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Salvation" - Robert Thomas - Charay. Original first issue of this current in vogue goodie! It's in really nice mint condition. £200 plus postage.

Dancing competitions are a load of rubbish anyway! They spoil the night, as all the atmosphere is lost and everyone has to stop dancing apart from the competitors. It should be about playing great records and everyone getting on the floor and enjoying themselves and being part of it, not standing about spectating and having to listen to some shouty DJ drone on for a half hour👍

"Salvation" - Robert Thomas - Charay. Original first issue in really nice mint condition. £200 plus postage. "The Girl Across The Street" - Moses Smith - Dionn. Original first issue in VG+ condition £75 plus post. This record usually sells for about £150 in top condition, but half price because of small chip on the outside edge. Plays great and enjoyable. See photo. SOLD.

My favourite fountains of knowledge were the collector/dealers in the allnighter record sellers rooms. Collectors who did cassette tape swops were a great source of knowledge about the lesser known sounds. Also record dealers and top collectors who would sell cassettes of future top allnighter sounds.

A lot of records on auction are not great condition. That's why I would not bid. I get a lot of pleasure just looking through my box of nice originals, as well as playing them. So I need them to look good as well as play good👍. The prices will fall, apart from the very top rarities, as have the 1950's rock and roll/doo wop records. I didn't buy my records as a long term investment, so it's ok if the prices go down. It just means I can buy at a lower prices.

Well, that's just being greedy😊!

After reading some of the posts, I can understand why some would not want to do a play list, as it can fuel the elitist game of one-upmanship, look at all my expensive records!🙄 But for me personally, I can't go to any venues at this time, so it's one of the few ways I can find out and keep up, with what's being played at venues🙂

I do appreciate people taking the time to review venues, but it would be good to have more playlists of the records played on the night, rather than "It was a great night and Jim, Bob and big Dave were there"!

Great tunes. I hope you have a great night at the 100 club and it's really buzzing💫 The Bobby Patterson is a great record and I remember it sounded really good when played loud at Lowton near Warrington, on some of those great nights we had there👍

Great version of the Archie Bell and the Drells big tune. £15. Free postage to Uk address. Top condition on this UK original Bluebird release. 12". 45rpm single. These 12" singles give exceptional sound reproduction and loud sound quality.

I can still see Brian Rae standing behind the decks in the Casino days cueing in the New Wanderers. It was a relatively new play then! Great times💫

Great memories for me too. It was Brilliant💥. Like anywhere it had it's up's and downs, but overall I think it was great!

Something about this Majjestees record always sounds a little like the Bob and Fred record to me! The flip to "Take Back All Those Things".

I remember it getting plays at the allnighters in the late 1980's. It sounded great up at the Allanton Shotts allnighters in Scotland where I first heard it. Also as it turned out, a friend of mine already had it in his collection🙂👍!

Maybe crossover could losely be described as 60's records that have productions that sound like they could of been made in the 70's, and 70's records that sound like thay could have been made in the 60's!

My old pal Richard(Dicky)Watt had a gold vinyl copy.

Interesting, what is the L.P. called?

I bought that Johnny McCall on Alteen "I Need You" from Soul Bowls John Anderson for about £5. He had a small amount of mint copies and listed them every week for a short while. It's a great record, but I never thought back then it would go for the money it's fetching now!

Shelley Fisher wrote "Girl I Love You" and Garland Green recorded it first for Gamma records in 1967. As you all probably know, it was then picked up by Revue records for bigger distribution release. It was released by Revue on a 7" single and on the Garland Green L.P. release. Jacqueline Hilliard started Dayla records in Los Angles early 1972. Shelley Fisher was the first release with "Outside Of Memphis". The flip side was a version of his own composition "Girl I Love You". I remember the Shelley Fisher on Dayla getting some plays in the 1970's, at Blackpool Mecca's legendary Highland Room. That's where I bought my copy, but it was not a lot of money back then. I think both versions are great.

Revilot from Detroit giving us another great track from The Holidays and "Never Alone".

Harry Star on IPG sounds ok to me at the correct speed, but some records do sound better slowed down or faster. For instance, I have the, not very good, Ray Dahrouge Polydor 1979 version of The Anderson Brothers classic "I Can See Him Making Love To You". I think it does improve it when slowed down by -6 revs. I can almost enjoy it!

Also frustrating are sellers who can't be arsed to individually grade condition of the records they are selling! All you get is "everything listed is vg+ or better"👎. They want customers to spend hundreds of pounds on this "vg+ or better" basis!

It's good to appreciate records for how good they are to oneself, and not just because they have a high price tag and are rare!

Hi, It's hard to give a price without knowing the condition. Selling or buying?

I've Been Taken For A Ride" - The Saints - USA original Kent 45. £80. Ex+ condition. Postage £3.60.