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Where does this person advertise then - is he on ebay as that? More info the better so we don't buy off him Cheers Tony

Need to upgrade as shifting out a knackered copy - original only needed of course. Don't open reply on the thread - PM please with realistic price (we all know what the last 2 did on here) and condition must be super all round inc labels. Not asking for much eh! Cheers

Agree with all said - for some reason this seems to have been on a lot of peoples wants for about a year now - I paid £30 for an issue last year. It's a case of - if you see it buy it - with this one and it is a very powerful song / ender Then again I'm the bloke that bought Better Use Your Head again just to have the picture sleeve!! What this collecting lark does to you eh!!! Careful on the search though as it's - ANTHONY AND THE IMPERIALS as the name - in fact an issue on ebay right now as ANTHONY & IMPERIALS - one bid 4 dollars 99 cents 3 days to go Just gonna ask him for my commission right now!!!! Cheers all

Came out about a year ago I think - the usual £10 or so I seem to remember - Johnnie Mae on the other side of course Dull orangey brown label from memory. Quite hard to come by now I would think.

I'LL BE ON MY WAY LOVE SLIPPED THROUGH MY FINGERS Who has got one of these to sell?? Serious condition description please and realistic price please Just pm to get a deal started Cheers Tony

Tommy Dodson - One Day Love on Uptown PM with condition etc and your price Cheers Tony

Due to a mix up of Tommy's on Uptown !!! Still need this. Tommy Dodson One Day Love b/w Mind Reader Uptown 709 All I ask is - at least excellent+ condition - also no tears writing on labels. Just give your best and realistic price to include signed for and we will have a deal. Cheers Tony

Tommy Dodson One Day Love b/w Mind Reader Uptown 709 Vernon Greene and the Medallions Look At Me Look At Me b/w Am I Ever Gonna See My Baby Minit 32034 All I ask is - at least excellent+ condition - also no tears writing on labels. Just give your best and realistic price to include signed for and we will have a deal. Cheers Tony

La Wanda William aka Juanita Williams - mega top tune with fantastic Detroit pedigree - Melvin Davis Dave Hamilton Lee Rodger/s and an obscure label as well - it doesn't get much better than all of that put together on a record!!

Anybody got a copy???

Patti & the Emblems - I'm Gonna Love You A Long Long Time - Pink A this side - KAPP BOUGHT! Little Anthony - It's Not The Same - VEEP NEED!!!!!!!!!! Loads around I know but pm me if in great condition and clean all round - no writing etc as for my collection. Cheers Tony

Rob - the whole thing relates to the fact that donkeys years ago in winter the drinking public of Newcastle turned out in it's finery - short skirts the lasses and t-shirts the lads - or very similar depending on the era/current trend. No coats!!! Can't feel the cold when you're pissed and anyway it doesn't rain or snow in the bars. Old Geordie saying - 'it's a top coat warmer down south' - and south to some probably means south of Durham!! Mind you at most clubs we have the SKY generation trying to get on the telly/in the papers - so that could be it.

It must be an age thing!! Disposable society blah blah!! Download generation etc I've collected records of many genres all my life. I can not think of a better way of owning a product than being able to read the cover notes, check the writer, musicians, matrix number, learn the lyrics (on albums if printed) and treasure that limited edition or as in the case of soul - that rare or hard to get Northern Soul tune. I fail to understand the beauty or love of something that is zipped through cyberspace, planted in your PC/laptop/listening device, burned to a CD if needed and then used to 'entertain' yourself or the paying public. As for the 'social' aspect of going into a record shop - no wonder we have bred a generation of half wits that communicate via 'social network' sites - they never actually speak to each other in person. Ok we buy our vinyl/styrene via the web and forums and it's opened a whole new world, but bloody hell I can ring and speak to whoever I'm buying from if I need to. Here's another one - when we're out at the match and having a few beers the number of times the younger lads (age 30 downwards) check their mobiles is amazing - it's a habit the're into to see if they have a message or whatever. For fk's sake NOBODY has contacted them - they know you're at the match! So on that island - no phones - we can all just talk to each other - it's called good old fashioned conversation! Just like the sort you get in pubs and record shops.

I noticed with that Mel Britt the seller gave the matrix info as stamped - funny how they didn't give the other detail to ID it as a counterfeit. The exact record was on popsike and sold in July 2005 for £39 - again the description said - 'original stamped matrix'. I guess they weren't lying in either case!! Though after checking in JM's he says - 'a clumsy attempt at a ZTSC MATRIX' I have no problems in people wanting a boot or re-issue for the jukebox/play at home scenario but ALL of these should be in a totally seperate section on ebay. If a genuine re-issue record or look a like boot goes for a few quid and the buyer is chuffed then fine - I would hope it's because the original is probably a fortune, or so rare it's almost unobtainable anyway!

Some belters being mentioned and right across the board - first heard these this year for the first time ever and needed to dig very deep to find the first two - luckily got both for the collection. Johnnie Hoyle - What About Me on Raybo (out of Stanley N.C. - now on youtube - girlie/mid tempo/crossoverish!) La Chords - Sit Down And Write on Take Five (out of Phoenix Arizona - on Manship Rarest Of Rare - early up tempo group doowopish soul!) Miracles - Whatever Makes You Happy on Tamla -(aye dead rare - Not! B side of Mickeys Monkey and just never bloody played it till a mate did the other night - mad eh!) So 3 genuine ones that I heard for the first time ever this year. Good thread Barney as we all discover new ones even though others may have had it for years. A good xmas and new year to all sourcers - Tony

Got to say it - 'IT'LL NEVER BE OVER' - for me, you or anyone else that loves the music, in all it's shapes and forms. Detroit, blue eyed, doo-wop, modern it is all interlinked. Youger lads who go to the match and drink with me are now well into the Northern Soul I've banged on about. I'm not bothered they are not yet! collectors or anoraks on matrix numbers but they firmly like the music - their age of mid twentyish would imply that if they stick with it then they've got a few more years left in them, rather than us 50+ lot. It may seem mainstream where you live in your part of the country but elsewhere the mass British public haven't got a clue that it's the biggest underground scene going. I was talking to a bloke who had a second hand stall earlier this month, (when I was down London) - got on about the Dansettes he had on show - he had the quiff, tight jeans etc - turns out him and his crew are bang into jive, rock'n'roll type nights and let's face it although you don't see teddy boys roamin about the streets there are still nights held 50 odd years after it's mainstream birth. Thankfully our record collections may be destined for the scene of the future and in the hands of a whole new generation of enthusiasts who will keep the faith going. Cheers Tony Fiddes

In the pop up menu that gives the label scans just change the factor from 100% to 75% and you get the full label scan - well that's what I've been doing for ages - though maybe you could reset the optimisation Darren so it works first time. Aye a couple of Jackie Days floating about at roughly a grand - anyone want to sell me one for less - lol!!! Cheers Tony

Correct - John Peel sat there on TOTP and pretended to play the mandolin. It was indeed the guy from Lindisfarne - Ray Jackson who did try to claim 'royalties' to amount of 1million as it had became an iconic part of the song over the years. He lost and his session fee was all he got all those years ago - £15 !! Back to the Rod discussion - saw him with the Faces in 73 as well - awesome bluesy boozy good time band - very appealing to a young lad. Yes Rod has churned out some drivel - American Songbook!! but I don't think (and I can't ask him of course) he thinks he's the saviour of black American music. Our scene is flooded with all sorts of songs and artists we class as 'Northern'/soul and I don't think for one moment as Rod sang in the sweaty Soho clubs with the likes of Long John Baldry Jeff Beck etc that he ever thought he was anything other than an up and coming addition to the British blues/r n'b scene of the time, that turned into blues rock. By the way if any money happens to ever find it's way to the writer of the songs he covers, via the maze of publishing deals etc then that will of course be a good thing - soul singer? Never in a million years - Soul admirer and advocat of the genre - YES! Not his fault he's in a better position to exploit it and he's covered Sam Cooke for bloody years by the way - if that got some young kid into soul then so be it.

Hey I only posted info someone sent me - don't shoot the messenger! If it's crap then so be it - I've posted a message on the official Maggie Bell site and I hope to hell she remembers singing the bloody thing!

Don't know which record salesperson it's from by the way but to go to so much trouble seems - well, bizarre to say the least - especially when attaching the info to the sale of an Inferno pressing. Does any of it make sense to anyone as duo's of the same name seem to be cross referenced/mixed up here? It may be 'tosh' as Pete S says and maybe we are still no nearer to an answer - if anyone is bothered that is! Tony

Been trying to get to the bottom of this one for ever since I got my Hickory issue and just now a friend (cheers Lindsey) who just bought an Inferno got sent this info. Is the Scottish link now as plausible as the Loch Ness monster?? and do we have the true ID at last? Read on and decide - 'Frankie' (K.T. Oslin; 1942 - ) & 'Johnny' ( Scott Holtzman; 19?? - ) I never thought that finding out the identity of Frankie & Johnny could be so difficult, even in this day and age. Their nationality has been shrouded in mystery for a long time, and it may be the fact that the rarest format of "I'll Hold You" is on UK Decca, that Frankie & Johnny have often been rumoured to be British - I even read somewhere that they were Scottish! In reality, 'Frankie' hides the identity of Kay Toinette Oslin (usually known as K.T. Oslin), a Grammy-winning country singer. She was born in Crossett, Arkansas, then moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and finally to Houston, Texax. It was there that she recorded a couple of 45s for the International Artists label, with singing partner, 'Johnny'. The male half of the duo is Scott Holtzman, who also recorded with his wife Vivian, but is most noted as a producer. The single on offer here was originally released on Nashville's Hickory label, where even some of the bona fide soul titles possessed a country feel. Most of the Hickory singles that saw a British release in the mid-60s, did so on a UK equivalent of the same label, and the obvious example is Barbara Mills' "Queen Of Fools". Barbara's brother was Larry Henley, lead singer of The Newbeats, and that trio also recorded a run of pop stompers, most of which were released via Hickory on both sides of the Atlantic. When UK Hickory ceased to be a viable label in the UK, late in 1966, London-American took over release of it's output. I assume that Decca, being the parent label, released Frankie & Johnny during the intervening period. The Decca numbering system for singles nearly always starts with '12' digits (for example, John E. Paul is 12685). Only a relative few begin with '22' digits, and this usually denotes what was known as an 'export single', which carried export restrictions. Other examples include The Bats from South Africa, and Los Bravos from Spain. "I'll Hold You" was originally the B-side to another neat Northern dancer called "(Never) Gonna Leave You", and the song itself was penned by George Patterson, Bobby Kerr, and Margaret Bell. This latter name has given rise to claims that 'Frankie' hides the identity of Maggie Bell, the Scottish lead singer with Stone The Crows. The same source reveals 'Johnny' to be Johnny Curtis (another Scottish singer), and also states that the single was 'discovered' by Mick Smith, in 1977. I won't debate the latter claim, but can bury once and for all the Scottish myth. Both songs were handled by Acuff-Rose (the Nashville publishing company), Frankie & Johnny's two International Artists singles were produced by Ray Rush, in Houston, and one of those tunes was co-produced by Scott 'Johnny' Holtzman and Vivian Holtzman, two more Americans. How much more proof do you need?! Are we convinced?? Cheers Tony

Thanks to everyone for their help Now sorted Tony

Looking for this in great nick with clean (no writing, X's etc ) labels. Just PM me with HONEST condition and the price to include Special Delivery. Easy as that for a very quick sale! Cheers Tony

Patrice Holloway - Stolen Hours - Capitol Betty Lloyd - I'm Catching On - BSC Patti & the Emblems - I'm Gonna Love You A Long Long Time - KAPP All I ask is that the record is original, condition at least EX and the labels have no writing, wear etc Be realistic with your price and a deal can be done PM me with full details and include special delivery in price Cheers Tony

Maybe the answer is in the lack of - 'I've got one for £20 if you want it' messages. This has been on my - get it if I see it cheap and in good nick wants list - for at least a year and I always see the bugger after it's sold! A constant ebay effort will turn one up for less than £50 but a minter issue went for £80 in July and there seems no difference between issue or white demo on the history of prices from popsike and prices vary a lot. Like most things - if you want it and it's a minter then pay the price for quality/resale. So who's got one for the lad then! Cheers Tony