Rob Wigley

Your wealth is in your health, Don Davis was a multi-millionaire banker worth in excess of $200,000,000 

His production credits and musical know how are the stuff of legend ! However in recent years his failing health left him in a Care Home.

I could say a lot more, but RIP Don Davis......

Absolutely terrible news, Dave Moore was still on his case to come..we tried many times...SAD SAD DAY RIP Deon

"‹Did anyone else read the testimonials ? California, Denmark , Wakefield

Kev from Kirkby?

I'm surprised nobody has come up with one of those magazines where over 23,876 weeks you can build up your own scale replica of the Casino.

 

ROD

I think its been done Rod  

"‹I was in the record bar snapping up all the despondent peoples  soul records cheaply !! lol

9 times out of ten and Lou Christie were regular Minshull spins then !

The rare stuff is only really rare because it didn't sell / make the Charts because it was up against more Commercial records which got Airplay and became Hits.

No Artist /Record Company made records in 5s & 10s to become rare in 10/20/30 years time.!

They made them to MAKE MONEY & GET FAME !

Luckily for us, some survived and found their way to the DJs in the UK.

As stated before many many times on SS a minimum run would be around 500 copies !

Rob

Melvin Davis penned this song in 15 mins as a favour for Mike Theodore

I keep nagging him to include it in his sets with the words altered to Thats the way SHE is ! He's still thinking about it !

He said the horn intro just popped into his head on the Morning of the day mike asked him if he had anything to fit the (14 year old) young girl !

papa papa pap pow pap pap !

Rob

Yep, both cracking records Rob. I'm not sure that they come any better than Tony Fox.

 

Obviously sorry about the theft.

 

Peter

 

You know the story Pete, I've seen the Tony Foxx 45, but the album is great !

cheers

rob

2 of my favourite tracks BOTH STOLEN off me 3 years ago ! Would love to replace them.

I found the Bobby Thurston in Washington DC  mint sealed $8.00 along with7 others

and Tony Foxx in Atlantic City for £3.00..4 Copies

Somethings really Piss you off !

Rob  

Construction was a Searling record i think ?

What about Nightwatch.."from your lips to your heart" ?

https://www.discogs.com/Jennifer-Hudson-Spotlight-Remixes/release/1435550......Here on an Arista 12"

Time to dip your bread and soak up those bargains............

Did 2 gigs with Oliver this year...still shocked ! RIP x

When I used to go to John Manships shop in King Street Melton Mowbray, when he was running his Video Empire, he had Tony Middleton Black Issues at £2 each or 3 for a Fiver, I took 3 to re-sell, must have had 60-80 on the shelf ! Also there were Mint Musicor Demos of Jimmy Ratcliffe & Dean Parrish. in about the same numbers !

I bought Carol & Gerri off The Rev Tony Clayton in the 70s when he Auctioned Nev Wherry's Records after he died (79 ?), I still have it and if I play it out always think of Nev !

The "B" side was played by John Kingan at the Hollingwood Hotel early 90s --that's where you know it from Chalky !

Rob

Can't see if any one has posted this.........Jimmy Mack  "My world is on fire" B/W "Go on"  on an obscure local Detroit First issue label.

2 great sides, first surfaced around 73, fits the bill....and the Just Brothers turned up didn't it ?

Other than that I'd like it to be Don Varner on Veep just to see it !

Rob

fake nylon sheep at that

No Bootleg sheep, no fakes on Northern scene.....

"‹I'm constantly amazed at the records Pat Brady and John Anderson  turn up for sale in spanking mint condition ! We forget that all 45s were in this condition once !

 

 

Also, it really wasn't uncommon for the L.A. indie labels to be badly distributed in my view. The labels with a bit of clout would turn up in the ghetto shops but most didn't make it, so it wouldn't be uncommon to find several hundred count boxes of a record. I would guess that most labels would have pressed at least 500 but probably 1000 with most of 'em unsold after a year and then either returned to the owner or dumped! 

 

Ian D 

Melvin Davis tell the story of "find a quiet place", which he actually took to the distributors around Detroit and surrounding areas himself, as the record was a flop, it wasn't worth the gas money to go and fetch them back ! he says it was a 500 press run... Distributors would gather stock that hadn't sold and keep it for a set period of time for the owners to re-claim..then drill holes through the labels to show they were stock clearance and not full price items and sell them off in job lots by the 1,000s !

Rob

Shoot em ! Killing one of my all time favourite records !

Good old Russ, well done !

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