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Janey......Ballads is a super double sider.. .with a great version of Tony Owens "Confessing the feeling" on B side...also on Music City.........its interesting that "Butterfli " is essentially the same tune(but a different version) as "i wish i knew" on Venture 637(flip of "the gift of love") recorded about 6 years earlier.....this is fab also.

Guy H sold me my copy out of his car boot on Stoke Kingsway carpark after TOTW mid 80ts......happy days (flip "desperate for your affections".....super group mid-tempo)

Aussie release.....

Dave Alcock had a uk Pye test press of First Choice.....it was white label......i dont know if Tims sold it as part of his estate yet......

the silver cover one.....cant find it...........Chartbusters 3?......used to dance around the front room to it.....

posted Freddie Hughes in Choice Cuts.......

i got Eddie Holman a reissue of Preludes "Deeper than that" at TOTW when he appeared.... (off Pete Lawson gratis...PL wrote a big message to EH on the card cover)....so he could relearn the tune ...happy days

er sorry ......its Curtis Mayfield again..(he had a strange chord tuning..F sharp....which is why you struggle to copy his guitar licks if you dont know).......Billy Butler....who learnt his guitar style from CM....also..Gerald Sims.....super rhythm guitar ..

posted Little Eddie Taylor on Peacock in Choice Cuts..great tune...

an additional story re Parr Hall.....while in the record dealers section i noted Keith M. approach ..i think it was Pat Bradys sales section.....(two tables)...Keith was having trouble with his leg at the time and was on one crutch...as i remember it...Pat handed KM a few 45's ..and rather than multitask Keith put his crutch right across ..and on top of the lanes of Pats 45 s.....(much to PB's consternation)......this momentarily confused the assembled collectors searching through PB's boxes...who,after a brief moment of head scratching....continued to look at PB,s records through the various triangular slats of Keiths wooden crutch...happy days

I must admit i laffed at this,,,,

the link to the Major Burkes book is via his e-bay sellers addy ml7338n49 ..........

Major Burkes' book about life and times of a Texas 60ts soul man is a great read.......only available from himself via e-bay....some great pics......if anyones interested i can post up the link..........

God Bless all for the input........

Thanks for the info Mick.......have you seen the CD for sale anywhere....what should i expect to pay.....?

has the Demon lp been reissued on cd ?

As a good Catholic boy im interested in this.....offhand.i can think of ROBERT BANKS "MIGHTY GOOD WAY"...."WADE IN THE WATER" (various versions)....CLARA WARD "RIGHT DIRECTION" ...SOUL STIRRERS "TRYING TO BE YOUR FRIEND",,,,GOSPEL CLASSICS "MORE LOVE..."...any others?

Im Diabetic.......it runs in the family.......but i'm type 2......unlike my relatives who are type 1 (insulin injections) unfortunately ive got high chloresterol...which in combination is not good news....(also hypertension etc etc)....i smoke too much and drink too much.....i never thought id reach 55 ......but i have...ive been persuaded by concerned fellow soulies to make a will as theres certain 45 s they would like me to leave them and i dont look too well at times.....me and Dave Alcock used to laff and say they couldnt make a good one out of the pair of us......

Daft story this......when Pep started up the Midland Soul Club i attended one of the venues and signed the membership application "Bobby Paris" (scamp that i was)........i accordingly got a flyer a few weeks later addressed to "Paris B".......Pep must have twigged this subsequently and said to his missus "thats not Bobby Paris...its Jim from stoke"...so when i got my membership card it said "Jim Paris"....happy days..(evidence submitted)

can i have the two Curtis Mayfield albums please

my claim to fame is falling down those stairs at TOTW with Nick Marshalls sales box.......i said afterwards "i'm perfectly all right"......Nick said "Bates....you oaf !"........happy days

"Half a Man" is also the flip of the Utopia 45........the tune is uncannily like "Badge" by Cream.....

the rate that Joan can demolish a full kitsch pie has been compared to the 100 metres record......(Don Forbes timed it).....its an unofficial record so

i think thats an optimistic ask on Vince Apollo......its like trying to prise a ham sandwich off Joan.....

staggered about waving a rare record like a cold pizza .......laughing like a drain........(this excludes DJs of course).......