Chalky

A lot has been written about auction fever, the emotions, effects and eventual outcome rather than a predicted outcome. Once that mist descends sense goes out of the window. Do a search for auction fever, plenty of reading.

Cecil far from rare, certainly not as rare as some make it out to be. Most dealers have had copies with some having multiple. £5k far too much IMO.

Of a particular tempo though, mid tempo primarily. 70s dancers were just that, 70s dancers, not crossover.

Tommy Tate is one of the great male vocalists but failed to get the recognition he deserved outside the soul music circle. He is far superior to Darrow I’m afraid in just about every department. I do like Darrow, seen him twice, one show I filmed and he has better records to his name than What Good Am I but he ain’t no Tommy Tate.

I thought I had posted the relevant pages in the past. Will see if I still have them in my photos on the ipad.

Montclairs WTF….wow

It was nothing to do with Modern Soul at the time

Both this mentioned in the OP food singers but there’s there are loads more better. I’d probably say Darrow just for the amount of solid records across the scene

Walter Jackson, Tommy Tate

Just read Rod Dearlove’s article in an issue of Voices From The Shadows. Crossover now has moved on to include just about anything and is far removed from what it initially was.

She has been dropping hints on twitter the last couple of weeks. Ordered my copy couple of days ago.

Its pretty rare

Thanks John. I’ll pick the magazine up and have a proper read. If they had done their research though many of those wouldn’t be in there on rarity alone. We could probably come up with plenty far rarer just for the northern stuff. Plenty with money who couldn’t care about the price, especially in Japan.

Even if the RC is nearer the mark value wise I would suggest it is way out on the rarity. Just 33 records rarer than the Tomangoes I doubt the Tomangoes nor Cecil would even make the top 200 rarest? Does the article say how the compilers arrived at this chart?

Contributed? You started the discussion and have reported the bidding process as it gas happened practically. There would have been nothing said otherwise until the auction ended and rarely have there been topics about current auction items. Thats why I wondered if the disc was anything to do with you and the hype been given. Cross? Far from it, I was quite relaxed with a bottle of red, well half a bottle left over from Saturday Buying this I have never spent silly money on records and my days of spend several hundreds let alone several thousands are long gone.

Probably both

And this is why the collecting scene is fcuked for the vast majority of ordinary collectors. Records like this being stupidly over hyped. Yes it is desirable but there have been many others much more desirable but you haven't over hyped those like this one. It is rare but not that rare. It is a record that should be within reach of many but prices that it is heading towards has taken it out of reach of the many, just like many other records that aren't really rare. There is overpaying but not to this extent. People are being had for mugs, treated like they are incompetent fools who know sod all by far too many. I don't blame John, far from it, its those believing the hype with far too much money and very little sense I blame, cheque book Djs with no imagination. Why such interest? Is it your disc?

Nope and in some cases having the opposite effect with prices of originals rising

Are you on commission?

We were growing up, enjoying ourselves. We lived for the weekend but none of us thought for a minute we would be sat here now 40 and 50 plus years later discussing this thing of ours let alone many still trying to do what they did when they were 18.

This week's show, 14th October 2021

Brilliant Steve

From what I can make out I don’t recall seeing a Jobete acetate like the out of focus one. All very ordinary as per the one of John’s

One or two escapees from the institution by the looks of it