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PETE SMITH 4 BLAKELEY HEATH DRIVE WOMBOURNE WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0HW 01902 326306 pete.smith@freeuk.com As promised folks, a list of USA 45's at last. And if people buy stuff off this list, I'll be able to buy some really cracking records and bring them to you at my usual bargain prices! cheers all Pete PERCY STONE & THE EXPLOSIONS - CHAINED - RAM EX OFFS Books at 750 and five have sold for between 400 and 700 in the last 3 years - offers please, minimum offer 300. Vinyl is nice, label has a small bit of staining on the right hand side, just looks like a dark mark and you can still see the print through it BONNIE HERMAN – HUSH DON’T CRY – COLUMBIA DEMO VG+ 125 SOLD This only looks vg+ due to a large non-sounding mark but plays EX, if it hadn’t got that mark I’d have put at least 150 on this, trust me it plays like a dream LIZ LANDS & THE TEMPTATIONS– MIDNIGHT JOHNNY – GORDY DEMO M 85 The rare West Coast purple label demo in pristine condition, you won’t find a better one – and what a sound THE AMERICAN POETS – SHE BLEW A GOOD THING – BELGIAN LONDON! EX+ 50 Never seen one of these in my life or even knew it existed. Black label, looks like a US import but is actually from Belgium! SUSAN MADDOX – MY – ZANZI VG+ 40 Early dancer – popcorn? Light crackle in parts. Books at 100. NAT BROWN - IF THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT GO AHEAD - SELMA EX 50 Killer beat ballad - a magnificent piece of soul music. Weird dancer on the other side too. THE DE VONS - SOMEONE TO TREAT ME - KING M- 35 Lovely midtempo dancer LOU EDWARDS & TODAYS PEOPLE - TALKIN' BOUT POOR FOLKS - COLUMBIA DEMO VG+ 30 Bit of label damage (water) and various marks and a few small scratches - plays fine but clicks now and again, will do til a better one turns up ROBERT BANKS - A MIGHTY GOOD WAY - VERVE DEMO M- 60 SOLD Almost forgotten Torch oldie - rare original THE EXOTICS - LIKE YOU HURT ME - CORAL DEMO EX 40 Uptempo R&B tinged dancer, books at 75; someone drew around the centre hole so it's got a thin red band around it KIM WESTON - I'M STILL LOVING YOU - TAMLA VG+ 40 A bit scruffy but plays great, perfect for djing, odd pop here and there but loud and powerful and always packs the floor BARBARA McNAIR - YOU'RE GONNA LOVE MY BABY - MOTOWN EX 75 Different copy to the one I had last week, few non-spounding light marks but otherwise top-draw ANITA BRYANT - MY MINDS PLAYING TRICKS ON ME AGAIN - COLUMBIA EX 40 Brilliant ender BILL DOGGETT - TWENTY FIVE MILES - KING DEMO M 25 Excellent and in-demand version THE SHIRELLES - WAIT TIL I GIVE THE SIGNAL - SCEPTER EX- 25 Nice dancer, one of their last for Scepter, underrated tune GWEN OWENS - I LOST A GOOD THING - VELGO VG++ 100 SOLD The rare green label design, powerhouse dancer, visually you can see it's not been kept in a sleeve but play wise, I think I heard maybe 3 tiny clicks on the whole record - half book price LOU JOHNSON - UNSATISFIED - BIG TOP EX 20 A Classic amongst classics THE ESSEX - MOONLIGHT MUSIC AND YOU - BANG DEMO EX+ 25 What a shit version this is, sometimes I do wonder why I buy some of these records LOL anyway on the plus side, it uses the original backing track, unfortunately the girl vocalist is having an off day (is it Anita Humes? Doubt it) THE CONTENDERS - DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO - EDGE M 30 Nice Wigan oldie THE EQUIRES - DANCIN' A WHOLE IN THE WORLD - ROCKY RIDGE M- 25 Another record I detest, and also that other version, terrible TONY DANIELS - HOW LONELY - SPORT M 45 Nice, underrated midtempo sound - good vocalist BETTY LA VETTE - I'M HOLDING ON - BIG WHEEL M- 35 Cracking oldie JACKIE WILSON - I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING - BRUNSWICK DEMO M- 30 This has Barbara Acklin - Love makes A Woman on the B side, I'd have thought this yellow demo would have been rare but it doesn't book highly, I'm surprised. Has writing on the label (intro time and date). Nice, curiousity piece. THE FALCONS - HAS IT HAPPENED TO YOU YET - LU PINE DEMO EX- 100 Good solid Detroit rarity, writing on label (couple of names in biro) plays great TURLEY RICHARDS - JUST CAN'T TAKE IT NO LONGER - COLUMBIA DEMO M 40 His other record - another good dancer THE PERFECTIONS - SO LONELY - BIG B G+ 75 This looks like it got run over by a truck, it has ring wear and another record must have got stuck to it as it has a bit of a stax label stuck to it - but not only is it in the price guide at 600, it also plays fine, obviously it's got some background noise but I've heard worse. 600 quid record for 75 quid, go on, you know you want to BARBARA JEAN ENGLISH - TASTES SOUR DON'T IT - A. SCHROEDER MUSIC CORP ACETATE M- 250 SOLD This is a 10" acetate which I bought from Chris (son of Jimmy) Radcliffe a couple of years back, I believed it was the only one in existence and sold it for 400 quid, few weeks later turns out there was another one. Anyway this is the same copy that I originally had, still in gorgeous condition, and it's a bloomin' brilliant uptempo Northern dancer of the highest quality, if you haven't heard it and want to hear it I'll send you an mp3 POSTAGE 2.00 RECORDED. SPECIAL DELIVERY 6.00 PAYMENT BY CARD, BANK TRANSFER, PAYPAL (THERE'S A CHARGE FOR THIS SORRY), CHEQUE, CASH. THANKS FOR READING.

Just bumping this for people who didn't see it yesterday

More like 76 - Nancy Wilson huge early 76, I remember hearing it 2 or 3 times on one saturday night, Shane Martin was at it's biggest in 77 to be honest

Current offer at 21.30 (may 25th) is £470. Took a photo on my iphone but it's crap, sorry, can't get it light enough

I spoke to them and got it checked, was legit - though I took all the money out just in case!

Someone's flogging DVD's of this show on the net, they look awesome but as we are not allowed to advertise this sort of thing I'll just say that ione of them has Buddy Lamp doing You've Got The Loving Touch so I'll see if I can source it.

PERCY STONE & THE EXPLOSIONS - CHAINED - RAM EX OFFS Books at 750 and five have sold for between 400 and 700 in the last 3 years - offers please, minimum offer 300. Vinyl is nice, label has a small bit of staining on the right hand side, just looks like a dark mark and you can still see the print through it. Will post photo soon as I get chance if anyone wants to see it.

What I mean is, he asked me to record it off Ebay because the seller had put a full sound clip up. Whether I did a carver off that I can't remember.

Kinnell were you smashed, it was only worth £20 then and it's only worth £75 now!

PETE SMITH 4 BLAKELEY HEATH DRIVE WOMBOURNE WV5 0HW 01902 326306 pete.smith@freeuk.com WELL I NEED TO RAISE SOME DOSH PRETTY SHARPISH TO BUY MORE RECORDS (WHY DO THEY ALWAYS COME UP FOR SALE WHEN I'VE GOT NO MONEY LEFT? RICH PEOPLE FEEL FREE TO GET IN TOUCH) SO HERE ARE THE LAST KNOCKINGS OF THE UK COLLECTION AND TOMORROW THERE'LL BE A US LIST GOING OUT AROUND MIDDAY I SHOULD THINK! BY THE WAY, A LOT OF THESE EX CONDITION RECORDS ARE MINT OR MINT MINUS. ALL THE BEST PETE ANNET HESTERMAN - SURROUNDED BY A RAY OF SUNSHINE - DUTCH PHILIPS EX 50 Super rare version of Samantha Jones which used to be played by Richard Searling at Wigan - beautiful near mint nick and in a pristine pic sleeve too NITA ROSSI - SOMETHING TO GIVE- DUTCH PYE EX 30 Looks much like a UK copy and again has a great pic sleeve THE CANNON BROTHERS - TURN YOUR EYES TO ME - BRIT TEST PRESSING EX 30 More or less unknown beat ballad which came out on the short lived Brit label. This is a hand writteen white label test press - a one off. KAROL KEYES - ONE IN A MILLION - COLUMBIA ISSUE EX 66 Truly super-rare issue and a great version too EARL JEAN - I'M INTO SOMETHING GOOD - COLPIX EX 15 Classic THE BLOSSOMS - STAND BY - PAMA EX 20 Stunning beat ballad ELKIE BROOKS - HELLO STRANGER / SOMETHING'S GOT A HOLD ON ME - DECCA DEMO EX 30 Nice versions of Barbara Lewis / Etta James on a pristine Decca demo THE DRIFTERS - THE OUTSIDE WORLD / FOLLOW ME - ATLANTIC DEMO EX 40 Rare on demo - two great sides - Outside World was an old 100 Club spin JOHNNY GUSTAFSON - TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE - POLYDOR DEMO EX 50 Very strong version, currently on 'Rare Northern Soul' for double this price and described as 'previously unseen'?? BOBBY SHEEN - DR. LOVE - CAPITOL ISSUE VG/VG+ 90 Used copy but plays perfectly THE MIKE COTTON SOUND - SOUL SERENADE - MGM DEMO EX 50 Stunning near mint pink demo - very rare on a demo copy THE DIXIE CUPS - WHAT KIND OF FOOL - HMV EX 20 Brilliant semi-known dancer LEN BARRY - 1-2-3 - BRUNSWICK DEMO VG 25 Another very seldom seen UK demo of the 1st release in 65 THE CHIFFONS - MARCH / STOP LOOK AND LISTEN - STATESIDE DEMO EX 15 Another good double sider BOBBY VEE - CROSS MY HEART - LIBERTY DEMO EX 20 Cracking stomper - sounds a bit like Nine Times Out Of Ten, strangely CARL CARLTON - BAD FOR EACH OTHER - ACTION EX 22 Another one which would be three figures if it was harder to find - Detroit stunner POSTAGE 2.00 RECORDED. SPECIAL DELIVERY 6.00 PAYMENT BY CARD, BANK TRANSFER, PAYPAL (THERE'S A CHARGE FOR THIS SORRY), CHEQUE, CASH. THANKS FOR READING.

Platters has no centre which knocks 50 to 75% off the value. And it's only worth a tenner to start.

No he hasn't got it, he asked me to record it for him at the time though

That's interesting, I was speaking to someone about this and he thought John A had bought it off Ebay.

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Found this on my old pc - as far as I can remember it was off a songwriters acetate and was unreleased, went for about 500 quid, I've cut the last third off so that whoever bought it doesn't get upset. File coming up below. (says I can't use refosoul for some reason so here is an mp3)

Sly & The Family Stone were considered part of that movement, as were the Chambers Brothers

And from the same show as the recent Elgins clip!

Lord forgive me, I forgot to add Roy Gelder to that list, I remember thinking I knew the lot about British and one day this package arrived with about 10 c90's, all of UK stuff and 50% of which I didn't know - sent by Roy totally off the cuff, didn't even know him then. What a kind thing to do. Ian Dewhirst - never met him either but his tales and knowledge leave me spellbound, ditto the great man himself Ian levine. I do like record men

Just to reiterate, these are NOT emails, I know how to deal with those, this is when I actually log in to paypal. As mentioned above, it wasbecause I had an IP hider switched on.

I've always looked up to and admired people who I can learn things from, so I'm talking about people like Roger Nicholls Dave Kilworth Tony Rounce Gene Robertson Mick Smith real 'record' people with amazing knowledge - these people are my 'top Northern Soul characters'. Oh and a posthumous mention must go to Dave McCadden who always made me laugh.

It's from the East Coast not the West Coast isn't it?

Have you got some kind of memory loss, 30 is the cheapest you've seen - do me a favour, I must have knocked half a dozen of these on my lists in the last 2 years for £10 each. They're everywhere, record fairs, the lot.

So what though? Someone else on here couldn't sell it for a fiver.

If they still have copies of this then it must mean that they pressed a thousand in the first place, you'd have thought 500 but for it to still be around in quantity after 15 years must mean they overdid it.

Mike I didn't mean to fuck your sale up, all I actually did was express surprise at the price.