Pete S

Well it's actually the B side so When Evening Falls is the A label...couldn't tell you the value now, a couple of years ago it went through the roof, I sold 3 issues for £150 each and only Richie will remember what he gave me for the demo but I'm sure it included Lonnie Russ!

It's a track called You My Love or Oh My Love, sounds just like Run Away but with only half the backing band playing. If it wasn't rare nobody would play it. Muggins here once bought the 7" Run Away thinking it was the EP, cost me £40 about 6 years ago and took me about 5 years to sell it!

I would never deny I danced to Footsee but the Roulette version is horrible and I can't remember ever having danced to that...honest!

I've got some of what are generally considered to be 100% soul classics in my own little collection - nor originals - Springers, Cairos, Eddie Parker, Ray Pollard, Del Larks, Magnetics and so on and so on - but I've also got Paula Parfitt, I've got Mark Loyd, I've got Rain Out of my mind - but I love all of them, I don't have separate sections for soul and pop, they're all Northern Soul as far as I'm concerned and thats why I enjoyed the 70's more than any other period, because to grow up at that time with those records was such an experience...Afternoon of the rhino, Hot line, Theres that mountain, Strings a gogo (sic), Tainted love....even then there were shit records though, Marc Copage springs to mind. But if you give me a choice at this point in my life as to what period I could go back to it would have to be 75 to 77.

Shane - this is my opinion, see if anyone else agrees with me. Wigan up to and including most of 1977, I can't say a bad word about the music. The very end of 77, and most of 78 was poor. This is when we had the Sue Lynns, Gene Latters, Helen Shapiro's etc - records that I have nothing against, but there was too much British stomp stomp stuff being played. So I stopped going. Then, at the end of 78, John Anderson hit a purple patch and Richard broke some of the best records ever over the next 18 months, from Cecil Washington to John & The Weirdest to The Lovers to Eddie Daye and so on. Unfortunately, the place was only half full by then except for the oldies allnighter which was always a packer. I never went to a saturday at the Casino again except for the final night which I wouldn't have missed for the world. But, apart from the hideous modern stuff and the playing of modern 12"ers which lasted 20 minutes, the music in the last 2 years of the Casino was as good as anything before or since. It was just that 18 month period before that when the worst of the music was played and unfortunately people now say that we spent our nights dancing to Joe 90 and Tony Blackburn - I personally NEVER heard Joe 90 and Tony Blackburn was played for maybe 2 weeks as a cover up.

It was a lot more fun in the 70's, I can tell you. A record didn't have to pass a colour test before it got played, we just used to enjoy the music and enjoy the scene. Everyone says that 'soul police' don't exist today - of course they do, take a look at yourselves. How many of you would play Jon Ford or I've Been Hurt Shane Martin nowadays? Why not? They sound great loud and were good to dance to. As for JV playing the original Footsee - lines have to be drawn somewhere

...or not? Just thinking it could be useful for brightening up compilation tapes, slipping a few of these after tracks like... Detroit Radio Jingles

Are you not going to get a f*cking spellchecker

Seriously, don't think I'm going to do a list this week, I'm just going to sell all those acetates I did for myself, I've sold a few things privately already this week (Lee Roye issue was one) but I think I'll leave it til next week maybe. Anyway all I've really had this week has been ska stuff...

I know a lot of you were following my Worst Ebay Cock Up Of All Time thread and laughing your bollocks off at me this is the thread here anyway would you believe it, the records have actually shown up! This means I can keep the death row slippers and dressing gown and auction them on ebay as execution memorabilia. I am also going to attempt to extract DNA from a toenail I found in the slippers so that I can create my own mass murderer, who I will unleash on the dj's at 'Original Vinyl Only' events. As for the records, they were utter shite, maybe about 20 soul 45's all really common like COD's, Impressions, Four Tops, but there was a copy of The Zombies 'Time of the season' which is great, The Beat Merchants ' Pretty Face', and "12,000 Girl Scouts sing America's national favourites' in a picture sleeve., so all in all, a load of cack.

Very good explanation Paul and totally spot on.

Notice that John's 10 Commandments do not mention that you have to play original vinyl anywhere. This is a guy who I think I would easily put in my top 3 dj's of all time. Though that might be something to do with 'history'

Wow, never heard of this program, any idea what it's called

Where the hell do you get these things from? Unbelievable. Thats twice you've made me jealous. Pack it in

Could you just put that into English and I'll reply to it

No, I wouldn't pay that, but I did back in about 1990. Nothing wrong with lp tracks on 7"...I've got rufus lumley 'stronger' on 7", looks great on a white RCA demo

Both albums sell for £25 to £50, hardly bootsale prices, and the track is in stereo as well. And it won't fit into a singles box.

No but if anyone wants it ...

No, basically. And some play reissues because that's what people ask them to play. Is the Dj going to go "oh I haven't got that on original, only reissue, so I can't play it for you"...what the hell is the punter going to make of that? He only wanted to hear a record. If you've got a record that's a big sound it's eventually going to get reissued so that everyone can enjoy it and play it. Once again I quote Timi Yuro 'Over' which is impossible to find on UK and doesn't exist on US, why should people be denied the chance to hear it because only a few people have got it on original? I've only had one copy, ever, and thats when I was dealing in British.

Not really, there's just 10 seconds of the intro on that clip...

Ian Levine - I have his Decca demo of the Larue...except it's got an MCA catalogue number

Lazy or poor? Anyone can be a dj, anyone - you just have to have the resources.

(Little Britain voice) "Yeah I know"

No, hers is from the early 70's I think...this sounds like a mans voice speeded up to me...