here's something to make you think. i was to young to buy soul packs but i know people who did and some of them only kept the uptempo ones as the stafford beat sound hadn't evolved and threw the resr away. what gems were inadvertantly chucked into landfills and where do i start digging.

here's something to make you think. i was to young to buy soul packs but i know people who did and some of them only kept the uptempo ones as the stafford beat sound hadn't evolved and threw the resr away. what gems were inadvertantly chucked into landfills and where do i start digging.

I BOUGHT LOADS OF SOUL PACKS IN THE 70'S...BRADLEYS IN SHEFFIELD HAD THEM @ 10 FOR £1. THE BEST ONES WERE DEFINITELEY SOUL BOWL. 100 UNPLAYED US DISC FOR £5 INC POST. i HAD SOME CORKERS INC JOSEPH MOORE, CHRIS CERF (WHICH I SOLD TO KEV ROBERTS FOR £30) ,SOUL BROS INC PYRAMID, ABOUT 5 COPIES OF THE ENCHANTERS ON FARO, MARVIN SEASE, DEL REYS INC, PLUS MANY MORE NOT SO RARE..I PACKED IN ALLNITERS IN'78.iI HAD A BOX FULL OF 45'S I'D COLLECTED AS UNKNOWNS , I SOLD 'EM CHEAP..SHUDDER TO THINK WHAT WAS IN THERE...

I BOUGHT LOADS OF SOUL PACKS IN THE 70'S...BRADLEYS IN SHEFFIELD HAD THEM @ 10 FOR £1. THE BEST ONES WERE DEFINITELEY SOUL BOWL. 100 UNPLAYED US DISC FOR £5 INC POST. i HAD SOME CORKERS INC JOSEPH MOORE, CHRIS CERF (WHICH I SOLD TO KEV ROBERTS FOR £30) ,SOUL BROS INC PYRAMID, ABOUT 5 COPIES OF THE ENCHANTERS ON FARO, MARVIN SEASE, DEL REYS INC, PLUS MANY MORE NOT SO RARE..I PACKED IN ALLNITERS IN'78.iI HAD A BOX FULL OF 45'S I'D COLLECTED AS UNKNOWNS , I SOLD 'EM CHEAP..SHUDDER TO THINK WHAT WAS IN THERE...

I remember that around the late 70s when I had an office in Wakefield, I had a guy from the north-east (who is still around so I won't mention his name) he was/is a big Chicago collector. His wife used to get me to put together a '100 Chicago soul pack' for him for 3 or 4 Christmas's in a row - and I basically used to chuck in all the odds and ends that I'd had sitting on the shelf on little labels that I'd had on my fortnightly list about 10 times and hadn't sold.

I do remember things on Monique, for instance going in there. Of course, I've long forgotten what most of them were, lots of little-label stuff - I shudder to think really - but nobody wanted them at the time, and Santa Claus made him happy.

The other good ones were the '100 TK 45s' packs ... 100 different 45s from the TK group of labels from Miami. I can imagine the glee when someone got every George McCrae 45 and every KC & the Sunshine Band 45 - but they did also get Jimmy Bo Horne 'I can't speak' and lots of other very nice stuff on the rarer TK labels ....

I think that when they got them most people played through, kept the Northern and junked the rest... a few enlightened ones stuffed them up in the loft and forgot about them for 30 years....

Talking of starting digging - there's a story about a guy in the US having a large house built and wanting some sloping gardens to surround it - he went to a distributor and bought millions of cut-outs which he used as the base for the slopes, then covered it with soil and lawned it all .........

here's something to make you think. i was to young to buy soul packs but i know people who did and some of them only kept the uptempo ones as the stafford beat sound hadn't evolved and threw the resr away. what gems were inadvertantly chucked into landfills and where do i start digging.

Went to Frank Heap,s 50th last night, and Soul Packs became a big talking point.

Frank was the youngest of our group and we all got lots of Soul Packs in the 70s.

There was a factory wall at the top of our street and the worst ones got smashed on it.

There was quite a pile back than, but they had to be bad to end there.

All the floaters etc were saved this fate, and alot all my own were sold in the 80s.

The rest of my ex soul pack stuff I sold to Tim in the 90s

P.S. There were five collecters in my street back than, and yes between us we had some great records from soul packs.

a bloke i used to know about 1974/5 used to buy loads of soul packs. up until the 80,s me and a few mates used to be in contact with him and got some great stuff off him for swaps for jazz funk things, however for some reason he got very paranoid and refused to even recognise anyone. last time i bumped into him he said he still had about 10000 records and was not going to sell any of them or let us lot look at them as we might rip him off, i can remember he used to like golden world records and was trying to get the whole run, he does not go to northern do,s and the places hes goes to i would not like to frequent.

Talking of starting digging - there's a story about a guy in the US having a large house built and wanting some sloping gardens to surround it - he went to a distributor and bought millions of cut-outs which he used as the base for the slopes, then covered it with soil and lawned it all .......

Thinking about this further - I recall when Bostock's in Bradford used to bring in 45s by the 100,000 load - the ones they couldn't sell on the market stall or wholesale, they used to sell to local fairground operators as targets for rifle shoots....... then there were the 100,000s that ship operators used to buy to put into the ships as ballast...... then when there was the last oil crisis in the 70s (?) there were the millions that were recycled cos it was cheaper doing that and using 2nd hand vinyl than buying oil for new vinyl...

Of course, they weren't all soul 45s - but given the quantites that were pressed back then, you can bet that a good percentage of them were .....

I bought several Soul packs (various sizes) from Blues & Soul (10 Stax import for £1.80? in 1971) and Oldies Unlimited.

I haven't got rid of any of the records.