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Mint condition prefer collect and cash sale as I don’t sell on here very often 07964 985212 mobile 01432 351005 home

Selling some 45s from my collection due cash flow probs Looking for good offers i am in Hereford and prefer collection and cash deal my number is 01432 351005 or 07964985212 Btw it’s in mint condition

yes i went to the alphabet club ,black and white tiles on the dance floor , a, minutes walk from the flamingo club full of blocked teens

saw him at the scene in the 60s

i have lost his number cos he changed it ,anyone know his latest number? he maybe deceased, i dunno haven't seen him for years he had his warehouse in wallington

the royal mail was hacked by pootins thugs way back in january

recall him plugging rex garvin .sock it to em JB and i bought it ,and still have it

he appeared in a horror film cant remember the name

a look on discogs shows mostly US pressings and just 1 or 2 uk pressings so thats why i never saw any on my rounds in london but london record shops were not good anyway for soul45s around the 70s tobias goody had the stall in portobelo road he usually had a good selection of soul 45s for peanuts surpringly DJ demo copies that had been sold .but what DJ i dunno and then he had a shop at worlds end in chelsea but after that i dont know where he went ..for imports i used to use ernies in nashvile and colony stores in NY where i had a mate sending me good stuff but never any 5 stairsteps.... but i had to pay import tax on them

yes its serious i doubt if the 5 ever made it to the uk i dont recall em on tv shows or clubs ,they were big in america where there was a big buying public but west indians in uk were mostly interested in calypso regaae ska and dub .. uk buyers were more intrested in the uk bands and hendrix ,captain beefheart and dylan at the time of issue of the 5stairsteps 45s which were limited in london record shops as they didnt keep much in stock you had to order records and no commercial radio stations to give them air play there was also a slump in sales of soul in the 70s and mods were selling their soul collections i recall buying tamla and stateside demos in portobello road for 30 pence off stalls in the road as nobody wanted soul vinyl.. but never saw any stairsteps records

looking for a copy of this

DESPITE BEING ON CURTIS MAYFIELD lable they didnt go so well think its was bad management and weird name for the band 5 STAIRSTEPS NOT A GOOD NAME FOR A BAND https://soulstrutter.blogspot.com/2021/02/rip-james-burke-five-stairsteps.html

and how rare ? has anyone have one in their collection?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lee-scratch-perry-reggae-pioneer-160424996.html Reggae icon Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has died in hospital in his native Jamaica, aged 85. The eccentric producer, actually named Rainford Hugh Perry, died in the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea on Sunday morning, according to local news reports. Andrew Holness, the country’s prime minister, sent “deep condolences” to his family and called him a pioneer in the 1970s’ development of dub music. To view this content, you'll need to update your privacy settings. Please click here to do so. He collaborated with an eclectic range of artists including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Paul McCartney, the Congos, George Clinton, Moby, the Slits’ Ari Up and the Beastie Boys. In 1980, Perry sent a letter to the Japanese minister of justice after McCartney was arrested for carrying 7.7 ounces of marijuana in his luggage, arguing: “Please do not consider the amount of herbs involved excessive. Master Paul McCartney’s intentions are positive.” Perry was born in Kendal, Hanover and made his name in the late 1960s as a producer of cutting-edge music by revolutionary artists.

a blocked mod wandering around soho at night could get rolled for a packet of gum as they were in short supply in the am

One of England's top rock & roll outfits before the Beatles led the early-'60s Beat Boom, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates are best remembered today for one international rock classic ("Shakin' All Over") and as a seminal influence on several more famous groups, most notably the Who. Johnny Kidd (born Frederick Heath) had formed his first band, a skiffle group called the Five Nutters, in 1957. They quickly outgrew their skiffle roots and, after a short period fronting the Fred Heath Combo, he joined Alan Caddy (guitar), Tony Docherty (rhythm guitar), and Ken McKay (drums), in early 1958 in an outfit that was dubbed Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, who were spotted by an EMI Records representative and signed to the label. The group cut their first record, the outstanding Please Don't Touch, in April 1959, highlighted by Heath's menacing vocals, which reached number 26 on the British charts. The group's subsequent records were an uneven mix of solid R&B-based rock juxtaposed with awkwardly covered standards. In May of 1960, however, the band was in the studio to record one of those standards, "Yes Sir, That's My Baby," with an original B-side that they hadn't fully worked out. That B-side, a Heath original called "Shakin' All Over," became the A-side of a number one single that became the first original rock song in England to achieve the status of an international rock standard. Driven by Caddy's guitar and a mournful, ominous lead vocal by Heath, the song topped the charts and completely astonished everybody who heard it that such a track could have come from an English rock & roll band. Unfortunately, like every other British label of the era, EMI was never sure how best to deal with rock & roll success, and the group was made to record any amount of dross in the wake of this success, amid some superb follow-up numbers. Several membership changes followed, most notably the addition of Mick Green on lead guitar. The group was among the finest rock combos of the early '60s, with a wild stage act that had them playing in pirate regalia, but it never had enough consistent chart success to put it back in the top ranks of Britain's rock hierarchy, though they received a great deal of respect from the younger generation of rock & rollers. Early in their career, the Who played on the same bill as Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, and it was through watching the Pirates at work that they arrived at their own sound of a solo singer backed by a guitar, bass, and drums; the band also added "Shakin' All Over" to their repertory. Heath and his band struggled onward into the mid-'60s, even remaking "Shakin' All Over." Green left in 1964 (replaced by John Weider) to take over as a member of the Dakotas, Billy J. Kramer's backup band, and Heath put together a new combo during this period. The mid-'60s seemed to be a more favorable period for Heath's brand of R&B-based rock & roll. He put together a group called the New Pirates, and was about to embark on a new phase of his career, when he was killed in a car crash on October 7, 1966. the New Pirates continued on for a time, with Johnny Carroll fronting the group until mid-1967, when they called it quits.

yea i used to live in fulham all my life so passed the zeta house most days ,its had a few clubs over the years

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fred heath and the nutters,, didnt know the freight train had a basement and i worked locally just across the road incidently the cue club had a bad rep so we didnt go there due to the stabbings and murders there the el partido was ok though with thumping ska on the top floor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXhU7-4W2Q

The Freight Train was opened on the corner of Berwick Street and Noel Street by skiffle player Chas McDevitt early in 1958, following the success of his record of the same name. Initially it hosted impromptu sessions, where musicians such as Diz Disley and Les Bennetts would jam into the night. It was also the venue for an early performance by Cliff Richard and the Drifters in June 1958. Unlike many other local establishments, however, the coffee bar’s basement was not transformed into a music club. Instead the Freight Train served as, “a rendezvous for many of the London-based groups, a point where they could assemble to leave for a gig or unwind in the early hours returning from work.” McDevitt claims that it was on one such occasion, in the Freight Train’s derelict basement, “surrounded by empty Coca-Cola crates and broken furniture”, that Brian Gregg, formerly in Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group composed ‘Shakin’ All Over’ in collaboration with Fred Heath of the Nutters. Heath would make the song another seminal British rock ‘n’ roll number when he took it into the charts with his group The Pirates, under his alter-ego Johnny Kidd. cribbed from soho site

all these ads for blue beat and island and king labels 45s but it wasnt easy to buy them as u had to order them for next week ,,nowhere stocked them all..i used to hang around a shop in shepherds bush market where they sold jamaican imports and blue beat but you didnt know what was good or bad even though they played a lot of records and it was loud on speakers outside the small shop..i was the only white man there at the shop .the titles were on a chalked blackboard outside the shop in top ten format but a few were calypso on the early island issues..i dont recall where they got any air play except at some clubs but u didnt know what their titles were ,so it as all a mystery at the time about treasure isle issue imports my mates borowed my good stuff and i never got them back ,hence houswifes choice is missing and quite a few prince buster 45s are missing

club cards for the attic hounslow and pontiac club putney the attic didnt have much ambiance and was small .the pontiac was better but the owner didnt pay me for my DJ ing there so didnt carry on

i forgot to mention when levi denims suddnely became available .out of the blue ,there was a hardware shop in the kings road chelsea at the fulham end that sold boiler suits overalls and boots and mods discoverd the levi denims in there for quite a cheap fee. the shop had the front missing due to a german bomb and as you went by on the bus all the insides were on display ..just some tarpaulins hung down over the front from the missing roof to keep the rain out..levis were a bit more loose than dickys ideal for riding a scooter and then we found the ex USAAF fish tail parkas to complete the ensemble from army surplas stores which were ideal for scooter runs..but we also wore the fish tailed parkas to the scene club and soho ,,so you saw gangs of kids in levis and parkas wandering around at night...the cloakroom at the scene was generally full up with parkas as they were too bulky to wear inside .. you couldnt take your vespa to soho on saturday night as they would get stolen and you came out to find it gone ,so we took the piccadilly line to piccadilly underground ,so after about 12 it was too late so you had to walk home .which wasnt so bad if you had taken some blues .the time passed quickly so there was suddenly a kit to wear for scooters ,just add some desert boots or beetle boots and you were ready to go anywhere..beetle boots were too expensive for me as they could costs a weeks wages so some other boots with cuban heels were available ..the shop in drury lane had queues of kids waiting to buy beetle boots so some could afford them beetle boots are still made and available !!

pauls book is the best so do it

there was a few fashionable shop selling bit and pieces but it was still the era of montegue burtons and the full monty ,when guys couldnt afford to buy a whole suit in one go ,so bought the jacket trousers and waist coat sepeartely till they had ''the full monty''.. suits were paid for on weekly terms .. a mod lusted after a mohair suit and then came the mullet haircut but i dont know where from !! some wore leather coats and jackets at the scene club this was only less than 20years after WW2 so most folks were hard up and had no TV or housephone just a valve radio and the london skyline was littered with bombed out buildings courtesy of the lauftwaffe ,money was in short supply ,,houses rarely had a bathroom either at this time see the front of paul andersons book for an image