Pete S

p.s. I got the Action last week, an amazing job lot really: I paid £80 for THE LOT! the action - baby you got it - parlophone the action - in my lonely room - parlophone the soul agents - gospel train - pye alan bown set - gonna fix you good - pye demo ruperts people - reflections of charles brown - columbia downliners sect - all night worker - columbia screaming lord such - i'm a hog for you baby - decca martha & the vandellas - wild one - stateside

Andy the tune of Bobby Vee, well the main riff anyway, sound to me just like 'Nine times out of ten'!

https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/on-the-brink/ This time I've gone back to the 60's singles; some unknown, some very well known. The first half is all UK label stuff and the second half are US releases. Some overlap of course. We start with a couple of very obscure popcorn tracks from 61 and 63 respectively, then there's a flurry of excellent mid-60's beat 45's, the Dodos track is a previously unknown (to me) version of Jon Gunn on Deram, The Youth is an obscure Claire Francis production, and the Barry Hopkins is an ultra-obscure pop-Northern dancer from 1970. The UK section ends with a phenomenal Hammond instrumental from the Soul Agents. Pick of the US stuff are Jackie Burns old Stafford cover up (actually from a UK MGM copy), the fabulous Jan Bradley, Len Barry's brilliant version of The Shirelles classic and the truly moving Manhattans original of The Uniques big reggae hit Out Of Love. I sneaked the Samantha Jones UK only release in at the end because I love it so much, and also three quarters of Earl Grant's obscure instrumental version of the Ben E King classic. So 70 minutes worth of "interesting" 60's 45's for you to lend an ear to. SOUNDS INCORPORATED - ON THE BRINK - COLUMBIA GARY LANE - START WALKING BOY - FONTANA MIKE HURST - ANY CHANCE FOR ME - PHILIPS THREE BELLS - OVER AND OVER AGAIN - COLUMBIA BARBARA RUSKIN - I CAN'T BELIEVE IN MIRACLES - PICCADILLY THE YOUTH - YOUR ONE AND ONLY MAN - POLYDOR THE ACTION - BABY YOU'VE GOT IT - PARLOPHONE DAVID BOWIE & THE LOWER THIRD - AND I SAY TO MYSELF - PYE THE DODOS - I MADE UP MY MIND - POLYDOR FEARNS BRASS FOUNDRY - LOVE, SINK AND DROWN - DECCA BARRY HOPKINS - A LITTLE TOO MUCH - SPARK THE SOUL AGENTS - GOSPEL TRAIN - PYE THE MARKETTS - A TOUCH OF VELVET, A STING OF BRASS - WARNER BROS BOBBY VEE - CROSS MY HEART - LIBERTY KERRI DOWNES - YOU WON'T FORGET ME - EPIC BOBBY JOHN - SHADOWS OF LOVE - IMPERIAL KIP & KEN - TROUBLE WITH A WOMAN - CRUSADER JOHNSON SISTERS - I FOUND MY PLACE - BROADWAY HEDY SONTAG - HE NEVER CAME BACK - PHILIPS DELLA REESE - BLOW OUT THE SUN - RCA JACKIE BURNS & THE BELLES - I DO THE BEST I CAN - MGM NINO TEMPO & APRIL STEVENS - ALL STRUNG OUT - LONDON JAN BRADLEY - BEHIND THE CURTAINS - NIGHT OWL GENE THOMAS - I'D RATHER NOT TALK ABOUT IT - UNITED ARTISTS LINDA HOPKINS - MEMORIES AND A BROKEN HEART - BRUNSWICK LEN BARRY - WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW - DECCA ANITA HUMES & THE ESSEX - WHAT DID I DO - ROULETTE SAMANTHA JONES - I DESERVE IT - UNITED ARTISTS THE MANHATTANS - THE ONE THAT LOVE FORGOT - CARNIVAL EARL GRANT - STAND BY ME - BRUNSWICK

It's the B side of Zola by King Errison. Obviously bootlegged them at the same time and somehow there was a mix up. Probably 1 in every 4 plays this tune.

I guess they could have overlapped, JB was late 77/early 78. Anyone could have cut that though, there were loads of people doing them.

It's just an acetate cut for the Northern scene Kev. Worthless unfortunately. Bernadette Catsro was a 2 week wonder which got bootlegged.

John reckons it has but I've never been convinced, I know someone found the dead stock (either John Anderson or Kev Roberts) and they were sold for £3 each which was double what pressings sold for, I never heard a hint that there were counterfeits until maybe 10 years ago. There are certainly two variations though. As for the one that plays Heaven on both sides - I've seen them where they play the B side on both sides two. This may mean that it certainly was pressed.

Weird isn't it, I listed the first pressing, the two shields design lookalike, for set sale this week and I've still got it - was expensive (for me), think it was £20, but not half as expensive as those on ebay!

I sold four or five so I removed them...now I sold four or five more so removed those also

https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/new-sounds-1978-81/ dunno what happened to the link, I didn't delete it p.s. can anyone possibly know what you mean about food in the wardrobe? Clue: it was a hiding place for sundays after Wigan

Found this but haven't tested it https://clouddownload.co.uk/ have now, didn't work for me heres some instructions https://clouddownload.co.uk/how-to

Bizarre, I advertised a 'no label' copy of this a few weeks ago and now I've got colour copies of both labels, decided to list it again today, low and behold this appears...that really is a coincidence. I won't list mine til you're done with yours Neil.

You can't download them on mixcloud I'm afraid Ted, well you can but you have to be very internet savvy to do so, I don't know how to do it. It's a free site so they just let you publish them but not download them. You can of course get something like FREECORDER which will record the lot for you but in real time. Someone might know how to do the download thing, I was told how once.

THE JAM - DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT THE CURE - KILLING AN ARAB THE BUZZCOCKS - I DON'T MIND SPIZZENERGI - WHERE'S CAPTAIN KIRK JOE JACKSON - IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM DEVO - JOCKO HOMO THE PRETENDERS - STOP YOUR SOBBING WIRE - OUTDOOR MINER NICK LOWE - CRUEL TO BE KIND HUMAN LEAGUE - EMPIRE STATE HUMAN TUBEWAY ARMY - ME, I DISCONNECT FROM YOU ELVIS COSTELLO - WATCHING THE DETECTIVES GANG OF FOUR - AT HOME HE'S A TOURIST THE PRETENDERS - KID SQUEEZE - PULLING MUSSELLS (FROM A SHELL) THE B-52'S - LAVA THE FALL - ROWCHE RUMBLE THE CLASH - STAY FREE PUBLIC IMAGE LTD - PUBLIC IMAGE THE SLITS - TYPICAL GIRLS THE ONLY ONES - ANOTHER GIRL, ANOTHER PLANET SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - MIRAGE THE UNDERTONES - JIMMY JIMMY THE CLASH - TOMMY GUN I fancied putting up some of my favourite tracks from a brilliant period in music, mid 1978 to the beginning of 1981. This era became known as 'post-punk' and some of the greatest music ever sprang from this short but incredibly creative period. I bought all of these records when they were originally released, the majority are singles but there are a couple of lp tracks (Siouxsie & The Banshees, B52's) and I think the Tubeway Army track was a 12" b side as well as an LP track. The Jam's opener is the long version from the LP also. I've used the 'newspaper' sleeve from Public Image's first single to accompany this podcast as I think, of all the truly great singles released in that 3 year period, this is probably the greatest track from the entire era. If anyone likes this, I've got endless amounts of 45's from this period.

You're right, it's an Inferno release, think one side is the usual and one side a remix, BILBO refers to the guy who mastered it at the cutting stage.

https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/way-of-life/ some great singles here THE GRADUATES - WAY OF LIFE - FLAME SCOTTY - SESAME STREET - SONG BIRD SLIM SMITH & PRINCE BUSTER - THE PROPHET - VOICE OF THE PEOPLE PHYLLIS DILLON - LOVE WAS ALL I HAD - TROJAN THE TECHNIQUES - IT'S YOU I LOVE - TREASURE ISLE DENNIS ALCAPONE - THE GREAT WOGGIE - TREASURE ISLE LLOYD & THE GROOVERS - DO IT TO ME BABY - CALTONE ERROL DUNKLEY - THE SCORCHER - AMALGAMATED THE SKATALITES - SKACULATION - BLANK THE PIONEERS - THE REGGAE BEAT - BLUE CAT THE INSPIRATIONS - LOVE OH LOVE - CAMEL THE UPSETTERS - DRY ACID - PUNCH MARCIA GRIFFITHS - TELL ME NOW - GAS DERRICK HARRIOTT - BEEN SO LONG - BIG SHOT THE CLARENDONIANS - LONELY HEARTACHES - CRAB ANONYMOUSLY YOURS - ORGANISM - DUKE SIR LORD COMIC - JACK OF MY TRADE - PRESSURE BEAT THE UNIQUES - OUT OF LOVE - TROJAN KING SPORTY - FOR YOUR DESIRE - PECKINGS BIG JOE - SWEET MELODY - KING EDWARDS ALTON ELLIS - TOO LATE TO TURN BACK NOW - GIANT THE HEPTONES - GIVE ME THE RIGHT - SUCCESS DOBBY DOBSON - I WASN'T BORN YESTERDAY - BIG SOUND DIMENSION - ROCK FOR ROCK - STUDIO ONE

Yeah that one I wrote about Black Music and the history of the scene mentions that kind of stuff quite heavily, I scanned it from an old fanzine that I wrote it for and the software changed some of the spellings so if it looks like I wrote some odd words, I didn't really LOL https://www.rare-soul.com/wordpress/about/the-northern-soul-explosion/ get a cup of coffee though, it's about 15 pages long

I remember the day I first sw these records, it was in an a5 catalogue from Russ's records, they were splashed all over the front page and definitely sold as originals. Elsewhere in the catalogue were copies of the Natural Four - I thought you were mine - Boola Boola, that was £5 and nobody wanted that version. Anyway I got the list on the day I was sitting an exam and took it into the hall with me, I was so excited about it that I ignored the exam and just read the list, it soon got confiscated and I got something like grade D cse maths for not doing the exam p.s. Ady I've not forgot that thing, it's in here ready to go

Took an hour but someone got it

All that batch from 76 came from the same source, organised by SS, pressed by a famous bootlegger and sold via Russ Winstanley's sales list to begin with. Mel Britt, Salvadors, Johnny Vanelli, George Blackwell, kenny Smith, Flirtations and so on.

Maybe they put an N in instead of a T then?

PETE SMITH 4 BLAKELEY HEATH DRIVE WOMBOURNE WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0HW 01902 326306 pete.smith@freeuk.com THE LAST LOT OF 70'S, 80'S, MODERN SOUL, CROSSOVER AND BOOGIE 45'S MOST ARE IN LOVELY SHAPE SO THERE'S NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EX AND M TO BE HONEST, ESPECIALLY IN THIS LIGHT! I COULDN'T FIND THE PRICES OF SOME OF THEM, THOSE ARE LEFT BLANK. I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO WITHDRAW ITEMS FOR SALE IF I'VE MADE A GIANT COCK-UP ON THE PRICE ON ANOTHER NOTE, I HAVE OVER 600 QUIDS WORTH OF RECORDS HERE WHICH WERE RESERVED AND NOT PAID FOR THIS WEEK SO THAT IS POSITIVELY THE LAST TIME I RESERVE MORE THAN ONE RECORD FOR ANYONE HERE WE GO... 5 WAGERS - COME AND ASK ME - TIARA 20 ARTISTICS - IT'S THOSE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT - BRUNSWICK DEMO 20 ACE SPECTRUM - KEEP HOLDING ON - ATLANTIC DEMO 20 ALVAREZ - SOONER OR LATER - POLYDOR 30 BROCKINGTON SINGERS - STRETCH OUT - TSOP DEMO 20 LARRY BAILEY - GROOVE WITH ME - OK & T 50 Missed this off the 'rare' list a vew weeks ago. Now this has an evil looking mark across the vinyl but I played it all the way through and I heard maybe 7 or 8 clicks but they are way back, muffled and you can dj with this absolutely no problem. You'd be looking at 200-250 for a mint one. Money back gurantee that this is good value for 100 quid. HIGH BOYNTON - WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT - SOUL-PO-TION 8 BLUE NOTES - STANDING BY YOU GIRL - GLADES 20 BREAKWATER - NO LIMIT - ARISTA DEMO 20 BROTHERS BY CHOICE - TAKE A LITTLE MORE - ALA 15 BROTHERS BY CHOICE - OH DARLIN - ALA DEMO 10 JOHNNY BRISTOL - LOVE NO LONGER HAS A HOLD ON ME - HANDSHAKE 25 BLACK IVORY - YOU ARE MY LOVER - PANORAMIC 6 RAHMLEE/RISE OF THE PHOENIX - HEARTBREAKER - HEADFIRST 10 SIDNEY BLUE - COUNT THE WAYS - RECORDING CONCEPTS 15 Old Johnny Guitar Watson cover up at Stafford FLOYD BECK - SHARE THE PAIN - SATURN 10 CRYSTAL IMAGE - GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME - IX CHAINS 15 JEAN CARN - IF YOU WANNA GO BACK - PHIL INT DEMO 15 CAROLYN CRAWFORD - JUST GOT TO BE MORE CAREFUL - PHIL INT 25 JAMES COBBIN & PRIME CUT - CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE - TM 20 BEVERLY CROSBY - YOU CAN BE MY LOVER - BAREBACK 20 HEYWOOD CASH - GIVE IT UP - EPIC DEMO 15 CATE BROS - WHERE CAN WE GO - ASYLUM DEMO 25 CHOCOLATE SYRUP - YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF LOVE TO GIVE - BROWN DOG 15 GEATER DAVIS - DON'T GIVE UP - MT 15 FREDERICK - GENTLE (CALLING YOUR NAME) - TIME TRAX 10 THE FIFTH AMENDMENT - I GOT YOU WHERE I WANT YOU - NYCS 25 THELMA HOUSTON - DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY - TAMLA DEMO 15 BILLY HARNER - I DON'T WANNA CRY - MATCH 8 LOLEATTA HOLLOWAY - LOVE SENSATION - GOLD MIND DEMO 10 THE HONEY DRIPPERS - STREAKIN' - ALAGA (EX-) 15 MICHAEL HENDERSON - TAKE ME I'M YOURS - BUDDAH 10 CELEST HARDIE - THANK YOU LOVE - LOADSTONE 10 DAVE JAMES & TRILOGY - SHADOW PEOPLE - SURPRIZE 15 JADE - BROWN AND BEAUTIFUL - CENTURY CITY 40 JAISUN - I FALL IN LOVE EVERYDAY - JETT SETT 10 INNER CITY JAM BAND - WHAT I DID FOR LOVE - BAREBACK 8 BENNY JOHNSON - VISIONS OF PARADISE - TODAY 8 SYL JOHNSON - I'VE GOT TO GET OVER - TMP TING 15 EDDIE JAMES - HER MAMMA WON'T LEAVE US ALONE - STARTOWN 10 GORDON KEITH - DON'T TAKE KINDNESS FOR WEAKNESS - STEELTOWN 25 KATIE LOVE & 4 SHADES OF BLACK - IT HURTS SO GOOD - MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND 30 LITTLE DOOLEY - IT'S GOT TO BE NOW OR NEVER - NORTH BAY DEMO 15 GINIE LYNN - IN LOVE - MISTY 15 LADY - NUMBER ONE - MEGA 8 LITTLE DOOLEY - MEMORIES - RED RUBY 15 LUTHER - IT'S GOOD FOR THE SOUL - COTILLION 10 BILL MURPHY - WORK SONG - KLONDIKE OFFERS? Fantastic 60's style stormer, what a surprise! RONNIE McNEIR - WENDY IS GONE - PRODIGAL DEMO 10 ERIC MERCURY - TAKE ME GIRL I'M READY - COLUMBIA 15 MANDRILL - MY KIND OF GIRL - ARISTA DEMO 10 GERALD MALLORY - LAY IT DOWN ON ME - PRELUDE 10 ALTON McCLAIN & DESTINY - IT MUST BE LOVE - POLYDOR 15 GLENDA MCLEOD - NO STRANGER TO LOVE - HGEI (REISSUE) 20 GEORGE McCRAE - TAKE IT ALL OFF - SOUL CITY 20 MASTER PLAN - DANCE ALL NITE - AMANI 15 NATURA'ELLES - SHOW ME THE WAY - VENTURE 15 CLIFF NOBLES & CO - IS IT THE WAY - J-V should be in the Northern section really 50 JOHNNY OTIS - JAWS - HAWK SOUND 15 OMNI - OUT OF MY HANDS - FOUNTAIN 10 ARTHUR PRYSOCK - WANTCHA BABY - OLD TOWN DEMO 20 THE PATTERSON TWINS - BACK IN LOVE AGAIN - KING 10 LLOYD PRICE - LOVE MUSIC - LPG 10 RIMSHOTS - DO WHAT YOU FEEL - STANG 6 RHYZE - I FOUND LOVE IN YOU - SAM 8 SINS OF SATAN - DANCE AND FREE YOUR MIND - BUDDAH DEMO 20 CANDI STATON - YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE - WARNER BROS 10 PEGGY SCOTT & JOJO BENSON - WE'LL MAKE IT - GCS 8 ROY SMITH - FOR THE LOVE OF HER - GREEN MENU 8 SOPHISTICATED LADIES - CHECK IT OUT - MAYHEW 8 SPARE CHANGE - ALIVE AND WELL - VANGUARD ISSUE 25 AS ABOVE SAME BOTH SIDES DEMO 15 THE SPINNERS - I'LL BE AROUND - ATLANTIC DEMO 10 STREET PEOPLE - NEVER GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE - VIGOR 8 HOMER STRICKLAND - I'LL GET OVER YOU - JADAN 10 TOMMY TATE - I'M SO SATISFIED - KOKO 8 JOHNNY TAYLOR - FRIDAY NIGHT - STAX 12 TOMMY TATE - YOU TAUGHT ME HOW TO LOVE - SUNDANCE 25 TRIESTE - I CAN SEE HIM LOVING YOU - IX CHAINS 12 UNIVERSAL MIND - SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON - RED COACH DEMO 12 BETTY WRIGHT - IF YOU LOVE ME LIKE YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME - ALSTON 10 WRECKIN CREW - ALL MY LOVE - SOUNDS OF FLORIDA 40 POSTAGE £2 RECORDED UP TO 3 RECORDS SPECIAL 5.90 OVERSEAS, I'LL QUOTE YOU PAYPAL, BANK TRANSFER, CARD, CHEQUE ETC ALL WELCOME

It's supposed to be a mis-spelling of TWIN isn't it?

Can't really remember much now but it was in Noddy Holder's autobiography, back in 67 when they were still the N'Betweens, their manager booked them for some overseas dates including one in the Bahamas apparently, which they enjoyed mainly because they found they were sharing accomodation and the stage with a group called The Twans. At the time they (Slade) played beat/motown type stuff.

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