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  1. Solidsoul
    Great to read these memories of the Catacombs. "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" by Walter Jackson became popular at Wigan for a while, but I bought it for the Okeh flip side. "I'll keep On Trying" is a superb piece of solid Northern Soul. Well worth checking out if you don't know it. An original should not cost too much and you get Two For The Price Of One!.
  2. Solidsoul
    I watched it but can't understand a word he is saying apart from titles and names!
  3. Solidsoul
    "Trouble" by The Agents has never been a cheap record. I remember Richard Searling playing it often in Wigan Casino to a great reaction. Always lots of money when seen on lists for as long as I can remember. So I think worth buying at that price in that condition!
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    Allnighters back in the day would be on till 8 in the morning. They did not sell alcohol only soft drinks etc. Yet the dance floor would be busy with great dancers all night and full till 8am. There was a reason for that!!! People are older or have gone and can not live like that anymore! I think we have just to make the best of it as it is!
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    Check out "Gettin' Away" by Cliff Nobles & Co on Phil la of Soul. To me it's a better version of the "Soul Groove" Inst.
  6. Solidsoul
    If I have a rare record that is in mint condition and it's worth a lot, I feel a little guilty playing it. But if the rare record is a bit scruffy, but plays ok, I feel alright playing it as many times as I want!
  7. Solidsoul
    Had to pay £5 for my Masqueraders off Mr Manship about the same time as you!
  8. Solidsoul
    Pat Brady used to put Donna Colman on his sales tapes, they were £8 on his lists. Terry Callier was £2.50 a lot of times on the Soul Bowl. Jimmy Soul Clark was always listed for the other side, a great Detroit instrumental called "A Girl's World".
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    Cashmeres and Posse I first heard in Wigan Casino. Also I think I first heard L.A. Allen in Wigan. The Hytones, Tommy Ridgley and George Freeman from Stafford. Otis Lee later than Stafford for me, maybe Tony's Empress Ballroom. Most of the other tunes I knew first as Northern Soul collectables before they got played in a venue. A lot of them were cheap sounds and became expensive when they started getting played. Things like Terry Callier, Jimmy soul Clark, Donna Coleman etc were all on sales tapes first in the late 70's early 80's.
  10. Solidsoul
    Kefalonia, one hot afternoon. Walking with my wife past a bar with a dance floor. I could hear a tune playing from the pavement and I said "I know that song". It took a few seconds and then I realised it was "Just An Illusion" by The Earls on Zudan! So we had to go in and it turned out to be a lot of people from the UK on a Northern Soul holiday!
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    I remember Pete Lawson well, he was quite a character. Although once you met him you were not likely to forget him. He had Northern Soul DNA . I sometimes wonder what he would have thought of the scene these days!
  12. Solidsoul
    You probably already know, but it came out twice on Golden World with different flip sides. Great record.
  13. Solidsoul
    I said "it is not an original" and that's not vague! The very illegal nature of bootlegging means there will be no documentation. They just want to slip them out with as little attention as they can get!
  14. Solidsoul
    It is not an original. It's a copy of the original blue label. These have been around since the early to mid 70's and are sold as bootlegs, reissues or whatever!
  15. Solidsoul
    Black, white, yellow or brown, does it really matter? When I went to nighters I couldn't care less what colour people were! We are all just human beings on planet earth! The media thrives on divisions!
  16. Solidsoul
    Yes he's the Drew Pritchard (Salvage Hunters) of Northern Soul
  17. Solidsoul
    I went to many Keele allnighters. Really good atmosphere. Dance floor was usually always full. I remember great dj's like Mick Smith, Butch and Bob Hindsley and many more of that high standard. The large record bar was really good as well. Always well attended, and mostly everybody was friendly, but you were taking a chance putting your records in the car halfway through the night, if you wanted to see them in the morning
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    Is it ok to call a soul night an all-nighter on events that close before 6am? All-nighters used to be till 8am. Then some started being 7am then 6am. Now some are ending at 3am!!!! What's the limit of stretching it! What do you think?
  19. Solidsoul
    Definitely played many times up at Allanton Shotts allnighters. Although a lot of dj's and punters used to travel up there from England. I was one of them.
  20. Solidsoul
    No they were not a white rock group. Chalky put up an article about it. If you want read it, go on the search box and put this search on.....The MVP'S Uncovered! The identity of one of the scenes iconic groups revealed.
  21. Solidsoul
    The red label copies are vinyl as well as the multicoloured. Maybe just the sound clip has recorded it at a different level. As you may well know, the Combinations later became the M.V.P.s. It was revealed in an interesting article about them on S.S. several years ago.
  22. Solidsoul
    I had some great nights at the Wilton. I spent many hours on the dance floor. The music policy was excellent. 60's discoveries/collectors sounds and lesser played classics. A lot of good sales boxes as well.
  23. Solidsoul
    Well they sound great to me. Take for examples, Yvonne Baker on London, Vel-Vets on Pye, Doris Troy on Mojo or Invitations on Mojo . They sound just as good or maybe even better than the original USA singles. I have got great copies of all of them to compare.
  24. Solidsoul
    There was one on the sales section a year or two ago. Think it was Ex+ and was around £1700. I was tempted to go for it, but decided to leave it in the end. Your right though, it does not come for sale very often!
  25. Solidsoul
    Somebody was after this a few weeks ago on "wants". They offered a very large amount to anyone who would sell it


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