Md Records

Same deal as before, £15 each, all in good shape, includes postage, and yes I take PAYPAL. 01. Pat Hunt - Why Do You Do Me Like You Do - Grand 102 - Great raw Northern, books for much, much more SOLD 02. Benny Turner - I Don't Know - M Pac 7219 - Great R & B Mover, with Soul 03. Eddy Jacobs - Was I So Wrong - Kiss Kiss - Absolute bargain SOLD 04. Elgins - Ritha Mae - Congress 214 (Promo) - R & B meets Northern Soul! 05. Jay & Techniques - Are You Ready For This - Smash 2217 - Phenomonal Northern, seldom heard out ON HOLD 06. Chuck Corby - City Of Strangers - Sonic 118 - Utterly Class Mid Tempo! 07. Lafayettes - Caravan Of Lonely Men - RCA 8082 - Early, paced Northern dancer 08. Luke Williams - Who's Gonna Be First - Columbia 42997 - Great, early mover 09. Joe Tex - Don't Play - Checker1055 - R & B Dancer, seen a fair bit of turntable action! 10. Peermonts - You Gotta Love Me Too - Murco 1039 (White Promo) - Old School Northern, with a Southern feel. 11. Rockmasters - A Wonderful Thing - One Der Ful 4820 - Classy Group soul with a beat 12. Gil Monti - You Know What I Like - Scenic 1765 - Catchy mid 1960's R & B 13. Carl Bell - Honest I do - Coral 62449 - Oddball Northern, way under priced 14. Billy Webster - Good People - Silver Tone 203 - Full On Northern, on this Swan subsidiary 15. Freddie Dane & Fables - You Knew Just What To Do - Heritage 813 - Class Northern dancer, waiting to have it's day 16. Sound Judgement - Happy Without You - Kapp 914 (White Promo) - Old Style Northern on a great looking, classy label 17. Leonard Lee - I'm Just A Poor Boy - Broadmoor 102 (White Promo) - Classy New Orleans Northern 18. Bobby Bradshaw - Make Someone Happy - Jamie 1366 (White Promo) - Recently reviewed, backed with the equally good "It's A Miracle" 19.Fidelics - I Love You Baby - Rising Soul 109 - Classy group soul 20. Denny Belline - Outside the City - RCA 9041 (White Promo) - Atmospheric old style dancer, very dramatic! 21. Cicero Blake - See What Tomorrow Brings - Success 108 - Two fabulous, mid paced quality soul sides 22. Four Tempos - Showdown - Rampart 655 - Group Northern Soul dancer, say no more!! 23. Robert Dobyne - Can't Get Along Without You - Kama Sutra 207 - One that gets in your head, catchy as F***, good Northern 24. Millie Mclaine - Found A Lover - Soulville 1011 (White Promo) - Great R & B, at a low price! 25. Al Greenaway - I Don't Wanna Hurt Anymore - Segue 104 - Reviewed in this Issue of "Soul Up North", good track. Des Parker

YES indeed, all these are in EX condition, or better and are £5 each, or 3 for £10!!!!!!!! Paypal taken, and postage FREE to anywhere in UK, now on with the show! 01. Otis Clay - Showplace - One Der Ful 4848 02. Dee Dee Warwick - It's Not Fair - Mercury 72788 03. Otis clay - Messin' With My Mind - Echo 2002 04. Andrew Tibbs - I Made A Mistake - M Pac 7228 05. Natural Four - The Devil Made Me Do It - Chess 2119 06. Bob Brady - More, More, More Of Your Love - Chariot 101 07. Sheppards - Glitter In Your Eyes - Sharp 6039 08. Freddie Hughes - Send My Baby Back - Wand 1182 09. Jerry Butler - I Can't Stand To see You Cry - Vee Jay 696 10. Escorts - Sing A Happy Song - Knockout 10146 11. Hosanna - Hipit - Calla 12078 12. Azie Mortimer - I Don't Care - Okeh 7337 13. Vicki Collins - I'm Better - Soulville Revords 14. Lori Hampton - I'm Under The Influence Of Love - Uni 55059 15. Chris Bartlay - Truer Words Were Never Spoken - Vando 14000 (White Promo) 16. Leona Dunn - Baby Don't Play Around - Hallmark 500 17. Dells - Wear It On Our Face - Cadet 5599 18. Leonard Kaigler - You Got Me Believing In You - Sunburst 533 19. Audrey Slo - Mamma - Baye 1117 20. Liz Damon - You're Falling In Love - White Whale 368 21. Sonny Charles - Put It In A Magazine - Highrise 2001 22. Brothers Of Soul - You Better Believe It - Boo 111 23. Vontastics - Peace Of Mind - St Lawrence 1007 24. Junior Parker - I'm So Satisfied - Blue Rock 4080 25. Commotions - we'll Make It Someday - Blue Rock 4065 Des Parker

Thanks Jocko, more to come! Des Parker

Yes indeed, clearing out a few recesses, and got this first batch up for grabs - £10 each, free postage to anywhere in the UK, and have been forced kicking and screaming into the 21st century, and now take PAYPAL (whatever that is!!) Anyhow all these are in great shape, EX or better. 01. Clarence Williams - I Know About Love - Tina 101 - Raw R & B dancer from Philadelphia ON HOLD 02. Barbara Lynn - You're Gonna Be Sorry - Jamie 1304 (White Promo) - Fabulous piece of Uptempo Soul, great vocals, as you'd expect!! 03. Neal Kimble - Ain't It The Truth - Venture 607 - Willie Hutch penned, Motown styled Northern 04. Lee Charles - Wrong Number - Revue 11022 - Strong, under rated Northern, with class vocals 05. Sounds Four - Keep On Lovin' - Saintmo 8202 - Absolute bargain! SOLD 06. Tony Borders - What Kind Of Spell - Revue 11040 - Southern Soul with an excellent dance beat, and strong, soulful vocals 07. Five Stairsteps - Danger She's A Stranger - Windy C 604 - Pure Class!! 08. Eloise - You Should Have Treated Me Right - Wand 129 - Uptempo R & B Dancer 09. Junior Lewis - Hear What I Say - Columbia - Great R & B at a bargain price ON HOLD 10. Johnny Nash - Strange Feeling - Argo 5492 - Big City paced dancer!! 11. Joe Hinton - How Long Can I Last - Backbeat 565 - Another R & B winner from the great man 12. King Pins - The Monkey One More Time - Federal 12505 - Infectious dancer, from this revered label 13. Ray Agee - Leave Me Alone - Celeste 615 - Good R & B dancer ON HOLD 14. Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr - Your Love Keeps Drawing Me Closer - Cap Soul 22 - Fabulous "Columbus" Northern, group Soul at it's best ON HOLD 15. Menard Rogers - Good Food, I Am For You - Margaret 998 - Uptempo, frantic R & B dancer 16. Maxine Brown - Now That You've Gone - Nomar 106 - Brilliant, catchy and soulful 17. Jades - You're So Right For Me - MGM 13399 - Old School Northern Dancer 18. Uptones - Dreaming - Magnum 714 - Catchy West Coast group Soul 19. Babies - Hand Of Fate - Dunhill 4085 - Classic Northern in the old style, check out the FANTASTIC mid tempo flip ON HOLD 20. Ocapellas - Anytime - Checker 1144 - Catchy R & B meets Northern 21. Freddie Pride - All My Pride - Diamond Jim 3208 - Under rated and under played Northern ON HOLD 22. Jimmy Norman - This I Beg Of You - Samar - Utterly Utterly fantastic!! ON HOLD 23. Pauline Shivers - Boom Boom - O Pex 110 - tipped dancer, backed with the equally excellent "You'd Better Tell Him No" ON HOLD 24. Chubby Checker - Karate Monkey - Parkway 112 (Promo) - Forget the title, this is a brilliant piece of Dance Soul SOLD 25. Delores Hall - Good Lovin' Man - Keymen 111 (White Promo) - Great Northern, timeless classic SOLD Des Parker

Another one for your list. Skippy Devine - There'll be some changes made/You'll never walk alone V-111977-T/V-111977-Y, arranged & conducted by Bobby Martin, Address 1618 N.Broad St, Phila PA 19121 Keep the good work up folks Des Parker

Adding to the snippets of trivia, was played at Stafford by Guy as "Jimmy Castor - Believe Me" Des Parker

Don't want to be tooooo "Anal" about this, and yes Pat Brady did play "Heartbreakin' Time".................but he did play Little John "Just Wait & See". From edition 4 of "Midnite Express" this is part of a review of records Pat listed in Black Echoes on 22/01/83 (prior to Keb D.J.'ing at Stafford) "JIMMY RAYE - I'M THE ONLY ONE" The title is a bit dubious, and judging by the number of times it's repeated, it is probably "True True Love" Des Parker

Keb did play it, but I'm pretty sure Pat Brady spun it before Keb as "Jimmy Raye - I'm The Only One", Des Parker P.S. Whilst the World around us is crumbling to shit, thank God we can absorb, and discuss bits of trivia like this!

What's King Coleman worth on Columbia Promo? Des Parker

Sounds kinda boring, but same here, just recovering now! Des

I think it's admirable to set a professional stance, and possibly one of the reasons why venues like the "100 club" have achieved such longevity, but we all know that "favouritism" is out there.To be frank, It's something I just accept as the norm, and not worth losing any sleep over. Des Parker

The professional way is to book people purely on merit, but BACK IN THE REAL WORLD......................................................Let's put it another way, would you book someone who "slags" you off, honestly, no B.S. Des Parker

Promoters putting their mates on, surely this doesn't happen. I very much doubt if anyone DOESN'T let their personal feelings towards others influence their choice of D.J.'s - It would me!! Des Parker

How many D.J.'s or "budding" D.J.'s even on the "cutting edge" are attempting to break any new tunes. The only "fix" I get, for listening to something fresh and exciting, is listening to the likes of Butch, Andy Dyson, or very rarely, digging through boxes of odd 45's in the U.S. I'm sure that in a set of 25 records there is room for 1 tune that is GENUINELY different!! Des Parker

Always a difficult subject, on the one hand we don't want a "closed shop" in terms of D.J.'s/Niters/Soul Nights/Weekenders as this often leads to complacency and boredom, but on the other hand we don't want 20 of the same thing. New D.J.'s/Niters/Soul Nights/Weekenders are a good thing, if they are bringing something new to the party, and not just "cashing in" Des Parker

For me the "bootleg" issue is pretty irrelevant, what is relevant is having fresh, exciting and awesome sets from people that are passionate about the music, and have the b*ll*cks to push the boundries, whilst keeping a floor. Unfortunately people what play "boots" are unlikely to have anything "tasty" in their armoury and are, by virtue of this.............CRAP D.J.'s. Having said that, there may be some that have a large disposable income to spend on these wonderful "originals", but can only spot a "good" record if it's got a high price on it. Des Parker

Didn't the food thing used to be a way of getting round some of the old Licensing Laws, not always an act of benevolence on the part of the promoter. I think I remember going to a Sunday "All Dayer" in Gloucester in the 1980's where there was a "buffet" included. Des Parker

Hopefully you'll get yourself on line soon Martyn, as perhaps may of the frustrations and debates you want to have, may be better suited to this medium,rather than a Magazine format. As I've stated time and time again, it is probably one of, if not THE best Magazine around, but I still maintain that the "politics" in it needs to be rethought , the following passage typifies what I feel is detrimental to the overall high quality of the magazine:- "The scene has been hijacked, the music is quite often pushed to the back.It's more about characters with fancy nicknames, telling us about this and that. How they found certain records, and what they've done for the scene. Creating an identity and immortalising themselves. More through image, rather than actual deeds. They have elevated themselves to superstar status" - Many can empathise with many of your sentiments.............................but you obviously had at least one person in mind when this was written, but yet again we're guessing who these "hijackers" are, is it:- Butch, Chalky, Flanny, Ginger Taylor, Johnny Fingers, etc etc. Am I being a bit thick here, can someone tell me who these fancy nicknamed "Hijackers" are??? Des Parker P.S. I do hope Mace isn't the fancy nicknamed hijacker, as I have to sit on a Plane with him soon!!!

I thought Rob Pheasant owned this now. Massive spin, early 80's from Pat Brady, covered up as "Twans - I Need You Baby" Des Parker

Tiny Topsy, who was anything but!! Des Parker

I wish Keith all the best in this, and at the end of the day, it's good for all of us. Anyhow we're doing a Tuesday Night Record swap meet on the 14th October - Admission is absolutely FREE, Cost of dealer tables absolutely NOTHING, and no restrictions on table size, what time you have to set up, finish etc etc. Sellers already coming include Butch, Tim A, Adey Pearce etc etc. Will put up a seperate thread very soon, I'm sure that Keith has no problem borrowing his thread. I'd love to come along to the George on 2nd November, but will be at an allnighter the night before, so not really possible! Anyhow good luck with this - how lucky you are in Stoke, 2 great Record Fairs within 3 Weeks of each other!!!!!! Des Parker

Got a "Supremes - Time Changes Things" (Great Northern) for £4 (includes postage) Des Parker P.S. Positive that I've got a "Four Tops - Since You've Been Gone" as well, have to dig it out, for £4 also.

I fully, fully agree with you and not only are the Holmes Chapel bits valid inclusions, but also interesting reading, but WHY the slagging off, of unnamed venues, promoters and D.J.'s without having the bollocks to state who the Magazine's on about, leaving us, the unnamed wondering if it refers to us!!!!!! Des Parker

By the way, if I cook a Meal for myself I don't say that everyone else in the street is a crap cook.

As I say, yes it's free speech, opinions etc etc but take the example of Bidds, where I'm resident. Not one mention of the venue in 96 pages yet 11 pages on Holmes Chapel, which is no problem in itself - it's Martyn's mag and venue, but when you see the political rhetoric about "inept promoters", "musically average" etc etc and there's no favourable mention about the venue I'm involved with, you can't help but think...........is he having a pop at us!! I'm sure this isn't the case, but it isn't clear for us, or a great deal of promoters,D.J.'s who weren't mentioned in the magazine. Des parker