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I spent years playing the tape in my car , I was convinced the title must be - Fairweather woman and was always looking for it , probably why I never got a copy

Had this on a tape of Butchs in 1986 ish , there was no track listing and it took me over 10 years to put a title to all the tracks the tape also included Mr Lucky - born to love you , Little Ron And The Esquires - I found someone , West coast distributors - Girl i love you , still got it somewhere will have to have a search . Reckon Mr Dobson was a country mile in front of the chasing pack.

Your tastes must have changed Terry as Peggy March was one of the 2 records you bought back from Florida in the 80s , the other was a Terrible Tom bootleg

First played by Colin Curtis at Blackpool mecca in mid 1975 as a new release, I remember having it on one of my wants lists in the late 70s but could never find a copy then along with Clevland Eaton - Quazer one , both first played around the same time

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Yep servicemen was played c/u in1977

Johnny moore c/u is Eddie Garrigan - i wish i was - fontana , Len Barry c/u - Chris serf - sweet music - amy , Barbara mills c/u - Fabulettes - the bigger they are -monument. Mirwood men c/u - servicemen - are you angry - wind hit Sam certainly had some dodgy moments at St ives

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I had a copy of Gloria hill fom John A when he was trading as Groove city in Portland st , so it must have been 1974 paid £1

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Ive just had my weekly bath and ive put talc all over meself including my bum so your wrong Terry , its not just for babies bums its for my bum as well. Crikey that must mean I,m not A soulie but nothing but a arsoulie . me mums also complaining about the mess I,m leaving on the bathroom floor

Seems like we could be talkin about the same copy Andy , I know when the Eric Mercury was found it was 1978/79 , Steve(kitty)wells , Rug and Wilkie had all sold there records to fund a trip to the States , with the help of John Manship who supplied them with some addresses to visit . It was Kitty who found the Eric Mercury in a thrift shop in Philadelphia.in a right dodgy area they were glad to get out of. They were all mates of mine and lived in Northants , there was a good chance that it was Kitty who was at the Fleet and came on stage when you played it as we went there during that period , but what remains a mystery is i can clearly remember him telling me he had traded it with Chris plant for a Del Larks , Kitty had probably owned it a couple of years by then so theres a chance Dave raistrick had found another copy or was it Dave he did the trade with.

That would make sense Ted , I,m glad someone knows where i meant

Pretty sure it was around 84ish , it was after Andy Spencer had bought most of his rarer items , but for some reason he still had the Lester Tipton and as i put in the earlier post went to his flat in Walsall, then on to the Old Vic. ita a long time ago but have a vivid memory of driving in to what looked like a lndustrial yard up some exterior metal stairs to his flat , he had a few albums Hesitations , Freddie Butler etc he was trying to sell as well but i left them . atb Tony Parker

Not sure what your saying here Mick as I bought Lester Tipton from Chris ,are you saying it was yours or that he didnt have it ?

Cant remember being at Stafford when Chris djed there , but I know he had a Eric Mercury - Lonely Girl and was as far as I know the first copy found that was sometime around 1979 in philadelphia . When Rug Bowers , Keith (wilkie) Wilkinson and Steve (Kitty) wells ,discovered it , Kitty later traded it with Chris for a Del larks - Job opening . around 1980/81 so its possible that Chris played this first at Stafford, I wasnt going to Wigan in the later years so maybe someone like Searling played it before?

At the time he was selling up he lived in a flat in Walsall , I went there one night on route to The old Vic at Wolverhampton , I bought Lester Tipton of him for £100 it was one of only a handfull of 45s he had left .Most of the stuff Andy Spencer bought he sold a short time later as I had Ramona collins , Yvonne vernee,Jimmy burns, Larry clinton from Andy which all came from Chris originally. Pretty sure the flat he was living in at the time was in some sort of industrial yard as i remember going up a exterior metal staircase to his flat ?? That would have been sometime around1984/85. Tony Parker

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Probably one of the worst records ive ever had the misfortune to listen to

ffs I think this thread typifies the reason I got off the so called soul scene years ago , a load of wannabees with underaverage record collections playing to a crowd of 50 something handbaggers all jostling to promote under whatever guise suites there egos . and its not just east anglia its all over the country . beam me up scotty

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