The thread about Richard Selwood - that I inadvertently turned into one about Richard Scanes - on "All About The Soul", got me thinking about those other pioneers of the soul record list who used to advertise in the back of Record Mirror and the like.
One of the first people who I used to buy imports off in any quantity was Geoff Killick, who lived off Maida Vale and who had some sort of deal with a US jukebox distributor, so most of what he had was major label stuff - but at a time when imports were the exception rather than the rule, he was a handy bloke to know.
I haven't seen Geoff since about 1972 and I have often wondered, in recent years, whatever became of him. Is he still collecting? Is he still alive, even? Anyone seen him since the early 70s?
I also used to buy a lot, in the early days, from Mike Cowley (who went on to become a partnet in the Collectors Records Shops in my neck of the woods) and Cliff Clifford (who vanished off the soul map). I drove past Cliff's (or maybe it was Mike's) old house in Chiswick on my way into the office today, and that's what really prompted this "where are they now" tome.
John Thorpe was another who put out good lists back then. John, of course, IS still around, and making a nusiance of himself and is still into his music, which for the past 30 years has been more or less exclusively country.
Discounting the obvious ones like John Anderson, I wonder if any of you have any memories of guys in more Northern or Midland parts of the country who used to put out regular lists and who seemingly just vanished off the face of the earth after a few years of doing so...
The thread about Richard Selwood - that I inadvertently turned into one about Richard Scanes - on "All About The Soul", got me thinking about those other pioneers of the soul record list who used to advertise in the back of Record Mirror and the like.
One of the first people who I used to buy imports off in any quantity was Geoff Killick, who lived off Maida Vale and who had some sort of deal with a US jukebox distributor, so most of what he had was major label stuff - but at a time when imports were the exception rather than the rule, he was a handy bloke to know.
I haven't seen Geoff since about 1972 and I have often wondered, in recent years, whatever became of him. Is he still collecting? Is he still alive, even? Anyone seen him since the early 70s?
I also used to buy a lot, in the early days, from Mike Cowley (who went on to become a partnet in the Collectors Records Shops in my neck of the woods) and Cliff Clifford (who vanished off the soul map). I drove past Cliff's (or maybe it was Mike's) old house in Chiswick on my way into the office today, and that's what really prompted this "where are they now" tome.
John Thorpe was another who put out good lists back then. John, of course, IS still around, and making a nusiance of himself
and is still into his music, which for the past 30 years has been more or less exclusively country.
Discounting the obvious ones like John Anderson, I wonder if any of you have any memories of guys in more Northern or Midland parts of the country who used to put out regular lists and who seemingly just vanished off the face of the earth after a few years of doing so...
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