Pete S

Paul it's on Jubilee

This is where it all begins for me. I think I heard this before Israelites and loved it immediately. And I think it does fit, it's Jamaican recorded with Lynn Tait.

Doubt it, he's dead...

If you just type in vinyl disc cutting into google you'll find them all over the place.

Don't spin back to cue with acetates though. Knackers them as easy as styrene.

Should be £100 to £150.

A keen eye and an artists scalpel is all you need, you can cut the scratch back into the groove, I got quite good at this but now my eyesight isn't good enough to be able to do it.

Remember It's Mighty Nice To Know? I just found the singer, or rather he found me. I have given his info to Boba so he should be on the radio soon hopefully.

No you are right Benji. Jackie Trent's rarest record by a mile is The One Who Really Loves You on Oriole, followed by You Baby on Pye.

I can't even hear a hint of a swear word there?

Never mind the innuendos, this has to be the worst record ever made

Ian Smith is a bit of a legend on the UK reggae scene...Hot Lead was based in Huddersfield I think

The one with the birds on is Leaving Rome by Jo Jo Bennett. Lovely instrumental

He says what it's all about in the description - a one sided carver with a label stuck on it!

This is a good podcast actually Jim, I think every track is unreleased or was at the time plus there's a couple on there that nobody else had got when I did it. Share The faith! And still nobody knows who the vocal of The Right Kind is by

Can't explain it any better than 'swoosh' sorry On the podcast below at around 26 minutes, this is the recording that people have been dubbing off https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/for-northern-soul-connoisseurs-everywhere/

By the way, those didn't come from that original acetate, the recording was different with hardly any of that slight 'swoosh' that was on the first ones I heard, I think it's the same take but definitely not the same recording

They cost 20 to make and I sold them for 25 "dj specials" The one I had this week was 15 or 20

I've done at least 6 or 7 of them and had one for sale this week! Did them about 7 or 8 years ago and one turned up again. It's also been on at least three of my podcasts in complete form so anyone can have recorded it off there as well.

That's what it looked like - I think I might have bought it off Phil D

I was watching this program on Sky Arts the other night about a guy who collects radio broadcast transcription discs from the 30's onwards, his collection are all on 'soft wax' in other words, acetates, anyway he showed a few examples, all were covered in mould, so he put one on the deck then explained that he used a secret cleaner for acetates only, sprayed this stuff on and played it, and it cleaned it up nicely while playing. The secret cleaner was actually Windowlene. So it looks like that is a safe cleaner for acetates, but he said it couldn't be used on ordinary vinyl. Nothing earth shattering here but I just found it interesting thats all, anyone used windowlene for cleaning records?

Yeah I think it's a great layout where the photos flip over, much better than the static one I used to have

Yours is ok.

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Well it's possible because a huge amount of Ska Beat stock was sold in the 80's but it would probably come at a premium. If I was to adopt that buying process I'd have no records, I take them in any playable form really. I knew I shouldn't have bought those Islands off you. I've got 106 of them now.