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43 miles on foot? 🤔

Well I just hope Sammy gets something out it, if he's still around.

Just checked out the tracks you mentioned, that's a few minutes of my life I'll never get back, but hey ho. I think there crass, cheesey and plastic. Lacking class or originality and I'm surprised they have duped anybody on here. I'm not suggesting the're ripping of Northern soul, just soul asthetics in its loosest sense. Essentially as plastic and vacuous as WCF.

Anyone got an opinion on the allergies track? Relative to footsie. What I'm getting at is, the allergies is the thin end the wedge for me in terms of contemporary retro soul, though there are many more, they remind me of the Wigan talor made's. Why? They're both just really lazy half arsed attempts at dancefloor pop. They take the elements and stylings of soul and assemble these plastic facsimiles. A lot of the new releases have an undefinable quality that just lacks the authenticity of true 60's soul records.

In that case, Do to perhaps think Mr Gordy was let's say comparable to stock Aitken and waterman?

It has its saving grace in exposing the scene to the mainstream. The allergies track just exploits the sensibility of soul records, with none of the actual soul, IMHO.

Seems to me to be an insidious creep of retro soul lite, as I'll call it, for purposes of debate. Anyway the allergies track epitomises the crop of cod soul that often features on daytime radio, I'm sure you'll remind me of others.🙄 WCF epitomises the worst of the commercialism of the 70's. I'd prefer footsie personally, at it's a half decent pop record.

Goes to show that the diggers, hip hop breaks, head's, know there stuff and are as on it, as anyone from the upfront scene.

Sounds a little like Marlena Shaw to these ears

Might not be to all tastes again, but in terms of vocal skill, can anyone top that? https://youtu.be/uM3Wt4eYFpE

Lots will hate this but this, but it's brilliant to me and has a whole lotta soul IMHO.

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/04/the-bizarre-story-of-the-imitation-queen-of-soul/ Mention of lavelle Hardy in there.

Personal favourite

Possibly it's a much needed distraction ATM.

Some excellent folk art there, thank you.

That's a re press isn't it? Did this come out originally on soul potion?

I wonder, working in a mainstream record shop at the time, if you were registered for chart sales you literally got 100's of singles given to you every week. Tihings like this were never full price to customers either, usually 99p in attempts to get them to sell. The whole industry in the 90's was seriously currupt. Sol I wouldn't treat any chart as an accurate record of real sales. Brian Adams, no 1 for all those weeks, yet you never see it in a charity shop, odd that. 😁

Wonder if that included 12 inch sales, I'd say at that time that s would have sold more on that format, I bought on a 12 the time, and I honestly was interested in 7 inch singles at that point. I exect it's more common on a 12. I don't have a 7, never seen it at car boots ect, but I'm not trying to big it's rarity, tis common as Corona.

Wonder how many were issued? I hazard a guess of A minimum of 10'000. Most probably agent out free to shops on billboard.

Thanks that's a great starting point. But do collectors agree with it nowadays?

Couldn't find anything on a search, so how about some of you British collectors inform us what the rarest on this s legendary imprint is. Rarest demo?rarest black one? And what about the other Uk labels Detroit's finest was issued on, Fontana, oriole ECT.

Is the outside looking in the same as Eddie Holland? No writing credit on the label.

Don't mention Craig Charles, things are bad enough.😳😉😁.

Have to say I was really disappointed, as I generally am with the BBC and especially BBC 4. It was like a Poundland soul compilation IMHO.

Maybe totally unrelated but I get a buzz 😁 from this underground house label with many future collectables on it. https://www.discogs.com/label/3460-Bumble-Beats-Records