Ged Parker

then: Searling now: Butch if he's on form.

Anything played by Tony Jebb He used to fade out every record after 90 seconds it seemed to me

Sad sad news. My condolences to Lindsay and all Nige's family. And his close friends for that matter.

Beats me Could be a divorce situation where he sells and agrees to give wife half the value of the sale only to buy them back when the dust setlles

Not sure if the same group but Rob-Ron was a detroit lable from memory no address on the lable other than Detroit Michigan. Their 'This is Love' Rob Ron RR 75 is superb.

La Wanda William - Come Back to Me / That Handsome Guy on Ke Ke $220 long long time ago never ever seen another one 'in the flesh'

I've lost a number, well misplaced them at least. Sometimes they turn up but I still have a number missing in action since I stripped out the record room when duaghter No1 came back to live at home again. When I want to find one 45 it's a mamoth task there in boxes all over the house now

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I've been playing this on and off for about three years. Always gets someone asking what it is. I think I first heard it in the late 70's didn't get my own copy til the mid 90's.

I can remember Gaz Kellet being asked by a promoter to play some oldies that they will know. Saying "F**K em they're all morons" Priceless

The Impel copy is indeed 'Native Music' ASCAP and curiously the Seventy 7 copy credits 'Ann Sexton and the Soul Masters' the original is 'Ann Sexton and the Masters of Soul'. Not sure why this would change either.

Always remember the Carousel for one particular weekend it was the first May Bank holiday Sunday in 79. I'd just broke up with my girlfriend and went on a bit of wild one. Wigan oldies nighter on the Friday Night, into town to see City on the Sat Wigan on the Sat night, the Ritz on the Sunday for an all dayer over to Plymouth Grove for the Sunday nighter and finish of a cracking weekend at the Mecca all dayer in Blackpool on the Bank Holiday Monday. What a weekend and they say there are too many venues now.

Getting this back on topic: I don't think you can do anything without ebay's help and they are getting paid twice so don't care. If the person is shill bidding with another accound be that via snipe or not can they really win this item again unless they have a third ebay account. Anyway I like this one I may bid £50 on it

I always bid what its worth to me but mostly its worth more to someone else usually Mountainboyblue Thats the way prices are at the moment tho.

Which copy is harder to get the yellow or the blue moulded lable? And are there issues and demos in both styles?

Safely tucked up in bed I can't sleep if I have bids on items I'm too excited

Send the seller a message asking if the previous high bidder didn't send for the item? Make it easy for him to know that you know what is going on without directly accusing him of anything. I'd bid the same amount again but on a snipe. Everytime he 'sells' it he has to pay ebay fees and such a low value items it won't be long before he's losing money.

Ralph 'Soul' Jackson to Flanny Barrino Brothers to Paul Sadot The only two soul records I have ever sold before I have another copy. I always regret selling any rare record even when I have two of them. After selling a Palmer demo of Jimmy Mack even though I have an issue it was the first thing I thought of when I woke up next morning. I guess I'm as much a hoarder as a collector.

IMO it was a gradual thing as the boundaries of what was 'northern' shifted from being all about soul to being all about tempo for some DJs. I'm sure some of this was about the lack of access to the type of track John Anderson was finding for Richard yet the remaining expectation that 'new' sounds would be played by the regular jocks. When tracks like Helen Shapiro get played and the reaction from the floor is positive who can blame Russ and Keith for going further down the 'pop' route. Those of you that remember Stafford will know that the pressure was on there as well and that led to another shift in what constituted 'northern' with the rejection of tempo as the major defining factor and 'soul' coming back to the fore. It was this reinterpretation for me at least that kept the scene alive. Guy, Keb, Tim and others opened up some rich seams with their contacts stateside had Keith and Russ had these contacts rather than access to the back catalogue at Pye things may have been different. I know that if 'we' hadn't danced to the stuff we now shun it would have withered on the vine perhaps taking Russ and Keith as casualties along the way. The dance floor reaction took Wigan down the pop route so many people that were around then forget that and forget dancing to those pop stompers. Yes I can admit to dancing to that stuff but then I danced to everything and only left the floor to have a piss or get a 'drink' . I'm more descerning now

Wrong may not be the right term Baz but your in a very very small minority. I think if Jerry Williams had a vision of it hitting a chart when he recorded it would have been the R&B chart so to me its an R&B record. But I'm in a different minority.

. Baggies were very much still around in '78. The rest of your post makes perfect sense, Frank Wilson is a superb record that sums up the eneviatble outcome for such fantastic tracks once they are booted, reissued, put on CD's and adopted and played out by people who do not own originals. They become a victim of their own class and get played to death until we'd happily not hear them for the next 10 years.

Good tune this had mine since the late 70's it is Jimmy Conwell on Vocals and much the same line up as the Exits. I did discuss this with Jimmy when he was at the Cala Gran after he sang 'Shoeshine Boy' in his live set. Unfortunately I've slept since then so can't recall the differences in line up.

Superb choice

Its not UK only it was French I think (maybe Belgian). On Grand Prix a 7 inch version of our very own Top of Pops albums of the time. Some unknowns doing covers of the chart hits of the time and sold in woolies and the like for buttons. Kenny Burrel played this last time I DJ'd with him at Soul At Salwick as you know the Velevelettes is Kenny's fav motown tune. I think the Blue Sharks is slightly better IMO. Shit rare as well.