Steve G

Good to see Chris remembered. He was a good fella. Also had larry clinton as well as those mentioned above.

Yes my notes indicate that Parsons took over their management, set up Sew City and left Scepter.

Yes probably, might have got the two of them mixed up without my notes to hand. I'll go with Parsons.

I don't know, Sew City was Proctor's label, I guess he must have sold it to BRA.

yes Chalky he had all the then biggies Al; Williams on Palmer, Frankie Beverley on Rouser, etc. Knew him from "The Fleet" which I was DJing at in the early 80s.

If it's the NY group it's Carl Proctor's old group that became Witches & Warlock. He left Scepter to manage them full time (and set up his own label) he believed in them so muich.

tune!!! But Clarence himself hates it.

EE was around since late Wigan, Searling played it originally, and I think it's always had a mystique about it, especially as Butch played it for a long time before other copies surfaced. In truth so has the Phil La label got that mystique which I loved collecting - I think I am missing three of them. Proper driving rare soul is EE, sure it would benefit from a bleating sax or something, but it;'s a solid dance record.

Fabulous read Rob.

I wasn't neccesarily intent on buying it, I was thinking about it, but since I have a test pressing, it would be a "trade up" rather than buying something totally new - the test press is rare enough and trade ups are a luxury when there are still records I don't have at all. But wouldn't buy it at the price you are suggesting

I'm making a fuss Pete....but quietly.....

I didn't go til 76, so am sure you are right. By 76 though it was 50% oldies. Evison was of course 100% oldies.

Wigan casino saturday night was in reality close to 50% oldies in the main room. Although a lot of it was only oldies by a couple of years.

Well I heard that the Lib Dems are now looking about taxing peoples wealth, art and collections. So yep Eddie P may well get taken into account when ya day of reckoning comes and good old Social Services are looking at what you can and can't afford. The good news is they'll never be elected

Gordon, London, Herts and Beds.....it's been out at all of them, and works well......

Hi Russ, EE never cleared the floor down here. Always works.

Hi Len, Some good points there. The music will never die out. It's too well established around the world now - we were discussing this on another thread, some fears NS would go the way of doo-wop, which never broke out of it's core fan base in the USA. NS and rare soul is different, thousands of CDs, MP3, supermarket sweeps and the like. What will change (and has changed already) is the shape of the scene. The old style nights / Niters will gradually disappear, replaced by SAGA weekenders, and ultimately a special old peoples home where you can pay to live in an environment with Judy Street pumping out over the speakers, a "talc friendly" dance floor, NS sympathetic nurses et al. In the place of the old scene there will be localised new nights - in fact if you go to London there's something on every week now and sometimes more than one gig. Apart from the odd DJ I don't know any of the people at these gigs, they are transient but they all seem to be having a good time dancing and enjoying themselves. They ain't gonna spend 8g on Eddie Parker tho! Keep smiling, see you soon. Anyone up for investing for a NS old people's home? I am going to register the name "Oldsoul" just in case Nice records Saturday man.

The test pressing of this is a blue thing Wiggy.

Yes but if a demo I would have expected a release date on it somewhere. My guess, and it's only that, is that this is an extremely rare issue that "escaped'.

100 times rarer than Darrell Banks Pete.....I only have a hand written UK demo of Fork in the Road, the issue looks nice.

What happened to the last minute bidding frenzy then? - a bit like an all nighter where everyone goes home at 2 a.m......

How many rue the day when they thought it was just "too expensive" at £40

Thank you Pete!

Come on Dave. They don't need label-retentives pawing over matrix numbers, but surely they can rustle up someone with a bit more knowledge than Trevor friggin' Nelson. I mean when they do sixties music documentaries, they go and find people that were actually there / involved. Bacharach documentary a case in point. This was just lazy cheap TV. Typical - Danny Baker all over I am afraid. A Donny Hathaway LP on the wall behind the talking heads? - well well wonders never cease. What next, a bus in a documentary about the history of buses?

Not massively in demand but a pretty tough one to find Sean.