Rich B

Couldn't agree more - and if you thought you had another version of YDLMA......? Into soul for 45 years and never flipped it? What other treats are in store for you? ps I had to borrow the money from my big brother (he just happened to be in Selecta at the same time) to buy my Renfro copy of Morris Chestnut......still burns!

Do you mind me asking why you thought a version of YDLMA by Morris Chestnut wouldn't be worth hearing?

Now that, I enjoyed! Absolutely superb...now where did I put that album?

It was the title of the thread that made me laugh - there is always someone on here only too ready to put you right!

That's great - but I think I prefer the more recent version musically - and fashion wise!

That is certainly a very good live performance - probably wasn't any more perfect back in the day!

Amazing how someone you've never met can touch your life in the way Vince did through his music. He will be missed.

I can't remember there being anything wrong with the MB issue I had back in the day - everybody's record players are too posh these days!

I don't reckon it has Kev.

I like it.

You would most definitely recognise him Sharon! August '74 was my first trip to Wigan, in that very van. In fact I went two weeks running in August '74 so it is highly likely that we have met at some point! I was on my own on those trips as none of my mates of the time got it at all, and I was very, very shy! I think a Gedling lad, Mick Casey, was on one of the trips. I do remember we stopped at Knutsford services. I also remember getting the bus to Cleethorpes from the market place, I believe Ian organised that too for a while.

I'm with Swifty, that's my dose of 'terrified' for today!

Its a small world isn't it? I bumped into Ian in the local Indian takeaway a couple of weeks ago, and my first trip to Wigan was with Ian and Dave Hazeldine (on the floor in the back of Dave's Commer van - leaving from the Carlton hotel). I first danced to northern at the local youth club, though in truth none of us knew that's what it was. It was the Brit (during Denny's era), the Carlton hotel, Colmans and the Ilkeston Co op that give me my earliest 'proper' northern memories, with just an occasional visit to 'Creepers'. I had a feeling John Black dj'd there as well as the Co op, but I may be wrong? It was also Ian (Wee wee) Walker who put me behind a set of turntables for the first time - he's got a lot to answer for!

I'm not sure over all whether its the guys or the gals, but 'After all' by the mighty soulful Sam Dees is probably as gut wrenching as this man can stand.

I have always fancied this El Camino myself....

They certainly did Pete, but I was thinking of before then. More like 70-74. And then it really started picking up speed, as it were.

No idea, but I have never been anywhere and not heard a Major Lance tune at some point!

Hi Pete, all good thanks, you? I thought it sounded a bit Levine(y) - I'm going to stick with Gerri.

As some big labels had had minor hits in the early 70's by re issuing records due to 'northern' demand (and ABC had a number one with the Tams) followed by the success of the Pye disco demand label, you might have thought that most enterprising record companies would naturally have been looking to exploit their own back catalogue one way or another. Epic had reissued things like TD Valentine, Nancy Ames and a couple of Poppies tracks long before the Columbia Special Project releases There must have been some corporate collaboration there you would think. RCA had repressed Dean Courtney, Lorraine Chandler etc during '74 and early '75. And after Black Music started doing all those 'Strange world of northern soul' articles the commercial potential was there for all to see.

Sounds like a very recent recording - do we know who is responsible?

Major Lance?

I thought he was a genius from Chic and the more obvious productions with soul acts - I had no idea he had done so much with other rock artists. Absolutely top drawer!

As an aside to this, all the copies that Selectadisc sold alongside the run of the mill pressings, were actually originals (as in the blue with different coloured lettering and the stamp that looks like AJP) I got my copy there for the standard 75p. I didn't see a proper pressing until much later, when someone did that black & white demo look a like.

I can't condone the practice now but I loved it back in the day - it meant one of the 'big boys' would sell the original for about £2!

Great tune - can't remember seeing a 12" before.