Pete S

It'll be around £9, send it by Airsure not International Signed For though...safer

Before anyone says anything - it wasn't me!

I'd be embarrassed to own the record with a chunk out of it but as for the actual track, surprised at the dislike for it, just sounds like a belting 60's Popcorn Wylie special to me, and her voice isn't that bad...

You say it was someone on here? Best thing to do is constantly keep an eye open for your record turning up for sale I guess. I think the motto is - if you aren't certain, always insure, even if it's out of your own pocket.

(Have found the discs containing most of my old podcasts from Podomatic so am going to post a few up). Ah yes, more of those tunes stuck in the back of your record box gathering dust — well some of them are anyway — the likes of Barbara & Brenda, Bob & Earl, John Lees Groundhogs, Funky Sisters don’t get a look in nowadays, and other like The Nomads, The Delites, Sam Williams and The Just Brothers are just in such short supply in their original format that very few people can actually play them. Tracks like Calvin Williams, The Monclairs, Robert Parker and the incredible Bruce Scott beat ballad are simply underrated. (Interesting to note that since I did this podcast in 2009 or 2010, the Paul Anka record has become the scene's biggest revived record!) https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/forgotten-oldies/ Barbara & Brenda — Never Love A Robin (Dynamo) / The Hesitations — Soul Kind Of Love (Kapp) / Chester St. Anthony — Together (A & M) / Two People — Stop, Leave My Heart Alone (Revue) / Calvin Williams — Lonely You’ll Be (Atco) / The Monclairs — Wait For Me (Sunburst) / John Lee’s Groundhogs — I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (Uk Planet) / Eddie Holman — Hold Me In Your Ams (Uk Grapevine 2000) / Bertty Boo — Say It Isn’t So (Uk Grapevine) / Sam Williams — Love Slipped Through My Fingers (Tower) / The Nomads — Somethin’s Bad (Mo-Groov)(Sorry about sound quality on this one) / The Just Brothers — Carlena )Garrison) / The Wall Of Sound — Hang On (Tower) / The Delites — Lover (Cuppy) / Earl Wright — Thumb A Ride (Capitol) / Bobby Paris — I Walked Away (Capitol) / Ann Robinson — World Of Happiness (Uk Goldmine Test Press) / Brenda Holloway — Keeps On Rollin (Soul Bootleg) / Len Jewell — Bettin’ On Love (Fontana) / Rose Batiste — I Miss My Baby (Revilot) / Bob & Earl — Harlem Shuffle (Mirwood Cut) (Uk Jayboy) / Funky Sisters — Do It To It (Aurora) / Ray Paige — Ain’t No Soul (Rca) / Eddie Holman — Hurt (Uk Goldmine) / Jenny Wren — Chasing My Dream All Over Town (Uk Fontana) / Paul Anka — When We Get There (Rca) / Life — Cat’s Eyes (Uk Philips) / Robert Parker — I Caught You In A Lie (Nola) / Bruce Scott — You Can’t Lose Something You Never Had (Mgm).

All the sound's concentrated in one place straight down the middle instead of being split up and filtered, who wants drums in one speaker and guitar in the other, stereo records always sound a bit wishy washy compared to the ir mono counterparts.

Can you not trace the record, if it was registered he should have had to sign for it?

Those were all sold via Russ's Records in Wigan, I got the list on the day of my last exam at school so that would have been April 76.

15 RECORDS BOOK VALUE OVER £200 ASKING £65 + £5 TOWARDS POSTAGE LITTLE EVA - THE TROUBLE WITH BOYS - COLPIX (EX) JOHNNY PEARSON - THE RAT CATCHERS - COLUMBIA (M) JAMES BROWN - NIGHT TRAIN - SUE (VG+ NOC SWOL) JORDAN CHRISTOPHER - HELLO LOVER - UNITED ARTISTS (M-, NOC) MARIAN ANGEL - A LITTLE BIT OF SUNSHINE - CBS (EX+ SWOL) JULIE GRANT - COME TO ME - PYE DEMO (M) NEW FACES - LIKE A MAN - PYE (M-, SMALL TOL ON CENTRE) KENNY LYNCH - IT'S TOO LATE - HMV (VG) FREDDIE SCOTT - HEY GIRL - COLPIX (VG++ TINY LABEL TEAR) TOM JONES - STOP BREAKING MY HEART - DECCA (VG+) 1ST ISSUE BARRY YOUNG - SHOW ME THE WAY - DOT DEMO (M) DEE CLARK - RAINDROPS - TOP RANK DEMO (EX) EARL JEAN - I'M INTO SOMETHING GOOD - COLPIX (VG+ TOL) US T BONES - MOMENT OF SOFTNESS - LIBERTY (M) JOHN LEE HOOKER - DIMPLES - STATESIDE (VG)

Nobody's saying Helen Shapiro is a soul singer but she went on to become a very noted jazz and gospel singer. She had a brilliant deep voice.

Why do I only get 15 quid when I sell it

Just in the context that a real 'hero' would be on the right side of the law. Starting a topic about Simon though is akin to starting one about Ian Levine or Russ Winstanley, with opinion always divided down the middle. Light the fuse and stand back.

Sorry I must have imagined everything I've read, been told, read on here and witnessed first hand I've enjoyed all the stories and agree that he's a larger than life character but....no excuse for some of the things he's documented on here as having got up to. People with long memories remember buying the likes of George Blackwell and The Salvadors as originals only to find out that they weren't...

Or maybe he just doesn't like hearing heroic tales about someone who stole hard earned money from lots of punters by taking their money and not supplying records, or selling counterfeits as originals, etc?

Tim there may not have been a pic sleeve. It's part of the Decca group and I've had Belgian copies of American Poets (London) and Frankie & Johnny (Decca), they definitely did not have sleeves...though the Knickerbockers "Wishful Thinking" did...

Wow - nice find.

People saying that Paul Anka - Can't Help Loving You might not make it if discovered today, yet his other "Northern" single, the extremely poppy When We get There, is in the country's top 10 play out records Can't Help is good enough to have made it at any point of the scene's history.

It was a Wigan thing - it got played at one of the oldies sessions, went down a storm, so someone tried it out on the saturday night and it again went huge, a lot of people had never heard it before, it stayed on the playlist for 3 or 4 weeks and was then bootlegged and dropped immediately. You could also buy it on UK red Atlantic for £2 at the time, that went up to £4!

Thanks for getting the info but...James Coit was bootlegged in 1978, that red Joe Tex was not around in 1978, the white demo bootleg was. As I say, never seen one before today and I must have had every record every bootlegged on the Northern scene so I don't care what John says, I still remain unconvinced, unless of course this is the worlds rarest bootleg and it was left uncirculated for 25 years...it makes absolutely no sense to get a stock copy of this bootlegged because a thousand were sold on the white demo and after that, no customers left to buy extra copies, it was only a 3 week wonder.

I see it but remain unconvinced, when did it come out and where did it come from, thats what I'd like to know...

This was never booted (for the Northern scene) on a red issue, only on a white demo. Unless it's some obscure European bootleg?

Apparently only 3 test pressings made Steve.

I know where they came from now Steve, I'll PM you see if it's the same as yours...

Yes it does - also what looks like the word or name 'Snowy'

Nothing, I like Micky Moonshine, good record.