Pete S

The vocal was picked up by scooterists in the early 80's, otherwise never really played at all, remember having one of those orange HIB reissues and I never played it either

Perhaps giving you Rock Steady Party as a present was not my best ever move

Sometimes you can have an Eddie Foster "original" in your hand and not be certain - those dark blue ones are very difficult to tell.

Have you heard the vocal that Hitsville Chalky did with pat lewis? Bostin!

From the article I wrote in 88 Finally in BM's article on the Northern scene, we have another Wigan slag-off as our roving reporter visits Blackpool Mecca and describes the punters as "the connoisseurs of the Northern scene" nd of their counterparts says "the black bombing, bootleg playing, dull brained brothers from Wigan". It's strange how Tony Cummings keeps contradicting himself in this piece. On one hand he's praising the Mecca for it's policy of "no white stompers allowed" but then slags off almost every record he hears: Chris Jackson-Since There's No Doubt "Pleasant but just like a thousand others" Lydia Marcelle-Its Not Like You "A Supremes rip-off" And to end the piece, one last dig at the Wigan Casino: "My brother heard them play the pressing of Eddie Foster at Wigan, bloody pressers ripping off the artists". Question is, how did he know they were playing the pressing???

Well I defy anyone reading that article to not come to the conclusion that there is a pro-Mecca anti_Wigan bias throughout. "Dull brained, black bombing" I think the Wigan punters were described as, and that's without looking at the article, it kind of stuck...

They were a load of biased rubbish read a decade later

Yeah but when you read a sales thread you don't think that you'll be following the topic like you would with an ongoing forum topic. * I read your guide on making it easy Chalky, it was excellent, but it's still too much work for many

Richard Searling did a fantastic compilation of UA/Liberty/Minit material for EMI back in 1980, Sold On Soul, this is a really fantastic LP and introduced a lot of people to things like The Drifter.

Thanks Matt.

So this has been on has it?

I just had a look at my feedback and not many people leave me it to be honest, I get an email saying they are really pleased etc but they don't actually add anything on site - except for someone who obviously read the topic about me complaining about the guy who left me positive feedback which just said "ok" - so he leaves me a positive Soul Source feedback which just says "ok", which actually made me chuckle but might be seen as not so great, if you see what I mean. The reason people don't leave as much feedback as they should is the one that's been gone over many times, that the buyers have to go back through the sales lists to find the original post.

Yes bought that when it came out and still have it. Tony Cummings did a couple of real hatchet jobs on Wigan around that time which I later reported in an article of my own on Black Music magazine.

I think if someone was desperate for a last title then £50 might be the limit.

Is this the one set in Newcastle? It's 1964 or thereabouts.

Also on the Essential Northern Soul Story CD, one of Goldmines first and very best releases

Probably because I've had 3 copies or is it 4 meaning it's not rare, there's so many far rarer records on Doctor Bird, it's worth maybe £300 absolute tops, and like Roger says, it's not a great record anyway. It's alright.

I know they were buddies but that doesn't sound like John Hendley to me.

You're having a laugh. You honestly think someone would pay £600 for that?

Anyone paying £77 for a Grapevine record needs their head testing.

The original, which I think is one sided, is a totally different take to the reissue., which people say was a re-recording. Both are brilliant in my opinion, I prefer the "remake" myself.

Hey!

Yes literally, last one bought a bag with him, when we got downstairs after doing business he said he'd left his bag and went up to get it before I could say anything, came straight back down, when he left I went back up and a record he'd been after but wasn't for sale had gone. Still thinks I don't know and still attempts to speak to me. This isn't the only example sadly. When I was living in St leonards someone came round and I could actually see the shape of the record under his jumper, I told him to put it down and f*ck off before I called the police, never seen or heard from him since that day.

I think we all do that though? People who've stolen records off me (yes, literally stolen from my house), people who constantly waste time ordering stuff then never paying for it and so on.

I had one cheaper than that even a week or two ago. But what if the bidders don't like me or J Manship for whatever reason, they may actually choose not to buy off certain people on purpose - I know I do, same as I won't sell to certain people.