Marc Forrest

Two different things I believe: Having had started with a own radio show already in ´88 while at school I moved on to do a weekly radio show on saturday nights between 1991 and 1996 on one of Germanys biggest nation wide radio stations (MDR). The show started out to be broadcasted on saturday afternoons with the content being strictly 100% Northern Soul only. Back then it was OVO. A year later because of its success it was moved on to be broadcasted between 7 and 11 pm on saturdays... because of that huge amount of time I had to fill with music, because of the wider audience (and their listening preferrences) I played House, Jazz Hop, Hip Hop, (new) R&B and new Soul releases on such labels as Expansion alongside maybe a remaining content of say maybe 5 - 10 % orig Sixties and Seventies Soul. I couldnt be bothered to bring original 45s to the studio anymore to be honest and had no problem in playing sth like Lou Pride / Suemi without (back then) having the orig 45 in my collection... ...nowadays and with its countless and specialist internet radio offerings I think as such - a specialst radio show for specialists- it should indeed be done only with original recordings the person doping the show can call his own. These shows seem to tend to work almost as sth like a business card for the person doing it, so to play not ovo would almost be a fraud LOL

If the buyers are located in England and you can proove the records belong to you and were just stolen from you the buyers would have to give them back to at their full cost. you should really be able to get them back. At least in Germany the law would be on your side as a stolen good cant be bought..it will still be owned by the person who it was stolen from. Maybe English law is different here but you should at least ask a attorney about this situation. If you have the sellers (new) adress why not also visit him again and confront him with some evidence collected from the net that he again has sold some records that belong to you ? a third advice I have for you but I wont post on the internet .. LOL

spoke to other collectors during the weekend and both agreed, only the boot (with the small lettered Archer stamp) is 15 UKP, orig between 100 and 200 gbp. not that it would be important to me as I wouldnt be selling mine anyway lol

dont do this...it will only result in your ebay ID being shut down as it is against ebay rules. believe me, here speaks a man of experience ;) LOL hope you get sorted, atb

hi pete, I remember when I sold a copy for a mate of mine maybe two years ago..he got definitely way more than 40 ukp

interesting read andy, thanks for sharing. I am amazed to learn "Cabin By The Sea" is by sung by George Kerr ? I had two identical Jobete acetates of this (sold one to Manship some years ago and kept the other) and always had it down as being sung by Henry Lumpkin ??

he did a phenomenal show last friday here in berlin! if you have the slightest chance of making it do yourself a favour and do so. you wont regret it. amongst my favourite concert experiences of all tmes. and I have seen a few.

yes, that "rule" is also known and in use over here...but I sadly had TO witness many situations in which this rule was not followed over here as well as over there. no big deal perhaps and especially not for the punter...but to me a double-yawn factor LOL happy to hear you thought about making the effort to be part of our weekender but sorry to hear you cant make it now to our little anniversary. from where would you have been flying from as I just had to find flights for other british friends of ours this week which ended up at only 100 EUR incl.return (lufthansa!)

I love oldies! Not in general and full time but in fact I prefer to hear a dj play the odd not long heard oldie in comparison to some of the so-called new stuff which the dj before already has played and the next non-imaginative dj after will sure play as well (only to show-off he as the 45 too -yawn-). which opens another can of worms...when does a newie become an oldie ? the moment it has received the ginger airing ? no, in my humble opinion way before. its an oldie already when you personally know more than two other dj`s with said tune in their box LOL...whats the conclusio of my two pennies worth ? dont take it all too serious , relax, enjy, play what you like not because its an oldie or a newie but because you feel the floor would enjoy the next following tune and will appecriate you keeping the flow. But please, pleeeze, remember some of the basic fundaments of our scene...try to play imaginative, indvidual and...please...play ovo LOL

PJ City and Chain Reaction sold, all items sold by yesterday already in the post, the whole remaining lot on ebay now plus newly added tasty 45s!

Some very nice selections in this nice-priced list of Funk and Modern Soul gems. PLEASE NOTE ALL PRICES ARE IN USD WHICH IS ABOUT 2/3 towards the GBP ! Paypal is the only method of payment and all 45s will be send reg. which adds 8 USD. First come, first served, happy hunting.. P.J.City "Straight Forward" Rise Records, Mint- Fabulous Modern and so hot right now 450 USD https://youtu.be/uozMTbQCeTc Fantastic Puzzles "Come Back Pt.1/2" New Moon Rec., RARE ISSUE, M- 140 USD https://youtu.be/CYq7xrH7s2Q Primitive "Sister Africa / You Are Everything To Me" Love Rec., M- Awesome Funk piece backed with a great sweet belter 150 USD https://youtu.be/w3R0SW6qklE King Roosevelt & The Soul Syndicate "I Don`t Care What You Do" Krass Records, small sticker mark on label, Vinyl mint- Heavy and indemand Northern Funk 500 USD Stratus "Girl" Wyldwood Records, Mint - Jamiroquai-like wonderful stepper. Seen for up to 300 USD 150 USD Freedom "Can`t You See" Freedom Records, Mint- Fabulous double-sider 130 USD Benny Troy "I Wanna Give You Tomorrow" De-Lite Rec., M- 120 USD Mandrill "Too Late" Arista Rec., VG+ plays great Comes with orig. sleeve Monster classic and so good! 50 USD https://youtu.be/t2K-Fad5D3Q Lew Kirton "Heaven In The Afternoon" Alston Rec., M- CLASSIC complete with orig. sleeve 100 USD https://youtu.be/2vETIuhvhBc Chain Reaction "Search For Tomorrow" Blue Wave Records, so indemand, so good! VG plays fine, still good for dj-ing 550 USD (would be 750 USD in Mint) https://youtu.be/ceF72RG9AQ8 Joe Brown and the Soul Elderados "Vibration" FFA Rec., M- So indemand..and good! 225 USD https://youtu.be/y8X4BkWOXZI Four Below Zero "My Baby`s Got ESP" Italian Roulette complete with its rare picture sleeve (not as dull as the Autralian pic cover) Vinyl and sleeve M- 100 USD https://youtu.be/jofvuiv0t5w

you can download them from here..if this aint sufficent enough let me know and we will get you sorted somehow ;)

the one on here didnt sell...two worlds apart. still the same universe.

as I stated above..its not a rumour. vinyl is light brown and lights shines thru when hold up against it.

I should maybe add that I found this john & weirdest bootleg in Berlin in the early nineties/end of eighties and didnt pay over the odds for it.. LOL

LOL !

In fact this is quite a "rare" bootleg in terms of how often you see it for sale...plus it is one that when I saw going thru ebay at 250 USD for teh first time it made it straight into my imaginary "book of totally unbelievable and out of this world high end overpriced auction jokes" ;) By the way, I have a bootleg, see thru vinyl..even WOL (Steve, you been to my pandoras box again ?). Must and will do it till I get me an original. Its fine to look at and for home self-entertainment.

see my post above Seb, its really easy to differentiate between first and sec. release.

Its very easy Brett, the first rel. has gold lettering whereas the sec. rel. has silver/grey. William (good man he is) did them himslef and did send them out for free to his friends and later sold them at 5 USD each. A shame if someone is trying to make a benefit out of this IMO.

strangely enough a lot of these titles found their way as new releases to Berlin though. When in 1992 a well-established old record and instruments shop by the name of Musik Wiebach closed down they had a big sale out and put out boxes of old 45s sales stock at 1,- DM each. You had to go their every day as they brought new boxes up from their basement on a daily basis. Along other stuff I got hold there of many of the big titles on Capitol (Chubby & Turnpikes, Jerry Cook etc), Columbia (Walter Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Spellbinders etc etc) and along other labels .. Volt! All Margie Joseph, Roz Ryan, Newcomers, JJ Banes, TSU Toronadoes, Darrel Banks etc...not me but a mate found the Paul Thompson in there.

that will be easily watched...if I havent lost count he is now up to his fifth copy (on Paul Thompson).

I thought it was common knoledge that the yellow copy is a second release ? the tune was very huge around the turn of the century over here in Germany (too) and some sort of anthem of the late uptight weekenders in frankfurt maybe due arthur having been the first to have played it there (god, we had so much fun there back then..) and I seem to remember the yellow copies starting to flood ebay around the same time ? have an orange and just couldnt see myself having a collection without this 45. be it yellow or orange the tonny hymes is awesome by the way!

rare soul sales and record fair are my recommendations. r&b selling group as well if that suits your taste. with hassle free does come the odd bargain but 90 % is at least to me of no interest. plus you get people in hassle free who just wont understand that it is much more useful to put up one sales list instead of posting up to over 30 + single sales posts a day which can easily get on your nerves and fills up your message board immensly LOL

I`ll sell my Jades at 1000 UKP if anyone`s interested ?

tarx, tra-x, x-tra and triode. great tune indeed and used to be a hip city spin maybe eight years ago when I used to feature more r&bish tunes in my sets. still love it to bits! one you dont see too often..