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HI ALL As I am skint, I would be happy to swap 2 mint issues of TIM, plus another record if any dealer picks up the DEMO. Also i am going to start a thread of UK stuff that is in my collection, however would you want it in yours??? take a gander from about 4am you will soon get the gist, Also iI think this is an excellent thread, and i appreciate the collectors who have shared some wonderful examples of rare soul, I have tried to put a few of mine in but i don't think i have many more that fall into this category I use to have Moses Smith and the Fuller Bros DEMOS DAVE KIL

HI ALL..YES IT IS KNOWN BUT NEVER PLAYED OUT AS SUCH, I HAVE THIS RECORD, AND IT IS RARE, HOWEVER THERE IS NO DEMAND, IT'S A SHAME AS THIS TYPE OF OBSCURE SOUL WILL NEVER REACH A HIGH PRICE. I WOULD VALUE THE RECORD AT £8 DEMO £5 STOCK. NICE RECORD WELL DONE MATE DAVE

HI ALL... I TAKE PETE'S POINT ABOUT SOME OF THESE SCAN ARE NOT THAT RARE, THE REASON I LIKE THIS THREAD IS,AS I SAID IT'S A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE, OF THE RECORDS THAT I HAD IN MY 1st NORTHERN COLLECTION, I AM NOT SURE IF PETE MET ME AT WIGAN. BUT I FOUND SITTING IN THE BAR SELLING RECORDS, AS ONE OF LIEFS EXPERIENCES, TO SEE AND MEET PEOPLE, AND THEY THANK YOU FOR THE RECORD THEY HAVE BOUGHT, MUST COM PAIR TO THE DANCER WHO COULD DO SPINS AND BACKDROPS, IT'S NORTHERN SOUL AT IT'S BEST.:ph34r:DAVE.

HI ALL.... OI! OI! OI! Something incongruent has happened to the most enjoyable thread... As a primary collector of us & home made R&B, BLUES & SOUL that was released on UK labels...why have they been posted on this thread? as I had assumed that it was to high lite the elusive US Demo that is much harder to locate in comparson to the far cheaper or more easer to locate issue & various label changes... can I suggest that for a while more we keep to the US records. it has been great seeing records that I used to own back in the 1970s, i will post a few more myself later, in particular, the Jive 5 "your a puzzle" UA, the Hesitations "I'm not built that way* KAPP, would love to have them 2 back in my box, I used to have RUBIN, Johnny Caswell, Lada Edmond Jr, Earl Wright Demos, also got some variations on a couple of DEMOS. Also the TIM recored is nice and rare, (I have 2 mint issues)if some one has a UK trade anything sensible considered, In the 70's the rule of thumb when buying Us records was if it was on a pale blue or a yellow label buy it, I think the chances of it being good was 75% light blue & 55% yellow, the came maroon, red. dark blue & green, you cant imagine anybody using that method these days for buying blind. "Gonna cramp your style" Junior Wells is also nice, as again in 75 it was a real rare record £££. As for the rare UK shown, the B side of investigate is great (as you know), the Tamls Toytown G&W DEMO is i think the last hard demo to find? then again TMG 864 may be just a bit more as it's the last G&W I think if not it's the last rare G&W of Merritt, Well done, and if some one has issues or demos of the 2 records let me know, please! great stuff Dave Kenilworth.

HI BRETT... LARRY MARKS VOICE, I WILL SAY POWERFUL, STRONG & SOULFUL SOUTHERN , WITH THE ABILITY TO HIT SWEET HIGH NOTES, NOT FALSETTO, ON THIS RECORD BUT VERY ENJOYABLE, THE FLIP, DEPENDING ON MOOD WOULD BE MY CHOICE, IT'S RHYTHM IS GREAT, MID TEMPO SHUFFLE NATIVE AMERICAN IN IT'S STRUCTURE, SOUNDS LIKE RED INDIANS DANCING ARON'S A TOTEM POLE, IT'S TITLE IS :- EYE TO EYE THE ARRANGER IS THE GREAT HAROLD BATISTE, IT#S ON PALA 175, NOT A CLUE AT WHAT IT'S VALUE IS, BUT I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS RECORD AS A GOOD BUY WITH 2 VERY SOULFUL SONGS, THAT WOULD FIT INTO A PLAY LIST EASY,I RARE IT AS **** BOTH SIDES/ AS TO CROSSOVER AS A DESCRIPTIVE, FROM NOW ON FOR ME IT WILL MEAN, GREAT SOUL FROM MY COLLECTION THAT I WOULD RECOMMEND TO OTHERS, AS RARE GOES, I AM PREPARED TO EAT MY WORDS ON EARLY REMARKS, AS ALTHOUGH ON MY LIST NOTHING MASSIVE, RECORDS LIKE JACKIE GEARINGS ARE DIFFICULT TO GET, BUT WORTH TRACKING DOWN, HOWEVER THERES NOTHING BETTER THAN A WOLVERHAMPTON STOMPERS, KTF AND IF YOU LIKE ANY OF THE RECORDS, SEE BUTCH, TELL HIM I SENT YOU, DAVE

HI ALL, THE BEST PACKS WERE FROM CONTEMPOS! ,AS MOST HAD A FEW MINOR HITS IN THEM, AT LEAST 1 MOTOWN,RECORD IN EVERY BOX, THEY ALSO DID AN EXCELLENT CHESS PACK IT HAD ALL GOODY'S, I HAVE HAD RUBY WINTERS, SANDRA PHILLIPS, JAMES BOUNTY, ALL FROM PACKS, THE BEST PACK WAS ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, FROM NIEL RUSHTON , HIS RIC-TIC PACK 2 DIFFERENT PACKS OF 10, AND ALL MINT DAVE KIL

HI ALL THIS LIST FROM GLOBEL (RICHARD S) ONLY SOLD LEGIT RECORDS, IT IS #2, HAS SOMEONE GOT #1? ANY WAY.£36 GOT YOU 1000 SOUL RECORDS, DAE KIL/

HI ALL MY RECORD ROOM HAS HAD A RARE SOUL POLICY FOR MANY YEARS, I don't no, however the longest bar in Europe, was at LEEDS POLY, fond memories, DAVE

HI ALL...TURN THE CAPS OFF, SO YOU CAN SEE BETTER? THAT'S A TED MASSEY'S, "CATCH PHRASE".... . As you have asked me to, i will oblige, but I don't see how it improves your eyes, I suffer from block eye, and it helps me see better, block eye and Wrigley jaw are the long term effects of all-nighters, the pupils get stuck open wide, you think I jest, As you have asked me to do you a favor, it's your turn to do one for me? yes i will list a few records from my collection of quality soul music, and all you or anyone need to do is yes if it's crossover, unsure as it fits in another bag defiantly not, you are having a laugh, write piss taker! 1. THE THIRD GUITAR - SAD GIRL - ROJAC, 2. FRANK LYNCH - YOUNG GIRL - MY RECORD, 3, GEORGE WILSON - "HERE STANDS THE MAN WHO NEEDS YOU" - BLACK CIRCLE/ 4. LITTLE JOHNNY TAYLOR - WILL GIVE IT BACK TO YOU - ICHIBAN. 5. CLARANCE CARTER - MESSIN WITH MY MIND - ICHIBAN 6. NEWCOMERS - THE WHOLE WORLD IS A PICTURE SHOW - TRUTH 7.THE KNIGHTS - LOVE KNOCKED YOU DOWN - LITTLE STAR/ 8. LARRY MARKS - EYE TO EYE - PALA. 9. TEMPREES - COME AND GET YOUR LOVE - WE PRODUCE 10. WILLIAM BELL - THE MAN IN THE STREET - STAX. 11. DERRICK HARRIOTT - TOGETHER - UK. ISLAND WI-245 12 FRANKIE GEARING - TEARS ON MY PILLOW B/W CHILD PLEASE - SOUND SOUND RF 1004 13. KEN LAZARUS - THE RECORD - JA-SOUL 14. 125th STREET CANDY STORE - STRANGE SENSATION - UPTITE. 15. THE INVERTS - LOOK ON YOUR FACE - TOWER (REISSUE) AND THE LAST ONE, IS JUST A GREAT SOUL RECORD AND ONE OF THE TOP SOUL ACTS OF ALL TIME? 16. MAZE - WHILE I AM ALONE - CAPITOL, IF THIS AIN'T SOUL I WILL "CROSSOVER". ALL THESE YEARS AND I CLASS THEM ALL, IN THE CATEGORY:- YOU HAVE GOT TO HERE THIS ONE, IT'S RARE, IT'S AN ALL TIE CLASSIC. HANG ON 3 MORE BEFORE I GO, AS YOU MUST GOTTA HERE THIS CLASSIC DAVE KILWORTH .

HI ALL, THIS IS THE STUFF! RARE UP TEMPO SOUL, GREAT SCANS, I WILL PUT 3 CLASSICS, FROM THE SCENE HAVE NOT A CLUE WHAT THE VALUE IS TODAY, BUT YOU CAN BET THE 3 WERE UNDER A TENNER THE RANWOOD DJ COPY USED TO BE QUITE HARD? ANY INFO AS TO PRICE AND RARITY, THEY ARE FROM MY COLLECTION SO THEY ARE NOT FOR SALE, I WOULD RATHER EAT DIRT M THAN SELL ME JEWELS, DAVE

HI ALL,, THANKS MATE & SEAN, I HAVE GOT THE RIGHT PICTURE IN MY NOGGIN, SO WE CAN AGREE, CROSSOVER MEANING IS SOUL GOOD SOUL, THAT FOURSOME REASON THE SOUL SCENE HAS IGNORED OR TOTALLY MISSED, AND CROSSOVER IS THAT YOU HIGH LITE THE RECORDS EXISTENCE BUT ESSENTIALLY IT'S QUALITY, AS A SCENE FOR WANT OF BETTER WORDS, PEOPLE SHARE THERE FINDS AND TURN OTHERS ON TO IT EITHER BY DJ'ING SOUND SWAPPING AND PLAYING DOWN THE PHONE, ALMOST THE SAME WAY AS THE RAREUPTEMPO SOUL SCENE HAS DONE SINCE IT'S FORMATION, BUT WITHOUT THE LIMITS OR REMIT, ANYTHING GOES, IF THAT'S RIGHT OR CLOSE, YOU HAVE 100000'S OF RECORDS TO KEEP YOU HAPPY, FINALLY I HAVE LISTENED TO JAMAICAN MUSIC FOR YEARS IN PARTICULAR REGGAE, I CANT STAND THE TERM OF CALLING EARLY REGGAE AS SKINHEAD REGGAE, I YET TO MEET SOMEONE APART FROM THOSE PEOPLE I KNOW WHO HEARD ALL THE REGGAE THAT'S NAMED SKINHEAD REGGAE 68 TO 71, POST 71 THE SKINHEAD CULT WAS OVER, I AM AN OLD ORIGINAL BOVVER BOY, AND HAVE NEVER RECOGNIZED ANYONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE SKINHEAD WHO WAS UNDER 15 IN 1968, THATS MY RANT OVER DAVE KIL

HI ALL,,, AFTER FOLLOWING THIS THREAD. I AM STILL NO WISER ON THE PRESENT USE OF THE WORD CROSSOVER, MY OPENING REMARK ABOUT IT BEING A CHEAP WAY, TO GET RARE SOUL COLLECTION , AND A TERM TO DESCRIBE SOUL MUSIC THAT DOES NOT FIT THE OTHER CATEGORIES SO NEATLY AS RARE 60s, NORTHERN SOUL, MODERN SOUL, R&B, 70s UPTEMPO SOUL, FUNK, SOUTHERN SOUL, I STATED THAT THE TERM USED TO STAND FOR IN GENERAL TERMS WITH CHART HIT SOUL & RECORDS FROM THE RARE SOUL SCENE LIKE ROBERT KNIGHT, TAMI LYNN, FORMATIONS, FRANKIE VALI, AS BLACK MUSIC FOUND AN OVERGROUND IN DISCO, WHICH WAS A JUXTAPOSITION ON HOW R&B FROM THE 50s WITH SANITIZED VERSION COVERED BY WHITE SINGERS FOR A WHITE MARKET, DISCO EMBRACED THE ACCEPTANCE OF BLACK & WHITE TOGETHERNESS AND AS IT DEVELOPED INTO HIGH ENERGY IT MADE OTHER SUB CULTURES ACCEPTABLE MOST NOTABLE WAS THE IT'S OK TO BE GAY, HOWEVER THE SOUL PURITY WAS UNPALATABLE TO MOST NORTHER SOUL COLLECTORS, EVEN THE CROSSOVER BLACK MUSIC, ALTHOUGH POPULAR, WAS NETHER PURCHASED, DONNA SUMMER COMES TO MIND, IS THIS WHAT YOU MEAN BY CROSSOVER SOUL, IF HER HITS HAD BEEN POOR SELLERS OR IS IT THE RECORDS LIKE THE POP SOUL OF THE STYLISTICS 4 TOPS, CHI LITES ALL CLASSICS IN MY OPINION, BUT THE FAILED POP SOUL, IS THAT CROSSOVER, WE ALL LOVE ALL TYPES OF SOUL MUSIC, I ASSUME THATS WHY WE ARE SO EMOTIONAL ON THE SCENE, CAN ANY BODY WHO PASSIONATELY COLLECTS CROSSOVER GIVE A DEFINITIVE DEFAMATION ON THERE USE OF THE WORD CROSSOVER, AS THIS THREAD WILL BECOME POINTLESS, INSTEAD OF CONSTRUCTIVE?? SOUL BROTHER DAVE KIL

HI ALL SOME RELAY GREAT RECORDS , LOVE THE EDDIE & ERNIE, STILL GOT THE MAMIE GALORE DEMO, ORIGINALLY FROM John ANDERSON £1.5O, AS I HAVE ONLY ABOUT 500 US 45's AS MY FOCUS IS UK SINGLES, LARRY ATKINS LIGHTEN UP WAS A GOOD ONE TO GET, ALWAYS RARE, AND THE INPOSSIBLE TO FIND BACK IN THE 70's WAS EARL WRIGHT THUMB A RIDE CAPITAL DEMO, IN THE END WE ASSUMED IT DID NOT EXIST, IS THIS TRUE TODAY? HAS A COPY TURNED UP, IF SO IT MUST BE A BIG PRICE TAG IF YOU TRIED TO BY IT?? DAVE

HI ...I REALLY CANT REMEMBER, BUT IT WAS A SOUL EVENT, AS THE RECORDS & DURAPHET WAS THERE AND PEOPLE FROM BEDFORD WHO WENT TO BLETSO, ALL THESE TEARS LATER, I THOUGHT I HAD ATTENDED EARLS BARTON AND IT TURNS OUT TO BE A MEETING OF THE BEDFORD AND NORTH HAMPTON CHEMIST BREAKERS SECRET 1 OFF GET TO GETHER, STILL I WENT THERE, WHERE EVER THERE IS, I NO I WILL MAKE A BADGE FOR THE UNKNOWN ALLNIGHTER?? DAVE

HI..IT'S SHOUT ALL THE WAY, THIS WAS A HARD RECORD IN IT'S DAY, WITH 2 GREAT SIDES, WHAT A BIG WASTE OF MONEY WHEN I GOT IT ON JAY BOY, I DON'T NO WHAT WENT WRONG, BUT THE JAY BOY SINGLE IS DUBBED FROM A SHOUT COPY PURCHASED AT CONTEMPOS IN HANNAWAY STREET,?? I AM SURE IT'S ON THE JOY LP'S DAVE

HI , THE DAY I COME ON THE SCENE, ANSWERS YOUR SECONDPOINT, DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO NEGATIVE, AND ANGRY ABOUT THIS SUBJECT, THAT YOU CLEARLY ARE IN TOUCH WITH, HAVE I TOUCHED A NERVE! I AM SURE I READ THAT THERE WERE SOME RARE CROSSOVER RECORDS THAT COMMANDED ABOVE THE MANUFACTURES RRP, ,SO WHY ASK ME THE QUESTION, I LIKE SOUL MUSIC THE EXPLANATION I GAVE IS MY OPINION OF BEING ON THE UK SOUL SCENE FOR ALL MY ADULT LIFE, AND IN PARTICULAR THE RARE SOUL SCENE OR NORTHERN SOUL SCENE, ANY THING THAT USES THE WORD CROSSOVER, MEANS EXACTLY THAT, IT HAS BEEN SANITIZED FOR A MAINSTREAM AUDIENCE, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, CLUELESS I MAYBE, BUT THE FACT STILL STANDS THE CROSSOVER SCENE WAS MADE BY PEOPLE WHO MISSED THE BOAT ON THE RARE SOUL SCENE, AND THATS A FACT, AND PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO PLAY THE ESCORTS - LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER, AND THEN GET BACK TO YOUR NAME CALLING. I GOT YOU SUSSED DAVE KIL

PETE I STILL GOT THE PRICE CHARLES LP, WITH THE WELSH WOMAN SAY "JOE DUN LOPS HOUSE ,IS IN THE NEXT VALLY,ISN'T IT?" 1969 AND ALL THAT, FILED WITH MY MAN ON THE MOON LPS, THE MILWAUKEE COASTER SOUNDED NOT TO BAD WHEN I PLAYED IT TODAY, IF YOU ARE INTO THE HAMMOND ORGAN, WAS THERE A BUTLINS ONE? I NO THAT ISLAND HAD THERE RUGBY SONGS AND A FEW VERY ODD SINGLES, DEMOS, DAVE

HI I WENT TO A PLACE LIKE THAT YOU DESCRIBE, BUT IT HAD BANGER RAVING AND SOUL WAS PLAYED THROUGH THE TRACK PA SYSTEM FROM A TAPE OR DISCATRON, THERE WAS A SMALL HUT TYPE BUILDING THAT I THINK WAS THE ACTUAL ALL NIGHTERS, I COULD NEVER TELL IF THEY WERE SOMEONE PARTY DONE ON THE CHEAP AT THE TIME AS ONE TIME I WENT TO ONE IN A CHICKEN SHED, I WAS ALWAYS TP BLOCKED IN THEM DAYS TO REMEMBER THE RIGHT NAMES OF THESE BEDFOORDSHIRE HIDE OUTS/ THE BANGER TRACK WAS UP NEAR CORBY COULD OF BEEN IN NORTHHAMPTONSHIE,, YOU LOT WILL ALL KNOW IT, I AM 40% SURE IT WAS EARLS BARTON?// DAVE

HI ALL YOU CROSSOVER FANS,,AND GIRLS,I JUST WANT TO REQUEST ABOUT WHAT CROSSOVER HAS BEEN ANSWERED YET? THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT:- 1, THE VERSION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE MEANING, IN THIS CASE FROM THE BLACK AMERICAN MUSICIAN'S POINT, 2. THE MAINLY WHITE UK SOUL FANS CONCEPT OF THE TERM. 3. A BIT OF BOTH PUT TOGETHER FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING? AS I HAVE STATED IN THIS COUNTRY AND IN EUROPE THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN APPRECIATION FOR BLACK AMERICAN MUSIC, IN THE EARLY 60S THE TERM SOUL WAS VERY NEW, AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE THE ORIGINAL BASTIONS OF ETHE SCENE, HAD A MASSIVE STRUGGLE TO GET EXPOSURE (AIR TIME) WAS IMPOSABLE AND EVEN THE PIRATES DID LITTLE TO ADVANCE OUR MUSIC, AS SUCH THE EARLY YEARS OF SOUL MUSIC EXPOSURE WAS ONLY PLAYED IN A HANDFUL OF CLUBS, MOST OF US ARE TO YOUNG TO REMEMBER OR ATTEND THE ORIGINAL SOUL CLUBS, BUT ONE THING THEY DID VERY SUCCESSFULLY, WAS TO ATTRACT PEOPLE WHO WERE KEEN TO LEARN ABOUT THE MUSIC, THIS UNIVERSITY WAS AS FAR AS I AM AWARE CAN BE HONED DOWN TO 1 CLUB THE TWISTED WHEEL, WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE HISTORY OF THE METAMORPHOSIS INTO NORTHER SOUL FROM ITS FIRST YEAR TO IT'S LAST YEAR, ON IT'S CLOSURE, MOST OF THE MUSIC PLAYED WAS NOT MORE THAN 5 YEARS OLD, AS 71 TURNED INTO 72 YOU HAVE WHAT MOST PEOPLE CONSIDER AS THE TOP ALL-NIGHT EVER, TAKE A GLANCE AT THE MUSIC THAT WAS PLAYED AT THE TORCH A LOT OF IT WAS LESS THAN 2 YEARS OLD, IT IS AROUND ABOUT THIS TIME THAT DAVE GODINS COMMENTS DESCRIBING THE MUSIC POLICY IN THE NORTH WEST AND MIDLANDS AS NORTHER SOUL, NOT AS CROSSOVER SOUL? AS WE PROGRESS IN TO THE MID 70S WE HEAR A NEW TERMINOLOGY TO TRY AND CATEGORIES NORTHERN SOUL, IN PARTICULAR THESE 3 STOMPERS, 100MPH, & MECCA SOUND (IS THIS THE START OF YOUR HYMNS SHEET?) IF SO YOU DON'T MAKE IT CLEAR, BUT TO MANY AT THE TIME THERE WAS LITTLE SUPPORT FOR THE MECCA SOUND, AGAIN I HAVE TO STAT THAT WHAT WAS PLAYED AT BLACKPOOL WAS SO SIMILAR TO WHAT WAS PLAYED IN THE SOUTH EAST & LONDON, I CAN HERE IT NOW BEING PLAYED AT THE NEW PENNY DISCO IN WATFORD OR THE GOLDMINE CANVY ISLAND. THE MUSIC WAS CALLED PPPARTY MUSIC THEIR WERE SOME DEEP FUNK GIGS AS THERE WERE REGGAE NIGHTS, BUT THESE PLACES WERE NOT FREQUENTED BUY MANY WHITE PEOPLE NOW THE SKINHEAD THING HAD BEEN GONE OVER 4 YEARS, BUT WIGAN ALSO LIKE THE TORCH PLAYED MUSIC TO KEEP YOU DANCING, AGAIN SOME OF THE NORTHERN SOUL PLAYED MAY SOUND LIKE POP MUSIC OR INDEED RE BRANDED AS CROSSOVER, BUT IT WAS CALLED NORTHER SOUL AND THATS A FACT, HOWEVER WIGAN USED ANOTHER ADJECTIVE TO DESCRIBE SOME SOU. AND THE TERM OLDIES COME TO BE SO FASHIONABLE. THAT THE FRIDAY ALL-NIGHTERS WERE PACKED OUT BUT THE SATURDAY NIGHTS WERE POOR,, IN THE 80S WIGAN CLOSED , AND THE SCENE WAS BEING RUN BY THE HARD CORE RECORED COLLECTORS, AND ANOTHER TERMINOLOGY STARTED TO BECOME POPULAR, EVEN THOUGH IT HAD BEEN USED AT WIGAN IT TOOK ON A SLIGHTLY NEW MEANING, NEWIES, AND AS SUCH SOME BRILLIANT SOUL WAS UNCOVERD AND A LOT OF NORTHER CLASSICS WERE SOLD AT A FRACTION OF THE REAL PRICE, BUT AGAIN THE WORD CROSSOVER WAS NOT IN COMMON USE, IT STILL EQUALLY APPLIED TO RECORDS LIKE THE WIGANS OVATION OR TO ESTER PHILIP'S OR THE TVARES, HOWEVER THE WORD CROSSOVER DID BE COME A WORD TO DESCRIBE RECORDS PLAYED FIRST AT THE MECCA JAMES FOUNTAIN AND THE CARSTAIRS BEING 2 RECORDS THAT CROSSED OVER FROM ONE TYPE OF DISCO INTO THE NORTHERN SOUL SCENE/ OVER THE LAST 2 NIGHTS I HAVE GIVEN MY IDEA OF WHAT THE ONLY WAY I CAN DESCRIBE THE TRUE MEANING OF THE WORD, IN THE LAST 24 HOURS I HAVE PLAED A FEW RECORDS THAT I WILL ALWAYS CLASS AS NORTHERN SOUL BUT SOME OF YOU MAY CLASS AS CROSSOVER, ;:- HERE ARE JUST A FEW ALL GREAT SOUL MOST ARE CHEAP IN COMPARISON TO RARE NORTHER, BUT I STILL CLASS AS NORTHER OR RARE SOUL. NOT CROSSOVER, THE CHARTS-I HAE BEEN THINKING, DENNIS EDWARDS - I THOUGHT I COULD HANDLE IT. THE MOMENTS- 504, GREG PERRY - IT TAKES HEART. RICHARD PARKER - YOUR ALL I NEED, LARRY SAUNDERS - ON THE REAL SIDR, JOSHIE JO - I GOT THE VIBES, CROSSFIRE - TAKE ME BACK, BETTER RUBY WINTERS, ANN SEXTON - YOU'VE BEEN GONE TO LONG, FLAMINGOS - THINK ABOUT ME, AL FOSTER - NIGHT OF THE WOLF,. SPINNERS I'LL BE AROUND, ARTHER PRYSOCK - ALL I NEED IS YOU TONIGHT, AND WE COULD OF COURSE GO ON AND ON, THE BACK AMERICAN MUSICIAN WOULD CLASS IT AS A MORE SANITIZED STYLE OF MUSIC SET TO A SLOWER BEAT ANY WHERE FROM LATIN TO DISCO IT IS THAT SIMPLE, IT'S AN ARRANGEMENT, AS SOMEONE WHO SOME YOU HAVE CLASSED MY STATEMENTS AS CRAP BUT FAILED TO CONTRIBUTE ANY CONSTRUCTIVE POINTS YOU ILL THINK WHEN I CALL YOU A LOAD OF MERCHANTS I AM NOT BEING COMPLEMENTARY, AND IF YOU THINK THAT THERE IS A HEALTHY CROSSOVER SCENE, GO THERE, STAY THERE AND DON'T COME BACK, AS IT IS A JOHNNY COME LATELY PLACE AND YOUR REMARKS ARE NOT REMOTELY SOULFUL. BUT YOU ALREADY NO THAT, AS I DON'T WANT YOU TO GET EMOTIONAL DO I, AND IF YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO A DECENT RECORD TRY AND GET A COPY OF THE ESCORTS - LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER, AND THEN MAKE YOUR POINT, I HAVE BROKE MY RULES ABOUT NOT FIGHTING WITH THE GIRLS TONIGHT DAVE KIL

HI ALL BOOT OR NOT, I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED THE RECORD, PLUS IT HAS A GOOD SAX BREAK, THAT RULES OUT A TM COPY, I HAVE A FEW COLIN B LISTS AND HE DOES NOT HAVE IT ON THERE, A GOOD WIGAN GIRL DANCER, I TELLS YOU DAVE HERE IT IS :-

HI ALL THIS IS THE OFFICIAL PAMA CAT THAT IS WELL WORTH HAVING, LISTS ALL ISSUE (INC VOLUMES) THESE SELL FOR ABOUT £50 NOW, ANY UNDER THAT COULD BE DODGEY DAVE

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

HI ALL... THE ONLY THING I GOT WRONG WAS FORGETTING TO RUN SPELL CHECK, TO REITERATE IN THE BEGINNING THE STUFF YOU CALL CROSSOVER, MEANT RECORDS THAT SAY COME OUT ON TAMLA MOTOWN IN FACT HOW MANY OLDER BROTHERS AND SISTERS US TO SAY " I COLLECT RARE SOUL AND MOTOWN" UNDER TAT BANNER MOTOWN IT INCLUDED STAX & ATLANTIC, IN 1970 RECORD LIKE AT THE DISCOTHEQUE WERE RARE SOUL, BUT WE HAD A NEW SET OF LABELS, AND ALTHOUGH LOVED BY WHEEL GOERS, THEY HAD CROSSOVER APPEAL MEANING THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD NOT GET WHAT THE CHUBBY CHECKER MEANT OR STOOD FOR, WERE QUITE HAPPY BUYING THE HONEY CONE RB GREAVES FREDA PAYNE CURTIS MAYFIELD AND FOR ME THE DETROIT EMERALDS FIRST 3 RELEASES CROSSOVER RECORDS , SOME MADE THE CHARTS EVEN , I REMEMBER IN 1971 BUYING THE JONESES PULL MY STRING AND THE 5TH DIMENSION FLASHBACK OF MICK SMITH, GREAT CROSSOVER RECORDS , BUT I STAND BUY MY POINT IN THE MAIN CROSSOVER MEANT IT APPEALED TO MANY PEOPLE WHO DID NOT UNDERSTAND OR COULD AFFORD THE RECORDS THAT WERE BIG ON THE NORTHERN SCENE, I HAVE PROBABLY GOT MORE CROSSOVER IN MY COLLECTION THAN MANY OF YOU, GLENN MILLER IS A CROSSOVER RECORD NOTHING TO DO WITH S STUDIO QUALITY AT ALL, BUT IS JUST A GOOD BENCH MARK IN THE RARE SOUL MARKET PLACE, ROGER NICHOLS HAD ONE OF THE BEST CROSSOVER COLLECTIONS AROUND AND HE WAS PLAYING SOME OF THE BIG SOUNDS OF TODAY 25 YEARS AGO, AND MOST OF HIS QUALITY RECORDS COME OUT OF SOUL PACKS, FINALY DONT TRY AND TEACH ME HOW TO SUCK EGGS, I AM NEVER WRONG! AM I, AS A WEST HAM BB YOU WILL ONLY GET VEXED, IT WILL END UP IN TEARS, AS ALL SOUL IS GREAT, BUT RARE NORTHER IS BETTER THAN GREAT AS THEY SAY IN PRESTON 1OFF8, DAVE KIL IS THE SPIRIT OF 69,

HI ALL THE RICKY-TICK CLUBS WERE DEFIANTLY 100% MOD, THE POSTERS ARE RARE IF ORIGINAL I HAVE STARTED TO USE THE ROY C ONE AS MY AVIATOR , I AM AMAZED THAT NO ONE HAS MENTIONED THE CLASSIC CULT FILM BLOW UP - DAVID HEMMIGS, AS IT HAS ABOUT 5 MINUTES OF FOOTAGE OF THE TICK AT WINDSOR, AND JANET STREET PORTER DANCING, IF ANYONE HAS BLUESVILE 67/8 CUB POSTERS, ESPECIALLY FROM THE CHERRY TREE WELWYN GARDEN CITY, ALL BLUE HORIZON ACTS PLAYED THERE AND MY BEST NIGHT WAS SEEING RORY GALLAGHER AND TASTE,OR POSTERS FROM THE CALI HERMITAGE MECCA STEVEN AGE OR THE ROYAL TOT, DAVE KI

HI TO ALL YOU BLETSONIANS AND TO ALL YOU CARROT CRUNCHERS FROM BADS BUCKS CAMBS & NORTHHAMPTONSHIRE, AS ESSEX AND HERTS ARE THE TRUE HOME FOR MOCKNEYS "YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT SUNNY BOY"? CAN YOU REMEMBER OR GOING TO THE NCOS MESS ON CHICK-SANDS USAF BASE? THE BONANZA CLUB RAF HENLOW/GRANGE. THE PONDAROSA USAF LAKENHEATH (FANTASTIC CLUB) AND THE NCOS CLUB ON USAF BASE MILDENHALL, LAKENHEATH WAS THE BEST A CROSS BETWEEN TILES CLUB AND BILLY WALKERS UPPER CUT, INCLUDING THE GO-GO GIRLS I SAW WILSON PICKET AND ARCHIE BELL AND THE DRELLS THERE AND THATS THE ONLY GIG THEY DID IN THE UK' THE BONANZA CLUB USED TO HAVE LITTLE BRUCE WICKS ORIGINAL MOD DJ FROM LETCHWORTH, BRUCE USED TO DJ AT THE TILES. SCENE THE UK'S FIRST SOUL ALLNIGHTER, THE TIMES CLUB, THE HERMITAGE AND BOWES LYON CLUB. AFTER MICK SMITH BRUCE WAS A STRONG MENTOR AND A HUGE INFLUENCE, IN 67/8 TUNED ME ON TO THE ACTION LABEL, BACK TO THE BONANZA VERY ROUGH GUARANTEED CLASH ESPECIALLY WITH THE BIGGLESWADE GREBE'S ALBERT BIBBY AND TUNGY WREN VERY HARD MEN INDEED. MY FAVORITE RECORD WAS LOVE ON A MOUNTAIN TOP,AND BABY YOU GOT IT, CLASSICS I HAVE ONLY ADDED THIS BIT AS IT WAS NOT ALL ABOUT RARE SOUL 24 7, DAVE THE MOCKNEY KIL