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Thanks, what a great tune! On my wants list. Cheers Paul

Sorry to show my ignorance but have you got some more details of this please? Ta Paul

This link works for me (using explorer): https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/auction/newli...tionItemID=2000 Shows the live auctions and the ones that have ended (change number at end of link to get the auction you want eg 2000 in link above), with the prices. Cheers Paul

It was played by Martin Gavin at These Old Shoes when he guested sometime in 1999, he picked it as one of his choices for the Anniversary CD that we gave away in Jan 2000 (along with Don & Juan - Heartbreaking Truth - good taste!). I think all the residents (Me, Jo & Martin) got a copy as soon as we could and it got played quite regularly there - fantastic tune.

Just read this and I'm shockked & stunned really. The 100 was top of my list of nighters to get to once I've sold me pub. Always quality and an atmosphere that would be worth a fortune if you could bottle it. Thank you so much Ady for putting this on year after year and all the best for the new chapter, hope to get along later this year. Cheers Paul (gutted tho )

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You may think it is strange but 50% of my customers do smoke, I know cos I counted them over a period of 4 weeks. Seems ridiculous for you to disagree with my statistic when you have no way of disproving it but I will agree with yours and use it to point out that the two together show that smokers use pubs more than non-smokers. So why should it be banned when both parties are adequately catered for? Sorry if that isn't your idea of "getting real", but I kind of like the idea of freedom for personal choice. I don't smoke but I respect someone's choice to do so (as long as they don't blow their smoke at me). Cheers Paul

Go on then, I'll join in. As a pub owner I will be directly affected by the ban, I think it is another example of nanny state interference that just isn't needed in any form. My pub has a smoking front bar with efficient air-cleaner, a non-smoking rear bar and a non smoking dining room. What exactly is wrong with that in terms of choice? About 50% of my customers smoke, I've asked them what they would like to see done to accomodate them, some are giving up, most just give me stupid comments. I don't think my trade will be affected too much as the smokers say they will still come to the pub and we are unopposed in the village but you never know. I do not believe that there is a massive untapped market of non-smokers who will suddenley rush out and use the pub, apart from initially those smug ones who like to view other people's miscomfort. I will look forward to not having to clean the ash trays or pick fag ends from the toilets, hopefully the air cleaner will get rid of the smell of farts that are masked by the smoke. I'm actually quite sure that most small country pubs like mine will just turn into restaurants or close over the next few years as beer drinking seems to be on the wane. My pub is on the market and most of the people who look at it seriously are chefs. Sad really. I think in terms of Soul venues the smaller one's will suffer in the short term until people get used to the ban. People who smoke will pick and choose where they will go to if they cannot smoke, so the local soul night will see numbers down whereas the bigger venues on a weekend probably won't notice. Anyway, off to open up Cheers Paul

Mmmmm .. there is a little truth in this but it also highlights that must frustrating of catch 22's: To be heard you must be booked: To be booked you must be good: To be considered good you must be heard Which point can you jump on at? Unless you start your own night and it is good and you are heard Answers on a white paper sleeve containing an original copy of If I Had Known - Freddie Houston - Old Town Cheers Paul

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I suppose I'd better up my snipe now

So the correct price for a mint one is about 80 quid then?

The thing is tho Pete, in the 70's vinyl was pretty much the only format and pressings were pretty much the only way to hearand own a record in your home that you had heard at a weekend. There was no internet and file swapping etc, the only alternative was the fairly new format at the time: cassette tape. My missus still has her precious stash of pressings from the 70's cos its part of her life. I think everyone understands why people in the 45-60 age bracket own pressings and possibly still keep them in schweppes crates. People bootlegging records now are just ripping people off (buyers, artists, copyright owners etc) as 99% of the time the tune is available quite readily on a legitimate, licensed format. Why Universal hasn't stamped all over Amnesia records is beyond me, if they're not bothered about the Motown stable of labels perhaps they could licence them cheaply to me? If people want to spend their hard-earned on unlicensed recent bootlegs, that's up to them, I don't know why they do tho. But if I had spent time and money releasing a record such as Drizabone's Pressure (4th & broadway) quite recently and someone was just pressing them up and flogging them on ebay I'd be all over them (in a legal sense obviously).

Back to back with Tommy Steele?

The seller of mine also had the other one: https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WILLIE-TEE-GATUR-557...1QQcmdZViewItem Cheers

I thought 22 inc postage was cheap actually, thought this was a 30-40 record? It's 40 in Mr Manships guide (3rd edition) anyway.

It's the funky funky one, the other is a bit pricey for me

22 squids

I was going to have a go at that Harrison Brothers but didn't in the end, mainly due to lack of readies. My recent arrivals are: OC Smith - Easy Street - Columbia issue (evidently hard on issue?) Betty Lavette - I'm Holding On - Big Wheel and waiting for: Willie Tee - First Taste of Hurt - Gator Ruth Brown - Mama, he treats your Daughter mean Players - Why Did I Lie - Minit (now got an issue and a demo so will be selling one - which is the rarer?) Chuck Jackson - I don't want to cry - wand Cheryle Thompson - Don't Walk Away - Vee-Jay (very strange record) Cheers Paul

Well that didn't work so what about: Caesars - Girl I Miss You - Lanie Cheers Paul

If anyone has one they would let go. With a price please Thanks Paul

No bout adoubt it ....... THELMA Having a go but some are very elusive and/or expensive Cheers Paul