Ady Croasdell

Well that shows there are only two playable ones in existence now then

OK this gets really bizarre now! The story as far as I was concerned was how I've described it earlier so imagine my confusion when a very good friend rang me up to tell me he'd made a cock up. He had been sifting through some old albums and 12"s which he hadn't gone through for years and in among them was a 10" acetate he knew nothing about. As he was outing a few things via John Manship he took that along and was chuffed when told it was a big money item. So it went on the auction as described and when he read the description he realised it was my record! Worried sick that he'd sold one of my top tunes, I was actually rather pleased that I'd got a super rare disc that I'd totally forgotten about and I'd have probably flogged it through John anyway. What must have happened is that I had three not two copies and took it to the Great Yarmouth TAC weekender with him where we shared a record stall and the thing just got mixed up with his old vinyl. I probably stashed it in there when i was pissed. Though it seems ridiculous that I wouldn't know the complete story of a major discovery that I had found the only three copies of, you have to remember that this would be before it went to cult 100 Club status and it wouldn't have been as big a deal then as it is now. Also people didn't appreciate how rare, good and valuable some acetates were. I actually did a similar thing with my second copy of Lou Johnson's The Panic Is On and left it in Jim Eddlestone's LP bag, he brought it back for me at the next 100 Club and called me a c**t! So yes it's authentic and assuming the second copy really did get broken which appears likely as its never re-emerged, is now the second copy of a very rare acetate.

I got the second copy of John Leach Put That Woman Down out of there when it was hewge. Mick Smith would have scored some good 'uns from there too.

Ignore Tony Manus, he's jet lagged and was only my understudy! :lol:It could have been Graham selling it from his "special" stash, he knew some records were fetching more than the 25ps and 30ps we were putting most discs out for. I remember him asking £2 for a UK Tymes 'Here She Comes' demo and being such a skint student I couldn't afford it.

Oct 9th I think Mark, check Events as I'm stuck at Butlins with Billy Bear doing The Hustle both musically and financially

So you're not a London boozers virgin then Jerry. Green Man it is!

The Oct 9th Crossfire all nighter at the ISH Great Portland St in London will be all oldies, DJs Ginger, Neil Rushton, Hippo, Sue and Amanda, Ady Croasdell and more.

The one with OC Tolbert 'I'm Shooting High' on the flip I think. Yep SKM confirms Kent 111 that flip's brilliant too.

It'd probably be at least a year before its release was fitted in. The alternative is for somebody to bootleg it (which has already happened to this small degree) and the people who made it would get sod all.

Of course there was but it wasn't masterminded by the Dome, you make it sound like they were a bunch of Svengalis: it was a grassroots reaction by the regulars of London's main Northern Soul clubs. Let's not get into this again, you weren't involved and are just passing on what you've been told by one side of the contretemps. You can't go around making inaccurate statements like this or we'll end up wasting all our and everyone else's time.

Pete S your still full of poo on the Rocket, it failed because they couldn't sustain it. It wasn't "taken over" until much later and wasn't the same room, a much smaller one downstairs was used.

How about somebody putting a scan up or sending me any details on the recording's owners and then it can have a proper well documented release on CD and vinyl with the records history fully explained and some handy spin offs to the people who actually made the music. Just like the recent Salt and Pepper release?

Ditto. No way is it 1969, Canada's not that far behind! Could you put a scan of either or both sides up please Daz?

Actually if it came out it's mad anyone would pay that money for a boot of it and of course totally illegal for the seller to flog it.

Wow it sounds a lot earlier than 1969. I see Manships has the flip listed first, it can't be better than that can it?

love it but oo is it really?

Please Ta Ady

But the outer circle of it looks about right, so perhaps the machine took the whole darn thing out!

They sound OK to me, though a bit early for soul, more Coasters style R&B. The group are well thought of, i particularly like Baby You Can Bet Your boots. The small centre just looks like one got through without being dinked by the machine. Nice item though Ady

Just seen the scan; it seems I was mislead; shame, it's a great story!

There were two copies and I sold the 2nd to Saus on the understanding that it was for him alone. I heard later that he'd sold it on to a bloke whose missus had caught him at it and had destroyed his collection including that one. Perhaps I was mislead and this is the second copy or perhaps this is a dub of one of the originals.

Terrible terrible news. Glen was a brilliant bloke and a hell of a charachter, dry and then some. A regular 100 Club visitor (and one time DJ) he has been to every Cleethorpes and probably got every artists autograph. Deepest sympathy to Gill his family and all his great mates. Ady

In a way the new Spencer available at Cleethorpes tomorrow is the start of it, and there were the Jimmy Hughes CDs earlier and a Candi or two and others scheduled. But the big push will be next year for the 50th anniversary of Arthur Alexander's You'd Beeter Move On. But we won't get into any more details as I've got a Wiggins show to run and this thread is on XL/Sound Of Memphis' treasures.

Kev, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be deeper than deep, hell the Paul Anka'll probably make it onto summat! Ady

It sure will, but in a coupla months time Ady