...which is from where I took that and the Ray Pollard, Sandra King, Jimmy Church, Buddy & Stacey, Eddie Hill, Joe Matthews, Spidells, Freddie North etc etc.
If anyone wants to buy these, I've got 3 full shows, details on request.
These are great records and are deserved classics but it's just the simple statement "should funk be played in northern rooms" that's getting my back up and the answer is no - you might as well play roots reggae, it's made by black people but has nothing to do with "Northern Soul".
You just won't have it will you, people like northern soul because it's different from other types of soul, don't want them all mixed in together, that makes it the equivalent of a 70's divs nightclub which we would have al avoided like the plague. Funk, modern, it has it's place, but it's not in the Northern room. A lot of people got into Northern in the first place as an escape from this sort of music! (I've no complain about the frankie crockers, diane jenkins etc, these are brilliant records but they were quasi-northern anyway)
There's a couple of blue ones - the first is a copy of the proper Suemi label, then some time later came another blue one but with the logo in a straight line, no idea when these came out but from memory they are similar to the Lainie Hall second pressing. As you say, there's a white one too, that came out way later than the 1975 blue one.
Do you not remember that clip of him I put up on You Tube? It was fantastic - only known footage as far as I know, hopefully someone copied it and reposted it
This was a fantastic quality reissue but what a lot of people don't realise is that it's about 10 seconds shorter than the original on the fade out, Lou sings "Be on the first train tomorrow in the morning baby" and it ends on the boot, on the original it has a little bit more instrumntal then you hear him say "ah yes I will". A very boring fact but it was always something that bugged me, having had the longer version on an emidisc...
Two things to make you feel better Kevin:
1) you sold it for the correct price
2) I sold my first copy for £5 in 1982 - even with inflation that only equates to about £100 today if that. Last one I had about 4 years back, I sold for £350.
this record is vastly overpriced, it's worth maybe £450. Because of these ridiculous auction prices, people start thinking that these are the prices they should be asking as it's the true value, and it's not.