Biggordy

Fantastic footage, especially of Buddy Lamp!

A DJ I know called Uncle Fee has a copy of Crucifixition, I've seen it with my own eyes and heard it. No idea how many got made, but he got it from a legendary sound system owner in London called Ken Gordon aka Fatman.

Price is bonkers. About 400 to 500 quid tops. A Wailers tune "Diamond Baby" goes for over a grand when it shows up (it's on Coxsone) - this is probably one of the rarest JA tunes. Another Wailers tune "Selassie Is The Chapel" on a blank goes for a couple of grand when it shows. Nothing from JA has ever reached FW proportions though. Although the interest in JA music from people on the soul scene will no doubt send prices soaring over the next year or two.

If we're talking about feelgood tunes then these two - I Hate Hate by Razzy and Riot by Joe Bataan.

18 litre XL size from the Really Useful Box Company, about £12 each. https://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/uk/html/onlineshop/rub/b18_0litreXL.php

Around 1400 45s stored in plastic boxes, most of my LPs, some 12"s and a couple of thousand CDs. Also my computer is in here too. As you can see the missus has started introducing her clutter including a chest freezer........

I've got one but the missus has invaded it and put "pretty" stuff in it like flowers and paintings and her books on a bookshelf.

There's a 10 x 7" box set of Cotillion label 45s for RSD including Otis Clay, Walter Jackson, etc but no idea who's behind it.

There's a 10 x 7" box set of Cotillion label 45s for RSD including Otis Clay, Walter Jackson, etc but no idea who's behind it.

She nicks mine!!!

Curtis Mayfield was my introduction to soul music around 20 years ago. Jamaican music has always been my first love and a mate told me that just about every rocksteady tune ever was a CM cover. So I got a best of the Impressions LP and been hooked on soul ever since. Move On Up is his greatest tune of course.

My fiancee is a massive disco and modern fan, it's her birthday in May. I've just found her present, nice one!!

That's a JA press - looks original but you can never tell these days.

It's not bad, read a mate's copy - kinda glad I never bought it myself as I need to save up for the next volume of the Soul Discography.

Riot - Joe Bataan.

Not a Northern soul artist but still a great soul artist - saw Charles Bradley at the Band On The Wall in Manchester a while back and it was the best soul show I've ever seen in my life (bearing in mind that I only went to my first gig in the mid 80s)

I had "All I Want Is You" on a UK press on Page One a few years back but sold it as I wasn't into deep stuff at the time. I regret it now!

My fiancee and I are going to have "The Day I Laid Eyes On You" by Leon Haywood. Not a rare tune but a perfect one!

Yep, possibly the greatest singer ever to come from the Caribbean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90_emEnNnG0

John Holt covering the Isley Brothers:

Great instrumental Studio 1 version of the Wilson Pickett classic (actually released on Byron Lee's BRA label).

Lots of Curtis Mayfield covers of course, here's one of the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXcQq294zI

Nice Studio 1 rocksteady cut of the Miracles' classic.

B.B.Seaton's cut of the Persuaders' "Thin Line Between Love And Hate"