Pete S

No, £25...and you can give it a rest, you were the subject of enough talk on here when you were selling bootlegs as originals on ebay and not giving a toss about ripping people off

karaoke version of Open The Door To Your Heart...I was racking my brain thinking about what record you were all talking about and when I finally realised what it was I couldn't believe you were all going so over the top. There's certainly another copy because I got this in about 98-99 from a chap who sold me his collection which included a black RCA Don ray, I remember that one, and sold it at one of those two weekenders at that hotel in Bournemouth, can't remember who to but it was something like £125, I sold a minnie jones to jo wallace the same week from the same lot I think * for an accurate timeline, it was the week before the Danny Moore's hit the streets

I never thought I'd know a day when Yvonne Baker wasn't it my top 10 but I just compiled a new top 100 and it's about number 78! It's not that I dont like it anymore, it's just "not as good as it used to be"

He said cheap as possible!

I remember the 3rd anniversary when it was probably at it's peak, they played it 3 times that night, even I liked it then.

yeah that was actually a really bad judgement on price by me, but I remembered not being able to sell a white demo for ages and eventually reduced it to £75, I actually thought maybe £125 on the issue but I needed to shift it sharpish so that's why I stuck £90 on it. Stupid really, but wasn't sure of the demand anymore.

Yeah I used to love doing those mix compilations but I kept getting complaints from people either wanting reggae or soul, not usually both, and only a few brave souls wanting the punk and beat stuff...though when I did podcast machine, I put some crackers up on there - all now sadly lost

Mariachi brass Tezza, have a listen to this hip hop tune to hear one of the best mariachi samples ever! I think it might be John Barry...

I don't know anyone who likes Blanche Carter! Love Stemmons Express and The Del Larks though. Don't like The Precisions version! Takes all sorts.

Theres not an infinite amount of topics you can have though, eventually then run out and have to be recycled, hence OVO every month, best dj's every 6 months, how to get a warp out of a 45 every 9 months..

Could happily stay in and listen to that one over and over...

HERE IS PART 2 WELL I HOPE YOU ENJOYED PART 1 - HERE IS PART 2, COUNTING DOWN NUMBERS 80 TO 61. I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT TO QUALIFY, ALL OF THE TRACKS HAD TO BE FROM VINYL, SO ANY OF MY FAVOURITES WHICH WERE ON CD OR MP3 SADLY DIDN'T QUALIFY. LOOK OUT FOR A FANTASTIC 'COCA COLA' ADVERT FEATURING LEE DORSEY ABOUT HALF WAY THROUGH! PART 3 WILL BE COMING UP VERY SOON. https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/the-top-100-northern-soul-oldies-of-all-time-80-61/ 80 BOBBY HUTTON - LEND A HAND (ABC) 79 GLORIA JONES - TAINTED LOVE (CHAMPION) 78 JOHNNIE MAE MATTHEWS - I HAVE NO CHOICE (BIG HIT) 77 NANCY WILSON - THE END OF OUR LOVE (CAPITOL) 76 BILLY PROPHET - WHAT CAN I DO (SUE) 75 RONNIE MCNEIR - SITTING IN MY CLASS (DE-TO) 74 GARNET MIMMS - LOOKING FOR YOU (UNITED ARTISTS) 73 ELOISE LAWS - LOVE FACTORY (MUSIC MERCHANT) 72 E. RODNEY JONES - R & B TIME (TUFF) 71 BRENDA HOLLOWAY - RECONSIDER (MOTOWN) 70 JACKIE EDWARDS - I FEEL SO BAD (ISLAND) 69 GEORGE BLACKWELL - CAN'T LOSE MY HEAD (SMOKE) 68 TOWANDA BARNES - YOU DON'T MEAN IT (A & M) 67 ESTHER PHILLIPS - JUST SAY GOODBYE (ATLANTIC) 66 TONY CLARKE - LANDSLIDE (CHESS) 65 THE MONITORS - CRYING IN THE NIGHT (MOTOWN) 64 JERRY WILLIAMS - IF YOU ASK ME (CALLA) 63 JIMMY BEAUMONT - YOU GOT TOO MUCH GOING FOR YOU (BANG) 62 TIMI YURO - IT'LL NEVER BE OVER FOR ME (LIBERTY) 61 LARRY WILLIAMS & JOHNNY WATSON - TOO LATE (OKEH)

I think Frankie & Johnny is one of the best UK produced records of the entire 60's, not necessarily as a Soul or Northern Soul record, just as a record, it's stupendous. Why they put it on a B side I'll never know.

Thats got to be up there with the worst records ever made. I love it when people have it for sale and say "superb alternative version to cajun hart".

This is all very vague now because it was 20 years ago but it might have been Graham Williamson. Is he still around?

It is, and the download links are all still working. I've been thinking, I was looking through my old records this morning and I would think that almost every chart place would change and at least 20 records would come in to replace ones I'm fed up with. I'd still have to stick to the rule of only including records I have on vinyl though, be it original or reissue. See if this link works Benji https://planetrecords.podbean.com/

He's No Ordinary Guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bxHfuLM18E

NO OFFERS! NORTHERN SOUL ORIGINALS £15 - £100 PETE SMITH 01902 326306 pete.smith@freeuk.com CLARA WOOD - YOU'RE AFTER MY GUY - IMPERIAL M- SOLD Beautiful and very rare stock copy, classic girl dancer, immaculate THE PETS - I SAY YEAH - CARNIVAL DEMO EX SOLD One of the rarest on the label and a real old school stormer CHARLES DAVENPORT - YOU MEAN THE WORLD TO ME - WARNER BROS DEMO EX 20 Stafford semi-known JACKEY BEAVERS - BRING ME ALL YOUR HEARTACHES - GRAND LAND EX SOLD Detroit classic in lovely shape THE FANTASTIC JOHNNY C - YOU'VE GOT YOUR HOOKS IN ME - KAMA SUTRA EX 15 Funky dancer JOHNNIE MAE MATTHEWS - LONELY YOU'LL BE - ATCO DEMO EX 60 Rare Atco demo of this Detroit classic, small stain on label SEBASTIAN WILLIAMS & HIS SOUL MEN - THE ONE YOU CAN'T HAVE - COTILLION EX 15 Cracking dancer, this doesn't half sound like Otis Redding DARROW FLETCHER - WHAT HAVE I GOT NOW - JACKLYN EX SOLD Massive floor filler last few years DEE DEE SHARP - HE'S NO ORDINARY GUY - CAMEO EX- 20 Really nice midtempo and quite obscure considering the artist BOBBIE JEAN BLAND - I'M SATISFIED JUST LOVING YOU - SACK EX 50 Rare Chicago dancer, Stafford again MARION BLACK - WHO KNOWS - AVCO EX 15 Good early 70's dancer from Capsoul label THE MODERN REDCAPS - EMPTY WORLD - LAWN DEMO EX 75 Bargain price for this Philly dancer BROOKS O'DELL - WATCH YOUR STEP - GOLD EX 20 Brilliant midtempo / beat ballad, someone had been listening to "Hey Girl" I think VIKI ADAMS - I'M DROWNING - STOP EX 20 Early Wigan dancer JOHNNY MOORE - HAVEN'T I BEEN GOOD TO YOU - WAND EX 15 Good late 60's dancer SAM E SOLO - LOVE IS NOT A GAME - IMPERIAL DEMO M- 40 Rare major label release for this tune originally released on Detroit local label Ruby LARRY HENLEY - IN THE HUSH OF NIGHT - ATCO EX- 40 Was put onto this by Ian Levine - very blue eyed stomper a la Keith 98.6 sort of thing, nice though and a great dancer. Not many of these about. Has a very light tick at the start hence the EX- grade. AL DOWNING - I'M JUST NOBODY - POLYDOR M 25 Good 70's THE WANDERERS - YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM ME - UNITED ARTISTS DEMO M 45 Beautiful demo copy POSTAGE 2.15 RECORDED DELIVERY 6.00 SPECIAL DELIVERY OVERSEAS 9.00 AIRSURE (registered) for orders over £30 OTHERWISE EUROPE £2.70 FIRST RECORD, ELSEWHERE £3.70 FIRST RECORD PAYMENT - CARD, PAYPAL TO pete.smith@freeuk.com , CHEQUE, BANK TRANSFER THANKS FOR READING PETE

Someone I used to swap tapes with in the 90's, can't remember who, told me he bought the Eddie Parker on Awake at the Torch for a quid, they tried it and it never caught on for some reason...

My best memory of that one (Court Davis) was buying it off a UK pop dealers auction list where he had it described as a "Gene Pitney soundalike", strange record to find in the UK.

Another two in my all time top 100, I think at one point I would have walked the length of the country to get a copy of Cajun hart.

I think I really like Wombat, not because it's a great record, just because it's a memory jerker. People not around at the time must be mystified about that record but it was as big a record in it's day as anything ever - undeniably a great record to dance to. I don't like or have never liked Holly St James though.

I might have mailed them to people if they asked me but I never sold / distributed / produced them on cd's Garv, it was just on that podcast site. Don't know if you remember but it inspired Rich Chorley to poll everyone about their top 5 sounds and he was working on producing the definitive top 100 until he fell seriously ill. Shame it never got completed.

A couple of months back someone was doing the "so and so now SOLD" post after every sale so I wrote a comment that said "thanks for keeping us informed", and he said "no problem!" or similar thinking that I actually meant thank you.

Don't be so pathetic.