Steve G

Yeah brilliant guitars and bangos on this.......also Ann Sexton Youve been gone too long, 7th Wonder Captain of my ship and of couse K Moses.

Gotta be honest with you Honeymonster but I haven't had B&S since the early 80s, and regular looks in WH Smith in recent years had caused me to believe that it was long since exstinct. I am quite surprised that it is still going in fact!

This was around in reasonable quantity in the 80's, never a common record, but not impossible to find. His other one is far rarer, but sadly not as good as a dancer, though it's a reasonably good soul record

Who'se to say the other copies weren't just thrown out? I would have loved tgo have been a bin man in Detroit in the 60s

Who Hucknell or the seller? If it's the seller then I would remember him as a Spurs man who changed his colours a few years ago

Yeah the words "sam dees" and "football" in his user ID give it away. Taxi for a Man U fan then

Yeah and you'd miss a lot of good B sides too - especially with Motown. As a kid I used to collect demos because of the "Not for sale" mystique but then had a change of heart many years ago. Now prefer issues with invariably a good deep, funk, or northern flip. Channel 3 is a case in point, as is Arnold Blair and Rozetta Johnson on Clintone.......Steve

The seller is actually someone we all know Might be an idea to send him a message via Ebay

He ain't that old yet! And he has an honoury exclusion anyway as he is still breaking new records.

"DJs" in their late 60s and 70s

Dunno why u r so surprised man - a lot of people like the sweet stuff.....specially at night

A lot of these are just CD's being played, and I hear these things in my local shopping centre from time to time.... but that French Alps pairing is an interesting selection.....obviously someone there must like the moozik

Glass cleaner, windowlene, T Cut - what a bunch of cobblers. Vinyl vandals more like! Stick to fairly liquid for the best results!

A friendly word of advice old bean - keep the records safe until you are satisfied with what the insurance company is paying you. My concern is that you don't get what you claim, and by then the records will be in some landfill. They should also pay out on replacement value, not a value declared five years ago. I suspect your contents insurance has had an inflationary increase each year.

I bet Soul Sam loves the smoke free venues too!

Gloucester FM - top station according to my missus.

I believe they were also The Reflection who recorded on Wand before they became The Reflections. John Simmons btw is the same guy who did solo 45 tunege. Steve

At last - was beginning to worry about this - very good record and no one appeared to want it?

I think they're both great records, but for different times. "for Real" is a stone classic, and "We can make it happen" is more of your ender type of sound. Amazing info about these records, and it's therefore not accurate to describe the "dinked" "vinyls" as second issues then as some people have?

Keep us updated on progress Sean - we are thinking of you and this awful event. Presumably the loss adjuster has not been round yet?

It is naff but she does say "Hey Danno- Actually, since I collect vinyl, I used records that were cracked or scratched beyond playing". What a waste of glue though!

Guilty as charged your honour, but have done this since the 70's.

Home Insurance isn't really my thing, but I'd suggest for the LPs you use the record collector price guide, as clearly the sleeves will have water damage even if you dry them out. On the 45's not really sure it depends whether it was dirty water I guess. I remember seeing some "Katrina" damaged records on e-bay a while back - looked as if they'd fallen in the local sewage plant! So it really depends how bad the water damage ends up being. You have my sympathies too Sean.

There are certain of us who go out of our way NOT to play something that's already been played. A second spin I could understand if it was enormously popular, but a third spin? Play something else instead.