Pete S

Known? Rated? Hated? Dunno myself, can't find it in the books, not bad early 60's a bit like a cross between Stand By Me and Somebody Help Me (Donald Jenkins).

You chose the wrong record with Weak Spot - for a short time it WAS the biggest record and more or less everyone wanted to hear it and it was a good record. Hawaii 5-0 - supposedly played by Sam as "a joke" came at a time when northern had never been more popular so I doubt if that many people left because of that. Tim Tam and Muriel Day were indeed crap of the highest order.

Does this have anything to do with you stopping doing the radio show?

Did you know Ian has re-opened ANS Phil? Except I can't find it to join in..

I'll send you one, don't worry. Pleasant or nasty?

I've also received several emails, not via the site though. People will talk...

cough

It's also a complete rip off of I Need Help by Detroit Land Apples but no sample is mentioned on the album sleeve

No you didn't, you got congratulated for saying it!

I've got one of those lp's here now but it was slightly different because me and my mate had one each cut at Jah Tubbys studios in London, sent them 16 tracks of our own choice, came back as an lp - this was in 1989 or 1990 - I sold mine years ago but his came into my posession when he died last year.

What we used to do, go into Sundown records in Wolverhampton on a friday afternoon and there would be a list of titles (at the time I remember there were tracks such as: Eula Cooper, Lou Pride, Reggie Garner, Frankie Crocker, Zola, Larry Santos, ken Williams, High Voltage) - you paid £5 (bearing in mind my paper money was £1.50 a week!) and went back a week later to pick your records up. The handwriting on the labels was in fact very elegant and I soon realised it came from the hand of Pep, who opened his own shop in town 6 months later and always had emi's for sale. There was also a 2 man operation from Ormskirk (no names) who operated from the back bar at Wigan, they had a 2 page typed list of titles (I'm moving on a year now so it was the time of Yum Yums, Flirtations, Adams Apples, Len Barry, Florence Devore etc) and they took sometimes 4 weeks to supply by which time your title had been bootllegged! Russ's records in Wigan openly advertised custom cuttings of tracks, I remember having a (don't laugh) Poppies b/w Present off Russ and it was very low sound quality. Someone else who posts on here also did the same service, 4 tracks or 2 tracks on Pyral discs. So basically they were everywhere but not necessarily in boxes pre-prepared, it was more a case of asking for the tracks and they'd be cut for you. Around the middle of 78 the 7" blanks appeared to get scarce and awful 10" blanks appeared instead.

Brian?

Yeah it's been sh*t since I stopped doing their Northern articles for them! The UK soul one, the UK Motown one, the Grapevine one, the Northern compilations one - all classics in their own right (I'm only joking but at least it got NS into the mag - I supplied them with most of the labels too. Then Nick Brown did a tremendous in depth Motown article which was superb) They featured the Lynne Randell record in the Digging For Gold section about a year ago and again they pictured and wrote about the wrong side. Ever since John Reed left to run Sanctuary Records, and because of the devastating effect of Ebay on their advertising, they've had to change tack and they've turned it into a kind of "Q" magazine for collectors. It's poor but I admire them for keeping at it.

I find it completely impossible to sustain a collection of ANYTHING. And I think I know why. I enjoy the ctual collecting more than I do having the item. So it's all about the thrill of the chase I think - it must be, because I look at 300+ white Island label 45's and think "why did I buy half of those, I've never even played them"? And when I get a full set or a near full set of something, I sell it!

You crazy fool!

Great minds etc

Thats a compilation Nashee - the original is on the album I Put A Spell On You - and Phil, I just found it, it's in lovely shape, I'll stick it in the post tomorrow. I only collect reggae lp's and northern compilations y'see.

Phil I am 99% certain I've got this LP, UK original. If I have, you can have it for nothing. Wait there..

Think it's LP only

John you see a problem in every word I ever post on your topics, I do not question it's rarity or value, I simply said that pep and Levine had the record, and not only did Pep make me an emi off his copy but I was sat with him at Wigan when he sold it.

When I mentioned this track on here in the Levines New LP topic and said I thought things sounded better minimal, he emailed and his opinion was, let's just say 'different to mine'.

I remember seeing this at Out On The Floor in Camden in 1988 or 89 and thinking it looked interesting but not buying it. A good 4 years later I spent a couple of days with Gene R off here, we went to camden and it will still there in the shop! So I bought it, featured it in my mag and all of a sudden, well you know what happens next. I paid £3 for it, mint Decca demo.

weird alternative version of the video here

An utterly fantastic record, and to think it was made in this decade, it's one of if not the best authentic 60's soul pastiches/tributes ever - I love it because it's so basic - drums, bass, guitar, piano and some understated brass - that's all that's needed - why record in a multi track studio when this sounds like it was done live in one take

It was a simple but excellent question which wasn't answered