Rob Wigley

Right a quick update on the situation-many many thanks to all those of you who have contributed so far. we now have donations in from nearly every continent on the planet !! such is the wide spread respect for one of our un-sung soul hero's. I've moved this topic on to all about the soul in case anyone has missed the appeal in Soul news. We would like some help getting the message out via FaceBook and other sites --if everyone could mention this on their FaceBook profiles with a link and a link to the fund Paypal address i think we may be able to raise enough funds for a "headstone" sooner than the "Flat" marker--not everyone comes on Soul Source--also if you are on other soul related sites it may help. EVERYONE who send s a donation -no matter how large or small-( all donation amounts are anonymous by the way ) will be mentioned and have the opportunity to leave a few lines about Steve or what his music means to them-these will be copied into a book and presented to Steve's family by Melvin Davis--hopefully at the Markers dedication ceremony. Despite his bad luck and poor health in the later years of his life, this is an opportunity to show his family and indeed the people of the Soul music community in Detroit just how much we care about the music. Please send donations by PayPal ONLY to stevemancha@gmx.com if you can mark as "A gift" this will help on the charges involved so the money goes where it is supposed to. Copy and paste into you facebook profile to get this really moving Realistically we expect this appeal only to be open for another two weeks. EVERYONE who donates will be contacted by myself via their paypal e-mail with details of the book one the fund has closed. Many many thanks for all the donations currently received but lets just give this one that little extra push, you never know this time next year you may be in Detroit looking at the very marker you helped create and paying you respects to Steve Mancha Thank you once again Rob, Ady & Melvin

Just coping in from across from "Soul News " where Ady originally posted this for those who have missed it Steve Mancha Memorial Fund by ady croasdell on 19 Jan 2011 623 reads 25 comment(s) Soul Articles Index - Soul News /uploads/868c547fca9ba95d72b945352cd6114c.gifWhile talking to Melvin Davis, it became apparent that Steve passed away in poor circumstances and his surviving mother and brother are not in great financial shape. As Steve and the music of black Detroit mean so much to us, myself and Rob Wigley, who has worked closely with Melvin in recent years, thought it would be good to give a little back and show our appreciation of Steve and that body of artists who have given us such memorable music. We have therefore set up a PayPal account for a fund to provide a marker or possibly even a headstone to commemorate Steve's life and what it has meant to us. If anybody would like to contribute the PayPal account is understevemancha@gmx.com and will just be open for a couple of weeks as we want to get the money to Detroit reasonably quickly. If anybody has problems with PayPal please PM me or Rob (ideally him as he'll be administering it) and I'm sure we can sort out a way for anybody to contribute. I'll be contacting all UK record labels who have been involved with Steve's recordings and I'm sure Ace Records will be contributing this week. The gifts will be anonymous unless asked otherwise and if there are any messages for the family and soul people of Detroit I'm sure Rob can pass them on via Melvin. There is no minimum donation, I believe calling it a gift, which it will be, may mean we save on PayPal charges. Perhaps somebody could enlighten us on that? Thanks Ady

Every track a winner-got me collecting the real thing way back in the 70s ! bargain grab it !

Had a night to think about this I paid about £80 to see Oasis last year with Laddo he's just done the V festival saturday pass £80 and Muse at Old trafford cost £75 off ebay I'd like to go £100 is a snip if you got a good view-but there are tickets at £300 each for front row tables now £600 for a pair is stretching it a bit £1,000 for a night out. its a charity do, they expect you to chuck another grand in the pot £2,000 for a night out ? its footballer stuff to most of us but I bet there's a couple on here that already have their front row seats booked lucky buggers Rob

This is probably tagged on to the end of a tour as a Charity fund raiser-David did a similar thing at the end of last year -remember-Freda Payne, Jimmy Ruffin etc etc. you'll probably get to see them all a lot cheaper-£50 ish in a decent theatre I'll be on the look out. Rob

People used the Wigan Balcony as a flyer launch pad in the 70s as well-didn't they Godfrey

Tats--in his "Shell suit" period before he was famous Rob

Great stuff, nice to hear the set as "Complete" from the days they were played-amazing quality on "The Whole thing" not heard it for years...to be followed by the Anderson Brothers..mint Rob

I'm addicted to labels so there's tons of "Fillers" but over the years the "Slotters" and "Fillers" have turned up trumps I think quality over quantity is ok--but how do you whittle down 300 odd Stax/ Volt etc ? most are worth a couple of quid with the "Nice" bits in there as well you have to have the lot !!! pleased I have only got about 1,000 Motown / related 45s and never collected the label as such Then there are the UK items............. trouble is I have a wants list as long as my arm....

Come on Terry Rider, he had a White demo as i got his "Jumper"-- Gwen bought 5 copies to Prestatyn all re-called off aunts, uncles friends and cousins LOL Rob

So here we go just HOW BIG is your collection ? Our lad has just bought a new I pod thingy (his second) as he has 4,000 tunes on his first one. This set me thinking about getting to the 4,000 Northern / rare mark took me about 15 years or so Its took him 2 years-music daft now, but sadly only a smattering of soul amongst the Oasis / Killers/ Hendrix / Muse etc. I will be shortly examining my collecting but its in the region of 15,000 45 s / pos 2,000 Albums / and another 1,000 CDs so if you played everything there are possibly 70,000 tracks to listen to, obviously many duplicated on the CD s but still there. So what's your opinion on size, I think mines too big, but its hard to part with a lot of them-however crap ! 5 copies of Wayne Gibson for starterscould whittle it down to 2 I'd like to run at about 1,000 45s but don't think I can. Any thoughts ? Rob

Where did I put that 50 box of Latin 45s after I last played them at the Saltergate ?? Use it before you lose it ! Kin 'ell £950 Rob

Just picked this up on FaceBook posting this in memory of the three scooterists who have sadly lost their lives attending the IoW scooter rally, doing the thing they love the most. i would urge everyone, scooterists/bikers and non-bikers to PLEASE post this to your walls?! the more drivers that are aware the more of our lives will be saved from needless death?! absolute respect to the families and friends of the fallen scooterists - we are one Jesus 3 dead ? anyone know anything ? R & K

Warsop ex servicemens club Jimmy was living in Retford at the time..... any half decent copies will have Stones, Wards or mansfield Bitter stains on them A "proper" S yorkshire/ Notts/ Derbyshire record--don't think there will be many copies further south than Nottingham £100 ??? must have pic sleve ! Rob

Its the fumes from the 2 stroke.........

I remember Mrs Woods at the casino ticket office saying to the lad in front of me "Yes it has gone up 20p, BLAME MAGGIE THATCHER !" Strange "Cashing in" is not on the soundtrack....... Rob

I wrote an article in Shades of Soul about collecting RCA many many moons ago.....still got em all about 160 I think ! Rob always loved The Geminis "Can't let you go" or Susan Barrett "grain of sand"

Dare I ask anything Northern Comp wise on 8 track ? Rob

Judy freeman and Blackrock "Hold on" is a hard one..... Rob

The photograph on the wall reminds me of the one in the hotel in "The Shining" when Jack Nicholson is in the photo at the end........... I think I just saw Garry Cape in that one.... Great clip R & K.

Surprised no one said Michael Well done Gareth, but it brings to mind how many "Jacksons" have made records and most of them Bloody good singers !

Miles out LOL

Give you a clue the singer is a Jackson (and a wonderful man too)

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