paultp

I was going to disagree with this but then realised that I bought those Motown unreleased singles (Lone lonely town etc) for this reason and also have a white label of the Keni Lewis - Not The Marrying Kind. I've also got a 70's white label of Brenda Holloway - Reconsider. Wouldn't part with any of them and will not get to own the original acetates either. I played the Brenda Holloway at a promotion night for one of Jo's Motown compliation CDs and the woman from Universal responsible for the UK Motown stuff had never seen one before, hadn't heard the tune either.

I agree, I'll get some armbands together.

Tune! Not heard it before, thank you.

Quite agree with you here Winnie, I don't quite get why people buy bootlegs these days either. As you say boots have been part of the scene for 30 years but back in the 70's the current format was 7 inch vinyl so bootlegging rare tunes onto vinyl was the only cheap way that the masses could own and play a tune at home. So bootlegging was meeting a market demand in the current format back then. Now the current formats are CD's, mp3's etc (cheaper, lighter, no moving parts as the standard engineering answer goes) so what is the point in buying a vinyl bootleg? More worryingly these days is that improvements in print technology has meant that bootlegs are being made to look exactly like the real thing, that can only be for deception on either a seller and/or DJ's part. I think this forum actually should organise an official Soul Police to check records at original vinyl only (OVO) venues, the checking could be done unobtrusively behind the scenes randomly checking records in DJ boxes. If done in a responsible way with the consent of promoters and DJ's alike I'm sure it would work to the advantage of all as promoters and punters would know that only original vinyl was being played and if a hard to spot bootleg was found then surely the DJ would be grateful for the information.

Yesmanone is (one of) Goldmine/Goldsoul's eBay presences. They also sell off their deleted CD stock on eBay at less than the wholesale price: one of the reasons I stopped buying wholesale from them to resell via the These Old Shoes web site.

Unless Alan's post has been edited after you posted this pete, I think you should have another look. It definitely says Wylie.

Just bumping this in case someone has one they don't want. Cheers Paul

If someone asks for offers and doesn't get offered the price they wanted, then who is being unrealistic? Why not say what they want? Are they hoping someone offers more than they think it is worth? I've made offers on records listed with no prices in the sales section a few times, quite often the "seller" doesn't even respond. If they said "that's too low, what about £x" then at least you would have the opportunity to negotiate. You've got to question whether they really want to sell the records or whether they are just trying to find out what their records are worth if they wanted to sell. If you ask for offers then obviously people are often going to start below what they are actually willing to pay. If you have an unrealistic expectation of the price you are going to acheive then you'll never get the offer you want. Anyway, I've stopped buying for the moment as I expect prices to drop in the next 6 months as the interest rate rises and the housing market crashes

Yeah but check his other stuff to find truly rare records: https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STAR-TREK-Hear-6-Exc...1QQcmdZViewItem

I can't say............................. Betty Everett.............................. ABC Another good tune and a cheapy too.

I've put a thing in the techy section on this, everything after an apostrophe gets cut off when you submit your post, so links with apostrophes in don't work (if that makes sense).

It was on the telly the other day, Tony Curtis is hilarious.

Sorry, these are all gone now. Thanks Paul

I didn't say that but if that is how you choose to read then crack on. Not bothering any further with this one.

It would definitely put me off whatever the music policy mainly because I find seeing the over 50's dress up like that a touch embarassing and definitely off putting. I think 60 year old Teddy boys are embarrassing too. Each to their own but I am allowed a choice. Given the choice of the same music policy at two similar venues, if one was populated by spencer & vest wearing over 50's and one wasn't I would go to that one that wasn't. What on earth is strange and/or "amazing" about that? This is hypothetical as I am unable to venture out at the mo and have been for some time due to work committments. I may get to Piercebridge this weekend (working on it) and if I do I'll just ignore anyone wearing spencer's and a vest cos I will be grateful just to have got out to a Northern do.

I thought 70's fashion was quite "IN" at the moment? Damn, I was dusting off my shirts with the long pointy collars too. I really hope you don't mean by 70's fashions: spencers, vests, patches and beer towels? They were never in fashion (well oxford bags were for a while) they were considered a necessity for energetic dancing in a hot environment (well the patches weren't but you know what I mean). That sort of fashion puts me off attending tobe honest and I'm 48

When I was involved in running These Old Shoes in London, one of the great things about it was the diversity of people that would attend and the diversity of age groups. We would get the (cough) older soulies, some younger ones from the mod scene, people visiting from overseas who were generally under 30 and quite often people just turning up to see what Northern Soul was. This last group often contained club DJ's looking for new sounds. This was pretty much the experience in other clubs in London at the same time, the best example being The Dome where the attendees were from all age groups and not just people "on the scene". It was quite refreshing as one persons played out oldie was another person's new sound, you could pretty much play what you wanted although we didn't go much beyond the 70's. I played Dena Barnes once in the early days (on a bootleg too shock horror!) and someone came up to the decks to see what it was, they were in their twenties. Different sounds would be popular in London too and the phrase "Big in London" actually turned up on dealers lists. It was quite odd to venture up North and see clubs full of people all pretty much the same age, any younger ones were generally those people's children. Maybe the way to ensure a soul scene endures as we all become decrepid & die is to drop the Northern tag and ditch the double or treble room scenario completely. A policy of sounds for the dance floor and that's it maybe. Perhaps I should clarify my view by saying that I only really got into Northern in the 90's although i've always liked Soul music and was a bit of a "div" in the 70's. So I am still hearing what other people refer to as classics for the first time. When I hear a tune I either think its really good or not, I don't know if its an oldie, newie, played at The Mecca/Wigan/Torch/Stafford, who played it first or generally how much it is, all that information comes later for me. I really do think the history side of the scene in the UK will kill it off if anything does to be honest, I cringe when I see documentaries on Northern Soul and they always treat it as a history lesson rather than what is happening now. I've just read all this back and I'm sure someone will call for my immediate public hanging or at the very least burn an effigy of me

And they've just phoned to say they are not coming today. Hurrah for Britain!

He must have loads of them cos he bought this recently https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=330013384423

If you click the amnesia records logo on the listings you get here: Obviously where he/she stores images and soundfiles but just a tad odd too Anyone know someone called Alan 49 from Bridgend who's obsessed with emma watson?

What an awful label too "Diamond Mind" I suppose this is the nearest they could think of to Goldmine without actually ripping the name off or alternatively they can't spell. The Isley Brothers one actually uses the Tamla Motown logo and EMI Records details so not a "re-issue" but definitely a bootleg. In the previous feedback there are also loads of an obvious bootleg of Drizabone - Pressure which is relatively current, if I owned 4th & Broadway I'd definitely sue. Wonder where they are pressing these up? They are too cheap to be done in small quantities. People are buying them too, amazing

Dont Be A Cry Baby - James Phelps - Fontana Posted this a few weeks (months?) ago but I think it warrants another post in this new player thingy.

Thats My Girl - Porgy & The Monarchs - Sylves One of my all time favourite records which I used to play all the time at These Old Shoes. Always had a stunning effect on people who had never heard it before, remember JO coming down from door duty to see what it was and also Mr Timlin regularly announcing his arrival by shouting repeatedly over the decks at Me Porgy & The Monarchs! Porgy & The Monarchs! until I played it. I'm sure most people who were regulars at TOS bought a copy, generally 20-30 quid though I did once buy one for 7 off someone on eBay. Lovely lovely feel good tune.

Should I change by avatar to something that enhances my credibility? Answers on a postcard please. I found this whilst doing a junk shop rummage a few years ago and couldn't resist, thankfully I can't do a sound clip cos I can't find the record at the mo.

I Cant Go On - Deon Jackson - Carla Really like this tune, would play it out given the opportunity. Is it 70's? This is a disc that has detroit credits all over it: this side arranged by Mike Terry and produced by Ollie McLaughlin, written by Sharon McMahan (Who she?). The other side is quite good too (I Need A Love Like Yours) again arranged & produced by the same duo and written by Wylie & Hestor. In my opinion the distributors have the plug side wrong on this WLP cos I think I Can't Go On is the better side, I always like it when that happens.