Sean Hampsey

Rooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllll Outtttttttttttt the Barrrrrrrrrel..... apples & pears..... diamond geezer! OK - things aint been quite the same since I moved out of Yorkshire... ...all the way down to Derbyshire! Right, who's round is it for the Shandy's!

Might be hammered a bit too much these days, but to think it sat on the shelf for decades until Kev Briscoe blew the dust off it at PITCHES. A classic example of the evolution of the Northern scene - so strange that it was a 'wouldn't touch it with a BargePole' kinda thing - ignored for all those years - and is now 'overplayed'. Continuing Ian's post, I do remember the Isleys 'Trouble' off the Starline LP getting played round my way. In fact there's quite a few previously unreleased and pretty wonderful tracks on there! Also... remember playing locally the Martha Reeves track "One Way Out" off the MFP LP - blew me away when I heard it at Wigan covered up! Anyone remember who it was covered as? Think if you look back (listen back) at the MFP Motown albums there's some fabulous stuff on there! Sean

Aleshure "Shower The World" Phoenix Chuck Jackson "What's With This Loneliness" Kent Sean

Top Man - Knew there was another! Sean

MFP 50054

From memory... BJD included Mary Love "Bitter Into Sweet" / "Lay This Burden Down" Alexander Patton "A Little Loving Sometimes" / Inez & Charlie Foxx "Tightrope" Green Light included A Band Of Angels "Invitation" / Soul Sisters "Good Time Tonight" Soul Sounds 01 LEON HAYWOOD. BABY RECONCIDER. 02 DONALD HEIGHT. TALK OF THE GRAPEVINE. 03 JIMMY HOLIDAY & CLYDIE KING. READY WILLING AND ABLE. 04 SHIRLEY ELLIS. SOUL TIME. 05 HUMAN BEINZ. NOBODY BUT ME. 06 TAMMI LYNN. I'M GONNA RUN AWAY FROM YOU. 07 GENE CHANDLER. THERE WAS A TIME. 08 ROUND ROBIN. KICK THAT LITTLE FOOT SALLY ANN. 09 INVITATIONS. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME BABY. 10 EARL HARRISON. HUMPHREY STOMP. 11 ALEXANDER PATTON. A LIL' LOVIN SOMETIMES. 12 CHUCK JACKSON. CHAINS OF LOVE. 13 DEAN PARRISH. DETERMINATION. 14 PEACHES AND HERB. WE'RE IN THIS THING TOGETHER. 15 MARY LOVE. YOU TURNED MY BITTER INTO SWEET. 16 BARBARA LEWIS. SOMEDAY WE'RE GONNA LOVE AGAIN. 17 MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS. BREAK OUT. 18 BLENDELLS. DANCE WITH ME. 19 SOUL SISTERS. GOOD TIME TONIGHT. 20 DEAN PARRISH. TELL HER. 21 LITTLE ANTHONY AND THE IMPERIALS. GONNA FIX YOU GOOD. 22 CHUBBY CHECKER. (AT THE) DISCOTEQUE. 23 THE SHARPEES. TIRED OF BEING LONELY. 24 ROSCOE ROBINSON. THAT'S ENOUGH. 25 INCREDIBLES. THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO SAY. 26 HOMER BANKS. HOOKED BY LOVE. 27 MARGIE HENDRIX. RESTLESS. 28 BOBBY SHEEN. DR. LOVE. 29 RONNIE MILSAP. AIN'T NO SOUL (LEFT IN THESE OLD SHOES). 30 DOBIE GRAY. OUT ON THE FLOOR. Ok... I didn't do the Soul Sounds from memory! Sean

Ian, Mossy was on about legit Re-Issues not Bootlegs. FFS don't you start getting them confused! Sean

Exactly! To me that's part of his role. DJ plays record - record becomes popular - demand is created - demand is satisfied - artist gets paid. That's how it works! Sean

Great stuff, Bob... The flip to the Smash 45 "You Don't Love Me No More" was always a fave back in 72/73 here... and I've raved over "Say The Word" since picking it up, only about 12 years ago. Will check out the interview tomorrow. Sean

With you on the Bootleggers, Phil! But as you've pointed out - a lot of what some of you guys now call Rare or Northern Soul... I played as New Releases! However, I'm saving the legalisation and complete acceptance of the said 'shiny disc' until later in the week! Classy response mate. Very impressed. Sean

You Danced to it? Fair play to you Neil. Think you've hit the nail squarely on the head and I thank you for taking the time to explain in one post what it's taken me several pages to complicate. As you have so succinctly stated, the main reason Legal Reissues should not be lumped into the Bad Boy Bootleg Box is because............. Legal Reissues act as a means of deterring illegal Bootlegs by meeting a demand... which would otherwise be provided by the Bootleggers. That way - at least the artist, publisher etc gets some (financial) recognition for their works. With this firmly in mind, the Re-issue labels should be actively supported and encouraged, not disparaged as we've seen so often on here. I'm just surprised it's taken so long to get to the right answer. Sean PS: Agreed Neil. I would also be interested in the views of some of those in the reissue business. Certainly our late friend, Dave Godin would have encouraged their endeavors.

See you're still getting your Mamsey Pamsey and Hamsey and Hampsey mixed up mate. The Hamsey copy is a counterfeit! So please stop taking the 'P' out of Hampsey!

I'm really well mate, thanks I get your point, honest I do, but if someone before me plays something (on whatever label) I've got sitting in my box on an original label then so what, that's an opportunity the way I see it... cos I'm ready with a couple of hundred more! Of course, you book the Top DJ's for a lot of reasons, amongst them should be creativity and originality (as Marc said earlier)! To me, it's always been about raising the game... and certainly not dumbing it down! By all means, the Top DJ's should play the best stuff they can get their hands on - that's what makes them the Top DJ's... But I find it hard to believe that a real Pro would feel seriously threatened by Biffo and his Birthday box. Sean

Original (first time) UK Releases of US Soul records, Steve? The Action label was around big style when I was a youngst. I proudly boasted the complete set as a teenager. Some fabulous records came out on the label. I played 'em all down at my local. Eddie Holman, Norman Johnson, Carl Carlton, Dee Dee Sharp, Eddie Holman... even Bobby Marchan! But you can see where this is leading can't you? I was no different to Biffo (IMO). Who am I to tell Biffo what he can and cannot play? Personally, I'm just glad he's into Soul Music. Sean

Precisley Rod. Thank you.

Hi Chalky, Biffo at the local is hardly likely to be warming up for a guy with Percy & Eddie in his box, but if that were the case then the second guy might need to dig a little deeper. Most people can only get 20 records off in a set (10 if he uses 12" ). So what happened to the trusty 200 box? And Hey... he's got Percy & Eddie in there... he 'must' have loads more goodies too? Besides... as Marc said above... surely these particular tracks should be dropped from the other DJ's set now they've been issued. No? Sean

Thanks Steve, really well thought out reply mate, but I was thinking more about the comments in relation to the thread we both posted on yesterday regarding Mary Wells etc. and clarification that these things (or in fact all legit UK issues) are entirely acceptable and should not be tarred with the same brush as bootlegs. Yes? There's a lot of nonsense when it comes to the playing of British, don't you agree? (Best leave Beards out of this one, as I'm with Simon on that ).

OK Marc, think I get your drift, however, if DJ A (lister) has been playing his Rare OVO for a while at XYZ Nighter - and the record gets reissued, due to demand, what's wrong if DJ B (Biffo) gets the newly re released legitimate 45 and plays it down at his local - particularly if DJ A has now dropped it from his playlist, as you suggest? Hasn't this happened for decades? Isn't this how the majority get to hear stuff in the first place? Sean

Hi Steve, No, you didn't say that playing re-issues is verboten, but others did and its possible you may have missed the point of my questioning. A previous poster was lumping Re-Issues and Bootlegs together. Now that can't be right can it? (because Re-Issues are Legal whereas Bootlegs are not) and as it's your thread (the thread starter) I was asking for clarification on how you saw it, because its easy to see how one might think that they were one and the same if banded together in this way... and I'm getting a bit weary being a lone voice on this! I couldn't agree more that the last thing we need is 'the same old same old'... and I happen to think that my own choices when DeeJaying have always been anything but - however, this is a very different question. Sean

Chalky and Steve, I love you both dearly... ...but this infantile notion that some people have that a Re-Issue is verboten for DJ purposes and somehow allied with Bootleg material is truly laughable! The reason OVO came about was to beat the bootleggers - not to discourage legitimate labels from licensing largely unobtainable material. DJ's should 'promote' the music, shouldn't they? If a record becomes available is it not our duty to promote it - perhaps even more vigorously than one might with an original? I'm beginning to think that the plot is being lost. Sean

But Biffo got the Grapevine 2000 copy for his Birthday. Why should he need to pay £6 another copy? The copy he's already got is legitimate - isn't it? It's not a Bootleg... is it?

Concur 100% Steve. But do you think its OK for some upcoming young (or old) DJ to play a Kent or Grapevine 2000 issue of the Showstoppers - and would it be as bad as playing a Boot?

OK then mate, distant and murky waters aside, do you think its OK for some upcoming young DJ, for example to play a Kent or Grapevine 2000 issue of the Showstoppers - and would it be as bad as playing a Boot?

Sad, but true mate. Where are you on the Showstoppers example? Would you say that any of those are not acceptable... or that they are tarred with the same brush as Boots?

Definately agree with you that on a 'world scale' the Northern Soul Scene isn't really that important. Also agree that we 'used to do things properly' and that fings aint what they used to be in some areas of life! But I don't really see how a DJ playing a legitimate re-issue is in any way a recent 'dumbing down' on the scene. The practice has gone on for the past 40 years and (until recently) nobody ever tarred re-issues with the same brush as Pirate / Bootleg copies. There's simply no comparison. First time we heard the Showstoppers "Ain't Nothing But A Houseparty"... did we rush to the decks to see if it was on Partytime, Showtime, Beacon, Yellow / Red & White / Green? Nah, we just danced our rocks off! To be honest, I think the real 'dumbing down' is often in the standard of what's played rather than in the colour of the label, Phil. Sean