i know ive bored people with this in the past but i did swap my tomangoes and cecil washington for a vivien carroll on merben.. ..dont think ive told this one before tho..on a smaller scale
in 1997 i went to rotherham on saturday just scounting about as you do and popped into that little record shop near the train station..back track..used to be run by snowy but someone else had got now and snowy had moved his shop to doncaster...the new guy always had a couple of boxes of soul stuff in and while i was looking thru spotted a duke issue of can you remember by rhonda davis. how much is this i enquired......£1 says the fella ..i knew the 45 but couldnt quite remember what it went like. but i didnt want to play it in the shop in case someone smelt a rat so i bought it and a couple more bits then left....now i knew i seen this record on lists in the past for around £15 so i thought result ......got it home played it and thought yeh its ok might have something..not brilliant tho. i ummed and ahhed about rhonda for a month or so but when another 45 i wanted came up it had to go. first night out in the sales box i took it down to the atheletic club in mexboro. where dave hugill came up and said how much for rhonda....err £25 says i...not seen one for a while...i`ll take it says dave. off he goes with his record..about half hour later dave box , who was guest dj that night comes up to me and says have you just sold this to yogi...yes i said thinking what a good salesman i am ............ bloody hell says boxy...pat brady just sold it for £150 today............... ...now i usually do a bit of groundwork but on this occassion i didnt :rofl:
dave