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go on then mike post it up, bought the Bobby version as a uk new release b interesting to hear George's version. tho think you might have to wait til tomorrow to upload, as mikes having a big site move tonight and requested no clips after 2 danny

Pete think i tracked down that sellers workplace, apparently a big find off the west coast, maybe you can collar him did he iron the sleeve while he was at it, hope you didnt lose your shirt danny

Joe Bloggs moonlighting as a record dealer doesnt depend on earning his living from all that is involved in selling records, window cleaning, Paint & decorating or other examples in life where you try to compare a full time pro with a bit player who has another income legal or otherwise. Any kosher mailing house will charge you for packing and presenting a product to post office, just like any courier company will charge you to take your mail to the post office. In general the cost of postage is minimal compared to total amount. Notwithstanding those guys who try to fleece you after agreeing a selling price for the record, if prices are clearly indicated before then no one can argue with a nominal additional charge for the time taken to complete process. Most dealers rely on repeat business all their doing when adding to postage is itemising where their profits are made (good business practice). If the overall price and service is good..happy days The guy selling to Intown Mikey should have put a reserve on the record before auctioning and then just charged a reasonable postage, this might have avoided the ill feeling regards postal hike after the event. If you sell records full time and its your only income, you could include all required profit in selling price and offer postage at cost or maybe free but somewhere there has to be sufficient profit for the guy to pay for his working day. Anybody who argues bout the dealer making usually less than a £1 after offering a good deal on a record.. 1) Check the buyer is not auditioning for a job with Alan Sugar 2) tell them where to shove their quid and their order

Sounds fair enough to me, I work in the courier & postal service sector, we charge cost plus for postage, and people agree or go elsewhere. Its ridiculous to expect a proper business involved in mail order of anything to do it for free, they have to pay someone to do it and pay postal service upfront; the price would have to be built in somewhere else- i.e. the product. Who else on here works part of their working day for completely nothing. Busy, Monkeys & peanuts come to mind. Buying off dealers I expect to pay for quality, his/her knowledge, time spent sourcing records and other sundries including p+p. Hopefully their economy of scale means its a viable going concern at a decent price. Buying off Joe Bloggs I expect p+p at cost. If prices are clearly indicated, can't see the problem. danny

Ok ol chap. A week of cheltenham, paddy's day and watching that great rugger win in the maddest of welsh pubs (steve thomas local) too many triples, i fell at the first hurdle and melted or was that dribbled all over the floor tho not before saw the precisions slay em and hear the combinations being played. how much you want for that picture Winnie, my reputations at steak (n chips) 1 and 6.... deal Coulda done with a parka for a bed, even a patchwork one. btw hope to get to a few ole farts 50th at the ath

so i see, like joining a northern soul site and posting over 1100 posts

Hi You you, uniforms, names and accesories have always been associated with the different youth culture groups. If you drive a scooter you could be called a scooterboy as opposed to just a non riding mod who didnt like getting his suit dirty. I never wanted to be like my older bro who had done the mod thing so suedehead was one of my labels. Northern is a way of life not just what records you own, patches, beer towels and err talcum powder. Does all this obsession with music, clothes and stuff make us Retro or modernist, dunno, who really cares, its confusing as it is. Danny

Alrite Winnie yep the instrumental's have waned big time,tho has been said much rubbish was pushed out back then. "newer sounds" have gotton more soulful with great vocals. However prefer the Funk Bros versions of them supremes sounds, Junior Walker sang through his sax, It's the opening bars of tunes that normally grab me; Jades, Dean P, Carol Anderson and loads more.Sidra's theme dont need no vocals Tho agree this track is not great on my cloth likes either, sorry pete but thanks for posting. danny

hope to be there Col, see you at the bar danny

quote name='Soulsmith' date='Feb 17 2006, 01:26 PM' post='251687'] Always good to here a soulful version of a MOR classic. Whats your favourite? Attached is a version of Jealous Guy. Sounds not that great as its a live recording. Production wise its a bit off the wall, but what a voice! I don't know if this record is that well known, so pint of Stella to first person to identify singer. Col.

Idealistic. What about selling at venues, will this be for only SS approved! And the humble buyer who likes trawling all those us ebay sellers who dont know theyre selling soul records.Once a record is on a proper flagged Soul auction/set sale the price will likely rise not good for anyone budget buying. Where would you build the new "Casino" Wigan or London? what about other now demolished venues? Hasnt the scene changed since then, in that its not centred on one main weekly outlet, and with an older average age people less likely to travel too far. You have an option on ebay to showcase your store. JM through hard work and good marketing seems to get best of ebay, gemm and his own site. danny d

Makes perfect sense to me Russ. Geographic's play a part, I've used rare to define as against say mainstream radio soul so local new blood have some idea what not to expect. Ads purely for the sophisticated; then maybe different tact. How rare is it, that's all relative to the ultimate unreleased acetate track isn't it? As for going to hear lesser known stuff you can't guarantee that 100%, one mans newie is someone else's overplayed elsewhere, depends how far people travel to attend your nite. All the snazzy wordplay doesn't make the night, if its good music and what most people want they'll come back in hopefully your target breakeven figures and your night will keep running. Mmm maybe stop calling our night rare on SS and we use term 'cross the board' sometimes, coz we like hearing stuff from different spectrums of Northern in one room on one night, not necessarily the obvious same ol safe ones rolled to to diminish that term. Maybe we should go back to the old days when record titles were included on poster, then theres no confusion. Danny

Got to know Dave through letters, phone calls and in recent times email. His sarcism and witty writings about Northern Soul kept me informed and entertained and its easy to see why he became a comedy success, Hearfelt sympathies to his family and friends on losing an honest, upfront and funny loved one, gone too early. Record review taken from Dave McCadden's Soul Galore, Issue 2_December 1996 jades**** I'm where it's at (nite life) Oh if only i had a nicker for every time someone asked about the time i borrowed Searling's copy of the Jades. Its one of those stories that just wont go away, so I may as well get the facts down here right now. It was way back in August 1978. I was 21, untouchable, Like most people feel at that age. I had a fairly large and impressive record collection; I was picking up a few things from the States: I was a regular at most of the top venues; I had written for Black Echoes for over a year. I was starting to feel that maybe I was something of a face on the scene. I could do no wrong, Life was about to give me a really good kick up the arse!! I hadnt published a fanzine for a couple of years, but I felt it was such a healthy scene that someone ought to start writing it all down. As usual it was down to me. There had been a couple of other fanzines that had started up but they hadnt documented the real grassroots movement - most of them were just mentioning a few of the records being played by the editor and an awful lot of saying "Hi" to their buddies. Do me a favour! For some reason I decided that Nite Life would be a good name for a mag. Obviously I nicked the name from the record label that had issued the Jades I'm where its at, but who could have blamed me for that. It had a lot of credibility - for a start there was only one copy in the country, in the hands of the country's top jock, Richard Searling. It really was mega rare. And I could borrow it! Richard and I saw a lot of each other in those days and we had become good friends - he even wrote an article for #1 of my first ever Northern Soul mag, Soul Time. All I had to do was ask. "Hey thanks, Richard of course I'll look after it I know it's the only copy in the country; sure I'll guard it with my life, no sweat relax, you worry too much!" honestly, that Searling - what's his problem? Sure enough I borrowed the record and photocopied the record label to use for my cover and had no problems whatsoever. I had planned to meet Richard at the Ritz All-dayer on Sunday to return the record. He was late that day and I was booked to Dj at a northern Soul night in Bury. A mate of mine was supposed to meet me at the Ritz with my Dj-ing box. He didn't' turn up either. As the hour finally came when I had to set off for Bury, I gave up on him and trotted off to the nations capital of black puddings. Tucked under my arm was a pile of cheapo boots I'd bought from Kev Roberts for 25p each - and the Jades! A good night was had by all as I dazzled the dozen or so soul fans with my Selectadisc bootlegs which had been big sounds the previous year - and of course my shit rare copy of the Jades! I was in no rush to tell anyone I had borrowed it from Richard. Well they never asked! At the end of the night I piled out with a group of mates and headed for the late night bus stop. Someone mentioned chips. Good idea. The chippie was a bit further down the road so we walked off to the next bus stop to fill our faces. As I stood in line at the chip shop I plonked my pile of records on the cool melamine counter and waited for the chinaman to bring my late night feast. When everyone was served we loitered across the road at the bus stop, getting well stuck in to our grub before the bus arrived. "Where's your records, Dave?" oh shit, I'd left them in the chippie. I wasn't too bothered about the pressings but I certainly didn't want to lose that Jades. I bombed over the road and asked the chippie owner for the records. He nipped into the back and handed me the sounds. Phew! That was close! As we sat on the back seat of the bus someone asked for "just one more look" at the Jades before it was returned to its rightful owner. I flipped through the pile of sounds. As I reached the bottom of the pile I suddenly realised something was dreadfully wrong. The record was in a cardboard cover, but it had suddenly swelled to about two inches thick. I pulled out the record to an astonished gasp - it looked like an ashtray! After we had left the shop, the owner had picked up the records and put them on top of a hotplate in the back room. The record on the bottom of the pile (it had to be The Jades didn't it?) had been subjected to tremendous heat and had concertina'd into a grotesque and swollen piece of vinyl. When I laid it down on the seat it was almost two inches high! Perversely, the label was undamaged - it just sat there, untouched and laughing at me! Our initial gasps of astonishment rapidly turned into hysterical laughter. Someone said to me, " I don't know what you're laughing at Dave - what are you gonna tell Searling?" Yeah, right what WAS I gonna tell him? Two nights later I sat in the car belonging to the Northern Soul scene's top DJ., waiting to get into the northern soul night at Caroline's nightclub "Stick with me, Dave", he said, "I'll get you in for nothing" Oh stop it Richard , you're not making this any easier. And the conversation went something like this: Did you bring the Jades? Oh yeah, course I did. Good. I had a bit of a problem with it though. You've not broken it have you? Don't be silly Richard, course I haven't broken it. Good, cos that's my top sound at the moment (Gulp) here it is... like a magician with a rabbit I suddenly produced this molten lump from inside my jacket and dropped it on his lap. You should have seen his face. It was somewhere down by the clutch pedal. What the...! Okay, hands up now. Who'd be in my shoes? But to be fair to Richard he was absolutely brilliant about it. I'd just bid £ 100 for a copy of the same record in Martin Koppel's auction, so Richard said I could give him the £ 100 instead. What a great guy! He can probably laugh about it now- I just get the tremors when I think about it. Thanks, Richard. Er, so there you are. The Jades has of course been bootlegged, but it's one of those pressings that has been changing hands for a few bob. It will probably set you back £6 for the horrible silver label job. Originals look like the one across the page (one went for £600 last year) apart from one copy which now looks like a tarantula on its wedding night. I'm thinking of starting a new magazine called 'Soul' - d'you think Tim Brown will lend me his copy of Frank Wilson's 'Do I love you'????!!!! Nice one Dave

"where will you go when the party's over" gets an airing danny

am a bit mutt n jeff but currently looking for; "someones nad" by the GONADS

Came across this weekly radio show last week when trawling for a link between Creations and Contributors of soul version of Dream, check out the Gerald Dickerson interview, top stuff. cheers and seasons greetings Danny https://www.sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html from last week Hi Danny, thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. This Sunday I'm interviewing the New Concepts, I'll be putting it online after my show on Sunday night (you can't actually listen live because the station is not online, plus there's the time difference which would make it hard for you anyways). Next coming interviews will probably be the Satagans / Solid Gold, People's Choice / Original Breed, Stormy / Lost Family, and Essence (who evolved out of the Turbulations after the Age of Bronze split off). I have a lot of bigger ones lined up for next year too. thanks, Bob

Somebody probably had the same resentment bout planes, boats, taxi's, underground, cinema's.....imagine flying longhaul on a smoking plane. Would you have a problem with someone lighting up next to you and say your children or young relations in a confined space? danny

very funny, maybe "slowly moulding " best no politics https://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/bios/sands.html

I had to attend my funk medal award ceremony, but glad martin put up the music link for jo. mines on uk sure its atlantic will find it to make sure wasnt talkin double dutch, will have to relisten to loose ends but bit tied up at mo. "you ba you bar da you bar do bar da " ooh cant get that outa my head, very freddie flinstoney. d

Hi Del i have this on uk atlantic. are you albanian cheers Danny

Apologies if i missed but aint seen it mentioned here, been given this info... another great recently passed away; Handsome Mel Williams, Vocalist, Dead at 68 Mel Williams, vocalist most popularly associated with The Johnny Otis Band, died Sunday from cancer. He was 68. A commanding presence in the early Rock 'n' Roll music era in 1950s Los Angeles, Williams was a popular vocalist with bandleader Johnny Otis. He was known as "Handsome" Mel Williams to the throngs of female fans who came to his performances in droves. He recorded with many artists including Jesse Belvin, Arthur Lee Maye, and Little Esther, and on many labels including DIG, where he was the largest selling recording artist. He is survived by his son, Mel Williams, Jr., Esq. of South Orange, New Jersey. Funeral services will be held in the Manchester Chapel at Inglewood Cemetery on Saturday, October 29, at 9 a.m.