Pete S

Was it really worth you getting your thesaurus out to write that rubbish?

Says who? Not me. I said totally the opposite in a thread about precisely that which is currently running. Your attempted point scoring is a bit rubbish to be honest. Pointless.

What exactly is a CBS advance sleeve then?

No, because you're wrong. I'm still finding new things every few months.

Nice one Dave!

UK = small USA = very large releases are in proportion to the population, doesn't take a genius to work out there will be more releases in the largest country, does it?

Not much more on British either but what a fantastic track...a real Northern belter

Ker-ching!

It doesn't matter at all. I threw all mine away too. Anytime I need any, I just go to my 60's records and snatch some from there for the Northern 45's. Plus of course, they make repros of every sleeve now anyway. And...you can often find some of the harder to find sleeves at boot sales.

You asked what the connection was, I told you, both white singers with northern records

Sorry to be such a trainspotter but both this and your MGM 45 are in the wrong sleeves!

Pay attention, THEY-ARE-BOTH-WHITE-PEOPLE-WHO-MADE-NORTHERN-SOUL-RECORDS. They are also both experts in speed-knitting apparently.

I dunno, except it's only you who seems to keep going on about it...

Compared to the US Chess promos which are either stock copies with DJ Copy on them or, er, white demos. F*cking scintillating stuff.

What rubbish, it's easy to say that 45 years after the event isn't it, but whoever picked The Vontastics, Dean parrish, Fascinations, Invitations, Jay W King, Rufus Lumey etc for Stateside didn't do a bad job, bell obviously had someone in the know as they released some fabulous soul cuts, I mean that statement is just ludicrous, if anything the people were visionaries.

No I think I've got about 8 or 9 of them, originals were destroyed, it's the later ones that are missing because I think I made it to issue 16 eventually.

OK why can't I get it to work, I put in my location (wolverhampton, uk) and it says it doesn't exist. That may be wishful thinking for some but not me.

No, I don't like any Iron Maiden I'm afraid...Bring Your daughter To The Slaughter has a nice ring to it though

Wish I had a full set of those!

You lot need to know your place, these are the three commandments which sort out the true believers: you are not allowed to collect UK labels, it means you are not a real soul fan you must like crossover soul music otherwise you have a small 'soul brain' and you are not a real soul fan you are not allowed to profess a liking to any northern soul track by a white artist because it means you are not a real soul fan remember these three commandments and you will never get any hassle from the soul snobs who like to think they are at the top of the evolutionary chain. I've tried to follow the commandments but failed absolutely, and am now down at amoeba level as far as evolution goes Chin up!

Yes it's been Crossover Source week this week, which probably accounts for the board being quieter than usual, half the punters have gone into comas. The problem I've got with this is that a few weeks ago there was a thread, I think it was about a record by Jackie Trent "You Baby" and someone came on and said they thought we'd left all this behind and moved on and there's no place for records like that nowadays. Well actually, that is a Northern Soul record, like it or not, so is ray merrell, so is paula parfitt, so is dean parrish etc, therefore they qualify for discussion. 90% of crossover records are not Northern Soul so why is that 'good' and certain Northern Soul dancers are 'bad'? And when they bring out the old "if you don't like crossover you don't like soul music" line - f*ck off, I don't like Iron Maiden but I like Northern Soul. Soul Snobs.

They crossover from being average to being indifferent.

Correct, though there are some anomalies, i.e. later numbers still being red and white when they should be green and white, the Pye group also changed all their demos from white to yellow around this time.

Shame about that f*cking great sticker!

Wouldn't be 500, EMI only pressed 500 of some titles! n.b. Outasite and another blues label Purdah, both run by Mike vernon pre-Blue Horizon, might have been mail order only 45's. He spoke about them on the British Blues documentary recently.