Pete S

Well no more sounds from me anyway, Merry Hill Shopping Centre is calling my name, saying "you must buy even more stuff for the baby"...

Sorry, thought just had to stop for 24 hours.

The only trouble - well two things - with job lots like this, is the condition of the records. They are never specific about the items. I had a lot off this guy before and there was a Porgy & The Monarchs - That Girl, and the b side didn't actually play! Then there's the 200 dollars for airmail postage...

Last one, this has possibly one of the most famous backing tracks of all reggae records and there can't be anyone over the age of 40 who doesn't know what this went onto become! DERRICK MORGAN - HOLD YOU JACK

This is the backing track to the Cool Cool Rocksteady track I posted up yesterday. Again, some great harmonica work on this one. DON LEE - SIR LEES SPECIAL

Hopeton Lewis with an early tribute to his favourite smoking product HOPETON LEWIS - COOL COLLIE

This next one is credited to the Soul Brothers but is actually Freddie McGregor sounding about 6 years old on a song I think you will easily recongise as a classic northern soul oldie from way back when! FREDDIE McGREGOR (LITTLE FREDDIE) - TOO YOUNG TO LOVE

Next one is a great vocal group The Gaylads with a lovely rocksteady number

This one is interesting as it's one of the rarest Island ska 45's, it was also issued on Ska Beat as "Woman", presumably because Island withdrew their version. In fact two different records came out with the same catalogue number (see scans). This is a really fast ska tune full of innuendo! OWEN & LEON - WANT ME COCK

Just adding this one so you can hear what Bob Marley sounded like in the early days, this is a pretty standard ska number which shows nothing of what he would go on to become but it's interesting all the same ROBERT MARLEY - ONE CUP OF COFFEE

Hoping we are okay to post a few new tracks up now. Island label special for today. First one is a great instrumental from the eraly days of ska, there are literally hundreds of insts from this period but this one stands out because of the brilliant harmonica playing. As you can see, my copy looks like it was found in a skip. KING EDWARDS GROUP - RUSSIAN ROULETTE

Well not much chance of me winning them now that the entire world has seen them! But the original poster is obviously not very clued up on records...there's at least 2000 dollars worth there and thats just on about 15 northern records

I don't think I've ever heard the Nurons!

This is a fantastic version which I bought on a one sided Jobete acetate off Mr Phil Dick and sold to Mr Tyler several years back.

Well I'm looking forward to Dean Parrish at least getting some recognition for something! Must be nice for him at last.

Dean Parrish and this Lord Large guy are on Mark Lamarr's show on radio 2 this morning, not been on yet (at 10.15) so if you tune in now you'll hear em

Dave Hall - Look At Me

Haven't got the record any more but can send you the clip...I'll see if I can find it

never mind

Slight exaggeration there!

I thought I had, PM me with the bad news...

I've got the artist down as being "Glen Brown, Joe White & Trevor Shield" (source - Roots Knotty Roots)

True story. One night back in 1982, a few of us went to The Vic in Wolverhampton and we parked across the road in a little car park off a side street by the Prince Albert pub. Anyway Sam was the guest DJ. After a good night out, we went back to get in the car, and it wouldn't start - we'd run out of petrol. So the driver, bloke named Andy, said the only thing we could do was to syphon some petrol out of one of the 3 or 4 other cars left on the car park. He chose what I think was a green cavalier, nicked the petrol and our car started first time. Just as we were about to set off, Sam comes into the car park, so we have a little chat and then he says he'll see us again, and gets into his car...a green cavalier. Oh shit, we'd nicked Sam's petrol and he'd got a long way to go home. So Andy says to him, Sam you ought to check your petrol, apparently there's been a gang going round syphoning it, so he does and lo and behold, he's got no petrol. Andy then told him that he would give him half of his petrol so he could at least get to a garage. And so Andy emptied most of the tank back into where it had originally come from and Sam got off safely. As we were pulling out of Wolverhampton, we got stopped by the police for having no lights on, and this Andy failed a breath test and me and the two other people had to walk home. Those were the days.

I think one went on ebay for about 120 quid last year. The other side is also great, I'm So Proud (the Impressions track) vocal version by Joe White. The vocal version to Way Of Life is one I'm after, I'd pay a ton for it, it's also on Blue Cat

We're on our own here I think