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As said I doubt it is the same Earle Beall as the Silhouettes Earl Beale. I also doubt he’s the son of Not sure what a reformed Silhouettes has to do with The Tan Geers?

No need to apologise, should've made it clearer who I was referring to initially. I hope you did well out of it and Scarboro is equally a success. I visited three shops but they had bugger all soul in apart from the box set at 70 odd quid and the Parliaments 10" disc.

I had a restriction with regards the number of words for the sleeve notes. As you say the weekenders you mention were not northern really, Berwick might just have qualified but the first proper northern ones were Yarmouth, that is the start really of the weekender popularity. There was others before I know but they weren’t the annual or twice yearly piss up that Yarmouth and then Cleethorpes became. Yarmouth and Cleethorpes before Fleetwood and any of the Northern Weekenders we have now, Prestatyn was a long time after really. Soul Essence also deserves a mention as many of us frequented the venue and still do.

think we all appreciate what shops do and in no way was I having a dig at Godz, it is those above, the distributors and the record companies.

he also looks similar to the guy on the right, could also be the guy sat down.

just to set your mind at rest Hammie as I see elsewhere you still don't believe it was pulled, it says here it was ended by the seller. As said, some have spoken to him and he knew full well he had an expensive rarity and not a $1500 record. The winning bid is the last bid received before it was pulled, not what he sold it for.

That was the last bid before the seller withdrew it. The seller also knew it’s worth. It says it was withdrawn because he or she sold it. Safe to assume if went for a lot more than what the final bid was.

I’m not blaming the shops far from it. It is those up the chain who are obviously the ones exploiting the market. Why do they feel the need to hike the prices for one days release? Why not market at the usual prices? i wouldn’t pay RSD prices so I’m certainly not paying hiked prices after by the scalpers.

£40 was at several places. £30 is still a bit pricey IMO for an LP when I usually pay just over £20, Lee Fields and Kelly Finnegan just two at that price.

some of the RSD prices are a bit fast buck too, not just the exploitation merchants later, how can they justify £40 for an Lp (Alice Clark)? Not just the AC either. It is a con and a rip off.

Ace collector Mark Jones joins Dean and get in the studio The Twisted Sisters rock up to cause mayhem for Dean and Gez in a three hour special.

The group was out of Baltimore

I have permission to post the photo... You have Elaine Jones and Earle Beall stood behind Al Jefferson

Two of the members of the group were Elaine Jones and Earle Beall. They are on a photo that went through ebay some years ago stood behind a Dj or studio technician. A mate owns the photo, it had been defaced, someone had coloured the hair in for some reason. I will ask if it is ok to post.

Excellent article and pictures of Anita Humes & The Essex https://doowopheaven.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-essex-aka-anita-humes-essex.html

You forget to take into account all the copies that have turned up since 1973 and demand, or not

Fabulous voice. I wondered why she had been quite, she gave birth last year! These two tracks recorded prior to the event. Hope there is another Lp forthcoming as the last was great.

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It isn’t so much the formulaic nature of the record but the sort of repetitiveness of the tracks, the one you played at Rugby for instance. With yer 60s and indeed 70s & 89s you got verse, chorus break etc. But each to their own.

I never hear anything like Jasper Street at your typical northern or even across the board nights, (if ever there was a stupid term that is it 😂 ) if anything like this did get played it would clear the floor in seconds.

Some more writing on the Philly group. Late 50s there was also a West Coast group of the same name, mainly surf, 1970 there was a Dutch group, so not an isolated name. No mention of them being the Trenton group. https://www.waybackattack.com/revels.html

People cannot see facial expressions so unless you use some sort of emoji others don't know what you are implying

I remember Brian Goucher playing Lisa as a pre-release, I think

There wasn’t one member of the late 50s Philly group in amongst any of the Trent Town group, not going by the signatures. Also a different spelling. It was said on the other topic that it is thought they were different groups. There is a vast amount of group names used by more than one group so it is more than feasible Re-vels or a derivative was also used. The Philly group had just one release post 61, in 1964 so it is quite feasible the name wasn’t even around or in memory by the time the Trenton group were about!

It would appear they are the same if it is accurate