Slim Jim

A few bootlegs / Re Issues etc for sale Not mine guvnor selling em ' for a friend ahem ahem ! A few fairly rare ones you don't see often Postage and packaging £2.50 First Class Paypal accepted All VG+ at least or better Jimmy Mack / The Invitations - My World is on Fire / Skiing in the snow - Soul Bandit £8 EP- Evie Sands - Picture me Gone / Baltimore and Ohio Marching Band - Condition Red / Billy Butler - The Right Track / Willie Tee - Walking up a one Way street - Soul Cat EP £10 The Detroit Prophets/Eddie Holman - Suspicion/ When I'm Not wanted - Soul Beat £ 25 Benny Troy/ Bobby Bland - I Wanna Give You tomorrow/Shoes - Moon Dust £8 SOLD The Winstons/ Irma Thomas - Color Him Father / I Wish Someone Would Care - Collectables £5 Judy Street / Hi Fly - What / Theme For a Dream - Soul Stop £5 SOLD Muriel Day / Jimbo - Nine times Out of Ten / Do The Skunk -Soul Stop £3 SOLD Art Williams - Interplay - Soul Stop -£3 Corrine Gillies / Bill Colman - You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies -Soul Stop £3 James Coit - Black Power - Destiny £2 Roscoe Shelton - Running For my Life - Sound Plus -£5 Major Lance - Ain't No Soul / The Right Track -Contempo-raries £3 Gene Chandler - Mr Big Shot / I Can Take Care of Myself - Goldmine - £5 SOLD Many thanks for looking Jim

I have a fine collection of invisible watches I must stick them on Ebay . It seems some people have more money than sense .

You could well be right but I recall reading it was played at a nighter ? Who knows ? Apparently Domino by Van Morrison was played briefly on the scene too , the backing track is almost identical to Al De Lory's Right On ....I could just imagine the grumpiest man in Ireland being well impressed at this

A trip down memory lane there . As a teenager in the 1980's my soul education was via the latest Kent LP's , I couldn't wait to visit my favourite record store in the city center to see what was the latest release . Part of the excitement apart from flipping it over to read the track listing was the cool artwork from Ian Clark and the witty sleeve notes from Harboro Horace , I pretty much collected all of the albums apart from a few (which I must buy someday just to complete the set ) The artwork was something else and part of that tradition of buying an album and feeling like you really had something that you couldn't wait to show to your mates . Some great album covers already mentioned my favourite was Dancing Til Dawn , I ended up getting that title on my Vespa 100 . I later bought 45's from Ian in the 90's a real nice friendly guy . Great article

I remember reading somewhere that Trampled Underfoot by Led Zeppelin was played at Wigan Casino

Baby I Need Your Loving - Four Tops Levi Stubbs was the man , what a voice , what emotion

All these articles like to home in on the negatives instead of the positives . The reality is thousands of white people fell in love with black American soul music and so in their own little way helped break down the barriers of racial prejudice . Of course the scene was predominately white - the north of England was predominately white in the 1970's . Don't forget this was an era when the National Front had grown to become the 3rd biggest political party in England , there was a lot of racism around yet you have thousands of kids dancing to black music - two fingers up to the racists even if they didn't even realize it at the time . Somehow this message has been lost along the way more so in our scene than some others and that's a shame . Maybe Craig Charles should interview some of the black artists who traveled here to perform and seek their views ? He might get a different picture .

​When we heard about this everyone had the same opinion that the person would lie low til the dust settled and then try to sell off your records one by one . The thing is its not that easy especially as they are rare records , first one he tries to sell (that you know off ) and someone flags it up . Lets hope the culprit is tracked down and gets his full comeuppance in whatever form that takes , a dirty action stealing . Best of luck pal . Jim

An original painting of the Wigan Casino by Pablo Picasso .

Put me in the minority people clapping gets on my tit end

That's just crazy , its a less than £10 record unless something has suddenly changed . It is a great tune though that always gets them dancing

In a complete mess with no order - sometimes I have to look for ages to find something , sometimes I never find it until weeks later . On the plus side its fun to turn up something I didn't know I had . On the downside I have been known to buy records that I forgot I already had

I was selling a few bits and bobs a while back and it kept kicking it back to me telling me to add producers etc , year issued etc . Its handy enough if someone has already posted the same record as the info is there already to copy but if its something new then it can be complicated in the end I just gave up , I didn't have the time or energy any more .

Its a shame right enough but its a pretty good well organized site . I've picked up some great tunes there for next to nothing when dealers were looking considerably more . Anything less than £100 is worth searching out on Discogs

Worth watching just for Curtis Mayfield singing Keep on keeping on live on what looked like The Old Grey Whistle Test . The show before was well worth checking out also Dexy's -Nowhere is Home . BBC4 on a Friday night has produced some great music nights .

I had a dispute earlier this year with a dealer from America who obviously wasn't the brightest spark . He claimed he never received any money and that's why I never received a record which was a lie because with Paypal you can track the transaction number as well as when it was paid exactly etc etc . I gave him ample chances and he just kept digging himself deeper and deeper , why I don't really know but my theory was he didn't have the record in the first place . I put the whole thing in the hands of the Paypal dispute and that plus threatening to publicize what he had done got me a refund fairly quickly . The transaction was via Discogs too which helped my case .

Custers Last Band -what a name !!!

Oh no ! I bought a copy of this a while back for £8 and was under the impression it was a legal issue , played it out and it went down a storm . Ah well back on the shelf it goes to be played only in the living room ...darn ! Thanks for the info

Pervis Lee - Himself .

Hey thanks for this post , had this for ages and never played the b side !!!! Have to agree its better than the A Side though I always preferred The Gallop anyway . "My conversation's oh so trite I say the same thing's every night " great line though could have been Dylan

So the recent 45 reissue is a boot ? I guessed as it was a legal issue as it was what appears to be his own label Lee Way ..... maybe not ? Certainly the LP is ultra rare (£300+) A great track none the less and fairly unique , I love it .

The Tipping Point A giant one off demo copy of Eddie Parker -I'm Gone is loaded into the machine and soul fans answer questions to get other records to nudge it over the edge .

The only drawback is you have to listen to the extremely annoying Craig Charles presenting . Ah well

A few compilation albums for sale mostly from the 1980's/90's and all long since deleted . All graded at least VG+ All £10 each or £45 for the lot . P&P £ 3.50 Living The Nightlife - Inferno (double album) -A great comp of northern stompers from Scepter/Wand /Musicor labels . Soul Galore - Inferno - 18 northern monsters from the Scepter/Wand /Musicor labels . This is Northern Soul - Goldmine/Soul Supply - 19 rare soul tunes . The Essential Northern Soul collection - Goldmine /Soul Supply - 21 rare soul tunes . Kev Roberts Presents 100% Casino Vol 2 - Goldmine/Soul Supply - 20 stormin' classics from the Wigan Casino . Track listing available on request for any of the above . Thanks for looking . Jim

Was Vehicle -Ides of March ever played back in the day ? Sounds perfect for an all nighter , powerful track .