Pete S

I love those early playlists, John Zacherle "Dinner With Drac", who would have thought? But I suppose it's in the same vein as the likes of Screaming Jay Hawkins. Thanks for posting those, great stuff.

Silver label one used to be a staple of Tim Brown's soul packs in the 90's.

Rick, I guess they did a limited run with centres - the one you mention, "Candy", I've actually got that with a centre, you know what though, I have seen less of these than I have black Atlantics and yellow Atlantic demos. Must be super-rare. I've been after a solid centre copy of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" for years, they are outnumbered by large centre copies by a thousand to one I should think.

Selling a lovely UK copy of JIMMY BEAUMONT - YOU GOT TOO MUCH GOING FOR YOU - UK LONDON in Excellent condition, centre intact, no writing on the label... £80 plus £6 special delivery in the UK SOLD cheers pete pete.smith@freeuk.com

Wouldn't put more than £25 on it. Now Rufus Lumley on Reo, that was a rare one...

Thank you Jim.

https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/singles-bar-2/ THE UNIQUES — BUILD MY WORLD AROUND YOU — UNITY PAT KELLY — DARK END OF THE STREET — JACKPOT PAT KELLY — HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE — GAS KING CANNON — FIRE BALL — UNITY BUSTY BROWN — I LOVE YOU MADLY — PUNCH THE HEPTONES — LOVE WON'T COME EASY — COXSONE THE TECHNIQUES — THERE COMES A TIME — DUKE DOBBY DOBSON — I WASN'T BORN YESTERDAY — PAMA SUPREME THE GAYSETTERS — ONE LOOK — HIGH NOTE THE HEPTONES — GET IN THE GROOVE — COXSONE ALTON ELLIS — A FOOL — STUDIO ONE THE MARVELS — FIGHT A BROKE — GAS DAVE BARKER & SLIM SMITH — BLESSED ARE THE MEEK — UNITY RUPIE EDWARDS & THE VIRTUES — FALLING IN LOVE — DOCTOR BIRD THE WAILERS — LET HIM GO — ISLAND ALTON ELLIS — GIVE ME YOUR LOVE — NU BEAT AL BARRY & THE CIMARONS — MORNING SUN — DOCTOR BIRD NICKY THOMAS — GOD BLESS THE CHILDREN — TROJAN I ROY & DENNIS WALKS — HEART DON'T LEAP — MOODISC AITKEN GRUVY BEATS — BLUE MINK — NEW BEAT REGGAE BOYS — WHAT YOU GONNA DO — UNITY THE RAVING RAVERS — ROCK ROCK AND CRY — UPSETTER THE WEST INDIANS — OH LORD — UPSETTER MARCIA GRIFFITHS — TELL ME NOW - GAS THE WHIP (WINSTON WILLIAMS) — PEOPLE'S VOICE — UNITY THE SOUL BROTHERS — FREE SOUL — STUDIO ONE THE HAMLINS — I DON'T CARE AT ALL — MATADOR ANOTHER COLLECTION OF HAND PICKED 45's, RARE AND OTHERWISE...

Must have missed that...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/mayfairmenthol/m.html?_ipg=48&_sop=12&_rdc=1 plus some other Northern bits

Mal I'm sending you a record today so I'll put some sleeves in for you, no charge.

Nor me. Just saying, haggling embarrasses me. That's not starting an argument.

Do you think so? I hate it. I've never done it and I hate having it done to me. Same as going round boot sales, I never haggle with anyone, I watch everyone else offering half price but can't bring myself to do it.

Looks like fungus! https://www.ebay.com/itm/JOHN-HOLT-I-M-YOUR-MAN-ALI-BABA-RARE-REGGAE-45-7-/300782249025?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item460804e441

Yeah that's what reminded me of my flirting relationship with it..

Another thing I sort of miss is doing compilations: remember when you got a cassette and lovingly compiled your singles on there, or dubbed from another tape, anything to put a great 90 minutes together, the whole process always took at least 2 hours, often longer. Now I can do all of that in 5 minutes using itunes. When I used to do magazines, finding a photograph of a lesser known artist was a nightmare, if I eventually found one in a book, I then had to take it to a shop to get it reduced in size and copied, now I just type a name in and it appears within 2 seconds. The internet sure has made our lives a lot easier. The one thing it isn't though, is tactile. People say to me, why get a record when you can just play an MP3? Well with an MP3 I can't look at it, feel it, remove it from it's sleeve, place it on the deck, pick the tone arm up and place the needle on the record. The only thing you can do with it which it has in common with a record, is that you can listen to it.

That's right Dave, it was off you, off Ebay, decided I didn't really like it and sold it a week later

Label slightly off centre? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CULTURAL-ROOTS-JAH-NO-PARTIAL-OOP-UK-RE-HEAVYWEIGHT-ROOTS-SELECTION-/190730739660?pt=UK_Records&hash=item2c68701fcc#ht_936wt_1414

Yeah this one I"ve got was used in a car, it's got the record player plus a radio as well. Shame really, it's in the garage, not been touched for years, though it's an ugly wooden finished one, not a nice chrome one

Did I buy this off you last year Bri?

Mainly sleazy sax led instrumentals from the early to mid 60's, the sort of thing you'd find in a B movie when the detectives enter a dive / strip club and there's a scantily clad lady dancing in the background...

STUCK ALL THESE ON EBAY, ABOUT 50 IN ALL, £10 START... https://www.ebay.co.u...&_sop=12&_rdc=1 cheers Pete

I've also got a discotron that plays solid centre discs

I tend to agree with those in favour of pre, not just with the scene but with everything, I remember I used to love going to big music stores and buying cd's and dvd's whatever, then as the internet got faster and things became more widely available to download, I more or less stopped going in these shops because it was all there on line (and in most cases, it was free, not legally obviously) but I had over 1500 music cd's up to about 2007, and I never bought one after that and still haven't as far as I can remember. There's little or no point going to the shops anymore, it's all online. But thats also made things very boring as well, heading to a shopping mall knowing the most I"ll be buying will probably be a cup of coffee and a sandwich...it's even spread to books and magazines now, you don't have to go outside to get them. The other thing is that the internet has allowed everyone to become an "expert" without putting the time or legwork in, in the old days you had to learn about music, about records, about labels, nowadays you just open google and find the answer, knowledge about prices and rarity was learned, now you open a book and it tells you things in seconds that it took us 2 decades to learn. I do love the internet but I really do miss record shops as much as I miss being able to smoke in a pub.

All of that Polygram group (Atlantic, Philips, Fontana, Polydor etc etc) went over to large centres in 68 with less and less appearing with middles. Don't know why...

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