Pete S

Sorry to be a wet blanket but like Simsy said, this topic has been done before, and it was a pretty thorough one too, just can't see the point in doing the same identical thing again. But if I have to vote I'll vote for Ian Levine.

Like I said, thought the 12" had an unremixed one

This means that the Radiants demo is now 'worth more' than Alexander Patten demo, Cajun Hart, John Andrews, Vala Reegan, well basically think of a UK rarity except for the huge ones like D Banks London, Timi Yuro and this one is worth more. To someone I guess.

Wasn't the original version on the 12" of World Is rated X?

Radiants Voice Your Choice C/w If Only I Had You Sorry, this item has already been won! The winning bid was £ 302.00 Beware, another escaped mental patient has been bidding. This is worth no more than £50. What planet are these people on?

Do you know what, if Ace put together a compilation of say 50 of their greatest CD booklets, blown up to an A4 size book, it would be one of the best music books ever made. Throw in a double cd featuring one track off each of the featured cd's - heaven.

Shurely shome mishtake?

They're both great!

Win, Karl Henry couldn't have appeared on Question Time anyway, he'd have got to the main door then gone backwards, gone back to the door and then gone sideways....for the next 90 minutes

It was, he was good as well.

Ian, the green Groovesville bootleg was so early it may have even have been from the Cats period. It was certainly around when I first got on the scene in 1974/75

Who, Karl Henry?

Well they are certainly all off vinyl It missed the start off Locke, it split it into 2 tracks, the intro then what comes after the pause - decided to just leave the intro off altogether. I'd never sell that one I don't think.

This really should be the bottom line for this topic.

Don't get me wrong, vinyl records are a very important part of my life and have been for 50 years but itunes enables me to store 25,000+ tracks in one place and manipulate them however I want! The playlist facility is one of THE great inventions. Want to do a themed playlist for example with the word Star in it, takes 2 seconds to find me 50 records with the word Star in the title. Would have taken a whole afternoon to research all my lp's and 45's.

Here's some of my favourite Northern oldies, mainly classics from my early days on the Northern scene in the mid 70's but with one or two rarities and lesser knowns thrown into the mix. Should be another one of these along shortly. REMEMBER - IT'S JUST FOR FUN! cheers, Pete https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/my-kind-of-oldies-northern-soul/ BOB’S BAND – LOCKE’S THEME / THE CASHMERES – SHOW STOPPER / THE HONEY BEES – NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS / LILLIE BRYANT – MEET ME HALFWAY / JOHN & THE WEIRDEST – CAN’T GET OVER THESE MEMORIES / THE CHARADES – THE KEY TO MY HAPPINESS / VAL MARTINEZ – SOMEONE’S GONNA CRY / DENA BARNES – WHO AM I / THE INSPIRATIONS – YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND / LARRY ALLEN – CAN’T WE TALK IT OVER / DAVE HALL – LOOK AT ME / G. DAVIS & R. TYLER – HOLD ON, HELP IS ON THE WAY / THE CONSTRUCTION – HEY LITTLE WAY OUT GIRL / THE DYNAMICS – I NEED YOUR LOVE / FREDDY BUTLER – SAVE YOUR LOVE FOR ME BABY / J.J. BARNES – PLEASE LET ME IN / THE MIRWOOD ORCHESTRA – DON’T PRETEND / DELREYS INCORPORATED – DESTINATION UNKNOWN / THE DEL ROYALS – MAN OF VALUE / RUFUS LUMLEY – STRONGER THAN ME / ARIN DEMAIN – SILENT TREATMENT / THE MOODS – RAINMAKER / BETTY BOO – SAY IT ISN’T SO / CAJUN HART – GOT TO FIND A WAY / THE OUTSIDERS – LONELY MAN / HIGH VOLTAGE – COUNTRY ROAD / BARBARA PENNINGTON – 24 HOURS A DAY.

Yeah great news and I"m sure it is - but just taking me for example, my cd consumption has gone from 'a lot' to zero in the space of maybe 4 years

I pity the kids if you're the f*cking babysitter "no you can't watch that episode of Magic Roundabout, it's been overdubbed, it's not the original"

Been saying this for a couple of years but it's not to do with vinyl, it's to do solely with itunes. I imported all my cd's into itunes then sold the lot, and thats what an awful lot of people are doing. It's flexible, it's interesting, it's just brilliant. Why buy a cd for one or two good tracks when you can buy them for 99p each? (Apparently thats what people do) And it's only in these last few years when the record companies realised they could no longer overcharge for their product that they've actually reduced the prices of cd's - remember how long we had to pay 12, 13 quid for a cd?

This I agree with - if it's a nighter, it should be OVO. My point has always been that at local soul nights, handbag nights etc, it makes not a lot of difference.

Definitely Kenny Ballard but I don't think it's on the tape with Footsee etc, must be a different one I posted up

Ian's wrong Tone.

Danny Williams is, 1 bid of 9.99, 5 days to go. PJ Proby not on there but scheduled to go on thursday night for 7 days. Doing them in label order.

I must get my 2 year old in here and stress to her that when she grows up, she must never buy an evil bootleg or goodness knows what it could do to her integrity.

You're right, that 50% aren't interested in soul forums at all, let alone records and labels. It's such a boring, overdone thread, no wonder people get fed up reading the same thing over and over again. Half the people don't care about OVO and the ones that do should surely know which venues to pick to hear their music from original vinyl only, shouldn't they?