Pete S

Have you ever seen this guys prices? I doubt if he's ever sold or ever will sell a record. He advertises on Ebid. In the comedy section.

Have you played the other side of that, I think it's really good, unless they had another single - in which case it's the b side of that! One of the b sides is good anyway. I'll get me coat.

https://shop.ebay.co.uk/mayfairmenthol/m.html?_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1 still loads at way under book price

Kenny - Russ played it early 77, as mentioned above, it wasn't played for long because all those bootleg copies hit the scene, it was covered as Sherry Gibbs but eventually turned out to be an unissued track by The Fascinations. Mark if you're going by tapes that Minshull played it I can't argue with it but I know I got an emidisc done of it in the first few months of 77 and within weeks it was useless as it had been pressed. In fact I remember playing it on a tape on the coach to Wigan and none of them had ever heard it!

What a great voice he had. I never really 'got' Big Star but "The Letter" by the Box Tops is among my all time favourites. There used to be two youtube clips of this, both were identical except in one they had been overdubbed by the record and on the second they were playing it live, the vocals on the live one were fantastic.

How about "sellers who sell things on ebay, refund the money and still send the records"? About 5 weeks back I sold about 50 items, for some reason I never got confirmation that 5 of them had been paid for so after a fortnight or longer, the buyers asked me where their records were. I told them I always post out within 24 hours and there must be a good reason like the postman not leaving a note for them. Turns out I'd still got the records, got no confirmation off ebay, so I apologised sincerely, refunded their monies included postage and then sent them the records anyway. I should have checked myself, so it was my fault. I lost about £60 altogether. Better than one negative feedback though eh?

Well the demo is rare I guess, but it's such a poor version I still wouldn't pay more than £20 for it, demo or not

You surely can not be serious?

Twenty quid. Thirty if you're desperate. God there are some mugs around, I'm going to have to seriously think about tripling my prices.

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/THE-POPPIES-THERES-A-PAIN-IN-MY-HEART_W0QQitemZ180481109760QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Records?hash=item2a05832f00 "Some are pressings,1st re-issue or possibly even Original, but do have a good look at the label to check just what you are getting, just to be on the safe side". Does this protect the seller from having to tell you whether you're buying a bootleg or not?

But they were called discos in those days, what's wrong with that? There was not another word for nightclubs, youthclubs etc that played music. They were discos.

The Cinderellas is quite rare on UK, I paid about £0 for a demo in the late 80's (I wouldn't have if I'd heard it first LOL cracking girl group sound but I thought it was going to be Northern)

Well put together but nicked from all over the place, several different sources in there. (Way Of The Crowd is correct by the way)

Both correct, Geno is definitely from the Soul Function dvd documentary, and the other clip is indeed "In the club".

Soul Sam insisted he played Hawaii 5-0 as a joke. Was it played widespread, I know it was played at our youth club a few times.

I think maybe some may read it as I was saying everyone should have liked it, what I meant was that anyone of my age at the time (15) would not have questioned the integrity of it and worry about Northern Soul being commercialised. I'd just bought Under My Thumb, Wade in the water, Festival time, The Jo©ker, Wigans Ovation and The Javells not long before that, what did I know? Come to think of it, when did all that stuff become illegal, when was I banned from liking the Paula Parfitts and the Lynne Randells?

Kazoo. If you hear the original Footsee it's much slower than the one you all love. Slower and even more horrible.

You're all f*cking liars trying to make yourselves look cool you loved it, you loved the neighbours asking your Mum if you were one of them Northern Soul dancers they saw on top of the pops

What the f*ck has Wigans Chosen Few got to do with This England? I was at both nights when they filmed This England and I was one of those who refused to go onto the floor out of principal, it wasn't just the "best dancers" it was half the people who would normally have been on the floor. It was two and a half years after Footsee, when Footsee was broadcast it was my dream to go to Wigan, by the time of This England I'd been over 50 times. You're missing the point, Footsee was an ignition point for a lot of people.

I'd say anyone who witnessed that TOTP episode took something from it, it was the talk of the school and youth club for weeks, I'm sure anyone who says "Yes I saw it but I hated the commercialisation of the scene caused by it" needs to get a life/is a f*ckwit. 1975, 15 years old, it was almost too EXCITING!

Well well well, Soul Source may well have banned Levine but they certainly haven't shut him up, the stuff on his facebook page about this thread is hysterical. Paul-S's ears must be burning /index.php?app=forums&module=post&section=post&do=reply_post&f=1&t=113090

are you referring to "Out on the floor"? The TV play set in an allnighter that resembled a certain Lancashire venue? That was from 1981 or even 1982. And it was terrible, apart from the (Graopevine) soundtrack, but it wasn't meant to be about "The Northern Soul Scene", that was just the backdrop to this pretty pathetic tale about these kids who worked in factories all week then popped pills at this allnighter on a saturday. There was also a rape scene (set in the venue), girls dancing in a line, and someone OD'ing. Total crap.

I had heard of Northern Soul and had been "into it" properly for about 8 months by then, seeing the dancers and Footsee on TOTP was actually earth-shattering stuff, I can't tell you the amount of people who jumped onto the bandwagon after that, it was one of the most exciting things I;'d ever seen as well.

What's the big deal with this track, it's total utter f*cking crap, it's got nothing at all - my God I've had hundreds of UK pop Northern records but this one has no redeeming features whatsoever and it's by Craig Douglas for f*cks sake, that should put you off right from the start. p.s. would anyone like to buy my copy for £100? Blue issue.

I used to watch Quadrophenia every Friday night, I could still watch it every friday night. I was never a Mod but if I'd been born ten years earlier I would have been. Utterly brilliant film.