-Pac £355 Drizabone - Pressure - 4th. and Broadway PROMO ONLY 2 x 12" £49 Blue Jays - (It Depends Upon) The Point Of View - Jay £844 Ultimates - Girl I've Been Trying To Tell You - Br-Roma £ 515 Cajun Hart - Got To Find A Way - Warner Bros demo £ 304 Leroy And The Drivers - The Sad Chicken - Duo £148 Greg Perry - It Takes Heart vocal & instrumental - Alfa 12" £ 59 Stevie Wonder - Hey Harmonica Man - Stateside Demo UK £ 66 Jimmy Wallace - I'll Be Back - Alpha £684 Jimmy Jones - Walkin - Columbia demo UK £70 Jimmy Seals – The yesterday of our love – Challenge demo £326 Doug Banks – Ain’t that just like a woman – Guyden demo £262 Dorothy Williams – The well’s gone dry – Goldwax £141 Larry Clinton – She’s wanted – Dynamo demo £2290 Carl Hall – What about me – Columbia demo £161 Ike & Tina Turner – Somebody (somewhere) needs you W.B. UK issue £110 Fantastic Four – Can’t stop looking for my baby – Ric Tic £156 Jimmy Ruffin – Don’t feel sorry for me – Miracle demo £207 Montclairs – Hung up on your love – Contempo UK £36

Much better since you cut out most of that 'Northern' twaddle!! :-;

Little Anthony - Hurt so bad - Veep Even though I've played it a million time, it still make the hair stand up (literally) when he sings "You loved me before, please love me again, I can't let you go back to him"

Mike I'll convert it from a .wav (1.1gb!) to high quality mp3 and burn it on a CD for you. Please remind me of your address.

I recorded it (1hr 51m, missed the first 10 mintues) whilst listening over the net. Because it was over a dial-up connection, there's the odd drop-out, but otherwise the quality is good. I could burn it on to a couple of CDs for you, if you're in dire need.

The Vibrations - Cause' You Mine - Epic I've seen an issue sold recently for around £100 ($175) and a demo for £180!! Yvonne Baker - You Didn't Say A Word - Parkway I would say you looking at £300 ++ for a demo and considerably more for an issue at todays mad prices!

Peter I think that calling pressings / bootlegs "second issues" or "re-press" has come about because of ebay; I don't think you can list a bootleg as a bootleg because it was never produced legitimately i.e. paying royalties etc, and it's not good to pass off a fake, intentionally or not, as an original. 99.9% of records out there are either originals or pressings, but sometimes bootlegs are sold as originals!! Due to demand a few labels did re-issue stuff (Artic ?), but often on a 'sister' label; the Vibrations you are after came out on Epic, but was re-released on CBS- Columbia Special Products. However, the spinning of legitimate re-issues may be frowned upon because there are originals out there that you could buy and spin. Nevertheless, labels like Kent, that have put out unreleased stuff are regarded in a different light because that's the only way of playing out the sound, and they're legal!

Any ideas what this is & what's the vocal to it? Detroit? Solid Hit Bound bongos? Golden World?

The Four Arts publishing is Elsid Music Co. which I am sure someone told me was Sidney Barnes's

Out of interest to what are good mid tempo tracks, would any of the kind souls who are taking part in this swap, mind sending me a PM with their track listing? I can then look out for the titles. I thought about taking part, but I don't take any notice of what's out there legally on CD and so might have broken a few copy right laws!! I promise I won't banger you for any copies of the CDs you're swapping!!

Hi Kolla What year is the album & is the track the long version? The reason I ask is because I have a black & red label 7" from 1973 with NOT FOR SALE on it which is 2:57 prior to 12" records being widley available. I have also seen the 7" as a white demos, but never bothered to check the release date. However, I've also got a UK 12" by 'The Urban All Stars' from 1998 called "It Began in Africa" that has a long version on it, published in 1976 Polygram records. Was it released on Polygram as a 12" in '76, I've never seen one?

The Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles - Prophesy records from 1973?

The UK boot was done in the mid 80's with reversed labels. Check out the other side, the Michigan Move, which was a one-off popular spin for Guy Hennigan, but that's to say who actually pressed them up!!

Originals are either white demos or grey issues on styrene - if you tap it GENTLY it will give off a metalic "ting". Also, if you run your finger nail up the edge of the label it will catch as they are glued on. The pressing was done of the grey issue in the 70's and look and sound virtually the same. They were done on vinyl and have a 'molded' label i.e. no distinguishable edge between the label and the run-out, and a dull "thud" if you tap it. Definatley one of the best non-Motown, "motown" records to be made - probably because half the musicians on it had a strong Motown connection, shall we say!!

Lewis Sisters - Breakaway - u/r Motown

CURLEY MOORE - £520 ERNEST MOSLEY - £618 CHANDLERS £857 GEORGE KIRBY £356 CHRISTINE COOPER TEST PRES £304 LADA EDMUND ISSUE £382 FLAME N KING £305 HOUSTON OUTLAWS - £457 MR CALDWELL - £250 BOBBY PARIS - £307 Each about 3x what they're really worth IMO!

In the middle; where the world's got piles, "Riot Town" Boston in Lincs. Bought a one way ticket out many years ago. Saying that it has been the stomping ground for several "Soulies" including Andy Rix, Nigel Parker, Chris Modley, Dave Appleyard, Steve Handbury & now Paul 'Gazza' Gasgoine! And my mother, who loves J. D. Bryant and Paul Anka becuase he wrote "My Way"!!

Late last year Manship had it on a set sale list at £150. In January there was one on abay that went for $435.00 (about £240). Then in March Manship had a Sterling Sound acetate up for auction which I think went for £400+. I bought mine off John Buck about 18 years ago for £20 which I thought had been previously owned by Sam. At that time there was another in a collection which had come from soul Bowl for around the same price.

Remeber the Lenny Curtis on ebay a couple of months ago, that the seller knew wasn't an original, but still got daft money for it? Be very careful of any record that was both originaly, & booted, on styrene (both pressed at the Monarch plant)

The current from the cartridge is very small and needs to be amplified. You can feed this signal directly into your PC's sound card, but you will need a sound file editing progamme to amplify the recorded wave file (signal) and the quality is not too good. In the old days, amps had a built in pre-amp which the phone plugs from your record deck are plugged into. New amps / souround sound sytems etc don't usually have a built in preamp now. You can buy seperate pre-amp that boosts the signal before going into the main amp OR (with the help of a phono to mini jack lead) into your PC's sound card (line in). You can get a pre-amp from your local HiFi shop - I've got a PRO-JECT Audio Systems one called "The Phono Box mm/mc preamplifier" which cost about £25 - £30. Alternativly, you can go along to PC world and buy a copy of Steinberg's Clean PLUS that has a pre-amp (that's the PLUS bit). However, this pre-amp is power buy your PC via a USB lead , so you'll need a spare USB port! I think it's about £60, but you do get some decent software to tart up your recodings - get rid of hiss and crackle etc. Plus the phone to mini jack lead If you are transferring old tapes to CD via you're PC, you do not need a pre-amp to boost the signal from the tape deck.

I bought a Pioneer 609 from Richer Sounds a while ago for less than £200. It is very easy to use and the recording quality is excellent. Play back quality is not bad too, if you're into Hi Fi. I would track one down you won't be disapointed.