Rick Cooper

From the hits Back In My Arms Again is one of the best , although a big US hit didn't do much in the UK so probably not on the public radar. However, possibly this, and most of the Supremes 60s records would have been much improved by having any other Motown female artist sing instead of Miss Ross. "Stormy" should be in the top picks on here but unknown by the general public.

Some memories of Blue Max by Neil Rushton taken from The Catacombs CD on Charly. Today (30th May) marks the anniversary of his sad death in 2010.

That makes sense as Brad discovered plenty of records and sold them to Ian when he DJ'd at the early days of the Mecca. It must have been Ian that first played it at The Torch. The Mecca started before 1973 playing all 60s records. "Mecca" style came later. Thanks for clearing that up. I think you're right about Keith getting it wrong about finding The Salvadors at Bradford market. From what I remember all the titles there were on major labels or distributed by the majors. It seems unlikely that small indie labels would be in the stock but nothings impossible.

Simon, Not sure if Bok to Bach would have got played at at The Wheel, @Julianb would know for sure. I remember it as one of those records that suddenly appeared one night at The Torch and got played three or four times that night and then every week after. I'm not sure which DJ had it as I wasn't really paying attention, maybe Alan Day. Being a UK record it probably had plays before the Torch, possibly West Midlands, Blackpool, Sheffield or London. After going big at The Torch other copies would have surfaced fairly soon as collectors searched shops, especially down south.

Peter Sorry I can't help you find the copy you're looking for but do you ,or anyone else, know anything about the Sue Rainey record. The 2003 Grapevine CD- Atlanta Soul, The Peachtree Records Story has Peachtree 106 You Hurt So Good as the only record by her issued. Grapevine had access to the Peachtree files and tapes but didn't mention other records by Rainey. Looking at Discogs there are five titles P130 to P134 with unknown dates and the last two have artist and title lettering that looks more modern. Were they all pressed a lot later, maybe for the Japanese market.

The other side (the actual A side) -Love Is The Greatest was a popular record amongst the Suriname collectors in The Netherlands. Looking at the YouTube video for this Willie Weems identified Kitty same as Chalky's quote from Neil Granger's interview. Shame Willie didn't go in to any more details.

Julian There's a half page advert in Blues and Soul announcing the launch of 444 Records, which I put on a thread about the label round about ten years ago but can't find it now. The label design on the ad had a sort of art deco look to it. I think it listed Sam Nesbit as the first release but not sure it mentioned further titles and certainly not Chris Jackson- Since There's No Doubt. I'll try to find the issue with it in and post it again.

The Belgian Popcorn scene had couples dancing to Soul and RnB records which looked OK but a bit limiting. I've seen a couple dancing this way a few years back and they were quite good. Not something I'd like to see too much of.

Your'e not the only one who's confused. The singer sounds more like a male but is female so she is asking her man "Is it Jane or is it me? I don't know if the photo on the YouTube is the group but they have two vocalists, which adds to the confusion. Ady's sleeve notes for the Kent CD- 100 Club Anniversary Singles says of Make Up Your Mind "for some years it must have been the biggest sound down there"

Stuart Maconie's show was very predictable and boring, which was what I expected. He played almost every track from the televised and radio BBC Proms shows. Was this to show how much better the original versions are or how good the Proms versions are. It's the former for me but probably the latter for him. Two tracks that he omitted were Ray Pollard -The Drifter and Jimmy Beaumont's I Never Loved Her Anyway, were these judged too risky? Another missed opportunity from the BBC.

Get ready to party on New Years eve with Stuart Maconie's northern soul show on radio 6 but only for two hours. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tpg7

If Christmas shopping was as good as this record I might be tempted out.

For the last month or two there has been a TV advert from the NHS to persuade us old folks to get a vaccination against shingles. The background music sounds like a 60/70s funk track but not anything I can find. I've looked on YouTube and Google but couldn't find anything for this. The music starts off in a James Brown type riff and then a male voice sings " I don't wanna be an ???? man". then the voiceover drowns it out. The ???? sound like "imitated" but that doesn't make sense. Any ideas?

Radio Luxemburg for me as well. Also Mike Raven's Sunday night show on the BBC and Emperor Rosko on Saturday morning who used to slip in a few soul records that weren't in the charts.

Mark, yes some were discovered in the seventies as you say, but maybe many more weren't in the hands of DJs (or those that sold to them) or were still to be discovered from the US. Julian B's post of 5th December in the Bostock's in Bradford Market thread is a good example of how records were found but didn't suit the type of records that were popular in clubs back then but got played in the eighties . A few I remember having in the early seventies that only got played later include What Can I Do- George Kirby , Can You Remember- Rhonda Davis, Special Kind of Woman - Paul Thompson (all sold for peanuts). However, I think some records were just never found until the 80s or 90s. No one who found Jackie Day - Naughty Boy in the early 70s wouldn't have bought it blind and then not realised it's potential. Also the acetates from US studios didn't start getting liberated until later on, those who found these could probably give more details.