Chalky

If you'd had been a part of this scene for decades and invested so much of your life in it you would understand 100% where Paul is com ing from.

The last show of 2023 with myself making another appearance in the studio alongside Dean and Gez.

Say hello for me. I don't think I have any photos of your dad either which is a shame. Happy times with yer dad and the Barnsley crowd.

Looking at map it would be Cope Street where I spent a great deal of time.

Just be aware as all the scammers who have been found out have ben offering this

I doubt anyone will be in the market for it at that price

More money than sense some people. Do we have to suffer another m month of this record on here

But it isn't the rarest

Sure it was Coach and Horses mate, on the junction of Park Road/Sheffield Road coming out of town. Got the football bit wrong I reckon.

Happy Christmas to Mike, the team and all the members. Have a great time.

John Manship joins Dean in the studio for the last show before Christmas.

I do and the lyrics certainly are? It is proper urban black dance music.

Deffo not unknown but not well known, will have to check if I grabbed a sound file off ebay. Would imagine same Mel Williams as on Star, Buddah, Chipper etc.

Have to agree, the music will always be there and be danced to and enjoyed, not as we know as the kids discovering it will forge their own way. There are already signs of change and attitude. Me, I just go to a select choice of a few venues and enjoy them for what they are. Our time is up if we are honest and we have had the best of it too. As you say Mick enjoy what we have left, none of us imagined still being around going to NS venues when we were kids. The youngster having an influence today still seem to be heavily into the vinyl and long may it continue. That will probably be watered down from the original only ethos to include reissues etc.

There isn’t a scene anymore, not as we knew it. Hardly any travellers and just a couple of 100 hardcore nighter goers. The music is oldies regardless of the type of venue you attend. There are a couple of cities with healthy clubs of younger folk but wait till they start having responsibilities. Whether the scene as it is is still here in 10, 20 or 30 years is irrelevant really but collectors will always be there. Whilst many big money buys are probably Dj driven right now, there are still collectors with little regard for the clubs who still chase such records . Personally I just buy for my own pleasure now, worry not about others.

Djing in Glasgow, pulled out half of my copy of The Attractions - Why Shouldn't A Man Cry

Many are offloading collections and choice items now, others have valued theirs so the canny (greedy) offspring will want maximum return, or become a ready made Dj themselves. We have had many topics regarding cheaper end records and there are plenty out there even for Djs who are prepared to dig a little and not just plagiarise playlists.

Emily Jane makes a welcome return to the studio for two hours off classy music.

Here is the actual real-history of this 45. As documented in June 2022 on the John Manship Wednesday auction. Welcome home old friend.. First discovered in a neat and tidy man-cave record-room, in Pittsburgh during an one of my early buying trips in May 1977. Taken back to the UK but not put up for sale, but instead straight into the DJ box covered up as "Lenny Curtis - Not Another Day" featuring as my last spin of my sets for over a year; becoming an iconic Cleethorpes Winter Gardens, finale play. To rise up from that lowly position to high priority on east-coast collectors wish lists - and has remained there ever since. The “Cleethorpes” DJ habit for playing something slower than the norm, very soulful as their exit disc, started out as an “in” joke because the next DJ would be playing to a nearly empty dance floor, which was all in good fun to begin with. But when Tony Middleton’s “Paris Blues” rose from a funeral paced Beat Ballad stroller into an unlikely dancefloor packer, the search was on for similar discs to spin last, giving an identity to your DJ set. This 45 and "Paris Blues" added to the rich texture of diversity the Cleethorpes days were built upon. After a year I moved it onto the to fellow Cleethorpes DJ Nev Wherry, who went on to lift its popularity even higher. The next copy found ended up at Wigan Casino and Arin Demain's journey from Pittsburgh, Pa. to one of the most-wanted Northern Soul record of the late 70's was complete. Very few copies have been discovered since, the rarity provenance of this fabulous tune, is now set in stone and still talked about and salivated over 47 years later. So now enter “Ernie Lucas” with a perfect candidate, by any standard of the times “Silent Treatment” may have slower than the norm, but shimmering with so much “Real Soul” the appreciation grew and grew so that this disc joined “Paris Blues” in adjusting dancefloor tastes. Today after decades of fruitless searches and challenging quests of trying to grapple a copy away from the few known owners, or sniping a copy on the internet, ends usually in total frustration for most all who have tried - in short this is one thoroughly Soulful 45 that is damn-difficult to acquire - but we all love a collecting challenge don't we. Nev Wherry at the time in 1978 was working for John Manship Records at 25 Baldocks Lane, Melton Mowbray I was glad to sell him my copy, to keep the "Lenny Curtis" legacy going, which he did so well.

Don’t think it credits them as the first just who was spinning it at the time cause half the records on that compilation weren’t first played by the Dj named if I remember correctly. Arin Demain was a John Manship discovery from a trip to Pittsburgh. He made it a Cleethorpes biggie before selling it to Nev after a year.

Soussan

Wouldn’t have thought worthy of inclusion in this topic though?