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Bump this. Great tune I just discovered on a Matt Fox podcast. Is it still scarceish five years on from this thread?

Bud Harper Wherever You Were and the Enchantments I'm In Love With Your Daughter have been considered provocative by some. Big Daddy Rogers on Midas too. I love them. Great dance records. 

Oh' it's bloody ironic that Nottingham should be the setting, isn't it? Once a magnet for those of us on pilgrimage to Wigan via The Brit Rowing Club, those dayers at the Palais during the Jazz-Funk scare with djs with unlikely names like Duke Polluta, a regional kinship with the Notts crowd that used to come down to Peterborough and St. Ives... so where's it at now?  The epicentre of the NS re-enactment society and now the Wizard of Oz meets NS stage phenomenon? Grotesque, 'kin grotesque. 

Not just in the UK? Is there somewhere I should avoid? ;-)

These lists illustrate how todays rocketing prices have took record buying away from many. The average wage in 1980 was £120 per week, Soul Bowls prices approx; Del -Larks £50,Brice Cofield,£6, Sandy Wynns £2.50. Today average wage £400 Per week approx. What price similar records now? [also way back then beer was 30p a pint and petrol 28p alitre!   Oh for the good old days. Anyone remember when Soul Bowl lists featured"pen and Ink "style collages of unknown artists on the back of lists ,Esplendido post gracias!

120 quid a week was a fortune! I was paid the princely sum of 98 quid a month as an office junior in 1977, and that was at the city's second biggest employer, a major engineering company. 30 something line managers probably earned 120 quid a week. 

The Del Larks in 75 is worth more than 450 quid in today's money! No wonder only people like John Vincent could afford one. Mere mortals just had to go to Sam's, Wigan or wherever he was booked to hear and dance to it. The way it should be!! Here's a UK inflation caculator so we can get a grip on those seemingly cheap prices!!
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html

Marvellous read. A million records alone in 1977 and Matt Lucas BYBGG and Joe Matthews ANYCD for 10 and 12 quid!! I too would like a Tardis, not necessarily for another night back at Cleethorpes/Wigan, but rather to get on that phone at 8.10 and ask for a Tobi Legend and a Herbert Hunter at those prices again! 

I think the clique aspect was what was most attractive about it when I started going at 14 in 1974. We'd have a Tuesday night 'dance' at the Wirrina in Peterborough called The Carousel. I don't believe there were more than 15-20 of us, guys and gals, but we'd commandeer that floor when the sounds came on. I remember one DJ in particular playing tunes handed to him by people like Andy Smith, Gary Spencer etc. He was sympathetic. Most of the others weren't. Sometimes they were disparaging of it. F***ing obscure B sides time again, is it? We certainly felt head and shoulders above the rest of bumping and grinding eedjits though. That was a lovely period of discovery I feel most nostalgic for. Fumbling in record boxes and girl's blouses. Who wouldn't want to go back there!? 

Leona Murphy. Not afraid to mix it up and impeccable taste with it. 

the vocalist on acting lately is jackie wilson!

No way, José!!

I have NEVER heard anyone call this monster tune dirge!! It's absolutely one of the best 45's ever made.

Actually I quite like it :-))

Dazz

One of the 'contributors' to Winstanley's Soul Survivors book. Numpty. 

TWYBAL is one of the greatest 45's ever, doesn't need Levi or anyone else to make it any better, its class as it is.

Not suggesting that another version was needed or could have been improved upon, just that the style matches Levi Stubbs' vocal talents and that I could imagine him singing it too, that's all. :-) 

Hey girl don't bother me and let your yeah be yeah in 1971/2... 

Sure I read somewhere that it wasn't actually an allniter, that people went there and then moved on to the Torch afterwards, something clearly disproved by the recollections of those on here and memorabilia posted. So what did you do in 1972 then? Could you do 8 to 2 in Temple Street and 2-8 in Hose Street? Lucky buggers!

Those dodgy arches that connect one room to another. You'd have to have had your gonads well placed to have ventured into one of them, I'll bet. 

I remember those Sassy copies becoming available around 1978 'cos I had one. They were cheap (like the Herbert Hunters). If they were turned up by the hundreds by Mr. Rushton, why are they commanding such a high price today? Daft question I suppose... :-)

That's amazing. He must have had tons of stuff. Records, correspondence, Christmas cards from Bessie Banks... How was it that all this stuff was 'spirited away' before being hand over to the library in question, if those were his wishes? I imagine most of this stuff is now in "permanent loan collections". How sad. 

I'd add Lee Andrew's & The Hearts I've Had It on Crimson to that list. Great record. It mustn't have been all that rare in my early days (1974) 'cos I'm sure I used to hear it at our Youth Club. Don't quite get its 200+ price tag these days. Did it get reactivated and the price is propelled by demand? 

Barbara Lynn Take Your Love & Run on Jetstar. One of my earliest faves.

Fidels Try a little harder, though I guess it gets hammered at oldies nights (?). Wonderful record though. Always makes my eyes brim, which can be a bit embarrassing in the gymn. 

Probably a sacrilege, but This Thing off the Dab of Soul LP is gruesome. Hope it improves...

One of those mega rarities too, I think Billy. Did you find it in the same place as Donna King? :-)