Guest TONY ROUNCE Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 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... TONE Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Julianb Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Hi Tone yep, remember Geoff - everything he had was 35p - he didn't have a telephone at the time so I used to send him a telegram stating ' money in post, don't sell anything yet!' Got some great stuff - Dalton Boys, Marlena Shaw, Bobby Freeman etc etc. This was at the time when I was spending at least an hour a day on the phone to Ian Levine checking what new sounds he was going to 'break' at the Mecca that weekend. Happy days!! I thought his dad was a diplomat in Washington and Geoff visited him regularly and brought the stuff back with him. Julian Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Keithw Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 what happened to Richard Shaw--- used to live in Congleton,had a shed in his garden with his records in,got loads of great bits outa there had some bother with someone who firebombed the shed,wiped out all his records bar a few moved to Warrington,still selling records said about 6 years ago,will send you a list never heard from him again also steve chadwick harry dennett says he still sees him,but were good mates,used to go to Griffin and all over with him does anyone see him..would like to be in touch again also Kev Thomas still has some of my records from 2 & half years etc,said he would get them back to me Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Keithw Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 what happened to Richard Shaw--- used to live in Congleton,had a shed in his garden with his records in,got loads of great bits outa there had some bother with someone who firebombed the shed,wiped out all his records bar a few moved to Warrington,still selling records said about 6 years ago,will send you a list never heard from him again also steve chadwick harry dennett says he still sees him,but were good mates,used to go to Griffin and all over with him does anyone see him..would like to be in touch again also Kev Thomas still has some of my records from 2 & half years etc,said he would get them back to me bump Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Ady Potts Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 what happened to Richard Shaw--- used to live in Congleton,had a shed in his garden with his records in,got loads of great bits outa there had some bother with someone who firebombed the shed,wiped out all his records bar a few moved to Warrington,still selling records said about 6 years ago,will send you a list never heard from him again Hi Keith, I was only thinking about him the other day when I was chucking out some old lists & found one of his old hand written ones. Got some great records off him. Like you say he just disappeared about 6 or 7 years ago. I dont know if you noticed but he was huffing & puffing a bit on the phone, well at least he was the last time I talked to him. hope he's o.k. Ady. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Keithw Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Hi Keith, I was only thinking about him the other day when I was chucking out some old lists & found one of his old hand written ones. Got some great records off him. Like you say he just disappeared about 6 or 7 years ago. I dont know if you noticed but he was huffing & puffing a bit on the phone, well at least he was the last time I talked to him. hope he's o.k. Ady.hi adey yeah he had accident years ago that left him in a struggle to walk but he managed for the time i knew him ok so it wasnt anything to do with that Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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