Mr Soul

you have mail chris cheers woody

THIS I HAVE TO SEE

there is some great pictures of graham and references to the cats in mike ritsons & stuart russell's book the in crowd from bee cool publishing woody

i remember the cats at that particular time was the dogs nads,saturday night was not to be missed.ti was johnny morris who got me into soul,mossa as he was called then, was a cats regular he and his mate jackie roe were addicts of the place.mossa lived just up the road from me,he was a couple of years older.i'd knew him years through playing football as woodcross celtic was our team.we occasionally met in the local pubs,and he would tell me about this place ,in wolverhampton that played soul stuff that you would not believe.he had quite a collection of british and the imports of the day,in fact for a time he did a mobile disco with his mate clank.so we'd chat he'd lend me a few records through the week to cut my teeth on.stuff like joy lovejoy,shepphard sisters,little sonny,bobby hebb,chales wright,loads more ,i can't remember.so he kept on you need to get to the cats,so i did ,i suprised them both by turning up getting a membership.walking in was just unbeleivable,the sounds that were playing were out of this world.every record that came on i wanted it.what do you think? they said ,that was it hooked.needless to say i soon madethis a regular haunt.from that first time the d.js at that time were alan s the late bob crocker carl dean.then blue max pep graham warr to be honest,i only went a coupletimes when alan s was at the helm.so i can recall the tunes of the day,when we could'nt wait to peer through the little hatch to see what was next with a line up of max,pep,graham,and sometimes steve glover who had one hell of a british collection.max would come on do a warm up playing tunes like ,fabulous emotions,fidels,wombat,thelma lindsey,mongo santamaria,johnny newbag.then graham with some awesome stuff many listed but i also recall cliff nobles gettin away on phil la of soul,a version of teddy and the fingerpoppers later outing on arctic,lawrence/arabians coincidence,the tripps,tempos,exus trek,then pep with donald lee richardson,soulville allstars,brice coefield,nolan chance.graham warr certainly should get the credit he deserves,as i recall quite a real un- assuming kind of guy.i myself bought stuff from his oasis shop.always had a bargain top man woody

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i remember paul walker from wolves having one a few years back it's certainly a nice itemi'd say 300+

WHAT A RECORD,REMEMBER WHEN MAX PLAYED THIS AT THE CAT'S,THEN IT GOT PLAYED AT WIGAN 18 MONTHS LATER

i can relate to this scenario,my late father suffered with depression over a number of years ,starting from the age of around the 40 mark.this is a very debilitating disease and he went through his own personal battle.some days he would appear to be fine but others were absolute hell.i can consider my self lucky,that he did get a lot better with the medication that was prescribeb and he went on to live a better life than he had been his personal hell all that time.sandi the one thing that everyone knows is that you cared for pomma.you can't beat yourself up or paul,what goes on in peoples deepest and darkest thoughts when they are alone is impossible to know out wardly they are in fine fettle.inside is turmoil.r.i.p. pomma old mate ,the worlds a much sadder place

LOUISE AND MYSELF ARE ABSOLUTELY GUTTED TO HEAR OF THIS NEWS I'D SPOKEN TO DAVE RIMMER EARLIER AND HE SAID HE HAD HEARD SOMETHING ,BUT NOT 100%.POMMA ALWAYS HAD TIME FOR EVERYONE,AND WAS A TRUE SOUL ADDICT.IT WAS A REAL PLEASURE TO HAVE KNOWN THIS MAN,AND HE WILL BE DEARLY MISSED.OUR DEEPEST WISHES TO ALL HIS FAMILY ON SUCH A SAD DAY.

WE ARE REALLY PLEASED THAT STEVE IS ON THE MEND ,ONLY JUST CATCHING UP AND WAS REAL SHOCKED TO FIND HE HAD BEEN TAKEN ILL .ONE OF THE NICEST GUY'S YOU COULD WISH TO MEET PLEASE SEND OUR WELL WISHES WOODY AND LOUISE

BACK IN THE DAY'S WHEN PEP AND SAM DID THE RAVEN AT WHITCHURCH,SOMEONE GOT A COACH UP MIGHT HAVE BEEN FROM GLOUCESTER.RON BRAZIER ,CHRIS YATES AND MYSELF CAUGHT THE COACH FROM THE CONNAUGHT IN WOLVES THIS WAS TURNED OVER ALMOST WEKLY AS SUPPLIES OF SMARTIES WERE BEING DELIVERED FOR A VERY LONG WEEKEND.THERE WERE SOME CLOSE CALLS BE GREAT TO MEET UP WITH THE GUY'S AGAIN.

GEOFF CLAXTON'S HAD ONE OF THESE FOR YONKS TRY HIM

EVEN AT VG+ A GRAND I'D SAY TOUGHIE

IN ALL FAIRNESS OUT OF THE THREE LISTS I FOUND ONE OF THE JADES WAS LISTED ON REE SOME BALLS OR WOT PRICE 14 QUID

YES I QUITE AGREE I WAS ONLY ON A PITTANCE REALLY COMPARED TO MY MATES WHO WORKED AT THE STEEL WORKS THY WERE LIKE LOTTERY WINNERS SO WHEN YOU THINK ALSO ON THE LIST WAS WILLIE HUTCH WHEN THE LOVE RUNS OUT AT A STAGGERING 65QUID

WHILE LOOKING THROUGH SOME STUFF I'D PUT AWAY YEARS AGO I CAME ACROSS A FEW LISTS FROM A MR SIMON SOUSSAN OUT OF LOS ANGELES I HAD DEALINGS WITH MONSIUER SOUSSAN MANY MANY TIMES AND ALWAYS GOT EXACTLY WHAT I ORDERED HINDSIGHT IS A MARVELLOUS THING ,BUT IF ONLY I HAD BOUGHT SOME OF THE UNKNOWNS HE WAS PUTTING OUT INSTEAD OF THE TOP TUNES OF THE DAY WHICH EVERY ONE CRAVED FOR .HERE'S AN EXAMPLE PRICES ARE IN STERLING GEORGE BLACKWELL CAN'T LOSE MY HEAD SMOKE 11.00(HE DID GET ME ONE LATER FOR 20.00) MEL BRITT SHE'LL COME RUNNING FIP 12.00 DONNA KING TAKE ME HOME HOT LINE 10.00 SALVADORS STICK BY ME BABY WISE WORLD 10.00 THE IVORYS PLEASE STAY DESPENZA 9.00 DEL LARKS JOB OPENING QUEEN CITY9.00 THE ANDERSON BROS I CAN SEE HIM LOVING YOU GSF 14.00 THE JADES I,M WHERE ITS AT NITE LIFE 14.00 VIRGINIA BLAKELY LET NOBODY LOVE YOU MOJO 8.00 PATTI/EMBLEMS I'M GONNA LOVE YOU ALONG TIME KAPP DEMO 7.00 ANY ONE GOT A TIME MACHINE FOR AN HOUR OR SO HAS ANYONE ELSE ANY LIST'S DATING WAY BACK .THIS HAS PROBABLY BEEN DONE BUT JUST TO COMPARE PRICES OF TODAY IS A REAL EYE OPENER WOODY

ERIC MERCURY LONELY GIRL TRICKY

I GOT A MEXICAN WHITE CORAL DEMO

SAD NEWS INDEED R.I.P. MR SINGLETON

PETE YOUR INTEGRITY IS NOT AT STAKE SHE HEARD THE TUNE TELL HER BOLL****. BEEN BUYING FROM YOU A GOOD NUMBER OF YEARS AND WILL STILL WOODY P.S I'LL GIVE YOU 45QUID

THIS IS VERY ANNOYING,LAST YEAR WHEN OUT AT A REASONABLY LOCAL NITER A D.J OF LONG STANDING ON THE NORTHERN SCENE FROM WAY BACK , HAD NO QUARMS IN PLAYING THE ODD BOOT HERE AND THERE.I MYSELF AS DO MANY OF THE GUYS FROM THE WEST MIDLANDS ONLY PLAY ON ORIGINAL VINYL. I SUPPOSE WE ARE LUCKY IN THE FACT THAT THERE ARE AN ABUNDANCE OF COLLECTORS /D.J.S IN THE AREA.BUT IT STILL PISSES MOST PEOPLE OFF.WHEN YOU FORK OUT A FEW QUID ON A RECORD OR TWO IT'S COMPLETLY YOUR CHOICE NO ONE HOLDS YOU RANSOM . I DON'T THINK YOU'LL EVER STOP THIS KIND OF THING GOING ON ,EXCEPT SWITCHED ON PROMOTERS WHO KNOW THE SCORE.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE