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Is this actually played at the moment over here or is the demand (price hike) from the lowrider oldies scene? I'm asking as I remember this being a cheap record and around in quantity. A couple of years ago I decided to sell thinking it would be cheap only to see it going around the £100 mark. I sold it (very quickly) to a guy in the state's who wanted it for the other side "Its So Hard To Break a Habit" which to me made sense of the price, demand being for the slow side. Since then I've seen it creep up in value with people asking £200- £250. It almost seems like it was forgotten here and now the price has gone up interest in it seems to have woken up over here, but does it get anything more than a sporadic spin? A mediocre record in my opinion (both sides), but what do I know.

I have this by them......I love these old pink Brunswick single sided demos

Just colour all of the label in the same colour felt, job done

Ok, resurrecting this thread for a couple of reasons: First in reference to some of the confusion above about the date of the very last all-nighter being on Friday 4th Dec or Sat 5th Dec. Well I have just found these old adverts (both from Echoes end of Oct and start of Nov 81) I've kept from back then, both of which state the date is set for Friday 5th December, thing is if you look up a calendar for 1981 the 4th Dec was a Friday and the 5th was a Sat (the November dates are correct). So maybe that's where the confusion comes, the adverts were wrong concerning the Friday 5th date? The main reason I've posted here is that looking at this old stuff I got to thinking does anybody actually have tickets for the Tommy Hunt Oct 2nd 81 "last all-nighter" or the above mentioned very last one ever Dec 4th or 5th all nighter. The reason I ask is I have my tickets for the Fri 4th Sept (last oldies all-nighter) and the Sat Sept 19th (End of an Era - supposed last one) but no tickets for the Tommy Hunt Oct 2nd or Dec 4/5th - both of which I went to and I can't think why I wouldn't have kept them as I'm a hoarder of that sort of stuff and also like a sad git I've an SAE (self addressed envelope, for the youngsters) dated 29th Sept and postmarked Bury, Bolton, Wigan which I've marked (back then) as containing my tickets (yea sad I know) which I'm assuming for the Oct 2nd Tommy Hunt date. Also I always seem to see the End of an Era Sept 19th ticket used in books and never a later one. If someone's got them can they put up scans please.

Not something you're read very often

£500 to 600 I'd have thought Neil, but could be higher with the demand for top 500 sounds?

Great record, but a little awkward to dance to. Love the instromental bridge, a complete lift from "Theme from a Summer Place" by Percy Faith!

Shoot-A-Basket is a funky laid back tune.

Lee Bates - Why Don't You Write

I have the following for sale: Postage £1.90 (own risk) or £2.60 Signed For PayPal (F&F) or Bank Transfer Please PM if interested. All scans of actual records. 1. Billy Hambric - New York City Baby - Soho - NM £15 2. Liz Lands - Don't Shut Me Out - One-derful - NM £12 3. The Turbulations - I'm In Love - Guava - NM £75 4. Jeff Perry - Call On Me - Epic - NM £70 (Instro on B side) 

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I have the following for sale: Postage £1.90 (own risk) or £2.60 Signed For PayPal (F&F) or Bank Transfer Please PM if interested. All scans of actual records. 1. Billy Hambric - New York City Baby - Soho - NM £15 2. Liz Lands - Don't Shut Me Out - One-derful - NM £12 3. The Turbulations - I'm In Love - Guava - NM £75 4. Jeff Perry - Call On Me - Epic - NM £70 (Instro on B side)

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I think Hank Hodge is really this person:

Audrey Freeman - Three rooms - Musicor (White Demo) Any ideas? Thanks

The scene has been evolving and fragmenting for a long time now: modern vs 60's, 60's newies vs oldies etc etc. As someone said in an earlier post you think we'd have the best of it all by now as the scene has usually got past the rifts and absorbed the best of the different strains of soul. I think a shift took place in the 90's which in my view started to see less attendee's on the scene - those who still were about were often collectors, the number of "purely" dancers who didn't care about the format of the record was lower than in the 70's and 80s in my opinion. The collectors were the ones (on the whole, but not exclusively) who stuck with the music, form and format were important now; witness events like The Ritz "Rarest of the Rare" it was exciting to be dancing to those records knowing that they were original (someones gonna burst my bubble now and tell e Tim Brown played a boot). In those days I'd argue the majority of attendee's did care about the format being an original far more than the attendees of 20 years previously. Now this informs the debate of OVO because a lot of people who stuck with it through the 90's are going to be a little miffed when people start coming back to the scene and pushing that all aside. Theres bound to be a bit of "but where were you in the dark days when I was in a soul night in the backroom of a pub with 14 blokes and a whippet in attendance". But I don't think that was an obstacle that couldn't be overcome. I suppose there is no one "truth" for the scene (as it was and as it is) its different things for different people, just that in the past the different "types" of soulie (dancer, collector etc) seemed to rub along just fine as most were all still young and out to enjoy themselves and most importantly people were still developing their opinions and views on the scene. Fast forward 30 + years and opinons are more entrenched, whether they were formed in the 60's, 70's, 80's or 90's, so division, derision and debate are bound to happen. Dancers on the whole don't care as long as its a good night out so they might not care too much about values that collectors hold dear on the scene, and to me there in lies the rub as "collectors" views are important as they were the lifeblood of the scene during the so called darker years. And should collectors also be more accepting of the attendees who don't care about things like format, originallity, and trouser width? I'm not sure how that circle is squared.

Its like asking whos best: your first love or the current wife

What about the mobility ones!

Why don't we go the whole hog and give him our pin numbers??

I have a copy of the 1980 Charly LP - Betty Harris - In The Saddle for sale. This comp has the track All I Want Is You credited to Betty Harris, when actually its the Zilla Mayes version that was included by mistake (the story of how this happened is out there on the net). Also contains Show It, I'm Evil Tonight and her version of Ride Your Pony plus 12 other tracks. Vinyl has light scratches Not Affecting Play. A Wolverhampton Library sticker on one label and back of LP (it wasn't me who knicked it!). For sale @ £4.99 - (cheapest on DisCogs is £15.40 and thats in Croatia) Postage £4.05 in UK

Does this one count? Not an everyday record by any means, but would you part with £80 to frame it, because both sides jump? https://www.ebay.com/itm/323459465356?_nordt=1&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true

I'm all for profit, but I also believe if you're making one then PAY THE DJ's

Yes, good thanks Rob.hope you're all ok? Knocked the 50p soul nights on the head?

You must have told us that nine times already.