Julianb

Julian .... play it you willl pack the floor in the months time.. if not I'll show me ...... to the town hall clock. I shall be at Worcester If anyone has got a spare .

I see Mr Phillips out and about occassionally ( usually when we are both under the influence of drink!) so generally a load of old b------s is spoken when we meet. Julian

Ebay item 250235712639 ( sorry, don't know how to cut and paste!) Is this correct? seems the B side has a different coloured label ( and I can't remember what mine looked like in 1972!) I don't thnk this has been booted, or am I wrong on this? Julian

So. am I now to assume that my mint copy is a bootleg Julian

Always a box full of bargains at Julians Soul Emporium Tried to get a few more copies a couple of weeks ago - looks like they're sold out now - not got a copy myself, then again, it wouldn't be on my playlist

Yes, it's a new release and I've been selling them for a tenner!!! Should have ebayed them!!! Julian

Remember hearing this played at Sheridans in Dewsbury and the DJ stated ' it's an old Twisted Wheel sound' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I won't mention the aforementioned DJ's name to save his blushes Julian

Still see him occassionally around the Bradford area (he's usually pissed with Kegsy). Andy's on holiday in Aussieland at the moment

I believe Andy Simpson ( The Pittance)from Bradford was pretty good in his heyday.

Rob Bellars was christened as one of the original Four Vandals when Levine was filming for his SWONS video at the Victoria & Albert Hotel in Manchester, the others being Kegsy, Andy Simpson and ANO ( who I can't remember). Obviously this was a serious pisstake as they were rechristened the Vandella and the Four Vandals! Question - who was Vandella? Julian

pm'd you. Julian

Ike & Tina - Dust my broom is about 1.45

Yes Brad from Nelson - I remember one Saturday in the industrial unit when Brad turned up. We divided the spoils that day - he went to the Mecca and me to the Torch to sell our wares!!

pm'd you

The Bostock family were into rock and roll and went to the States and bought a warehouse full of that sort of stuff and loads of soul stuff came over mixed in with the 'job lot'

Bloody loads and I was the only guy to get into their small warehouse ( housed in a falling down terraced house on Cutler Heights Lane Bradford ) which held all the individual copies of stuff @ 25p each( the majority of this stuff went to Martin Barnfather at the time) not the large industrial unit where they stored all the boxes of 50. Used to buy 50 boxes of Superiors, Tymes, April Stevens etc etc and flog 'em at the Torch ( only took one or two copies in at a time and went to 'refill' the sales box from the car at regular intervals). Once had to grab Kegsy by the throat for bringing a load of stuff in at the same time, thereby undermining the price( he reminded me of that story a few years ago!) Happy days Julian

Hi Dave when I first met him, he didn't really know much about soul music and he was DJing at an 'upmarket' pop club in Leeds. I met him at Jumbo records in Leeds which was a soul/reggae shop when he was starting to get interested. At this time he was seemingly honest. The problems started after he returned from the States and put out his first sales list with a load of rarities and unkown stuff. I think he then started to keep monies for records which he had already sold ( and possibly never had), although I did go through the records he brought back the day after he returned to the UK and there was some fantastic stuff (packed into an old leather suitcase if my memory serves me right). He did of course also do 'swaps' with his side of the bargain never materialising!! He never tried to 'con' me - perhaps because I saw him almost every weekday in Leeds, but it was very embarrassing to me when he started to 'rip off' my mates ( and that SS members did include Ian Levine) amongst many others. Hope you and Bev are well, saw Fergy and Janet on Friday - I believe they are coming over to see you soon and to take in a 'weekender' or allnighter at the same time. Julian

Not going to repeat myself, so see the thread under Catacombs story I posted a couple of weeks ago. As an aside, I've just found a picture of Simon with Van McCoy and al letter of 'introduction' to Fred Kaplan in Brooklyn ( where Simon got the first lot of stuff from on his first trip to the States) the address is 4 Fox Hill Court Weetwood Lane Leeds 16 ( pre postal code era) which ties in with the Chris Tipping address. Julian

Thought I might have got a few more replies to this. Come on guys, you can remember Graham Warr's discoveries but cannot remember what actually, historically and factually happened the night Simon Sousaan went to the Cats? Let's have some input please Julian

OK - following on from the Graham Warr thread where I notice my old pal Simon Soussan gets a mention. Picture the scene - I'm the first to see Simon when he arrives back from his trip to New York. Lots of in-demand and unknown 45s, so I get a good few off him for past favours i.e phoning him in the States to tell him what's being played/ been discovered that week etc. We meet in Chris Tippings apartment in Foxhill Court, Weetwood Lane Leeds (for those of you who know the area) No sales list has been produced at the time, so his sponsor for the trip ( Chris Tipping - his dad owned Tipco Tools in Leeds and he had a Ferrari Dino reg LOV 750 - just a bit of useless information, strange how things stick in your memory) decided it would be nice to get some cash back asap and see what the NS scene was all about. So, we set off Saturday night to the Cats. Good to see Graham, Pep, Max, Alan S etc on the night BUT things start to get a bit ugly ( don't think Simon had started to rip people off by then, I just think the locals decided it would be a good idea to 'roll' Simon for his sales box). Anyway I realised that it was time to beat a hasty retreat and dragged Simon out of there pretty damn quick!! Simon had brought a 'minder' with him - a big soft jewish lad who was neither use nor ornament who nearly sh-t himself and Chris Tipping was useless as well.See to remember running away from a bunch of these guys to our cars. We then went to the Torch and the rest is history as they say!!! Julian (reminiscing)