Simon T

That's only £899.88! My perception of the people paying these daft prices for reasonably rare & VERY common Northern records on eBay, is that they are most probably young (<35), non-UK, Northern fans, who have not been collecting long enough to realise how many copies of the record there really are? Any thoughts? (Leaving aside the daft price that we all might pay for your all time want!)

I see that's the same Uptown as Gloria Jones, but does anybody know about another Uptown label? I am interested in Ducky & the Glowlighters. Who was Ducky and how rare is the record?

Is it the Humprey Lyttleton Band, without Humprey? More clues please as I'm think, but have a few photos to quizz you with.

I can think of two records you shound never flip: Guitar Ray - you're gonna wreck my life Arthur Willis - the hurting is over If the other sides were 'plug' sides, no wonder they're so rare!!!

It's taken me 15 years and nearly wearing out the record to work these out! Still I like the idea of a young lass, in 1967 (?) Miami Valley, Dayton, Ohio turning some young lads heads in her plate-former boots and hip hugger jeans! Well girl you dance and you dress with style I just watched you playing darling in your mini skirt Let do the latest dance Now for sure, just take a chance Now any minute I might lose control And in to your arms I'm gonna go, go Hey girl, my, have you changed! Now when you were my girl you didn't look the same You changed because you love me? Because you love me? Because you love me? Ha, it's all right Hey baby, it's out of sight You wear bell-bottom pants in just the latest style Every time I see you it really stupefies In your plat-former boots and hip-huggers too Girl you look so fair standing in your mini skirt Hey girl, my, have you changed! Now when you were my girl you didn't look the same Did you change because you love me? Because you love me? Because you love me? Hey girl, I need you Hey girl, I want you Hey girl, I want you bad Hey girl, I dig you act Hey girl ??. well alright Hey baby you know it Honey, don't you know it You're out of sight Hey baby, you've changed Oh, sock it to me now because you're looking good Sock it to me, honey, I knew you would You know you're up-tight and out of sight Hey, it's alright Oh baby ???

I'm sure it's not Diane Lewis, but I don't think anyone know who it really is. Here's a mp3 for those of you who may never have had the pleasure of hearing it (Again I've had to doctor it so as not to pee anyboy off, sorry!)

I refer to the Hyperions - Why Do You Wanna Treat Me, as the "Sale of the Century" song because there is an organ lead intrumental break in it that sounds exactly the same as the music that they used to play to introduce the big prize on that quiz show

I was thinking of what would be the last record out of the door when the bailiffs arrive and decided it would probably be Jackie Wilson ? I've lost you I then thought of records I wouldn't give shelf space to even if given, just a polite "thank you" and straight to eBay! In this case it would be a joint tie between Ray Agee ? I'm losing again & Joanne Courcey = I've got the power Does anyone else have any wouldn't live with / can't live without tunes?

"Pork Pie & Oven Chip Auction, mad prices, or just supply and demand?" I posted this about a UK auction and prices fetched, but didn't say it was John Manship's !!!

Is Micky your parner or the lovely little dog in the picture? Talking of Northern Soul Canines, can any one else remember Keb Darge taking his dog to the Fleet niters (around 1986 or was that just one chemical too many?!!!)

At the time Alan sold it, he told me it went for £8000. 8k or 10k it's a lot of dosh!!! I trust Mr B has a safe deposit box somewhere!

I think most of us have romantic image of artist spending their last few dollars to record their future Northern hit, only to fail to become a star. At the weekend, I was taking to a friend who knows the writer of "I don't like to lose? that gives a slightly different perspective on things. Bill Tuthill wrote it to inspire people (no, he hasn't got any copies!) I'd be interested in what people think of the record (lyrics), has it affected you or inspired you in any way & what are your memories of it I used to play it after occasions, such as crap days at work, and picture myself 'walking right over' the boss! So it inspired me, if only to physical violence and revenge!!

I think what he means is that, if you were to put the record between your thumb and finger and pull them across from the inside to the out of the record, you will feel it tapper off i.e at the "bevel run in groove." Many records made in the late eighties / early ninities have a kind of "lip" at the run in groove; if you take a pressing from around that time (Magnetics, Dennis Edwards, Jock Mitchel, etc) and do the same at above, you will feel a little bump just before your finger come off the record. If my memeory serves me right, the Gelnda McCloud was 're-issued' legally i.e. the label owner was approached and agreed to press up some more copies. However, becasue the re-issues greatly out number the original press, most people like myself, have a re-issue which is taken as, and being sold as the original press.

Just in case there's anyone out there reading this and wondering why some of us are wetting our pants over the Mello Souls! (Sorry, there are drop outs' as I don't want to pee anybody off. Don't download it if that's going to annoy you) I can't find the tape but I think it was around 1986 when I first heard the "Delarks - Just You & I" being played out some where groovy like The Drill Hall in Lincoln!

How about JImmy Ruffin's "Don't feel sorry for me" on Miracle? Not bad for a 43 year old record!

Leaving aside EVERTHING by the "Sax-God" Andrew 'Mike' Terry, the Mello soul is the ultimate, I have to agree!!!

I'm sure it's the New Yorkers (but time , not tears)

Bless her

Damm, the server will not accept my lovely picture of Ila Van , sorry

One of this lass's must be up there as one of the worst......... "Can't help loving" the picture though!!

Is anyone playing the new male vocal to Young Blood Smith or hasn't emerged yet? If not, watch out for it, it's pretty fab!!!

Was it an 'Andy Free' zone? What happened to Mr Dyson & Rix?

The Exits? Do I win a copy of that Futures record? No ..never mind! Just out of interest, is the green or yellow label the original issue?

If you are going to put a bid on it, make sure it plays through OK. I brought back 3 copies from the US around 1988 and when I got home to make a furtune, I found that they all jumped big time in exactly the same spot, just before "woman" in the first corus. However, this does not explain it's rarety really as it's not the plug side. anorak bit: It was released in July 1976. Written and produced by Jesus Alvarez who's "sonner or later" on Ploydor is well worth picking up.

No, the lyrics came straight from the horse's mouth; Damon is one of many "Northern Soul" artists I have squatting in my house (head)! Bless him, if he forgets his medication, he start singing that bloody song and trying to knick off with one of my suitcases down to the train station! They all sing, all day long, hoping I'll take them to Cleethorpes or Prestatyn one day........ Form the kitchen I can presently hear; "Why do you always sigh when I say goodbye? (yeah, yeah, yeah) When you know we can make (Let me hear you brother) That hurt who can deny? Yeah, yeah, yeah (Now let me hear you brother now let me hear my soul brother yeah, yeah, yeah) Now love makes me suffer You and I asking why? We can make it my darling, yes Just you and I .........." Those Mello Soul boys are always in there 'Del Larking' about and scoffing oven chips and gravy!