Pete S

Yes, must be 35 years now, me and Maddy

I don't know how old Brenda Holloway is now - she's probably late 50's - but my God, LOOK AT HER! Move over Madeline Smith, I have a new fantasy woman

Must have been a premonition, I was blasting out "Bari Track" only an hour ago, what a genius that guy was, RIP Mike

Of course it's a new backing, they couldn't use the old ones, remember? Though I think the strings are sampled..

Surely this can't be worth anything now that he put a full clip on which anyone with freecorder can download and put onto disc themselves?

and here it is Northern Soul's 200 Greatest Floorfillers (E, £34.99) 5/5 31/10/2008 Northern Soul fans will be in a spin about this excellent compilation of classics. Nearly every significant track in the genre has been filmed and performed, in most cases by the original artists. Featuring tracks such as Out On The Floor, I Get The Sweetest Feeling and Love On A Mountain Top, and with 200 performances spread across five DVDs, this is music history summed up in a beautifully packaged box.

Really? That's great exposure, that might cheer Ian up a bit

That is the best of the lot in my opinion, it's so close to the original...in fact it sounds just like the original except for the overamplified tambourine

It appears that the omission of Mel Britt (and Lou Ragland and The Superiors) was down to a manufacturing cock-up and definitely not a deliberate omission.

Don't know if you remember, but so did I! I was it's biggest critic, for the very reason that you mention above. Except over the years I started to reasses it and eventually came to the position where I am now that it isn't so much about what the music sounds like, but just the fact that there is footage of the artists performing their songs. I would think if they had time, the producers would change a lot of the music - that f*cking awful drum sample that's used on every track for instance should be replaced with a live drummer...but who's going to pay for that, just to make a few people stop complaining about it?

It's a different design to those, it's the unlined one that Rob has

The thread shouldn't be closed - even if Ian isn't here, the thread was set up to discuss his music and if you don't like him or his stuff, whats the point of coming on just to be destructive?

You can have mine, complete with hand written notes and additions. Just pay the postage...

Suppose I'd better buy one then seeing as I wasn't amongst those you promised free copies to the other week looks great

Unless I missed it, Mel Britt isn't on the new set, which is odd as it was the very best thing on the original.

99% of the people who buy it don't care

You have to be kidding! I'm the unluckiest f*cker on the planet. My little boy's the only decent thing thats happened to me in 20 years...

NOW SOLD, THANKS FOR THE INTEREST

The new Tom Jones single

Great that was.

No stamp, think thats about it

I enjoyed reading that Ian but you should remove the two swear words, they're not needed and removing them won't detract anything from the piece. Good stuff though.

I'm afraid it was Rob, I've been caught out with this one

No, it was all done through paypal resolution and then much later he tried the chargeback thing.

That comes from SWONS and is the same clip used on this new set. Can't blame an old lady for forgetting her words 35 years later though! It was definitely the original singer of The Sapphires.