macca

I agreee with you. The point I was trying to make was that stuff like Reflections, Dalton Boys etc rub me up the wrong way and that artists like Dean Parrish and Johnny Maestro don't 'cos to me they sound black. There are artists of course that are black that sound (to my ears) white, almost croonerish. Gene McDaniels for example.

Johnny Maestro 'I'm Stepping Out Of The Picture' as an ender is fabulous. Southside Johnny stole him blind.

As far away as possible. Seriously though, I like to distinguish between a record made by a white artist aimed at a black audience (Dean Parrish) with an evidently black vocal and stuff like Gary Lewis. I was listening to a thing by the Dalton Boys on one of those 'an intro to NS' cds the other day. It had the beat but the vocal was gross .I find the same with the Reflections stuff on ABC and Golden World. It just rubs me up the wrong way, but if folks like it, then fair play. Choices and rights etc...

Cheers. That's me sorted then.

FLORA WILSON AND THE SOULVATION ARMY BAND - DANCING ON A DAYDREAM. Would like to locate a clean copy of this please. See PeteS and NeilR had copies for sale earlier in the year. Muchas gracias amigos. M

You may very well have opened a can of worms, good sir...

Sorted chaps, thanks very much.

Looking for a clean original of this tune, gentlemen. Postage to Spain. Muchas gracias in advance. M

Now that was an excellent read indeed. Many thanks!

Not a nice start to the weekend. So many milestone tracks under his belt at Motown, a man who has certainly left his mark on all of us. RIP Frank.

Or Edu Movin' On... ;-)

The comment about Ginger being an oldies only DJ in 1977 is laughable. I heard him playing the Isley Brothers, Livin' In The Life, a new release and more in keeping with what was going down in the Mecca that year, which would have sounded most incongruous alongside Chubby Checker, The Superiors, or even alongside undeniable 77 "newies" like Paula Durante, Florence Devore etc. Perhaps he felt that St. Ives was a more open-minded venue and gave flight to his imagination accordingly. I also remember hearing the Betty Boo instrumental at that venue, which, as others have pointed out, closed in November 77. By the time the Fleet opened its doors June 78, Betty Boo was a floor filler and I remember dancing to it there too. I'm with Martyn and Pete on this one.

Glad to see the fires of discontent are being stoked already. Stick a bunch of NS folk in a room and it'll soon turn into the Council of Trent.

Billy Byrd

Bloody stereotypical leaden existence factory fodder references again. A lot of us were penpushers, you know.

Kidneys poached lightly in Jerez vinegar are divine. Don't you just love this scene? Emails like this coming out of the blue, and someone's wish is about to come true. Bloody marvellous.

I'm gone?

Search off. Thanks for the replies.

Looking for a mintish copy of this, either label will do. Cheers, M

I thought the main objection to these guides is down to the fact that for years many US sellers were simply unaware of the prices rare soul records could command over here. this has affected both the individual who's just after a bargain for his collection and the individual who buys records to sell on to other collectors. I think with the advent of internet in the late 90s, people were already placing wants lists online, some, foolishly, with prices that they were prepared to pay for certain sounds, right?

Did anyone see Dean Parrish I'm On My Way sell on Ebay for $255.00! Thirteen people bid for the record. I thought this booked for only 50 or 60 quid, and in M condition. On the other hand a nice looking copy of Gwen & Ray went for only $224.00 with 7 bids. Both records were in America.

Love Taj, he played in our local square as part of a Jazz festival a couple years back. Lots of calypso type stuff, loud hawaiin shirt, fedora, shades. I was in the second row shouting for A Lot Of Love and got it, though I guess he'd have played it anyway. I was chuffed.

True. I bought The Natchl Blues off Manship, and the 7" (hairline crack nap) at Notts Palais in 1978. Talk about obsessed.

It used to annoy me when djs cut out the horns at the end of manifesto and that guitar 'freak out' in the middle of 'a lot of love' by taj mahal. All or nothing!!

c'mon grant, typical SS? there's no other way the thread could go, is there? it would be pretty sterile if we all just mentioned our top 5 all-time turkeys with no corresponding discussion as to their merits or faults. nobody's attacking anybody for finding a particular record naff. neither is anybody donning the black cap. preferences are like colours, there's lots of different shades. I once heard a mate dismiss lenny curtis as midtempo crap. I reserve(d) the right to remain incredulous on that one, but think none the worse of him for his 'crime'...