Pete S

Tell us why then, oh great Reggae Guru, or did you lose the postage stamp on which you wrote your information? I was just going on this quote from Carl Palmer: "Everyone got their money, some artists even ended up owing Pama money (presumably after they had received advances bigger than the actual sales generated)" [authors brackets not mine] "and some of the artists that had been involved earlier had even come back to the label"

He's almost certain he did

but why then release a 3 or 4 year old non-hit record when everything else was contemporary?

That Jimmy Delphs record is brilliant I think, it's only like 15/25 quid but what a cracker!

That statement is totally contradicted in the lengthy history of Pama records as reported in the book "Tighten Up" which says that in fact Pama may have overpaying producers to license product. And obviously the reason that there's no cd's of Pama reggae is that the license deal was for the duration of that singles release, not a 30 year world wide copyright deal. Also only one of the Palmer brothers has any involvement with the music scene, apparently.

Come on Tone, it was a massive regional hit as can be testified by the copies on Ebay every day and the fact it was pirated at the time.

So they decide to put out one single from the American Arts label, not the popular Gotta Give Her Love, but the non-hit Just can't Help Myself, yes that makes a lot of sense doesn't it? And in all the years since then, nobody has been able to come up with a picture of the label, not even on ebay which has turned up every single rarity released in the UK. You two should join the ranks of the guys who've seen a silver top London Darrell Banks...they were sure they'd seen one...a British one not a S.A. or Dutch one.

PETE'S BIRTHDAY (Northern Soul) PODCAST ***** As today is my 51st birthday, I thought I'd give myself a present and do a podcast of some of my favourite tracks...hope you enjoy the selections! ***** https://podcast9122525417.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-10T15_05_25-08_00 JO ANN GARRETT - A WHOLE NEW PLAN - CHESS * TOWANDA BARNES - YOU DON'T MEAN IT - A & M* THE DYNAMICS - I NEED YOUR LOVE - RCA* J.J. BARNES - PLEASE LET ME IN - RIC TIC* JACKIE EDWARDS - I FEEL SO BAD (DUET VERSION) - VOGUE * FRANKIE CROCKER - TON OF DYNAMITE - TURBO * COURT DAVIS - TRY TO THINK (WHAT YOU'RE DOING) - EAST COAST * CANDI STATON - NOW YOU'VE GOT THE UPPER HAND - UNITY * GEORGE BLACKWELL - CAN'T LOSE MY HEAD - SMOKE * THE FLIRTATIONS - STRONGER THAN HER LOVE - FESTIVAL * THE SKYLINERS - EVERYTHING IS FINE - JUBILEE * G DAVIS & R TYLER - HOLD ON HELP IS ON THE WAY - PAR LO * SANDY HADLEY - SINCE I FOUND A LOVE - SO CHAR * JOEY HEATHERTON - THE HULLABALOO - CORAL * ROY NELSON - ELEVATOR MAN - VALISE * BARBARA LEWIS - THE STARS - ENTERPRISE * MOSES DILLARD - I'LL PAY THE PRICE - MARK V * THE HONEY BEES - NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS - GARRISON * JIMMY DELPHS - I'VE BEEN FOOLED BEFORE - CARLA * JOANIE SOMMERS - DON'T PITY ME - WARNER BROS * TROY DODDS - TRYING TO FIND MY BABY - BAYTOWN * ROSE BATISTE - HIT AND RUN - REVILOT * DONI BURDICK - BARI TRACK - SOUND IMPRESSION * THE DEMURES - RAINING TEARDROPS - BRUNSWICK * CAROLYN CRAWFORD - FORGET ABOUT ME - MOTOWN * JOAN BAKER - EVERYBODY'S TALKING - DIAMOND * THE COASTERS - CRAZY BABY - ATCO * MONIQUE - IF YOU LOVE ME (SHOW ME) - MAURCI * ANDERSON BROTHERS - I CAN SEE HIM LOVING YOU - GSF * DEENA JOHNSON - THE BREAKING POINT - WILD DEUCE * GEORGE FREEMAN - DOWN AND OUT - VALIANT *

What had you been eating when you breathed on it?

Classic!

This was on January 10th 2005 Just thought I'd let you know about this arsehole, he advertises northern records with reserves that nobody ever meets, so then he sends private emails offering the records at twice their actual value. "Dear mayfairmenthol,You bid on this 45 but did not make the reserve. I am offering this record for $199.99. This is a good price for this record! Please reply ASAP. Bob,You will save on the postage if you take 2 or more records! It looks like you will save more on the postage if you take the 3 records you bid on!!!!" The records included the Persionettes and The Uptights. I sell the Uptights for £75-£80 so I'm hardly likely to pay £100. Anyway I sent him this perfectly polite reply "Sorry Bob, thanks for the offer but all of those are too expensive for me, as a dealer I have to be able to make a profit and I couldn't on those. thanks anyway though Pete so today I got this reply "Please stop bidding on my records if you can't pay retail! You are just waisting my time! Bob naturally I have replied telling him to shove his records up his arse and I told him I'd make him famous by putting him on my list, and here he is, so could I suggest that everyone be wary about dealing with an idiot like this. His Ebay user name is Count769. Apart from that, have a good week everyone Pete that went out to around 1500 people and a few hours later I had a call from Kev Roberts saying Bob had been in touch with him and could he please call me off!

Yes, I kind of liked the first two seconds, the rest was a pile of sh*t

Probably not...

Yes it is, unusual with a solid centre though - the US demo must be nearly as hard as Landslide demo.

Well it ain't me!

Swoz, think about it, it's dead easy to get loads of signatures. Just ask me, or anyone else who does a mail out, to put a link to this thread or straight to the petition. I can't think of anyone who would charge for doing it, I'd be happy to do it.

Someone else had an 'authentic' acetate of this a couple of years ago, think his name was Mike, it was on a Liberty custom studio acetate though, he was certainly sold it as genuine but I was never 100% convinced.

Christ just for a second I thought you said A mid-tempo masterpiece from QUEEN

Yeah I guess so - hey listen I'm just commenting on what I saw, that's all, I've no beef with anyone over this, honestly.

It's not what was said, it was the way it was said Rob...

No, the petition is a fine thing to do for a great singer, just can't see why people have to tell us all that they've signed it that's all. p.s. done

Just a thought, are we now going to get 500 replies all saying just one word "done"?

They probably fear losing the item in the post.

The fact that this guy is telling a singer how to sing? See comments below the clip.

Same here, though I usually ended up in some sort of trouble.. Often a nice crowd of skinheads to offer help and advice on leaving the place too. Stafford Top Of The World had some good alldayers in 79 on alternate weeks to the Locarno, unfortunately I was arrested twice by the DS and decided it was probably not the best place for me to go after that.