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not sure I agree with how readily availble most of the top house sounds from the early days were. I'm still searching for some now! There loads of guys still going through parksy's and Sasha's tracklistings from old tapes, site devoted to it and real fanatics out there. From my recollection getting the best sounds on the early house/ underground rave scene was harder than northern, nobody announced the names of the records for a start! Standing for hours on end on saturday in Eastern block to hear what was played on the big system in the was one way, word of mouth another. Lots of imports were about for a week or two from the distributors to disappear if you missed them and hadnt the cash that week, otherwise you'd have to wait 20 years for discogs to be invented to get another chance.

Got you Eric, updated, items sold, more to follow shortly

I have the following up for sale, feel free to make and offer. Charles Diamond and the inspirations- No one else can take your place -Pink Breakthrough £40 VG++ just a few marks, loads of gloss Sold! sought after and some say the better version! of this wigan anthem, just sooooooo rare on first issue that this is the only realistic way to own for most. Chappels- Help me somebody- £25 Bedford E+ Sold! Obscure, uptempo female group, good tune. Cassadons- 2 sided love- Beltone- E, Sticker mark on label £25 Sold! Stafford spin for Gary Rushbrooke, uptempo male group dancer, tune! Junior wells - Youre tuff enough-Blue rock- £ 10 Superb, r and b uptempo dancer Robert John- Cant stop loving you- Canadian columbia £ 8 Nm nice copy The Emotions I cant no more heartaches- Brainstorm £10 E+ great female group dancer Betty Wright- Sweet lovin daddy/ girls can do what the guys do- Alston £8 NM Fantastic double sider bargain Ben E King- Too bad- Atco- £8 VG+ Plays fine, tiny bit of pen on label Thats all for now more to follow, pm if interested

No Dj has contributed as much as Frankie, aside Larry, and the pair were inseprable anyway. Much missed, a sad day for music indeed.

i'm wondering if masking fluid ( smells just like the marvyn glue we used at school) would be better, it seems different to pva, far more elasticity, but think its water based, anyone tried it?

probably more likely that they sort out those 'weirdo music fans, who want to dance in that old fashioned way'.

the rest of detriot vs motown maybe a fairer battle.

mind you always wished I'd gone to bretby ( was that 9ts or the other side of the millenium?). and the 9ts must have been a bumper time for buying tunes.

I said the low point was the mid 9ts.

its perhaps a good opportunity to re- tell a tale I've heard told on the scene a couple of times; and ask if there's any truth in it? apologies in advance if its entirely fictional. 'local resident was playing a set at winsford nighter in the dark days of the mid 9ts. He played an acetate of one of Butch's exclusives, dubbed from a tape from one of his dj sets. Butch strolls over to the decks and as the tune is still playing takes the needle off the deck and walks back over to his sales box without saying a word.' if it is true, conna fault yer youth. was anyone there? can you confirm it? what was the tune?

fair enough, folk, just heard he lived over in that area, so assumed he had that was where he was from, conna kayp the dialect up four lung. just wondering why its called the neck end... https://www.thepotteries.org/six_towns/longton.htm

Onna sure lark, but ar thowt he were frim Olseerger, tinna hayven stowk, castle raylee. I conna tork thuw, thee coal us Biddlers wallybocs.

He did a cover of 'I cant please you' its on the mfp lp, not exactly northern but worthy of a listen. Excellent doc too, BB seems to be one of the few musicians that seem able to transend non secular and spiritiual music.

cant believe nobody has an opinion on this, are we too busy being dillusional about the brits?

personally I cant see how anyone involved in an underground scene can think that the blatant commercial exploitation of a subculture that's taken generations to evolve, or dissolve for that matter, can be a positive thing. 'happy' says nothing to me about the qualities of northern soul i appreciate. 'happy' is highly commercial pop written with children in mind, am I missing a connection here to the bittersweet refrains of the salvadors or lou pride?

got to raise this here, many of these by the very nature, are exclusively owned, in the original format, by one or two collectors, not all of whom play records out on a regular basis. deep breath here, but is it good for the scene that many of these tunes remain unheard by the mainstream northern crowd? not even sure of my own thoughts on this one a very thorny issue indeed! what about tape only finds? any of the top jocks own a reel to reel? sounds ludicrous but greg wilson takes one to all his sets to play his edits. it seems odd and equally ludicrous that some quirk of fate decides because there's no acetate of a particular recording we can play a recent issue of a track, but not if some had the foresight to cut an acetate (or two) at the time. As I said, not sure how i really feel about it myself, and certainly not trying to be provocative but would be interested on members thoughts.

has mr dobson got the only acetate of this then chalky? sad if its the case it deserves massive exposure.

derek martin- flashback, as good as eddie parker, imho, mastering is weak I know, but an awesome track. cant believe nobody's mentioned, charlie rich- dont tear me down either.

cant see itm but cant believe we've missed, Otis- loving by the pound. Jimmy ruffin- he who picks his nose, was massive, got hammered and pissed everyone off but is still brilliant in my book.

thats the fellow, did it have a cover up title as well?

its allready posted but, tammi terrell 'all i do' still tops my tree, and I cant bloody remember who does that ' you're the dream' track from stafford. any help?

just trying to make a point about how commercial sounding many of the songs from that era were, Betty Swan should of been a hit when it was released.

tis all to easy to forget the context, Four v's was played alongside this, Linda Lloyd, betty swan, Spinners- 'dont want to fall...' even Nolan Porter, lots of commercial sounding tunes around at the time as the scene became, ahem reinvigorated. Most I loved at the time, some sound shite now, but at least there were fresh plays in the main room.

thanks for clearing that up, wasn't sure when it happened

the mentality of hip hop diggers is so different, for them its all about the groove, collectability often doesn't figure.