Pete S

You heartless bastard

Shocking racism. Should not be allowed on the site.

Can't understand the hatred towards this record, as a Northern sound it's great, oh hold up, don't tell me, he's a white singer...

OK I'll rephrase that, it's worth what a copy of Some Kind Of Wonderful would be worth without I'll Be Loving You On The Back which is about £5.

There are literally thousands of soul covers, we'd be here all day...this list comes from an Israeli site https://www.melingo.com/thesoulnet/reggae.htm but I do have a list I did about 2 years ago which lists about 200, I'll try and find it Queen majesty - The Techniques / Minstrel and queen - The Impressions Born to love you - Derrick Harriott / The Temptations Voice your choice - The Marvels / The Radiants Baby I need your loving - Delroy Wilson / The Four Tops Open the door to your heart - Gregory Isaacs / Darrell Banks Ain't that loving you - Alton Ellis, U Roy / Johnnie Taylor The gardener - Judy Mowatt / The Staple Singers A rainy night in Georgia - Nicky Thomas / Brook Benton Ain't no sunshine - Ken Boothe / Bill Withers Here I am - Al Brown / Al Green Let's get it on - Ken Boothe / Marvin Gaye Have you seen her - Derrick Harriott / The Chi Lites No me without you - Marcia Griffiths & Lloyd Charmers / The Manhattens I made a mistake - The wailers / The Impressions Prisoner of love - Cornell Campbell / James Brown Seven letters - Derrick Morgan / Ben E. King Can I change my mind - Alton Ellis / Tyrone Davis People get ready - The Minstrells / The Impressions Stealing stealing - John Holt / Thief in the night - Percy Sledge I wish it would rain - The Techniques / The Temptations Reggae in the grass- Sound Dimension / Grazing in the grass - Hugh Masekela Whole lotta woman - Eugene Paul / Arthur Conley Turn back the hands of time - Cornell Campbell / Tyrone Davis You don't care - The Techniques / You'll want me back - The Impressions These eyes - Alton Ellis / Jr. Walker & the All Stars Everybody plays the fool - The Chosen Few / The Main Ingredient Walk away from love - Ken Boothe / David Ruffin Break up to make up - Leroy & Junior / The Stylistics What does it take (to win your love) - Alton Ellis / Jr. Walker & the All Stars

Without I'll Be Loving You it makes it pretty worthless to be honest, and I wouldn't be too happy with the guy who sold it you either....shameful rip off!

I did enjoy it but I'd already used many of the prime examples in various 6 packs I'd already posted up, but it was nice to be able to use that rocksteady version of "To Sir with love", I've been after that for years... n.b. would not be difficult me to do you an mp3 cd of that sort of stuff with about 300 tracks on

Catchy record, good dancer - I'll pay £30 for it if anyone's got one to sell

and the spelling :graynone:

As requested...this is quick link to a new 6 pack I put up, except it's 8 not 6 but in the same time frame as a 6, if you see what I mean...r&b, ska, rocksteady, reggae from 1958 to 1972 in 10 minutes...check it out, might be of interest to some perhaps Click this

Ha ha, I was thinking exactly the same thing..about German ones! Remember having some London labels with this on, in fact I think I still have (runs into next room to search for Jimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight 45) bah, they changed the design, now the 45 is IN the triangle!

More likely £10-£15...any oldies shop in the States will have it...rare on UK London though

German I think. Possibly Spanish. Or like you say, Italian. But the Spanish did put out a lot of EP's with different artists on them.

F*ck me Mark, I put the link up to their feedback on the first post, how is that keeping it secret? JIM & TERRI VANNOY

Which band? What? Where?

You invented that didn't you? On KTF, a couple of years back.

rip offs Yes sad to say I've been turned over by these scumbags. Notice nearly all their negatives are from overseas buyers who they claim they posted items to. Is there any recourse whatsoever or will I have to resort to bidding on all their auctions under false names, subscribing them to porn lists etc etc. Bastards. Even worse, I did a private deal with them for another load which isn't even covered on ebay. I have complained via paypal and it went straight to 'deferred'. The customer is always wrong.

Well it was really worth me taking 5 minutes to write that, wasn't it 12 hours later no views. I'm wasted on here, wasted

You're joking

I've had a few run ins with him and I really like him actually, says what he means and doesn't back down, however, it's inevitable that someone will take matters in hand and eventually take matters a bit further, and I don't mean me! Because if you don't respect the history, you don't really understand the scene.

No, you wouldn't, I know that for sure

What is an Orwell???

Er, do you mean a few words or a thesis? OK complete beginners guide in as few words as possible. We start off in the late 50's with sound systems which used to play 'lawns' (large outdoor areas) in the local neighbourhoods. Usually the sound systems would face each other and the winner would be the one which got the best reaction to their discs. Anyway, the music was exclusively American R&B, especially of the Louis Jordan variety, much of which could be heard on a few Southern US radio stations which could be picked up in Jamaica. In 1958, the oldies were starting to run out so the first Jamaican r&b records were recorded in local studios, things like Laurel Aitken's Boogie In My Bones, very influenced by American r&b. Some of these first recordings came out in the Uk on tiny labels like Starlite and Planetone, and later on Blue Beat and Island. The Blue Beat label became so synonymous with ska music that in the Uk, ska was actually known as Blue Beat. The first ska records started to appear in 1962. Ska is essentially r&b but with the accent on the offbeat, giving it a distinctive sound. The music is dominated by brass work. The ska lasted for 3 years, with the tempo ever increasing, so if you listen to an early ska tune like Eric Morris' Humpty Dumpty then follow it with, for instance, The Riots instrumental Yeah yeah, the two are light years apart. Well known examples of ska: Millie - My boy lollipop is about the most famous; Prince Buster - Al Capone, The Skatalites - Guns of navarone. In 1966 the sound began to slow down and although recognisable as ska, a different rhythm was appearing, this involved the dominance of the bassline and the accent on the third beat. According to legend, the music slowed down because the summer that year was the hottest on record and the dancers couldn't keep up with the frantic ska beat. Rocksteady has a far more soulful and sensual sound to it than ska, it was dominated by male vocal groups like The Techniques, The Sensations and The Paragons. Best known examples of this type of sound would be Desmond Dekker - 007 shanty town, Delroy Wilson - Dancing mood, The Techniques - You don't care. The rocksteady sound was dominated by Duke Reid's Treasure Isle label and virtually anything on this label is worth investigating. The sound lasted until the start of 1968 when the music developed yet again, this time the sound went uptempo again and guitar and organ became the dominant instruments. Early reggae is fabulous music, things like Live Injection, Say What You're Saying, Israelites, Work It etc. By 1969 rocksteady was completely dead and reggae dominated, hitting the charts with the likes of Liquidator, It Mek, Red red wine, Return of django, Sweet senastions, Long shot kick the bucket etc, mainly due to the skinheads waving the flag for reggae music. Sadly the more that the music charted, the more that the record companies began to think that the music should be sweetened for the consumer and soon strings began to appear on recordings and the music became watered down. The skinheads soon lost interest, Trojan only seemed interested in putting out cover versions of chart songs and soon only a handful of reggae 45's hit the charts. The name stuck however, and even today is used to describe a whole host of Jamaican music but like all other forms of Jamaican music, it began as a dance, why the name stuck nobody seems to know. reggae of course spawned dub, roots, dancehall, ragga and jungle, but nothing compares to the old stuff. This has been Pete Smith for News At Ten, Kingston, Jamaica.

Vicki Anderson??? Oh I know what you mean, the one on People from about 73?