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Well we know who Weldon McDougal is, maybe Chips was his promotion company, I've found those stickers on loads of records...and boy are they impossible to remove. Just how many torn label copies of Marvelous Ray - Whirlpool are there?? https://motownsoul0.tripod.com/id26.html

--> QUOTE(mark.b @ Oct 26 2006, 08:45 PM) link i would say jean carter 150 and janie grant 50 mark but after reading the post what do i know Well that quote speaks for itself Mark 50 quid for a Janie Grant stock! Anyway sold it now...175...sold Jean Carter for 150 after my profit margain got scuppered

I don't care...I think it's fantastic...I'll never forget sitting looking over the balcony at Wigan watching people dancing to the French Fries and it was one of the few occasions that you could hear them dancing as well...the floor used to vibrate

In fairness (to me) I did suggest Little Anthony & The Imperials about 4 weeks ago when I posted up that (relatively) recent concert clip but was informed that they are too expensive to bring over.

I had a serious think about this and there are only two acts in the entire world I would bother going to see, one is Prodigy and the other is Slade, if they reformed obviously. The only soul act I'd be interested in seeing is Al Green, and he'd have to be playing in Wolvo or I wouldn't bother. Jr Walker was the best live soul act I ever saw and he's off the touring circuit nowadays. Artists are better listened to on records.

This is 10 years old but has some great info, and obviously Tobi was around when SWONS was made In anticipation of this year's event I had the pleasure of speaking with Tobi Lark while she visted Toronto recently on a house hunting trip. The soft-spoken and humble Lark, originally born as Bessie Gupton in Alabama and then raised in Detroit, Michigan, is taking Toronto's Jazz and Blues circuit by storm. "It's really strange because I haven't been really interested in the Blues till about 3 years ago. I've been singing it more seriously for close to a year. I think this is because being my age I've finally grown up." Returning to the stage after a long absence, her story reads like a Blues fairy tale. An early rival of Aretha Franklin's, Lark began singing in the church choir at age 9 and toured for ten years with the Emma Washington Gospel Singers. The daughter of legendary Gospel and Blues singer Emma Washington, during the sixties Lark got her first professional job with a friend of her mother's, B.B. King. King was impressed with the young singer but felt that her voice was too sweet for her to really be able to sing the Blues. "He told me that I was really a balladeer and that I needed to experience more of life before I could really sing the Blues. At first I go mad at him, but he was right." Well, Tobi Lark has definitely lived and experienced the glory and the pains of life. After working with BB King, her ambrosial vocals also embellished performances with the Impressions, the Four Tops, Ben E. King, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, Cannonball Adderley, Duke Ellington, among others. In the late 60's Lark moved to Montreal with her young son after separating from her husband, where she left her mark at clubs like Rockhead's and then after performances at EXPO '67 moved to Toronto to work with Ronnie Hawkins. Soon after her arrival she was selected to play a lead role in the musical HAIR. From there Lark created the hugely successful Armageddon Revue at the Blue Orchid. Audiences have known her through stage and television performance with the Toronto Symphony or with the likes of Kenny Rogers. But few of us have been there during her downtimes when her son died; when her son's father died; when she was ill; or the tribulations of single parenting. "I don't mean to sound corny but after the problems of changes in (life) it was so strange. It was like musically I quit. I wouldn't work much. But when I would sing and I would notice that people would respond to me. It strengthened me and made me so strong in the faith, that now I don't give a care who don't like it. I know that God brought me through in flying colours." Lark's voice reflects the wisdom of a woman who's returned from the height of painful experience and a woman who understands the depth of her own power. Whether singing Chicago Blues, Mississippi Blues, Jazz, Pop or Gospel, Lark is confident about her soulful renditions. Impressed with advances made by women in the music industry, Lark strongly identifies with other vocalists notorious for doing things "my way". "Etta James is my favourite right now because whether she sings the Blues, modern or old timey, she keeps that gospel influence. Bonnie Rait was singing her behind off but people weren't swinging her way. But look at her now. (She's doing well) because she took control of her life. Females now are taking control of their music. The males used to tell them how they had to sing or dress. They've become stronger as leaders in the music industry. They want to be their own person and do things on their own terms now." Looking toward a promising future as she prepares to move back to Toronto from the Windsor/Detroit area, Lark is particularly excited about plans to perform reggae tunes combining Blues and Gospel. Lark is also in the process of confirming a distribution deal for her live CD which was recorded at Toronto's Judy Jazz club in the Spring 1995. Lark reminds me in some ways of another mighty Blues woman Billie Holiday - a woman who, despite narrow definitions of Blues and Jazz, always sings in the spirit of the Blues. Perhaps this is because Lark's southern roots remain, proudly, with her. - Marva Jackson

Someone else will probably answer this but Tobi Legend is still singing in Toronto I believe, as Tobi Lark of course.

It's quite easy to get hold of, specially in the last 3 years or so - thought it might go big when Pep was hyping it late 80's...never did, but like you say, great record

Because it's common...

Direction...

Didn't think anyone was watching them anymore!

Absolutely. I think I've got more clips of him then any other atist - shame he was made to do cover versions of the hits of the moment mainly...

I'll go back and edit that, forgot about the swearing thing

This is a reply he sent me to a perfectly simnple question: ----Original Message Follows---- From: "david manchester" To: petesmithrecords@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Question for item #120044861523 - GLEN MILLER OCTOR BIRD DB1089 FUNKY BROADW Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:31:43 +0000 are allyou record dealers such boring c*nts (this wasn't edited) get a lifeprat

Don't panic, everyone else would have seen it anyway, you can't hide nothing on ebay, not in that section anyway

I've had the Jackie Lee wd a couple of times - one recently - but I actually made a mistake earlier, the record I sold to dave Flynn was the white demo of Cigarette Ashes and not Beatin Rhythm. I got it off that guy from MA who had endless supplies of 45's in the early days of Ebay - Bill Nadolny

Those above - though it depends how long you've been around I suppose. I could hear Geni(e) til the cows come home but Greg Perry is an unpolished turd of a record. No offence like. Nice to see My Conscience in there.

From a distance, and because of the hair straightening, they do look white, but I think they are the black trio The Hi-Tones who recorded Bigger And Better on Abet

I asked why it was covered up and he said how else do you show the sleeve part of the vinyl and the disc I said it might help if you dshow the label of the record you're 'supposed' to be selling.

And they said Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods were a bunch of c****

Because that's what we like it's mainly Winston

I remember when Disc used to publish the Wigan casino top 10 - can distinctly remember The Night and Happy being numbers one and two, other records in the top 10 were the still obscure Fidels "I'm giving you notice" and the Mitchell Braithwaite record..

Look at the photograph https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GLEN-MILLER-OCTOR-BI...tem120044861523

You need to listen to me cos I know all about this dilemma. What you want to do is get a 50 or a 100 box, and go through the records asking yourself "could I live without this record". Eventually you'll fill the box, but only just. I've just done this with over 1000 reggae and ska 45's and I've kept around 120. Sell the rest and do something nice with the dosh.