Pete S

HOLD ON No I've got all this completely wrong, I should be saying december 1980 not 79, I was basing it all off the 7th anniversary tape but that was 1980 not 1979, sorry folks

No I guessed at the date and I only came up with that because there were several records played at the 9th anniversary (9 tracks actually) that were also on this playlist, so it's there or thereabouts, but the writing on the tape has faded completely so I can't tell for sure to be honest. Cecil washington wasn't discovered at the september anniversary though so it's definitely after that.

Can't do it Eddie, sorry, it would mean having to listen to all that modern stuff in real time, anyway it's a truly terrible atmosphere, the recording is very good but it sounds like the place is empty, I hate to remember it like that. You can have the tape if you want it though, I'll never use it.

Thanking you Jim

Going through these minidiscs and I recorded them all off vinyl between 1998 and 2001, so a long time ago for me to remember all of them. Male group sound, called (Talking About) This Little Girl Of Mine, thats the chrous followed by 'she makes my lovelight shine' and 'she makes me feel so fine'. Midtempo, Stafford era sounding. Anyone please - Major IV??

I just found mine, a SonyNet MD Walkman MZ-N510, recordable, it works superbly although the mains lead is missing and so is the software. Can anyone point me to where I could download the software to enable me to get it to work with a pc (or mac). If I plug the walkman into the pc, it installs the driver software but I can't see it anywhere. p.s. the software is called SonicStage I think

Its is nice - all her records are nice - the other side of this is better. And I still need a copy of The One Who Really Loves You on Oriole.

I know, thats how I identified it for definite - it's scratched to buggery though! (Not on that track fortunately)

Not seen but do you mean My Life With You? £70 tops?

Reading back through the topic though, I hadn't really thought about this 'nostalgia' scene thing before, but it does seem as if people are specifically dressing up in the old 'uniform' to attend some events. This would be akin to going to a 50's night and dressing up as a Teddy Boy rather than wearing normal clothes. So do people do it just so they can dress up and relive their youth, do they have any interest in seeing the scene continue via new discoveries? I think we know the answer, sadly.

I know what you mean, very restrictive!

Once again, the mystery of the JM auctions. JACKIE TRENT - ONLY ONE SUCH AS YOU - PICCADILLY. This attained the incredible price of £184 in a January auction, and of course in the next few weeks loads of copies turned up for sale on Soul Source, from £40 to £70 mainly. Many of us were astonished at the auction price as prior to that it was worth about £10. Anyway it would be interesting to know if anyone actually sold a copy. I picked one up off Ebay, from the Soul section, for £6.50 on sunday, and that despite there were 11 bids, nobody bid higher than £6.50! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231019433233?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 The same has happened several times, most notably with the Jackie Edwards "Come On Home" which went for £300 plus despite it only being worth £20. I sold a mint one to someone who offered me £80 for it but otherwise I struggled to get £20 for my other spare copy. I think the auctions are great entertainment but I am still trying to work out why people pay astonishing sums of money for such common records, records which can easily be found cheaply with a couple of mouse clicks.

Dave Newman was another

Several of these had two presses (some had three), for instance, Salvadors, Anderson Bros and George Blackwell came as really good PB counterfeits, followed a couple of months later by styrene copies which wouldn't fool anyone but still had PB in the run out. I'll try and remember some more titles but it was around the time of Mel Britt, Joe Hicks etc

This is a character from a game Sam plays...nice trousers!

Yeah but I've been to Stoke many times, last time was 3 years ago, didn't enjoy it at all, but as I said, if I had to choose...and I probably didn't enjoy it as I drove myself there so couldn't have a drink or anything else come to that so probably wasn't entering into the spirit - I know I left at 1.30

Same here, you will get people saying that everyone stopped wearing them in 78 but I finally got rid in about October 79 when I went to see the Undertones and knew I'd look out of place in baggies. I remember wearing some straight Levis cords in 78 and people I knew on the soul scene p*ssing themselves laughing at me originally, when I started senior school in 1971, it was "oxford bags' which were baggy but about half as baggy as things like Karman Ghia which came in 1974, oh and in 72-73 we had "Skinners", again a kind of parralel type jean but still not outrageously baggy

Chalky I used to have a handful of Stafford tapes but they got lost in a move, but I know who does have some, cos he got them for me - Rob Pheasant from Willenhall. He goes on ebay and youtube as Robin Of Sherwood should you think it's worth contacting him.

Yes UK only - phenomenal stomper loved by about 3 of us - produced by Claire Francis who did some cracking stuff for Polydor before going off and marrying a red Indian. Sonny Childe was Sam Cooke's nephew - or similar relation - and he had a hit two years later with Take A Letter Maria, recorded under his real name of R.B Greaves.

I THINK THERE'S 167 DIFFERENT TITLES HERE, AROUND 185 RECORDS ALTOGETHER, MIXTURE OF 60'S SOUL, SWEET SOUL, DOO WOP, SOME ROCK N ROLL, 70'S SOUL, NORTHERN, THE LOT REALLY. I HAVE GRADED ALL VISUALLY. I HAVEN'T USED THE MINT GRADE, EX+ IS THE TOP GRADE. DON'T KNOW IF SOMEONE CAN SPOT STUFF HERE WHICH I DON'T KNOW ABOUT AND MAKE A BIT OF MONEY, BUT I NEED TO START CLEARING SOME SPACE. POSTAGE WOULD PROBABLY BE ABOUT £20 OR BUYER CAN COLLECT FROM ME. £100 THE LOT pete.smith@freeuk.com INTRUDERS - LOVE IS LIKE A BASEBALL GAME - GAMBLE VG+ 2 COPIES EARL GAINES - THE DOOR IS STILL OPEN - DELUXE DEMO VG++ BRIDES OF FUNKENSTEIN - DISCO TO GO - ATLANTIC EX ARCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS -DO THE HAND JIVE - ATLANTIC DEMO VG THE YOUNGHEARTS - ME AND YOU - 20TH CENTURY VG++ GENERAL CROOK - GIMME SOME - DOWN TO EARTH VG+ KING CURTIS - SOUL SERENADE - CAPITOL STARLINE EX GEORGE CLINTON - R & B SKELETONS (IN THE CLOSET) - CAPITOL W/PS EX+ JACKIE MOORE - PRECIOUS PRECIOUS - ATLANTIC (SOL) EX+ BULLET - WILLPOWER WEAK TEMPTATION STRONG - BIG TREE EX+ TYRONE DAVIS - IT'S A MIRACLE - FUTURE EX BARBARA ACKLIN - I DID IT - BRUNSWICK EX BETTY EVERETT - THERE'LL COME A TIME - UNI VG+ THE BROTHERHOOD - ARE YOU A TURTLE (YES I AM) - DIAL DEMO VG++ BARBARA MASON - SLIPPING AWAY - ARCTIC G GLORIA SPENCER -FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE - JAY WALKING EX BOBBY BLAND - I'M TOO FAR GONE - DUKE VG+ BULL & THE MATADORS - MOVE WITH THE GROOVE - TODDLIN' TOWN VG ALVIN CASH - THE PHILLY FREEZE - MARVLUS VG+ ETTA JAMES - TIGHTEN UP YOUR OWN THING - CADET DEMO EX THE MOMENTS - KEY TO MY HAPPINESS - STANG BENNY JOHNSON - VISIONS OF PARADISE - TODAY EX+ CLIFF NOBLES - THE MORE I DO FOR YOU BABY - PHIL LA OF SOUL DEMO EX THE RADIANTS - BOOK OF LOVE - CHESS EX BEN E KING - SPREAD MYSELF AROUND - MANDALA THE DELFONICS - I'M A MAN - PHILLY GROOVE VG++ BILLY PAUL - ME AND MRS JONES - PHIL INT DEMO VG++ BYRON MACGREGOR - AMERICANS - WESTBOUND EX FOXY - HOT NUMBER - DASH EX+ FERN KINNEY - GROOVE ME - MALACO EX THE HONEY CONE - WANT ADS - HOT WAX EX THE DRIFTERS - I'VE GOT SAND IN MY SHOES - ATLANTIC VG+ LOU RAWLS - SOUL SERENADE - CAPITOL DEMO VG+ THE FIVE SATINS - IN THE STLL OF THE NIGHT - LANA VG WOL INDEPENDENTS - JUST AS LONG AS YOU NEED ME - WAND VG+ LITTLE CAESAR & THE ROMANS - THOSE OLDIES BUT GOODIE - DEL FI VG++ THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS - PLAYGIRL'S LOVE - WINDY C VG+ JOHN LEE HOOKER - FLOWERS ON THE HOUR - VEEJAY DEMO VG+ JAMES BROWN - SUPER BAD - KING VG+ DON COVAY - THE POPEYE WADDLE - CAMEO VG++ THE TOUCH - PICK AND SHOVEL - LECASVER FAIR THE SOUL CHILDREN - THE SWEETER HE IS - STAX VG++ SAM COOKE - DESIRE ME - KEEN VG++ 2 COPIES ETTA JAMES - TELL MAMA - CADET VG WAR - LIFE IS SO STRANGE - RCA DEMO EX THE MASQUERADERS - LOVE PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING - AGP G SHEP & THE LIMELITES - DADDY'S HOME - HULL VG+ THE ISLEY BROTHERS - ITURNED YOU ON - T NECK EX 2 COPIES ROBERTA KELLY - TROUBLE MAKER - OASIS WOL EX THE BROTHERS THREE - TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT - T NECK EX+ 5 COPIES ARCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS - I CAN'T STOP DANCING - ATLANTIC G+ LITTLE ANTHONY & THE IMPERIALS - I'M FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU - AVCO DEMO EX+ RICHIE HAVENS - HERE COMES THE SUN - STORMY FOREST EX BABY WASHINGTON - I'VE GOT TO BREAK AWAY - MASTER FIVE EX RUFUS THOMAS - THE DOG - STAX EX CARLA THOMAS - I LIKE WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO ME - STAX EX- JOHNNY TAYLOR - NEXT TIME - STAX DEMO VG+ LINDA JONES - STAY WITH ME FOREVER - TURBO VG+ LITTLE ANTHONY & THE IMPERIALS - I'M ON THE OUTSIDE (LOOKING IN) - DCP DEMO VG JERRY BUTLER - A WOMAN WITH SOUL - VEEJAY VG++ JOE TEX - THAT'S THE WAY - DIAL DEMO VG+ SAM DEES - THE SHOW MUST GO ON - ATLANTIC DEMO EX+ BETTY EVERETT & JERRY BUTLER - LOVE IS STRANGE - VEEJAY EX THE MOMENTS - LUCKY ME - STANG EX- THE TEMPREES - DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE - WE PRODUCE VG WOL CHARLES WRIGHT & THE WATTS 103RD ST RHYTHM BAND - COMMENT - WARNER BROS DEMO EX TYRONE DAVIS - THERE IT IS - DAKAR DEMO EX LIVIN' PROOF - YOU AND I - JU PAR EX FUNKADELIC - ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVE - WARNER BROS W/PS EX+ THE STYLISTICS - BATCHA BY GOLLY WOW - AMHERST EX JAMES BROWN - WORLD - KING DEMO EX ARTHUR CONLEY - WHOLE LOTTA WOMAN - ATCO EX THE SWEET CHERRIES - LOVE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT - T NECK DEMO EX 3 COPIES GLADYS KNIGHT & BILL MEDLEY - LOVING ON BORROWED TIME - SCOTTI BROS DEMO EX PATTI AUSTIN - SAY YOU LOVE ME - CTI EX- SOL BOBBY WOMACK - I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO - MINIT EX RAY CHARLES - AIN'T THAT LOVE - ATLANTIC VG+ THE KAY GEES - YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP ON BUMPIN' - GANG EX CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD - HANGING ON TO A MEMORY - INVICTUS EX WILSON PICKETT - THE BEST PART OF A MAN - WICKED DEMO EX 100 PROOF (AGED IN SOUL) - SOMEBODY'S BEEN SLEEPING - HOT WAX EX TONY CLARKE - WOMAN, LOVE AND A MAN - CHESS EX BRENDA & THE TABULATIONS - RIGHT ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE - TOP & BOTTOM EX SHEP & THE LIMELITES - OUR ANNIVERSARY - HULL VG RAY CHARLES - I WANT A LITTLE GIRL - ATLANTIC EX IKE & TINA TURNER - I KNOW - BLUE THUMB VG++ DOROTHY MOORE - FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY - MALACO EX THE DELFONICS - READY OR NOT HERE I COME - PHILLY GROOVE VG+ VOICES OF EAST HARLEM - GIVING LOVE - JUST SUNSHINE VG+ WOL DOROTHY MOORE - MISTY BLUE - MALACO EX THE BLOSSOMS - STONEY END - ODE DEMO EX LITTLE ANTHONY & THE IMPERIALS - MADELINE - JANUS DEMO EX 2 COPIES THE 5 STAIRSTEPS - OOH CHILD - BUDDAH EX CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD - LIFE AND DEATH - INVICTUS DEMO EX+ MERRY CLAYTON - AFTER ALL THIS TIME - ODE DEMO EX+ SAM & DAVE - GET IT - ATLANTIC EX+ WILSON PICKETT - 634 5789 - ATLANTIC EX OTIS REDDING - SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY - VOLT EX+ LEE MICHAELS - CAN I GET A WITNESS - A & M EX+ BOBBY MOORE & THE RHYTHM ACES - SEARCHING FOR MY LOVE - CHECKER VG+ WILSON PICKETT - LAND OF 1000 DANCES - ATLANTIC EX WOL DIANA ROSS - SORRY DOESN'T ALWAYS MAKE IT RIGHT - TAMLA MOTOWN ITALY PS EX WILSON PICKETT - IN THE MIDNITE HOUR - MOTOWN DEMO EX 2 COPIES DEE CLARK - NOBODY BUT YOU - ABNER VG++ THE FUZZ - LIKE AN OPEN DOOR - CALLA EX L.J. JOHNSON - YOU KEEP MY TEMPERATURE ISING - MERCURY EX+ LESLEY GORE - I WON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE (SORRY) - MERCURY VG ESTHER PHILLIPS - JUSTIFIED - KUDU DEMO EX+ LITTLE JOHNNY TAYLOR - YOU WIN I LOSE - GALAXY EX BETTYE SWANN - WILLIE & LAURA MAE JONES - CAPITOL DEMO EX WHATNAUTS - I'LL ERASE AWAY YOUR PAIN - STANG G+ IRMA THOMAS - WE WON'T BE IN YOUR WAY ANYMORE - CANYON EX YOUNG HOLT UNLIMITED - WAH WAH MAN - COTILLION DEMO EX+ BETTYE SWANN - VICTIM OF A FOOLISH HEART - ATLANTIC EX THE NEW BIRTH - WILDFLOWER - RCA EX+ CURTIS MAYFIELD - SUPER FLY - CURTOM W/PS EX WITCH QUEEN - WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - ROADSHOW JAMES BROWN - SUPER BAD - KING EX+ PEOPLES CHOICE - I LIKES TO DO IT - PHIL LA OF SOUL EX WOL BLACK HEAT - STREET OF TEARS - ATLANTIC EX JOE TEX - AIN'T I A MESS - ANNA DEMO FAIR / GOOD BRENDA & THE TABULATIONS - A LOVE YOU CAN DEPEND ON - TOP & BOTTOM VG BROOK BENTON - HURTIN' INSIDE - MERCURY VG++ JACKIE WILSON - THERE'LL BE NO NEXT TIME - BRUNSWICK VG++ JACKIE WILSON - I'M COMIN' ON BACK TO YOU - BRUNSWICK VG+ LITTLE PEGGY MARCH - EVERY LITTLE MOVE YOU MAKE - RCA EX+ THELMA HOUSTON - 96 TEARS - RCA EX+ IMPRESSIONS - AIN'T GOT TIME - CURTOM EX GARY GLENN - DO YOU HAVE TO GO - MOTOWN DEMO BROTHERS OF SOUL - HURRY DON'T LINGER - BOO VG MARVIN GAYE - AFTER THE DANCE - MOTOWN KENYA EX+ MAJOR HARRIS - I GOT OVER LOVE - ATLANTIC DEMO EX THE BEGINNING OF THE END - MONKEY TAMARIND - ALSTON DEMO EX SOLOMON BURKE - PROUD MARY - BELL VG FATS DOMINO - THERE GOES MY HEART AGAIN - ABC VG++ THE DELFONICS - BREAK YOUR PROMISE - PHILLY GROOVE EX- FIVE STAIRSTEPS - AIN'T GONNA REST )TIL I GET YOU) - WINDY C G/VG WOL THE INTRUDERS - DON'T GIVE IT AWAY - GAMBLE VG+ THE INTRUDERS - I WANNA KNOW YOUR NAME - GAMBLE VG++ BILL DOGGETT - HONKY TONK - KING VG CLARENCE HENRY - AIN'T GOT NO HOME - ARGO VG RAY CHARLES - GEORGIA ON MY MIND - ABC EX THE DELFONICS - DIDN'T I BLOW YOUR MIND THIS TIME - PHILLY GROOVE VG SOUTHWEST F.O.B. - FEELIN' GROOVY - HIP DEMO MARVIN GAYE - SEXUAL HEALING - COLUMBIA ONE SIDED SINGLE EX+ OTIS WILLIAMS & HIS CHARMS - IVORY TOWER - DE LUXE VG THE INTRUDERS - SAD GIRL - GAMBLE VG+ DEE CLARK - HEY LITTLE GIRL - ABNER EX- BILLY WARD & HIS DOMINOES - MY PROUDEST POSSESSION - LIBERTY EX THE INTRUDERS - SLOW DRAG - GAMBLE EX FATS DOMINO - BLUEBERRY HILL - IMPERIAL VG THE DELFONICS - LA LA MEANS I LOVE YOU - PHILLY GROOVE VG JAMES & BOBBY PURIFY - I'M YOUR PUPPET - BELL VG RAY CHARLES - TIRED OF MY TEARS - ABC TRC VG OTIS REDDING - THE HAPPY SONG (DUM DUM) - VOLT VG++ THE DELLS - ALWAYS TOGETHER - CADET EX WOL SIL AUSTIN - THE LAST TIME - MERCURY EX- JOE BENNETT & THE SPARKLETONES - ROCKET - ABC VG+ LAVERN BAKER - I CRIED A TEAR - ATLANTIC VG+ THE SHIRELLES - WELCOME HOME BABY - SCEPTER EX EARL GRANT - IN MOTION - DECCA EX ALLEN ORANGE - JUST A LITTLE LOVE - MINIT EX EUGENE CHURCH - PRETTY GIRLS EVERYWHERE - CLASS VG+ LITTLE RICHARD - NEVER GONNA LET YOU GO - OKEH EX THE SPINNERS - DREAM - LIBERTY DEMO EX 167

If I was being asked that question and if I had the choice, which one would I go to on the evidence we have seen in this topic - I'd go to Stoke

I don't really like white pop stuff though - well I do, I love it but I like to collect it and listen to it here at home, I hated it when they used to play loads of it out, didn't mind one or two of the really good ones, Chapter Five etc.

Wales I think mate

Someone's got copies on ebay already, 10.99

Welcome to disagree Steve. I've never heard as much dross as this played. Well maybe one night in 1978 on a Keith M spot. But at least it was Northern.