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RIP! Cody Black

and then there is this great Marvin Gaye track on (thats the way love is LP) https://youtu.be/XxfS08Eq6_4

have sent you a pm

well said roggert, did not know you was on here mate i saw you in morrisons last week in ecclesfield but i was in a rush so could not stop to speak, i will send you a pm cos ya know so well but not under the name steve foster. regards, steve.

am looking for a presents = many's the slip / philips orig please & price, regards. Fozzie

Hya john, nice post, i seem to recall yr name who did you hang about with in those days, i used to hang about with phil ( woody ) wood. steve mathers, pete jackson aka jughead, mick slater aka monk, paul baker aka stan,ronnie betts,roggat,chris barker,dave richards,phil butler,dave leggot,graham howe the brother of roger who has you know became pete stringfellows manager in later years & many more, my name is steve smallcombe, kennys record stall i agree was brill i sold lots of records to him too in those days days although he did not give you much more than a bob for em but if i took a good few down it gave me money to buy new stuff, another decent shop i used to go to for new releases was bunker & pratley just up from marples corner, they were great days, do you still reside in sheffield i am known as steve foster & run route61 at the niagara suite wadsley bridge, ktf. fozzie Route 61 soul night Niagara Road Sheffield S6 1LU Resident DJ's Steve Foster & Soulman Martin with John Barnsley Guest DJs. Steve B / Mopsey / Lttle John /Carl Piper Friday 24th June 7-30pm till 12.30 am, £4.00 O.T.D.

it must be my old age at 61 that keeps me getting it a bit wrong :thumbsup: , first i said broad lane instead of broad street, then the dj who took over i said i seem to remember Jeff but can i be forgiven J can sometimes sound like a G. then i got the ice company wrong i said i thought it was hulleys but as corrected by soulmanuk it was granellis thanks for the correction, but all in all lots of us have fond memories of good old Violet May & the experience dealing with her she was also ok with her tips on top the taxi fare's over the period i took her to & fro. Fozzie

anyone got a copy of carl holmes = soul dance No. 3 please pm me with price,

ok soulmanuk i stand corrected it was broad street & not broad lane as thats up near west bar & i was a taxi driver at that lol: but it was near to the ice cream company which i think was hulleys ice cream, but the main issue thats when i first started dealing with Violet May back in the good old day's of the Mojo Club & 60s Mod era. Fozzie Route 61 soul night Niagara Road Sheffield S6 1LU Resident DJ's Steve Foster & Soulman Martin with John Barnsley Guest DJs. Steve B / Mopsey / Lttle John /Carl Piper Friday 24th June 7-30pm till 12.30 am, £4.00 O.T.D.

Its a pleasure Malc, like you have said Violet was one of a kind but she had a nice side to her also, RIP Violet May Barkworth. just like to add that Violet passed her shop on for a small fee to a younger relative of hers i can't remember his name at the moment (but jeff seems to be stuck in my mind) anyway he did not have the technique or no how that she had & of course the bottom fell out he had hardly any record stock compared to what Violet used to have and started to sell any kind of bric a brac he thought might earn him a few bob, Violet came out of retirement to try & rescue the shop but could not get it back to how it was Fozzie

How very true Malc. she was all that & more. I fisrt started using violet back when she had her shop on broad lane at the back of where the rag market was, i sold her lots of my records in those days also bought a few from her, she was very warey of people bringing bags in to her shop, i also remember she would look through peoples records they were selling & say not interested then just as they were about to vacate the shop she would puff on her capstan full strengh & say how much do you want for them, & the seller would say a price & she would almost cut that in half & buy them it was so funny to watch her in full flight with her technique, When she moved to the other shop i continued to frequent there & amazingly as years went on in the days when i had a black cab in Sheffield i used to pick her up in the morning & take her to the shop & take her home at the end of the day, she told me lots of funny stories about folk, she also told me how she became a record dealer, it started back at the old shop which was originally a grocers she went on to tell me a woman went in with a bag full of records & asked violet if she would let her have some food to feed her children of violet said no but when the woman started to cry she took pity & said lets have a look at what you have got, after viewing the records she let her have some food to what value she did not say, but she put the records in a box on the counter at 2/- thats two shillings each which sold like hot cakes other people hearing of violets generosity took there records in for food & fags, then she realised that more people were going into the shop to buy records than groceries so she turned one half into grocerys & the other half to second hand records and that was her story she told me after i had asked her how she got into dealing in second hand records, I can't remember if it was last year or 2009 but my niece's boyfriends cousin (bit of a mouthful) invited me to the book launch of her life story i sadly could not make it my loss but he has saved me two copies autographed by the auther who has sadly since died, there was lots of other stories about folk but can't remember them i only remember that cos i was into buying & selling records in those days which i had stuck to doing that i also remember selling her lots of tamla demos what a nutter i was then oh you live & learn. thanks for starting this up dave, steve(fozzie)foster

Hi Andy, I have just noticed two on ebay one is from Craig moerer who i bought mine off, the other is from another seller this link should take you to that one https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OTIS-REDDING-LOOK-GIRL-MOD-R-B-NORTHERN-SOUL-/320686946891?pt=UK_Records&hash=item4aaa6e7a4b i hope ya get one, Fozzie Route 61 soul night Niagara Road Sheffield S6 1LU Bank Holiday mini all dayer Friday 29th April 2pm - 12.30am Resident DJ's Steve Foster & Soulman Martin with John Barnsley and top weekender DJ Bridgey