Pete S

Ian did you see this news? A rare copy of the first Superman comic, dating from 1938, has sold at auction for $317,200 (£227,000).

So now that I've made you tons of money are you gonna send me some

Are there any 'early' Joe Gibbs on UK Pressure Beat - don't think it started til 1970-71. I've got Sir Lord Comic - Jack Of My Trade if thats any good to you (on Jamaican as well). Also the brilliant Return Of Ezekiel by The Jupiters on Amalgamated blank, sounds like a Caltone recording.

Mike, no offence but I doubt you'll get any offers on Heartbeat, it's a common record and was a minor hit in the States, are you mixing it up with Come Go With Me on the same label?

There's no proof that it's Joyce Bond I don't think, I actually started that rumour when I first found it and reviewed it 20 odd years ago, because she was the only other similar British based Island artist at the time it was recorded. Tony Rounce will know.

I think I've had 4 copies of that French EP over the years, the most I got for one was £250 about 7 or 8 years ago. I'd say it's worth a lot less than that now that there's not so much demand after that rubbish bootleg came out.

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They weren't the ones cut in booths Nev, but the acetate that guy was selling was one that someone had cut for them.

It's rare, but because that track has been reissued and booted at least twice, it wouldn't be worth much - £20 at the most. IN my opinion, of course.

Very early 70's bootleg.

I won a copy of Barry St John - Everything I Touch Turns to tears UK Columbia for £14.31 from Globalmusicauctions of Hampshire. Imagine my surprise when I received an email 3 days after paying for it saying they were very sorry but the record somehow got broken and they were having to refund my money. They also said there were fairies at the bottom of their garden which I could see if I wanted to.

Yes I was just waiting for some smartarse to come along and say exactly that, it took just over an hour, well done, you must be very pleased with yourself. Every one of those clips is in public domain. If I didn't collect them, you wouldn't get to see them. Why don't you spend days finding them and compiling them and then give them to everyone for free?

HERE'S A NEW SET OF DVD'S I'VE PUT TOGETHER FEATURING OVER 90 RARE CLIPS OF SOUL / R&B / GIRL GROUP ARTISTS, MOST OF THESE HAVE NEVER BEEN COLLECTED AND COMPILED BEFORE AND MANY OF THOSE THAT CAME FROM YOUTUBE HAVE NOW BEEN REMOVED SO IT'S PROBABLY A GOOD JOB I ARCHIVED THEM! QUALITY VARIOUS FROM 'WATCHABLE' TO PERFECT - SOME WILL BE PIXELATED DUE TO THE ORIGINAL QUALITY SO I'D SAY THAT THEY ARE BEST WATCHED ON A SMALLER SCREEN RATHER THAN A GIANT TV...HAVING SAID THAT, I WOULDN'T HAVE INCLUDED ANYTHING THAT WASN'T WORTH INCLUDING. THIS WAS GOING TO BE A 2 DISC SET BUT I HAD TO INCLUDE THE FABULOUS LIL SOUL BROTHERS FOOTAGE SO I'VE DONE AN EXTRA DISC WITH THAT ON AND MORE RARE CLIPS. PRICE £20 FOR 3 DISCS INCLUDING POSTAGE TO ANYWHERE. ANYONE WANTING OTHER FOOTAGE (THIS ENGLAND ETC) CAN ALWAYS PM ME. SO EMAIL pete.smith@freeuk.com OR PM ME, I TAKE ALL CARDS, PAYPAL, CHEQUE ETC ALL FROM US TV SHOWS Black & white unless stated ALVIN CASH & THE CRAWLERS - TWINE TIME ARETHA FRANKLIN - I NEVER LOVED A MAN ARTHUR CONLEY - SWEET SOUL MUSIC BARBARA LEWIS - MAKE ME BELONG TO YOU BARBARA LEWIS - BABY I'M YOURS THE BARKAYS - SOUL FINGER (COLOUR) BILY PRESTON & DEE DEE SHARP - MEDLEY BOBBY FREEMAN - S-W-I-M THE BREAKAWAYS - THAT BOY OF MINE BRENDA HOLLOWAY - YOU CAN CRY ON MY SHOULDER BRENDA HOLLOWAY (with James Burton on guitar) - HE'S COMING HOME BRUCE SCOTT - I MADE AN ANGEL CRY THE BUCKINGHAMS - DON'T YOU CARE (COLOUR) CARLA THOMAS - FOR YOU CHUCK JACKSON - ANY DAY NOW CHUCK JACKSON - I DON'T WANT TO CRY CHUCK JACKSON - AIN'T NO SUN SINCE YOU BEEN GONE (COLOUR) CISSIE HOUSTON - I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF (COLOUR) CLYDIE KING - THE THRILL IS GONE DAVID RUFFIN - MY WHOLE WORLD ENDED (COLOUR) DEE DEE SHARP - I REALLY LOVE YOU DEE DEE WARWICK - WE'RE DOING FINE DOBIE GRAY - OUT ON THE FLOOR (COLOUR) EDWIN STARR - 25 MILES ( COLOUR) ESTHER PHILLIPS - WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES (COLOUR) THE EXCITERS - HE'S GOT THE POWER GENE CHANDLER - DUKE OF EARL GENE PITNEY - SHE'S A HEARTBREAKER (COLOUR) JACKIE WILSON - BABY WORKOUT JERRY BUTLER - ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE (COLOUR) JOE TEX - SKINNY LEGS AND ALL (COLOUR) JOEY HEATHERTON - THE HULLABALOO JOHNNIE TAYLOR - WHO'S MAKIN' LOVE (COLOUR) JR. WALKER & THE ALLSTARS - SHOTGUN LEN BARRY - 1-2-3 LESLEY GORE - MY TOWN, MY GUY AND ME LITTLE ANTHONY & THE IMPERIALS - I'M ALRIGHT MAJOR LANCE - UM, UM, UM, UM, UM, UM MARGIE MILLS - GOODBYE BOYS GOODBYE MARVIN GAYE - YOUR UNCHANGING LOVE MARY WELLS - TWO LOVERS' HISTORY (COLOUR) P.P. ARNOLD - (IF YOU THINK YOU'RE) GROOVY (COLOUR) THE REFLECTIONS - POOR MAN'S SON THE ROYALETTES - IT'S GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE TED 'LURCH' CASSIDY - THE LURCH THE TEMPTATIONS - YOU'RE MY EVERYTHING (COLOUR) THE CHIFFONS - NOBODY KNOWS WHAT'S GOIN ON IN MY MIND BUT ME (COLOUR) THE CONTESSAS - KEEP ON KEEPING ON / THIS IS WHERE I CAME IN THE DELFONICS - LA LA MEANS I LOVE YOU (COLOUR) THE DRIFTERS - SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES THE IMPRESSIONS - MEETING OVER YONDER TONI BASIL - BREAKAWAY TYRONE DAVIS - TURN BACK THE HANDS OF TIME (COLOUR) THE UNIQUES - NOT TOO LONG AGO ********************************************************************* BARBARA LEWIS - MAKE ME YOUR BABY BETTYE SWANN - THE MAN WHO SAID NO BOBBY FREEMAN - SWIM JERRY NAYLOR - CITY LIGHTS (Different clip to the one in circulation) KELLY GARRETT - WILD ONE KETTY LESTER - I'LL BE LOOKING BACK MAJOR LANCE - THE MONKEY TIME MARVIN GAYE - HOW SWEET IT IS ROY HEAD - TREAT HER RIGHT SAM COOKE - BLOWING IN THE WIND SAM COOKE - TENNESSEE WALTZ THE TEMPTATIONS - MY GIRL THE TEMPTATIONS - WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN GEORGE & TEDDY & THE CONDORS - TALK DON'T BOTHER ME THE APOLLAS - SWING DOWN CHARIOT THE DIXIE CUPS - I'M GONNA GET YOU YET ELKIE BROOKS - NOTHING LEFT TO DO BUT CRY FOUR TOPS - BABY I NEED YOUR LOVING HOWLIN' WOLF - TITLE UNKNOWN (introduced by Brian Jones & Mick Jagger) ISLEY BROTHERS - SHOUT JAMES BROWN - PAPA'S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG JAMES BROWN - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TINA TURNER - A FOOL IN LOVE BOOKER T & THE MG'S - GREEN ONIONS ********************************************************************* AL GREEN - LOVE AND HAPPINESS (SOUL TRAIN)(COLOUR) BARBARA MASON - SAD GIRL (COLOUR) BARBARA MASON - YES I'M READY BILL STEWART - SUMMERTIME BRENDA HOLLOWAY - SHAKE DONNA HIGHTOWER - THIS WORLD TODAY FIVE SATINS - IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT GLORIA JONES - HEARTBEAT JAMES BROWN - THERE WAS A TIME LIL SOUL BROTHERS - I'VE GOT HEARTACHES & INTERVIEW LIL SOUL BROTHERS ON MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW PART 2 SHANGRI LAS - RIGHT NOW AND NOT LATER THE BUCKINGHAMS - DON'T YOU CARE (COLOUR) THE EXCITERS - HE'S GOT THE POWER (COLOUR) JAY & THE TECHNIQUES - VARIOUS CLIPS (This is there by mistake and is rubbish quality so my apologies for this)

I'd much rather listen to my 'Northern Soul' off a 7" vinyl record than a cd. Sod master tapes, put some surface noise on them, make them sound more authentic.

Been there, still ashamed

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Or 50's...they had Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett and Joe Stubbs in the line up...Eddie Floyd is still alive I think

I don't want to get involved in anything, honestly, especially the ins and outs of whats going on, and once again I wish you well and I think this could be one of the greatest shows ever seen in recent soul history - my point was about people coming down on Toad for asking a question thats all. Having said that, if I were to go and see one group, Little Anthony & The Imperials were always the only act I would ever have travelled to see.

I don't think people should be having a go at Toad for being slightly sceptical - this is a group that many people have tried to bring over in the past and failed, all of a sudden they are coming, it's great news and I hope all goes well but there's no law about people askign questions about it.

Theres a really rubbish looking styrene bootleg with yellow label and practically no design

Is it a cover...can't remember who did Help Me Girl...The Outsiders? Couldn't give you a price, if I was guessing and it was just for a late Animals demo it's be 15-20 quid I should think, but if Northern, then I dunno

The thing is, back when cd's first started to get popular, being 'digitally remastered' often meant simply being put onto cd from vinyl

You really need to research this before making daft claims that it's all dubbed from vinyl - for instance, their Scepter Wand compilations came from the same source that Ace used - the UK soul compilations came from (mainly) EMI as did the Liberty / UA one, and many many more.

The white boot has quite thick vinyl (not styrene) and a dip towards the middle - same as Dave Newman, Anderson bros 1st press etc. They were passed off as originals - I paid £8 for it which was still a lot of money in 76