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Bought the Mary Saxton Sad Eyes recently, not cheap at 50 quid, but it contains the Classic ''Take My Heart'' and ''Losing Control'' which if you can find on singles are £1.5-2K ish, so a mega bargain LP imo. The Spinners an absolutely great track Steve

Eleven quid very well spent Steve. Some LP's are just a great bargain. I bought Four Seasons New Gold Hits for 3 quid off gemm, which contains the brilliant I'm Gonna Change, plus a couple of bonus tracks. Love the Duettes too mate. Best, Dave.

Matrix No.s :- Strings/Piano S4219-0-1, Piano S4219-0-2 I think.

Thanks for that Chalky

Didn't realise there were 2 different versions released of this, mine's got the piano intro, anyone got a soundclip of the strings one ? Best, Dave

Did the 2 Dore CD's come out with a complimentary single originally ?

R.I.P. Mike Terry, a true great, and another sad loss.

I have it recorded, you can watch it Friday, or Saturday morning mate

Thanks for the info, have set to record . . .

That's the reason I asked, cos Just Aint My Day is much better, lol must admit it aint my cuppa tea.

I've got one, but it aint in the best shape. Perhaps VG, couple of scratches that cause the odd click, and scuffs and a slight warp NAP, I may play it friday through the big system to see how it is on there. Why is it the 802 you're after ? Best, Dave edit, been trying to upload a scan, but I get ''Upload failed. You are not permitted to upload this type of file''

Thanks mate, I'm sure mine's Styrene like yours, but with a date stamped on in ink, will check when I get home, Best, Dave

Hi Roger, was the Demo booted ? and if so how can you tell ? Best, Dave

I paid top dollar for mine

I got a demo off Pete Smith last year for £50, which was a very good price imo. It's a shade under mint, maybe VG++ or excellent, depending on how you grade 'em.

Thanks for the honesty Andy, and all the encouragement. Reality is we aint that far away, and yes 'It's Nailed' and I'm happy now I've aired it mate

That's exactly the reason why some of these DJ's are still playing at my Club. They wanted to get involved my venture and helped me out when I was not in a position to dictate or question the originality of their records, or even pay them. That has now changed, but I'm at the point where I'd like to put our name the OVO only thread, but there would be moral issues with that from my point of view. Currently thinking that I'm happy being around 95% plus OVO and as Chrissie said encourage rather than demand, then see where it goes. Keep the input coming please.

I've enjoyed reading the other thread but didn't really want to post this on that thread as it's a little off topic so have started a new one, about my dilemma as a promoter Let me start this debate off by saying that I'm a firm advocate on playing OVO - fact. This does however present me with some personal issues with the Northern Soul and Motown Night that I promote and run on a bi-monthly basis. Over the last year I've had a big variety of 17 DJ's behind the decks, some of them been DJ'ing years, with great collections, and some who are relatively youngsters at 25 years old. Easy to determine which DJ has the big expensive OVO tunes, a which one is developing and building a collection, which at this time contains quite a few pressings. Four of these 17 DJ's fall into the pressing playing type, but these four are very, very reliable and help me out big time, and if I were to tell them they can't play again it's gonna hurt them and hurt me. My way of dealing with this is to give them early spots, and when we get to the business end of the night ie. 9.30-12.30 it's OVO only. On more than one occasion a pressing played early is on a planned playlist of one of my main DJ's great OVO set, and me as the promoter is told by an unhappy friend and DJ that he aint too happy about it, and I can see his point completely. I'd say 90% of the punters who come and enjoy the night don't give a toss about all this, and that this discussion would sound ridiculous and send them asleep, but personally I'm more than a little torn. I'd like to hear opions of other promoters in the main, people that run your typical 100-150 punters Club Soul Night.

We were spoilt quite badly that nite

Last pair I bought were Spencers Bags c/w 40'' bottoms, from the shop on the balcony at the Casino over 30 years ago. I'm sure they're the same firm still going today, and have a website, maybe a worth shout, good luck, Dave https://www.spencers-trousers.com/

Fair enough mate cheers. It's the early one's that are bona fide things then, like Chris Jackson