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Its on my list Mr W, and will be bought in next couple of weeks. Your charity won't take 45's in swaps will they? The above one was too good to miss as have been looking for it hence my no spending till next contract on table promise to my lovely other half is broken!

Its below you...... Oops forgot the link

Actually I will take it, and can work out most suitable method, of getting if thats okay with you, later tonight, In case some sneaky b**ger proves the spirit of Thatcher is alive and nips it from under my nose.

Sorry that was meant to be PM. Will check on map when I get home and PM you. Its not central London so its a foreign country to me

Mal I may be interested in this, although suspect postage will be excessive, Where are you based and see if I can arrange a pick up.

I think on football forums full of younger posters they would say whoosh to this. My toungue was so firmly in my cheek it was boring a hole! However my offer to pick off some of the rare items at bargain prices was genuine.

Tell them to F**k off and keep selling and buying them. Its paying the people we are percieved to appreciate. Although record collecting, which most of us are guilty of, sometimes takes our attention away from that. I assume the minefield is what is truly legit but thats another debate, you are totally correct and entitled to trust legit companies. Good on you I say. I totally agree with your point about dodgy bootlegs not impacting prices of records or all nighter plays, I think thats just paranoia, but they do impact CD sales so surely that needs to be reflected in peoples thoughts and actions.

So you don't mind the artist being ripped off as long as it doesn't impact your collection. The hypocrisy of Northern Soul summed up in a paragraph. Buy the f***ng legit CD is surely the answer and bootlegging means less chance of that happening. What you do after that, carver of the CD track etc, as dodgy as that may be, I couldn't care.

Im not sure why you have such a problem with the FB pictures, he also has the Larry Clinton up there and I don't think that is going to go cheap is it. The fact he returned the 2nd photo after auction sounds to me like he recognised you would be dissapointed with price of first ones and he didn't want to take the risk again, which to be fair is him turning down money. You need to speak direct if you have any issues, this is akin to a Jeremy Kyle method of hanging your laundry out in public for me I am afraid,

I got a fairly rare LP at about 25% of normal rate last year, he congratulated me and called me a lucky bugger as far as I remember when I called to pay. I am not alone, its the buyers with trigger finger that cause the prices not Mr M. Its getting quite ridiculous the paranoia on here about what lets be honest is one of the best business ideas for many a year.

So I understand the argument about not selling in the UK but how do you reach the conclusion that British covers improved US sales?

Move on, nothing to see. The ass has fallen out of the LP market, they are dropping in price rapidly and soon none will reach 3 figures, I could probably take some of the rarer ones off your hands for cut down prices as a favour......

And the Powerhouse was born and by this time I would say Soul Room had gone fairly down tempo, interesting to look at the Powerhouse line up, no mega stars at that time, and all soul boys leading the way.....

Berwick was the first, very small, I paid but never went, lots of people say it was one of the best, I think probably about 88? Ronnie McNeir turning up at certain peoples chalets for a chat and things like that. Then Morecombe and Blackpool I think, I think the Southport in April 90 was actually the 5th or 6th Weekender for Up North and it was twice a year for Southport.

Yes but not the 80's! :-)) It actually changed fairly rapidly after 91 I would say, the year of some very soft House being booed in the soul room I would think. Your first one was the first ever Southport, and the session was in the big hall at the swimming pool, near the radio station, where all the dodgy stay up all nighters gathered, Friday was Northern but with lots of bemused non Northern punters, and Saturday was Yogis everything in which was mental and brilliant, people bouncing off walls second night to the most eclectic mix of music imaginable. I remember that one like it was yesterday, but can't actually remember yesterday!

And Southport didn't start till April 90 so smart 80's dress was way out by then, trendy buggers that we were. It was much later, 92/93, when the more monotone tempo came in, as most of us had left for burgeoning House room! Although my memory of those days is not as good as yours, so feel free to correct.:-))

Aid for one of Tebbits troops, the only explanation I can think of for your constant denial of the facts, you are a very sensitive soul. :-)) I would suggest the bits above are slightly contradictory old bean, my interpretation of that is you are saying they were better than almost everyone. My list is merely debating that. And if you are judging purely on success, which isn't clear on above, surely Pete Waterman and one of his many partners is No 1, surely you can see the flaw starting in that argument. Ehh, its in All About The Soul, and therefore fair game for this soul donkey, blinkered or running free surely! And last I looked, it’s a debating forum, I threw up some challenges to your top 3 statement and expected some verbal volleys back, not your dummy in my eye! I'll buy you a drink if we ever meet for being a cheeky twat -that’s me not you, so don't go getting sensitive on me again :-))

On the spot as usual Mr Doonan, with Don't Tell Me, the No 1 closely followed by Baby I'm Gonna Love You, very closely followed by lots of others. Great voice, not a totally traditional soul voice, but she could hold a note and it was capital S for me. Her first LP on Buddah is still the one for me. Haven't read her book yet as suspect it will be enthralling and disturbing in the way Divided Soul was, still get upset on reading that. Even though I have about 4 times. Maybe take this quiet weekend ahead for Phyllis music and book! One aside is I remember her being advertised as singing at Edinburgh Cathedral, I suspect as part of Edinburgh jazz festival. I was gutted I missed it, did anyone see or remember this?

I actually like it, and I know I am in a minority of one, but lyrically I will admit it struggles, I suspect a song not quite thought through before recording Still better than Love Me Do, the song only a pigeon could like.

Step away from the flamethrower, and I'll answer with my hands up. My comment was on respect showing on this thread, where most soul songrwriting duos were discarded (and we hadn't even got to Banks/Hampton, Hayes/Porter, staying in the relevant North), disgracefully in my opinion, in preference to some Scouse scally that wrote a song with Love Me Do repeatd 17 times and is heralded a genius! I am desperately trying to keep my personal disdain for him and them out of this, as you can tell. Therefore I stick by my statement and you will have to waterboard me to change it** However since you mention it, its interesting over Bank Holiday there are something like 9 musical threads in Freebasing, obviously non soul, but only 2 in ATS, so go figure. And in the week of three musical giants birthdays, Marvin, Gil Scott-Heron and Edwin, only one is highlighted. Often there is more debate about non soul artists than there are about soul. So I do get frustrated and hence my biting comment coming out on this, possibly unfairly, but probably not! And yes I know the answer, Mike very politely suggested once I stop moaning and start something about soul, so I will, soon..., ** Only joking so put the basin down, I am a coward so you would only need to glower at me once and I'll surrender.

Better than Penn/Moman or Penn/Spooner or Ashford/Simpson, and since trios are excluded, although I can't fathom why an extra brain means we can't compare, we can't discuss Armstead/Ashford/Simpson can we, but how about the Holland Bros on their own, Strong/Whitfield, or various Pied Piper, I could go on but sure you get my drift by now. I cant get too excited about this hypocritical sell out getting no respect, he deserves little in my eyes anyway but lets leave his perceived pishness to me out of this for now, when the heroes of Soul music get very little, on a soul site! Good comedy and all that.

Not sure its a very good soul song, but its a f***ng great Northern soul one, has me spinning and twirling just thinking. And in comparison to some at that price level its a snip! True True Memories, Kebward Darge take a bow.....

Really! 2000 people at Southport use to disagree. And an awful lot of London people would disagree! I certainly do. Glad to see its not just Northern people who try and dumb it down. In top 10 ridiculous statements this year. Can't see it being moved!

Hi Stefan, hope you are good! I was always told this was actually very rare, and turned down a number of good offers in old days for this. I am sure this used to book about £250 in the guides but I have tried to sell it a couple of times for about £125, as it is probably about VG+, with absolutely no interest. I suspect like lots of that style the market has shrunk. Its a fantastic record both sides though, so if you are selling, will be interested to see how it does.

More to the point, has Andy actually got any, cmon spill the beans......