oldsteve woomble

Supply & demand Blake. If you advertise them completely honestly (which we all know you would) then it's the buyer who will pay what they are worth to him/her. It's the people who mislead or try to sneak them out when they know the score that are out of order. Who's to say what the market rate is for anything from a pressing to a tin of beans? Plus I've got to admit to being a bit p**sed off at having taken the 'moral' standpoint (like you are wavering with) in the past only to see pressings/boots/(or whatever people want to call them nowadays) I've let go for a couple of spondoolicks literally re-banged in a sales box at daft quid (with the buyer looking at me thinking 'MUG'!!!!). Go for it m8. Get what you can for them, while you can. Steve (p.s. good to see you last week!)

PM'd you Mark

And then Arthur Alexander 'Show Me The Road' as a SS7 ender....... Heavenly!

Played that at one of GT's Brighouse bun-fights once. Half the crowd wanted to have me elevated to saint-hood, half the crowd wanted to have me rubbed out. Forever. I reckon I could have split the crowd half and half like they used to do at pantomimes with one side of the hall cheering and one side booing. Now there's an idea for a night...............(Oh no it's not.....Oh yes it is....) Steve

Stick with Lou Rawls (no matter how 'over-played' ya-de-da etc etc.) Getting the Chuck Corby ain't gonna extend your enjoyment of the track (IMO of course). It's same meat, different gravy really. Plus someone will probably try to stiff you for daft money for it. (Henry had a job lot and used to knock them out for about a tenner each I think. He might still have some). Steve

Aye your right Mark, good to get the brain cells stimulated (I'm more used to destroying them!!). Last one from me for the night before I ascend the wooden hill........... The Styles - Baby You're Alive. Another one rescued and heading playbox-wards, thanks to this thread. Cheers! Steve

Willie Hutch - Your Love Has Made Me A Man. Fantabulous!!! Heading towards my playbox for York this Saturday this very moment............... Nice thread Mark........

Then again, reading the thread title again, I'm not suggesting it's an 'Oldie' before the Soul Fire Brigade come and extinguish me. Just shite!

Anyway, back to the plot campers! My hated track at the mo is that Jo bleedin' Jama. Makes me reach for the sick bag. Henry's got a lot to answer for, apart from coming from Scunny! (Soz H!) Steve (Tin helmet on, awaiting incoming......)

Soulman, you get the nip and i get the wish. Or whatever it is they say nowadays!

Too right Mark! A Change Is Gonna Come. Class.

Buckner Brothers - Love You From The Bottom Of My Heart -Oldie, goldie and not at all mouldie.

"New & Improved" album?

The first time I heard (and was blown away by) Amy Winegum's most recent offering, I texted all of my address book on my phone (in a tongue in cheek manner to try to share how great I thought the album was) to the effect of "cancel your plans for the day, go out now, buy this, play it and the next step is you will be asking me to run you off Northern Soul c.d.'s!!". And it happened. Some bought, listened, rung me to thank me for the recommendation and I'm still running off the c.d.'s for several of these people (including people who I thought would NEVER get into our soul). I KNOW Amy Winegum ain't 'Northern Soul'. I KNOW Ian's album ain't 1960's produced U.S. Northern Soul. But to the un-initiated and un-aware it could be a tremendous stepping stone. Just maybe. And if not, then no big deal. Spread the faith.

At least Ian is true to what he is trying to do, is being creative and is trying to spread his own version of 'The Faith' irrespective of the torrents of abuse he has to suffer. Why not just let him get on with his own thing? I wish I had the talent to 'create' which (whether or not you think it's channelled in the 'right' direction) Ian clearly has. This kind of project can provide a real opportunity to open up our music to a wider (maybe a younger) audience. The self-appointed, chin stroking, 'Soul Police' surely weren't introduced to the scene by hearing Arthur Willis & The Soulful Dynamics or Butch's 'latest cover-up' at their local youth club? It was maybe 'Love on a mountain top', 'Landslide', 'What', or some Motown/Atlantic/Stax thing which lit that very first fuse?..... And onwards from there, on the quest for more and more.......... But no! Don't let our genie out of the bottle eh? Let's all hide away imperially until we disappear up our own arseholes. Let's keep this music all for ourselves because we are so special and clever and cool (ahem) I, for one, would love to see a 'new breed' of soul boys & girls coming through to be exposed to the wonder of soul music. From whatever source. And projects like this can offer a perfect 'crossover' (in the marketing sense of the word) opportunity. Ian, if you're reading this then 'Carry On Regardless' (although you will anyway). If projects like this can bring new converts to the scene and put them on the fantastic journey of discovery which gave me the opportunity to ultimately derive the pleasure which soul music (in whatever guise) has given me over the years and years, then (to quote our own Moses) 'Keep On Strivin'. Don't keep the faith. Share it.

Oh we're in for a quiet night then........

Not second issues perhaps, but maybe 'previously unissued tuneage'? When these get run nowadays (e.g. Ady's stirling work/Joe Boy/ etc etc) it's a tenners worth of super tuneage maybe creeping up due to demand on the more 'outstanding' stuff (Chuck Jackson/Carla Thomas & the like). But does the 'previously unissued' 'We Can Make It Happen' warrant the £300 I've seen it at?(!!!!)....... As they say in the exam halls this time of year, 'Discuss'. Me, I've got no bloody idea (before anyone says it!! ). (Anyway 'For Real' is sublime. 'We can make it happen' is just 'nice' but not very exciting. There, I've said it! Just gonna get me tin helmet out............) Steve

PM'd you m8 Steve

I always thought that there never was a second official release after 'for real' and that 'we must make it happen' was pressed and issued by ......... someone in the north east of england?? Then again, I'm probably wrong as is often the case steve

aha I knew there was something! still in a head muddle after the weekender but gonna head to those parts again tonight by the look of it.........

Traded mine for £350 value. Couldn't get along with it, thought it was a bit weak. But then again you know what its like with records, I'd probably hear it again now somewhere and wish i'd not sold it! Steve

£40 tops mick steve

Nice 1. CHOOOOON!!! Waste of a post really, but i just had to agree.........

Love don't feel like love no more??

how about Arthur Willis & The Soulful Dynamics on Mars La Tour . That's got 2 be a rare 'un? And what a fantastically fantastic tune as well. The best thing Rob Thomas ever played me...............so far!