Markw

Is that wise?

Watch this space!! Growing. James Parker runs the Cafe A Go Go nights once a month at the Promised Land bar which are mixed around Mod-related music generally so lots of ska but a lot of Northern and R&B too. Nigel Graham runs the Porthcawl 60s nights at the wonderful Pavilion on the seafront which again are a mixture of Northern oldies, Motown, club soul and a dash of ska - Sean Chapman is resident. I hear they are opening a second room for these events which will be more full on Northern and rare soul. There was a do on in Chepstow a few weeks ago but wasn't able to get to that so can't comment.

Sure does Pete! For what it's worth, I've had a Blue Rock and a Phillips in my time. The Blue Rock I had early 80s not long after it was uncovered (Big Joe Ivory's Brass?), the Phillips late 90s. Definitely not over-labelled. Just on the basis of copies seen floating around for sale in the last 10 years or so etc, I would have thought Blue Rock was rarer? But that's just based on my perception not any firm knowledge.

It's not at all rare and it only goes for a tenner but as I'm feeling very generous today, I will give you twenty my friend...............

I'll take two.

Dave PM'd you. Best Mark

:D ...................give it a spin!!!

For me, fond memories of my brother's Motown Chartbusters albums - he had Volumes 1 to 5 and played them to death as I did later when he'd got married and left home. Later on it has always been Ian Levine's Pye Disco Demand compilation.

Well, according to Wikipedia Mike Hugg's still alive and if you check out the Manfreds website, he should be one of those smiling faces on the home page - https://www.themanfreds.com/. Personally, I'm not curious enough to ask where/how he heard the Servicemen way back then, but do feel freeif anyone else feels like it anddo let us all know. LOL Best

Fancy selling it to me???................

Forget the shirts...........just give me the patches!!!! DOH!

Am I being thick (probably.............. ), but what if anything is the difference between these 2 takes on the same tune?

I always liked Clive Dunn's take on Out On The Floor.

Brilliant venue and brilliant location. Is it still being used for the Boy George story?

Wasn't there a Holly St James - That's Not Love on Soul Fox?

I'm not being funny or anything, just making an observation. But there are so many of you guys on here complaining regularly about eBay, I do wonder why you bother with it? Seems to me like it provides a villains' charter. Long gone are the days when I would be paying the sort of money the Sensations fetches, but why on earth would anyone in the name of sanity wish to part with several hundred pounds (or more) to complete strangers for goods they have never seen and clearly cannot always on the other side of the planet? I'm not saying anybody deserves to get ripped off - far from it. I just don' tknow why you endorse this eBay thing. Seems they always win and their customers frequently get the bums rush. There must be a better mousetrap, surely? Best

My brother was a regular at the Ricky Tick Windsor. I remember one regret was that he missed a new American act called Jimi Hendrix and took a girl out on a date instead. His mates raved for weeks about "this black yank playing guitar behind his head". I don't know whether they used to play the stuff at the Ricky Tick but he used to like the Blue Beat and Ska stuff as much as the soul. He used to sit me on the steps in our living room and part my hair into a Steve Marriott style - I must have been 5 or 6 years old. I seem to recall feeling embarrassed but liked the attention. Our old man used to refer to it as "more like arseole music more than soul music". Funny what you remember when you're a kid.

My brother was a regular at the Ricky Tick Windsor. I remember one regret was that he missed a new American act called Jimi Hendrix and took a girl out on a date instead. His mates raved for weeks about "this black yank playing guitar behind his head". I don't know whether they used to play the stuff at the Ricky Tick but he used to like the Blue Beat and Ska stuff as much as the soul. He used to sit me on the steps in our living room and part my hair into a Steve Marriott style - I must have been 5 or 6 years old. I seem to recall feeling embarrassed but liked the attention. Our old man used to refer to it as "more like arseole music more than soul music". Funny what you remember when you're a kid.

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Thanks for the advice Dave.

Pressings/boots/reissues etc for sale. All Ex or M-. Postage covered. Gwen & Ray - Build Your House On A string Foundation (Bee Bee) - £10 Ollie Jackson - The Day My Heart Stood Still / Gotta Wipe away the Teardrops (Magnum) - £10 Emanon's Orchestra - Bird Walkin' (All Brothers) - £10 Prince Ella & Sidney Jones - Baby I Got To Cut You Loose (Prince) - £5 John Leach - Put That Woman Down (Destiny) - £5 Harvery Aherne Dozen ('Atlantic' boot) - £5 Mr Soul - What Happened To Yesterday (Trentham Gardens 2nd anniversary 30/3/2002 freebie) - £5 or £30 for the lot.

Pants. Dog over the road has a more soulful voice than that.

Cheers mate. Had a feeling that was the case.

Baby I Got To Cut You Loose / Baby Sugar I Love You - Prince P-711 yellow moulded label, no stamps in run out (except 'Mick Webb' scratched in there - he always bloody well did that!!) Pressing or original? Indicative value? Thanks dudes.

Paypal preferred but cash or cheques accepted too. Recorded first class post included in prices if you want special delivery add £5. Overseas please PM. Thanks for looking. Blood Hollins - Don't Give It Up (Strange Fruit) Ex (surface mark NAP) £25 Jackie Payne - I Found Myself (UK Barak) M- £20 Jerry Washington - Let Me Get Close To You (Excello) Ex £18 Damaris - What About My Love? (UK CBS demo) Ex £18 Jimmy Briggs - Trying To Find A Way (United Artists) Ex- £12 James Brown People Wake Up And Live (Polydor) M- £12 Pop-A-Groove - Dance Your Ass Off (SFO) M- £12 Leon Ware - Inside Your Love (Fabulous) Ex £12 Arthur Prysock - All I Need Is You Tonight (UK Polydor) VG+ £10 R B Hudmon - Cause You're Mine Now (Cotillion) Ex £12 Tommy Tate - If You Ain't Man Enough (Koko) M- £12 Ronnie Dyson - You And Me (Columbia) Ex £12 Cecil Parker - Really Really Love You (TEC) Ex £8 Coffee - Your Lovin' Ain't As Good As Mine (Love Lite) Ex £8 Valentine Bros - Money's Too Tight To Mention (Bridge) M- £8 Scherrie & Susayeye - Leaving Me Was The Best Thing You've Ever Done (Motown demo) M- £8 The Esquires - What Good Is Music? (Cigar Man) Ex £8 Wilson Pickett - How Will I Ever Know (Wicked) M- £8 Chapter Three - I'll Never Be The Same (New Moon) Ex £8 Debby Dobbins - Glad I Found You (Spirit) M- £8 Shirley Brown - Looking For The Real Thing (Sound Town) Ex £8 Willie Hobbs - Don't Take It Away (Bandit) M- £8 Johnny Scott - It's Over Now (Portra) M- £8 Chuck Armstrong - Give Me All Your Sweet Lovin' (R&R) M- £8 Archie Bell & The Drells - There's No Other Like You (PIR) Ex £8 Best. Mark