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Also on Saborian and the Los LP. Great track, must surely be big on the dancefloors one day. Jordi

Have you got a soundclip of this version Steve. I've got the red label version, how does it differ? Jordi

There was a thread on this a good while back. I seem to remember the consensus of opinion was that it was probably the Jones' recorded by Glen Dorsey in the late 70's or 80's, but not put out till a fair bit later. Great record but dreadful sound quality. But it's the only way of having it. Jordi

I haven't heard of this Chalky, although I have "I'll Never Say No" on DC, it contains the line 'He's an angel' (at least I think it does, it's a while since I played it), wonder if it's the same track, different title. BTW, if anyone wants to offer me a decent trade or a decent amount of cash, then mine is available. Jordi

Cracking little tune! Got mine on German Decca. Jordi

Helena, I've got one he can have. I'll get in touch with him tonight. Jordi

If anyone is interested in tuning in, me and Gary Holyman will be spinning a selection of great, good and darn right nasty 60's and 70's tracks on the Andy Vaas soul show. 855AM freq. We're on from 6.00 pm till 8.00 pm. Jordi

Nice brass work on it, but the bass is too busy. I'll stick with the orig all day long I think. Jordi

A mate of mine wants this, is it UK Picadilly or Pye? Cheers. Jordi

Adam Leaver had a copy for sale on his latest list on here. Nobody has mentioned the the awesome crossover flip. cheers Rod. Jordi

I tried to buy this a couple of times but I kept getting a red message from ebay saying there were no shipping details so I couldn't proceed. Jordi

What did this go for on Ebay? I've been playing this one for a few years and always said it sounded like it should be worth more than it was. If the Ultimates goes for the kind of money that it does, then this should be up there as well. Pick it up cheap while you can, there's so many 70's like this. Jordi

Got the kid's to bed, at last! Time for a fag and a bottle of Heineken export in peace. I think if you're going to try and 'do' old music, then do it right. As has been said Nicole Willis (and others such as Sharon King, Zven Zettesburg etc) have done it with credibility. They have used old sounding production techniques and real instrumentation. It can be expensive to hire in session musicians to do brass and string sections but if the tune needs it then pull out the stops and do it. There's nothing worse than a parping synth brass section, and nothing better than a real one. We all like the old underproduced sound with a soulfull vocal on top, it's what got me into this music, who's to say it wouldn't get youngsters into it now. Even Amy Wino uses real deal instruments and how good does that sound? I'm sure Levine must have contacts within the musician world as well as the vocalist world to be able to put together some credible backing tracks that weren't reliant on computer generated sub Stock Aitken and Waterman dated cack. It would do his vocalists justice, and a good song would be able to stand up for itself, without argument. If he can't do this, for whatever reason, then he ought to go full on and do proper modern soul using the latest studio techniques, with his great vocalists. But he will still need to use a good producer who will stay away from trying to reproduce old sounds on new technology. I don't know how shrinking Northern soul is, but I bet fake, taylormade, computer backing tracks don't help. If I was young I would be wanting an antidote to all of that, and some gritty soul played by real musicians would be the perfect antidote to all that Indie shite that the youngsters think they're into. Jordi

Hey Pete, I'm not being nasty here or showing hatred and venom. I respect Levine for a lot, not least his ability to always use top notch vocalists on his tracks, but he tries to do everything himself. He needs to be able to hand over certain aspects of the job to people that are more expert than him. I'm gonna put me kids to bed and I'll come back and say what I mean in a bit.

That's not a good reason Pete. If he had used a half decent cameraman/director he could have shot it in Bobby Sheen's bog and given the tapes to a decent editor who would have been able to come up with something that was a darn sight less cheesy. Special effects/graphics only cover up crap ideas and production. With a bit of lighting (that any proper cameraman would have)he could have knocked out the background, may be turn the shots black and white, perhaps get some old 60's US city archive scenes running over the top of some of it, it wouldn't have cost any more than the studio time he obviously put into producing the video the way he did. Jordi

I paid £150 a few years ago for mine Jason. Definately the best version IMO, although the Cont Stoppers is a cracker too. Jordi

That Paragons was a bargain for someone. Jordi

I would have thought more than £20 for the 70's version. It used to be around £50 - £60, but it might have come down a bit. Jordi

Top looking set that one Jason going by the ones I know.

There was one for sale at Prestatyn for £2000. Jordi

I think this is dropping back down to about £50 now. Jordi

Can't play 'em mate. Jordi

Aye up Simon, Has that re issue rattled you? Are you going to Soul Shakers on Sat.? Jordi

I'm sure if you weave the subjects of asylum seekers and "the people's princess" lady di into your description of what is Northern soul, it would get on the front page of the mail thus reaching potentially 1000's of little englanders. Can't wait for them all to turn up at a soul do. Jordi