Frankie Crocker

Priceless. Dead rare. Price Guide indications are hopelessly out. If one in the USA was put on eBay, it would fetch a four figure sum. Are you selling or buying?

About right. Was £400 over the last decade. Styrene record so a mint unplayed copy is worth the money.

Sounds better on a black label...might colour my blue one in with a black felt pen... Evidently a rare label variation.

Thanks for posting as usual. Some of the record auctions have clearly finished with winning bids indicated. Other records appear to have no final figures as presumably the auctions continue beyond 6.00 p.m.

An interesting question, and one that's been covered in earlier threads. Essentially, early Northern dancers emulated 60’s soul artists’ dance styles seen in USA music shows featuring the footwork of Major Lance, Jackie Wilson, James Brown and others. When Wigan opened in 1973, the dance style was predominantly shuffling side to side with much rapid footwork. As the scene moved on, it attracted masses of attendees not aware of the Wheel-Torch dance style so the late 70’s witnessed the arrival of the ‘lazy two-step style’ popular in discos. Packed dance floors to some extent forced this ‘dancing-on-the-spot’ approach as there was no space to move side to side. The late 70’s saw the emergence of a modern dance style that later came to be called ‘shuffling’ - the faster sounds of the contemporary newies encouraged dancers to move backwards and forwards. Today’s events usually display a variety of dance styles with older attendees favouring the lazy-two-step, youngsters wearing trainers doing the ‘modern shuffling’, veterans embracing the Wheel-Torch old-style shuffle and plenty of free-style-dance-how-you-wanna punters generally doing their own thing.

Detroit Soul - never seen it sell for so much in all of my life... Jumped from £30 to £100 then to £200 in the last five years with (presumably) DJ spins provoking collectors’ interest.

Is this thread to do with the copy that was removed from eBay on Wednesday afternoon? It always baffles me when a record I’ve bid on is suddenly taken down.

Bonkers. More money than sense. This is not a particularly rare record. Mind you, it is a decent sound

Great sales list. Crackle at start of Tommy Bush is a recording flaw evident on all copies.

Plenty of set sale items flying out at set sale prices. I guess these get lost amongst a large inventory but they go swiftly enough when given an auction tag.

Thanks for the positive feedback. At first, I was reluctant to share the secret, but to hell with copyright - now you all know and can have a go yourselves. I’ve made five in all - my copies of Annabelle Fox and Dusty Wilson are off-centre - but it takes a good while, and then you have to use trial and error to position the adaptor in the spindle hole. The trouble is, you then need to keep the special adaptor for a specific record and handle it as though it was a British release. I do have a Tru Tones on Soulville (with matching custom adaptor) surplus to requirements so it might be put up for sale in the near future.

The black plastic spider adapter mentioned earlier has its merits - you would need to re-bore the spindle hole in the correct place. I’ve cut metal triangles from USA solid metal adaptors to re-centre the records below. It takes a while to file out the plastic then glue in the triangle, but once the adaptor has been modified, the record plays fine.

You didn’t miss out. The record condition was poor. The buyer will need to upgrade the purchase if they wanted it that badly.

It does indeed as I have one now. I had one ages ago, then acquired a demo - stupidly, I then sold the issue at The 100 Club. Years later, I regretted selling the issue and won another on eBay. So, there are at least two yellow issues, but I would estimate there are others out there. I quite like having an issue and a demo of a good tune, or in this case, two good tunes. Sad I know, but boy it helps me sleep better.

That top one will look even better when it’s in my collection... Just got pipped on the bottom one, but can get by without it for the time being...

Darrow Fletcher surely a set sale record? Cresa Watson will now grace a top collection - a true rarity. Ton Of Dynamite is just that - they don’t make songs like that anymore - the new owner will be very pleased and rightly so.

If only we could turn back the hands of time. Nowadays, with a phone camera, you can snap anything. I can remember being in a house in Homestead, Pennsylvania and every ground floor room was full of 100 count boxes from Chicago pressing plants. I can remember being in a Cincinnati lock-up garage packed floor to ceiling with 100 count boxes and only going through some of the front row. I can remember multiple trips to Skippy White’s basement in Cambridge, Massachusetts and there was tons and tons of quantity there. Sadly though, no photographs. It was only late on, I started taking pictures of record stores in the USA, but even these are now on hard-drives long since chucked out or on disks that can’t be viewed as the latest computer doesn’t have a disk drive.

Don’t recall too many patches stuck on trouser legs! This photo looks a bit like the cast of ‘Soul Boy’ mucking around between takes. Perhaps more disco-wear on show here than normally seen at an All Nighter.

Good topic for a thread. I’ve seen these photos so often, I’m very familiar with them. On closer examination, there’s some with badges that weren’t around in 1975 perhaps? The scene is obviously staged, but this surely couldn’t happen during an All Nighter? Some of the clothing looks spot-on for the 70’s but not exactly All Nighter wear. Can anyone in the photos come forward and enlighten us?

Really sad news. I can remember Gotta See Jane playing on the car radio in 1968. I really liked this song even though I was only about 12 at the time. Indiana Wants Me was also a decent track released a couple of years later. I too, like many others, was smitten by There’s A Ghost In My House when it came out in the 70’s. I can distinctly recall it being played on my first trip to the Casino in March 1974 - it was a stunning tune then and is just as enjoyable when you hear it today. R. Dean Taylor will always be a Motown legend for me.

Just fake news. Somebody alleging they’ve done something, then linking that to a load of utter tosh as there never was any demand for Bee Gees songs on the northern soul scene, let alone at The Casino. Totally laughable. Just who was the faker who wrote this garbage?

You guys are spot on as always. Brothers of Soul just a set-sale record. Appreciations was an inferior copy hence low finishing price. Mel Britt’s figure was pretty staggering but understandable for a truly great record.

Unbelievabubble. What has prompted this question? Surely no self respecting DJ would ever admit to this, even if it was true, but I very much doubt it.

Set Sale item...must have slipped through the net and been included by the work-experience student by mistake.

Has sold for significantly more in the past. Can fetch £1,500 on eBay so would’ve thought £2,000 on John’s auction was achievable. Someone had a bargain here.