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Blues&Soul - 39£

Tiffanies - 164£

Sam Nesbit - 565£

Cindy Scott w/ Persianettes - 580£

 

 

Moments - 1660£

Dolly Gilmore - 666£

 

Mellow Madness - 3136£

Antoinette - 146£

 

Not many comments recently but still essential viewing on a Wednesday evening. I don't really follow current prices so don't know if John's recent sales are the going rate but I thought I'd relate a story about the Bits'N Pieces - Keep On Running Away record. 

John remembers it as a Cleethorpes spin but I consider it a Blackpool Mecca Ian Levine spin that got loads of plays from other DJs after Ian pushed it. When Ian and Colin did the mid-week Blue Room at Sale I used to really annoy Ian by looking at the records as he played them and writing the label and number in a little notebook. Some of the ones that were very popular and only a few years old I used to add them to the orders we sent at Global Records to a place in the US that would order from the smaller labels and ship them to the UK for us. It didn't always work as some titles must have been deleted or all the stock had sold. However, quite often a month or so after posting the order ( no email, fax and not even a telex machine) a shipment would arrive that to my surprise would include something I'd taken a chance on. The best was The Carstairs on Red Coach but not far behind was Bits'N Pieces. I don't remember exactly how many we got but probably 1000. Also I'd added a few hundred of The Brothers, Sisters and Cousins- Smoke Screen record also on Nasco that was played at the same time. To use John's terminology the records were mint, unplayed never having any excessive DJ play , not only still in birth sleeve but in their birth 25 count box and packed in birth 200 count shipping box, showing only slight creasing to a few corners. Delivered direct from maternity department at Nashboro. 

Unlike Soul Bowl, Record Corner and Selecta Disc, Global mainly sold to other shops so the customers who knew their stuff were phoned with a list of new arrivals. Anyone around at the time might remember seeing the records for sale at their local shop, the usual price would be around £1.30 to £1.50.  Bits'N Pieces sold quickly with some follow up re-orders, Brothers Sisters and Cousins didn't sell as well and was still in stock months after. Other importers must have ordered from Nashboro and it looks like it was re-pressed but not with the coloured band around "Nasco". 

John got £614 for the copy this week , which must be down to demand and no extra copies turning up in the last decades. The 1000+ copies that were in the UK from the seventies must still be around so maybe more copies will be up for sale soon. I like the record but for £614 I'd rather have the Soul Twins or The Artistics plus nearly £200 change.