Markw

Not boll***s at all Russ! Great record. I got it off Ian Stewart early 80s for £4 - didn't know it but when I heard it bought it because it sounded great. Used to play it around South Bucks nites early/mid 80s. As you say, never been a regular spin as far as I'm aware. I heard it out about 3 years back - Capitol Soul Club I think. Just the sort of tune you would've heard there.

Mmmmm.............thought this thread was about those cheap as chips and forgotten little gems at the back of the box. How about Liz Lands - Don't Shut Me Out (Onederful)

McKinley Mitchell - Gypsy (Sandman) This is a brilliant late-60s sounding crossover tune with a smooth mid tempo laid back beat which breaks out during the choruses and breaks with great brass and strings whilst McKinley tells his story of a drifter's life on the road. Sophisticated soul.

Building up for tea time then Mark!! Couple more for ya! None of these will break the bank:- Len Jewell - All My Good Loving / The Elevator Song (Pzazz) - superb mid/uptempo dancer backed with a gorgeous crossover shuffler Jones Bros - Your Good Lovin' (Silver) - nice bounce along Northern dancer

You could start a thread like this almost on Gene Chandler records alone!! Great call this one and I'm Just A Fool For You would be my choice. JM lists @ £20 but you can get this for under a tenner. Another of his which, again, a surprising number of people you find haven't come across it before is "After The Laughter" on Checker. Pure class.

Their other TRC release is a cracking double-sider:- What About Me - superb mid to uptempo dancer with breaks, great harmonies, pounding off the beat drums My Love is ready and Waiting - lovely crossover, nice tempo The great thing about this thread is everyone's chipping in with ideas for lesser priced and even cheap as chips 45s, and nobody's having a bitch and a moan. Nice one.

Five beauties there Richard. Love the Monroe Taylor. Suprised Mark Bicknell hasn't listed Carlena Weaver yet. I know he loves it and it's one I let go to him about 3 years back because he loves it so much. How about: Roddie Joy - Walking Back (cheap as cips compared to the other version and better IMVMO) Caesers - Girl, I Miss You (Lanie) Deon Jackson - When Your Love Has Gone (Carla) - what a fantastic tune!

Oh dear mate. What can anyone say? Quality selection there with some very very classy sounds. Don't know where you were when this happened but used to happen to me down in Cardiff. Each to their own I guess, no right or wrong answer and all that. All you can do is lay out your stall and let the punters vote with their feet and pockets. I'd made it clear we were not going down the "classic" oldies route, though a few would always get played. Funny thing is, when I jacked in my do's some years back because the music policy just wasn't pulling them in, the very same people who had been moaning about what we played were asking why I stopped it!! Best advise I can offer mate is that old Latin saying............"Nihil illegitimati carburendum"......................."don't let the b*st*ards grind you down" LOL.

Thanks for the PM Mark. Will give you a bell. Missed out on last night's selections, but imagine the evening is drawing to a close. Your brandy bottle is looking a little depleted, your feeling mellow and reflective. Time for some lower key tunes. Here's a few:- Betty Lavette - Only Your Love Can Save Me (Calla + UK Stateside & Pama) Arthur Alexander - Show Me The Road (Sound Stage 7) O'Jays - It Won't Hurt (Imperial) Tommy Hunt - I'll Make You Happy (Capitol) Aaron Neville - She Took You For A Ride (Parlo)

Great thread Mark. Only sorry I've got to sign off now! Look forward to seeing further selections when I log on tomorrow - Lou Bond.........good call, but then they all are mate! Final one from me for now:- The Admirations - Don't Leave Me (One-derful) What would that be going for if it was rare? See ya.

On the "cheap (relatively!) and cheerful", "back of the box goodies" and "why don't they get played more theme", a few nominations, for what they're worth:- Soul Notes - How Long Will It Last (Way Out) Skip Easterling - Keep The Fire Burning (Alon) Majestic - Send My Baby Back To Me (Equator) Jimmy Lewis - Let Me Go (Minit) The Quotations - I Don't Have To Worry (Di Venus) John Roberts - To Be My Girl (Duke) Harold Curington - One Day Girl (Tad) and a token 70s item - totally superb, classy dancer which belongs in main rooms and should be BIG Lovemakers - When You're Next To Me (Island)

F*ck me mate!! You do it every time. All your choices have been right up there, but this one always sends a shiver down my spine.....it is just so powerful and moody. You mentioned the Volumes earlier....do you mean "You Got It Baby"? If it's that one, it's amazing how many people I come across who have the record and know the top side ("My Kind of Girl"??) but have never flipped it for that chunky dancer, gritty vocal and oh so cool harmonies!!

Well, well!! This used to get played at the Uptown Down South all niters in Newbury. Can't remember who used to stick their neck out on it!! Might have been Ben Summers. I found a copy of the album in a Swansea record shop a few months after hearing it. Beautiful version. Nice idea for a thread Mark!

Unbelievable...............

We're all broad minded people on this site (I think!) and I know we all have the ability to see humour in the darkest corners. But there's a time and a place for it. This site is a public arena. As such, I for one don't think it's the time or the place. At this time, we should be showing some respect for these poor wretches.

Dean Barlow, Barbara Redd, Larry Trider.............the list goes on................

Wizard.....................every bloody Christmas I'm made to get up and dance.................HUMBUG!!

Probably because a good few of them were............well, at least Mike Vickers - "On The Brink" was the theme for BBC's Play For Today or Armchair Theatre series.........in the 6ts........not the 7ts......DOH!! Anyway, here's my selection for this revisited instrumental theme:- 1. Al De Lory - Right On...........corking cool, jazzy dancer 2. Phil Coulter - Good Thing Going...............cheesey retake of Cast Your Fate To The Wind but brings back fond memories 3. Willie Mitchell - The Champion..........say no more! 4. Robert Walker & The Soul Strings - Stick To Me.............superb, cool dance 45

Quite..........three very good reasons for binning it, along with aforesaid.

What larks Pip!!!! I'd heard that was the one now in Mick Smith's hands? Probably wrong. I had that 45 for £20 off Keb Darge at your Reading Top Rank all dayer Mark - 1982, 83?? At the time, it was the only known issue in the UK. Would have been 1986 when I sold it to you mate.

Stevie Wonder's "Talking Book" would have to go in there for me.

My point exactly. Well put.

I was dead lucky as a teenager in, what was in 1976, rural High Wycombe. Ron Watts was a local lad but he'd been promoting rock and blues gigs at the Hope & Anchor, Islington and the 100 Club since the early 70s. He also promoted at the Nags Head on London Road in Wycombe on Thursday nights. Went to my first gig there aged 15 in June '76. 2 months later the Pistols played (you can see me and my school mates on the Filth & The Fury standing at the front). We then had them ALL playing at the Nags - the Damned, Siouxsie, Stranglers, Clash, Elvis Costello, the Jam - it was fantastic. Then a guy a bit older than us who'd moved down from Grimsby started hanging around with our lot and he'd done Cleethorpes, Wigan, Mecca the lot. By the end of '77 punk was getting a bit mainstream and things were getting dull........he dragged me off to Yate one night. Superb. Not much to do with soul..........but thanks for listening.

Nice idea for a thread! Slightly off your theme but still relevant and dovetails into the JJ v Marvin debate. We talk a lot about the artists on here but what about giving some credit to he man who made it all possible and took black music right out of the ghettos and intot the stratosphere. I'm talking of course about Berry Gordy. For me a true visionary.