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Thanks for that Pete. Hopefully i won't have too much of a problem shifting my good stuff then ? Not that it should matter but it will be nice to see them go to a ' good home ' when i decide to part with them.

We all know how sceptical and fickle people can be when in a ' don't know someone situation '. Buyers obviously like to have a certain amount of trust in the seller, and feel sure the product they are buying is genuine. We all know how many ' boots ' are passed off as originals. So, if one were to have a very nice batch of quality rare 45's, all worth in excess of 1000 pounds and all in near mint condition would they be purchased by fellow members on this forum if the seller was not say, a regular participant in the ' sales ' section ?? I am interested simply as i may be selling some of my big ticket stuff later this year. Things like Pat Lewis, Sillhouettes, Al Williams, Betty Wilson, Masqueraders, Ree Flores, Honeybees, Al gardner. I haven't been a regular seller on here but a lot of members know me personally and i was the person who discovered the Nolan Chance on Bunky ( not that it would make a difference i feel sure ). It's a topic that other people must surely have had thoughts about ? Your very positive comments would help to put my mind at rest. Thanks in advance, Tony T Bone. OZ.

Thanks for that Swifty.

Very funny Russell but don't give up your day job mate lol. Ever thought of a job as a comedian at a HOLIDAY camp ?? Thanks again, Tony.

Rather like this version of Your love keeps drawing me closer ( also done by the Chandlers ). Any genuine ideeas on awht it would go for ?? I would really like a very nice copy. Thanks for looking, Tony. OZ.

Thanks for that Russell. Don't suppose it's worth asking for my money back from the seller then eh ??

Yes thats the track that is on the side labelled THE KID. Any reason why ??

here are the label scans for the Andre Brasseur The Kid 45 I have received... is this a mis-press or boot Any help please Regards Tony

I have just received a copy of Andre Brasseur ' The Kid ' ( well it is supposed to be ) with Early Bird Satellite on the other side. Label is CNR and it has a picture sleeve. The red label has a date of 1977 ref number 144.587. The Kid side A is not the correct tune and i cannot identify what is on the disc. Anyone know if any of these were mispressed or wrongly labelled ? Any info appreciated. Thanks in advance, Tony. OZ,

Hi Guy's, anyone please help with a nice original of this instrumental. Prefer at least EX condition and original only. It's not rare or expensive so must be in sales boxes. Please p m me with condition and price sent to a U.K. address. Thanks in advance. Tony. OZ.

Am still hopeful someone has a nice copy on Piccadilly for sale. Must be a few in sales boxes. Please p.m. me with condition and price. I would prefer one in at least EX condition or VG ++ as a last resort. Thanks in advance, Tony T Bone.. OZ.

Hi Guy's, and yet another J.J. and V. want please if anyone can assist. ain't love good ain't love proud on the pink Piccadilly label. Prefer one in at least EX condition. P.M. me with a price if you have one. Thanks in advance, Tony. OZ.

Thanks for the offers guy's, i now have this one sorted. Tony.

I am still wanting a very nice copy of ' Whatever happened to the love we knew '' on the Pye label if anyone can please help. It's not rare and i know there must be heaps of them in sales boxes so c'mon guy's. p.m. if you have one.Thanks in advance, Tony. OZ.

Hi Nige, will do mate, looking forward to it with a passion. Lets have a beer eh ?? A.T.B. Tony.

Hi guy's, Would anyone be able to help with a nice copy of this old Mecca play please ? A p.m. with condition and price would be appreciated. I think it came out on the Pye label ?? Thanks in advance, Tony. OZ.

Right the latest on this is...I have spoken to the guy several times over the last few weeks and lo and behold he HAS now agreed to let me go through the rest of the boxes that are stored at his place to see if there is anything more i am interested in. He reckons there are about the same number of records to sort through as were at his shop ( around 4000 ). No idea whats in them but it will be a pleasure to have a sift through, maybe next weekend. I will let you all know what i find. Tony T Bone. OZ.

If only Kev. When i said ' garage ' what i meant was ' his shed '. Trouble is a shed here in OZ ain't like your garden shed there ie 10 x 8 feet. It's gonna be more like 30 x 20 metres or nearly the size of a barn. He would more than likely use it to store excess stock ready to put into the shop. I haven't seen it but i can imagine it being that BIG. Heaven only knows where the other boxes are located and under / behind how much rubbish. I just have to hope he will call me one day and ask ' are you still interested in having a sticky beak at them old records? ' It will be worth the 3 hour drive just to sit there and have a sort through them, although i won't be going all excited as he might smell a rat.

Have asked him several times but seems he is more concerned about selling second hand furniture than a few ' old jukebox records ' for 7 bucks each !!

Nice one Steve...if only mate !

Thanks mate. Just got to wonder at what went to landfill. Apparently there were tons of ' unwanted ' brand new records. Time to get the shovel out me thinks !

Let's put it this way Kris. He was a happy chappy cos we took some of ' them old juke box thingy's '. Didn't have to buy him a car or anything tho'. Don't book your flight cos we have been through every second hand store for a 500 kilometre radius. Wonder if there's a Frank Wilson in those boxes at his house eh ?? We may never know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the story you have all been waiting for since the record sold in John Manships auction a few weeks ago. It all started about 6 years ago when i met a lady through my then used car business. We got talking about the soul nights i ran with my lovely wife Sue and collecting and playing records. She was intrigued at the fact we still played vinyl in this c.d and laptop age and told me how her sister used to work for a record distributor here in Fremantle that closed down in the mid 70's. Her sister was responsible for all the promo discs arriving in W.A. before deciding whether or not they were an appropriate to get released in Australia. Bearing in mind that Austalian music tastes in those day's revolved around the heavy metal type sounds, very few ' soul records ' got distributed in any geat quantities. Yes there are several soul records on ' Aussie labels ' but they tended to be the more mainstream stuff. The conversation got very interesting when she told me about all the thousands of records that went to second hand / op shops after the closure of the company ( op stands for oppurtunity here ), same as charity shops in the U.K. Salvation Army et al. A lot also went to landfill. I then started to scour every second hand and op shop in and around the Perth area in the hope i would find some of this old forgotten stock. Obviously after some 30 plus years i was continually met with ' sorry we don't have any of those small records, only l.p's. The 45's some of the shops had were just 70's and 80's chart stuff that people had found in garage / house clearouts. I kept going and alway's said to Sue ' you never know there might be a Frank Wilson somewhere '. We can only hope! It was about 3 months ago whilst in a ' country town ' here in Western Australia i visited a second hand shop. They had everything from furnture, brika brak, clothing to car parts. When i asked the guy in the shop if he had any records, his instant reply was ' what you mean them old juke box things ' ? Nobody wants them anymore. There are a load of boxes out the back that have sat there for years, you can have a look through if they are any good to you. Once i had clerared a space of old furniture i found a dozen or so boxes, each containing about 500 records, some in sleeves and loads without sleeves just squashed together. They had most probably sat there untouched for the last 30 odd years as the boxes were taped up. Sue and i got to work sorting through them box by box. ( Does this sound familiar to some of you ? ). First promo that came out was a mint copy of Dena Barnes on Inferno. Sue then found a promo of Lou Ragland, Judy Street on Strider and our pulses were by then RACING to say the least. Next box contained some Motown stuff and a few Reggae tunes plus some quite obscure U.S labels and a few Aussie and New Zealand soul records. All in near mint condition. I then picked out the Nolan Chance, pulled it out of it's sleeve and to my amazement saw it was in mint, unplayed condition. It was hard to contain the excitement ! Crikey this is a BUNKY and i know of only one other copy that possibly Richard Searling had ! We continued searching and eventually ended up with about 50 records, most mint and a few that were out of sleeves and needed a good clean. There were stacks of 60's and 70's stuff that we left that were just too scratched to worry about. I had a chat with the shop owner about how he got the records and he said he couldn't recall where he got them from, only that they had been in the back of his store since about 1980 and he had another few thousand stored in his garage at home. This was probably some of the stock that i was told about some 6 years before.Unfortunately i couldn't persuade him to allow me to go and have a look through them but left him my number incase he ever decide to dig them out.I have spoken to him since and it seemed like he really couldn't be arsed. ' there's no money in them anymore '. Blimey if only he knew. Anyway we struck up a deal for the 50 records we did find and came away happy to say the least. I knew how rare the Nolan Chance was and to find an unplayed copy is the stuff of fairytales. That as they say is ' THE STRANGE WORLD OF NORTHERN SOUL ' Tony T Bone. OZ.

SORTED THIS ONE NOW THANKS GUY'S.

Ady, The Nolan Chance on Bunky you refer to was defo not the one you had. I can confirm the one on J.M auction was an unplayed mint copy found here in Perth, W.A. and had never seen the light of day until he got his hands on it. Tony. OZ.