David Meikle

Thanks for the review which has persuaded me to buy this cd. ps is it possible to edit Bob's surname to Abrahamian?

JoAnne told me this 15 years ago.

Sometimes a simple design can be very effective. This one was named after JoAnne Bratton's son Derek who tragically died in an accident in 1962. JoAnne's nickname for Derek was Ric-Tic. The label mesmerised collectors. I yearn for those innocent days.

I always loved the colour scheme and text design on this one. The music helped too!

I found this on the DetroitYes forum. I was in Bob May's west side store in 2001 but found it uninteresting. 25 years too late no doubt! 'Bob Mays, proprietor of a bona fide record collector's store. His shop was on E. 8 Mile near I75, first on the eastbound side, then, for a few years until he was finally forced to close, on the westbound side almost across from the original. When I went in around 1968, Bob looked old to me (most everyone over 30 looked old to me, I was 18) and seemed to drink "a bit." He had a solid grasp of jazz records and their worth. I bought my first 78s from his store - a Bird Dial, and a Tatum Decca - and went back many times over a 30 year period, until I actually had most everything I wanted due to the advent of CD's. Bob is one of those guys who seemed designed for and destined to sell used records. He would have looked odd selling groceries, or car insurance, but was totally right for the record job. Thin as a rake, long bushy beard, smoked a lot, always dusty boxes piled high in corners and most everywhere else in his modest sized space. To borrow a quote about Duke Ellington, Bob looked like he'd seen it all, and done most of it. He still has a table at record collector shows. Now Cappy was different - stocky guy rough voice, friendly but didn't take crap from anyone. Always thought Cappy was an ex motorcycle gang member for some reason - just had a slightly menacing air about him, but once you talked with him for a while he turned out to be a really nice guy. And he knew his records, especially his Detroit records. I asked him once if he had any disco records, and he looked at me in disbelief before bursting into laughter for a solid minute. I wasn't joking, but I was too insecure to fess up and tell him I wasn't joking, and we moved on to other topics.Cappy had to pack up most of his 'special collection' for some reason which I've forgotten, and wasn't in a big hurry to unpack them - if you've ever moved a lot of records, you know the effort involved. Cappy closed his shop a few years ago, and I that was a major loss for Det record collectors. I only hope he gets the chance to channel his amazing knowledge into a Det business of some sort - maybe selling records?? LOL.' Subject was posted 6 years ago.

John Harvey is definitely deceased. I would say sometime in the nineties. I recall him being in Silverdale's record shop in Glasgow's Argyle Street in the mid seventies. John Anderson sold a lot of records to Silverdale's possibly before he moved to King's Lynn, hence the attraction. Kojak held a small meeting in a hotel in Sauchiehall Street around that time outlining some plans which I recall as being a bit OTT. Honestly cannot recall what they were however. If anyone has a huge amount of spare time on their hands they could ruffle through Blues & Soul mags circa late seventies to find out why Kojak upset Dave Godin rather much. Again, I can't remember why.

Barry's Record Rendezvous, Manchester Blues and Soul, Hanway Street, London (aka Contempo) Soul City, Monmouth Street, London (may have closed around the Torch era)

If you are still around, that would probably have been the late Pete Lawson.

Detroit Free Press reported Mack Rice's passing yesterday evening. "Baby I'm Coming Home" RIP

Hi Carty I used to correspond with Iain McCartney circa 1970. I still have the letters in the loft. He came from Dumfries. We both shared a long distance love affair with the Twisted Wheel. We almost met up at the Casino Club in Blackpool but that fell through. [does anyone recall that place? Never seen anything written about it since] I had no idea that he was a prolific book writer and note in Amazon that he also wrote one about his local team, Queen Of The South. So as you will see from my last paragraph, I am pretty sure that it is one and the same person that you are interested in. If you ever bump into him ask him if he recalls writing to a guy in Glasgow. Thanks for mentioning him, it brought back some distant memories. David