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    Best live performance

    in All About the SOUL

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    On 22/04/2018 at 19:58, IanP said:

    I was present at that gig... £4 

    . So good , I saw them again at Hammersmith Odeon , for the Back in Stride tour 

    Me too always in my top 3 no matter how it changes around ! They were just on the brink of international stardom Fabulous !

    Best live performance

    in All About the SOUL

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    On 20/04/2018 at 17:47, RICK SCOTT said:

    Jesse James Sunday 17th September 1989 All Dayer At Romeo & Juliets (George Street Hull)

    A Two Room Event with The Sounds Of Cleethorpes In One Room (Romeos)

    DJs Steve Croft * Poke * Rick Scott * "JESSE JAMES" Live * Soul Sam * Rob Wigley * Bub * 

    And Modern Soul In the other  (Juliets)

    DJs Leyland Collective * Bob Jones * Gary Welsh * Darren (Hull) * Tom Jackson * Soul Sam * 

                                                                          AND

    SAM DEES LIVE at the Canal Tavern Thorne SATURDAY 16th NOVEMBER (1991 if memory serves me well)

    Along with seeing the Four Tops Live at the fiesta Club Sheffield in the Early 70's mmmm Joy

     

    Agree Rick

    I introduced Jesse James at Hull in the small room he even sat nest to my ex-wife singing to her LOL old smoothie !  And if you've seen the video of Sam Dees at Thorne, I took it ! Tats had a video camera back then ! A very very foggy night, the busiest the room had ever been, but still only 100 in, I've heard that many people say they were there there must have been 1000 ! we know the truth

    Rob 

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    Who is/was Ann Perry

    in All About the SOUL

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    Melvin Davis wrote the song in 15 mins for Mike Theodor (Melvin apparently had the horn intro in his head for weeks before hand) Ann was a 14 year old talent contest winner and the prize was to cut a record.

    The artist, song and record disappeared without trace........until being played over here !

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    Mystic Moods - Astral Trip

    in Look At Your Box

    Posted · Edited by Rob Wigley

    Memories from the time, 1975/76

    I was working in Mansfield, It was a Wednesday and "Half day closing" for shops (Remember that ?), Phil Kingswood worked in Syd Booths Soul Centre  in Mansfield at the time. I used to go there and look through the cheap section whilst it was quiet. He had access to all sorts of release sheets and distributors who stocked import LPs. He had found the Mystic Moods Album with Astral Trip on and ordered a couple of copies for the shop.

    When they arrived it had been recorded in "Quadrophonic Sound" !

    Syd Booths also had an associated Hi-Fi Shop on Queens Street in Mansfield, we were heading for a drink at The Swan so called in at the shop, which was pushing the Quadrophonic Systems, put Astral Trip on, stood in the centre of 4 speakers and listened !

    I remember the sound "Rushing " around the room sounding absolutely brilliant, I can certainly imagine it "Blowing the mind" of anyone on Acid at the time !

    I still like the record, but as Barry says maybe it was because I was there at the time ?

    Rob

    PS a little later he also found Sammy Davis Jnrs Vocal to Hawaii 5 0 on an Album and ordered that in !

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    Drill holes in records

    in Look At Your Box

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    17 hours ago, Rick Cooper said:

    When record companies decided a particular title had no more sales potential the remaining singles would have the hole drilled in the label which meant the stock could be sold off cheap and the usual royalties wouldn't need to be paid. The hole was drilled on a pillar drill through a 25 count box of singles it was not done with any sort of hot needle. The melted blob of plastic sometimes found on the cardboard box or single was friction from the drill melting the record.

    The companies would sell off the stock by the thousands to places, such as House of Sounds, that would then sell them to record stores, funfairs, department stores, market dealers, exporters, etc. As US record companies allowed distributors and one-stops to return unsold stock for full credit the hole prevented the cheap deletions getting mixed up with full price stock.

    Albums had one corner cut at 45 degrees or a saw cut in the top corner , again done in 25 count boxes  and on a bandsaw.

    Some large companies prefered not to have their failures flooding the shops so ground up deleted stock. Tiny companies didn't always sell off old stock, they probably chucked them away or put them in their basement, until some crazy European collector turned up offering to buy the records.

    Rick

    Spot on Rick ! I might add that small local labels would often leave a 25 count box at their local distributors on release, sale or return, so if shops asked for them (ie the record being heard on local radio) the distributor would have the stock. Most cases these records wouldn't sell, so after a set period of time, if the records hadn't been collected by the owner the distributors would have a clear out, using the drill hole as proof they hadn't been sold at full price.

    Melvin Davis tells the story of "Find a quiet place" on Wheel City, a 500 pressing run.  He took the records around shops and distributors in Detroit but the record flopped locally, he says "It would have cost more in Gas than the records were worth to fetch them back !"  Hindsight is a marvellous thing !

    Rob

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