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13/7/2009 364 Dollars (popsike) not mint condition. Wish I had bid on it.

Wasn't S.O.S All We Need Is Time For Love Canadian as well. Had a few copies on the orange label.Great record but not heard it out.Timmy Thomas-Whats Bothering Me.(never hear that either).The Flirtations-Hold On To Me Babe on Polydor,Flora Wilson-Dancing On A Daydream,Boz Scaggs-You Make It So Hard To Say No,Lorelei-S.T.O.P.....

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Had one PM asking me how much?? I only know of one being sold a year and a half ago for £150.Im sure its a lot more than that now.Do you know anything about the record which area it was from?

Still don't like the idea of an instant northern soul dj though. Just download a thousand tracks add talc and there you go...and play them at random.The deejay who is using original vinyl has put time in/thought/care and its something real and tangible in this modern throwaway society.He has made an effort and its not a middle class wine bar with some tosser who will be stroking his beard to something else next week.

And the youth can probably dance......so will probably have an ear for dancefloor friendly material unlike a lot of deejays who play their set/to the record bar/chat matrix numbers and off.Theres a topic.Which deejays on the scene dance to another deejays set.Seen Dave Evison give it some. Never seen Searling dance.Not seen Levine dance.Not seen Kev Roberts either.Seen Adey Dance (think it was a xmas do)...come to think of it not many deejays do dance

Whats the rest of the LP like..It can't be full of tunes as good as Hold On though.Just listened to the long version again. I agree you would have to have redubbed the vocals on some of the parts to do the longer version. Did Searling every have the long version?. He must have had access to it when he was working at RCA.Talking of longer versions where did the longer version of It Really Hurts Me Girl originate...got me thinking re alternate LP cuts.I'm sure High Voltage Country Road is longer on the LP.

Whats the rest of the Judy Hughes LP like ....any tracklisting. I thought the Judy Freeman LP was a hoax and someone cleverley remixed the single.It does sound a lot better than the single cut.Wasnt it a later version of the Generations Hold On but funked up.

Wasn't he on one of the Kent LP's Soul Class Of 66.Regularly see Vernons brother at London doos.Just posted some stuff on Jazz dancers on one of the other threads.Anybody know the names of the dancers on the Cleethorpes tv doc. Im sure one of them ended up being a doorman for a security company and I regularly used to see him at southport weekenders.Never seen a picture of Frank Booper in action.

My George Lemons has just warped............fashhhhhhhhhhhhhionating gurrrrrrrrrllllll thats whattttttttttt uuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrr..Best pub singer northern tune in ages.

Operator Operator-Gladys Knight on some yellow label with black writing almost cartoonish........early sounding though

I'm Leaving You.Can I prise a copy from anyone....I know it's a hard one.PM me

Another one Chapter 3 -I'll never be the same again Barry St John-My man (a uk decca thing) Frantic Escape-Escape From Cuba Seth Martin-Look At Me (Page1) Detours-A whole lot of lovin (CBS) Twiggy-Beautiful Dreamer (Ember dire.......) This has got my mind ticking

No that was the Hawksworth Big Band...the track is called up to date and was composed by Johnny Hawksworth..Don't think it was ever played though I wouldn't be suprised if it was !!. Anybody remember a track called Mal...a euro type of thing.I remember a red label with a pirate on it for some reason.

Just made me think...Joe 90 was a term of derision at my school for someone with NHS specks on. They were usually kept in place with a plaster in the corner......as in look at him he looks like Joe 90.If you were at Wigan and wore the specks and it came on .........pity you. What comes around though as all the young kids are wearing them and want to look like Joe 90.I'm a bit perplexed with the current kids look of looking like Frank Elson, the flat cap and beard.They are looking old before they are old!. The only things they will have to do when they are old is to have a smelly hallway, get up at 6 oclock and walk the yorkshire terrier for a paper and claim the pension.

7 dwarfs -stop girl ann sexton-youve been gone sandy waddy-everything is everything joey dee-how can i forget you sam and kitty-ive got something good

Never got round to getting one.PM me with a price.US Original please

I was listening to Carl and Maria Willinghams set at Solid Hit Soul In London and been thinking the stuff they played can't be on refosoul/CD/Youtube etc and do people travel to hear their sets?.Surely it's not the case that everything that was released is out there on comps.Is it still the case that when unreleased stuff gets discovered that a few acetates get given to key dj's to push then it eventually gets out on CD and is dropped.

More to the point who would travel miles to hear a particular deejay who would play sounds you would never get to hear anywhere else.

Northern soul is based on exclusivity and rare sounds.With the advent of ipod/youtube/CD there are a lot of sounds available to the general public. With a click of a mouse or push of a button you can hear the music.In the seventies/eighties people travelled miles to hear particular sounds that you could not hear anywhere else until they were uncovered/bootlegged.Are there any released sounds not yet available on CD/Youtube etc and are there any deejays that just specialise in collecting these tracks.I know Butch is one of those deejays but he plays a lot of unreleased stuff.What are those tracks not available on youtube/CD or any other downloadable format.

I don't know if it is celebrating failure, celebrating the underdog maybe and more importantly being in the know, one step ahead and exclusivity.When it gets known, bootlegged, commercialised then it's dropped.This is what keeps it moving on and on and on...until the well dries up in 50 years or so. I suppose Wigan stopped searching for soul in 78/79 when all the pop started getting played and the searching for good black music stopped.The djs have definately been proven wrong due to the immense amount of good sixties/seventies/eighties tracks out there..even nineties and millenium. Just opened a brown packet to find you did it for me-Al Wilson,In Love-Tony Galla,Its not too late-Al Johnson and a new record If This Aint Love-Nicole Willis....all quality records and were overlooked at the time by the general public (don't know about the Nicole Willis).The problem starts when djs mine the substandard stuff recorded in a toilet which the artists didn't see fit to be released at the time and are playing it because it is exclusive.Exclusive don't mean good.Does it celebrate failure...no.Does it champion the underdog yes.

Its not hard to source an original Adidas bag is it???. This is one of those tat ones that you can buy in any high street shop.They should have got the team who made the seventies cop series on the case with Phil Glenister in it...might be a laugh watching it for continuity errors.Im presuming its set in the Wigan area.Will be funny if he's carrying that bag.John Inman last used one in the Are you being served film when they went abroad...and Im sure hello honky tonks would have used it as well.

Anybody out there willing to sell a copy?

Think the Pet Shop Boys based their career on Cathedrals.Got it in a Richard Domar soulpack

Anybody remember/got a copy of the yoof tv series something else......remember they had an article on northern soul where Im sure they visited a load of kids in skelmersdale.Think it was from 79/80.