Amsterdam Russ

There is a rap/hip hop mix, but we don't have to talk about that here. Each to their own, of course. Am still looking to find an answer - did this brilliant track get a vinyl release???

Amsterdam Soul Club is on Saturday night at the Badcuyp... https://www.badcuyp.nl/contact/adres-en-route/

Got it in one, Paul

Here's a link to the Record Mania website. Nice pics of the shop... https://www.recordmania.nl/location-opening-hours/

There's also Record Mania on Ferdinand Bolstraat. More LP's than 45s and another shop that knows its prices. There is a strange mix of flea market and organic market on the Noordermarkt and a small number of stalls usually have boxes of records. Very hit and miss though, but normally cheap. More like a car boot sale in some ways. There is a 2nd hand record shop on one of the side streets between the Noordermarkt organic/flea market and the food market on Lindengracht, but for the life of me, I can't remember what street it's on or what it's called. Could take you there on a bike no problem though!

Ok, so Wu-Tang Clan / RZA probably isn't in most people's music boxes here, and it's not something anyone would normally associate with 'soul'. However... Since I first heard "Walking through the darkness" by Tekitha Washington (and with its "Across 110th Street" sample), I've wanted to get a copy on 7 or 12 inch. It features on the RZA-produced album 'Ghost Dog', which is inspired by the cool, cool 1999 film with Forrest Whittaker as the modern-day samurai/assassin. I've never been able to confirm whether the track had anything other than the CD/ digital release. Anyone know?

Without knowing the hypotheses being examined the survey seems rather naive. Regardless, good luck with your study. It would be nice to be able to read the paper that comes out of your research once it's completed.

Found an interesting interview with Barbara Harris here: https://www.sundazed.com/scene/exclusives/toys_exclusive.html In it Barbara recollects that... It's very possible then that "I got a man" was originally intended to be released as a 45, and prior to "Lover's concerto".

Sorry to disappoint... It's the version by The Toys, but the disc credits only Barbara Harris. The flip is the standard take of Lover's Concerto, but again credited only to Barbara.

Too right - especially after it took 6 weeks to arrive!

And then there's this...

Pint of John Smiths for the lot?

Bo Diddley - Soul Train The Manhattans - Soul Train The Four Hi's - The Train (Leaving for misery)

George Gently takes on the Northern Soul scene. What a combination. How will the redoubtable and inscrutable Inspector Gently cope in a scene that offers only cover-up after cover-up? Would love to be involved in anything to do with what is one of the best period cop/crime dramas in recent years. Is 47 too old to be a bit part player? One question though, how did the evolutionaries of today's Northern Soul scene dance in the late 60s?

And there we have the definitive answer. Thanks, Chalky.

Now sorted... thanks!

Show off...

Ah, had my eye on that one as well. Think this was the first item I'd tried used a snipe on - and set it up wrong!

Nice, clean vinyl and labels on both sides, please. Preferably EX condition - Geneva or Terry. PM's preferred... Thanks!

Thanks for that, Steve. Am now heading to Wants to add a new post this very instant...

Heard this for the first time in what must be donkey's years just recently and couldn't believe what a great tune it was. Also couldn't believe I'd forgotten all about it. If I remember correctly, it used to get played quite a bit at the 100 Club, late 80s (I think). Title of the thread says it all - which was issued first, the Geneva or Terry issues, and is there any difference in rarity between the two?

My yellow label copy of Walk away is hiss free. Curiously, I could swear that the first copy I had of Happy/Callin' had surface noise toward the end - a swoosh at a certain part of the rotation that carried on into the runout grooves, but I played it the other day for the first time in ages and there was no noise whatsoever. I thought perhaps I'd mixed the two copies up, but no, both are clean. I can only put it down to differences in stylus/weight and tracking as that last time I played it would have been on a different turntable.

Yup... you're not alone in this...

No reason to doubt it. I bet that if I were to use other cleaning methods post-glue treatment, I could improve them further. And if I cleaned them again after that, they'd be cleaner still... It's not a competition - or is that what you're looking for? As far as I'm concerned, the glue treatment is just one of a variety of methods that can be used to clean records. Sometimes I use glue, sometimes I don't. Everyone has their own preferred methods for restoring records depending on the nature of the problem. I'm happy to give anything a try and have even attempted Pete's Smith's technique of ironing warped 45s (I think it was Pete who mentioned this on here some months back). Can't say that was successful, but maybe I didn't strike whilst the iron was hot enough! The next thing I want to try is putting warped records inbetween two sheets of glass and baking them. Anyway, I'm wandering off topic... It's great that you've given the glue method a try and it's been a lot of fun reading. Cheers!

Well, that's a real shame. The results I've had with PVA/wood glue have been very impressive overall and I'll continue to use it. Also, not getting glue on the labels or on the other side of the record is childsplay as far as I'm concerned. Maybe I've just had more practice. Perhaps the glue we have over here is just that much better for this purpose than the glue you have over there, regardless of their apparent similarities. Wood glue should be wood glue, but based on your poor results, something somewhere is certainly different.