Rich Buckley

Excello advert including Roger Hatcher - Sweetest Girl In The World (as the B side!!)..

Willie Hutch...

Billy Butler..

Soul Bros Inc..

Here you go.... Rich

Cheeky git Rod! I'll try and scan it tonight and post it up here. It came with the 45 from your stall and I presume all copies had the sheet?? It was a lovely yellow colour with spot red and black if I recall. Even I could have knocked something up less basic. My mate had one too, 74... Rich

Got mine off Rod Shard (Modernsoulsucks on here) from his stall in Aflecks Palace, must have been late 80s/early 90s Rod?? Mine's got the handwritten DJ on it AND the yellow promotional A4 sheet that looks like it was given away at the time to promote the record. Think it was about £40 then and if memory serves me right, Rod certainly had a small quantity? Rod??? Haven't seen it for sale much in recent years it has to be said.... Rich

Trends - Not Too Old To Cry on ABC Jerry Fuller - I Get Carried Away on Challenge Willie Wade - When Push Comes To Shove on Nite Life I'm sure there are lots! Rich

Yeah, mine's on a yellow demo, although someone had tried to scratch out the promo bit! Got it donkey's ago from La Beat Records and Rob Wigley etc... Rich

Following on from the earlier U.S. issue, check this UK demo out and note the London address at the bottom... Rich

Yes, you'll have to be the copyright owner to be in with a shout of getting any slice of royalties and I suspect the number of hits/advertising revenue required prior to royalties kicking in will only apply to (relatively) very few clips. The chubby kid with the light saber thingy springs to mind. I'm sure whoever shot that would have got some dosh under the new regime when it happens (although he did successfully for breach of privacy in the U.S. and settled with the defendantts (his classmates who put the clip on the web without his permission)). Now, where's that clip of Butch and Ginger Rich

Hi Mick, Have PM'd you.. Rich

On the sauce were we Gareth Lots of tunes got us going all them years ago pal as teenagers in north wales - Constellations - Didn't Know How To springs to mind, and I remember us going to Stoke - Longton in fact (was it the Princess Suite??!) and going mental to Melba Moore - Magic Touch that Ady had brought out on his Horaces label - happy days . Thank god you've got rid of that awful pencil tash you had in them days . See you in Prestatyn... Rich

Hi Chalky, I use the heavy duty green old style sleeves that don't tear when you're putting them in and out of the card sleeves. From Bags Unlimited - try here <Bags Unlimited>. They're not the cheapest but they do fit in without clipping and they will last you. Rich

Not dog rare, but rarer than the demos.... Rich

Here you go.... Rich

Ronnie Corbett . Obviously I'm too young to remember it exactly, you old giffer Rich

que the Monty Python sketch, revised for 2007 with Trailer Trash looking up to Working class Rich

Yeah, sublime tune. Grabbed mine off Ebay for about $400 just over a year ago, it was listed in the wrong section. £300 - £400 is probably what you're looking at I'd imagine. Good luck Rich

Absolutely you should be able to get your money back. It's breach of contract and/or fraud/misrepresentation. You contracted and paid for a "definite original" and have been given a boot in exchange for your cash. Have you already gone back to the seller - what is he/she saying? Get on to Ebay too if no luck with seller. Let me know if you need a hand... Rich

Yeah and they're still being sold by the same Las Vegas dealer who's been selling them on Ebay for years - Brooklyn Born. He's got one (??) up now, although he does state it's his last copy... https://cgi.ebay.com/GREAT-NORTHERN-SOUL-45...tem270074155683 Rich

Sorry Brian, no offence intended. That's why I said "ditto the gold one" about the price that people pay, as you say it's a supply and demand thing, but as Rod and others say, I'm baffled as to why people would pay such money for what is a re-issue in the same mould as all the Grapevine re-issues etc. In my opinion they're being ripped off when it's changing hands for that sort of cash. Maybe I read the thread wrongly re it appearing to suggest that it's fine to play these out (why else would someone pay £100 for a reissue??). Certainly wasn't trying to give you or anyone else a lecture, I'm not like that. Sorry if it came across like that or I mis-read. Rich

No Brian, it's not the same, because the gold one is simply a much later produced replica of the original green copy. The northern scene has always been about original 45s, chasing records. Obviously originals have rocketed in price over the years and they're worth what people pay. Ditto the gold one, but not to play out. It's a re-issue. Are you saying the gold re-issue should be played out when another jock has a green one in his box? If so, we may as well all go to vinyl carvers or grab a load of Sevens... Rich

Have you played the flip of Big Don's Rebellion??? It sounds like an early house record with a kind of electric piano thing going on! Can't recall the title off hand. Crazy record! Rich

You've hit the nail on the head Sebastian. The gold issues were pressed up decades after the originals, purely to satisfy demand from northern collectors, exactly the same as any other re-issue, legit or otherwise. Totally different from local/national releases on different labels at the time when the records originally came out or even on 2 different local labels (e.g Al Willimas). If people are bonkers enough to pay £75 for a re-issue then fine and good luck to you, play it at home and enjoy it, but however you dress them up, they're reissues made purely for UK demand and should not be played out, otherwise there's no difference in anyone buying a bunch of Grapevine/Sevens etc singles and playing them out as originals (unless of course the night is advertised as non-originals/CDs - fair enough if that's made clear). Green copies for soul nights and gold copies for home, end of. For me the whole scene and what attracted me to it (as well as obviously what's in the groove and the people) was about originals and tracking down those elusive original 45s and the buzz you get when you did. Not buying a record especially pressed up for UK demand. I buy CDs for that, but wouldn't dream of playing them out. Without this in my opinion the scene loses its mystique and draw. As Rod says, keep your cash and get some cheapie originals. Rich