Anyone else here visit this Paris record shop OR buy from them.
They were always a great place to get hold of those French EP's from Motown, Atlantic and more. I visited around 1989 / 90 when on a vacation in Paris.
Got a few of my wants too -- the Stevie Wonder EP that contains "Love A Go Go" and an Atlantic one that featured "Stupidity" -- Solomon Burke + a few more (can't remember what the others were as it was 35 years ago). The guy that ran the store (Daniel Delorme) was a helpful fella. He brought out a book about the French 'soul' EP releases, featuring the picture covers of most of them. When I was at the shop, I spent all my money on vinyl, so didn't get a copy of the book. I've since rectified that situation. As he deemed me a good customer & obviously had gathered I was a Brit, he gave me a supply of the posters he'd had printed up to promote the book.
I had 5 or 6 of these posters & added one copy in to the raffle prizes I put together for a CURTIS MAYFIELD FUND raffle I ran at one of the Cleggy Weekenders (with Ady's permission). BUT Ady saw what I had as raffle prizes & knew ROGER 'Co-operative' BANKs wanted the book, so he took the poster and gave it to Banksy.
Anyway, I'll get to the point, I know I have the rest of these posters somewhere here (in the loft most probably) ... BUT as I used to work in a drawing office & could print off huge 'soul related' posters myself (I used to decorate the SOUL BARN private parties staged by the Ward's in Ravenfield, Rotherham). These events ran for many years & I printed up 'poster's for each new one. So the loft is full of them (some as big as 6 ft by 4ft), so finding the stash of USA Record posters amongst that lot ain't gonna be easy.
Anyone else here got a copy of that poster & can post it up here ?
Anyone else here visit this Paris record shop OR buy from them.
They were always a great place to get hold of those French EP's from Motown, Atlantic and more. I visited around 1989 / 90 when on a vacation in Paris.
Got a few of my wants too -- the Stevie Wonder EP that contains "Love A Go Go" and an Atlantic one that featured "Stupidity" -- Solomon Burke + a few more (can't remember what the others were as it was 35 years ago). The guy that ran the store (Daniel Delorme) was a helpful fella. He brought out a book about the French 'soul' EP releases, featuring the picture covers of most of them. When I was at the shop, I spent all my money on vinyl, so didn't get a copy of the book. I've since rectified that situation. As he deemed me a good customer & obviously had gathered I was a Brit, he gave me a supply of the posters he'd had printed up to promote the book.
I had 5 or 6 of these posters & added one copy in to the raffle prizes I put together for a CURTIS MAYFIELD FUND raffle I ran at one of the Cleggy Weekenders (with Ady's permission). BUT Ady saw what I had as raffle prizes & knew ROGER 'Co-operative' BANKs wanted the book, so he took the poster and gave it to Banksy.
Anyway, I'll get to the point, I know I have the rest of these posters somewhere here (in the loft most probably) ... BUT as I used to work in a drawing office & could print off huge 'soul related' posters myself (I used to decorate the SOUL BARN private parties staged by the Ward's in Ravenfield, Rotherham). These events ran for many years & I printed up 'poster's for each new one. So the loft is full of them (some as big as 6 ft by 4ft), so finding the stash of USA Record posters amongst that lot ain't gonna be easy.
Anyone else here got a copy of that poster & can post it up here ?