Steve G

What's removed Russ? - You got a copy for sale or auction fella?

Craig got all his when he bought up the old Soul Bowl stock.....Soul bowl had imported tons of them back in the day when the nucleus of the group who made the record became Spyro Gyra and with a hit on their hands, had to jettison all their copies of this one. I've told it before but it's a great story.

Hi Penny, I have interviewed hundreds of recording artists. I have yet to find one who says they made records for a reason other than to try and get a hit record. Even if they pressed 100 it was in the optimistic hope that Stax, Atlantic, scepter, Sound Stage 7, Motown, or a myriad of mid sized labels would pick it up….Yes artists sometimes pressed records for sale at gigs etc….that's true, but ultimately unless it was a special press for a specific event, they all wanted to get a hit….

wow!

Hey man, you sound so disgruntled with it all.....maybe time to concerntrate on the model railway or something, and leave soul to the rest of us! Just saying like.... PS: I got Dad an 0 Gauge Cumrbian Slate Wagon for Xmas from a shop in Barrow Well nice!

Fair call Gareth. Good on you to correct our slightly diverted train back onto the rails of reality! Same with the Spinners I'd say....commercial tune but a good one from a great group! The fact that someone tried to pull a stunt (not the only one incidentally) to "prove a point" and "fool" people, means this fooker should be combined to the same dustbin as "The Wigan Joker", "Northern soul dancer" etc.

Hi Robb, Friends is outta California....Got mine from pat Brady early 90s, think it was £5 or £10....

For me this was a low point in the history of the scene, suddenly places full, but full of handbaggers and civilians trying to recapture their youth. It all became very commercial again....."Wake up to the sunshine girl"? - "Wake up and smell the coffee" more like..... Cack of the highest order, it's not even as good as "Love hussle" a Wigan bottomfeeder by Tony Hatch!!!

Hi Simon, hope you are well, yes two well known people on the scene down here…..

Yes that's a fuller version on the website……Fay and Matt - two good people. Yipee!

No record in the ad I saw, is there more than one version?

Advert in tonights Evening Standard too!

Anyone seen this with I thought I saw Fay from London in it?

Biddu's half baked UK disco efforts were a lot better than WSOT……Biddu did "Nothern dancer" after a visit to Wigan I heard….. A mine of useless information me!

Good old Mike Charlton - a great DJ.

You see 100 copies of "Kiss my ass goodbye" for one of these John, but didn't know it was on Ja. release as well…. Much to my horror I've discovered I only have a demo copy of the other side……gggrrrrrr!!!! My Bettye Swann collection is incomplete

Bettye Swann 45 is pretty rare and I think there is a long queue Dave - only ever seen 2 on ebay.

Does the Lisa interview in B****S*** mention her part in the Northern Soul film?

Singer Benny Harper proudly shows Roger Moore his new prosthetic arm, following a recent visit by the actor to Texas.

Agreed. It was interesting in the 70s and 80s, and for all his faults you could always get a mention of your gig in The Ramblers column. Paul Philips (The Rambler) was actually quite a decent fella, although he didn't really know much about music, and his first love was horseracing.....Chris Wells and Stuart Cosgrove also did some good contemporary articles in Echoes too. B&S I don't think ever recovered from the loss of Godin's column, always worth a read, and thought provoking, even if he occasionally Uncle Dave "got it wrong". B&S kind of went OTT on Jazz Funk late 70s, and I remember one Xmas edition c 1980 that had pictures of Chris Hill on virtually every page - it was a joke. I gave up with both, there was just no real informed and interesting journalism in either mag. Their interviews and articles of artists were lame and poorly researched and generally written by people who know less about soul music than some of us have forgotten.....Good example Maurice White they wrote about what he likes for breakfast, but completely missed his early pre EWF work in Chicago. In the 90s, getting "big names" on the modern scene to write about their recommendations never really worked for me either since I knew the records, and their column took about 2 mins to read. Compared to "Voices" which by then was on top of it's game, neither magazine stacked up. I guess to B&S interviewing Lisa is a major "scoop" and well worthy of cover pic.

Wasn't he the charachter in "Live and Let Die" with a metal arm? Now you mention it, I think he did make a record actually......

Agree with Robb.

Agreed…history being re-written again "everyone was fooled" - no they weren't….Veneica Wilson - Adey Pierce showed me a copy when it first surfaced and we both agreed the font style looked wrong, and then when it was played we could hear programmed strings - exactly the same then as used in Golden World Studios in the 60s…..not! Don't keep this myth going that everyone was fooled. It's crap. And if someone originally bought a 4 Vandals as a rare record from a US dealer, then that's not "fooling the collectors" that's just a plain old rip off. There is nothing to see here……move along.

Is it April 1st? Or has this thread been accidentally started a couple of months early?

Shocking price for the condition, even for a Seattle record....