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Pretty Girl - phonetics - 15445 refosoul

Time And Time Again - brenda lee - 15426 refosoul

Ah no looked at # 12 in this thread. Sorry. Yeah that was the one!

Post 12 is Soulsmith. Just searched through 98 pages to find original quote about mello's & AJ etc. Can't find it as yet - 115 pages to go. Does sound like the sort of thing Shane would say though. Shane..?

Would take a hell of a lot of digging to find that critic. Was in (I think) look at your box may 15/16 months ago. He slagged it and mention the vocal being akin to Al Jolson. Pains me to agree, but I know what he means, only in a couple of bits does the vocal sound that way. Al is on youtube singing Mammy if you want a comparison. Wouldn't say written in stone, he was a lone voice stating that. Deffo Jolson. Will see if I can find offending post.

I really wouldn't know about all this off topicness. But I'll say this .. Arsenal are the Mello Souls - sophisticated jetsetter in the camel hair coat .. West Ham are the Frank Wilson's - Boomtown Rats ..

Yeah. Still we're not West Ham though eh? Roll on Champs League final. Again.

I wanna come down the escalator at Finsbury Park tube and hear someone play that sax break, be awesome. But I don't know any soulful buskers, so it's all in a bit of a pigs eye.

Mello Souls ... Come to think of it Seven Souls n'all, yeah Seven Souls.

I think Frank Wilson is a great record. Maybe over exposure has taken the sheen off it down the years, but a great record all the same. I think maybe because it was and still is big with the scootering fraternity that also has detracted from it's rare soul specialness. But again that would come back to the original point about purists. Imagine if you were press ganged into a drum & base night and after three hours solid d&b Frank Wilson came on..? Purists can be be wrong about things sometimes. They're still humans. I remember a guy on here slagging the Mello Souls for sounding Al Jolson-ish in places and he's got a point, but it's a blinder imo. One of the best. Just goes to show it takes different strokes to move the world.

Bit crap ...

395. Cobblers! Read the smallprint (clause 3)

Well as said above, clearly not that rare then. By the sounds of things £250 ish for an Ex copy - demo would seem about right?

Wanna sell it? Wanna sell it???

Cheers Nick.

Thanks chaps. Still a bit fuzzy on price. But I guess thats cos it doesn't come up that often. Unless Chalks knows anymore?

No idea how much I spose?

I'm not sure if it's rare or obscure, or both. Take it that your 'great record' comment means you won't sell me your copy?

Ain't Gonna Worry About You - george tindley - 15223 refosoul

Think someone asked the question on here a year or so back. Only seen one VG+ water damaged label go in Oct 2004 for about a hundred and eighty quid. So what would that make a minter go for these days, £250 or more? Whose got on dj'wise? Doesn't get played out that much I don't think. Anymore info much appreciated.

Somewhere to put yer pint?

I was a member of that club! If it's the same club ..

Great news Pete! Will move this to main section.

As discussed in other threads over the weekend new blood is vital for the scene's continuance. Maybe different these days to when some of the older guard got into it. Someone spoke of just sitting there listening and watching in the early days, 20 or so years ago. Reports from Friday said that locals weren't quite so reserved. Is that a crime? No. Different generation. Will youngsters who happen upon a northern night sit there and listen to tunes all night, come back and do the same the next month? Will they pay £300 for a 7" orig? When these collectors who are in the twilight of there years, shuffle off this mortal coil, will there be a glut of rare records? Will there be punters willing to pay big bucks anymore? I don't know the answers to the above, not sure anyone does. Times change. Passion is the key that keeps the flame burning imo. I've still got it, but as for a new wave with the same sentiment? As Chubby would say, you just don't know.