asked a question on the recent jd bryant thread about who discovered it and i think it was tedsoul who replied and said it was kev roberts, which then got me wondering who discovered records like larry clinton,don gardner and and other big tunes like these

5 hours ago, Sheldonsoul said:

The place in Telford was it oldies unlimited?

Yes it was OLDIES UNLIMITED. The thing to do was to get the owner to lock you in the Old Chapel for the day, so that you could go thru all the remains of their old 45 stock. It was a pity when the place shut up shop.

20 hours ago, Roburt said:

Yes it was OLDIES UNLIMITED. The thing to do was to get the owner to lock you in the Old Chapel for the day, so that you could go thru all the remains of their old 45 stock. It was a pity when the place shut up shop.

Was the much stuff found there 🤔

10 hours ago, Sheldonsoul said:

Was the much stuff found there 🤔

There was but you had to be lucky enough to visit at the right time & get access to the 'back stock'.

We've had tales on here of Shrine 45's being found there (I was never THAT lucky). But the Oldies team (working in the ex working mans club building) would be seated at tables with boxes of import 45's strewn about in front of them. They'd pick 1 single from each box till they had say 10 or 100 soul 45's & make that up into a package to sell. When there was just oddments from each box left in the middle, those would all be pushed into a big pile & taken away. New boxes would replace those remnants & the whole process would start over. Those 'remnants' would then be dumped in the old chapel for future use. The thing was, new stuff (all nicely boxed up in 10 / 20 single packs) would arrive weekly, so they very rarely got around to sorting out the old remnants. When we'd get into the chapel (a lock-in session) we'd just wade thru the huge piles & find allsorts that Oldies had received up to a few years earlier. Lots of TK label stuff was the more modern but as you found the older piles there'd be Detroit / Chicago / LA label items. Most Motown 45's would be picked out by the Oldies team as soon as they received them (to sell as individual priced 45's) but you could find obscure artist Motown label stuff dumped in the chapel piles.  It was very much 'hit or miss' though.

ANOTHER decent place to get well priced stuff from (in the early 70's), was B&S / Contempo. Being from Yorkshire, I never actually got to their Hanway St shop but always ordered stuff via B&S ads or from the Contempo club record catalogues ...   . 

Edited November 15, 20231 yr by Roburt

If I'd known about Way Out stuff (from Cleveland) back in 1971, I'd have bought a copy of this un ... it seems that it's not a 45 that's around in quantity ... it's by James McCants & his family

Edited November 15, 20231 yr by Roburt

Back in the late 60's, I followed what was released by the likes of Motown, Stax, Amy /Mala /Bell & many other labels in the hope of discovering a new fave track. I also (as stated above) would bid low on unknown stuff on those labels and a good few others (ABC, Audio Arts, Original Sound, etc). I'd bid on unknown tracks by groups I'd got 45 by or had heard on other songs that I already liked.

JUST WISH I'd also looked who was writing / producing songs on a more regular basis too. Anything with Alan Toussaint's name associated with it was always worth bidding on IMO in the 60's. Wish I'd done the same with the likes of Sandy Linzer, who I knew from stuff like "What's Wrong With Me Baby", "Pushin A Good Thing Too Far" and more. If I'd followed what she was up to more closely back then, I might have been aware that she ran the Oliver label. 

I few years later, after I'd cottoned on, I did buy Soupy Sales HMV 45 "The Mouse" but she's done a lot better than that.

Edited November 17, 20231 yr by Roburt

Regarding F L Moore's in Leighton Buzzard. I remember them clearing out all their old stock around 82/83. I wasn't very knowledgeable back then so have no idea what I missed out on!!! I think Gav Page got more from them as he had a proper job back then, I was only on a YTS scheme. I do remember the bloke who owned it had a really bad wig.

On 08/12/2009 at 08:13, Guest jkw said:

Steve 'Brad' Bradley and Barrie Waddington are my choices.. ..

Really old thread this. But does anyone whose still on the site know if Steve Bradley, named here was the Steve from Boston (0riginally)

Thanks.

Peter

🙂

Edited April 15, 20241 yr by Peter99
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Anyone remember the soul import shop in Lincoln  near the cathedral . I went there a few times  early 1983 when i was based at RAF Swinderby.

I do recall the Contempo catalogue and some of the first records I bought were a a result of perusing its pages.

In late '71 I sent off for Please Let Me In and The way You Been Acing Lately, both listed for 70p, but was told they'd gone. I did manage to get Check Yourself (Intruders) and Oh, I've Been Blessed. ( 35p each)

Flaming Embers' vocal version of Let's Have a Love In, and Shades Down (Detroit Emeralds) also were cheap and available. In fact, I don't recall anything being more than 75p. There were hundreds of records listed, all mint, unplayed, copies but my knowledge was limited as was my budget, and so a potential Aladdin's cave remained largely undisturbed, at least by me.

I was told that Alan S, who worked for British Rail in the early 70s, took advantage of his free travel pass to frequent the Hanway Street shop on a regular basis and picked up some of his big ticket items from there.

22 hours ago, Peter99 said:

Really old thread this. But does anyone whose still on the site know if Steve Bradley, named here was the Steve from Boston (0riginally)

Thanks.

Peter

🙂

No it isn’t. Brad is from Colne Lancashire.