Pete S

Demo Joe, demo, only someone young and clueless would say issue

One of my all time favourites is the evergreen La La Means I Love You by The Delfonics but in general I don't like falsetto singing, Bee Gees and Four Seasons also made some incredible records but the falsetto is usually grating. I didn't mean to insult your favourite record of all time Bob!

It sounds just like the Stylistics "Betcha by golly wow", well the bits I listened to did. Just thought it was dull. Sorry.

That's obviously a black group - I said I saw a picture sleeve for a group called Rock Candy and they were white but it's probably a different group (they were on MCA early 70's)

I nearly fainted when I saw that up for sale at £1000 recently, good job I didn't have it cos I'd have sold it for £600 and lost a fair bit of money by the looks of it.

Is that a boot of Rufus Lumley or a real one?

Paul you're sort of right but unless it happened twice, it was actually Delrays Inc - Destination Unknown, Mickey Cope got it and took it to Birmingham and sold it same day. Well that's what he said. There was never any proof...

Nearest we got to a rare record, apart from watching someone else play it, was to save up a fiver for an emidisc from Sundown records in Wolverhampton

Waggy I would absolutely love to know where this came from https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DAVE-HALL-LOOK-ME-ACETATE-LISTEN-/250846973438?pt=UK_Records&hash=item3a67a50dfe I got that cut, the Dave Hall was mine and at the time very rare, the man Of Value was my mate Jimmy's he got it off Pat Brady originally, I left it at John Manship's (I'm going back a good 10 years now), he was going to see if Soul Sam was interested in the Man Of Value but Sam thought it was the same cut as the one on Mercury so he left it, I never thought anything of it, never asked for it back, and then it turns up on ebay. Bizarre. Suppose I'd better buy it then...

The copy people were talking about wasn't infact a UK London black issue, it was a South African London black issue that looked very similar to the UK released black London issues of the day.

You really think there was need for that venom being spat out like that? I'm suprised.

When you got a quid pocket money and 1.50 a week paper round money, it was difficult to put much of a collection together back in 1975.

Picture sleeve of a Rock Candy single shows them all to be white. Might be a different group.

What?

m That was the most unnecessary, bile-filled, nasty post I've ever read on here, f*cking disgraceful, just go back to wherever you've been.

You mean The Carstairs Kev, a record which actually gets worse with every listen. Though you could mean The Montclairs "Hung up on your love" which is also utter dismal rubbish. I like the 60's Montclairs records though.

It's exactly the same tune as Goodbye Nothing To Say! An absolute copy.

Oops, well actually I had absolutely no idea how old you were mate, I was 14 at the time myself. Though if I'd been 8, I'd probably have liked it's catchy sing-a-long chorus

It's a generalisation - a lot of people won't accept a record unless it's recorded by a black artist from detroit - and the scene was never that elitist back in the 70's. A good record is a good record. A bad record is a bad record. But what makes it either a good record or a bad record is down to each individual's taste. And of course, as we get older, our opinions and tastes change. Did you like the Javells back in 74 Chalky or did you think it was rubbish then? I liked it back then, it was just as I was getting into NS. Now, it's alright to hear once a year maybe. So my taste changed as well. I hated Sam Williams in 1977, by 1987 I loved it.

Well he probably can seeing as he is Wiggyflat on here (posts up loads of UK's)!

I would have to agree withe you 100% on those two choices. Super Northern.

Jimmy Raye - philly dog around the world. Now that really is Northern Soul.

Maxine came after but didn't it have the same arranger?

I think that's a 'supposedly' to be honest - I remember it being a very strong rumour in the early 2000's as someone is meant to have found one at Brighton record fair, but I don't think anyone's seen it - happy to be proved wrong

No you're right