Pete S

I don't believe in Across The Board nights - it's either Northern or Modern. I would not want to hear one single modern record at any venue I went to so I'd choose accordingly. In fact I'd ban across the board nights and tell them to make their f*cking minds up

The size of the run out is the main clue, it's about an 3/4 inch wide on the pressing, but another way of telling which the great experts never tell you is when you play it, after the organ intro and the drum roll, the horns come in but only in one channel, they get turned up really quickly in the other channel and you can really notice it. Also I don't think the original has that dip towards the centre.

I took it down

What position did they get to in the charts??

What do you call massive?

I think the Tony Hester price is ambitious - no offence - I couldn't get £175 for the white demo 2 months ago

Gynecologist ??

Yeah they call it the "Island Music" scene - equivalent to our beat ballads, and sharing many of the same records..one big one is Sonny Childe - Giving up on love...plus things like Brad Lundy - I'm at the breaking point

You spelt Dobie Gray wrong

I've now got a good source for Jamaican stuff from a pretty unlikely place to be honest (in the States), every time I order from them, which has been 3 so far, I've had a copy of Phillip James for $5. And that ken Lazarus "The record" - four copies now, $5 each. Reason being, Wide Awake was a big hit in Jamaica so no reason for it to be hard to find in that format. The Glenn Miller situation is ridiculous. As you know, I collected Doctor Bird for ages and there are far rarer records on the label like The Skatalites/Jack Sparrow, both Johnny & The Attractions (though there's been 4 copies of I'm Movin On on Ebay in 3 months) etc etc. And theres areally great northern track by Patsy which I must send up if I can find it.

I think I asked £100 for mine. I can guarantee if I'd asked £300 it would still be here

This will go at the top of my Christmas Present wish list

Bloody hell you're right, what a good memory you have - what a great record that was, even though I've now forgotten how it goes. It was by The First Generation on High Note, called either Give Him Up or Give It Up, B side of a Dave Barker track. Who be you then Exustrek?

I quite fancy this tea dance idea

That's it, just kill the thread

Yeah that is Jackie & Millie, again on Island but for some reason it turned up on the Millie & Her Boyfriends album on Trojan...storming instrumental...I think it's actually by The Sound System who were Owen Gray's backing band. I've still got that on single but it's so scratched you can barely hear the music

>>>Wide Awake<<< this might be it

I've played it out and had people coming to look at it/ask what it was. It's no newie though - I first got it in 1973 on the Lp Independent Jamaica and I reviewed it in a mag about 8 years ago. Sold my near mint Island one recently n.b. I sent a sound file of this up about 2 months back, it might still be lurking around the site somewhere

I don't like anything he's done

I'm not surprised, it's only worth £75

Come out of the closet

Swap you mine for some reggae 45's

People who write 7T's and 8T's instead of 70's and 80's are tools and as bad as people who say "The Bay" and "M8"

Hey come on Ste, this is meant to be 60's only anyway you can't have Dinah Lee, she was Australian and the only Jamaican connection is that Aladdin was owned by Island. Not sure how I managed to forget Ken Boothe as I actually posted it up here 2 weeks ago

Terrible song though...