Pete S

Where I live here in Wombourne there used to be stacks of people into Northern, and I mean enough to fill a small sized allnighter, we'd take up half the Wigan coach some weeks and I come from a village not a town, anyway over the years the hardcore fell by the wayside until now, and I'm not exagerrating, out of all the old soulies I'm the only one left who's into it all the time, obviously because I sell records for a living I have to be into it 24/7 and while I don't go to venues now, I still consider myself to be 'on the scene'. Theres lots of the other folk still around too but they are your typical soul night people, out for a dance and a laugh and a chat. Theres absolutely nothing wrong with this, we're all getting on now and have slowed down. I don't know anyone here (in Wombourne) who I could say is on the scene full time anymore. The point I'm going to make is that me, the one person who could probably be considered as still being on the scene by way of never having left it, didn't go to Blackpool. But loads of the other people did, and they went for a drink and a dance and a laugh. They probably went to hear their favourite youth club oldies. And they are the sort of people who wouldn't be embarrassed doing the hokey cokey like on that film. Then they get back home, back to their jobs, go out every couple of weeks and look forward to the next Blackpool weekender. So you were never going to get a hardcore Northern Soul element at Blackpool by the looks of it, just people wanting to relive their youth. I'm not going to knock them for that and I mean no direspect to anyone from Wombourne, but I can see that the event isn't for me and I'm not going to let it worry me.

I still maintain it's only £25 more than that now.

I've had Jamaican records with UK Island matrixes. Jamaican Pama also. Theres no hard and fast law.

No but find him on here, there was a topic about 3 days ago where he says he's going to sell his records.

Presume that's Mark's collection (soulboy1965 I think it is on here)

Jamaican.

Now that does surprise me. Not the price, if it were Steve doing the description. Are you sure?

Asked Ian yesterday and he said Exactly 100. I swear. Then Damont broke the plates so there could never be any more. Ralph Tee had them done and there were only ever exactly 100 copies. Not one more.

In the "old days" all you had to do was get a suitable pair of shoes, leather soles would enable you to dance on any floor without talc. I didn't see talc appearing until the late 70's.

Big sound from 79 onwards, hard to find, looking at 125 quid I would have thought but anyone describing this as virtually unknown obviously hasn't been on the scene that long...or they don't know as much as they think they do. I have no idea who the seller is.

CURRENT HIGH BIDS ON THE 100 CLUB ANNIVERSARY SINGLES AS OF 18.45 WEDNESDAY 23RD NOVEMBER. AUCTION ENDS AT 8PM TONIGHT. LINK TO FULL LIST 6t1 £50 6t2 £50 6t3 £60.50 6t4 £36 6t5 £50 6t7 £60 6t8 £100 6t11 £55 6t18 £55 6t19 £30 6t20 £150 6t23 £43 6t24 £52.50

I know that MUPS 460's/470's were from 1973 so your LP is going to be from late 1971 or 1972 I should think

I stopped buying practically all kinds of magazines because my eyes got really bad (and still are). Saved me a fortune though.

PETE SMITH 01902 326306 pete.smith@freeuk.com A FEW BARGAINS HERE, COMPETITIVELY PRICED FOR QUCK SALE. MY BOY WANTS A NINTENDO DS 3D FOR HIS BIRTHDAY, NOT JUST A NORMAL ONE, HE WANTS ZELDA SPECIAL EDITION, SO MUGGINS HERE HAS TO FIND THE MONEY FROM SOMEWHERE. OR I COULD JUST SAY NO I SUPPOSE LOL ALL ARE US ORIGINALS KIKI DEE - I DIG YOU BABY - WORLD PACIFIC DEMO M- 40 SOLD Superb beat ballad VAL MARTINEZ - SOMEONE'S GONNA CRY - RCA EX 30 SOLD Superb popcorn MARIE KNIGHT - TO BE LOVED BY YOU - ADDIT EX- 30 SOLD Great r&b dancer THE PEELS - TIME MARCHES ON - KARATE EX 20 SOLD Rare stock copy BILLY PRESTON - CAN'T SHE TELL - CAPITOL DEMO EX 30 Rare dancer TOMMY T & THE TARGETS - SALES PITCH - BIG R DEMO VG++ 60 SOLD Monster popcorn tune, plays great GEORGE CARROW - ANGEL BABY - COLUMBIA DEMO EX 25 SOLD Really nice copy. Special Rush Reservice demo. THE PETS - WHAT KIND OF GIRL - MGM DEMO M- 20 Cracking dancer, forgotten oldie in mint condition THE PARAKEETS - I WANT YOU RIGHT NOW / I LOVE YOU LIKE I DO - BIG TOP DEMO EX 40 This used to be £150 when first discovered DONALD JENKINS - SOMEBODY HELP ME - CORTLAND EX 40 Great copy of this Stafford classic POST £2 RECORDED PAYPAL, CARD, BANK TRANSFER ETC CHEERS PETE

I apologise for uncharacteristically bumping my own sales thread but I've had 3 records reserved for people on here since around 11am this morning so if you're reading this, you have until 7pm to pay for them.

F*ck me, I'm an opportunist.....AT LAST!!!!! surely you're gonna allow me this one after constantly undercutting everyone else for years Steve

Just to let people know how the bidding is going on these. All are at their reserves except for: 6t1 £35 6t3 £60.50 6t4 £36 6t7 £60 6t8 £80 6t11 £55 6t18 £55 6t19 £30 6t20 £90 6t23 £43 6t24 £52.50 auction ends tomorrow night at 8pm. cheers Pete

I said that in the second or third post

I can't remember many red vinyl records: shirley matthews - my sugar baby about the only one that fits the bill

The 'Sherri Gibb's was on a label called TNT, a real label but not for this particular track

Eli Bonaparte was a big 'disco' hit in the late 60's, don't think it was ever considered Northern but can understand why it was compiled. Eli Bonaparte was actually someone who did have a big Northern track though - Jon Ford of You got me where you want me (UK Philips) fame

Yeah you can do it days in advance and just forget about it, then you often get a pleasant surprise a few days later!

You don't have to if you use an online one, you place your bid a week before the auction ends, set it for 5 seconds whatever, then forget about it. I can now see why yours didn't work, though 2 seconds is too short a margin anyway to win every time. Here is a link to a free ebay sniper, this works 100%, and it costs nothing, you don't have to be on the computer etc https://www.goofbay....bay_sniper.html

Sorry but the only Crazy Baby I know of is by The Coasters. HOWEVER are you thinking of CRAZY by Sherry Gibbs? This was a cover up later found out to be by The Fascinations.

If you use a sniper and place your bid in advance, your computer doesn't have to even be connected to the electricity let alone the internet!