oldsteve woomble

Flip it over, lay in a darkened room and enjoy. A masterpiece! Track the album down for the fantastic So Glad You Came Along, Now You're Gone and the superlative You Will Always Be A Part Of Me...

Ahh! Cheers Sean! I'm always rubbish at knowing who was in what group etc!! (Hey and if you've got a Love Stormy Weather tucked away in your box but don't really like it Sean..... then give it to me me me me!!!!!! I loves it!! Always remind me of Rod djing in his slippers..... )

Is that the 'Love Stormy Weather' Melvin Brown?....

I prised mine out of Jason's hands when his car engine needed replacing! Must've been 2000/01? Maybe later, can't remember. Certainly after Sam / Arthur etc had been spinning it though....... Hadn't Keb kicked it off on his scene or summat?...... First time I played it at my Cleethorpes Winter Gardens night one of the (ahem) 'local heros' stormed up to the decks and told me in no uncertain terms that it was an utter pile of shyte etc etc. Happy days!

Ey up Ian! I'm sure Rob would be most upset for it to be suggested that he'd ever had a better standard of conversation with anyone!!! Including Andy!!! (Ain't spoke to him for yonks. Gettin on that phone tomorrow!! )

Me & Ady ran an all dayer together at The Beachy in Cleethorpes a few years back and we got my bessie mate and all-time top geezer Shaun Kearney to do an afternoon spot for us, cos we knew that he'd get it going. Anyway, one of the local (ahem) 'characters' (and I use that term loosely) was nagging Shaun for a record he'd not brought.... and nagging,,,, and nagging,,,and nagging.... So we're all dancing away, and at the end of the currently spun tune.... an eerie silence... followed by the thud, thud, thud, thud of the needle going round on an unattended and forgotten deck. When we looked up, Shaun had packed up his records and fucked off, totally pissed off by the whinging of said geezer. Now thats what I call a proper protest. I love that man, one on his own!

The ultimate 'ender'?..... [media=]

Eeek! No Jimmy Holiday yet?? Was gonna go for the gigantically fantastic "Turning Point" but probably 'deeper' than beat ballad-eer so gonna run with..... [media=]

While Mr Heartache may be my fave of all time, this almost dead-heats it for me. If I hear this at the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong frame of mind (or maybe even the right place, at the right time, in the right frame of mind....) it still has the power to create a certain dampness in the tear duct area. Or summat. Bloody marvellous [media=]

Stevie if you're talking Johnny Gilliam, this still makes me go all a-quiver..... Class [media=]

I'm with Chalky on The Heatbreaking Truth (of course, what with it being so fantastically fantastic) but this one always buttered my muffin as well..... [media=]

Another one of the finest...... Hairs on back of the neck. Goosepimples. etc etc..... [media=]https://youtu.be/Y0roOEpG5yM

Gonna try again.... My fave of all time. Emotional. [media=]

HAha tried to put one up from youtube but forgot how to do it. Bugger. oh well

Ha! I was only thinking at the weekend that next time I do the new 'freestyle' room at Radcliffe I'm gonna dig out the beat ballads.... Summat along the lines of... George Smith - I've Had It Freddie Scott - Mr Heartache Betty Booth - Teardrop Avenue Gladys Knight - Letter Full Of Tears Walter Jackson - Uphill Climb To The Bottom Freddie Gorman - The Day Will Come Clydie King - Only The Guilty Cry Gene McDaniels - Walk With A Winner Lenny Welch - The Right To Cry Little Anthony - It's Not The Same / Hurt So Bad etc etc Nowt rare, and who knows maybe at least a couple of us might like it! :-)

Hey I thought you still had some shampoo-ability on that bonce of yours!! Anyway extremely loosly on-topic.... while we were full of beans at Mineport / South-head we got from Gregory Porter to Orville in 6 steps. For some reason it seemed reasonably witty at the time. Remember folks, just say no. Taxi!

Steve they've done EXACTLY what they said they were going to do! And then realised, as any business worth its salt would do, that there is an opportunity for more sales! PLUS then they've had the decency to change the label to retain the integrity of the initial 500!!!! Oh I give up. I've got to go and wash my hair.

Of course I would if you made them 'different'! That's what marketing a product is all about! Expansion released 500 individually numbered, black label design copies and then due to unpredicted demand pressed another run (no idea how many) on a totally different design label. Now I've got no idea about this but I would imagine that the dealer cost would have been about the same for them both?? (I may be totally wrong on that - you'd have more idea than me about that kind of thing Pete). I can see nothing wrong at all anywhere! The only analogy I can make is the demo v issue comparison, the coloured vinyl v usual vinyl, the picture sleeve v non picture sleeve, the 'platinum edition' v the normal issue etc etc ad infinitum. All often with price differentials and often very different in their levels of 'collectability' And I'm still waiting for the PM's offering to sell me the numbered original 500 folks!. I'll take them for the original tenner, then you can then buy the cheaper version..... so you're in pocket! Everyone's happy!

Anyone with a black one with the lickle number on who feels cheated, abused or that their human rights have been violated then let me know and i'll give you your tenner back in return for the record. Sorted! And if you paid more, blame the gadger you bought it off, not expansion FFS!! Hey I got a black one off that nice Mr Fish-cake (limited to 500 - just as they said - with lickle numbers on - just like they said) and was (and am) well happy with it! ..... But I wasn't (with the greatest respect) stupid, naive enough to think that it might not never never never ne-ver be pressed again if demand dictated!! WTF!!... In fact I'm delighted it's been re-pressed / 2nd issued or how ever you want to put it, it means loads more people want it than originally forecast (increased demand).... which means that the sexier trophy version might become even more in demand / rarer-er! Ace! And as for Expansion - it's an absolute bloody disgrace that they operate as a business. What kind of business operates as an... er.. business? Oh.... And mark my words.... Next time they do a limited edition they'd bloody well better do it as a single bloody copy and give it just to MEEEEE!! MEEEE I tell you MEEEE!!!!!

Chill Mart! The 'limited' release looks completely different and has cute little numbers on to satisfy us train spotting saddos!... Hey I hope Expansion sell a million of the (ahem) '2nd' (or whatever) issue and Gregory Porter gets to number 1 on the poptastic top 20 or whatever it is they have nowadays! He was fantabulous live at southport / minehead and if he can get a few quid out of it then good luck to him (and to expansion!) Surely its about giving this superbly superb tune the opportunity to get further out to the masses and not just to satisfy us vinyl nutters. Ain't it??? Please, please say it is... Anyway, we've got our numbered trophy to cuddle in bed on a cold winters evening.. YIPEEE!!! Gregory's selling more units, DOUBLE YIPPEEE!! Win-win situation!!

Honest, that story is totally true. Well, within the bounds of my inebriated recollection anyway..... And then we had a dust up about who was gonna pay for the taxi which ended with me and the taxi driver getting all macho and the young lad giving us some grief and chucking some money at us.... You couldnt make it up word

It was a mad one really.... We were on our works christmas night out on Prinny Ave and after it me and one of my mates from work needed a taxi back to our posh western suburbs.After freezing the dangly bits off for about an hour (or so it seemed), a taxi comes along and we jumped in one side and another coupla kids jump in the other. Mexican stand off time. Anyway, we were not backing down, and neither obviously were they so we compromised on a share and hoped for the best. The taxi driver had a northern soul cd on, like they do... So we got yarning about this and that and suddenly one of the lads, who was maybe 20ish?? pipes up with "do you know that northern soul record by Frank Wilson"?...... And clever shit me replies with some patronising remark or other (no, I know, not at all like me.... ) . And then he says "you know its the most expensive record in the world and........ (now here's the punchline)...... My Dad owns it!!!" So of course I call him a silly sod etc, like you would, and we end up having a slightly heated debate..... because obviously i know best because I am so clever and that, and obviously his dad has a uk copy or a pressing or sumat da-de-da-de-da..... DOH!!! Egg. Face. Me. Possibly. I'm not gonna spill the name. If he wants to remain anonymous that's fine with me. And of course, the kid in the taxi might have been spinning a yarn. But if he was it was a cracking one to spin.... (And I think it was his dad. I was major-league kajagoogooed - it might have been his uncle...)

Blimey.... It's a funny old world innit....I may have a slightly weird tale about this then involving jumping into a taxi with a stranger, pissed after my work christmas do......

Pete I think it was Willie & The Mighty Magniificents, Funky 8 Corners on All Platinum?..... (unless there was summat before that?...) https://youtu.be/WvYJmgO1yi4

ey up chalky - run out details on my yellow copy are R-5619 881201-A R-5620 881201-B hope this helps! steve