Eddie Hubbard

Dundee - a deeper Shade of Soul , at The Queens Hotel .Great fresh music , very friendly , and loads of vodka lol.... highly recommended . Lifeline is always brilliant as well for much the same reasons ...Best wishes ,Eddie

Wow , that was a great story Neil , going through all those copies with " This is just a B side " when I suddenly found one with " Love your hurt runs deep " on .Your face was a picture ....Really look forward to the book mate ,Best,Eddie

Ordered mine yesterday ...can't wait !! Best,Eddie

Cheers Mel , I remember buying Contempo's " Deep Soul volume 2 " comp. from a newspaper shop as well ...records were everywhere ...Best,Eddie

Even in downhome Banbury ,Oxon we had the MGM / Verve '45's on the visiting fairground as prizes .I also remember winning a sealed Mel and Tim " Starting all over again " Stax album for losng at darts , which was easy for me ....Remember the local market had upteen copies of The Magictones on MAHS , and further afield in Leamington Spa , there was loads of copies of Spyder Turner and Kim Weston on MGM . Best,Eddie

Lisa Shaw " I'm OK " Jazzanova featuring Ben Westbeech " I can tell " The Final Decisions " I ain't feelin ' no pain " oldies wise love Ady Pountain's " Crazy Baby " , Butch's inst of The Voicemasters and " Just like the weather " new vocal , plus Tommy and The Derbys , and many more ... Best,Eddie

I love the flip side " Ip slippin ' dippin ' " which is on a 2 sided WD and much cheaper ...The issue is pretty hard to find tho' Lenny ....Best wishes ,Eddie

I voted " awesome " remember getting this on tape via Rob and Chris Marriott during the Stafford era , legendary super rare side then , and still very hard to get now .The flip is brilliant and probably the even better side .Sure it's messy , but then lots of our fave records are , it's Rare Soul ain't it ? Best,Eddie

Thats my favourite version - love it !! Best,Eddie

Pete ,I've got a Black Music mag. from about '74 , with Ian Levine raving over both Baby don't you weep and I'm gonna love you , so wouldn't be suprised if it was Levine first again ....Best,Eddie

That's fine Kev , ironically Skip Jackson is now popular for the flip side as well .Lost count of the amount of times I could've bought Professionals from Wigan for 18 - 20 quid .Remember Rob Marriott paying £40 off Soul Bowl [ how we laughed at the time ... ] Wasn't until Richard started pushing it in the latter days of Wigan that it's stature grew .He always announced it as " This is Steve Mancha " [ probably because the flip is " Did my baby call " ] ....Best,Eddie

Hi Kev ,I never said it was a failed Wigan spin , those tapes were home made from Gillys records that he brought round .Think Skip Jackson was a Mecca side wasn't it ? Best,Eddie

Ha Ha , you're too kind Gilly ..Still got the tapes from those days , Skip Jackson , Fantastic Epics etc ...All the best ,Eddie

And that's what it's always been about Ian , travelling to these obscure places to hear records[ and possibly buy them ] you couldn't hear anywhere else - great isn't it !! Best,Eddie

Gilly , do you remember when you used to turn up at me and Elaine's and get me out of bed from my night shift LOL ...You always had some interesting records for me to tape and on this occasion you had Larry Wright from Popcorn and a Popcorn and The Mohawks Popcorn bag , given out at Cinemas in Detroit in the early 60's [ have you still got it ? ] Great memories of those days , even if I couldn't get back to sleep afterwards Ha Ha .....Best wishes ,Eddie

Ian , you'll kick yourself .....Yvonne recorded her version of " I Can't change " c/w " Mend The Torn Pieces " on Junior records , sure you know that tho ' .........Best,Eddie

Hi Ady , like the previous poster , I remember the article from the mid 70's , in Frank Elson's column in B & S , where he listed a chart from Ian Levine which was made up of downtempo records .Dan Folger was amongst that bunch of '45's . I made a mental note of it and pulled 2 white demos out of Golden Oldies in Seattle in the summer of 1980, a week after Tim and Nogger from Stoke had visited the store .....Best,Eddie

Hi Kev , was talking to Julian Bentley today about The Shalimars and all the other Verve /MGM stuff , most of it was Bradford market I think , loads of 'em ......Best,Eddie

Bobby Hutton was Guy at Stafford C/U as Casanova Bennett , Dean Courtney and Bernie Williams were Ian Levine I think ....Best,Eddie

I remember this being a Stafford side for the flip C/ U as Experienced Heartmenders " Whats your name , whats your game " , not sure when " Baby " was first played tho' ...Best,Eddie

Excellent it is too Ady . On the subject of Cecil Washington , I remember you had one of the early copies , from Craig Moerer in Portland around '81 ? I remember it was around the time I first got married LOL....We were going to Yate together after Wigan closed .Best,Eddie

Who discovered Al Williams ? was it Koppell or Anderson ? Covered by Richard as The Masqueraders " Nothing " ....Best,Eddie

I've got " On a magic carpet ride " by Derek Martin , Ady .It's on the Roulette CD from a couple of years back ....Best,Eddie

Bloody hell, 24 then Dave ? LOL.....stone mint as well ... Best,Eddie

I think because the first copy to be played was an untitled acetate ? Ady C . can probably confirm ? Rob found the first actual released copy .Best,Eddie