This Fine record from Wigan Casino days, is for auction at the moment on ebay and going for strong money. Item 351142499733

 

I was a little bit sad to see she had autographed it with these words - TO VIKKI MY ONE AND ONLY FAN, JUDY HUGHES

 

She made this great record and it looks like only one person cared at the time!  Frustrating when I think of all those pop people earning millions for making trash!

 

At least the Northern Soul scene rescued it from obscurity!

 

 

"I am sure there either  has been huge quantity of this record been dumped ages ago already or there is still quantity of this tune lurking somewhere waiting to be found.. "

 

Hopefully all been dumped and with good reason!!!! 

Regardless of whether it's a good record or even if it's northern etc... I don't think we should be surprised it wasn't widely received at the time. She was producing this when The Moody Blues were releasing Go Now and The Yardbirds - For Your Love and Marvin Gaye - How Sweet it is, etc...

I think we forget that the quality of most releases in the pop charts at that time was a million miles ahead of this record.

Really? Finding a few examples of good tracks doesnt really make that argument hold. America, more than the uk, is flooded with terrible, inept or simple flawed 45s that sold huge quantities....what about national hits like Louie louie, 96 tears, the jerk or wooly bully? A million miles ahead of this, really?

and they're the ones that have survived in our collective conciousness, what about the ones that haven't, like herman's hermits ' I'm henry the 8th I am'.

you're saying, basically, that there is a corellation between success and quality, which isn't only wrong, it's offensive to all poor selling records.

no one has said that it might have been a no 1 worldwide, just that it is too good and mainstream sounding to have been such a drastic flop. Especially when you consider the left field or awful records that are relatively common.

And I prefer it to all of the three hits you mentioned, so in what way are they miles ahead?

are you saying that by studying music my whole life my taste has ended up less refined, somehow, than that of the hit buying masses of the mid 60s?]

Edited August 19, 201410 yr by pow wow mik

Not even a patch on other pop monsters like Vivian Carol.

 

Ouch! It romps past the Vivian Carol with it's dreadful dance-orientated lyric! As similar as they are in some ways, I find OYYY more in the swinging 60's Mod sounding genre, than Northern. That's one vote each then

 big records seem to be priced in increments of £500,

 

How very true...good observation...seems so long ago now that the norm was £50 jumps!

makes u wonder somehow, 1.  if a artist gets some air time on television surely she must have had some kinda name already (all the other artists were established and widely known acts of the time) plus 2.  the company will have had already made sure  that there will be enough copies at distributors and shops to meet demand created by the telly appearance. it sure wasnt released in any of the so often quoted 250, 500 copies only runs...  

 

I am sure there either  has been huge quantity of this record been dumped ages ago already or there is still quantity of this tune lurking somewhere waiting to be found..  

 

Good questions, Marc...plus chuck into the arena that there doesn't seem to be any label-demos for it, when everything else on the label seemed to have demo'd.

 

Judy Hughes was also an aspiring actress and was featured in various B.Movies...so maybe the label thought they had a dead cert because of that...or was it her acting breaks throughs that made her want the disc shelved or not have time to promote...or did Vault simply press up a few finished copies to be given away at the cinemas/PA's? Maybe we'll never know, but I for one have sweet memories of it echoing around the walls of the Casino.

 

-ps Has anyone ever seen a proper demo for it?

Good questions, Marc...plus chuck into the arena that there doesn't seem to be any label-demos for it, when everything else on the label seemed to have demo'd.

 

Judy Hughes was also an aspiring actress and was featured in various B.Movies...so maybe the label thought they had a dead cert because of that...or was it her acting breaks throughs that made her want the disc shelved or not have time to promote...or did Vault simply press up a few finished copies to be given away at the cinemas/PA's? Maybe we'll never know, but I for one have sweet memories of it echoing around the walls of the Casino.

 

-ps Has anyone ever seen a proper demo for it?

No, there's no demo to this one. There might be other Vault records who didn't have a demo issue as well. The label is a bit all over the place music wise and in time with gaps to verify that. I've found no discography of the label for instance. But this just made me wonder once again about as to why other labels didn't had at times runs with promos 45 like some Capitol, RCA, Wand... where there specific reasons or was it due because they ran out of promo labels or what ? Does anyone knows ?