Pete S

There's a Laura Lee on Ric Tic on another sales list for something like £80, I was going to list this for £30 today, so what's going on with that one? also these, sorry there are so many, just wondered if anyone has actual experience of selling them - not price guide prices, thank you THE VISITORS - NEVER THE LESS - TRC DJ BETTY JOHNSON - IT AIN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY - DECCA ISSUE CHUCK OVERTON - IS IT POSSIBLE - KAPP ISSUE THE DREAM MERCHANTS - STOP YOU'RE BREAKING MY HEART - RENEE DJ VELVET HAMMER - HAPPY - SOOZI (COLOURED LABEL, THINK I SAW THIS AT £75 ON HERE RECENTLY?) SHEP - FOOL TO FOOL - TNT ISSUE POETS - I'VE GOT TWO HEARTS - SYMBOL ISSUE SKIP JACKSON & THE SHANTONS - I'M ON TO YOU GIRL - DOT MAR ISSUE THANKS EVERYONE

£10 - £15 mate, sorry! Should have asked me, I'd have done you one for £12

Pat I'm selling it mate not buying it but thanks anyway!

They still do Eddie! Remember at Wigan when we used to hear (mainly) Alan Rhodes play things like The Bellboys, Chris Cerf, Fabulettes, Ellingtons, Camp, Baja Marimba Band, Lorraine Silver, Interplay - we'd heard of these records and knew these records were coming but Wigan hadn't got them yet, St Ives and Cleethorpes had them first, and it probably worked in the opposite direction too. I remembermy friend Paddy coming back from St Ives raving about Interplay and the next week asking Richard for it and Richard hadn't even heard it, 4 weeks later became one of his biggest records. Having said that - I couldn't have faced going to St Ives, Cleethorpes or yate, I just couldn't have missed a week at Wigan!

Early 80's that one

By the time I got on the scene, the OOTP's had been 'deleted' but I picked up loads of them over the years, must have had all of them now, not to everyones taste but a big part of the scene I'm afraid

Usually £125, sometimes £150, however after what I've seen people selling records for on here last few days, they'll charge you £250. And it'll be an issue. In VG.

The first one I ever paid for was Lou Pride b/w Reggie Garner. If you ever see an old emidisc oif Lou Pride it's worth picking up because the reissue and all subsequent reissues were 10 seconds shorter than the original, so those Emi's are the only things with the long version on at a cheap price.

Have to say no because all the Emi's of that were the original version - I sold one not long back. I did have a rare one, Mirwood Strings - Don't Pretend instrumental, but not the one that came out on a bootleg - this was the one without the lead violins which was the first version played, it's still never been released.

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Title: darlene love - a long way to be happy - philles Artist: darlene love Track: a long way to be happy Label: unissued Info: this was always meant to be be a single release but was withdrawn at the last moment. what a vocal, what a production. 84820 view soul record info

Title: derrick harriott - the loser - island / trojan Artist: derrick harriott Track: the loser Label: island / trojan Info: obviously i have posted this up before but it was off my very scratchy island copy, i didn't realised it for a reissue on the brown trojan label as a b side in 1973 so here is a recording off that issue, still not perfect but a lot less scratchy than the first one. this has to be one of the best 3 soulful rocksteady tunes ever made 84460 view soul record info

There's two or three already out there mate - Goldmine put out one particularly brilliant selection

A genius. RIP Richard.

It is a good point though, and I point I made when it came out - I'd have loved to know the artists reactions to finding out that their records were popular, or how they came to make them; I remember a short clip of Garnet Mimms was included where he couldn't believe Looking For You was popular, said he recorded it and forgot about it

Good to see you here Ian Levine, I hope you try and keep calm in the face of provocation and don't explode like you usually do, as it would be nice to have your knowledge on here for a while and not see you get kicked off

I know what you mean, but they had no choice but to re-record them. The new stuff is really good though.

this one is just as good

Ian has expained to me that they haven't sampled anything - brand new technologly which didn't even exist a year ago now allows them to analize the unique frequencies of those northern soul drumbeats and change the sounds that they recorded themelsves to match almost exactly. Ian's got over 2000 master recordings, containing all of the original drums from Baby I'm still the same man, Your magic put a spell on me etc - and you can tweak these drum sounds to make them sound as if they come from any era.

I reckon so too Eddie. Maybe I'll try and get an mp3 and post it in the media section so more people can hear it.

Bit of a difference between one drum roll intro and a whole song made up from other tracks though. I like the Frank Popp records anyway.

I think the problem is, we got so used to the Levine trademark production sound that we didn't feel the need to actually listen to anything else cos we know what it's going to sound like - I was genuinely surprised when I went onto his youtube site and actually listened to some of the tracks today. Did you hear the sample from The Sweets - Something about my baby, right at the start, I got that in one this record don't half grow on you after 2 or 3 listens though

What about this...this has surely got to be as good as any recent product played on the Northern scene...I think maybe we dismissed the 21st century northern soul project too easily without even listening

Just wondered if anyone had actually seen any of this stuff - the old SWONS footage I mean - what they've done to them is astonishing. All those terrible psychedelic swirly effects have been completely removed and the videos look really contemporary. Nearly 10 years ago I was one of the original films biggest detractors but over time it's become probably the most important historical Northern Soul document that there is (some of it due to the fact that many of it's participants started to pass away after it came out). But this is a different kettle of fish, it's not the original film, it's the performances plus a load of new ones (including Eddie Parker - I'm Gone apparently). Anyway I can assure you this is not an advert on behalf of Ian Levine Ltd - I'm genuinely kind of shocked as to what they've done with the footage - and the new stuff isn't bad either! ">