Hi chaps.How about some stories/sound bites of your best "blind" buys.?

Fire away.

stevie wonder - suspicion / ray charles - compared to what

stevie wonder - suspicion / ray charles - compared to what

:lol:

aint no big thing-van mc coy on rockway-top vocals

Best would have to be Mickie Champion, when it was still covered up as Jodi Williams at the Mecca.

Worst would be Ben Zine.

stevie wonder - suspicion / ray charles - compared to what

pmsl that tickled me

"Gone But Not Forgotten" - Johnny Robinson - Okeh mint demo.

Bought it way back in the 70's because I thought it was another version of Cissy Stone!!

Edited January 11, 201213 yr by Perception

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Edited February 25, 201213 yr by allnightandy

Martha Star - Love Is The Only Solution/I'm Lonely (Thelma).

Had never heard either side but already had 'No Part Time Love For Me', which I loved, and so just chanced it.

It was upstairs at John Manship's Tracks Records in Melton - 1979 I think.

Cost me 8 quid though

Cheers

Richard

Edited January 11, 201213 yr by Premium Stuff

Southern Trumpets - Good News on Better records is probably mine.

bought karmello brooks " tell me baby " - from guy @ Congleton all -nighter that johnny beggs ran

asked him for anything mid-tempo that i might like -- -- -- -- result

also paid 1-40 for an issue of "fireman" vala regan from a pop seller on e bay - well it did start @ 1-00

he had listed for b side and as i only knew the one release ,i took a gamble

not been that lucky since

Edited January 11, 201213 yr by keithw

stevie wonder - suspicion / ray charles - compared to what

:lol: :lol:

Think It Over and be Sure ~ Liz Verdi ~ Columbia demo... I was in thrift town 5 years ago and they had a few 45's by all the Mantovani albums, something about her name and the song title made me buy it. Sold it to a belgian gentleman later as I decided it was too pretty and poppy for my crowd!

also found the Quintessents on Vibra records with almost the whole label cover in another water damaged label, howver on the corner it said "...in Oakland , CA" seemed like a good bet

Edited January 12, 201213 yr by Preems

The remaining 45s from this store in Wisconsin after in closed in 2004..... some very good blind buys in amongst it.

I also thought a certain US Armed Forces radio station library had to be good & it was.

Edited January 12, 201213 yr by Kris Holmes

talmadge armstrong +escotts "baby i'm lost" spindletop £10 off dave raistrick list back in late 80s

flairs + statistics band "i want you" south town £10 from an allniter about the same time

margie hendricks "one room paradise" mercury $5 david shutt whilst guy "h" still had it covered late 80s

lorriane rudolph " keep coming back" jetstream £2.50 soul bowl late 80s whilst still covered by guy "h"

ella woods "i need your love" soul merging £2.50 soul bowl late 80s......last two i part knew info about them so suppose they don't count

cheers

franc

Edited January 12, 201213 yr by cobbles

Lenny Curtis "Nothing Can Help You Now" End 10p

Ronnie & Robyn "As Long As You Love Me I'll Stay" Sidra 10p

Both Bradford Market in the early to mid 70's......

Ian D

Huns Review - Don't Make Me Love You - Sorro....car boot sale in the 1980's ..10p, thought it looked 'Northern' so took a chance (lol!). Sold it to a mate for £60 then decided I needed it again and got a minter for £50.

Majestees - Take back All Those Things (Mutt) ...Soul Bowl £30, bought it 'cos it was Detroit...lovely!

Delegates Of Soul - I'll Come Running Back (Up Look) ....Soul Bowl £30 'cos Andy Davies recommended it, I took it home, played it and was disappointed!!! I didn't really like it. Traded it for £60 of other tunes....realise now I made a mistake and I love it...doh!

marcus daniel on plaza on the stregth of his monkey town 45 which I already had.

very pleased when it arrived 2 great uptempo fame recordings.

I was the only bidder as well so got it very cheap.

Lenny Curtis "Nothing Can Help You Now" End 10p Ronnie & Robyn "As Long As You Love Me I'll Stay" Sidra 10p Both Bradford Market in the early to mid 70's...... Ian D

I bought Sidra's theme in a basement for 50 cents because, it LOOKED COOL! Looks were not deceiving

...'Hangin me up' Jonny Dunn- Veep issue..£1.50 casino 1974..cos i'd seen it listed as played at VA-VA's..one i managed to keep...

When I first started work in 1987after leaving college a bloke there used to get a blues list.

He said might be some soul on it.

Got the Jades Lucky fellow on mode for 50p. Only knew the Jades on nitelife so thought might be soul. They also had Jimmy Robbins on british but that had gone for £1.50.

Cheers

Phil

Phil... You jammy bugger, you never told me that story.. On my top ten wants is that, has been for years. Ian Cunliffe offered me a copy on a buy now pay later and I left it with him cos I felt hard faced taking it... Too shy in them days...

Ok you are all going to hate me, but as i am sat in a bar on my own in New York Listening to crap disco mix of "everasting love" I couldn't resist.

My best blind buy was "I can see clearly now" Johnny Nash....... Let the hate begin!!!

Edited February 25, 201213 yr by jim g

Most of my tunes are blind buys well they sound like it anyway lol.

"Gone But Not Forgotten" - Johnny Robinson - Okeh mint demo.

Bought it way back in the 70's because I thought it was another version of Cissy Stone!!

Me too i bought mine at the Casino for £0.50p just because it was an OKEH demo

and that is what i had decided to collect along with Mirwood and RicTic Demo's

others that i bought at the casino for between 50p and £1.50 max

Tangeers , Seven Souls ,Cheers and many many more

I used to get them home play them didn't like them , and stick them away in the loft

Lenny Curtis "Nothing Can Help You Now" End 10p

Ronnie & Robyn "As Long As You Love Me I'll Stay" Sidra 10p

Both Bradford Market in the early to mid 70's......

Ian D

If you'd like to Double your money PM me LoL

I think the best blind buy for me goes to my sister who at 10 year of age in the late 70s bought for me a set of 12 records from a school sale. They came in a brown bag and had no covers and contained the following (you'll see a mixed set):

Ann Sidney - The Boy In The Woolly Sweater (His Master's Voice - POP 1411)

Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get a Message to You (Polydor- 56273)

Calvin Arnold - Funky Way / Snatchin' Back (MGM - 1378)

The Chartbuster - Why (Doncha be My Girl (London HLU 9934)

The Exception - Gaberdine Saturday Night Street Walker (CBS 2830)

Garnet Mimms - As Long As I Have You (United Artists - UP1186)

The Gods - come on down to my boat baby (Polydor 56168)

Heinz - You Were There (Decca - F.11831)

The Invitations, - What's Wrong With Me Baby? (Stateside - SS 478)

Kenny Lynch - what am I to You ( HMV POP 1321)

The McKinleys, - Give Him My Love (EMI Columbia - DB 7583)

The Paramounts, - I'm The One Who Loves You (Parlophone - R 5155)

Nearly all were Demonstration Records, and the reason I can list them easily is I still have them. Thanks Sis.

Edited February 25, 201213 yr by p0stscript

Hi chaps.How about some stories/sound bites of your best "blind" buys.?

Fire away.

HI ALL My answer to this question, makes me feel old, as to-days soul scene collectors are aware of a few thousand records, even the most rare of rare records, are available to listen to on your PC & there are sites just like Soul Source where info is shared freely?

However when I started looking for rare soul in the early 70s the info was not shared so freely and when it was it come as part of a deal. I would spend hours going through records in warehouses lock up second hand junk shops, looking at record labels writers publishers being blind was a big part of the scene, This is why I moan about people whose collections are just made of £150 records and higher, OK for those who started when I did, but to have a collection that was acquired just with cash surly is not the same as the early scene, however i suppose if i had loads of spare cash to spend, I cant deny that I would buy my own top tunes that i need?

Also if you think about it look at the records from 72-75 how many were by white artists, just take a look at the top 20 CBS UK RELEASES and you get the picture, these records were all bought blind originally and were huge for there sound, as it fitted in with the northern soul tag, however SHANE MARTIN is still a great NORTHERN SOUL SPIN DAVE

Linda Lloyd - Breakaway £20 frm R Domar late 80's

Inspirations - Your Wish Is My Command - unplayed minter off of Greame Ellis around 82' ish. Never knew it but was told it was a steal at £7.00!! so i brought it...........any good??

Phil... You jammy bugger, you never told me that story.. On my top ten wants is that, has been for years. Ian Cunliffe offered me a copy on a buy now pay later and I left it with him cos I felt hard faced taking it... Too shy in them days...

Bonjour Julie

Hope you well. Not sure where my copy ended up - if the one Ian had had a slight mark on lable then that is my old copy or Alex might have mine. Can't remember! DOH!

Take it easy and say hello to Dave.

Cheers

Phil

ps another one was £18 for Hytones bigger and better at a record fair in MCR. Cost me bit more to buy one back a wee while ago. Bet gonna cost me a bit to get a jades back now too! Regret selling some bits over the years but they paid for other bits.

I just sold my Hytones to Ian.. I hated letting it go but are skint so needs must.. Still got The Ivories you brought me back from the states.. That is going nowhere.. Tim Ashibende took The Jades off Ian in the end cos he hadn't heard back from me.. Hope you are good too mate.. Much love and respect as always.. J xxxx

Edited February 25, 201213 yr by Mrs M

On one of Richard Domar's lists c.84-86, he described a particular 45 as a being a "Catacombs secret sound". I'd only discovered Northern Soul a couple of years earlier and had no idea what that actually meant. But, it sounded exciting and so I bought it for probably £3 or £4, which was about my spending limit back then. The record was Harvey Averne Dozen - Never learned to dance.

Best would be Cliff Nobles-My Love is Getting Stronger, thinking it might have been a take on Jason Knight.

Well, I was young........

Worst (of many) picked up one on a lovely R&W Stateside Demo by The Dillards, could have been Moses & Joshua

It wasn't

T

Chubby Checker - You just don't know on British, 10p from Burnley record exchange circa 1972.

stevie wonder - suspicion / ray charles - compared to what

:lol: :lol: Faf !!

More recently (a few years ago) I was rummaging round somebody's sale site in Europe and heard [this] , I thought "that's bloody good" so I bought it for 60 euros. Not blind really but I think I had my ears on.

James Lately-love ,friends & money,early eighties,soul bowl,myself & Pete Thorpe got a copy each for a fiver apiece,bought for tears running & falling

Used to go to a record shop in Chapel Street Market London around 79/81 had loads of boxes of 60s/70s Motown/soul/pop but they used to stock some recent imports (picked up from Moondogs I think) & what didn't sell they used to stick in a box at 10 & 20p.

Herby Brown One more broken heart Blue Ash sounded interesting so home it came with me, wasn't too impressed at the time

these at a boot fair 1984 the quiver george freeman, 10p roy brown saturday night uk london. 10p