Alan Walls

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Add another to Falling Box Lid Syndrome: Kenny Wells - Isn't It Just A Shame. And yes, it fcking was, a clean crack from edge to label. Sturdy piece of card taped over crack on the flip allowed it to play ok, albeit with a 'click' through te first few seconds.

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What's the story with the Marvin Gaye/Love Starved Heart? I thought that was unreleased?

What's the story with the Marvin Gaye/Love Starved Heart? I thought that was unreleased?

I used to close my spots with it, as a young feller when I first started playing out. Bought it off Ivor Allen's list for a couple of quid on the strength of his hype of 'Burning Touch of Love' - not bad but indeed inferior compared to TYB.

Or the sight of Guy Hennigan at the front of the stage pounding his fists and shouting "For God's sake Jock, UP THE TEMPO"

If that's not Keb then it's a dedicated copy cat.

Steve and I used to submit the occasional Top 5 Plays from the Glenrothes YM niters to Echoes. One time - 'phet fuelled mischieviousness, it must be said - we invented a tune in the hope of luring some bugger into claiming they used to have it. Sadly, no one took the bait and pretended they knew Oscar Montenegro - You Fooled A Fool (Burning Beak) but a couple of lads did ask about it at the next niter...

Being a wee bit out of touch, I'll use the unofficial defination of 'Crossover' that seemed to prevail when the term first emerged, ie Late 60's Recordings Which Sound A Bit Like 70's And Vice Versa': The Composers - Let's Get To The Point (Complex 3) Delegates of Soul - Running Back (Uplook) Soul Brothers Incorporated - Pyramid (Golden Eye) Dave, Stafford... The Whispers - Flying High (Soul Clock) The Philharmonics - I Need, I Need Your Love (Soulin) Always was a sucker for male group harmonies...

It's always struck me as odd that there should be so many versions of an obscure song. Hits get covered all the time, but what was it about this song that encouraged so many artists & label owners to incur the expense of recording, pressing, distributing etc? I'm assuming no versions were even local hits.

I found what's left of my old niter bag last night and as soon as I saw the patch I remembered thinking at the time the white bit in the middle of the heart was a loose thread which I shouldn't touch in case the whole thing unravelled! [url="https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r250/imcathypete/Emoticons/doh.gif&imgrefurl=https://media.photobucket.com/image/doh%2520emoticons/imcathypete/Emoticons/doh.gif%3Fo%3D8&h=46&w=41&sz=2&tbnid=QDgvs-uHP_q69M:&tbnh=46&tbnw=41&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddoh!%2Bemoticon%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=doh!+emoticon&usg=__bWMiArO6H_LIfuwuK5jF472oyG0=&sa=X&ei=uUO5Te6VCI2o8QPMhthR&ved=0CDYQ9QEwCg"]

I have (maybe had) that patch but don't think it had the silhouette of Tommy Hunt on it. Am I just imaginaing things again? cracking avatar, by the way

Who played it at Allanton?

That's my memory of The Albanians story, and got it straight from the horse's mouth - I stormed up on stage at Stafford the first time Guy played it! Guy's c/u's are worthy of a thread in it's own right!

Cheers Ady. I suppose I can imagine a big voiced Italian-American belting it out in Ceasar's Palace, now you mention it!

Does it strike anyone else as odd that such an uncommercial recording could turn up on so many labels? I love it but I couldn't imagine it crossing over into hit territory.

Brilliant! I wonder how much of that $600 fee trickled down to the band?

Yes! I had a burger and chips at Stafford during Eddie Holman's PA. I have no idea what possessed me to order food - I was totally out my head - and had never done that before or since. I finished the thing, too. That was pretty surreal!

Barely a week goes by without someone drawing attention to a bizarrely high bid in a JM or Ebay auction, invariably followed by posters exclaiming their amazement. Thing is, we never hear from the actual buyers - are they too embarrassed to 'fess up? Is there a hardcore of buffoons with too much money to spend, paying over the odds as a matter of course?Are these buyers one-time high rollers, who just really wanted Record X and didn't give toss how much it cost, or do they slope off to lick their wounds once they realise they are the people whom folk on here are laughing at/cursing? Does anyone actualy know a serial high bidder? Too weird!

You do trades, Mate? Ah'll give thee 3 Barrs bottles, original pair of 501's (28" waist ) an' ah fishtank. Done? You 'ave bin! Chehs!

Ah, that's what it was? I had the idea in my head it was The Intrigues - Scotchman's Rock on Yew. It didn't go down well at all. The 'joke' was lost on most due to them being so off their heads. Others found the Butch's sudden conversion from a serious, solem 'record man' into a fun loving jolly japester a wee bit hard to take in. "He wouldnae have pulled a stunt like that doon there" (with "there" being England), as someone who shall remain nameless observed! A load of po faced of nonsense, of course - it wasn't as if we weren't fond of the old high jinks, capers and malarkeys ourselves!

What's the going rate for this lovely tune?

Alan likes this!

It was on an outstanding tape Ion made for me in...ooooh...'84? 85? Absolutely lovely record, only heard it played out once and that was by Ion at his & Guy's Soultown niter in Blackburn a few years later.