Steve G

Ebony sounds outside Leytonstone station as Taff says (e.g. Living Color 20p) now a sex shop I think, the place up at Walthamstow (full of 10p singles), the place iN Streatham (Black Wax) (e.g."Streets got my lady" 10p), Diamond? in croydon by W Croydon station (e.g. Alfie davison etc came out of there as new releases), The Lighting Centre at Petticote Lane e.g. "Brand New" came out of there 25p, the Mile end shop (tricky Dicky?) e.g. 2 x WIl Collins came out of there (30p).I used to spend all day every saturday going round London looking for records......different shopping centres every week. I certainly found my way round town all right and wore a few pairs of shoes out in the process! Steve

Me no chance either Rod. Supercorsa - yes I think a bid on a computer auction web site is legally binding.

Nice one Of course styrene is a completely different process

Read somewhere that UK TM only pressed up a couple of hundred copies of this. Redckon many of those still exist and are in our collections.

Interesting Dave Raistrick had a Total Unity in the early 90s, I got it from him. Don't see it around at all.

Those were the days......notebooks with wants in......and they talk about anoraks today

Think I got my first ever northern import there - the awful Duke baxter "I ain't no scbhoolboy" - there must have been dozens of them! Always a good stopping off place for a very young northern fan whenever I was in the area, never picked up anything particularly rare, and they were 30p each by the time I got there I think, but nonetheless a great place for finding records that I had never heard of before in the "northern" box. Shame it's gone. Steve

One of the best.....

It's been played at some of the more discerning clubs. Steve

My copy does not have a hiss.

Jeeees....and you told me you got them from Detroit Dave

I found a Lou Pride record in Brisbane!

I knew it was true

But I have heard the Salvadors described as a 1.09mm copy, seriously. It was probably a snob

Actually what is a 1.09mm Salvadors? and who has eyesight that can measure 1.09mm anyway???

Ted that sounds bad, who was it?

.....but you love mixing it up Roger......you know you do

1976/77 I was in the 6th form at school (snob ).....Tescos financed trips to Wigan, girlfriends, clothes and records.........so no chance of the Salvadores, I was buying the 50p stuff. Most expensive one I got was on my first night at wigan Sam & Kitty for £4. Only years later found out it was an early fcuking bootleg!!!

Hey Ian then I was still in schol and earning £7 a week at Tescos. So the Salvadors would have been nearly 3 weeks wages. Steve

Yup I think he has "issues" with certain promotors of certain soul nights . But our D'Arcy tends to like the really fast stuff too. And I did talk to Chadwick at Leeds - one of Pat Brady's niters at the Griffin - that's how I know about Bobby Womack, Sam Dees etc - you could see the eyes glaze over with complete dis-interest when the names came up.... Yes I agree a few emis have always been played, can't deny that. And who knows maybe Russ played some of the bootlegs he was selling - that damn stage was so high I couldn't be bothered to climb up there too often. Maybe we should move off OVO then and DJs, other snobbish elements? - decent beer, comfy surroundings, good sound system, good dancefloor, all traits of the "soul snob"?

Yes I actually agree with you there Rod, Chadwick was the classic case of a trophy hunter, who JUST needed to have a box of rare records. Don't think he'd even heard of Bobby Womack or Sam Dees or Bettye Swann, and yet he got booking after booking on the Northern scene because of his box of "Trophy records". £250,000 sure can buy you a collection, but people like Chadwick don't make up the majority of todays DJ's do they?. Surely serious DJ's must have a balanced and broad based collection which encompasses both rare and not so rare (and more than one beat/ style). Serious DJs take years to build their collections, there is no instant fix - Levine tried it in the late 90s hoovering up everything in sight, and it didn't really work for him and he sold them all off again. The reality is as Terry says - far to many wannabe DJ's who don't have the goods and hide behind excuses like "the punters don't care", or "It's only a few mixed in with a few originals" etc etc. I won't even bother going to a place where I know that boots will be played, even if it's just up the road. Did the DJs at Wigan or Stafford play boots? I don't think so! So what makes it right now? At least in Herts and Beds we still have some soul night venues that stick to the principles of playing northern without resorting to bootlegs. And hey Ian - £20 for the Salvadores in the 70's - I couldn't have afforded that if I wanted it. It was never any more "available" to the ordinary guys on 7/6d a week than it is now, although that 3k price tag does seem extreme - more trophy hunters I guess.

My theory is that the "Presents" copy was actually a second issue which was given out at a local music fair in the park to try and reactivate the intetrest in the record. 2nd Ressurection were on the bill supporting a host of Budweiser sponsored acts, and this 45 was designed to be given away to their fans.......... Nah I made that up, but it is plausible

Hi Sean, I am trying to think of a northern venue I have been to recently that HASN'T played Mel Britt . Seriously it's everywhere you go. My copy is now cracked so I couldn't play it if I wanted to.....which is a shame because I genuinly like the record. I haven't set about replacing it either - because I don't want a boot, and I don't want to join the clamour of trophy hunters all trying to outdo each other for the next available needle burnt copy. As I say (and as I think you agree) there are plenty more records out there. And I don't think it all has to be rare either, for example I've heard Chalky play some great £5-£10 records at Northern nights and at Blue Skies we play a number of cheap and cheerful 'greats' like Chuck Bernard doing his David Ruffin impression - the best £7 any aspiring DJ could ever spend. Steve

Will have to dig this out,. FOund it for 50p in Harlequin Liverpool St in about 1981....it's been in the lock up ever since. Didn't they also have an album on Roulette>???