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Love instrumentals.................nobody plays em anymore.

I can't see how Beggin was overlooked in the Golden era....perfect tempo and a great record.The funny thing the northern scene was usually one step ahead then things went mainstream....now they are taking from the mainstream after it has been remixed and sampled.That Bob Sinclair is a bad record though....You Succeeded another great record...have it on a silver label from memory and would probably fill floors given the chance but some deejays seem to busy playing Tommy Hunt okey cokey...ska....Del Davis and Al Capone plus Latin rather than exposing some quality uptempo northern.

Was definately played on the mod scene in 86/87.....just after Berts Apple Crumble was big and everyone was mining the Derams.... (funnily enough the best Deram 45 and northern soul is Danny Williams-Everybody Needs Somebody...and totally ignored)...things like Heart Trouble were also spun......There was a spate of latin records as well being played and ive just recently got rid of 2 copies of Pete Rodriguez I Like It Like that at silly money prices.....I hope this carries on as i can busily buy the uptempo "mirwood style" stompers at good prices... and offload these 80s oddities.....what next Maximillion-The Snake,Shmon,Ray Jay-Love Doll,Ricardo Ray-Nitty Gritty, Ray Barretto-Soul Drummers,Willie Bobo-Juicy..... northern soul "Post Millenium" The Scrambled Egg Years.

Wonder what happened to Alan ? He had long dreads.There's a Dingwalls reunion next week but never seen him at any of the others...as I said some great records from him.

We probably went to a lot of the same gigs....the Willis Jackson was a big record....Titos O always reminds me of hot sweaty summer days....never seen a non flexi copy though.I used to go to the weekenders with Simon Mansell who did the jazz room for donkeys...Searling also did a northern spot in the modern room one year.Now Colin Curtis was on every year and I cant remember him doing a mecca or northern set....it was all bloody two step.

I've a copy of Pyramid and I've never played it out!! I love the record from the days of Ian Clark playing it....it is an 80 s giffer though and I can't imagine anyone wanting to dance to it though.

Got the first book....funnily enough not been able to buy much at those prices....Soul In The Sun...that's in the Okey Cokey top 500. I'm sure Derek Meads second record after me in London was Elbie Parker..Adventurers Easy Baby has had a little revival as has Al Kent The Way you've Been Acting lately....I predict Frank Wilson to have dropped a few places...Zu Zu is definately up there as a new entry...looking forward to a new book wish I knew about the voting.

Ive got the vocal by Humbug...dioesnt turn up too often

Agree Joe jama must be high as well....and that Latin track Sugar....Beggin was an 80 s mod spin ...as was Pow Wow....Twinkle little star ...heard that in 3 different countries..Detroit Soul must be in the top 20...Flame n king must be pretty high.How does the data get collated for the 500 ?

Sorry for spelling doing it on mobile....I did buy off Percy from.outside the Jazz Cafe bought my Costanzo and Rene Bloch gear off him.Visited loads of the upnorth soul weekenders were funnily enough.....I was one of about 30 people who went from the jazzroom to listen to searlings northern sets...the modern room music was insipid.I've about 30 of those venezulan lps many of which were replaced by us origs.Mole jazz Alec from.soul jazz bluebird records Paddington...honest jons....record ans tape....there was a stall outside johns where I got a few Tubby Hayes lps....

Ah Mr Flynn....yes I moved to London in 87 was going to niters etc etc....but I thought the music got really bad.....beat ballads etc I was also going to the wag on Monday nights....but only upstairs....downstairs was for the rare groovers.I moved to the jazz scene hard Latin bop etc baz Fe jazz Paul Murphy etc etc...it was exciting music.I only started visiting northern dos again when the Ritz restarted ...as for record buying I was buying from Alan Riding in Dingwalls who because of his US girlfriend was bringing great stuff back...Got the Bobby Montez and pucho stuff off him.I remember buying loads of Latin and funk 45s cheap there as that scenevwas about the lp....I bouth the smokin.shades of black 45 there which I hear was a butch spin..

I was buying them around 89 and before.They were always on that really flexible vinyl.There was loads done inc the Joe Battan Riot lp Tito puentes,Ricardo Ray,loads of Eddie and Charlie Palmieris and the lp with Titos Oddesey on it which was an in demand track at the time.Most of the Fanias used the seventies label style.

Crombie boys and silver sprayed dm's scooter flares.bmp

You want to read a book called Days In The Life.... a gang of Jewish East End mods were behind this. They used to run the door at The UFO Club and kept the skinheads out.They were fleecing the hippies in 67/68 and money went into this venture.The book is by Jonathan Green.Oh yeah a live unofficial recording is a bootleg ...a copy of a soul disc is a pressing....

The back blurb from The Parsons book 1976

Pulp fiction the blurb re The Ghouls was from 73...

Ah you have got it Pete Sugar, Marc Feld, Wayne Kirven. The drink was after the exhibition at Hackney Town Hall on the original Stamford Hill Mods (who weree in the original Town magazine article from 61)....between me and you Marc Feld struggled to keep up apparently and the tailor to visit was Bilgorri of Bishopsgate.Pete Sugar lives abroad now. By the way it is often wrongly stated that Slade were the first group to don the skinhead look.....a london band called Neat Change (who featured Jimmy Edwards later in Time UK with Rick Buckler) were the first in 67/68.They were the hard mod crossover/skin look and released a psych pop 45 called I lied To Auntie May which they all hated as it didn't reflect their live sound.. www.stewarthomesociety.org/interviews/edwards.htm

I was out drinking the other week with Wayne Kirven and Jeff Dexter who were the original Stamford Hill Mods 1960-61 who told me Mod was finished in 63 and totally dead for them by 64.Some great record importing stories by Wayne who wouldnt touch British copies of records....anyway how about this for a list of dates for the Skin look...Ive got Nik Cohns Today There Are No More Gentleman book who adds at the bottom that Crombie boys had just superseded sudehead.In Ireland the bootboy look went on forever and was carried on by The Undertones.Theres a few NiK Cave biker books at the time where he describes Angels battling with sudeheads in 71....in a later book they are battling "The Dudes" who wear carnations.Now that Clockwork piccie I have is a scottish gang...the leader wears a bowler, eye make up, crombie (with velvet collar), parallel trousers (not baggies),dress shirt (with a dickie bow) and carnation. His mates wear the same but a few have collar length hair and one wears a top hat!!. All have brollies.Anybody have any comments about this list....and I wonder if anyone did the lot!! Stylists 60-63Mods 64-66Hard Mods 66-68Peanuts 68-69Skinhead 69-70Suedehead 70-71Crombie Boys 71Clockwork Look 72Smoothie 72-73Bootboy 73-78Theres also the northern scooterboys who were going throughout and jacked it in after the debacle of Quad and the mod revival

I've got a pic somewhere of clockwork suedeheads...they wore crombies bowler hsts Wye make up and dickie bows with boots.Most had collar length hair and carried brollies.Suedeheads evolved into bootboys...longer hair cross ratings saint man tattos and tank tops....but they kept the crombie.

They might be on here....

I remember in about 78 and 79 there were actual Teddy boy families with mam,dad and the kids.I always thought that it was odd....i was a kid in dealer boots and an adidas top.The dads always had an exagerrated look from the fifties early teds with grey in their hair, tons of tattoos,loads of rings and Mud style drapes.I'm looking forward to seeng northern soul families on the bus.

If you decided that the scene seems to be lacking and you put on an event and started to deejay wiith the records you have listed above....that seems to be the problem....ie too many Indians with poundland arrows.

Don't the "heritage" deejays feel embarrassed following a "non heritage" dj with a box load of originals.I followed Ginger Taylor on a few weeks ago at The Dome...he stayed on stage chatting etc while I was pulling out tracks.I would have felt a right twat pulling out Soul Fox boots...I love Stoke btw and have only seen a dodgy copy of Jackie Edwards I Feel So Bad being played by Chris King...maybe Kev should have a matrix camera.

He obviously doesn't know what second pressing means and thought he had got s bargain.Jesus....if you are going to get into paying large amounts of money out for records...do your homework....its even worse...he is on here and could have used the search facility..you put 2 nd Press for Petes sake!!

Will take the James Bynum ..what's the PayPal.Thanks