Marc Forrest

LOL this is fabulous!

:o each to their own mate but I just cant`t believe my eyes ...

thats right, me too. remember buying this at a very high price via a uk source end of the nineties, ended up trading it with someone only to replace it some five to ten years ago via ebay for indeed a quite low price. also tamla 101 and 102 seemed to be very very scarce before ebay. seen a couple of these too. seldomly in very good nick though!

Agreed, amongst the top three toughest striped ones..

yeah sorry, read it after posting my answer too ;)

remember when we worked on that list some years ago (was it on here or on soultalk ?) anyway, to be fair some titles would need to be taken off that list. The Downbeats "Request of a Fool" for example...as much as I love it and it is amongst my fave Motown group records...I have seen several since then going thru ebay. Some even without bids... I try to collect Motown complete up until 1967 (and no I dont want to buy a Frank Wilson LOL) and am almost finished...Having said that two 45s I never saw up for sale and therefor had no chance to buy are Barrett Strong "Let`s Rock" (only saw once when Martin Koppel sold for the first time) and Nick & The Jaguars. So at a guess they will be amongst the Rarest Motwon.

Tim`s got one, butch`s got one...and I know of another one. So at least three copies.

My first 45 ever bought was "Gypsy Woman"..so you could say already at the tender age of around six I was a strong Impressions fan..sadly it was the disco version by Leroy Gomez though LOL First real Soul tunes that got me hooked were Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers "Malinda" plus Marvin Gaye`s "Heard It Through The Grapevine" long before becoming a mod these were my absolute favourites and were played via my mum´s treasured Tamla Motown albums. Still got them today )

cheers aid, no problem. as I said earlier...proper name for a club ;)

No Pete, sorry to have miss interpret you in that case. Must admit I didnt knew that "old definition" at all. Knowing, having and loving so many deep and slow tunes form up north, east coast, west coast I really never associated or tagged slow, deep Soul as Southern Soul. Hence my missunderstanding.

wasnt someone recently on here indicatings something fishy about the JT Parker auction (winner not paying etc) ? Bobby Kline at 1100 doesnt surprise me though...has been a steady seller between 750 and 1000 for teh last couple of years (sadly).

sounds inetersting mate, great find so far..wouldnt mind hearing it .

Percy Millem "Call On Me" Goldwax, Sam Dees "Lonely For You Baby" SSS Int., Art Freeman "Slippiong Around" Fame...just to name three classic Southern Soul tunes I would always enjoy hearing at an allnighter. But Then again I havent got a clue anyway LOL

cheers Bearsy, I will most defnitely have Fred Wiliams with me. Wether I will play it or not will indeed depent on how the night /floor is going though. I wouldnt like to see myself playing a record out just for the sake of playinig itout..if you know what I mean ;) In my humble personal opinion though I wouldnt classify "Tell her" as a Funky Soul tune or even Funk. To me it is a simple , honest and awesome of course deep Soul track. Not DEEP Soul in the true sense of the word though of course ;) On the other hand the flipside "The Dance Got Old" is more likely to be in my book of funky Soul tunes. But I guess that just goes to show where some of the problems thsi thread again has brought up originate from...the "right" classification of tunes and genres. One man`s Funky Soul is another mans Oldie (Joe HIcks), one man`s oldie is another man`s Deep Funk discovery (The Crow amonghst other examles) and so on.. people are different, have different entries to the whole spectrum of Soul music and therefore classify tunes totally different and indiviually. So its really down to the basic: Enjoy what you hear and if you cant enjoy it hang on till next tune suits your taste better!

I see, now thats a proper name for a club me thinks LOL! Thanks for clearing that up. Back to bed NOW with my headphones on, got "The best of Doctor Funk and Captain Breakbeat Digitally remastered and re-edited" on LOL

I personally love sharon redd, but then again around the time you enjoyed colin curtis I was a young street dancing kiddo ;) would love to know where in Berlin colin played early eighties though, it wouldnt happen to have been at a club called Dschungel ?

out of interest, is this USD or GBP ?

lets buy them all and rule the market then LOL

thanks for finally clearing that Seb. Thanks god I kept my Smash 45 LOL!

so right Steve. In this very spirit I just finished compiling the anniversary CD for next saturday... it will feature some scarce new tunes plus three unreleased 6ts acetate only tracks. As always it will be free to the first 50 in and hopefully will treat our guests with some (new) delights for their ears.

Although I dont see the connection / similarity you are making out between not playing OVO and the buying policy of rich-wanna-be-hot-boxing-dj`s I agree with you that both points are wrong

I seem to remember that strangely enough with the label being known as a re-issue label the first rel was indeed on Eric ? Still sold my Eric and still have it on Smash...looks and feels better. Agree, fab tune!

Two different things I believe: Having had started with a own radio show already in ´88 while at school I moved on to do a weekly radio show on saturday nights between 1991 and 1996 on one of Germanys biggest nation wide radio stations (MDR). The show started out to be broadcasted on saturday afternoons with the content being strictly 100% Northern Soul only. Back then it was OVO. A year later because of its success it was moved on to be broadcasted between 7 and 11 pm on saturdays... because of that huge amount of time I had to fill with music, because of the wider audience (and their listening preferrences) I played House, Jazz Hop, Hip Hop, (new) R&B and new Soul releases on such labels as Expansion alongside maybe a remaining content of say maybe 5 - 10 % orig Sixties and Seventies Soul. I couldnt be bothered to bring original 45s to the studio anymore to be honest and had no problem in playing sth like Lou Pride / Suemi without (back then) having the orig 45 in my collection... ...nowadays and with its countless and specialist internet radio offerings I think as such - a specialst radio show for specialists- it should indeed be done only with original recordings the person doping the show can call his own. These shows seem to tend to work almost as sth like a business card for the person doing it, so to play not ovo would almost be a fraud LOL

If the buyers are located in England and you can proove the records belong to you and were just stolen from you the buyers would have to give them back to at their full cost. you should really be able to get them back. At least in Germany the law would be on your side as a stolen good cant be bought..it will still be owned by the person who it was stolen from. Maybe English law is different here but you should at least ask a attorney about this situation. If you have the sellers (new) adress why not also visit him again and confront him with some evidence collected from the net that he again has sold some records that belong to you ? a third advice I have for you but I wont post on the internet .. LOL

spoke to other collectors during the weekend and both agreed, only the boot (with the small lettered Archer stamp) is 15 UKP, orig between 100 and 200 gbp. not that it would be important to me as I wouldnt be selling mine anyway lol