Chalky

Might have failed first time round (whenever that was) but it's been worn out since the mid 80's.

I personally don't think BV is worth more than £400. To suddenly jump form £350ish to almost £1k is plain ridiculous. Seb says nigh on impossible to locate....well including the one on JM's there have been 5 or 6 copies, two on bay, at least one offered for sale on here and one other elsewhere. But if some want to pay £1k for a record that has been hammered to death then thats up to them. Harvey Averne has been about years and could be got cheap, it's only last few years the price has jumped. There are others on the label that have been embraced by the Rare (Northern) Soul Scene, or parts of it, just not as widely. Mossy, get onn the Fania topic from a while ago inn SharpnEnd and educate these Northern heathens

it wasn't just mods collecting this in the 80's , it was massive on the northern scene too so no doubt a few tucked away there too.

https://cgi.ebay.com/Bobby-Valentin-RARE-NORTHERN-SOUL-LATIN-BOOGALOO_W0QQitemZ150520282415QQcategoryZ306QQcmdZViewItem still 6 days to go and already the fools have bid this up to over $600

The last deck I bought was a Stanton t92 https://www.stantondj.com/stanton-turntables/t92usb.html more than happy with it, tough too and also USB, just over £200. Saved quite a bit compared to a Technic so more left over for vinyl

I did record most of the day on the iphone. Lucy says she has no problems with me putting the sound files on here, hopefully Ady hasn't. Just got to find the time to boost the volume and upload them.

Well I wouldn't buy something that is no longer made and can't get spares for. If the statement is true panasonic can't get parts so what chance us? Besides I'm quite happy with the Stanton deck I use.

If it is/was a hoax you'd have though some sort of statement from either panasonic or the sites reporting the demise of technic decks.

I'd like to see an official Panasonic statement, everything I've read so far is from other sources quoting Panasonic. The statement on the Resident Advisor website I posted is from two days ago and it says they are ceasing to make analogue turntables, but continuing to produce headphones under the technics name.

some people simply collect memorabilia.

https://www.residenta...s.aspx?id=13154 I looked on the global Panasonic site and couple of regional one and couldn't find no recent statements in the news sections. I found a copy of the Panasonic Australia letter at https://studio-lights.com/blog/technics-discontinued-1200-turntable.htm

is there a listen again/podcast of these shows?

think this is the statement from Panasonic.... "Panasonic has confirmed that it ceased the production of its Technics-branded analogue turntables this autumn." "After more than 35 years as a leading manufacturer of analogue turntables, Panasonic has regretfully taken the decision to leave this market. However, Panasonic will continue to sell headphones under the Technics brand." "We are sure that retailers and consumers will understand that our product range has to reflect the accelerating transformation of the entire audio market from analogue to digital." "In addition, the number of component suppliers serving the analogue market has dwindled in recent years and we brought forward the decision to leave the market rather than risk being unable to fulfill future orders because of a lack of parts." "Panasonic employees who have been working on the analogue turntable range have been redeployed elsewhere within Panasonic - many of them continuing to work in Panasonic's Audio Video Business Unit."

I can't find any news Marc that Panasonic have changed their minds, all I can find is several articles saying that Panasonic will/have ceased production of the decks, most from two days ago, mixmag etc

Might be me but I don't understand this poll

The trouble is sellers take too much notice of previous auction results, in particular the ones with daft prices and price guides which are either out of date or do not reflect a real world price. These days when something fetches a daft price it is then used as a bench mark and people want those prices for themselves. Some buyers paying over the odds for records that are in the main in poor condition. Sellers also want Mint/Ex prices for records in Vg/Vg+ condition. The record collecting scene has been for years like the housing market, over inflated, sometimes falsely inflated prices and a crash is sure to happen at some point. Most of the long time collectors aren't getting any younger and with collections worth in many cases tens of 100's of pounds then many will look to off-load at some point. Buyers are as much to blame, paying well over the odds when a quick search will often result in a cheaper copy, buyers paying top whack for a record they know full well the seller has quantity

BMR is the boot, Beach Music Records.

they are Percy and Them on Roulette, John Percy Hargrove wrote Look In The Mirror Of My Eyes and co wrote the flip.

doub tit very much, I would have thought a legit Motown record would carry trademark M and copyright.

Percy Stone is New Orleans, this one Detroit. Percy Larkins is on Facebook.

I bought both same day, well same night if I remember rightly back in the 80's, little bit more than what you paid, might have been £15 or £20 for the pair. Used to see them in every sales box.

Magic stuff Is it from a film?

I didn't notice nor did it register who was asking, d'oh!

There's only those three listed on the Georgia Soul site.

Ace records have recently put out a great cd of her recordings. Ady C might be able to shed more light on her. You Hit Me.....about as good as it gets, proper Northern Soul