Davenpete

Ironically this came on the radio last night just as I pulled out of the drive to go to my first nighter in 2 years (Pete Hollander's 60th birthday nighter - which was brilliant).

Any local uniform embroiderers should be able to do them.

Enamel badges turnaround is normally much longer than 2 weeks.

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Della Reese - gospel inspired R&B from 1962

 

Used to have this by someone else - Harold Burrage?

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I've seen them go for more than £40. I don't think you see many at £15 unless people are selling them on here at that price, but like I say, haven't seen any.

Even if you do need to go £40 (which I'd be surprised at) it's a 100% must have tune by pretty much everyone's estimation.

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Petrol lighter fluid - does a MUCH better job at degreasing.

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Er - A Little Togetherness, Countdown and a gazillion Motown sounds don't seem to have been mentioned.

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Durex again - how to make a sad man glad. 

'Tip On In' by Slim Harpo for Durex - or indeed Midnight Johnny and Johnny Vanelli for Viagra

Like the instrumental of it 'Theme from the other side' - though I believe there are two insts with this title on Hoagy Lands - being surprise surprise instrumentals of two different vocal sides.

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Chalfont St Giles...

She's Fire

Mary Saxton

Dave Mitchell

Mayfield Singers (both sides - My Baby is one of my all time favs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUp3DaNa4Ls

Terrible Tom

Lorenzo Manley

Little John

Larry Wright

Proper head banger stuff.

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David Ruffin nicked his glasses.

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How about Cool Off or Cool Aid for a soft drink ad? 

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I'm only going to Original Porridge Only events.

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Is there going to be a backlash from the Soul fans who are only into Porridge?

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CDs are the way to go until you find your musical niche within the vast range of Northern - Kent are the boys on that front. Once you start collecting proper if you get the vinyl bug check out the various posting on recommended sounds at reasonable prices (you can STILL get some really superb original Northern releases for well under £20 - stick with dealers like Pete Smith coz they won't rip you off and it's more than their reputation is worth to pass off boots as the real thing).

If you're looking to go out then you'll find the crowd at 'proper' Northern Dos (as opposed to local handbag pop-northern events) are very friendly indeed and very welcoming to newcomers - Radcliffe Allnighter or somewhere like that will give you really good music and a positive outlook as well as a range of music within the one venue.

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You need to list them as single lines - it's almost impossible to spot things in there.

Going back to my roots.

I think he was probably quite ambitious pricing them that low even then (my memory places the high end stuff at £200-300 with something like Gene Toones at £120 - remember there being a shocked rumour of someone paying £400 for something round then - can't remember what - possibly George Sharp for the Airplane song) - though I remember Domar had Country Girl on his list for about a year at £100 at the time.

The positive result of these more sensible prices was that there were A LOT of us spending about £100 a week on records - I think the sky high costs nowadays have killed collecting for a large number of people.

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Most people on the soul scene would qualify for a saga holiday..maybe weekenders should introduce afternoon bingo & daily excursions  paul

There's certainly no shortage of people doing the Hokey Cokey at nighters nowadays.

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We came up a few times from Oxford/Swindon - got the Victors and Joann Courcy off Ivor Allen for a pittance and found Roger Banks a Duke Browner issue too.

Great dos.

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Bird Rollins - Love Man from Carolina?

If that's the case how come so of the recent notorious fakes have been spotted exactly by the fact that the papers and inks looked wrong, and the fakers have taken to trying to age the label by other means?

 

Maybe these mint Eddie Parkers need a closer look??

Bad fakes don't mean it can't be done by someone who knows what they're doing - and from the outset I made the point that it's getting the right paper for a label that is the print issue nowadays (because the lightweight self coloured stocks used for a lot of the really rare labels simply don't exist anymore)...

Though the vinyl, matrix and mastering is a much bigger, more complex and more expensive issue (I could artwork up and have suitable gravure dyes produced to do Frankford Wayne, Bellsound, Virtue or whatever matrix fairly easily - but if you were paying for them they'd cost you a good few hundred quid on their own before you even think about doing the mastering and getting hold of the right raw vinyl - or recycling enough of the right vinyl from old 45s).

Plus of course you'd need unlimited access to the record in question to do that perfect copy - and of course the opportunity to redo each stage if it wasn't up to snuff.

Hypothetically I reckon you could probably do an indistinguishable fake say for about £5k all in, plus an awful lot of hunting around to find the people to actually do the different, highly skilled elements required in doing matching really effectively - but to make it worth your while you'd need to at least triple that in profit (a pretty poxey margin for a crook), so if it was a £5k record you'd need to sell four at full price to even bother doing it... and so four copies of a super sought after sound slip onto the (a very small pool of potential buyers at this price level) market - and people don't notice or question them...AND the price doesn't drop due to their availability meaning you have to sell even more?????

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