Not got all the way through this yet but thought it might be of interest to some. Mentions of Mr Godin/ Soul City (nice bags btw), John Anderson/ Soul Bowl, Peckings etc in the first 10 minutes!  

 

There's a book to accompany the documentary too:

https://2funkyarts.co.uk/portfolio/the-record-store/

 

Edited March 18Mar 18 by Biggordy

I've got (& read) the book, but was waiting for this big time.

Watched it last night after seeing it mentioned on Facebook as now being available.

Essential viewing, as was (is) "The Last Pirates" all about UK pirate radio and available on BBC iPlayer.

Love stuff like this........big up to Vijay and the 2Funky boys and Schooly for his hard work in putting it all together.

 

Cheers,

Mark R

Agreed, wonderful to see something like this on Youtube as the majority of record collecting/buying videos on there aren't that long and are usually focused on aging rockers looking for rare 70s prog albums and things like that. 

It's a fabulous insight into black music/record shops genres from the early days. My first experience was Ralphs in Manchester but by the time I got there all the good stuff had been hoovered up by the big guns in town. I had to settle for the odd Golden World/Rictic/Motown single. Ralphs may have sold other stuff I can't remember. But for me it was Soul record shop.

Great documentary, really strong tale of how influential black music has been on culture in the UK, and behind that, the essential place of record shops and nowadays, record sellers.

Not watched it all yet so don't know if they do get a mention ..... But surely for UK soul 45 record buyers the likes of F L Moores and Contempo were the main players after Soul City went under but before Soul Bowl moved down from Glasgow.

Ahead of the likes of Soul City being around, getting hold of US soul 45's was down to buying direct from the US (Ray Averys and Randys + discount warehouses -- if you could manage to get added to the list of folk who were sent their lists) ... OR .... bidding on auction lists you asked to be sent through the post from UK sellers (how they got hold of the many US soul 45's that were on their lists I never found out).

And after Soul Bowl became a big player, the likes of Oldies Unlimited was a rival of sorts (although the quantity of rare label stuff they had was much smaller). 

For anyone who's managed to watch it all, do the likes F L Moores & Oldies Unlimited get a mention?

Edited March 20Mar 20 by Roburt

Great documentary. 

Surprised Rita & Bennys R&B Discs didn't get a mention .

 

Fabulous! Really enjoyed that. Happy memories of going to Expansion to buy something specific and leaving with half a dozen that Dean had talked me into.

Just watched it, a really enjoyable documentary and I'm sure most on here can relate to spending most of our Adult Lives doing just that, thankfully we still have the excellent King Bee Records in sunny Chorlton Cum Hardy and Les is still turning up the odd thing or three, well worth a visit!!! 

4 hours ago, Micksmix said:

Just watched it, a really enjoyable documentary and I'm sure most on here can relate to spending most of our Adult Lives doing just that, thankfully we still have the excellent King Bee Records in sunny Chorlton Cum Hardy and Les is still turning up the odd thing or three, well worth a visit!!! 

Great to hear Les is still going in Chorlton after all these years. It must be 20 odd years since I last visited his shop. Picked up some nice stuff over the years at extremely good prices too. He used to keep a box behind the counter with the slightly better stuff in but you had to ask for it. 

I used to go to Summit in B'ham allot, Frenchie who was in this programme, was a real gent, really nice guy, and one of the original members of the Constructive Trio.. Don Christie's was a place to go as well, for early House imports, and reggae of course.  good programme...

9 hours ago, Mal C said:

I used to go to Summit in B'ham allot, Frenchie who was in this programme, was a real gent, really nice guy, and one of the original members of the Constructive Trio.. Don Christie's was a place to go as well, for early House imports, and reggae of course.  good programme...

Regular visitor to both 👌

 

Cheers,

Mark R