Pete S

I know, I should copyright it, Dave The Drug is still convinced I was the first person to ever put the words 'beat ballad' into print* and I should have copyrighted it * he is probably right

Might as well not be Aretha singing it then? Just anyone who's voice you can alter. I'd have slowed down the backing track, not the vocal. Then set fire to the master tapes.

I know he had this problem with SWONS - like Bobby Sheen, Chris Lalor says he had to film that in Bobby's run down house in Compton and there was damp everywhere and the place was a tip, so they had to employ these special effects people to try and put a psychedelic background on there just to hide the real backdrop. Consequently the movie got tore apart (by the likes of me) for employing all these cheesy effects, but at the time I had no idea why they'd done them. But I suppose if you've just got a bloke in a studio miming to a song, there's not that much you can do really.

I'm ore worried that Tezza thinks the original of Come On And Stop is worth £250 - £300 Try £75...

What do you expect with a budget of more or less zero, a remake of Duran Duran's "Rio" video?

By the way Tezza, although I wouldn't be as harsh, I can understand why he did it. This is a worthless record, but I won a Barry St John off someone for £33 and he messaged me saying he hadn't noticed a crack when he listed it. "yeah right".

Send him a picture of a chip.

Here's that track listing for Wigan late 1973. Most records fall inbetween midtempo and fast. Ones I'd put in the 100mph hour bracket are Joe Hicks, Johnny Caswell, Cissie Houston, Tainted Love, Mike Post, so thats just five tracks out of 20 plus JOE HICKS - DON'T IT MAKE YOU FEEL FUNKY SAXIE RUSSELL - PSYCHEDELIC SOUL AUDIO ARTS STRINGS - THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO SAY STANLEY MITCHELL - GET IT BABY TONY & TYRONE - PLEASE OPERATOR JOHNNY CASWELL - YOU DON'T LOVE ME ANYMORE NANCY AMES - I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT LYNNE RANDELL - STRANGER IN MY ARMS VOLCANOS - THE LAWS OF LOVE LEE ANDREWS - I'VE HAD IT THE SAPPHIRES - THE SLOW FIZZ EDDIE FOSTER - I NEVER KNEW THE ADVENTURERS - EASY BABY FRANK BEVERLEY - IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANTED CISSIE HOUSTON - BRING HIM BACK CUT GLORIA JONES - TAINTED LOVE LEON YOUNG STRINGS - GLAD ALL OVER DETROIT SOUND - JUMPING AT THE GO GO MIKE POST COALITION - AFTERNOON OF THE RHINO GOLDEN WORLD STRINGS (TOTAL ECLIPSE) - SUPERTIME THE JELLY BEANS - YOU DON'T MEAN ME NO GOOD FREDDIE CHAVEZ - THEY'LL NEVER KNOW WHY

Yeah I just sold a couple of those for a tenner - got them when Crispie passed away - I'd obviously sold them to him, they still had my writing on the sleeves, contained the likes of Epitome Of Sound - Into your heart (aka Carol &Gerri), Lou Roberts, Johnny Hendley, Black Power, Burning Bush etc - they were bought out of the shop though, not tracks I requested. First 10" I got off Pep was October 77 and included Lou Ragland, Yvonne Daniels and Pat Powdrill. Must have been a 7" blank shortage at the Pyral factory!

I think you're right up the point, though calling beat ballads shite is madness! As this thread proved, there are countless brilliant beat ballads - they just have to be used in the right context. There were very few of these beat ballads played in the 70's apart from the odd one or two which actually ended the night (Gene McDaniels, Ray Pollard, Gerri Granger for example) and thats where they belong, to usher in the end of the night, not to kill off the flow half way through. Imagine what they'd do to a few hundred people full of gear

https://podcast9122525417.podomatic.com/entry/2011-12-08T07_08_54-08_00 Jesus H Christ this one was a monster PORGY & THE MONARCHS — IF IT'S FOR REAL — MUSICOR FAYE CRAWFORD — WHAT HAVE I DONE WRONG — RCA MARIE KNIGHT — A LITTLE TOO LONELY — MUSICOR CLYDIE KING — THE THRILL IS GONE — IMPERIAL WALTER JACKSON — IT'S AN UPHILL CLIMB TO THE BOTTOM — OKEH JIMMY BEAUMONT — YOU GOT TOO MUCH GOING FOR YOU — BANG THE KNICKERBOCKERS — WISHFUL THINKING — CHALLENGE CLYDIE KING — MISSIN' MY BABY — IMPERIAL RUBY & THE ROMANTICS — YOUR BABY DOESN'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE — KAPP GEORGE & SONNY SANDS — DOWN BY THE OCEAN — NEW VOICE JIMMY CLANTON — HURTING EACH OTHER — MALA RAY POLLARD — THE DRIFTER — UNITED ARTISTS BOBBY SHEEN- SWEET SWEET LOVE — CAPITOL ANITA BRYANT — MY MIND'S PLAYING TRICKS ON ME AGAIN — COLUMBIA REPARATA & THE DELRONS — I'M NOBODY'S BABY — RCA JERRY GANEY — JUST A FOOL — VERVE NINO TEMPO & APRIL STEVENS — THE HABIT OF LOVIN' YOU BABY — WHITE WHALE TOMMY HUNT — LOVER — UNISSUED JERRY JACKSON — I'M GONNA PAINT A PICTURE — PARKWAY P.J. PROBY — I CAN'T MAKE IT ALONE — LIBERTY CLYDIE KING — SOFT AND GENTLE WAYS — IMPERIAL BOOTLEGGERS — DON'T COUNT ON TOMORROW — DISCOVERY LINDA LLOYD — BREAKAWAY — COLUMBIA TOMMY NAVARRO — I CRIED MY LIFE AWAY — DEJAC AL McARTHUR — HIS TRUE LOVE FOR YOU — TWO GUITARS MARION STEWART — I MUST BE LOSING YOU — R HARRY STARR — STEP INTO MY WORLD — END SAM WILLIAMS — LOVE SLIPPED THRU' MY FINGERS - TOWER

https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/the-thrill-is-gone-beat-ballads-wrist-slashers-uptown-soul-sounds/ The Thrill Is Gone - mixture of beat ballads / wrist slashers / uptown sounds

I'll believe it when I see it for myself I think. Though I used to say that about the Dean Courtney MGM issue

I'm Where It's At truly sums up what a really exciting, dancefloor filler was at the end of 75, start of 76, the hand claps are a call to arms and so what if it's not oozing soul, it's a blood and thunder stormer and you can send me some of these every day please, while I'm nodding off to the latest 2 mile an hour midtempo tune I can remember when records like this made the Northern scene the most exciting place a 16 year old could ever want to be.

What a dull record.

That is shocking. Why did they feel they had to speed up her voice?

ALL SOLD

I never realised there was a mistake until you said yours also jumped, I just thought mine was scratched, I nicked it from a party about 6 months after it came out

I HAVE A FEW JAMAICAN 45'S FOR SALE, I ONLY USUALLY SELL BRITISH COPIES SO THIS IS A BIT OF UNCHARTED TERRITORY FOR ME. THERE'S ABOUT TEN ALTOGETHER BUT I'LL SPREAD THEM OUT OVER A COUPLE OF DAYS SO AS NOT TO BORE EVERYONE. POST IS EXTRA. DROP ME A LINE IF INTERESTED IN ANYTHING, THANKS. (SCANS AT BOTTOM) THE MAGPIES - BLUE BOY / I GUESS I'M CRAZY - WIRL. EXCELLENT CONDITION. CAME OUT ON DOCTOR BIRD IN THE UK. PRODUCED BY SOME I'VE NEVER HEARD OF - FATHER DUNSTAN. PRICE £20. THE PARAGONS - PLAY GIRL / LOVE AT LAST - SUPREME. VG+ DOES HAVE LOTS OF MARKS BUT PLAYS REALLY WELL, NICE GLOSSY COPY. £20 CLANCY ECCLES - FEEL THE RHYTHM / WINSTON WRIGHT & THE DYNAMITES - I DID IT - NEW BEAT. EXCELLENT CONDITION. VERY NICE JAMAICAN ISSUE WITH THE BONUS OF A GREAT INSTRUMENTAL BY THE DYNAMITES WHICH WAS NEVER ISSUED IN THE UK. £25

F*cking hell Ian, that is just uncanny, the record I was thinking of was Holland & Dozier "Why can't we be lovers", mine had a jump on it, just after the line "I try to leave but I don't have the heart". Unbelievable.

I suppose when you hear things as a kid, they get ingrained on your mind and that's the sound you remember. It's like if you had an old record as a kid and it jumped in a particular place, every time you hear it you listen out for that jump, even when it's being played on the radio.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOX-OF-167-USA-NORTHERN-SWEET-SOUL-FUNK-BALLADS-etc-ALL-LISTED-GRADED-/360718137319?pt=UK_Records&hash=item53fc79f7e7 all items listed and graded, might be worth a look, free box if you pick them up off me and I'll make you a cup of tea and a ham roll as well

Bear Family have sent me a replacement for my off centre one and also enclosed a five pound note to cover what it cost me to post it back to them. NIce people.

There were a lot done Jez, you used to be able to check out a list of top titles, pay your fiver and it'd be ready for you next week. I wouldn't be exagerrating if I said I must have had at least 20 more like 30 done between 1975 and 1979. And that was just me. Of course each one was your own choice so there weren't that many with the same couplings. I've got one here of Jeanette Williams b/w Jeanette Harper for instance

I remember saving up 4 weeks paper round money to buy first one (Lou Pride / Reggie Garner) from Sundown in Wolvo. I remember seeing Rob Haigh (Agent Smith on here) playing an emidisc at Sammies with a beautiful label design which I presume he did himself, that was in 1975 or 76, when I moved back here in 2002 I was browsing through a box of records in a shop and guess what I found - Rob's old emidisc. Wonder where it had been for over 25 years..