Pete S

My own collection, if you could call it that, consists of about 250 US records and 50 UK records (now that I don't actually collect anything anymore) I'd say out of my 250 US records, there are about 20 originals, mainly in the £5 to £40 bracket, all the rest are reissues, bootlegs, pressings, carvers, and I love them dearly! But meanwhile, I have a list of 50 originals ready to go out tomorrow, from £10 to £250, and a few thousand other US originals in this same room. I simply cannot afford to own rare original records when my job is supposed to be that of someone who sells them! This happened to me when I collected the Island label, my missus kept asking why we had no spare money, eventually I confessed I had over 250 records on the same label which had cost me thousands, I swear she deliberately got pregnant to force me to sell them My point is that as you are all sick of hearing by now, I just love vinyl records, and I firmly believe it's horses for courses, if someone asked me to dj at an upfront venue, I'd take originals, if it was a local youth club revival, I'd take a box of probably mainly reissue oldies. If Stephen hasn't got a crowd made up of lurking "deck vultures", he may as well play wheat he likes..

I swear I can't tell the difference - I keep getting these albums in lossless format and I convert them to mp3!

I never went anywhere else I'm afraid

Why, it's a great recording

I don't think it was originally speeded up, just when it came out on Soul Of Detroit and on the bootleg 45.

They were both played at the same time but I can only ever remember Alan Rhodes playing Brand New Faces.

Have many of us not been victims of trying to do it the right way and failing miserably though? Last time I dj'd, 2011, was asked to do a 'proper Northern' set, failed miserably (when people aren't ready for Silky Hargraves and The Dynamics you know you're in trouble), and next guy on packed the floor with a pressing of "Because Of You". It might sound like an exaggeration but I was that gutted that I've never dj'd again since that day and every time I'm asked, which is now and again, I just say something about the smoking ban and I don't go out anymore..

Grandad You do what you feel is best Stephen, a few bootlegs are not life threatening to anyone. Someone once said "It's what's in the grooves that count".

Here we go https://www.divshare.com/download/26839012-4a7

Well I've got one which I had on an acetate which is perfect quality, right speed, everything. The one on the LP, single, and on the cd Northern Soul Time are all of lesser quality than that first recording, only slightly but definitely more lo fi, and they are all at the wrong speed. If anyone wants the best quality, right speed version, I'll upload it somewhere and you can all just download it for yourselves

I'd bring this up with Discogs already Edu so they know there is a possible problem, they can probably see if the same is happening to other customers. I've used their customer service a couple of times and they are usually very good.

The white label boot and the LP track are both at about 48rpm

It's sampled in Smile I think.

33 7TH AVENUE AVIATORS You should o' held her congress 70's pressing wasn't pressed until around 2000 that one

I sold one for £300 in December Mik - vg++ - to Tommy Cockburn

Actually £200 is a bit much for that.

None left

Lesley does a nice version of The Inspirations "What Am I Gonna Do With You" as well

That gentleman made an awful lot of money out of us

I'm still collecting reggae, ska and rocksteady mainly 1964 to 1970, UK labels, so if anyone has anything to sell or swap, could they let me know and I will buy, or you can take Northern off me in trades. Don't need the common Israelites, 007, Double Barrel things. cheers pete

Geoff, you were right about the Lenny Welch version, that's on Kapp and is excellent - but I don't think there was any Jimmy Radcliffe involvement in this song, I might be wrong

I was thinking more along the lines of major artists Ady. Paying £15 for yet another remastered version of Diamond Dogs or Aladdin Sane which I've already bought twice on cd for extra tracks and 'digital remasters', bought on vinyl when it came out etc. The Kent CD booklets are worth the price of the cd on their own.

I always found that when I bought a cd and there was a straight from the master stereo version of something I'd heard for years in mono, I'd have preferred it to be dubbed off the original record. I realise I might be on my own here but as far as 60's Northern Soul records go, nothing beats the original vinyl, especially cleaned up hear a pin drop master tapes. The magic is lost.

If I were in the business, I'd fear more for cd's than vinyl. I spent thousands of pounds on a cd collection then realised I never actually played them, and I'd just used them to put tracks into itunes. So I started selling them, and anything I wanted on cd, well basically it's three clicks on a computer for a free copy isn't it. So I have not bought a cd for about 8 years now (except for some £2.99 compilations from Sainsburys). After years of paying £15 for a silver disc...people decided they weren't mugs after all. A few years ago I predicted that in 20 years time there would be no such thing as cd's, maybe their decline will be more rapid than that.

Great record - I used to play this as a kid via my Moms copy of Billy Fury's version!