Sutty

You mean Soul, or Northern Soul? Above mentioned are Northern nights, there are quite a few Soul nights and events in the area outside the N.S. scene, some regular, certainly most weekends there's something on, cheers Sutty

Funny you should say that as it's just reminded me that parceltogo left a package in my rubbish bin a week ago, it was only when I went to see if it was worth wheeling the bin out for collection last week and opened it that I saw it on the top of the rubbish. No card to tell me when they did it or where it was, if I'd not have checked it would be down the tip now

Next day joke more like, it's a lottery. I had someone that specifically wanted home Monday delivery from a Friday posting so I made the point at the p.o. that I wanted the Mon-Fri SD not the more expensive £11+ Saturday delivery and paid £7.25. They tried to deliver Saturday and the guy had to collect from the sorting office. My Hermes are also much cheaper for named days. TBH my main post bugbear is people who invoice in minutes and charge for 1st class post, then take a week to go to the post office. I paid for 1st class, so I expect it to arrive in a day or two, not 10 days or i'd have paid you for 2nd class... and another thing... cheers Sutty

I should probably interject seeing as I ran it for 17 years in its various guises. The website host since 2005 has simply shut the servers down and p*ssed off, closing all the forums on there with no notice, no communication and does not respond to anyone, which is nice. We already had a Facebook page so the name continues there along with the members. Sadly all the members posts over the last 11 years are gone forever, cheers Sutty

Howdy Just got back on the selling bandwagon and re-opened my discogs store a week or so back https://www.discogs.com/seller/soulcitizen/profile If you're interested in anything and want to buy it's 10% discount for soul source members buying direct, or if you think something is over-priced make me an offer via PM on here either way Moses Smith ‎– Keep On Striving / Come On, Let Me Love You SOLD Sisters' Sledge ‎– Time Will Tell / Brand New Generation Electra Fyd Revue ‎– Emptiness / I Am Hip Charles McCormick ‎– Now You Cry / I Want You For Myself Swan Mellarks ‎– One Day I Was Walking Ray Munnings ‎– It Could Happen To You / Let's Boogie and more... cheers Sutty

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Ray, Goodman and Brown 'Another Day' from their 1st album https://www.discogs.com/Ray-Goodman-Brown-Ray-Goodman-Brown/master/151216 cheers Sutty

very sad, way too young, great vocalist

It was his niece I think he said so no vocal to compare on that one. Willie Tee demo, sounds nothing like him, should be retitled 'the man who cried wolf' ;)

Its not an acetate its the issue, its just a pretty rough pressing, same as mine, cheers Sutty

Priceless, seeing as it doesn't exist

What happens when a shady dealer finds a few uninformed bidders? sold 3 days ago for $810...

Yes, the Russian double LP has all the tracks from the Deluxe 'Let's Get It On' double CD. Sounds like the one you saw advertised is a mis-press, but I bought it when it came out and it was all correct, and good quality too.

Good points but I think your sums are a bit out there? It's 20% above £15, so on £40 that's 20% of £25 = £5, plus a handling charge of £8 is £53. I've had to pay a couple of times and I certainly can't pay at the door, the postie is not allowed to collect payments, they get given a card and drop it through the door, they don't even have the package to give you, you have to pay and collect from the sorting office. cheers Sutty

There's a lot of mint copies around, it's been up for sale almost weekly for a couple of years on eBay. Sellers are asking around £150 but it's way too common a record now to command that price for me. I am assuming a few boxes were found, it seems that way. Nice record. cheers Sutty

I spent years chasing that album on the strength of 'eyes of love' to blank looks, eventually got one and then realised its not actually very good!

Even more impressive is that fact that they were playing James Ingram before it was even recorded You're right though, those tunes were massive everywhere, I never went to Kings Hall but certainly heard them out regularly, and you were often there Dave! cheers Sutty

Hi Bob that's only the inflated advertised price from a chancer in Italy hoping someone is gullible enough to fall for it - all his records are stupidly overpriced. Donald Byrd 'Places & Spaces' for £230 anyone? average selling price - £11. J,R. Bailey single for £36? average selling price less than a fiver. It also has the makings of a scam, get some feedback then hit someone with a big sale and the record never arrives. Either way he's a tw*t. cheers Paul

I think if you paid off your card it goes back on your card, if you paid out of paypal it goes back into paypal balance, that's what happened to me in the past - but only if they use the refund option within paypal. If they just send you the money it stays in paypal, cheers Sutty

There's a LOT isn't there! i've only included albums I would put on from start to finish and would be lost without them, no 1 or 2 trackers and very little if no filler for me... both Dyson's Faces LP's (well one and a half albums really) Mike James Kirkland 'hang on in there' Gil Scott-Heron 'pieces of a man' and 'winter in America' Temptations 'sky's the limit' Sly & The Family Stone 'there's a riot goin' on' Spaceark 'spaceark is' (2nd album) Gloria Scott 'what am i gonna do' RAMP 'come into knowledge' Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 'what love has joined together' Shuggie Otis 'inspiration information' Curtis Mayfield 'curtis' / 'curtis live' / 'roots' / 'superfly' James Mason 'rhythm of life' Jon Lucien - the 3 RCA albums Al Johnson 'peaceful' Willie Hutch 'ode to my lady' Isaac Hayes 'black moses' Leroy Hutson I and II Donny Hathaway 'extension of a man' Marvin Gaye 'whats going on' and 'let's get it on' Garland Green 'jealous kind of fella' Ted Coleman Band 'taking care of business' Lou Courtney 'i'm in need of love' Terry Callier 'what color is love' James Brown 'the payback' Roy Ayers 'he's coming' cheers Sutty

my take has always been that rare soul = rare original press soul records, with limited availability and often expensive because of that (if they're any good). northern soul is a scene, anything played on it is northern soul, whether it's a actually a soul record or not, and it is not all rare. I have always firmly believed that northern soul is a scene not a style of music. cheers Sutty

and he does it again - £111 for a reissue Stan Ivory 12", £25-30 all day long, even the original 7 is less than that price. Some of these buyers are bonkers lol

eBay, Gemm, Discogs, Musicstack are obviously portals into sellers. They all operate generally using PayPal and your protection is with PayPal not the portal. There will always be unscrupulous sellers because they exist in life. Discogs certainly respond quickly to anyone contacting them about these people and suspend and close accounts, none of these portals want those types of sellers, and they don't profit from them, they get headaches like the buyer. I don't know how the other portals have ever responded. Blaming the portal is like blaming soul source moderators because someone has posted something up you don't like. cheers Sutty

Dave - Discogs accepts catalogue uploads, have tried asking them for advice/assistance? There are many dealers that upload their catalogues on a daily basis. Gemms decline is obvious to me and I've said it many times. You want to buy a record? You go to google. First page hits are all Discogs, Gemm is on page 5 if you're lucky. I had stuff in Gemm for years that didn't sell dropping prices along the way. Put it on Discogs, sold almost all of it at more that it was on Gemm for, cos nobody could find it! Gemm payment system was terrible, you pay Gemm then sellers have to wait for the cheque to turn up ages later. Musicstack is lagging too, the search/view facility is painful, Discogs is definitely winning the online battle and is only going to get bigger IMO, as the fees are less than eBay and mainly because of those google results cheers Sutty

The 12 is not much more than a fiver, and the 7 is nowhere near a fanciful £200, you can see from previous sales it's nearer £10 https://www.discogs.com/Alma-Faye-Dont-Fall-In-Love/release/2900501 cheers Sutty