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    49 minutes ago, Solidsoul said:

    It's loved because it's exciting, fast and good to dance to Northern Soul all-nighter dynamite! 

    Loads of twenty quid tunes way better than Mellos guess everyone’s got there own taste and views 

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    1 hour ago, Hooker1951 said:

    IHi Sheldonsoul are you talking about MELLO souls or the incredibles?

    Mello Souls £20,000 not my cup of tea

    incredibles £6 nice soul sound good harmonies

    ML

    Mello souls poor recording imo I can think of hundreds way better

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    20 hours ago, Roburt said:

    Yes it was OLDIES UNLIMITED. The thing to do was to get the owner to lock you in the Old Chapel for the day, so that you could go thru all the remains of their old 45 stock. It was a pity when the place shut up shop.

    Was the much stuff found there 🤔

    On 26/12/2009 at 14:42, Ian Dewhirst said:

     

     

    Huh, typical that after all this time I never realised you were from Bradford originally Dave. Now that I think about it, it probably makes sense as Bradford was always prime vinyl-sniffing territory with a generation of vinyl hounds and a high percentage of sinus-deblocking discoveries LOL....:laugh:

     

    You're absolutely right about Bostocks stock leaching into everywhere around Yorkshire. You could find it in local market stalls, local junk shops and basically almost anywhere that did 2nd hand records. Often, a second-hand record shop would spring up in the weirdest of places - Cleckheaton, Bartley, Morley, Armley, Halifax, Huddersfield etc, etc and a large proportion of their stock would obviously be from Bostocks. We didn't always realise the connection at the time because frankly, West Yorkshire was packed to the gills with U.S. cut-out 45's. For a start, Bostocks had stalls in Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield and Huddersfield Markets and Paul or his Mum would sometimes be depping at those stalls. They got sick of seeing me everywhere - sometimes I'd hit all 4 Bostocks stalls in the same day. An Alice Clark or two, a couple of Tymes, couple of Shalimars @ Leeds, some oddball looking 45's from Bradford like Ronnie & Robyn on Sidra or Lenny Curtis on End, some Dottie Cambridges, Righteous Brothers Band, Ambers and Triumphs from Huddersfield and finish off in Wakefield with a Howard Guyton, Spiral Staircase, a Webs and a couple of Billy Woods to round off the day. Not bad considering that all of these were within 30 minutes of where I lived. It was like Christmas every week but we never realised it at the time......

     

    ......and you'd often go to a visiting funfair and see the Bostocks stock as prizes. I won a Don Gardner "I Can't Help Myself" and Mongo Santamaria's "The Now Generation" by honing my dart-throwing skills!

     

    I don't recall any of us locals managing to get into the legendary Bostocks warehouse at the time pre '76 although I think Julian Bentley may have had access for some reason (can you confirm Julian?). I didn't get into it until well after John Anderson had re-plundered it maybe around '77 or thereabouts (or so the story went). By this point they'd probably got rid of most of their early stock from House Of Sounds 'cos there was a lot of relatively new 70's releases by the time I got there but I did snag just about everything on Buddah that was any good at the time - Charisma Band, Tony Owens, Mel Williams etc, etc so not a total bust.......

     

    ......around the same time a couple of us had a decent hit at some place in Telford (can't remember the name unfortunately). I think Colin Curtis and Keith Minshull had been there as well. This was where I left a 100 count box of Lew Kirton "Heaven In The Afternoon" because frankly I couldn't stand it (and stil can't) but also every other shop you went in seemed to have the 12" in!

     

    I actually think that some credit has to go to people like the Bostocks, Global, Robinsons, Soul Bowl etc, etc who actually brought in such huge loads of U.S. 45's in the early 70's that they unknowingly stoked the Northern Soul fire at exactly the correct time. It was an embarassment of riches when you think about it. Simply staggering the amount of stuff which came from these sources and others between 1970-80. They probably account for a good 30-40% of the key discoveries in the early 70's and certainly made our lives easier finding 'em.

     

    Just to put things in perspective, even the Leeds branch of Virgin had a box of U.S. 45's in! That's where the 2nd or 3rd copy of Candi Staton "Now You've Got The Upper Hand" came from for 10p!

     

    Happy thoughts.

     

    Merry Christmas All!

     

    Ian D :D

    The place in Telford was it oldies unlimited?

    On 03/11/2023 at 18:48, Ian Dewhirst said:

    I was just trying to find out what year Jimmy Raye was discovered and this thread came up on the search.

    Blimey. This was a thread and a half wasn't it? I just spent the last half-hour reading the first 6 pages and I'm not even half-way through yet. If there's nothing on telly or you're not going out tonight, you could do lot worse than have a read through this. A wealth of info........

    Ian D :)

     

    Really glad you’ve rejuvenated this thread I was the original poster and completely forgot about this post it does make great reading 👍

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    Remember hearing it on my first ever visit to the casino I was gobsmacked how good I thought it actually was, then on the train home some one had taped the night and it came blasting out again. But my favourite ever Wigan instrumental had to be Harley Hatcher soul hustler ( al de lory discotheque alibi) sounded awesome blasting out of those speakers

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