Harry Crosby

As a lad back in the seveties when i first started on the long road of record collecting, i used to love to see boxes of british stuff, lovely sight sets of stateside demo`s, would like to start a thread on the history of this side of collecting, never had many british things myself, at one time it was the way to collect, and british releases were far more desirable than the american side of things, the few questions i`d like to ask are-Are british records apart from the ones wrote and released only over here considered re-issues, Are labels like GRAPEVINE, DESTINY, INFERNO, considered as british collectables,-wich are the holy grail of BRITISH COLLECTING we all know the american counterparts but would lik to know what these records are, Is the british collecting scene still as healthy today as it was if not more,-As in the states do we feel there is still more british records to be found and would that music fit into todays mainly american music scene, just thought this might be an intresting thread CHEERS HARRY

I was told some ten years ago that the states were dry! look at the amount of big ticket records that are turning up on sales list auctions on a disturbingly regular basis

I started a thread about this a couple of months ago as i`d been involved in quite a few conversations on this subject, the outcome to that thread was, different inks used in the sixties that are no longer available, types of plastics used, and different papers used for labels, ive been under the impression this is happening for a while now, if some of the finest art from the 16th, 17th century can be forged and fool the experts, why not records? we live in the age of super technology, and i suppose as long as the market isn`t flooded all at once, it could be a very lucrative buisness, with the price of some of the records today

Fantastic post my friend applause all round,and welcome to soulsource, keep things like this coming love this sort of stuff

just a tad i`d say

I have the lp STEALING HOME much longer version if i remember rightly

TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!!

Thanks pete, as i say i was under that impression, but was told this on the sales section thread, thanks for clearing that up REGARDS HARRY

DOUBLE WOW! roger as you`ll probably have noticed in my previous topics ive allways been intrested and collected black issues, but never heard of this one, apparantly mick smith owned a copy, its a first for me don`t know about you? as with you i`d love to see a scan of this ANYONE

WOW!!!!! Apologies for that was under the impression it onlt came out on BLUE

Been following a thread on sales section with intrest about this on blue issue, a question was raised as to wether it was a blue or black issue? to wich i replied it only came out on BLUE, was then told that it did indeed come out on black issue WOW!!!!! never heard of that before, any info on this

It is a very small world carol, now ive looked at those pictures, if thats you with paul murphy, then i remember YOU i used to hang around with the bradford crowd, vernon great friend of mine had a good chat with him at skegness weekender last year and used to see him quite regular when i used to go to brighouse regularly, was and still am friends with derek pearson, george sharp. & mick, do you remember a girl called FRANKIE from redcar, also a lad called JAFFA from up here as well, VERY SMALL WORLD

Not that i`m aware of GREAT track though deffo wants playing more BRILLIANT,infact the whole lp is good

Didn`t winfield parker release a lot of stuff on RU-JAC? strange unless the blanks came from RU-JAC as you say all the arctic stuff i have has the virtue mark i think, got me looking now

Wasn`t judy freeman-hold on supposed to be a protest song, and the FREE ANGELA DAVIES LP

Allways remember a good mate of mine dancing with his arm in plaster n smashing this guys watch who was dancing next to him

BRILLIANT RECORD!!!! ONE OF MY WANTS TOO

This will be the BLUE ISSUE, didn`t come out on a black issue

Great record tailor made for todays dancers imho

very well said indeed from someone who`s legs won`t work after one record, anybody seen steve martin trying to dance to his black families music, IN THE JERK!!!THATS ME

Yeh as i said earlier i`m not a dancer, and just used to watch in amazement, allready mentioned paul murphy[bradford], have to disagree with vernon though great spinner but his footwork had a lot to be desired only an opinion though each to there own

Theres a lass called LESLEY from sunderland, lives with kev joss from newton aycliffe now, she`s a fantastic dancer, and from what i understand has been for many years having won many dancing competitions,great dancer

Thanks guys, its one of the wifes favourites so looks like i`ll be blowing the dust off the wallet AGAIN!!!

REALISTIC VALUE, PLEASE, FOR THIS GREAT RECORD

pm`d you parliaments mate