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just a few bits & bobs to go...sorry im not grading student other than to say i look after em and they play fine..nothing expensive king curtis - foot pattin' part 2 - french pic sleeve/atco - £20 major lance - too hot to hold - okeh/d - £50 ( writing on label ) emmanuel laskey - dont lead me on - thelma - £50 ( reverse labels ) danny white - keep my woman - atlas £30 ( sticker + writing on label ) malcolm hayes - put your love to the test - columbia© - £60 ( hairline crack in runout groove ) jerry jackson - its rough out there - parkway/d - £100 ( slight cue hiss/writing on label ) gladys tyler - mr. green, mrs. green - decca/d - £100 francis nero - keep on lovin' me - soul - £90 garland green - girl i love you - revue - £80 ( label ring wear ) queen city show band - true patron of the arts - pow - £60 spontaines - where did i go wrong - ua/d - £70 trade martin - work song - rca - £30 ( label ringwear ) the poets - she blew a good thing - symbol/d - £30 ( label ringwear/small writing on label ) jackie wilson - ive lost you - brunswick - £20 the quotations - i wanna thank you - kent 32nd anniversary disc - £40 anything of any interest...cheques please inc p+p £3 to: rob haigh 8 james nelson crescent trench, telford tf27jg

spoken like an accomplished professional that you are, lorraine. have you read the obituary in the dfp? bet you could have cut the atmosphere with a knife at pied piper, it must have bristled with electricity when these guys were around....wonder how jack, eddie & joe are taking it?, probably never see them on these shore again...just so privilaged and humbled that we saw them perform at the apollo and then the festival hall, the following year...ironic that within 7 days of that concert, joe hunter passed away...got to shake his hand, have a chat and take his picture...for the last time. im sure that you would express on all our behalf, this side of the pond, our sincere condolences to bob's relatives. take care soul sister.

dont understate it mick, MOTOWN...IS the yardstick by which all other musical influences & tastes, stand or fall....with you all the way on this one bro.

i have to say,may and i were very fortunate that particular january evening, in that we waited behind in the auditorium. i had with me weldon mcdougall's book...i asked alan slutsky if he would ask the brothers if they would oblige us with their autographs....moments later he came back, job done...we have a treasured memory...its hard even now to come to terms with the fact that 3 of the 6 have passed over since then.....as we say, the only certainty in life is death....but the historical documents that bob and the other guys bestowed on the world, will never die, their music will be like the stars...eternal.

very well said dave, here, here

absolutely andy, looking forward to what you've got on the menu as well mate, going to be a very diverse session that may even stop people from wandering in and out just incase they miss something...well thats the plan!

intrigues - im gonna love you - yew bobby patterson - right on jody - paula dee dee warwick - where is that rainbow - mercury lp les mccann - strange little girl - limelight lp irene & the scotts - why do you treat me like you do - smash had "rainbow" on a 7", never knew it was completely different from the lp cut, difference in year of production as well atmospheric & sublimnal lyrics plus the heart wrenching chorus in the hands of a "to die for" diva every day a copy of bobby patterson appears on here......so unbelievably cheap...so unerringly brilliant...why its not mega bucks is beyond me...perhaps the vinyl well hasnt dried up enough yet. irene & the scotts......well, sadly weve just been told about the loss of one of the accredited writers of this double a-sided masterpiece, robert kreinar ( bob babbitt ) along with micheal & raymond of " man without a woman" fame. you wouldn't put it past bob playing bass on this one as well!. lots of talk on here recently as well about les mccann, this penchant in recent years for latino grooves is well founded, born off the back of totw's noteriety for all manner of soulful expression...time for another blast. intrigues...least known or easy to find of their yew recordings, yet not stupidly expensive it would seem, great crossover track with a philadelphian feel to it...and they went on to cut the wonderful "fly now, pay later" but thats another story..

would this happen to be the same tune butch was playing at the 100 club some ten years ago now? titled " they are sayin", if it is, what a stonker! oh,...and any chance of a copy of ellie greenwich please somebody?

article in the detroit free press

robert kreinar aka bob babbitt, who stepped up to the plate as the prime alternative to jamerson, who even in the great man's shadow, accredited himself to a jewel encrusted plethora of motown anthems and a myriad of moonlighting sessions that are interwoven into our northern soul scene. i can say it was a privilage to have witnessed this great man display his unwavering talent and ability firsthand at the carling apollo in manchester some 8 years ago now, a display jointly with his fellow funk brothers that i will never forget. the abiding memory is that his contribution to popular music was finally recognised after over 4 decades in anonimity...finally achieving the spotlight he so richly deserved. there's a great rythmn section being put together upstairs.....one day we'll ALL get to see them perform. god rest your soul bob babbitt, funk brother

definitely colin, an inspiration to generations...richard searling, who always strives to broaden the boundaries of quality soul new & old, ian levine, an original pioneer who bridged the gap between here and the states and unloaded a wealth of tunes on the unsuspecting and naive northern soul ear in its infancy. and when the dust had settled on the "nero fiddled as rome burned" wigan epoch, butch, keb and guy taking up the mantle of preservation and mutual sanity at the helm of totw with a host of other likeminded connoiseurs in tow. pep & soul sam, for being individualistic both in persona and playlists, the latter to this day, still considered a man of his own mind and opinion whose choice of records on the whole have gone against the grain...and not to the detriment of the scene.....AND after the dust HAS settled....colin's still standing, never had to reinvent himself....still original to the bone...and still on the eternal odyssey of discovery, to bring the best music to the attention of an appreciative and broadminded audience.

did an interview once, with jimmy conwell at the ritz ( richard's 50th with the originals ) screamed and shouted so much during the gig, i lost my voice....when i recorded it, he had to read the questions and answer them himself!

bet that looks cool, can you post it up?...and are any of them record shops just out of interest?

may 17, 1966 steve

at least you appear to be open & honest about yout intentions, but you'll find that the holy grail called a virtual or totally unknown tune either dosnt exist now because after 45+ years anything thats worthwhile has been discovered ( yes i know thats not entirely true ) or its been under everyone's noses but even after 45+ years, its still not considered seriously good enough to get played in abundance, but the few collectors who do have said record, keep it tucked away in their collections simply BECAUSE its been proven, eventually, to be obscure anyway!. then, like has already been said here, you'll just have to ask the people, be they dj's or collectors to come on your show...afterall, as you must surely realise......THATS WHAT ADDS DIVERSITY TO A RADIO SHOW.

spot on win, uncle t was catwalkin' last night......well, actually he was sitting down doing an hawaiian display! bit like andy riley of a good few years ago but quality shirts....the record collection goes without sayin'....RIGHT ON UNCLE TED!

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makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck, dosn't it ian?, the adrenalin rush is perpetual, even after nearly 5 decades. we say that love is a drug...well, the love of northernsoul is a drug that will never diminish,...it dosnt matter what corner of the globe your life may take you, you're never far from a tune, its an internationally accepted stimulent..it de-stresses me, i can testify to that....once introduced you can never get out, its in the blood for life and you feed it with vinyl...who needs botox or anatomy sculpting to keep you chipper?, the only plastic thats good looking is black, shiny and 7"in diameter...WHAT A FIGURE!

correct, they are probably our foremost intelligencia because they have dedicated a good part of their lives to telling the story through their investigative work and the proliferation of information from countless sources around the world, without their endeavours, a good many deejays wouldn't have been responsible for breaking tunes that are now household names, though many adventurists from behind the decks have blazed their own trail independantly to the states in search of the perennial exclusivity, the bulk of what we know and have heard, has come via these sources...oh, and lets not forget ian levine...this is so similar to other threads on here, the hard and conclusive fact is though, no human can confess to being an oracle, even the soulsource network...if used as a library,still couldnt account for everything as, nearly 50 years on stuff is still turning up and thats not including whats under our very noses thats been ignored and overlooked for years.

dave, apologies, but any chance of soundclips for the uninitiiated ( like myself! )?

spot on pete, people can be as realistic or unrealistic as they want about prices but if they truly want to shift the product then they have to cut a reasonable deal or it aint going nowhere.its just a question of how long the £7/10 will be around when they finally have their day and become appreciated...thats WHEN the punter becomes appreciative and respective of the dealer, because the person who is still true to his sales pitch, is the one who, despite the dwindling amount of stock and the possible price rise because of a particular records exposure to the big dancefloor and universal acceptance, is willing to sell for what its true value is ( and probably has been for decades ) and not the "smoke & mirrors" of temporary overinflation. had the said tune been in limited stock years ago then you would naturally expect a higher price, but there are many £5 - 40 tunes that have floundered unreasonably as far as the intelectually minded with an appreciative ear, are concerned but the subsequent dwindling of stock and the fruition of a higher price is felt justified and rightly so...its a fine line between selling someone, something thats good and valuable and something thats just plain...valuable.

afro american music in the form of what we interpret as r&b has been with us for as little as...lets say, 5 decades, give or take the mid to latter half of the 50's, though it is increasingly referred to as doowop, yet the most prevailent and prestigeous era for the music we commonly acknowledge as "dance" will, forever be, the 60's...when the whole ethic of racemusic being acccepted internationally, exploded in dynamic fashion via motown and the subsequent pyramid effect impacting upon wannabe artisits and writer/producers throughout the states resulting in a myriad of labels and recordings that gave us british, what we have today.of course, it took the plundering of america's unsuspecting yet disregarded treasure for over three decades, before they finally realised they had created something worthwhile...they now know and fully understand why we have been, and still are, on the most heavenly and sublimnal trip anyone could imagine in the name of truthfully pure and evocative music and lyrics that still make us want to pound the dancefloor with not a zimmerframe in sight!. the joy of collecting and discovery eternally refreshes and re-invents...there is absolutely no doubt that what america gave us and the tools we used to forge the northernsoul phenomenon will endure like the stars so long as there are generations who are invigorated by its fascination. in reality the 70's probably spawned more material than we could ever imagine and thats not deriding the incalculable output of the previous decade, but the irony of economic deprivation ( principly, the oil shortage of 1974 ), put paid to a plausible vinyl vault as the furnaces melted it down and the possiblities were lost for all-time. had this not come to pass, we may have had an even greater but significantly more enjoyable headache on endless quests for illusive tunes in equally diminutive numbers. lets just settle for what we've got now.....an endless quest for illusive tunes....period!

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pmd you bro.

played yer cards right there jools....LOWER!, LOWER!