Colouredman

LP’ FOR SALE: Sleeve as seen, vinyl. Bobby Lester. (Hang up your hang ups etc) US Columbia. M- £15. Signed For Postage: £4.

LP for sale: Sleeve condition is as seen in the photos; vinyl is graded. Black Soul Explosion. U.K. Ember. M- £20.Postage: (SOLD)

FOR SALE: Don Ray Sampson. Baby come back. E Records. M- £75 Harold Hutton. Lucky boy. Checker WD. M- £75 Onesy Mack. I’ll never go away. Goda. M- £40 N. F Porter. Keep on keepin on. Lizard. M- £35. Postage: ‘Signed For’ £3. Special Delivery £7.

FOR SALE: Larry Saunders. On the real side. U.K. London Demo. M- £75 (SOLD) Free Special Delivery Postage.

FOR SALE: The Dolls. The reason why. Toy. M- £120 Postage: Free Special Delivery (within U.K.)

Wanted: Tyra Levone. Keep steppin. Thanks.

FOR SALE: Jimmy Conwell. Cigarette Ashes. Jay Boy Demo. Ex. £25 ‘Signed For’ Postage: £3.

FOR SALE: Don Ray Sampson. Baby come back. E Records. M- £75 O’Henry. She sang to me. Sunny. Ex. £75 Artus Satterfield. You are better. Axis. Ex Gary Rushbrooke Wigan spin. (Rare 1st issue Demo. M- £75. Otis Brown. Sound of the wind. Vg+ £70 Alex Brown. What would you do without......Tangerine WD. M- £25 Postage: Signed For: £3.

FOR SALE: Don Ray Sampson. Baby come back. E Records. M- £75 O’Henry. She sang to me. Sunny. Ex. £75 Artus Satterfield. You are better. Axis. Ex Gary Rushbrooke Wigan spin. (Rare 1st issue Demo. M- £75. Otis Brown. Sound of the wind. Vg+ £70 Alex Brown. What would you do without......Tangerine WD. M- £25 The Poets. I’m stuck on you. Red Bird WD. M- £25 (SOLD) Postage: Signed For: £3.

FOR SALE: Various British. James Fountain. 7 day lover. Cream Test Pressing. M- £50 Drifters. You got to pay your dues. Atlantic Test Pressing. (Machine stamped K10700) M- £75 (SOLD) Bobby Paris. I walked away. Capitol. M- £30 Doris Troy. Face up to the truth. Capitol M- £30 Rosebuds. Say you’ll be mine / World Column. So is the sun. M- £30 Evelyn Thomas. Doomsday. Tomorrow Demo. M- £20 Evelyn Thomas. Weak spot. 20th Century Demo. M- £15 The Sharonettes. Goin to a go go. Black Magic Demo. M- £15 The Milestones. The Joker. Black Magic Demo. M- £15 Stanley Woodruff. What took you so long. Grapevine Demo. M- £15 Third Time around. Soon everything is gonna be alright. M- £5 James Coit. Black Power. Destiny WD. M- £20 Sons of Moses. Soul symphony. MCA Demo. M- £20 The Devonnes. I’m gonna pick up my toys. U.K. Demo. M- £30 Jaywalkers. Can’t live without you / Heartbroken Memories Instrumental. Cream. M- £20 Fantastic Johnny C. Don’t depend on me / Waitin for the rain. Island Demo. Ex (So hard on a U.K. demo) £75. Paul Humphrey. Cochise. ABC Demo. M- £10 Post: Special Delivery: £7. Signed For: £3

For Sale Newbeats. Crying my heart out. U.K. Hickory M- £40 Postage: Signed For £3.

FOR SALE: Mixed Soul,Northern, Reggae, Gospel, etc. Boris Gardner. You’re everything to me. Rev Test pressing. M- £30 Chuck and Eddie. We’ve got a good thing goin. Vg+ £70 Bill Penny and the Pacemakers. I can’t stay. Tempo. Ex £75 Post: £100 or over Free Special Delivery. Signed For £3.

THE LEDGENDS Fear not. Commonwealth. M- £50 (SOLD) Beautiful Near Mint condition.

FOR SALE: Rosebuds. Say you’ll be mine. / World Column. So is the sun. U.K. Tower. M £30. Bobby Paris. I walked away. / Bobby Sheen. Sweet sweet love. U.K. Capitol. M £30. Doris Troy. Face up to the truth. / Billy Preston. The girls got it. UK Capitol. M £30. Jeff Perry. Love don’t come no stronger. Arista. Ex. £25. Gene Chandler. I’m just a fool for you. U.K. Stateside Demo. Ex. £75 Gene Chandler. I can take care of myself. U.K. Action. M- £100.l Eddie Parker. Love you baby. Ashford. (Flat Archer stamp). Ex. £100. New beats. Crying my heart out. U.K. Hickory. M- £50 Postage: Special Delivery £7. Signed For: £3.

FOR SALE: Gordon Keith. Look ahead. Calumet. M- £75 Special Delivery Post: £7. Signed For: £3.

Around 1980 / 81 I think, Keith Minshull and I went on a trip out to visit Neil Rushton (we were always goin somewhere looking for records). Neil had got into some of his other projects and was looking to sell some of his surplus stuff, so he invited Keith and I over. I remember us looking in his garage I think and finding a bunch of stuff, all of which was cheap....pocket change really. We got Louise Lewis with a promotional sleeve (still got it), a proper original Sandy Hadley, maybe some of the Mutt titles in quantity and a load of other things, including an oddball looking thing by George Pepp, It sounded ok and seemed to have something without necessarily striking us as out and out Northern, so we I bought it, coz Keith wasn’t really bothered about unknown/ oddball stuff but I was. I then passed it on to either Gary Rushbrooke, did Dave Thorley I think late Wigan, early Stafford time. The rest is history. I’d never had it before or since.

Eldridge Holmes. Let’s go steady. Kansu. M £75 Johnny Stewart. Misery loves company. Start. Vg. £50 Centre Stage. Hey lady. Dispo. M- £30 The Forevers. What goes around. Weis. Ex/M- £30 The Poets. The hustler. Veep WD. M- £50 The Lavettes. No matter what you do to me. Phillips WD. Ex. £30 Wesley Paige. You turn me around. Rojac. Ex 30 The Embers. It ain’t necessary. Bell. Ex. £35 The Chalfontes. Much too much for comfort. Mercury. Vg+ £50 The Daydreams. Been ready for a long time. Dynamo. WD. M- £35 The Hot Tamales. Loves Inventions. Detroit. £50 Onesy Mack. I’ll never go away. Goda. M-/Ex. £50 Postage: £7 Special Delivery. £3 Signed For.

For Sale Styles. Baby yre alive. Modern Demo. M- £80 Free Signed For Postage.

FOR SALE: Gene Chandler. I’m just a fool for you. Stateside Demo. NM £75. Free Special Delivery Postage.

For Sale: Gordon Kieth. Look ahead. Calumet. Ex/NM. £70 The Styles. Baby you’re alive. Modern Demo. NM £70. Don Ray Sampson. Baby come back. E Records. NM £70 Free Signed For Postage, or Special Delivery: £7 (UK only)

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Kieth.....where do I start?......he’s a legend, he’s one of us, a Stokie from ‘Soul On Trent’. He’s a man who’s been there pretty much from the beginning and he’s still at it now. I’m proud to say I’ve known him since I was a young teenager still at school, when I walked into ‘ ‘Bews’( a toy shop with a record bar upstairs)one sunny June Saturday with some ‘birthday money’ to buy some records. I went thru the toy shop and up the stairs and there he was behind the counter with Colin. I didn’t know either of them, but I knew of them. I ordered 3 records; ‘Sweet Soul Music’ ‘6 x 6’ and ‘Free for all’. The latter was my first proper Northern Record, and a ‘must have’ coz it was huge in Stoke. Kieth grunted at me, took my money, gave me the records and that was it. A few years later, we travelled to Wigan together pretty much every week, for a few years, in his Cortina which I drove. It was during those drives together that I came to understand what a quiet, humble, incredibly modest man he is, with fantastic stories to tell about the ‘early days’. He used to relate these to me on journeys to Wigan, Hinckley, Rotherham, Leicester ‘Oddfellows’ niters etc. He gave me my first ‘proper’ dj spot at a Tiffs Alldayer in the late 70’s, and straight after it sold me a Jock Mitchell WD for £2. Me Kieth and Butch and a bunch of other Stokies, used to go swimming together at Newcastle baths on a Thursday early evening. We used to take great pleasure in all of us jumpin on Kieth and tryin to push him under, but to no avail. He’d just rise up and shake four or five of us off, like we were nothing but flies on a buffalo’s back lol; he was one strong guy. Keith’s had some very very rare records through his hands, but not that you’d always know it, coz he doesn’t shout about it. But I recall him having ‘Lady in Green’ for which he paid £150, and not one, but 2 copies of the Empires ‘You’re on top girl’, amongst many others. In terms of record- association with Kieth though, it has to be ‘Queen of fools’ and ‘Skiing in the snow’. Both were Stoke anthems at one time. He told me a few days ago he’d been involved in this scene for 55 years; that takes some doin. So hats off to the big man from my home town, HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, and maximum respect always Kieth * Re. the photos below: not sure why JB (Johnny Beggs) is lickin the top of Keith’s headlol. I’m sure there’s a perfectly rational explanation; I just don’t know what it is lol. Maybe it’s a Torch thing, or some kind of secret Stoke initiation ceremony, or maybe something John and Kieth wish to share with us lol. I wondered if, after all these years, John had found a way to get on Keith’s good side to get records cheap lol. Whatever; hopefully John or Kieth will explain

FOR SALE: Prince and Princess. Stick together. Bell Demo. NM £200. Free Special Delivery Postage.

FOR SALE: All Near Mint unless otherwise stated: The Other Ones. The two of us. Knoll. Huge record for Richard at Wigan. £400. The Puffs. I only cry once a day. Dore Ex £300 Tommy Mosley. For her love. Uptown. £150. Stafford monster. Ann Byers. Here I am. Academy. £200 Ann Byers. Dead end. Academy. £100 Chris Cerf. Sweet music. Amy Demo. £200 The Soul Bandits. Be good. Groove. £150 Dee Erwin. I only get this feeling / Wrong direction. Redd Coach WD £175. First label. The Tonnettes. I gotta know. Dynamic. WD / Red vinyl. £150 SOLD The Styles. Baby you’re alive. Modern Demo. £75 Volcanos. Storm warning Arctic WD. £50 SOLD Alex Brown. What would you do. Ex. Tangerine WD £75 Harold Hutton. Lucky boy. Checker WD £80 Gene Chandler. I’m just a fool for you. U.K. Stateside Demo. £75.

A mammoth and very thought provoking undertaking from my man, and a super useful additional perspective to the existing and typical ‘Top 500 / Value-based compilations. A list like this will always be subjective, always be fluid coz demand fluctuates over time, and always be open to suggested omissions and inclusions, but I think it pretty much nails it. Every time I thought of something I thought should be on there I went thru the list again and would generally find it, so for me, give or take, the list is as close as you could get. I think the thing to appreciate is that if you asked 100 key collectors to compile this list, each list would be different, but perhaps not hugely; I think this would represent the core of most collectors lists, so for me it absolutely hits the spot. So, nice one Butch, and good on ya for takin the time, and having the patience, energy and enthusiasm to do it; I take my hat off to you; rather you than me lol. This list shows you clearly didn’t have enough D.I.Y, gardening, repairing, filing, sorting to do during lockdown, lol. Can’t fault ya; Lockdown time well spent; well done.