Steve G

If it's in Brick Lane I must cycle past it two -three times a week since it's on my route home....will pop in one day soon if I can find any brakes.

Absolutely depends on the scene and the time said DJ is on. So whilst I admire the "never play the same record twice in your lifetime" principle, it's wholly unworkable in practice. Especially for DJs booked at Nights / Niters / alldayers in the peak period when most people wanna have a dance and wanna hear some stuff they know as well. As for unknowns - how do you build up a record if you only ever play it once? Also some DJs are known for certain records as well, and the public expect to hear 'em, especially if they are exclusive / near exclusive to that DJ. That's not to say it should be "play by numbers" or the "willy waving" of a nice set of "trophy records" that I've witnessed from certain quarters recently either -now that is boring, except for those of us with our Bingo Cards ticking them off as they get played! A bit of mix n match never did any harm.

The Caesars on Both Sides is on ebay. Does anyone have their other Lanie one (2002) for sale?

"Rare soul" nice and simple and no one in "Divvy Street" knows what it means, so they go "Oh" and move on down the bus

TSOP - I remember stumbling into a cheapo bookshop shop in Oxford Street and there was a pile of copies 30p each......mind you that was in the early 80's...a bit like records I s'pose!!!

Ashford & Simpson on backing vocals too!

Hi, I have never seen a 7" copy on Disco Gold, although Mel Cheren mentioned the label in his book (and there were 2 "Disco Gold" compilation albums produced on Scepter)......would be interesting to see a scan of a copy of a 7 of Don Downing in that format.

Yeah the blue one came after scepter went bust and Fred Frank brought the Hob catalogue and name. Hob was Scepter's gospel label (since 1964 through to 1976).

Hi Ian, yes when Scepter tanked Fred bought some of the Scepter masters (outbidding Morris Levy!), and Roadshow Records continued post Scepter with distribution deals with both RCA and UA. That's when Shirley Caesar joined, Enchantment etc....So yes a murky world of who owns what for sure....

Actually Roburt, Scepter took over the label when it ran into financial trouble.

Hi ali, Sadly she didn't do "The Magic Touch" at the Jazz Cafe, but she was pretty good and very energetic for her age, show just over an hour long about 14 songs....Did you get the Mel'isa Morgan warm up? - Fabulous! Got her to sign my copy of B.B.P too and when she saw it she did a double take and said "Oh my Gaaad!!!" I love moments like that :

Roadshow first, Scepter 2nd and 3rd (it came out twice on Scepter!), RS was a few years later.......researched it all for my book!

I doubt there were more than 400 copies pressed on that run Roburt. So Betty is crying over nothing much..... I've got at least one other record like that, maybe two, I think Noel McCalla, but would need to check for sure.....

Hello "Mike" - hope you are keeping well, did you ever find that Willie Tee record on Stax?

Back in the mid 1970s there was a plan by the Casino management to raise money via a floatation on the London Stock Exchange. Consultants were called in and wrote the prospectus for potential investors. The prospectus included the quote about "WC being voted the best disco in the world in Billboard". About the same time I saw a sign on the toilets doors saying "These toilets are cleaned by our staff every hour"......

Oh yeah that reminds me "Wigan Casino voted the world's best disco in Billboard magazine" ......

Larry Clinton issue - maybe went abroad - an ultimate "Moose Head" for someone's Trophy Cabinet all right.......

Similar theme to SkooterNik, there was a guy we used to see at record fairs in London, who everything we mentioned he had a copy of no matter how rare. It was always either at home, or he'd had a copy and sold it. Sensing he was a major "bullsitter" we started making up names of records, and yes he had 'em! Best one I remember was Ann Sexton on Selma, or was it Fluorescent Smogg on Southbound? - both very rare 45's indeed. So rare they doesn't exist, but when we mentioned 'em old Mikey he reckoned he had had 'em.

Which reminds me David Rhodes is a real record.....copies found in Danny leake's basement.....

There has been a third copy of Frank Wilson found

Yup Norvells has been a re-activation for me in the last year. Last played at Skegness weekender in the rare and underplayed room, and you can still find it cheap!......Perfections is nigh on impossible to find. Penny of course was Richard Pegue's label, and he is given writer credits on the Twinight release.

Ady let me know but you can have mine if you still need it and want (to borrow).

And now the connection to "Philly dog around the world".....Mr Kim Kimborough....and King Tutt was of course Jimmy Bo Horne's drummer, not that any of that really matters to the "foamers" salavating over a 12" :lol:

Yes - fantastic stuff - off key but still great. I remember when the first copy of this to turned up in modern times (early 90s) - found in Arizona or Vegas I think and Soul Sam was hammering it . Loads of copies around now....

It was their third H&L side and acetate only I am afraid, as the other two sides came out on issue. Steve