Birder66

why is this fetching double what it did a few years ago when I never bothered to pick it up? Arses. Could have had this on a demo for £70 a couple of years back. Issue is much rarer?

I meant "The Intertains"

Uptights.....used to love this record - but I ust can't bring myself to play it out anymore. It's just too HAPPY! It doesn't sit with any of my other big fav's. Gotta get rid.

Sheesh....been lookin for one of these for ages and ages now. Where they gone? Tough tune and right up my musical alley!

Nah - "I made a mistake" is the Termites flip to the orig blank issue of EW's Undying Love

I'm with you mate - there are good reasons why some records never make it. That tune is weak.

It has never really done it for me. Nice enough, but just doesn't bite. Is much of its popularity down to the fact that most people only ever hear this at 7am after a hard night of dancing, when they're all tired and emotional? Maybe that's why I can't "get it" - I like to be in bed by 2am! I prefer Little Esther Philips "Just say goodbye", Maxine Brown "not my baby" or Candi Staton "he called me baby" as an ender - or "come see what's left of me" - or Bertha Tillman "Oh my angel" (which I've got on a mint UK Oriole).

One of my favourites - even though it's an uptown kind of tune. Hopefully you'll find a GWO original and then be able to throw your UK copy in the bin! Ha!

I'd love to hear that.

Phil Bush has got a fantastic old fashioned (and mighty powerful) sound system of the kind that all good music should be played on. Their stock in trade is usually skinhead reggae - and they have it in spades. I know that Phil, in particular, also has a fantastic selection of ska and rocksteady - serious tunes over and above what most people can draw. "Mouth-a-massy" on original JA Randy's anybody? "Always together" on original JA Sunshine??? The nights I've been to have been heavily attended by large traditional skinhead/scooterist crowds. Dare I say it, but that often means that a night tends to gravitate to the '69 beat. For me personally, this is a shame, because I know that both of these guys can go DEEP and I would much rather hear vintage ska and rocksteady than skinhead organ grinders. I have no idea what these guys can draw when it comes to northern soul. Even if you have to travel, I would strongly recommend that you go and listen to these guys at least once. Dave Mack Admission of interest: I am playing with these at Musical Liquidator #3 in Leicester next month

Until you flip it over and then get totally destroyed by the instrumental cut to "I have faith in you" - KILLER!!

The King of all soulful instrumentals has to be the Bari Track.

No way - the Professionals version kills the Mancha stone dead! I don't actualy like the Mancha version at all. And to make it worse, the Mancha version that was posted up is different to the Mancha version I heard most recently on Manship's auction site!!!???? Would love to hear the MadLads version. Or the Macc Lads version!

I've got a great selection of AMFILE Platterpak style boxes from the 5ts/6ts and some incredible Snakeskin covered boxes from the 6ts, called "Disc Mate" by a US company called Casecraft.

Prince Far I The best vocalists all come from Jamaica!

aaaarrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!! I'm getting completely lost. lease, somebody set the record straight. How I follow the thread so far: The Essential Detroit Comp cd cut is a) the best cut and what you hear if you are listening to the actual Professionals 45, only it is credited on the CD as Steve Mancha, because it IS Steve Mancha singing; the Wheelsville 45 credited to Steve Mancha is also Steve Mancha, it is just an inferior version of his miscredited 'Professionals' 45. or what??

No - both cuts were definitely Steve Mancha the cut on the GOLDMINE "ESSENTIAL DETROIT SOUL COLLECTION" comp from 10 years or more back is different (and superior) to one I've heard more recently. Both wheelsville, I think. Maybe I'm just going deaf or mad or both

Has anybody else heard the rocksteady cut to Jerry Butler? Nice version (my favourite is actually the Aki Aleong cut!)

Ha! yeah, I saw that..... About half that is what I think is a decent price

I'm sure that I've heard two vocal tracks to this tune (same lyrics, different delivery). Or do my ears deceive me....

again -label condition is not important - just want the tune at a good price with decent sound quality

Not too fussed about label condition etc - just want the tune at a good price and decent sound quality

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...E:X:RTQ:GB:1123 ...and while we're at it, what's a fair price for a) an issue and a DJ copy.

What a total killer tune this is.....but even so, is it really rare enough to command a £2k+ price tag?

Ha! Yeah, I appreciate that - I'm just trying to get a few titles to hunt down. Why not give me your top five?