Modernsoulsucks

Anyone interested in this 45. Mintish Dewey Jeffries "When no one cared". Pleasant slightly jazzy crossover I guess. $870 on Popsike!!! £100. PM if interested ROD SOLD. Thank you.

Butch sent me a tape around mid 80's with some stuff to listen to that he thought were OK. Mello Souls was on it, and recently I've heard that "Teenage Prayer" 45 getting spins so that's only taken 20 years!! If we're talking tracks that have gone overground recently that weren't played previously as opposed to known about by a few collectors then I'd submit the Pat & Blenders track which I pretty much hear everywhere now. Likewise maybe Sugar & Spices,Dottie & Millie. A track on Butch's tape that as far as I know has not had it's day but which I think is the next Delegates of Soul is the Mark III on Stop. Im not up with the modern stuff but from reaction of people on this site could that Ellipsis be latest big discovery. Apologies if it turns out to have been played at Thorne!! ROD

As far as I know my grannie has never got "jiggy" with a footballer and I resent that crude innuendo. Ted, we all have tales like that. I bought Paul Anka and Utopias at Wigan. I kept Anka and sold Utopias. Whose mad now, eh? Er............. ROD

Well Ted, I can think of the French and Russian and a few in the 19th Century making less than 10 clicks in just over 200 years. I didn't realise it was that old. Is it an R&B track? Simple rules for dealing with damaged 45s Cracked - Throw it in the bin Badly scratched - ditto Badly warped - the same Modern Soul - there's not a bin big enough!! If Ted, you had followed this advice then the junk dealers on Ebay may not have got a foothold. Admittedly you'd be £1750 out of pocket which does throw up a small flaw in my otherwise sound advice but Im sure you'd agree that principles are much more important than money. Now I have to go as I've put my grannie up for auction on Ebay and it's reached the closing stages. ROD

Actually Baz at the time the scene appeared to be in the doldrums so it wasn't a real big deal like it would be today even though more copies have turned up since. I also heard it on a small portable player so it wasn't like hearing it at Wigan ten years previously over the speakers. I just thought I've heard that before, what is it? Took me a couple of minutes to click as I was only half-listening as I looked through 45s. I think Martin Koppell found the Al Scott somewhere in NY. ROD

Baz, I found Mr. Soul in a shop in Baltimore late 80's/beginning of 90's when it was still covered as Maurice McAllister. Just in a pile of 45s that looked interesting. Think Brownie bought it off me. I obviously told everybody I knew. I don't remember Richard having Phoenetics on an acetate as Dave Withers and I played it first at Stafford. Got that and Monique from a mate in LA. Think we covered Monique up but can't remember about Phoenetics. ROD

Simon, never said she couldn't sing. Just that 70's beach sound is so poppy. Actually her delivery does elevate it a bit above the usual smooth saccharine blandness of the genre, but not much. ROD

Think I took about 200 of these to Carolinas in the '90's that I got out of that wholesale place in Telford. What is it with these pop beach titles like this and Futures,Lou Rawls, "Integrity" that appeal to some sections of the Northern scene. It's handbag music. ROD

Tex-mex influence may be because there's an awful lot of Mexicans working in N. Carolina. I think agricultural labourers. You see a lot around the flea markets where there are guys selling Mexican music. ROD

I've seen him a couple of times years ago at US record conventions. Bit eccentric but harmless. However,offering outside Ebay is against the rules so how come nobody has complained and got him off the site. Second thoughts as I think dealing is his primary source of income so it'd be a bit tight. Soul Police should deffo have a word with him though. ROD

"Reserves" and esp that Count guy who has a reserve on everything even if beat up and nowt seems to reach the reserve!! When they auction them but word it as if it's some kinda set sale. Low Starting Price meand f**k all. It's just cheaper to list for the seller. "Glassboy". I really wanted that Whispers and to be beat by 64cents is a fackin liberty. ROD

A couple of people have referred to a drop in prices but Im with Ted "good" 45s are going up. I don't see my collection as an investment at all and I just assume they'll be worthless when Im gone cos hopefully you lot would have gone before me. I can't see how leaving them as a financial legacy, as Mr. Cosgove suggests, would work. Unless he dies relatively soon IMO the demand in say 30 years time will be minimal. ROD

I've got George Lemons too and it's bloody awful. I'd also like to nominate "Baby you're alive" Styles. Great backing,great back-up vocals and George Lemons moonlighting!! Listening to it now. Terrible!! ROD

Hey Pete, I've tried to calm things down. Don't bar him. It's fun. MELVIN

If you goodle it they say this rarer version is very ungerateg. ROD

I don't know you either,Mike, but I think you should be extremely proud and congragulated for what you've achieved with Soul Source. I would say that the site is indispensable and for me it's the 2006 equivalent of Dave Godin's old column but far more informative and influential. I've no idea of the workings of the internal computing engine but if your withdrawal meant that we would lose this site, then it would be akin to the Casino,Mecca,Stafford,100 Club etc all shutting their doors on the same day. I've corresponded with some really nice genuine people and some modern fans on here and would really like to continue doing so. Im sure your efforts on our behalf are very time consuming and maybe you could be doing something else such as a spot of DIY, taking the wife shopping or the kids to see the Arctic Monkeys!! I hope you reconsider. ROD

My wife watched it and she thought it was hilarious. Was it a comedy? Apart from the DJ character, I wasn't sure what it was about or trying to get across. ROD

There's a couple of guys still to send for reserved 45s Im holding from list I recently posted. But shit happens and no sweat if they don't honour their orders. However Im not a full-time dealer who relies on the money to spoil their little angels rotten like Pete. People who order from full-time dealers need to remember that. Not exactly a new phenomena. I was full-time from 88-2000. A lot of guys overstretch themselves cos of this silly obssession we all have. So name and shame. Not really. Bit more individual responsibility and integrity needed. ROD

Thanks Dave and Adam. I lost!! ROD

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...mp;rd=1&ssp Somebody quick. Is this an original. Ta ROD

If there's anyone out there thinking of buying any of these 45s I just got a couple from Rich and they really are "stunning"+++. Looks like never seen a needle. If you're particular about condition these are the ultimate Mint copies and well worth getting. I am really chuffed with mine. ROD

Hi Dave, I did notice it after I put my ad on here. Couldn't find any copies of "The Dip" on Ebay and last couple I've seen were bad condition. Don't really know about Dore and Soul Clock versions. Heard Dore version on CD and liked it. Last day at work tomorrow and then redundant. As long as I get another job soonish I should be able to buy a couple of tunes with the payout. ROD

Looking for following by Whispers, all on Dore Records Needle in a haystack You got a man on your hands The Dip Must be Mintish condition please. Thanks ROD

I hope you won't mind me bumping this list up as I've hardly sold any and not eaten since 7th August!! ROD

Ted/Mark there is a small indecipherable stamp about an inch in front of S-002B and kinda diagonally opposite there's either a stamp or maybe scratched in something else it's impossible to make out without a microscope. Compared to the blue boot that's been posted the colour is darker and writing much sharper and defined. ROD