Simon T

I was thinking of what would be the last record out of the door when the bailiffs arrive and decided it would probably be Jackie Wilson ? I've lost you I then thought of records I wouldn't give shelf space to even if given, just a polite "thank you" and straight to eBay! In this case it would be a joint tie between Ray Agee ? I'm losing again & Joanne Courcey = I've got the power Does anyone else have any wouldn't live with / can't live without tunes?

"Pork Pie & Oven Chip Auction, mad prices, or just supply and demand?" I posted this about a UK auction and prices fetched, but didn't say it was John Manship's !!!

Is Micky your parner or the lovely little dog in the picture? Talking of Northern Soul Canines, can any one else remember Keb Darge taking his dog to the Fleet niters (around 1986 or was that just one chemical too many?!!!)

At the time Alan sold it, he told me it went for £8000. 8k or 10k it's a lot of dosh!!! I trust Mr B has a safe deposit box somewhere!

I think most of us have romantic image of artist spending their last few dollars to record their future Northern hit, only to fail to become a star. At the weekend, I was taking to a friend who knows the writer of "I don't like to lose? that gives a slightly different perspective on things. Bill Tuthill wrote it to inspire people (no, he hasn't got any copies!) I'd be interested in what people think of the record (lyrics), has it affected you or inspired you in any way & what are your memories of it I used to play it after occasions, such as crap days at work, and picture myself 'walking right over' the boss! So it inspired me, if only to physical violence and revenge!!

I think what he means is that, if you were to put the record between your thumb and finger and pull them across from the inside to the out of the record, you will feel it tapper off i.e at the "bevel run in groove." Many records made in the late eighties / early ninities have a kind of "lip" at the run in groove; if you take a pressing from around that time (Magnetics, Dennis Edwards, Jock Mitchel, etc) and do the same at above, you will feel a little bump just before your finger come off the record. If my memeory serves me right, the Gelnda McCloud was 're-issued' legally i.e. the label owner was approached and agreed to press up some more copies. However, becasue the re-issues greatly out number the original press, most people like myself, have a re-issue which is taken as, and being sold as the original press.

Just in case there's anyone out there reading this and wondering why some of us are wetting our pants over the Mello Souls! (Sorry, there are drop outs' as I don't want to pee anybody off. Don't download it if that's going to annoy you) I can't find the tape but I think it was around 1986 when I first heard the "Delarks - Just You & I" being played out some where groovy like The Drill Hall in Lincoln!

How about JImmy Ruffin's "Don't feel sorry for me" on Miracle? Not bad for a 43 year old record!

Leaving aside EVERTHING by the "Sax-God" Andrew 'Mike' Terry, the Mello soul is the ultimate, I have to agree!!!

I'm sure it's the New Yorkers (but time , not tears)

Bless her

Damm, the server will not accept my lovely picture of Ila Van , sorry

One of this lass's must be up there as one of the worst......... "Can't help loving" the picture though!!

Is anyone playing the new male vocal to Young Blood Smith or hasn't emerged yet? If not, watch out for it, it's pretty fab!!!

Was it an 'Andy Free' zone? What happened to Mr Dyson & Rix?

The Exits? Do I win a copy of that Futures record? No ..never mind! Just out of interest, is the green or yellow label the original issue?

If you are going to put a bid on it, make sure it plays through OK. I brought back 3 copies from the US around 1988 and when I got home to make a furtune, I found that they all jumped big time in exactly the same spot, just before "woman" in the first corus. However, this does not explain it's rarety really as it's not the plug side. anorak bit: It was released in July 1976. Written and produced by Jesus Alvarez who's "sonner or later" on Ploydor is well worth picking up.

No, the lyrics came straight from the horse's mouth; Damon is one of many "Northern Soul" artists I have squatting in my house (head)! Bless him, if he forgets his medication, he start singing that bloody song and trying to knick off with one of my suitcases down to the train station! They all sing, all day long, hoping I'll take them to Cleethorpes or Prestatyn one day........ Form the kitchen I can presently hear; "Why do you always sigh when I say goodbye? (yeah, yeah, yeah) When you know we can make (Let me hear you brother) That hurt who can deny? Yeah, yeah, yeah (Now let me hear you brother now let me hear my soul brother yeah, yeah, yeah) Now love makes me suffer You and I asking why? We can make it my darling, yes Just you and I .........." Those Mello Soul boys are always in there 'Del Larking' about and scoffing oven chips and gravy!

Sing along with Damon, it's not that bad is it?! Oooh baby, I'm packing up Leaving this town Oh the blues got me down Since my baby's spreading news around About this new love that she's found I've got my bags waiting at the station I've already made my reservation I can't show my hurt, might lose my reputation Now quite hanging round, making conversation I'm packing up, I've gotto leave, another town, yeah Oh baby, I'm packing up, leaving this town Lonely blues, got me down Since my baby's spreading news around About the new love that's she's found I've got my bags waiting at the station Cuz see this is a bad situation That's why my bags are down at the station Well see this bad situation I'm packing up, I've got leave, another town, yeah Oh baby, oh baby Oh baby Oh, I've got go, I can't take it I can't let you know, I can't take it I can't let you know, I'm gone baby Bye, bye, baby Bye, bye baby Bye, bye baby Bye baby

Perhaps he's a cross between Northern & Gansta Rap? NWA were 'Straight Outa Compton' & Leigh's 'Direct From Wigan' (I've already got my coat on!)

Soul Joe Clemens - Ever, Ever - Plexium Dennis (O) Dell - Beter use your head - CBS (Honeycombs -Have I the right, lead singer?) Kenny Bernard - Pity my feet - CBS Flamma Sherman - Where can he be - SNB Lorraine Silver - Lost summer love - Pye Sue Lynn - Don't pity me - RCA Gayle Cunninham - Pick up the phone - 80's S**T rare from Cornwall!

Last one

Sorry, I'll get the hang of things soon!

Just to let you see what we "missed" at Prestatyn. Masquaders, Masqueraders or Masked Raders (?). Maybe next year?

Nigel Parker bought the original acetate of Tim Brown around the turn of the nineties (when Martin Coppell was selling stuff) for about $650, if I remember right (plus Magnetics @ £2000, Danny Moore @ £750!!). The acetate's 'wax' is very thin and was begining to break up a bit. Nigel would let anyone have a tape of the acetate at first (except me) , but finally let Carl and Spena have an EMI disc. I think Gary then did a few tapes for people who since have cut acetates. Unless Carl has sold it in the last few weeks, he still has the original acetate.