Steve G

Right the labels were owned by famous radio DJ John Richborg. SS7 was his main label from the early 1960s to the early / mid 70s. 77 was another of his labels (tax reasons, and also radio DJ playlist diversification reasons for multiple labels). 77 was originally for 'new talent' but as time wore on the barriers became blurred. Sound Plus was another label - essentially and originally a reissue label for his old product too - demand was not just northern. That's the short story, I am sure some of the scientists / those with time on their hands can add plenty more.

Shock horror the price of rare and not so rare records goes up! Bet those of us with collections are all waiting for the day when our rarities are worthless and the Manship auction items end up at £2.50 with one bidder eh?

I'd call Frank WIlson a total bore of a record Bob But seriously I know what you and Pete mean and agree regarding overuse.

Probably not now he's read this thread Marc!

A lo qual recording of a bit of it from my record player through the air to my mac.....best I can do now.....enjoy Charles Berry.mp3

Right his stall in the mid 80s was selling soul records along with clothes. I do seem to recall he was no longer into soul music much at that stage but he sold Blackbeats to some trendy West Enders for me for a while.

Was this not one of John Anderson's discoveries? I thought it was which would support the Mecca theory since he was getting stuff from Detroit by the early / mid 70s.

Sorry to hear he died last night.A great guy, I was very lucky to interview him in 2001 before he came over to the UK. Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full

- Weston - agree I think Sat attendance was around 150-160, which I thought is great for the South West. Busy dancefloor all night too. - Soulgate quiet at first, but I understand from the Pics it filled up after I left : - Wrest Park yesterday quite busy, mainly kids and just managed to avert the rain.

Tomangoes always rams the floor, although I think it's over played right now. Like Del Larks, Eddie Parker etc. Great northern oldies but give them a rest for a bit. As for boots Pete, not an oldies dancer really, but always get p*ssed off when I hear a boot being played (on a reasonable sound system it's easy to tell).

Yes I'll see what I can do, it's a bit like "What good am I" by the TSUs melodically.

Kensington Arcade, near 'Barkers' - maybe it was Barkers old store - selling clothing and records.....Probably mid 80s....

Hi Markus, You got "Father of the land" ? - that's quite a hard one to find. Raw edged x-over.

Oh no here we go again.........

Have your "Soul Patches" not turned up then Dave?

Yes Bob, Rod Dearlove used to sell them on Bell.

Another annoying one...."Offers over X" X being the book price or higher. An over described term = "Massive in Europe" = "Not being played anywhere in the UK"

Here's the Playlist from yesterday Gwen Owens "Make him mine" Shaker "Give me love" Vee Gees "Talkin" Ron Henderson & Choice of Colour "Gemini lady" Lalomie Washburn "Could it be" Toll Darkness "Just what I've been looking for" Buddy Causey "There's a way" Gemini "Unchanging love" Tony Drake "Suddenly" Timmy McNealy "What's going on" The South "Daybreaks" Tyrone Thomas "You're hardly gone" Elipsis "People" Bill Murphy "Praise his name" Bobby & Bobbie Fulton "Massa's grand boy got to have justice" Sugar Bell "Loving me" Gerald Wayne "Now I can see" Fred Williams, Captain Boo & Funky Space Cadets "Ever good loving" 6Ts feature - Soulgate weekend.... Sissie Houston "Don't come running to me" Johnny Nash "Love ain't nothing but a monkey on your back" Little Milton "Who's cheating who?" Jackie Ross "Selfish one" Big Dee Irwin "You satisfy my needs" Brooks O'Dell "Watch your step" Maxine Brown "It's gonna be alright" ........ Recent release 7's The Sidewinders "I like your stuff" (Soul 7 / Jazzman) Rickey Calloway "Work it" (Funk Night Records) Willie West & High Society Brothers "She's so wise" (Timmion) Sky Hi "Smoothie Pie" (GED SOul) Numonics "You lied" (Groove Merchant) Barbara King "What I did in the street" (Fryers Records) Gloria Lynne "I've just got to tell somebody" (Shotgun) ....... Rance Allen "I know a man who" Philip James "Keep on loving" Billy Bailey "Exchange our love" Lonnie Hill "Just be yourself" Brothers by Choice "Baby you really got me going"

Thanks 21again.

Hi Bob, It's a weird one. It was on a Soul Bowl list in the early 80s for £5. As I said before the B side sounds like an awful WIgan instrumental - nothing Jamaican about it at all.....more Soussan than anything. All that being said still think it's actually a 'booty' that someone did. But who and for what reason and market?

A play on Solar beckons Sunday afternoon....

On a par possibly with those who make reference to people "wanking over their vinyl"? . You could make a statement like that about any passion - following a 2nd Division football club for example, keen on keeping fit, or raving about 2nd rate house 12 remakes of old Paul Weller songs, or anything else that someone is passionate about (and all of which I have seen from critics of Cunnie's post on here). I'd expect to hear that type of rhetoric it from divvies, but it's a bit odd to hear it in soul music circles. Collecting is collecting it's far from perfect, so by all means feel free to have a bit of a knockabout about 'self obsession', one-upmanship and the unreasonableness of the collector, I doubt any collector in their heart of hearts would fail to recognise those traits. We all know collecting is an obsessive pastime! It's no different on the modern scene incidentally where every DJ wants to have an exclusive or three that no one else has to rock the place, whether you guys admit it or not. But maybe think twice about bothering with a Record store Day 'limited edition for collectors' next time, cos I suspect many of us who already have the track will just wait for the discount bins.....rather than shelling out for a different format of something we already have. Let's be honest about it for a moment and contrary to Ian's usual OTT uber-hyperbole : (£10k - purrleez! ) there will not likely be any demand for a Gregory Porter 12" single in ten or twenty years time, any more than there is any demand for 99% of 12s that have come out in the last 20 years, often in runs of less than 500 copies. With a few exceptions you can't give the feckers away. Just maybe we'll need the plastic for something else by then? Steve

If what you say is correct and the press runs are the same, you'll probably find the 2nd issue becomes harder to find than the "record shop day edition". This was the price Corgi paid in the toy market, everyone squirrelled away their limited / specially numbered editions, and it was the general releases that just vanished, and ultimately became more collectable...

Too much information Baldie...... No one is saying Expansion is the new 'Casino Classics', or that Ralphie is a 'bad egg' - a few of us saying they made a poor call on this one. The world carries on spinning.....tomorrow is another day.....and sees another 'limited edition' vinyl somewhere.