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Billy Storm , please don’t mention her name , picture sleeve , Hbr label , stafford dancer , latin stylee , really beautiful condition its never been played i picked it up and put it away £200

Big Frank and the Essences , wont let her see me cry , Phillips copy ,bubbly label with hole punched , massive keb and guy spin early 80s stafford ,100 club , oddfellows .styrene has marks etc but plays perfectly for a 53 year old record £300.00 pm me if interested Will list others tomorrow

Hi karl here finally got 5 mins to put up a couple correctly Tommy Navarro, cried my life away ,Dee Jac records 1253 Original 1964 , allways in demand need i say more vinyl shiney with tiny surface marks label very good plays perfectly for a 54 year old record £275.00 if interested pm me

Updated my list with conditions and prices on a couple of tunes will do the rest tomorrow jerry naylor is sold

Hi selling a minty copy if your interested in sales pm me if you want it atb karl

Hi all i should have said its easier if you mail me your number I’ll call with details i hate writing these things today has taken me hours give me a Dewalt im your man ask me to write with my fat builder fingers im like a fish out of water easier for me also uk buyers only please

Hi karl here selling a few tunes for first time on soul source Tommy Navarro, cried my life away ,Dee Jac records 1253 Original 1964 , allways in demand need i say more vinyl shiney with tiny surface marks label very good plays perfectly for a 54 year old record £275.00 Big Frank and the Essences , wont let her see me cry , Phillips copy ,bubbly label with hole punched , massive keb and guy spin early 80s stafford ,100 club , oddfellows styrene has marks etc but plays perfectly for a 53 year old record £300.00 Billy Storm , please don’t mention her name , picture sleeve , Hbr label , stafford dancer Bobbie Smith , walk on in to my heart , American Arts styrene promo , allways massive Roy Roberts , got to have your love , Ninandy w/l promo red vinyl , 60s mafia The Patrick Bradley , one more chance instrumental and vocal , Multicoloured Decca label , mint vinyl radio station copy , has Radio copy written in black ink on A side label not noticable really both labels beautiful otherwise Micky Lanay , im gonna walk , Vulcan records , again a minter , Brian rae biggie marty Thompson ,whirlpool , Sir Ben minter again stafford , 100 club keb spin please mail me if interested and make a deal some of these serious tunes have had a life (not a bad life but have been enjoyed) i will honestly describe and send pictures on request karlsimmonds52@gmail.com ta karl

100 club obviously for a proper nighter especially early 80s for northern &newies For a early 80s friday night soul night not nighter we had the notre dam hall where keb would sometimes spin his latest tunes getting us ready for sat night nighter up north lots of other quality nights though ( allready mentioned a while back in 80s london soul nights ) For us down south Was really good but the nighters up north were amazing all we thought about allweek was odd fellows hall , totw , p borough , warrington , Hinkley , etc

BIlly storm please dont mention her name

Johnny caswell you dont love me anymore

The rubies or rubys spanish boy

Sorry my gear addled brain i am thinking of studio valbonns Not pantiles did go to pantiles though but cant remember

Used to go to pantiles in 88 when on sunday night there was a weekend end with a house room and a private area for a balaeric knees up faces only . the djs were all the top names Danny Rampling Andy Weatherall Terry Farley and others i cant remember , think i enjoyed my self too much there as a bit of a blur mondays sucked after being out since thursday night

thanx for positive feed back to my little adventure really appreciate it . never done a blog( i think my daughter calls it ) before maybe we should start a little section about peoples record hunting experiences . i personally love hearing about people finding records anywhere especially out of the way places love reading about the big finds people have made in the past or even little ones, really inspires me

Am doing the garden route and cape point in october also so many other things its ridiculous every one suggests something and we list it a truely wonderfull humbling place excess next to poverty absolutely heart wrenching filled the fridge before we left in both places so the room maids and their children had plenty of food and drink

Well back now in cold wet dreary uk Met misterman and got talen to his really cool celler full of records literally full thousands of lps & 12” in one room the next 2 rooms had piles if 3 ftlong by8” boxes full if 7” the fifst of the last two rooms was stuffed with radio station stock he just bought i got a lee perry produced roots 12 ive been after mint but never found by jnr murvin called tedious killer dub the flamingoes boogaloo party and flowers sally having a party only there for an hour but next time i go october time its twofull days also blinding people couldn’t make me feel more welcomed

Went to book shop whichhad aback room with a few cardboard boxes of 7s and lps found jimmy radcliff longsfter on black stateside and liquidator on fontanna with pic sleeve well pleased 60 p for both (10 rand)

2 oclock tomorrow keeping fingers crossed and toes

2 oclock tomorrow keeping fingers crossed and toes

Mr man just texted me while i was writing and said hows about saturday watch this space

Well followed my nose and where did it lead me straight to acess to cape town motherlode cant believe my luck .while out and about on thursday Met a bod who knew misterman who had mediocre selection of 7”s in a certain shop , but as rumour has it he has the biggest selection of all 7”s sold in sa in his celler at his private residence . When i mentioned trojan the bod straight away mentioned misterman as the go to person so i showed a photo of sa chapter 5 he said yaar meeybee (sa accent) he has a hugh selection by appointment only so i was like a rat up a drain pipe and phoned him and unfortunately i cant get to him in time and he is busy when i can do , i have been granted acess any time he said , luckily i intend to return in october so we agreed on that , one more record shop to try today so lets hope i find something

Sorry baby love on stateside dont know what the ve bit is deffo my fat builder fingers strike again

So far found 2 shops first on is a huge thrift shop found supremes baby loves ve on stateside and spiral staircase i love u more etc on orange cbs issue and a bruce ruffin lp rain not on trojan forget what it was on left em there the 2nd shop was a real record shop revolution records no soul or decent reggae but loads of prog etc going to franschhook soon record shop there so ever hopefull ps its totally cool in cape town no didgy vibes at all really lovely people though there is an undercurrent in some areas you drive through

Thank you dude , going for 14 days gonna be hard not to wander around poking about here and there ,knowing there's south african issues languishing in hot sweaty shops and storerooms .if only it was like west indies got the reggae motherlode there early 80s i only want a sa chapter five (only) huh well will try

Thank you appreciate the advice