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Frank Allison a wigan regular in skinners and polyveldts

There were seventies scooter boys at Wigan.Quite a lot but you would not be able to tell as they wore long leather coats and bags.The mod revival look ie the sixties look appeared at Wigan in 79 with the mod revival and the mods niter.

Jorg Recordshack offered me one recently.Not up my street though.Try him.

Yes i would say Tubby Hayes,Ronnie Ross,Don Rendell and the soho jazz scene was responsible.Mod was a naff word after 64...in London and the cities it was flower power..in the suburbs and the north soul music still held sway.The harder look took over...peanuts,smoothies,skinhead then suedehead.Scooters were still being used.It all just evolved.Scooter boys in the mid seventies were into northern soul They wore northern soul fashion.The word mod came back with the sixties revival and Quad.The Modrapheniacs rode from Dorset to Scarborough in 77 on lights and mirrored scoots and were seen as something out of the dark ages.The chrome was dumped.The mods of today are reviving a certain period in time that Quad started.See the attachments...oh yeah the Soho jazz modernists did start it.

I was looking for one a few months back...I would pay 120 quid.Once the nostalgia boys have got sick of the current crop of records this will be the next in line.

I paid £120 for Pass The Word about 7 weeks ago.Hats off to Va Va Voom for playing it and me getting that got to get this feeling...I think it is good enough to break into Kevs top 100 if it was pushed.I think the b side is poor

Been playing Stirrin Up Some Soul by The Marketts recently.

Ive been playing the b side of Thank The Lord For Love the last few days..go on try it.

Ooh who has a great collection we can book for the next event...who is that bloke we had on last time...yeah i remember him.He was sat behind the decks stroking his Lou Pride while the Simon Saucepan copy was playing.Yeah remember when the mysterious OVO Police stormed the stage and searched his record box and checked his matrix numbers...he had a boot of each original..deejay...play the things.Collector stay at home with your white gloves.

"it's whats's in the grooves that counts".Often said by two bit bootleg Bob.You have to have some rules.The days of dropping a booted record are gone so the playing of originals has taken over.If there wasn't that rule you would have every Tom,Dick and Bob deejaying.Nights would be springing up everywhere playing the records that Bob,Dick and Harry would love to have played in 75.Come on all of this original lark is too hard.You play by my rules as they are curently being rewritten? Any news on who won the northern soul awards? Basically if you want to be in the gang and you sold up then Im sorry the gang won't accept you with your booty tat.The only way in would be to put your own doo on.Bootleg Bob don't come on here looking for acceptance...you either have The Tomangoes or you dont.Stick another record on and leave The Tomangoes to someone that has it.No amount of soul Police,snobs...but but but it's on Grapevine...will change it.

Stealing from Wigan

Regarding the scooter scene.There were large numbers of scooterists in the mid seventies going to northern allnighters and venues.The scooters were usually left at home for niters and they wore contemporary northern soul fashion.This lasted up until the mod revival of 79 which was a southern media led movement.A lot of the northern scooter lads jacked it in.The main seventies runs were to Scarborough and northern soul clubs like Rudies.Right the eighties...scooter runs always had niters and events on with John Buck,Brian Rae etc etc and the allniter club of Great Britain.There were even boots specifically made for the scooter scene.Dobie Gray pic disc springs to mind.Scooter scene music got more diverse..ie I.O.W fiasco and northern niters were stopped.The Niter Club of GB pulled out and vfm took over....speak to John Buck.

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And some more Melvin Davis-I Must Love You IS Groovesville VG cond only..ideal for deejaying. Cavaliers-Hold On To My Baby Vg cond label is worn..dj use Sandra Richardson-Stay With Me Ex cond orange or purple label The Girls-The Hurt's Still Here US Memphis ex cond NF Porter-Keep On Keeping on ex vinyl copy Ethics-Look At Me Now US Vent ex minus Kim Tolliver-I Don't know what foot US castro Hayward Lee-Its A Sin US Scamm Ex cond Mongo Santanaria-Cloud 9 US columbia ex Otis Brown -Will You Wait US lujuna ex cond Citations- To Win The Race US ballad ex cond Major Lance-Do The Tighten Up US Dakar Dave Blockers-Nothings Gonna Change Me US Robere ex cond Leslie Uggams- Love Is A Good Foundation poerugese pic cvr with Rescue Me on the b side... Naomi Wilson-Do You Feel US UA demo vg plus cond The Blossoms- Wonderful US ode demo.vg plus E Rodney Jones- Rnb Time Us Tuff brown label...ex cond Sandra Phillips-You Succeeded US Broadway silver ..ex cond Jeff Perry- Love Dont Come No Stronger US Arista ex cond The Sweet- Got To Have More Love US Smash ex cond.

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Spare copies. Im after trading for uptempo northern originals...Pm me what you have. Barry St John-Everything I Touch UK Columbia ex cond. Freddie Scott-I'll Be Gone Ex cond with drill hole US Shout The Dells-It's All Up To You US cadet ...ex cond with date sticker. Mandrill-Too Late US Arista Issue ex cond The Entertainers-Im In Love With You Us HMC arch logo. Gwen Owens-I Lost A Good Thing US Velgo Ex minus Marvin Smith-Who Will Do Your Running...vinyl ex label has wear. Emanuel Lasky-Lucky To Be Loved US Wild Deuce ex minus Betty Lavette-What Condition US Karen...label damage vinyl ex minus Darrell Banks-Im The One US Volt Drill hole...record in ex cond Soul Shakers-Im Getting Weaker Us Loma issue Vg condition.Felt tip on label.Seen this listed at 200 quid !!! Curtis Blandon- In The Long Run US Wand Ex cond but with a tiny mark at start..does not affect play. Help-Truth And Portraits- Emotions US True Love ex cond ..latin soul banger. Essence-Dont Press Your Luck ex cond US Interstate Dramatics-All Because Of You US Sport vg plus cond Fred Hughes-Dont Let Me Down US Veejay ex cond Drake And The Ensolids- Please Leave Me US Alteen Ex cond The Ledgends-Fear Not US UR mint in company bag. Kris Peterson-Just As Much US Top Dog Ex cond Chicago Allstars-Nowhere To Run US Tri-Em ex cond.

Echoes fron 1990 to 92 ...why i kept these pages i don't know.Will try and find playlists.look how midtempo that alt oldies chart is

The scooter scene brought a lot of people in as well.The Allnighter Club of Great Britain were putting niters on.The mid seventies scooterists used to go to allnighters without the scooters and wore the same clothes.This carried on through the eighties and nineties.There was also a seperate mod revival in the south which was based on bands.A lot of these young kids got into northern after The Jam split up...their clothes were sixties and they got into rnb in a big way...the logical progesssion was the 100 Club.I remember there was a massive modern soul influence.At Newton Aycliffe it was modern non stop but advertised as a northern niter.Pat Brady was on and he said to me im going to stick a few sixties on...first track a little bit Hurt.One mod lad dancing and about 80 wedgeheads staring at him.If you really need to find out what was in you had to buy Echoes for one page.Im amazed when people go to write books and docs and don't look at collections of old Blues And Souls or Echoes.I have about 50 or 60 Echoes back pages which give you a timeline.

I am sorry for uploading this to my youtube channel and i should have taken into consideration the amount of northern soul pensioners and their copycat knicker flashing antics.On another note I used to have a film called The Breaking Of Bumbo.I lost it for 15 years.Last night i went to an old mates and found the copy in his collection.Brief synopsis.Coldstream guard meets a svelte Joanna Lumley,she is a political activist,he falls for her,she recruits West Ham skins in crombies to attack the barracks,Dim from a Clockwork Orange gets injured,they go to a club where The Graham Bobd Organisation play Spribgtime In The City.I just need a new video to dvd recorder or dvd recorder.

Someone who should get spoken to is John Vincent...just dug rhis flyer out...properly produced and glossy.Ahead of its time.

That is quite funny ...rare soul...snapping a black singers record and then putting on a white pop record...a record I like btw.

Thanks.I will contact Keith.

Missed out on Mick Smiths sales copy at £50.Original wanted.Pm me.

Anybody mentioned Saxone como shoes in ox blood and anyone got a picture of them?

Please Pm to reserve. Curtis Blandon-In The Long Run.US Wand.Vinyl is in ex cong.Has a very light mark on run in.Does not affect the sound at all.£100 Help-Truth And Portraits-Emotions US True Love.Ex condition latin soul banger.£50 Jackie Edwards-Oh Mary UK Island Great uptempo sixties dancer from 1966 Ex cond. £40 sold. Barry St.John-Everything I Touch Turns To Tears.Ex condition on UK Columbia from 1966 £90