Chalky

Garnett Mimms - As Long As I Have You - UA Lp Not an lp collector but Nick Hackett played me the title track here t'other day so quick search came up trumps...cheers mate

Everything was given it's chance, to me how it should be, blinkers removed and if a record was good enough it got played if not it was discarded, often after just a few plays. But uptempo soul was played and found in abundance not just the grittier stuff either. It wasn't really until early mid 90's and the return of those who missed the 80's that everything went into reverse gear (IMHO). Regardless of your disagreement with Jock and what was said between you, on this subject I happen to agree with what he says.

Joe Hinton is still on Craig Moerer's site, it's gone up $10 (probably due to discussions on here ) but still worth the $80 he's asking.

But the tunes weren't drying! they were still being found in abundance throughout the 80s. Jock has already said that what you are getting at is a common and often misguided conception by those like you who weren't there so why persist along the lines that this wasn't the case? Yes beat ballads and mid tempo were given a platform they were previously denied and rightly so but the uptempo numbers outweighed the mid tempo and beat ballads.

IMHO the honours list should be scrapped all together but I gotta agree with Jock, too many misguided and ill informed comments (just like any topic really).

I'm looking for polythene sleeves for 7" sleeves, the tight fitting ones not the ones about 10mm or so bigger. Anyone any ideas?

I think you should put that scanner to work and do a topic on all the deadwax stamps etc. Questions asked all the time so could be a good reference source for some, especially if all in one place. Great work btw Roger!

have you been at the sherry trifle again Pete

was thinkin' the same Gavin upon listening to the soundfile again. It's an average record at best for me.

me neither, never considered it £600+ rare.....or that good either...now gettin' ready for a telling off from JT

Your probably right but many records are now described as you traditional northern soul sound but records like the two Harry mentioned seem to break the mould at the back end of the 70's early 80's, think thats what he's getting at, how the style changed from up tempo dancers in the main to more and more records in the vein of Cecil Washington and John and the Weirdest....thats how I see the question anyway!

I think Harry means that the type of records mentioned were not your usual traditional northern soul that had preceded them and the tempo and pace was different and more akin to what was to come from Stafford an d beyond. I've always considered both to be scene changing records.

Had a look at the Righteous Brothers - Souled Out lp I've got and on the rear of the cover it's stampedSpringbok Radio Record Library and again underneath Springbok Radio Discoteek. Also the number 40474 stamped on it and that is alkso written on the record label itself.

I heard the band was white?

anyone got a soundfile of the Traditions - forever and Always on Saxony.

maybe totally wrong here but didn't the record (The Group that is not Vicki Baines) cause a stir at the time of it's recording, something to do with the racial tensions of the time?

13,000 rings a bell but it was a long time ago the conversation, amidst the usual boll*cks you talk at an all-nighter or where ever it was

dunno if true or not or just an urban myth but soemone once said they saw the tax returns or summat like for the label and there were thousands of I Don't Like To Lose pressed. There was also another where they were all in a lock up/garage in Detroit but think that one's been proved to be a myth?

on Pye 7"

dunno if it's vinyl carvers but they offer same service. There's a few at it now, have used one in Wakefield in the past.

Kev Draper the one I was thinking off. Good to see Kev again t'other night at Peterboro'.

wasn't the trouble with Group feat Cecil because a second copy found and was uncovered straight away, Richard vowed never to play it again or summat like? The Group feat Cecil later on a Soul Supply boot, white label along with Nomads, Ellusions and another that escapes me right now.

Get well soon Dave and lets see you out with your camera again soon. All the best Chalky

Harry, look back through all our yesterdays, there's already been a lengthy topic on Warrington.

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