Amsterdam Russ

Lots of really good pics coming out. Great!

The one at the rear has quite the expression on his face!

Just to add to Paul's comment... Apparently, so I was told by someone behind the counter at Record Mania in Amsterdam, covering labels heavily in marker pen or writing your name on them was also about protecting your treasured 45s from being stolen by other DJs. Seems competition was absolutely cutthroat on the Dutch/Suriname soul scene back then!

Yups that's always a possibility as is it being an actual female version. Sounded brilliant to me and I was hearing it loud, crisp and clear.

Yup, it's been a calamity, Pete. Just one thing after another and then when the record does arrive it's buggered. Not a happy bunny as you might imagine! Will wait to hear what the seller has to say although to be honest I'm at that stage where I'm inclined to write the transaction off and walk away.

Can't spell "distributed" either...

I bought a record from this seller end of Jan/beginning of Feb and finally got the item at the weekend, some 10 weeks after paying for it. The run-in groove is damaged causing the stylus arm to jump off the disc or to stick. I took a video clip of it this morning and have emailed the seller. https://youtu.be/WVvI8-SCUxQ

Well found! By the looks of things it had no trouble spotting you, Martyn.

I am sorry - to a degree. It's one of my girlfriend's all-time favourite punning punchlines and so I'm conditioned to use it whenever the opportunity may arise. I'll tell Bev that I used it here and she'll be mightily impressed that I somehow snuck it in. Thanks then for feeding me the opportunity to do so

Amen!

The difference between a stoat and a weasel? .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... Weasels are weasily recognisable and stoats are stotally different!

Lessons can help provide the fundamentals. That is the whole point of any lesson. What people do after that - how they develop their own style, ie, their individuality - is entirely down to them.

People have been teaching other people to dance for as long as people have had a desire to shake their thang. Jive, jitterbug, tap, tango, salsa… whatever the dance style, someone's out there teaching others to do the same. I took dance classes in London with my partner some years back. We did Ceroc, which is a mix of jive and salsa. It was good fun, it brought us closer together as a couple, and it means that whenever the opportunity arises, we can get out on the floor and, God forbid, enjoy ourselves! Northern Soul dancing is not sacred. It doesn't require acolytes to be initiated into the elite secrets of 'the scene'. It's a dance. It provides pleasure. That's all. And if someone wants to teach this dance style to others then great. They're doing as much to not only "keep the faith" (whatever that actually means), but also help spread it. Good luck to her and anyone else who wants to do the same.

Please do take something with you to mop up that drool! Absolutely fantastic to have things in our lives that create the drool effect in the first place. It shows not only that we're alive, but that passion runs deep in our souls. Too many people lose that passion as they go through life and find themselves distracted by the sometimes mundanity of daily existence. Keep that flame of passion burning bright! Oh, and please do report back once you've sufficiently recovered.

You're more than welcome. Glad to have been of service

Ninja Google skills

You are right. Here's the intro page for the complete dissertation... https://www.indiana45s.com/garage.htm

And before someone asks, it wasn't this one either...

Exactly the same backing track as far as I could tell, and at the same tempo as Sam Fletcher, and there was nothing odd about the female vocals whatsoever.

Heard this at the Utrecht record fair a couple of years back courtesy of someone on a stall from the UK. Said they had an acetate of it and would get a handful of copies pressed @ £30 a piece for the next fair. Save one for me, said I. Will do, says he. I turned up next time, money in hand, but the guy wasn't there, although the stall was. The guy who owned the stall said that his mate (the one with the acetate) was prone to a bit of BS. So, did he own it or not? I've no idea!

And daily fashion advice for Northern Soulers? That would add some flair.

All music clips now back on YouTube. Thanks for all the comments and interest expressed here. It's appreciated.

Kim Weston - Thrill a moment Sublime.

Ah, of course. I recall the band being there, but seem to have blocked out their playing. Anyway, I hope that Ace/Kent's legal team are on the case. This soulwaxni person appears to be making a nice living out of a whole range of bootlegs. Surely someone on this relatively small scene knows who it is, don't they?

Boot using the audio from the YouTube vid?