Pete S

Allnighter goers are perceived as being friendlier but that's because of the amount of nighter aids taken.

Mine was gold too. I don't think one is rarer than the other.

I want that Jimmy Robins :angry:

Hope fully not many will have seen this before

Yeah I know, I was telling you cos I thought you were asking

Strangeloves who did I Want Candy and CaraLin

All of the Backtracks are common I'm afraid. Like Ken said - £15...there's one brilliant volumes featuring Andy Ellison - Been A Long Time, well worth picking up.

More likely it was played pre-70's...Wheel?

This is what I've been saying for ages Mark (see also post called Crazy Set Sale Prices). It's as if some people don't want to sell the records but just want to show them off.

Did you buy it off Phil?

I knocked 25 off for taking the two records...encourages people to come back

Yeah that's a rare one alright. Another rare issue not mentioned is Jerry Jackson, never had one of those.

Well we know who Weldon McDougal is, maybe Chips was his promotion company, I've found those stickers on loads of records...and boy are they impossible to remove. Just how many torn label copies of Marvelous Ray - Whirlpool are there?? https://motownsoul0.tripod.com/id26.html

--> QUOTE(mark.b @ Oct 26 2006, 08:45 PM) link i would say jean carter 150 and janie grant 50 mark but after reading the post what do i know Well that quote speaks for itself Mark 50 quid for a Janie Grant stock! Anyway sold it now...175...sold Jean Carter for 150 after my profit margain got scuppered

I don't care...I think it's fantastic...I'll never forget sitting looking over the balcony at Wigan watching people dancing to the French Fries and it was one of the few occasions that you could hear them dancing as well...the floor used to vibrate

In fairness (to me) I did suggest Little Anthony & The Imperials about 4 weeks ago when I posted up that (relatively) recent concert clip but was informed that they are too expensive to bring over.

I had a serious think about this and there are only two acts in the entire world I would bother going to see, one is Prodigy and the other is Slade, if they reformed obviously. The only soul act I'd be interested in seeing is Al Green, and he'd have to be playing in Wolvo or I wouldn't bother. Jr Walker was the best live soul act I ever saw and he's off the touring circuit nowadays. Artists are better listened to on records.

This is 10 years old but has some great info, and obviously Tobi was around when SWONS was made In anticipation of this year's event I had the pleasure of speaking with Tobi Lark while she visted Toronto recently on a house hunting trip. The soft-spoken and humble Lark, originally born as Bessie Gupton in Alabama and then raised in Detroit, Michigan, is taking Toronto's Jazz and Blues circuit by storm. "It's really strange because I haven't been really interested in the Blues till about 3 years ago. I've been singing it more seriously for close to a year. I think this is because being my age I've finally grown up." Returning to the stage after a long absence, her story reads like a Blues fairy tale. An early rival of Aretha Franklin's, Lark began singing in the church choir at age 9 and toured for ten years with the Emma Washington Gospel Singers. The daughter of legendary Gospel and Blues singer Emma Washington, during the sixties Lark got her first professional job with a friend of her mother's, B.B. King. King was impressed with the young singer but felt that her voice was too sweet for her to really be able to sing the Blues. "He told me that I was really a balladeer and that I needed to experience more of life before I could really sing the Blues. At first I go mad at him, but he was right." Well, Tobi Lark has definitely lived and experienced the glory and the pains of life. After working with BB King, her ambrosial vocals also embellished performances with the Impressions, the Four Tops, Ben E. King, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, Cannonball Adderley, Duke Ellington, among others. In the late 60's Lark moved to Montreal with her young son after separating from her husband, where she left her mark at clubs like Rockhead's and then after performances at EXPO '67 moved to Toronto to work with Ronnie Hawkins. Soon after her arrival she was selected to play a lead role in the musical HAIR. From there Lark created the hugely successful Armageddon Revue at the Blue Orchid. Audiences have known her through stage and television performance with the Toronto Symphony or with the likes of Kenny Rogers. But few of us have been there during her downtimes when her son died; when her son's father died; when she was ill; or the tribulations of single parenting. "I don't mean to sound corny but after the problems of changes in (life) it was so strange. It was like musically I quit. I wouldn't work much. But when I would sing and I would notice that people would respond to me. It strengthened me and made me so strong in the faith, that now I don't give a care who don't like it. I know that God brought me through in flying colours." Lark's voice reflects the wisdom of a woman who's returned from the height of painful experience and a woman who understands the depth of her own power. Whether singing Chicago Blues, Mississippi Blues, Jazz, Pop or Gospel, Lark is confident about her soulful renditions. Impressed with advances made by women in the music industry, Lark strongly identifies with other vocalists notorious for doing things "my way". "Etta James is my favourite right now because whether she sings the Blues, modern or old timey, she keeps that gospel influence. Bonnie Rait was singing her behind off but people weren't swinging her way. But look at her now. (She's doing well) because she took control of her life. Females now are taking control of their music. The males used to tell them how they had to sing or dress. They've become stronger as leaders in the music industry. They want to be their own person and do things on their own terms now." Looking toward a promising future as she prepares to move back to Toronto from the Windsor/Detroit area, Lark is particularly excited about plans to perform reggae tunes combining Blues and Gospel. Lark is also in the process of confirming a distribution deal for her live CD which was recorded at Toronto's Judy Jazz club in the Spring 1995. Lark reminds me in some ways of another mighty Blues woman Billie Holiday - a woman who, despite narrow definitions of Blues and Jazz, always sings in the spirit of the Blues. Perhaps this is because Lark's southern roots remain, proudly, with her. - Marva Jackson

Someone else will probably answer this but Tobi Legend is still singing in Toronto I believe, as Tobi Lark of course.

It's quite easy to get hold of, specially in the last 3 years or so - thought it might go big when Pep was hyping it late 80's...never did, but like you say, great record

Because it's common...

Direction...

Didn't think anyone was watching them anymore!

Absolutely. I think I've got more clips of him then any other atist - shame he was made to do cover versions of the hits of the moment mainly...