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Both were booted on Soul Galore and I dont think would have made anything like the £70plus quid the Doni Burdick made tonight especially with labele stuck on, although I may be wrong looking at some of the prices pressings are fetching these days. What bothered me was the fact that from the scans, I thought they were actually originals (although in fairness it states they are not) which is why I was asking if anyone else thought the same. You've got to be careful these days with look-a-like copies coming out of the States, without the added pitfalls of being shown what look, for all the world like originals and then finding out they've be done on a computer and stuck on a dub plate. Or were these real and the seller got it wrong??????? wadda ya think?

Was anyone else confused by the description of items recently for sale on Ebay? The descriptions read as follows SOUND IMPRESSION RECORDS DONI BURDICK BARI TRACK / I HAVE FAITH IN YOU Not the original first press but this copy does look the business. The label looks stunning both sides, ideal for DJing. Vinyl is in excellent condition. And the same for Jimmy Mack with scans of both items looking exactly like the originals. Are these dubs with copied lables on them, new conterfeits or actually originals. I found the description confusing. Any ideas??

Plumby, why not take the lead and give it a spin at the next OrwellAll Dayer on August Bank Holiday Sunday? It 'll go down a storm

Its from a CD called Philly Steps released in the States in April of this year. Fantastic remix of Barbara Mason on there as well - recommended

Just done a search and found out he was on at the Citadel in St Helens last night, Gutted!

Nice one Derek! You are right about Liverpool being a 'Black Hole' for Northern Soul since the late 70's, in fact it's been a topic of debate many times between myself and L35'er Brian 'Flanny' Flanders. In fairness to some of the guys from Liverpool on the scene at the moment, there has always been a small and passionate contingent breaking out of the 'L' post codes onto the Northern Scene for years, in fact going to the Casino a group of about ten would already be on the last train to Wigan when we got on at St Helens (come to think of it does anyone remember 'Scouse' aka Mark Baxendale, a regular at the Casino). Later the 'Saints Club' did become a bit of a mecca for many scousers who had a trace of 'Northern' in their blood and the bus fare from Walton. In liverpool itself as far as I can remember the only club to really make it's mark and last more than the lifespan of a moth, was Livingstones in Stanley Street (I think!). A venue which at the time was spinning tunes like Sam Nesbit 'Black Mother Goose', Fred Hughes 'My Baby Came Back' and was mentioned quite regularily in Frank Elsons column in Blues and Soul. Other than that, Liverpool was a 'Funk with a capital G' town! Ohio Players, Funkadelic, etc but with a really soulful undercurrent and appriciation for real, new soul ala Lamont Dozier, Michael Henderson, Jean Carne to name a few. With some great (cheap) tunes coming straight off the boat and into Silly Billies record emporium in Whitechapel it was a great place to pick up some suberb music, I got Charles Johnson for £1.25 from there as a new relaese. If anything, I think it was the supply of good new Black Music into the city, combined with the efforts of the likes of Terry Lennaine with his influential weekly radio show that kept Funk on the dial and Northern at the door in Liverpool even though my mate Nick did try his best by playing two Northern Records at the end of every show.........Pearls before swine