Pete S

Oh and this one: So just a few words about the record; a typical UK Northern dancer with a brass fanfare intro, pummelling drumbeat and an excellent vocal, though I often think the singer might have actually been a Scouser, they way he pronounces the word 'bird' as 'baird'. This track was also released on a French EP and the band appear to have been quite popular on the continent. The record has been known and sought after for many a year - I think this is maybe my sixth copy so it must have sold a few over here, probably after plays on pirate radio. A minor classic.

This won't make any sense to most of you why I'm going on about this, it's not soul, it could have passed off as a Northern dancer at one point, it was just something I needed to get...review below Blimey this one's taken me a long, long time to find. Not that I've been actively searching, but the couple of copies that turned up on ebay over the years, I was trounced in my bids and I watched the last copy go for £100+. Anyway I came across it by chance at the weekend so here it is, at last. Oscar is Oscar Beuselnick, (better known as Paul Nicholas) and he had three interesting singles on Reaction (one written by David Bowie). This one begins with a fuzz guitar riff which then gives way to an absolutely thunderous stomping rhythm, and a throwaway song about a discotheque where people can dance all night...it's fantastic to dance to and I'll never know why the Northern scene didn't pick up on this when it was going through it's 'pop' phase. Great stuff. The self-penned B side Waking Up is also nice in a Mike Flowers Pops (remember them?) type way. Groovy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227Lp0t6i7k

One more shout, I've now found another 12 or so 'new' titles, some of the rarest artists footage I had which I thought I'd lost years ago, and some lost footage so if anyone wants a complete list (I think there are about 23 separate titles) please give me a shout.

I think Ramona Collins was a late Searling spin at Wigan

Esquerita aka Eskew Reeder

What? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gladys-Knight-the-Pips-Love-finds-its-own-way-The-way-were-7-vinyl-1974-/121203840687?pt=UK_Records&hash=item1c384fd6af

A QUICK UPDATE TO LOST VINYL WORLD OF THE 60'S, A FEW NEW RECORDS GONE UP.. CURTIS LEE & THE KCP'S - CBS LYNDA GRAHAM - PHILIPS MANCHESTER PLAYBOYS - FONTANA OSCAR - REACTION LIFE - PHILIPS and of course there are already nearly 500 rare records to browse on there already https://lostvinylgemsofthe60s.blogspot.co.uk/

One in sales for £230 at the moment

Just to let everyone know, anyone who's ordered anything off me, they have all been done and all been despatched today, cheers

It's the same but it has the full intro not on the Kent 45, and a really good write up on the sleeve too

See for yourself..

I found the post, but it's definitely not me who posted it - it's someone who now is no longer a member cos it just says "posted by Guest". Label is Columbia though.

Bazza I have no idea, honest - I could try and find the post, might jog the old memory

I don't mate, honestly...was it definitely me?

I thought I'd heard that somewhere before. Prefer the instrumental though, Sonny's voice is an acquired taste

Really??

One of THE most underrated instrumentals, Jimmy Wisner on Atlantic

An old favourite Bobs Band

Fantastic Grant, never heard that Gentleman June Gardner before, superb. Harley Hatcher still sh*te though

Yet another Gloria Jones bootleg going for daft money https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Northern-Soul-classic-TAINTED-LOVE-by-Gloria-Jones-on-the-CHAMPION-label-/181242531854?pt=UK_Records&hash=item2a32e5900e

hash tag really gutted

What happened to Pete, does anyone know? Often used to sit with him on the Sedgley coach to Wigan. And his mate Des.

Makes me think of school circa 1973-75, everyone gathering round a tiny transistor radio at 12.30 (I think) to listen to the new top 30 countdown, which of course used this as it's background theme.

Edwin Starr no value really as far as I know