Steve G

I wondered how long it would take for you to put your head over the parapet Pete

Pardon me Dave - I am not following your emoticons?

My good Doctor, The B side is a crossover classic

Agreed, also Larry Hale "once" aka "One more once" - what a stormer that was!

This one must NEVER be seen Jo it might have been St Ives? We went there as well.....

OK OK I've been berated for criticising Russ W. So to make amends, this thread is for the GOOD soul records spun by Russ at Wigan. Excluding the "3 before bed" and Frank Wilson (which was good for about the first 200 plays), what else was there..... I'll start with: Gerri Grainger "I go to pieces" Willie Hutch "Love games" G'wan refresh my memory......what else?

and you had a moustache Oh my goodness

Two sons....Leon and Curtis - and lovely lads they are too Presumably Leon is after Leon Ware? Agree on Steve Noble, hasn't aged a bit! I thinK Egham was also at a Fire Station as well!!! How bizarre now that I think of it....

Thank you for posting this. Now perhaps others will see why I viewed Russ Winstanley as a "joke" when it comes to soul DJs.

Your joking Dave - it's in the city centre afterall?

this should be interesting......Jo I think you did come to the Fire Station with us, or was that Egham? Soulsmith on here was involved with that. Simon - Kev got into Jazz funk and worked on a cassette magazine until about 1985. He then retired from the scene. I will say he was one of the first guys onto Phillip Michell "I'm so happy" as a new release. He also used to play the Constellations back in the 70's, I remember he got it from John Manship for £1. Kim still lives in Tunbridge Wells, and as Jo says is still as fit as he ever was - he also has a son called Curtis. I also saw his sister Sarah at Cleethorpes a couple of years ago as well - she hasn't changed either. Some of the other West Kent crowd have also made cameo appearances in recent years - I saw Jeff Harlock at the Rocket (he hasn't changed, except his hair has gone awol), and Steve Noble and "Annie" at the 100 Club. These guys had long before retired, but came back to the scene a few years ago. Geoff told me he sold all his records to some reggae dealer in Sevenoaks for next to nothing. I still have nightmares at being asked to carry that 600 record box! I doubt I could even lift it now, let alone carry it up the hill from St Albans station to The Pheonix (thanks Sigher for clearing that up).

Home (but not alone) with the vinyl.

I think that's fair

I think with Norman there's a healthy dose of poetic licence. The words "history" and "re-write" come to mind. Seem to remember Keb had some harsher words to say on the man - essentially saying he was buying these records that the northern scene had dispensed with years earlier...or something similar. Anyway I have no wish to diss someone I don't know very well, so I'll leave it at that.

I come down on the BB side on this one.....see you at "Essence" Sean, if not before.

Here we are 8 pages in and nobody's singing the praises of Bobby Bennett "Days go by"- fabUlus x-over

Big O, I agree with you and Ivor. I think we all understand that Jazzy B is to soul music what Noddy and Big Ears books are to literary excellence and why he is being put up as influencial is beyond me. As Tony Rounce said, he had a good writer for a while, and that's it. Thank goodness this was only on BBC4, still a relatively obscure channel. By contrast the Beeb also did the rather good "Soul Deep" series a couple of years ago on BBC2, so they can do it when they put their minds to it.

Sometimes went to Record Corner before a game, but not before a millwall or Brighton game, as they WOULD get smashed - probably over my head

Yes Yes I realise that, it's just as a youngster that was one of the first LPs I bought - and I liked it at the time.To your point and without sounding too gobby many of us have forgotten more about soul music than he knows about it....

He was behind the record....

Have to agree on this. It has been reactivated over the last few months as well. The 7 is reasonably hard.

Yes I am afraid Wigan seems to be the be all and end all of the universe when it comes to the type of person that wants to pay £200 for a patch. What I don't get is how you can tell an original patch from a repro? You going to Luanco? Steve

Amazing, I'll have to try and find some of mine

As a youngster his Piccadilly soul 261 LP was one of my first LP purchases, and it put me onto a lot of good music. He has always had a chip on his shoulder though about rare records. Doesn't he say somewhere in there that everything has come out on CD now? I think not.