Everything posted by Chalky
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Edwin Starr - New Cd Soul Master + Ric Tic Tracks
Hi mate I don't care if you are getting a back hander, always worth sharing release details of this kind.
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How North Is North?
That'd be Watford Gap, not the town.
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The Hytones - Bigger And Better - Abet - Current Value?
ffs...... June this year JM auction £464 Set sale March this year £450 Didn't sell reduced to £425 in April, still no indication as to whether it sold. Some ebay results on popsike .... https://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=Hytones&incldescr=&sortord=ddate&thumbs=&currsel= What more do you want to tell you it ain't a 500 let alone 600 quid record?
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Edwin Starr - New Cd Soul Master + Ric Tic Tracks
Is it legit? Who is putting it out? Any links to the details?
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The Hytones - Bigger And Better - Abet - Current Value?
3-400 IMO.
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Tonite - Northern Soul Bbc Living For The Weekend
Yes because you got your argument and facts wrong and it was others who had a go at you not me.
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Herbert Hunter - How To Tell The Original ?
I had a repro years ago with the correct B side, no Nashville Matrix or delta number etc.
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Johnnie Burke Vs Johnny Taylor
There isn't any difference, same record, Johnny Burke is in fact Johnnie Taylor. Topic about is a few weeks ago.
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Tonite - Northern Soul Bbc Living For The Weekend
Where do you get your information from Kev? Along with many others I was doing two nighters a week, three on a bank holiday, two soul nights and often a dayer, i went out Friday afternoon and got home Sunday night, the majority of nighters were busy. Just about every soul night from memory was busy. Yes we had the odd quiet night but they were out weighed by the busy ones. I wouldn't have carried on going to venues with no one in. People keep going on about how the 80's and early 90's no one went, usually by those with no experience of the time because they weren't there.
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Tommy Dent Soul Thing On Cobblestone
Just because someone doesn't like a record i can't for the life of me see the point in comparing it with another record and giving it a slagging when that record is completely different in style and also the clubs or DJ's that might play that record. We all have different tastes and it would be boring if we all liked the same. Not everyone likes Tommy Dent, get over it, it isn't the end of the world. Not everyone likes United Sounds and you know what, I couldn't care less to be honest.
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Tommy Dent Soul Thing On Cobblestone
It's far from a masterpiece. It's a mess of a record IMO. Now I know we love the music because it is often far from the polished gem but this is simply poor IMO and it wouldn't matter if I never heard it again. Have never liked it since I first heard it. The other side is better but only just.
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Tommy Dent Soul Thing On Cobblestone
You might not have heard them play it but how do you know they haven't got or had a copy. I'm not saying they have btw simply you just don't know unless you have inside information?
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Help Please. Day Will Come Between Sunday And Monday
Dee Dee Sharp isn't it?
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Album Track Carvers
Why not just put the rare stuff on cd and play from that with the record just going round on the turntable? Cheaper and no different really, more sensible option really especially with styrene and some of the tackle used by some promoters.
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Tonite - Northern Soul Bbc Living For The Weekend
But even if that was the case some of those involved had little relevance other than maybe travelling up from london the odd time and jumping the queue at wigan because he was a cockney....what a load of bollox. Same for Lisa Stansfield, no relevance at all really in the history of the scene. Why not use more of those who made the scene like Dave Clegg, there is bloody long list of people who really matter they could have used. Again lazy film making. But Wigan has been done to death so why bother at all?
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Tonite - Northern Soul Bbc Living For The Weekend
Me too. Maybe they should have used a more relevant title for the program and not one that covers a scene that has been going for some for over 40 years, not just 10 of them.
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Tonite - Northern Soul Bbc Living For The Weekend
Same here, knew many from Chesterfield who worked down t'pit, like Mansfield, chesterfield was a mining or factory based economy. I can also see what Aid saying, typecasting those from up north but like the show in general I expect little else. Poor lazy film making IMO.
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Tonite - Northern Soul Bbc Living For The Weekend
I've come to expect very little from anything to do with Northern Soul on the idiot box and this program was no exception. Ian Dewhirst made a solid contribution as did Cleggy who tells it like it is or was and doesn't bullshit. Even Levine made some very good points and nice to see some humility and regret from him. Richard always talks sense. Lisa Stansfield, what was the point? Same with Marc Almond and what makes Norman J such an expert, he does talk some bollox. But watching this program you would think it all ended in 81 with the closure of Wigan and everyone then went to raves and got off their tits, only for Kev to come and rescue the scene and make it what it is today. The 80's and early 90's were conveniently erased probably because most of those involved were not there, had gone to pastures greener. They forget the 80's turned up an awful lot of records that feature prominently in most DJ's sets every week. The lost decades gave those who'd buggered off something to come back to and exploit as quite a few have and still do. The likes of Cleethorpes, Clifton Hall, Stafford and the 100 Club, and others every bit as important in the scenes history, conveniently ignored. Some of these made a bigger contribution to the scene than some of the clubs talked about. Where was Ady Croasdell? His contribution is probably greater than any of those interviewed. He was there at the beginning, was there in the years that don't matter and still there today. The discoveries from his and others work with Ace/Kent have been a mainstay for collectors and dj's for over 25 years. Where was Butch? His contribution out weighs all of those in the program with the exception of Richard. Arguably the two best Dj's the scene has given us. Where was the likes of John Anderson, John Manship, Dave Raistrick and many others who actually found many of those classic records from the scenes golden days. I gave the program two out of five simply because contributions were made from far too many who don't matter and none from many who do matter. The sooner a program is made about the scene from those who made the scene what it is and not from those who hold sway with telly execs the better.
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Royal Mail, Great Work Boys
I wouldn't have thought when a package says fragile on it in big letters you don't drop through a hole 4 feet off the ground? They could try knocking on the door first? I think the point is they simply don't seem to care these days.
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Barbara Mcnair
He was killed by the mafia.
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Barbara Mcnair
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Soul Time
Look forward to last night and last weeks on Monday
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The Saints I'l Let You Slide - Jm Auction
Arthur had one then around that time, Andy and Richie Conn got one a year or two later.
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The Saints I'l Let You Slide - Jm Auction
Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
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The Saints I'l Let You Slide - Jm Auction
There's been two or three at least through ebay. Still very rare.