Pete S

The problem is that that particular record can't be improved on, so anything done to it is a retrograde step.

Nick Hamlyn?

That's truly reprehensible behaviour, someone sent me the wrong record recently, the sensible thing to do it contact him, ask him where he wants it sent and tell him to get the other guy to send me my record - all the seller lost was the extra postage but it sorted his problem out and we both got our correct records. Your customer number 2 is just a robbing b*stard and you should out him mate. He's also a thief and there's a possibility you can take action against him

PETE SMITH pete.smith@freeuk.com 01902 326306 SOME ORIGINAL 45's FOR MONDAY CROSSROADS - COMIN' HOME TO YOU BABY - ATCO DEMO EX 20 Old cover up sound from the mid 80's, good dancer TAWNY VON - LAST NIGHT (I FOUND THE BOY) - ENTRE VG++ 40 Girl group sound double sider, rated by some, production is too loud for me though. This one has some marks on the vinyl hence the grade but both sides play EX VINCE CAREY - FIRST GLANCE ROMANCE - TURNTABLE EX 10 Good dancer - probably too common to have ever made any waves EUGENE CHURCH - DOLLAR BILL - WORLD PACIFIC DEMO EX 20 Very fast dancer - swol JIMMY CASTOR - BLOCK PARTY - JET SET DEMO EX 40 Good uptempo dancer with girl backing and honking sax accompaniment FATS DOMINO - WORK MY WAY UP STEADY - BROADMOOR EX 15 Cracking New Orleans dancer - nice midtempo flip too THE DYNATONES - THE FIFE PIPER - HBR EX 10 Old, old oldie...harder West Coast styrene copy JEAN DUSHON - AS I WATCH YOU WALK AWAY - CADET DEMO EX- 30 A superb midtempo dancer, great vocals - covered in the UK by Martha Smith on Pye, not a patch on this one. Has a couple of small non-sounding marks DANELLE DARRIS - DON'T LOVE ME AND LEAVE ME - COMMERCE EX 50 Both sides of this are great. Midtempo builder on side 1, and a belter on side 2 with Danelle jumping on the Junior Walker dance craze with "Let's Do The Shotgun" . £100 elsewhere. TROY DODDS - TRYIN' TO FIND MY BABY - BAYTOWN EX- 20 Really underrated Northern belter, frantic dancer on side 2 "Earthquake". Few marks on B side. Want a cheap but excellent gem, try this one, great stuff. REGINALD DAY - LOST LOVE - MIDAS EX 25 It's never going to be packing ant dancefloors but this is a very soulful Chicago midtempo beauty JOHNNY DAYE - I'LL KEEP ON LOVING YOU - BLUE STAR EX 60 Excellent Stafford era dancer, once a very expensive record, settled down now that copies turned up but still £100 if you have a search on the net. JAMIE - THE PRICELESS GEM - MGM DEMO EX 20 I couldn't stand this when Alan Rhodes used to play it at Wigan, you know what, it actually sounds great now - in a blue eyed stomper kind of way DEAN PARRIS - TELL HER - BOOM EX 25 The very best version of this classic Bert Russell song THE CLASSIC SULLIVANS - SHAME, SHAME, SHAME - MASTER KEY VG++ 125 Lovely Chicago crossover dancer. Nothing wrong with this copy apart from a few light marks not affecting play - plays spot on. I think in other hands this would be graded EX. Bargain at the price. BABY WASHINGTON - THAT'S HOW HEARTACHES ARE MADE - SUE EX- 20 Simply beautiful LITTLE CARL CARLTON - COMPETITION AIN'T NOTHIN' - BACK BEAT EX- 20 Belting oldie. Plays mint. ROBERTA WEBB & THE FAVORITES - MY MAMA SAYS - EMANUEL VG++ OFFS This sounds a bit like a Huey Piano Smith sort of thing, maybe a bit later, It's a female vocal with male interjections and goes along the lines of Mama Don't Like Us Doing The Twist Around Here, Mama Don't Like Is Doing The Monkey Round Here and so on. Just wondered if it's known and if so, any idea of value? Have asked on various forums but nobody seems to have heard it. Wouldn't class it as soul, definitely R & B, backing is almost rockabilly! Vinyl plays great but label has some damage. https://www.divshare.com/download/24399368-0a7 REISSUES: JIMMY DELPHS - DANCING A HOLE IN THE WORLD - CARLA UNP 5 THE ISLEY BROTHERS - WHO'S THAT LADY (UNITED ARTISTS 60'S VERSION) - FRYERS UNP 5 LUTHER INGRAM ORCHESTRA - EXUS TREK / IF IT'S ALL THE SAME - SEVENS EX+ 5 1ST CLASS RECORDED IS NOW £2.40 FOR ONE RECORD WITH NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR 2 ADDITIONAL ITEMS. SPECIAL DELIVERY IS £7.00 OVERSEAS: EUROPE IS £3.50 AIRMAIL, £9.00 REGISTERED POST. ITEMS OVER £40 NEED TO GO BY REGISTERED POST. REST OF THE WORLD IS £4.50 AIRMAIL, £10.00 REGISTERED POST. ITEMS OVER £40 NEED TO GO BY REGISTERED POST.

No not yet mate sorry but i have a couple of Top Deck blanks coming (both Skatalites). Everyone in the UK has sold out of the Ska Beat reissue!

Here you go mate https://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?RetractBidShow

Custom Emidiscs are more or less worthless - 'real' Emidiscs are worth money. If you find an acetate with two Northern tracks from different labels, thats been custom made and once the records were pressed, the Emidisc became redundant anyway.

Had a couple of Musicor wd's of it. UK copy is rare though, bit surprising because her first single is quite common. Here she is.. https://www.marilynpowell.co.uk/

Bernard Williams reissue but described as original, over £100 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BERNARD-WILLIAMS-HARTHON-ITS-NEEDLESS-TO-SAY-FOCUSED-ON-YOU-NORTHERN-SOUL-/261263306338?pt=UK_Records&hash=item3cd481ae62

What country, what artists?

No you are right, 15 isn't a lot, I just started the topic because two went up for sale in the same place on the same day and I was really surprised.

Only 29 views on the entire topic though, I guess a lot of people have the section filtered out maybe? Compared to hundreds when I did the recent Wigan ones?

Trouble is there's loads in there that are of no interest to anyone into Northern like the Motown stuff at the start (nobodys going to pay £3 for Touch me in the morning for instance), if you removed that stuff and sold them as a Northern collection you'd have more or luck. Not being nasty or anything, just telling you from a prospective buyers point of view.

So the question is - how many?

Yep

Two unplayed copies go up for sale (on here) within 24 hours of each other. Any thoughts?

There must be half a dozen Jades, I know there's a girl group of that name as well

Thats what they were all called back in those days, never 'clubs', I used to do my own 'disco charts' consisting of records they played at our local youth club disco - the term changed meaning about 75/76 I guess

Volume 4 was fantastic, I bought it from the record/tv shop in our village and wore it out, it had I'll Keep Holding On, Frances Nero, Al Kent, stuff like that, yellow cover with two cartoon dancers on it.

It's really easy to give a proper description of a record though - play it and write down what you hear - look at these entries off a list I did today, nothing ambiguous about it, I'm sure it's obvious how the records will sound? SOUL BROS - TNT / MARCIA GRIFFITHS - MR. EVERYTHING - RIO 121 G++ TO VG NO CENTRE HAS CRACKLES AS PER A RECORD THATS NEVER HAD A SLEEVE I BOUGHT THIS DESCRIBED AS EX MINUS, SOMEONE NEEDS GLASSES £15 THE UPSETTERS - RETURN OF THE UGLY / I'VE CAUGHT YOU - PUNCH 18 LOTS OF MARKS BUT PLAYS WELL WITH SOME NOISE G+ TO VG £15 DERRICK MORGAN - ME NAH GIVE UP / BEVERLEYS ALLSTARS - DREADNAUGHT - PYRAMID 6053 Awesome early reggae tune from Derrick and 'Johnny Melody'. Crackles a little at the start, improving as it progresses. No centre and small writing on label. Essential Skinhead reggae. Classic Ska instrumental on B side but that is only G+/VG VG/VG++ £35

Yes thats the one...it's all segued together if I remember correctly

PETE SMITH pete.smith@freeuk.com 01902 326306 SMALL LIST OF UK LABEL ITEMS FOR SALE POST EXTRA, DETAILS AT END OF LIST DON DRUMMOND - SCANDAL / MY IDEAL - ISLAND 094 VG SWOL £10 ERIC MORRIS - DROP YOUR SWORD - ISLAND 150 MINT MINUS STUNNING COPY £20 THEO BECKFORD - GRUDGEFUL PEOPLE - ISLAND 243 MINT MINUS STUNNING COPY £20 THE HEPTONES - ONLY SIXTEEN / BABY - STUDIO ONE 2033 VG+ WOL £20 BABA BROOKS BAND - GIRLS TOWN SKA - SKA BEAT 218 EX £20 BABA BROOKS BAND - ONE EYED GIANT - SKA BEAT 220 EX MINUS £20 SOUL BROS - TNT / MARCIA GRIFFITHS - MR. EVERYTHING - RIO 121 G++ TO VG NO CENTRE HAS CRACKLES AS PER A RECORD THATS NEVER HAD A SLEEVE I BOUGHT THIS DESCRIBED AS EX MINUS, SOMEONE NEEDS GLASSES £15 THE UPSETTERS - RETURN OF THE UGLY / I'VE CAUGHT YOU - PUNCH 18 LOTS OF MARKS BUT PLAYS WELL WITH SOME NOISE G+ TO VG £15 THE MARVELS - FIGHT A BROKE / SAIL AWAY - GAS 138 TWO FANTASTIC SKINHEAD REGGAE SIDES, LABEL SLIGHTLY FADED ON FIGHT A BROKE SIDE, PLAYS GREAT VG++ £40 PAT KELLEY - HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE / TRY TO REMEMBER - GAS 115 VG++ CRACKLES RIGHT AT START £25 PAT KELLY - HE AIN'T HEAVY / WITH ALL YOUR HEART - GAS 171 VG++ NO CENTRE £15 RARE, LAST ISSUE ON GAS I THINK THE SOUL BROTHERS - ON THE TOWN - DOCTOR BIRD 1033 VG++ NICE CLEAN COPY £20 THE GAYLADS - YOU SHOULD NEVER DO THAT - DOCTOR BIRD 1031 VG++ NICE COPY £20 DANDY - I'M YOUR PUPPET - DOWNTOWN 416 EX £15 FABULOUS COPY KING STITT & ANDY - HERBSMAN - CLANDISC EX 15 Original turquoise label. Sticker mark. CLANCYS ALL STARS - C.N. EXPRESS / I WAS MEANT FOR YOU (LEE PERRY) - PAMA 722 CONDITION: EXCELLENT MINUS £40 REALLY NICE COPY THE PIONEERS — EASY COME EASY GO — PYRAMID 6062 EASY COME, EASY GO / BEVERLEYS ALL STARS - ONLY A SMILE NO CENTRE, LOOKS A BIT USED BUT PLAYS SUPERBLY CONDITION: VG++ TO EX- £50 THE CORSAIRS - GOODNIGHT MY LOVE / LOVER GIRL - UNITY 558 EX+ 15 Mint minus, possibly unplayed THE RIO GRANDES — SOLDIERS TAKE OVER — PYRAMID 6001 SOLDIERS TAKE OVER / MOSES CONDITION: VG TO VG++ £20 LEE PERRY - THE UPSETTER / THANK YOU BABY - AMALGAMATED Reissue from the Lucky Sevens box set MINT £15 THE PIONEERS - CATCH THE BEAT / SIR GIBBS ALL STARS - JANA - AMALGAMATED 828 VG/VG+ £15 THE VICEROYS - SEND REQUEST / UNKNOWN INSTRUMENTAL - BIG SHOT 582 A bizarre 1971 release credited to The Teardrops and Laurie's Allstars, but it actually plays the 1968 rocksteady classic "Send request" by The Viceroys. B side is a Derrick Morgan backing track also from 68. No centre. VG+ £20 STEVE COLLINS - DING A LING, TING A LING - BIG SHOT 620 MINT MINUS £15 THE MESSENGERS (KEN BOOTHE) - IS IT BECAUSE I'M BLACK / JUST LIKE A SHELTER - MIRTO Super version of the Syl Johnson number, this was available by sending in tokens from a drink called Nutrament! Some light pops but generally EX. VG++ £20 DERRICK MORGAN - ME NAH GIVE UP / BEVERLEYS ALLSTARS - DREADNAUGHT - PYRAMID 6053 Awesome early reggae tune from Derrick and 'Johnny Melody'. Crackles a little at the start, improving as it progresses. No centre and small writing on label. Essential Skinhead reggae. Classic Ska instrumental on B side but that is only G+/VG VG/VG++ £35 ANDY CAPP - POP A TOP / RECO - THE LION SPEAKS - TREASURE ISLE 7052 Great copy, small writing on centre EX £15 AUGUSTUS PABLO - TALES OF PABLO / TALES DUB - TROPICAL 035 Early melodica classic. Name on label in black felt tip. EX £15 I TAKE CARDS, PAYPAL, BANK TRANSFER, CHEQUE etc PAYPAL NAME IS pete.smith@freeuk.com PLEASE NOTE I DO NOT RESERVE RECORDS, THEY ARE SOLD ON A FIRST COME, FIRST PAY BASIS POSTAGE RATES HAVE CHANGED AGAIN, 1ST CLASS RECORDED IS NOW £2.40 FOR ONE RECORD WITH NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR 2 ADDITIONAL ITEMS. SPECIAL DELIVERY IS £7.00 OVERSEAS: EUROPE IS £3.50 AIRMAIL, £9.00 REGISTERED POST. ITEMS OVER £40 NEED TO GO BY REGISTERED POST. REST OF THE WORLD IS £4.50 AIRMAIL, £10.00 REGISTERED POST. ITEMS OVER £40 NEED TO GO BY REGISTERED POST.

Someone at Motown had their finger on the pulse, can't remember the name of the album but in around 1970-71 they released a compilation album of top dancers including "Six By Six" and the sleeve notes tell us that people travel the country just to hear this track.

I've been playing records since I could just about walk, why stop now? I can't put an mp3 on a turntable. It's the same thing when people say they prefer LP's to CD's. You can't cherish a CD like you can with an LP. MP3's and itunes etc are fantastic for storing a library of music but nothing's ever going to take the place of an actual vinyl record which you can touch and go through the process of removing it from it's sleeve, putting it on the deck and putting the needle on the run in in anticipation. MP3 - you just click a button. Where's the love there?

Here's a two hour special featuring - well basically a bunch of tracks that I like, as usual - with a mixture of 60's and 70's tunes, all designed to keep the dancers happy. I must warn you, there are some quite left field selections in this lot, but at least it keeps it fun. Some of these you may not have heard for 30 years, some you might have heard yesterday, but I think it's a pretty entertaining affair and to keep within the spirit, they were all recorded from vinyl (hence a few pops and clicks here and there). HARRY BETTS - THEM FROM THE FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE THE COMBINATIONS - WHATCHA GONNA DO BENNY CURTIS & THE DIRTY HEARTS - DIRTY HEARTS DAWN - BABY'S GONE AWAY SPYDER TURNER - I CAN'T MAKE IT ANYMORE LARRY ALLEN - CAN'T WE TALK IT OVER THE FI DELS - TRY A LITTLE HARDER G. DAVIS & R. TYLER - HOLD ON HELP IS ON THE WAY THE TRANELLS - BLESSED WITH A LOVE THE CARTER BROTHERS - SO GLAD YOU'RE MINE ELLIE GREENWICH - BABY ROBERT THOMAS - SALVATION JOE JAMA - MY LIFE THE GATURS - YEAH YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU KNOW YOU'RE RIGHT SISTERS LOVE - I'M LEARNING TO TRUST MY MAN SAM WARD - SISTER LEE BOB'S BAND - LOCKES THEME FELIX CAVALIERE - NEVER FELT LOVE BEFORE AL DE LORY - RIGHT ON MANDRILL - NEVER DIE MIROSLAV VITOUS - NEW YORK CITY THE CHANDLERS - YOUR LOVE KEEPS DRAWING ME CLOSER ALPACA PHASE III - I LIKE TO PARTY LIFE - TELL ME WHY VAL PALMER - BACK IN MY ARMS AGAIN FRENCH FRIES - DANSE A LA MUSIQUE FLOWER SHOPPE - YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY BABY LARRY SANTOS - YOU GOT ME WHERE YOU WANT ME (LP VERSION) THE INSPIRATIONS - NO ONE ELSE CAN TAKE YOUR PLACE THE BAJA MARIMBA BAND - ALONG COMES MARY SAN FRANCISCAN TKO'S - MAKE UP YOUR MIND BARBARA PENNINGTON - TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY ANDERSON BROTHERS - I CAN SEE HIM LOVING YOU JACKIE TRENT - YOU BABY THE BLENDELS - YOU NEED LOVE THE VONDELS - HEY GIRL YOU'VE CHANGED SAM DEES - LONELY FOR YOU BABY BETTY LLOYD - I'M CATCHING ON ARIN DEMAIN - SILENT TREATMENT D.C. LARUE - CATHEDRALS (12") THE NIGHTS - LOVE KNOCKED YOU DOWN JAMES FOUNTAIN - SEVEN DAY LOVER MAMIE LEE - I CAN FEEL HIM SLIPPING AWAY SILVETTI - SPRING RAIN ROBERT TANNER - SWEET MEMORIES JOHN HARRIS & THE SOUL SAYERS - HANGIN' IN https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/soul-showdown-60s-vs-70s/